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  • Most of the authors, still in touch; some, never to be heard from again, dead-and-gone … writers, like Curt Johnson, Don Olsen … two guys in particular I really miss.

    October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Most of the authors, still in touch; some, never to be heard from again, dead-and-gone … writers, like Curt Johnson, Don Olsen … two guys in particular I really miss.

    michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • And of course it's full of the sort of verified descriptive facts that make such things awfully compelling (but with contradictions that one might argue point to exactly the sort of reconstruction job I'm hypothesising, where it's information being downloaded by the rememberer rather than a "soul" being passed on by the dead-and-gone).

    Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • And of course it's full of the sort of verified descriptive facts that make such things awfully compelling (but with contradictions that one might argue point to exactly the sort of reconstruction job I'm hypothesising, where it's information being downloaded by the rememberer rather than a "soul" being passed on by the dead-and-gone).

    Magic 101 Hal Duncan 2006

  • "It's not the dead-and-gone industry that John McCain and Barack Obama would have you believe," says McAlinden.

    Is Detroit Gearing Up? 2008

  • I do not know whether, at this time of day, and with such a prospect before us, we need trouble ourselves very much to rake up the ashes of the dead-and-gone objections that were wont to be urged by men of all parties against institutions such as this, whose interests we are met to promote; but their philosophy was always to be summed up in the unmeaning application of one short sentence.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • Dumbledore is dead-but-not-gone or not dead at the beginning of the book, but dead-and-gone by the end.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Open Harry Potter Speculation Thread: 2007

  • At the bottom of old perfume-bottles he had often found bits of his former existence; and all wandering odors — of streets, fields, houses, furniture, sweet or unsavory, the warm odors of summer evenings, the cold breath of winter nights, revived within him far-off reminiscences, as if odors kept embalmed within him these dead-and-gone memories, as aromatics preserve mummies.

    Strong as Death 2003

  • It was a mere relic, wrote Harry Haynes in November 1928, a sentimental memorial to the dead-and-gone working men and women who thought British - and could think no other '.

    Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 17 Ray Esther 1969

  • And thus delivering himself, gruff Uncle Abner took a fresh chew of tobacco, and let his eyes wander aimlessly among those dead-and-gone relatives hanging on the walls.

    Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

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