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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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#1 A good sex scene is a dialogue scene with physical details. It should be a sensual detail rather than a overtly sexual one. The Rule of Three can help you make a scene vivid and three-dimensional: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.
#2 When he came to her, he found that she didn't want gentleness or courting....
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#1 The book was made into a movie in 1958, and it was groundbreaking for its frankness on sexual matters at the time. It was seen as a testament to the unwritten law, which stated that a husband who found another man in bed with his wife was justified in killing him. But the law was a myth.
#2 Anatomy of a Murder is a film noir, and it is largely because of its atmospheric,...
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#1 The author made a picture of what would happen if a pretty stenographer entered your office. She took off her gloves, opened her purse, and dumped it out on the table. She had two dimes and a nickel, and a cardboard match box. She left the nickel on the desk, put the two dimes back into her purse, and took her black gloves to the stove.
#2 F. Scott Fitzgerald, the...
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#1 The world's greatest philosophers came from Europe, because they spent their time at cafés and let their minds wander until some radically new school of philosophy popped into their heads. I was hunting for happiness.
#2 I visit the World Database of Happiness, or WDH, in the morning. It is a secularist's answer to the Vatican and Mecca and Jerusalem and Lhasa, all...
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#1 I'm a newsletter developer and author, and I help authors start, build, and manage their lists. I can help you with your email list. But if you're looking for step-by-step instructions for setting up an email list, this isn't the book for you.-> The first part of the question is easy for me: My name is Tammi Labrecque and I'm an indie author, editor, and publisher....
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#1 There were many who thought it was my duty to make immediate amends by post-dating Corti's climb, rehabilitating him. But I felt my duty was to be a true friend to all the world's climbers, particularly the younger generation.
#2 The confusion in Corti's report was not due to the intense nervous strain and nights of delirium on the Face, but rather because his mental...
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#1 I wrote three pieces that became a book called Encounters with the Archdruid. I had been writing profiles for more than a decade at Time magazine and then at The New Yorker, and I was desperate to escalate.
#2 I decided to do a double profile, through a process similar to the one I described above. I would meet myself coming the other way. I would not be able to do...
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#1 We are born to eat wild. Our bodies have not changed much since the days when we lived as hunter-gatherers, but our way of life and diets have changed dramatically. Today, just a few people continue to source most of their calories from the wild.
#2 The foods we are about to meet are all important in understanding why wild foods are so important. They provide less...
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#1 Lex Greensill was a young man who grew up on a farm in Queensland, Australia. He had a difficult childhood, but eventually his farm tripled in size within twenty years. He was skilled in law, wireless applications, international trade, insurance, capital raising, sales and marketing, public speaking, written communications, corporate governance, training, organization...
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#1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus.
#2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean...
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#1 The Great Law of Peace was brought to the Iroquois by a Huron man. The Peacemaker taught the Mohawks about the Creator's desire for harmony, and Aionwahta was needed to translate his words.
#2 Disability has a history among North American indigenous people, but it is different than what Europeans and Americans understand today. It is defined in relational terms, rather...
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#1 We all have strategies to keep us from hearing our own voices. It's easier to drink wine and watch TV than it is to try and figure out why this voice is urging us to quit our jobs, set new boundaries in our old friends, or let go of some stability or security that has given us peace for years.
#2 The Hang-Up is the fear of expressing ourselves honestly. We try to...
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#1 The Oxford comma is the comma you see before the and in a list. It is highly encouraged by The Chicago Manual of Style, but The Associated Press Stylebook, which governs a lot of what you see in newspapers, doesn't advocate using it unless it's necessary for clarity. I believe strongly in The Chicago Manual of Style, and I use it often. It is a great resource, and...
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#1 I biked from Mexico to Canada and back with the migrating monarch butterflies.
#2 The monarch butterfly is an ectothermic animal that matches its environment temperature. As temperatures drop, they become unable to move and can't seek out microclimates such as tree trunks.
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#1 Around us, we see a level of individual wealth that has never been seen before. Conspicuous consumption of redundant consumer goods has greatly expanded over the past generation.
#2 The symptoms of collective impoverishment are all around us. From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were becoming less unequal. But since then,...
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#1 I was 76 years old and Barbara was 70 when we went trekking in Papua New Guinea. We were tired and covered in sweat, and we should have been sipping Pernod at Les Deux Magots café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or wandering through the back streets of the Trastevere in Rome.
#2 Papua New Guinea is a destination that is enticingly exotic but too difficult to get to...
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#1 Not everything that is written contains an argument. In order to determine whether a text contains an argument, we must carefully examine the structure of the text. The first step in analyzing a text for argument is to identify the author's main purpose. Is the author introducing a new idea or refining an existing one. Is the author describing an experience or an...
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#1 There are two Armenias, a Greater and a Lesser. The lord of Lesser Armenia is a king who maintains good and just government in his country under the suzerainty of the Tartars. The Lesser Armenia is bounded on the south by the Promised Land, now in the hands of the Saracens, on the north by the western district of Turkey, known as Karaman, on the north-east and east...
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#1 I had a hard time adjusting to the fact that I didn't know what was going on in a country I was exploring. It reminded me of how I used to get frustrated with myself when I couldn't understand what a foreigner had just said in a restaurant.
#2 We were driving from Chefchaouen to Fes, and Rida told us about the time he met Brad Pitt in a local market.
#3 We visited...
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