Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
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These questions absorbed me at an age when I was supposed to be getting down the rudimentary facts of American history, which I carelessly neglected.
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Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.
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I know I look a sight, but I don't care.
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