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Spring 1985 • Vol. VII No. 2 • A Play |

And the Lord God Planted a Garden

By Oscar Mandel

      The Characters
      GOD
      GABRIEL
      ADAM
      EVE

 

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Why We Cannot Be Oriental

By Kay Ryan

It is this damnable English. One cannot but feel foolish trying to describe the heron-on-one-leg patiently-waiting-for-the-fish-to-commit his-fatal-act-of-unconsciousness better than this. It is a discursive language, heavy and black as the […]

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