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juliette
(in the doorway)
What have you done to Grand-dad?
Passerby
You'd . . better go.
juliette
What have you done.
PARTISAN REVIEW
Juliette ...
Vladimir Nabokov's posthumous publications include
Lectures on Lit–
erature,
published in 1980 by Harcourt Brace jovanovich, and
Lectures on
Russian Literature
(
1981) from the same publisher.
Joyce Carol Oates
MASTER RACE
Why would you want to hurt me-?
Why hurt another person- ?
Though the incident happens abruptly, and the worst of it, in a
manner of speaking, is finished within sixty seconds, Cecilia is to
remember it in slow motion: the arm pinioning her deftly beneath
the chin, the clumsy staggering struggle on the sidewalk, her assail–
ant dragging her into a narrow alleyway, pummelling and punching
and tearing angrily at her clothes ... and the rest of it. No warn–
ing, no one to blame (she thinks instantly) except herself, for hadn't
Philip and the Americans at the Consulate cautioned her against. ...
She makes an effort, confused and feeble, to protect herself, pulling
at the man's arm, using her elbows, squirming, turning from side to
side. Stop, please, no, you don't want to do this,
please-
so Cecilia
