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"Letters To the Editor: Advice & Consent"
    'A copy of its in-house "bible" listing the taboos that must never befall Nancy Drew and her fictional chums. .. If the plot of a novel requires that the villain render Nancy Drew unconscious, this may occur only be means of a blow to her head from behind; no chloroform, no needles. The villain is likewise permitted to imprison Nancy, but only by locking her in a room in which she is able to move freely.'  - F. G. M.

"Missing Bellow" / Scott Turow
__ "Every adolescent needs an adult to help him grow up, and it can't be a parent."
__ some clotted yearning
__ This was a psychodrama of my own authorship. But it remained imperative to me to say I didn't need that.

"Serf Advisory" / Mona Simpson

__ It left me more impudent than independent.
__ ...the housekeeper who sprayed an Ansel Adams mural with Windex. (Fortunately, the owner had two of them.)

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