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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

... personal file, kept by the Nazi Party’s own intelligence service, the SD? • Who blackmailed Hitler and what was the dark secret in his past? •... ... From the corner of my eye, I see the block senior and two high-ranking officers, black tunics, iron crosses, skulls and bones, mirror-shiny boots.... ...watchtower, the car barriers. There, on the muddy road, like an apparition, lurks a black Mercedes, no license plates, a white-gloved chauffeur hold... ... all the way to Jerusalem and, standing on the grounds of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum, she taped the piercing sound and the ensuing silence. ... ...g at Dan’s Place Dan dipped the flowery kitchen towel in a bowl of cluttering ice cubes and applied it to my bloated face. “They didn’t have to do... ...occupied by the Allies. But they were also involved in money counterfeiting, stolen art dealing, drugs, weapons, and other illicit activities. The r... ...ying and worse. Both our families elevated the denial of emotions into a pernicious art form: “Crybaby! What would you have done in Auschwitz?” The ... ...d essentially the same job: Josh was a research librarian at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The Genocide Monitoring Group and the M... ... with more than a modicum of trepidation that I decided to pay him a visit. The Museum was the only exhibition space I knew that intentionally i...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

..., 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. Delaney Cover Artist: Jenifer Ranieri Cover Art Copyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All righ... ... finished and stood, McGivern sat in the Ming chair. In the quiet office, the long black pen scratched across the paper, then McGivern laid the pen ... ...the ground in pointe tendue. That was until Laura Kate came home and brought a new art form, new, that is, for small Southern Belles. Some things n... ...nt as old as man, and it stuck in her brain as she pulled off her white uniform and black belt and climbed into her journalist duds: blue wool pants ... ...ral, and defense attorneys, in particular. He couldn’t deny he envied Jack’s thick black hair, and tall, lean stature. “We’re talking out... ...She grabbed a bottle and a crystal glass from a cupboard, filled the glass with ice cubes, water and an okay scotch. Just as quickly she refreshed h... ...d Johnnie whom Sammie dined with, he’d gotten a vague answer: “Some people with the museum, I believe.” ***** “Wiley.” Wiley Buckley’s... ....” There was nothing in his glass but ice, and she ignored him when he rattled the cubes. Johnelle said, “When I think of Bobby’s mama. She w... ...danger.” “I’m watching my back.” Laura Kate picked up the tongs and dropped an ice cube in the glass, contemplating him. “Too bad you don’t drink....

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western weddi... ... can be pulled out of robots and soon they were thrust in their own personal black abyss with none of the three able to see outside of blackness and p... ...in lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in the lock... ...ng as hungry as he was. It became fully dark and he would have known entire blackness were it not for the speckling of stars, the moon, and a fire at... ...a photograph of a neighbor his family had labeled as "Grandma" Vera with her black dress rustling in the wind carrying him in her arms. Would they thi... ...ies, temporary exhibits, and then to have him sit alone in a corner at these art parties where cheques were often signed. He saw him sitting in those... ...ot under the directive of his own will. The book is of 20th century American art and contains a few examples of his mother's work. Only pleasures from... ...ully amused by their non- feminine creative play. "My ladies, methinks thou art so nice, but unfortunately I've already had breakfast." "Lady'speakin... ...that they still called "Cat." She occupied herself with its pleasure (an ice cube habitually given for it to munch on as she was preparing breakfast, ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...e called upon by the Great Spirit to protect every liv­ ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wonde... ...ming in the sun, who was seated behind the table. His finely cropped, speckled black and white beard offset a stern presence. Seattle, Chief and sp... ...haled deeply and smiled. River Song was standing with her back toward him; her black-dyed, deerskin dress fit snugly on her tall, shapely fig­ ure. ... ...said with- The Soul Bearer out looking up from his glass as he swished the ice cubes around, fascinated by the variety of images they created. Pie... ...erce intoned quietly. "You know something?" Frank said, still glued to the ice cubes. "He's naive," Pierce responded, "No business experience. We'... ...the money, in effect, we'll control him." His words were as cold as Frank's ice cubes. "What about Matloch?" Cox pleaded still in a state. "Leave M... ...assion," Alana continued, "for the environment is well known." She mastered the art of public relations: give credibility to one's reputation by way... ...junk bonds to naive blue chip stockholders. He had raised Insider Trading to an art form that made even Ivan Boetsky look like an amateur. After all... ...y, "Buying a Congressman or a Beauracrat is a skill, but buying a Senator is an art form." Pierce also visualized himself as a Master Sculptor, who ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...d in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes i... ...ear the top, currently the leading country in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt cou... ...ntures in the virtual world created by mind engineers. Convention-breaking art, cinema, the whole of Western consciousness industry live off sex and v... ...ture is something abnormal; it must be ever more provoking and stimulating art or entertainment, sold to consumers that are ever more perverted and de... ...oday, only the old go. Before, everyone used to wear home-woven, home-made black clothes. Today hardly anyone wears them. Before, we used to wear a wi... ...t them money, because I was then working abroad. In the lottery, I got the black paper, and I was then signed up to the army for two years. I was in a... ... almost every compound. For decades, the village has been renowned for its blacksmiths who made rice farming tools in low open-sided smithies.Acouple ... ...k at home in the past. In the 1970s, village people used to bring home ice cubes in insulated containers from city ice shops, to put in soft drinks on... ...by providing barrels at roadsides; they have managed to stop mixing of ice cubes in the dousing water and spoiling of people's clothing with lime. Wha...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,—it might strike the reflective mind with some... ...ng tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in Got... ...t possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen h... ...ough the highest published creation, or work of genius, has never- theless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of ins... ...nd Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Print- ing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Char- co... ...eate protuberance enough. Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.” Our Professor, wh... ... see it our duty ultimately to deposit these Six Paper-Bags in the British Museum, farther description, and all vituperation of them, may be spared. B... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Preparation of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may dre... ...rshipped; the Fraction will be- come not an Integer only, but a Square and Cube. With astonishment the world will recognize that the Tailor is its Hie...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book... ...ent parasite of great questions. He likes everything in hard, heavy lines, black and white, yes and no, because he does not understand how much there ... ... please here. Even if I presented all my tri-clinic crystals as systems of cubes—— ! Indeed I felt it would not be worth doing. But having re- jected ... ...urtain rises upon him so. But afterwards, if the devices of this declining art of litera- ture prevail, you will go with him through curious and inter... ...vidualities, and Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant... ...ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and black, brown, red and yellow, all tints of skin, all types of body and char... ... a sympathetic public- ity. The natural disposition of all peoples, white, black, or brown, a natural disposition that education seeks to destroy, is ... ...hing, his jewels, the tools of his employ- ment, his books, the objects of art he may have bought or made, his personal weapons (if Utopia have need o... ...Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A fooli...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...d out to be a small, slatternly- looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and everything denoting... ...at title, is a matter all shipowners must settle with their consciences. A cube of salt beef, on a hard round biscuit by way of platter, was also hand... ... of St. Christina greeted us from afar. Drawing near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small man-of-war craft crept into view; t... ...h remark, Hardy had a good deal to say concerning the manner in which that art was practised upon the island. Throughout the entire cluster the tattoo... ...tattooers of Hivarhoo enjoyed no small reputation. They had carried their art to the highest perfection, and the profession was esteemed most honoura... ...istinguishing the sets, I marked mine by tying round them little scarfs of black silk, torn from an old neck-handkerchief. Putting them in mourning th... ...udiously inclined, he would take great pleasure in teaching such the whole art and mystery of navi- 75 Melville gation, including the gratuitous use ... ...atiently. The bag turned out to be well filled with sweet potatoes boiled, cubes of salt beef and pork, and a famous sailors’ pudding, what they call ... ...eman is being measured for a coat. While we were amusing ourselves in this museum of curi- osities, our conductor plucked us by the sleeve, and whis- ...

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Brooksmith, The Real Thing, The Story of It, Flickerbridge, And Mrs. Medwin

By: Henry James

...planation is usually that our women have not the skill to cultivate it—the art to direct through a smiling land, between suggestive shores, a sinuous ... ... out. He had in short accepted the truth which many dabblers in the social art are slow to learn, that you must really, as they say, take a line, and ... ..., a law in his success. He hadn’t hit it off by a mere fluke. There was an art in it all, and how was the art so hidden? Who indeed if it came to that... ...experience shouldn’t be wasted. I really think that if we had caused a few black-edged cards to be struck off and circulated—”Mr. Brooksmith will con-... ...the service Claude Rivet had rendered me; he had told them how I worked in black-and-white, for magazines, for story-books, for sketches of contempora... ...nd myself appraising physically, as if they were animals on hire or useful blacks, a pair whom I should have expected to meet only in one of the rela-... ...n him in Italy, in Spain, confronted at last, in dusky side-chapel or rich museum, with great things dreamed of or with greater ones unexpectedly pres... ...lse, and then, dropping on the old flowered sofa, sus- tained by the tight cubes of its cushions, yielded afresh to the cigarette, hesitated, stared, ... ...ently do. He would close the door on his impression, treat it as a private museum. He would see that he could lounge and linger there, live with wonde...

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The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

... the Psychologist. ‘Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.’ ‘There I object,’ said Filby. ‘Of course a sol... ...e Machine ‘So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instan- taneous cube exist?’ ‘Don’t follow you,’ said Filby. ‘Can a cube that does not last... ...eason,’ said Filby. ‘What reason?’ said the Time T raveller. ‘You can show black is white by argument,’ said Filby, ‘but you will never convince me.’ ... ... grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. T o-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still. An ... ... As I put on pace, night followed day 17 H G Wells like the flapping of a black wing. The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall a... ...ed and Two Thou- sand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them suddenly asked me a ques- tion that showe... ...reat peace. This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay. ‘Even this artistic ... ... gallery lit by many side windows. At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of misc... ...menta- tion, but this rarely results in flame. In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that we...

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ally a blue surcoat, a white cravat, a waistcoat crossed a la Robespierre, black trousers without straps, gray silk stockings and low shoes. Well-shav... ...ssessed sketches, engravings, and pictures. He did a great deal of good to art- ists by simply not injuring them and by furthering their wishes on cer... ...Lupeaulx was always to be seen in open-worked silk stock- ings, low shoes, black trousers, cashmere waistcoat, cambric handkerchief (without perfume),... ...ull of good taste and of exquisite things, where each detail was a work of art well placed and 33 Balzac well surrounded, and where Madame Rabourdin,... ...al-secretary entered. Her dress that evening was very becoming; she wore a black velvet robe without ornament of any kind, a black gauze scarf, her ha... ...f some kind, or a widow,—who might fall in love with him, he practised the art of twirling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou to... ...they talk of putting in over his head that solid lump of foolishness, that cube of idiocy, Baudoyer?” Dutocq [consequentially]. “My dear fellow, I am ... ...be employed by the civil list, at the Opera, or the Menus-Plaisirs, or the Museum. Great deal of capac- ity, little self-respect, no application,—a re...

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

... G Wells abyss. And he (Redwood) was standing on a planet before a sort of black platform lecturing about the new sort of growth that was now possible... ...tle queer isolated place, in a dell surrounded by old pine woods that were black and for- bidding at night. A humped shoulder of down cut it off from ... ...se was creeperless, sev- eral windows were broken, and the cart shed had a black shadow at midday. It was a mile and a half from the end house of the ... ... fifty appearances was certainly that of the wasp that visited the British Museum about mid- day, dropping out of the blue serene upon one of the innu... ...to devour its victim at leisure. After that it crawled for a time over the museum roof, entered the dome of the reading-room by a skylight, buzzed abo... ...had hardened through 56 The Food of the Gods years of disuse into a horny cube, were redolent of Skinner’s distinctive personality. It came to Bensin... ...limsy parti- tion the voice of the Caddles infant wailed. “Bless ‘is poor ‘art,” said Mrs. Skinner; and then, with her solitary tooth biting her lip i... ...t trouble with the river. He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by watching the Spender boy, and he set them sailing down the... ...s, more red huts, and then the clustering villas of the outer suburbs. The art of bill-sticking had lost nothing in the interval, and from countless t...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Mes- sage, and humor strictly mo... ...ll of her body was alive—thin wrists, quince-blossom skin, inge- nue eyes, black hair. The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the slight- ness o... ...ewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they ... ... to have a cell in a settlement- house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a ho... ..., books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in th... ... the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof. Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open dai... ...ennicott hinted, she’d better leave till he “made a ten-strike.” The brown cube of a house stirred and awakened; it seemed to be in motion; it welcome... ...eration, with great audibility and dismaying knowledge. He was, in fact, a museum specimen of what a small town, a well-disci- plined public school, a... ... engine.” “No. He’s a dear soul, bless him, but he belongs in the National Museum, along with General Grant’s sword, and I’m— Oh, I suppose I’m seekin...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

... when the sky was pale and unearthly, invisible, and the hills were nearly black. At a meeting of the tracks was a crucifix, and between the feet of t... ...ip, of a sort of almost obscene worship. Afterwards 14 D. H. Lawrence the black pine-trees and the river of that valley seemed un- clean, as if an un... ...oloured leaves, sunny in their colourlessness. In 19 Twilight in Italy my black coat, I felt myself wrong, false, an outsider. She was spinning, spon... ...s strain of cold dislike, or self-dislike, through much of the Renaissance art, and through all the later Shakespeare. In Shakespeare it is a kind of ... ...ace. His temples, with the black hair, were distinct and fine as a work of art. But always his eyes had this strange, half-diabolic, half- tortured pa... ... to the terror one feels on the new Italian roads, where these great blind cubes of dwellings rise stark from the destroyed earth, swarming with a sor... ...- dred years ago. Now it is cosmopolitan, the cathedral is like a relic, a museum object, everywhere stinks of mechanical money-pleasure. I dared not ...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rations of men, even though far below the higher efforts of human creative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progres... ... am satisfied there was in this particular instance. Mr. White possessed a museum—formed chiefly by him- self, and originally, perhaps, directed simpl... ...en, cultivate the most enlarged and liberal curiosity; so that Mr. White’s museum furnished attractions to an unusually large variety of tastes. I had... ...for this is one of the cases in which we all felicitate ourselves upon the art and gift of forgetting; that art which the great Athenian* noticed as a... ...the gift—that she should be embalmed as perfectly as the resources in that art of London and Paris could accomplish, and that once a year Mr. White, a... ... controversy, by a necessary consequence, had so familiarized me with the “Black Letter,” that I had begun to find an un- 141 Thomas de Quincey affec... ...uage held by the majority of journalists who then echoed the public voice. Blackwood’s Magazine (1817) first accustomed the public ear to the language... ... journals, was treated as a whim, a paradox, a bold ex- travagance, of the Blackwood critics. Mr. Wordsworth’s neigh- bors in Westmoreland, who had (g... ... were assumed at start- ing to be = 1; because, in that case, the squares, cubes, and all other powers alike, would be = I; and thus, under any appare...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...er,— Loose not the wine-skin foot, thou chief of men, Until to Athens thou art come again. Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity 7... ...fore. And this he did without having either prac- ticed or ever learnt the art of bending these trees, to show that natural strength is above all art.... ...Medea, having fled from Corinth, and prom- ised Aegeus to make him, by her art, capable of having chil- dren, was living with him. She first was aware... ..., entertaining no hopes of safety or return, they sent out the ship with a black sail, as to unavoidable destruction; but now, Theseus encouraging his... ...d, if Theseus were safe, to make use of that; but if not, to sail with the black one, and to hang out that sign of his misfortune. Simonides says that... ... in the very city, and joined battle close by the Pnyx and the hill called Museum, unless, having first conquered the country round about, they had th... ...x, near Chrysa, that with this wing the Athenians, issuing from behind the Museum, engaged, and that the graves of those that were slain are to be see... ...Neptune on the eighth day of every month. The number eight being the first cube of an even number, and the double of the first square, seemed to be an... ...cted can- didate had a name thence derived. Their most famous dish was the black broth, which was so much valued that the eld- erly men fed only upon ...

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St. Ives : Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...igh placed and commanding extraordinary prospects, not only over sea, mountain, and champaign but actually over the thorough- 6 St. Ives fares of a c... ... tool slipped! Yes, I am afraid you may go from one to another, and find a flaw in every- thing. Failures for Sale should be on my signboard. I do not... ...t last as she had come, without a sign. Closely as I had watched her, I could not say her eyes had ever rested on me for an instant; and my heart was ... ...oped our bodies like a wet sheet. The man was better at fencing than myself; he was vastly taller than I, being of a stature almost gigantic, and prop... ...ved as a library, for there were traces of shelves along the wainscot. Four or five mattresses lay on the floor in a corner, with a frowsy heap of bed... ...n, but the proof of the pud- ding is the eating of it,’ I continued. And here I stripped my coat and fell into the proper attitude, which was just abo... ...tune travelling in proper style, whom the 163 Stevenson landlord will forget in twelve hours—and the chambermaid perhaps remember, God bless her! wit... ... seated the Judicious Tavern, so that persons of contemplative mind are secure, at moderate distances, of refreshment. I have been doing a trot in tha...

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Mcteague : A Story of San Francisco

By: Frank Norris

...rants, in whose windows one saw piles of unopened oysters weighted down by cubes of ice, and china pigs and cows knee deep in layers of white beans. A... ... her hair that one’s attention was most attracted. Heaps and heaps of blue-black coils and braids, a royal crown of swarthy bands, a veritable sable t... ...- ing poise, innocent, confiding, almost infantile. She was dressed all in black, very modest and plain. The effect of her pale face in all this contr... ...very modest and plain. The effect of her pale face in all this contrasting black was almost monastic. “Well,” exclaimed Marcus suddenly, “I got to go.... ...warmed over the park, now around the swings, now in the Casino, now in the museum, now invading the merry-go-round. At half-past five o’clock Mr. Siep... ...ounced gravely. “Home, Sweet Home,” played upon a trombone. Think of that! Art could go no farther. The acrobats left him breathless. They were dazzli... ...f was full of the smell of fresh popcorn. They even spent some time in the art gallery. Trina’s cousin Selina, who gave lessons in hand painting at tw... ...tion one ought to culti- 138 McTeague vate. Trina professed to be fond of art, having perhaps acquired a taste for painting and sculpture from her ex...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,— it might strike the reflective mind with so... ...ring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in G... ...ast possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen... ..., though the highest published creation, or work of genius, has nevertheless black spots and troubled nebulosities amid its effulgence,—a mixture of i... ... and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal ... ...create protuberance enough. Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.” Our Professor, ... ...ps see it our duty ultimately to deposit these Six Paper Bags in the British Museum, farther descrip tion, and all vituperation of them, may be spare... ...ts with care: when did we see any injected Prepa ration of the Dandy in our Museums; any specimen of him preserved in spirits! Lord Herringbone may d... ...e worshipped; the Fraction will become not an Integer only, but a Square and Cube. With astonish ment the world will recognize that the Tailor is its...

...able Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,--it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...fication, who has concerned himself with education and aspired to creative art, may claim in his very amateurishness a special qualification. And in a... ...as scarcely ever a play that has not primarily a strong love interest, his art rises to its most consummate triumphs in Venus and Madonna, and his mus... ...s such a thing as air at all. The vast mass of human expression in act and art and literature takes a narrower view than we have here formulated; it p... ...t thinks madness is a fixed and definite thing, as distinct from sanity as black is from white. He is always exas- perated at the hesitation of doctor... ...564 boys and young men were measured and weighed to get these figures. The black columns indicate the weight (+9 lbs. of clothes) and height respectiv... ...ng members of each class at the ages given. The mortality, however, in the black or lower class is probably far higher than in the upper class year by... ...would be quite easy to teach the child in an incidental way to distinguish cube, cylinder, cone, sphere (or ball), prolate spheroid (which might be ca... ...hroughout life by this defect. Counting should be taught be means of small cubes, which the child can arrange and rearrange in groups. It should have ... ...and rearrange in groups. It should have at least over a hun- dred of these cubes—if possible a thousand; they will be useful as toy bricks, and for in...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...resents a melancholy, but very pic- turesque appearance. Having procured a black Pa- dre for a guide, and a Spaniard who had served in the Peninsular ... ...eat our dinners. A considerable number of men, women, and children, all as black as jet, collected to watch us. Our com- panions were extremely merry;... ...le organ, which sent forth singularly inharmonious cries. We presented the black priest with a few shillings, and the Spaniard, patting him on the hea... ...o cause a fatal wound. I have seen a number of little boys practising this art as a game of play and from their skill in hitting an up- right stick, t... ... ing! I was much interested one day by watching a *In a MS. in the British Museum by Mr. Abbott, who made his observations in Georgia; see Mr. A. Whit... ...arles Darwin head, as to take aim: on foot any person would soon learn the art. One day, as I was amusing myself by galloping and whirling the balls r... ...determined* by the annual amount of moisture; yet in this prov- *Maclaren, art. “America,” Encyclop. Brittann. 55 Charles Darwin ince abundant and he... ...awing out the salt in bullock- waggons, This salt is crystallized in great cubes, and is remarkably pure: Mr. Trenham Reeks has kindly analyzed some f... ...disappointment to find a snow-white expanse of salt, crystallized in great cubes! We attributed our extreme thirst to the dryness of the atmosphere; b...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...utre plaisir, meme celui de lire un conte.” —Stendhal P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING T ONE: MAKING THE... ...ke.” They were coming out of the movies in a stream of people in which the blackish clothes of factory-hands predominated. “I came near bawlin’ at the... ...e side and the other in his midnight inspection of the bar- racks. Intense blackness again, and the sound of men breath- ing deeply in sleep, of men s... ...led out of the barracks. They trembled like bits of brilliant jelly in the black velvet of the sky, just as some- thing inside him trembled with excit... ...f it only wasn’t so goddam black.” 40 Three Soldiers P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T T T T T TW W W W WO: O: O: O: O: THE MET THE MET THE MET THE ME... ...s had opened. They covered the head with a blan- ket. P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MACHINES CHINES ... .... At the opposite end of the village street from the Y. M. C. A. hut was a cube-shaped house set a little apart from the rest in the middle of a broad... ... Malmaison.” “Oh, you should go to St. Germain. M. Reinach’s prehis- toric museum is there. It is very beautiful. Y ou should not go home to your coun...

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A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster

...rno and the cypresses of San Miniato, and the foot-hills of the Apennines, black against the ris- ing moon. Miss Bartlett, in her room, fastened the w... ... into another Piazza, large and dusty, on the farther side of which rose a black-and-white facade of surpassing ugliness. Miss Lavish spoke to it dram... ...arming, and Miss Bartlett had per- suaded her to do without it. (A pity in art of course signified the nude.) Giorgione’s “Tempesta,” the “Idolino,” s... ... “And don’t move till I come back.” In the distance she saw creatures with black hoods, such as appear in dreams. The palace tower had lost the reflec... ...tell 52 A Room with a View from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art- photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St. Peter to match—all of w... ... tiff was over. “So, Miss Honeychurch, you are travelling? As a student of art?” “Oh, dear me, no—oh, no!” “Perhaps as a student of human nature,” int... ...ng is made.” “Italy has done it.” “Perhaps,” she murmured, thinking of the museum 119 EM Forster that represented Italy to her. “It is just possible.... ...onplace, not to say impertinent. The late Mr. Honeychurch had affected the cube, because it gave him the most accommodation for his money, and the onl... ...uch pleasanter. How wet it is! Let’s turn in here.” “Here” was the British Museum. Mrs. Honeychurch refused. If they must take shelter, let it be in a...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... knelt in a niche in the chancel wall, scarlet- cloaked, white-ruffed, and black doubletted, a desk bearing an open Bible before him, and a twisted pi... ...r Mary to call out, “Why, Norman, non- sense! Mr. Ernescliffe rode the new black kicking horse till he made it quite steady.” “Made it steady! No, Mar... ...rew it.” Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer. Harry returned, to prote... ...ltuous a 76 The Daisy Chain state for her to derive her usual solace from Cube Root. Her sum was wrong, and she wanted to work it right, but Miss Win... ... wall, and embarked in a picture discussion. The doctor had much taste for art, and had made the most of his opportunities of seeing paintings during ... ...idge together, and we got on that and other matters; London people have an art of conversation not learned here, and I don’t know how the time slipped... ...ot’s answer, while Ethel scrambled in, and tried to make herself small, an art in which she was not very successful; and Norman gave an ex- clamation ... ...ble sight-seeing. College Chap- els, Bodleian Library, Taylor Gallery, the Museum, all were thoroughly studied, and, if Flora had not dragged the part... ... London, near the old hospital, per- haps—and go and turn over the British Museum library.” “Look you here, Spencer, I have a much better plan. Do you...

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