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...heck”: try to go through a solid object, levitate, look at the face of an analogue clock, or flick a light switch on and off. Moreover, it is not s...

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...of what signs are written across it, like the figures on the face of the clock. It industriously imitates this way of looking on living beings, wit...

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...tical awareness was made a precondition for personal survival and advancement. The clock was turned back. Weber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to comm... ...are state aim to secure this outcome. Redistributive mechanisms reset the "wealth clock" periodically (at the end of every month, or fiscal year).... ...uantitative issue - it is also a qualitative one. Having two concurrent speeds or "clocks" of evolution can lead to biological disasters. Polynesia... ...chnological alter-ego. A surrealistic landscape of broken Bosch nightmares and Dali clocks, in which Man tiptoes, on the verge of a revelation, with...

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...to search for it and have it. So, what this pattern would be? Our biologic clock works according to a 24 hour cycle. Therefore, any pattern of going u...

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...pture! Clear and loud INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 13 The village clock tolled six,—I wheeled about, Proud and exulting like an untired hor... ... Of sharp command and scolding intermixed. Near me hung Trinity’s loquacious clock, Who never let the quarters, night or day, 55 Slip by him unproclai... ...rn. The second night, From sleep awakened, and misled by sound Of the church clock telling the hours with strokes 695 Whose import then we had not lea... ...r own size, than any outward light; The breathless wilderness of clouds; the clock That told, with unintelligible voice, The widely parted hours; the ... ...le Girl, 710 The Bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes, The Wax work, Clock work, all the marvellous craft Of modern Merlins, Wild Beasts, Pupp...

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...as. If a mind be con- scious of an hundred ideas during one minute, by the clock, and of two hundred during another, the latter of these spaces would ...

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...hen of truth he argued, Reading in the straw litter’d street.” Forthwith, As clock, that calleth up the spouse of God To win her bridegroom’s love at ... ....] See G. Villani, l. iii. c. 2. v. 93. Which calls her still.] The public clock being still within the circuit of the ancient walls. The Divine Com...

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...nitch On the 12th of August, 18-- (just three days after my tenth birthday, when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o?clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head with a fly-flap made of sugar paper and a stick. He did this so roughly that he hit the image of my patron saint suspended to the oaken back of my bed, ...

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... when I had been given such wonderful presents), I was awakened at seven o’clock in the morning by Karl Ivanitch slapping the wall close to my head wi... ...ed himself for an injury dealt him. By this time it was a quarter to one o’clock, but Karl Ivanitch never thought of releasing us, He merely set us a ... ...ollowing letter: “Petrovskoe, 12th April. “Only this moment (i.e. at ten o’clock in the evening) have I received your dear letter of the 3rd of April,... ...m-chair, and let my knitting slip from my hands. Sud- denly, towards one o’clock in the morning, I heard her say- ing something; whereupon I opened my... ...d awoke with my tears dried and my 90 Childhood nerves restored. At ten o’clock we were summoned to at- tend the pre-funeral requiem. The room was fu...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was a little before eight o?clock in the morning when Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin, a titular councillor, woke up from a long sleep. He yawned, stretched, and at last opened his eyes completely. For two minutes, however, he lay in his bed without moving, ...

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...anslated by Constance Garnett CHAPTER I IT WAS A LITTLE BEFORE EIGHT O’CLOCK in the morning when Yakov Petrovitch Golyadkin, a titular councillo... ...meet Andrey Filippovitch, or even Krestyan Ivanovitch. At last, the town clock struck three. When Mr. Golyadkin finally took his seat in the carri... ...e! Off!” “Their dinner will not begin till after four, or perhaps five o’clock,” thought Mr. Golyadkin; “isn’t it early now? How ever, I can go a... ...er chance might take him. CHAPTER V IT WAS STRIKING MIDNIGHT from all the clock towers in Pe tersburg when Mr. Golyadkin, beside himself, ran out ... ... in fact, what is called a double in every respect…. CHAPTER VI AT EIGHT O’CLOCK NEXT MORNING Mr. Golyadkin woke up in his bed. At once all the ex... ...ble person in every way. Meanwhile, tea was brought in; it was nearly nine o’clock. Mr. Golyadkin felt in a very good humour, grew lively and skittish... ...ing into his servant’s domain; “you go to bed now and wake me up and eight o’clock. Do you understand Petrushka?” The Double – Dostoevsky 64 Mr.... ...?” Mr. Golyadkin went on. “You go to bed now and wake me tomorrow at eight o’clock; do you understand?” “Why, I know that; what’s the use of telli... ...ive gathering. CHAPTER VIII MR. G OLYADKIN WOKE UP next morning at eight o’clock as usual; as soon as he was awake he recalled all the adventures of...

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...k. During long silences, while I am thinking, composing, I hear the water clock outside my door. Drop after drop, it fastens itself to my memory. T... ...d I oc- cupy myself, until Phaon and I sailed? It was a question for water clocks and gulls, spindrift and wind, thought unfolding in my room, scuddi...

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...ld be laid waste thus. Maybe, to clear my vision as well as to set his mind at rest, he unwound himself, which I would rewind for man to readjust his clock of life. But then why not reveal his name when he is worth writing about? It’s because, the value of this tale lies not in his name, hallowed though, but in the hollowness of life he had led that is even as his name bec...

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...t with him. LADY CICELY. But it’s arranged already. We’ll start at eight o’clock to-morrow morning, if you please, Captain. Never mind about the Itali...

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...e the monuments Discuss the late events, Correct our watches by the public clocks. Then sit for half an hour and drink our bocks. II Now that lilacs a... ...The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The g... ...ind a city block, Or trampled by insistent feet At four and five and six o’clock; And short square fingers stuffing pipes, And evening newspapers, and... ...nt women Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Rhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o’clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whisperin... ...garettes in corridors And cocktail smells in bars.” The lamp said, “Four o’clock, Here is the number on the door. 26 T. S. Eliot – Poems Memory! Y ou... ...mely provided for, But shortly afterwards the parrot died too. The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece, And the footman sat upon the di...

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... not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o’clock the bell rang, the master was obliged to tell him to fall into line w... ...quay to look at the boats, and then brought him back to college at seven o’clock before supper. Every Thursday evening he wrote *A devotion said at mo... ...ittle more love. 12 Madame Bovary Chapter Two O NE NIGHT TOWARDS eleven o’clock they were awakened by the noise of a horse pulling up outside their d... ... show him the way to the farm, and open the gates for him. T owards four o’clock in the morning, Charles, well wrapped up in his cloak, set out for th... ... his whiskers before the looking-glass. One day he got there about three o’clock. Everybody was in the fields. He went into the kitchen, but did not a... ... had been thrown back; the hook was still swinging. The next day by nine o’clock he was at the farm. Emma blushed as he entered, and she gave a little... ...ight away home. Monsieur and Madame Charles arrived at T ostes about six o’clock. The neighbors came to the windows to see their doctor’s new wife. Th... ...ung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candle... ... saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers. He came home late—at ten o’clock, at midnight sometimes. Then he asked for something to eat, and as th...

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...ther at work in one of the furnaces. Often I began work as early as four o’clock in the morning. The first thing I ever learned in the way of book kno... ...hat I was to rise early in the morning and work in the furnace till nine o’clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at l... ...rom the furnace, 29 Booker T. Washington and as I had to work till nine o’clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty. Schoo... ...t anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact. There was a large clock in a little office in the furnace. This clock, of course, all the hun... ...I got the idea that the way for me to reach school on time was to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o’clock mark. This I found ... ...ill the furnace “boss” discovered that something was wrong, and locked the clock in a case. I did not mean to inconve- nience anybody. I simply meant ... ...o work late into the night, while at the same time I had to rise by four o’clock in the morning, in order to build the fires and have a little time in... ...an old, abandoned house to spend the remainder of the night. About three o’clock in the morning my brother John found me asleep in this house, and bro... ... all that the young people of that town needed. I began my work at eight o’clock in the morning, and, as a rule, it did not end until ten o’clock at n...

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...eary, still evenings when even the dogs are too bored to bark and even the clocks seem weary of ticking, and any one who on such evenings has been tro... ...ained sitting in the dark till the dawn. VI I WENT TO THE STATION at ten o’clock in the morning. There was no frost, but snow was falling in big wet f... ...night he woke the labourer, and told him to have the horse ready at five o’clock in the morning for him to drive to the station; he undressed and got ... ... wonder, she slowly made the cross over him, shaking nervously . At five o’clock in the morning he said good-bye to them all affectionately, and even ... ...ine to twelve he saw patients and was busy in his ward, and after twelve o’clock he went by tram to the other hospital, where he dissected. His privat... ... young people had a very charming little home. When she got up at eleven o’clock every morning, Olga Ivanovna played the piano or, if it were sunny , ... ...n the early morning a light mist had hung over the Volga, and after nine o’clock it had begun to spout with rain. And there seemed no hope of the sky ... ... that the V olga had its charms even in bad weather. On the wall the cheap clock went “tic- tic-tic.”… The flies, feeling chilled, crowded round the i... ...don’t mope, but work. You are such a splendid fellow, Ryabovsky!” At ten o’clock Ryabovsky gave her a farewell kiss, in order, as she thought, to avoi...

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...e Bols,” Kitty said to her husband, when he came in to see her at eleven o’clock before going out. “I know you are dining at the club; papa put down y... ...for her, and afraid that Vronsky did not fully understand her. At eleven o’clock, when Stepan Arkadyevitch got up to go (Vorkuev had left earlier), it... ...tion, eating and drinking, he was degener- ating. They talked till three o’clock in the morning. Only at three o’clock were they sufficiently reconcil... ..., and the wine he had drunk, his sleep was sound and untroubled. At five o’clock the creak of a door opening waked him. He jumped up and looked round.... ...rring, in anticipation of the greatest event in a woman’s life. At seven o’clock he 45 Tolstoy was waked by the touch of her hand on his shoulder, an... ...ked him to light a candle behind a screen, and he found that it was five o’clock in the afternoon. If he had been told it was only ten o’clock in the ... ...superfluous, to which he could not accus- tom himself. Chapter 16 At ten o’clock the old prince, Sergey Ivanovitch, and Stepan Arkadyevitch were sitti... ... the footman came in again. “Madame Borozdina? Tell her, tomorrow at two o’clock. Yes,” she said, putting her finger in the place in the book, and gaz... ... boxes to be brought up for packing their things for the country. At ten o’clock Vronsky came in. Chapter 24 “Well, was it nice?” she asked, coming ou...

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...ken) to a pink horse (with green wings) that went, in a violent manner, by clock- work, and was wound up with an indigo key. With this history the kin... ... us—my two brothers and myself—had crossed over to the islands about two o’clock P. M., and had soon nearly loaded the smack with fine fish, which, we... ...to tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. It had run down at seven o’clock! We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Ström was... ...mar would die about mid- night on the morrow (Sunday). It was then seven o’clock on Saturday evening. On quitting the invalid’s bed-side to hold conve... ..., no farther perceptible effect was induced until some minutes after ten o’clock, when Doctors D— and F —called, according to ap- 74 Poe in Five V ol... ...es remained. We left M. V aldemar entirely undisturbed until about three o’clock in the morning, when I approached him and found him in precisely the ... ...leep-waker’s state at this epoch. Other nurses were procured; and at ten o’clock I left the house in company with the two physicians and Mr. L — l. In... ...his apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonou... ..., and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, bu...

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...6th of April, such as I have described it, that 6th of April, about nine o’clock in the morn- 19 Thomas de Quincey ing, we were seated at breakfast n... ... of this the final morning of what mer- its to be called my life. Eleven o’clock, I remember, was strik- ing when Agnes came into my study, and said t... ...she went out—her last words being that she would return at half-past one o’clock; and not long after that time, if ever mimic bells—bells of rejoicing... ...f my earthly happiness—its final hour had sounded. * * * One o’clock had arrived; fifteen minutes after, I strolled into the garden, and b... ... had all retired for the afternoon, and would not reassemble until eight o’clock in the evening. Some clerks only or officers of the court remained, w... ...au- 46 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers tion, I asked her simply what o’clock it was. ‘Eleven in the forenoon,’ she replied. ‘And what day of the m... ... appointed for the first day’s interview was eight 53 Thomas de Quincey o’clock in the evening. On the outside of the jail all was sum- mer light and... ...of obtaining an interview of persuasion. The night was wet; and at seven o’clock, the hour fixed for the inter- view, we were seated in readiness, muc... ...f course, under more restrictions with regard to the criminal class. Ten o’clock came—the hour at which we had been instructed to hold ourselves in re...

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...ce with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It mat ters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and la bors of men. Morning is when I am awake... ...hen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that “for yest... ...i sion, and their whistle can be heard so far, that the farmers set their clocks by them, and thus one well conducted institution regulates a whole ... ...lden 109 plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three o’ clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but w... ... of the house. They would begin to sing almost with as much precision as a clock, within five minutes of a particular time, referred to the setting of... ... so that we were worse weary of our lodging than of our journey.” At one o’clock the next day Massasoit “brought two fishes that he had shot,” about t... ...er mined to know beans. When they were growing, I used to hoe from five o’clock in the morning till noon, and commonly spent the rest of the day abou... ...ture of the pond water which had stood in the room where I sat from five o’clock in the afternoon till noon the next day, the sixth of March, 1846, th... ... Mexico. Several times, when returning from the village at ten or eleven o’clock at night, I heard the tread of a flock of geese, or else ducks, on th...