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...The danger of this attraction is also viewed with clarity immediately afterwards on “About Rosie”, whose heroine “believed the first man who promised the world from his bed”....
...Duggan, an interior designer, commissioned the mural artist Julianna Byrne to bring a “breath of nature” to the windowless London space....
...“Well, it’s not like I was holding my breath,” sighs the 61-year-old New Yorker with a wry smirk as we settle into an absurdly plush suite in London’s Dorchester hotel....
...Photographs: Rosie Barnes; Courtauld Institute & Dunhuang Academy; Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images...
...Just as Mersault encounters the Arab in Camus’ The Stranger, “the sea carried up a thick, fiery breath”; Frankenstein’s first visit in Mary Shelley’s novel occurs as “the rain pattered dismally against the...
...“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent,” writes F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, “compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood...
...“The first breath of adultery is the freest,” he wrote in Couples (1968) “after it, constraints aping marriage develop.” Updike’s best-known creation was Harry ”Rabbit” Angstrom....
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