Author: James Parker
James Parker is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
THE KALEVALA (7)
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“No husbandry, no arboriculture. / Here’s your wood — if your woodsman is a vulture.”
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THE KALEVALA (6)
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Kullervo: “My little blade is humorous./You will admire its wit.”
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The Bourne Variations (6)
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“This one is dead as the grass./Let him pass, let him pass.”
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“Ladies, come and get some,/before I’m turned into cosmic jetsam!”
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The Bourne Variations (5)
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“You take off at a flat gallop./Trees snatch at the light as you pass, and then — wallop!”
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The upbringing of Kullervo: “And so he grew sebaceous/and turned into a teen.”
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The Bourne Variations (4)
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“What are the implications for mental health/of being an amnesiac super-functional self?”
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Vainamoinen: “Wherever I walk, I step in golden turds of language.”
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The Bourne Variations (3)
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“Clammy with questions, he blundered around/and I took him without a sound.”
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“I tied my heart to the tail of a cat/Too heavy, too heavy/It broke the cat’s back.”
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The Bourne Variations (2)
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“It’s Langley again, the goddamn CIA,/whom you are obliged to inform that Jason Bourne just got away.”
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