January 2009
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How do you read vividly?
Since I began a reading life, I have had a problem: my mind automatically places action in just a few places familiar to me from my life: my house, the main street of my hometown. Whether the action in a novel takes place in 16th century Scotland, or the Black Forest, or under the Unisphere. Do you actively visualize a setting when you read? Do you see anything at all? (Does viewing a movie...
Going Under: The New Republic, on why...
Needles make me pass out, but I was curious enough to read this.
Cambron assembled his stash: It included five syringes, a 50-milligram vial of Demerol, four ten-milligram bottles of morphine, four ten-milligram bottles of Dilaudid, and a ten-milligram bottle of vecuronium—a muscle relaxant that, taken at high doses, will cause respiratory arrest in a matter of minutes. He brought all of it...