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...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...f death; but though privileged enough to be impaired with such a substance and such a stance, Kenyon paid for this lengthy death afterwards with excr... ...or it made her reluctant to use the drug, or to use it sparsely at least; and sleep that was not assisted in such a way allowed her to grow new legs ... ...favored window draped with concatenated strands of diminutive sea shells, and briefly roam the countryside with eyes ravenous for space, beauty and f... ... solitary debasement and its degradation, of equal travail; and as it was Christmas Eve, every click of the air conditioner turning on in the hot day... ...he making of her own clever crudities in the mezcla of two poorly learned languages. Was it the selling of herself that they had abhorred so much or... ... of interest by the agent to its object more natural than the artifice of language were the only spell that mesmerized her and her kind, and he knew ... ...ood cells spurted out of her profusely she imagined her mother's electric Christmas candles glowing in the window pane, the sound of Christmas music... ... putting his hand into her own. Sister Mary Elizabeth was putting a Christmas wreath on the door and slapping Sister Connie’s fat hand. “Get o... ... what little permeates these rooms, it can create harmony, bliss, and the nomenclature of hope. [She rolls back to the bedroom, and along the wa...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of th...

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...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ...mers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Ev... ...An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM ... ...vement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights law... ...ts for us? Why do we have trademark law, this “homestead law for the English language”? 4 Why not simply allow anyone to use any name or attractive sy... ...ory—so long as he has a reason for focusing on that commonality. Second, the language of intellectual property exists. It has politi- cal reality in t... ...tual property exists. It has politi- cal reality in the world. Sometimes the language confuses and misleads. There are two possible reactions to such ... ...to such a reality. One can reject it and insist on a different and “purified” nomenclature, or one can attempt to point out the misperceptions and conf... .... It will not even have had its twentieth birthday on her graduation day. By Christmas of 2012, it will be able to drink Chapter 10 232 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1...

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...howder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 The Ramadan, 89 -- 18 His Mark, 94 -- 19 The Prophet, 98 -- 20 All Astir, 101 -- 21 Going Aboard, 104 -- 22 Merry Christmas, 107 -- 23 The Lee Shore, 111 -- 24 The Advocate, 113 -- 25 Postscript, 117 -- 26 Knights and Squires, 118...

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...ere! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bu...

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...RE, 32 -- 7 RECOGNITION? A TIMID GIRL, 40 -- 8 THE MALTHOUSE ? THE CHAT ? NEWS, 44 -- 9 THE HOMESTEAD? A VISITOR ? HALF-CONFIDENCES 59 -- 10 MISTRESS AND MEN, 64 -- 11 OUTSIDE THE BARRACKS ? SNOW? A MEETING, 70 -- 12 FARMERS ? A RULE ? IN EXCEPTION, 75 -- 13 SORTES SANCTORUM ? THE VALENTINE, 79 -- 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER ? SUNRISE, 83 -- 15 A MORNING MEETING? THE LETTER AG...

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...wly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the ...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...e by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such si...

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...is Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...stance – its frontier not so far from London, its people closely akin, its language the same in all essentials with the English – of which I will go b... ... and a half ago the Highlander wore a different costume, spoke a different language, worshipped in another church, held dif- ferent morals, and obeyed... ...trick. They had been in Ireland, stationed among men of their own race and language, where they were well liked and treated with affec- tion; but it w... ...se. The canine conscience did not solve the problem with a pound of tea at Christmas. No longer content to pay a flying visit, it was the whole foreno... ...y called White Lies, and founded (by an accident quaintly favourable to my nomenclature) on a play by Maquet, the partner of the great Dumas. In this ...

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...Excerpt: When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had...

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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...to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...e get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the Crown, were employed on the local business of the ...

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