T’s [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it’s political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings
ADAM NICOLSONThe field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view
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Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.
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I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.
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Eric Schlosser’s book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants.
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In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
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To make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.
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A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
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The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him.
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view
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The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there.
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