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  • We were trying to define the sense of belonging, unbelonging, sadness, and happiness--a different topic was on our minds.

    Mike Ragogna: Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano Mike Ragogna 2011

  • We were trying to define the sense of belonging, unbelonging, sadness, and happiness--a different topic was on our minds.

    Mike Ragogna: Boardwalk Empires, Mockingbirds, Concertos & Rocket Science: Conversations with The Jayhawks, Bela Fleck and Vince Giordano Mike Ragogna 2011

  • His adult journey from a state of unbelonging to one of self-discovery is full of traumas, side tracking and emotional turmoil as Jacques makes the inevitable discoveries about what happened to his family after he had been put on that train.

    Austerlitz 2008

  • His adult journey from a state of unbelonging to one of self-discovery is full of traumas, side tracking and emotional turmoil as Jacques makes the inevitable discoveries about what happened to his family after he had been put on that train.

    Austerlitz 2008

  • There was a sadness about her, a melancholy of autumn skies that whispered of unbelonging and haunted thoughts.

    I didn't... Boris 2009

  • There was a sadness about her, a melancholy of autumn skies that whispered of unbelonging and haunted thoughts.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009

  • He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I ran along the drainage canal with Sufi voices tracking through my head and sometimes I saw a plane taking off, all light and climb and calculus, and I thought of my son Jeffrey when he was younger—the gift he thought he possessed to take an aircraft out of the sky, the mastery of space and matter, a power and control that rose damnably from the curse of unbelonging.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I ran along the drainage canal with Sufi voices tracking through my head and sometimes I saw a plane taking off, all light and climb and calculus, and I thought of my son Jeffrey when he was younger—the gift he thought he possessed to take an aircraft out of the sky, the mastery of space and matter, a power and control that rose damnably from the curse of unbelonging.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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