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...Comedian What my Marriage to "Mr. Right" Looked like Left on my Own Camelot's Round Table A Master's Degree Program Believe A Nebulous Concept Soap Opera Revisited My own Reflection Background Connectedness Mulling Released Illusions Passion's Melancholy Memory Armegeddon Came Stealthily Full Circle...

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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turner Maxwell ...

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...ryone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to and/or admired by me... ... had heard the commotion as the horse was brought back to the stables at the Opera Garnier, where I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horse... ...s an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Friesian. ... ...your own horses. You will find him in a stall on the fifth basement of the opera. Come alone, and do not dare to tell others of this mission. O.G... ... tub to my room. I undressed and settled into the bath, using rose-scented soap that I purchased in a small shop nearby. After bathing, I stepped ... ...oil into the water and undressed. I luxuriated in the tub before finding my soap and scrubbing my skin. I then washed my hair and rinsed it in the ... ...nted water. He made his way over to one side, where an alcove held mirror, soap and straight razor. He lathered chin and cheeks and shaved away th... ...hter. He wrapped his arms around me then and massaged the sandalwood-scented soap into my wet hair, kissing my forehead gently as he did so. “Lady’s ... ...d do anything for you. Now, lean back.” He supported my back and rinsed the soap from my hair in the steaming tub. The scent of sandalwood ... his ...

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...n Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertaker was an operator at the local (manual) telephone exchange. She re-routed... ...specialist removers of bladder stones). Scipione Mercurio (1540-1615) described the operation in his first text, published in 1596. Four strong assi... ...he Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) Its mission is to combine investigative and operational support functions, research, and training in order t... ...ces, the precursor of the CIA. As commander of the 30th Assault Unit, he sometimes operated behind the German lines, trying to secure important doc... ...important documents and files from destruction. But, mostly, he directed the Unit's operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house ... ...ing a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to R...

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..., in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on an operating table, among blood spattered bandages and slab... ...!" My mother froze and then, bending towards me, she tousled my hair, her hand all wet and soapy. I shut my eyes and opened them repeatedly to repe... ...ent demise – "From tomorrow, find yourself another place!" A distant mannish voice trilled opera arias. It approached, bathing the room and us, and... ... come out of it." I suggest to him to address some his missives to the beauties on the TV soaps. He sign up to my charade enthusiastically and ins...

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...cie C. McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair an... .... McKeever 20 Kelly opened his eyes in time to see some young Latin—a soap-opera-hunk-looking motherfucker—lean forward from his bedside chair and rea... ...k stare. He finally shrugged. "Anyway, you got caught up in a buy-and-bust operation." "With friends like that...." "I agree." "So, you're in the habi... ...acting. He knew the routine, was intimately acquainted with how the police operated. They wouldn't take any missing persons report serious until twent... ...own heart, squeezed her eyes shut and took a deep breath as if she were an opera singer preparing to belt out a thunderous note for her finale. Moment... ... couldn't argue with her there. It seemed obsession had been Dagny's modus operandi in most areas of her life. She seemed to have gotten off on the do...

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...and seeing him now exhibiting strong symp- toms of concluding his business operations, and jumping into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now o... ...ms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water and commenced lat... ...rs’s best cutlery with a vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is m... ...t out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregat... ...e- wise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb’s tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent. The third mate was Flask, a nativ... ...rew out 392 Moby Dick handfuls of something that looked like ripe Windsor soap, or rich mottled old cheese; very unctuous and savory withal. Y ou mig... ...t in use, they are kept remarkably clean. Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls. During ... ...atical meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first indirectly struck ... ...markable fact, that in geom- etry all bodies gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for ex- ample, will descend from any point in precisely the same ...

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..., and seeing him now exhibiting strong symptoms of concluding his business operations, and jump ing into bed with me, I thought it was high time, now... ...ms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash stand centre table, dipped it into water and commenced lat... ...rs’s best cutlery with a vengeance. Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is ma... ...nt out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregat... ...ikewise, against all mortal tribulations, Stubb’s tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort of disinfecting agent. The third mate was Flask, a nativ... ... sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have left their opera glasses at home. “Why, thou monkey,” said a harpooneer to one of thes... ...t in use, they are kept remarkably clean. Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch bowls. During ... ...atical meditation. It was in the left hand try pot of the Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first indirectly struck b... ...remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will descend from any point in precisely the same ti...

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...ming that there is any more inevitable certitude about purely intellectual operations than there is about sen- sory perceptions. The mind of a man may... ... quantities of atoms necessarily taken in any experiment that masks by the operation of the law of averages the fact that each atom also has its uniqu... ...irs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentist’s chairs, thrones, opera stalls, seats of all sorts, those miraculous fungoid growths that cum... ...eive what a lax bundle in fact is this simple straightforward term. In co- operation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any defini... ...nfolding of a sense of community with his kind, of the possibilities of co-operations leading to scarce dreamt-of col- lective powers, of a synthesis ... ...ppeals. Most people speak of drugs in the spirit of that admirable firm of soap-boilers which assures its customers that the soap they make “contains ...

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...ote” by an infu- sion of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux’s opera- tors did, is not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of pr... ...ich, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, including the capture of the Goletta an... ... in her white hands (for white they certainly were) a round ball of Naples soap. The one with the basin ap- proached, and with arch composure and impu... ...d, and at the same instant the jug began to pour and the dam- sel with the soap rubbed his beard briskly, raising snow-flakes, for the soap lather was... ...of neck, and that uncom- monly brown, his eyes shut, and his beard full of soap, it was a great wonder, and only by great discretion, that they were a... ...n for the duke as she had done for Don Quixote, and they soon had him well soaped and washed, and having wiped him dry they made their obeisance and r... ...ave pun- ished them for their impudence, which they adroitly atoned for by soaping him as well. Sancho observed the ceremony of the washing very atten...

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...xpiring wood-fire—since the first ingenious urchin who blew bubbles out of soap and water, thou, my best of friends, hast the highest knack at making ... ...require repose, if not slumber; the draught which I had taken continued to operate, and, satisfied in my own mind that no attempt on my life was desig... ...medical attendance, and was bled more than once. I also remember a painful opera- tion performed on my head, where I had received a severe blow on the... ...h this difference, that they did not accom- pany or second any such useful operation as the boiling thereof. Fairford was glad when the cloth was with... ...aying, you may command my best—advice.’ ‘I hope for your assistance and co-operation also,’ said the youth. ‘Certainly, certainly,’ said the wary magi... ...so far as to take a considerable quantity of blood from him, by which last operation he probably did his patient much service. 328 Redgauntlet CHAPTE...

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...is based upon the assumption that not only Energy: but Time and Space as well operate by the same Dynamic of Balanced Splitting or Splitness. This ... ...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...e of Inner and Outer awareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abst... ...re. The Inner-Observer shifted over mostly to one side of this Triality. It operates mostly in the conscious area of our Inner Awareness. We becam... .... The more obviously fake it is, the more ludicrous and grotesque the entire soap-opera posturing is; the more they love it. They are in love with... ...jobs like working for Niemen Marcus, or getting huge salaries as bit actors on soap THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ...me identical labyrinth-pattern design. Huh? You mean if you glue a bar of soap to a dog, or glue a piece of wood to your nose: it means the same ... ...ow you their true face. This is precisely the level of human corruption most Soap Operas mimic. This is precisely what most literature and fiction... ...come even more unhappy than the majority of consumers. The boring idiocy of soap operas is based upon an endless tearing away of secrets, and lies,...

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...ed dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; not a mor... ...s by marrying a young woman of the French nation, who was by profession an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never allude... ...the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the opera, laboriously attired in tights and a cocked hat. 24 V anity Fair On ... ...op by evincing the deepest sympathy in the raspberry-jam preserving, which operation was then going on in the Housekeeper’s room; she persisted in cal... ...ng—as the representative of so many pounds of tea, candles, sugar, mottled-soap, plums (of which a very mild proportion was supplied for the puddings ... ...y sent him parcels, which, when opened, were found to contain the paternal soap and candles. There was no little fellow but had his jeer and joke at D... ...He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to ...

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...ed, then why allow of any lingering or doubt- ful force to what must often operate as a conflicting claim? ‘A call,’ which carries with it any legal f... ...r section of the church; but in that year 1834, such a prestige did really operate; and this must be received as one of the reasons which partially ex... ...s the festal color, and more especially in Palestine, where the indigenous soaps, and other cleaning materials, gave them peculiar advantages for adop... ...s general example. But his false principles have a worse conta- gion. They operate not only through the general haze and halo which invests a shining ... ...nd that was rea- son enough why no new pleasure, had any been found, would operate as such for him. The weariness of spirit, and the pov- erty of plea... ...is own gifts confound;’ 10 but with this mighty differ- ence—that Time co-operated in the one case with extrava- gant folly in the individual, and in... ... there never had been a richer. And thus collapses the whole fable, like a soap-bubble punctured by a surgeon’s probe. II. Yet even this specimen of P... ...a pig (but in this instance a wild boar of the forest) whose tail has been soaped. (See Lord Clarendon, not his History but his Life.) What the Birmin...

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...and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback to... ...on 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 PARLOAD stood at the open window, opera-glass in hand, and sought and found and was uncertain about and lost ... ... space had come to take possession of his soul. He had commandeered an old opera-glass from his uncle who farmed at Leet over the moors, he had bought... ...at catered for those who were under this obsession, he had at last got his opera-glass upon the new visitor to our system from outer space. He gazed i... ...ction 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 THAT MADE PARLOAD put down the opera-glass and look at me. “It’s a bad time to change just now,” he said a... ...tic discord; pill vendors and preachers, theaters and charities, marvelous soaps and astonishing pickles, type- writing machines and sewing machines, ... ...own destined needs, and shift a portion of one’s punishment upon him. This opera- tion of spasmodic underselling was known as “dumping.” The American ...

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... person whom he wronged. In the experience of my informant, almost no tapu had been put in use, except the two described: he had thus no opportunity t... ...rs and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and gone since this sli... ...n- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its purport is taken down progressively by one of the ex- perts, writing, I was told, ‘... ... any expla- nation, I would at times make out some shadowy but deci- sive outline of a plot; and I was continually reminded of certain quarrelsome con... ...he group, making a slight movement with the feet and rhythmical quiver of the body as they sang. There was a pause after the introductory, and then th... ...passing and point- ing. ‘No, king; that too dear,’ returns the trader. ‘I think I like him,’ says the king. This was a bowl of gold-fish. On another o...

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...ed bread-sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap; she objected to the consumption of beer by her maid- servants; and sh... ...one who took the tone of authority; and she was a passive spectator of the operation of her fate. “May I not see mamman Catherine get into the carriag... ...ir hotel, and at this establish- ment he learned that they had gone to the opera. He drove to the opera with the idea of paying them a visit in their ... ...ss Stackpole delights in an ice. I didn’t think they wanted me either. The opera’s very bad; the women look like laundresses and sing like peacocks. I... ...ut why play them on HIM? The others came back; the bare, familiar, trivial opera began again. The box was large, and there was room for him to remain ... ...r the next twenty-four hours, but on the second day after the visit to the opera she encountered him in the gallery of the Capitol, where he stood bef...

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... Jack Maldon. I came out to inquire whether Annie would like to go to the opera tonight, said Mr. Maldon, turning to her. It s the last good night ... ... Vol. II 119 short allowance of bear s grease, wholly aban- doned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacr... ...g her own bright, rosy little mouth into kissing form, as she directed the operation, which she insisted should be performed symmetrically, on the cen... ...erstand that I am entirely at your service. I am ready to go with Annie to operas, concerts, exhibitions, all kinds of places; and you shall never fin... ...and proclaim himself a law- yer? Whether he could come out by force at the opera, and succeed by violence? Whether he could do anything, without being... ...ddles, rumpling his hair in his excitement, which was a most un- necessary operation, my dearest Copperfield, my long-lost and most welcome friend, h...

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...SAN’S LIFE ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE IN 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a yout... ... was so handsome as to rank among those exceptional persons who come to an opera ball in search of an adventure, and who expect it as confidently as m... ...e the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known only to those who play a part in them; for, to yo... ...en it,” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on those nights be the palace of fatigue and dulness. T o ... ...tion betrays itself. Men who want to hide their good fortune can enjoy the opera ball without going there; and masks who are absolutely compelled to g... ...But you,” he went on to Esther, “you whom I dragged from the mud, and have soaped down body and soul, you surely do not dream that you can stand in Lu... ... your peepers open and a sharp lookout. Don’t know me, Nanty parnarly, and soap me down for a priest, or I will do for you all, you and your molls and...

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...t of our little Nesta’s godmother. I ‘ve told you. We took the girl to the Opera, when quite a little one—that high:— and I declare to you, it was mar... ...well-attuned barrel-organ in a street has drawn us to recollections of the Opera or Italy, another harshly crashes, and the postman knocks at doors, a... ... Europe, world, but especially this London, is rather a thing for hospital operations than for poetic rhap- sody; in aspect, too, streaked scarlet and... ...nd the will. It passed like a giver’s wrinkle. He read the placards of the Opera; reminding himself of the day when it was the single Opera-house; and... ...ve accelerated his course: and his hat dripped, and his coat shone, and he soaped his hands, cheerful as an ouzel-cock when the sun is out again. ‘Man... ...a confidential place, highly trusted.’ Skepsey looked up from the hands he soaped: ‘He is a curious mixture; he has true enthusiasm for boxing, he bel... ...rful woman whose profes- sional apparatus was her soft heart and a cake of soap. Skepsey has made his peace with you?’ Victor answered: ‘Yes, yes; I s... ...ce. He had buried his wife, he said: she feared, seeing his posture of the soaping of hands at one shoulder, that he was about to be- wail it; and he ... ...wasted, he’s basted, and the book ‘ll have no sale. I hate satire.’ ‘Rough soap for a thin skin, Victor. Does it hurt our people much?’ ‘Not a bit; do...

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...such queer things to eat. Her cook does the washing and the food tastes of soap. I should hate that, you know.” “Y ou shouldn’t dine with her on wash-... ...cipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator. “I’ve got a few new things,” he said, suffused with pleasure, but... ...e entire house was swathed in penitential white and deluged with expiatory soapsuds. It was on this phase of the proceedings that Miss Bart en- tered ... ...y up to her room she was arrested on the landing by an encroaching tide of soapsuds. Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture... ... Selden’s rooms; and looking down to remonstrate with the dispenser of the soapy flood, she found herself met by a lifted stare which had once before ... ...aunt in town. Even the desolating dulness of New Y ork in October, and the soapy discomforts of Mrs. Peniston’s interior, seemed prefer- able to what ... ...baggage, just to suit his fancy. I had a long sickness last winter, and an operation that ate up all we’d put by; and it’s hard for me and the chil- d... ...rchase of the dress- ing-case till she should receive the bill for her new opera-cloak, and the resolve made her feel much richer than when she had en... ...hat was lacking in hers. His object in calling was to ask her to go to the opera in his box on the opening night, and seeing her hesitate he said per-...