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Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.
For all his accomplishments, Herod was nevertheless hated by his subjects; he taxed, he tortured, and he ordered the massacre of male Jewish infants in an attempt to do away with the heralded Messiah.
Serb defendants' excuses: 1) they weren't aware of the concentration camps that killed and tortured Muslims; 2) the camps started out innocently and then got out of hand; or 3) they killed prisoners because they anticipated a murderous onslaught by Muslims.
more difficult to remember, with its tortured word order, than the twenty-one places of pi it yields.
Written by a self-pitying autodidact for consumption by self-pitying autodidacts, A Fan's Notes divides the world into two camps: tortured, bewildered misfits (Exleys) and serene, fair-haired conformists (Giffords).