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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, ... ...1 They, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their alone... ...absorbing, mordant thoughts and reminded them (the patriot and the pending expatriates) of their commonality as Thais. They passed a mall where ... ...lf in comic books and the latest American sounds when not engrossed in her French palaver with the cassette recorder. She would continue to disconnec... ... "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against King George... Frenchmen, of course in Montreal." "Why don't they have kings now?" ... ...he sat on the edge of the tub next to him and heard about the crash of the United Airlines jet. Without words she took one of his hands. Without tryin... ...thier and more powerful country, or the hatred toward Israeli aid from the United States? I don't understand it. We talk and talk and yet people are...
This book is about an individual in dire poverty who makes his way in Bangkok from a sidewalk restaurant worker to a famous prostitute painter
...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ...ng the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his ho... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his grasp of her hands disconcertedly, half blind... ...uccessfully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brough... ...i American, or at any rate an American Thai, and, unequivocally, both were expatriates of this world. As if it were not ironic enough to lack supersti... ...Thailand, and so if he had to have a practical reason for returning to the United States this could be one. He had plenty of accessible money for his ... ...ter?--he could not remember any of the specifics; hadn't some uncle in the United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thun...
...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...
...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...ine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur Charles Nodier, member of the French Acad- emy, etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds th... ... a former sub-delegate who had lately removed from the town. When a family expatriates itself, the natives of a place as attractive as Issoudun have a... ...brary which Cardinal Mazarin presented to the city of Paris, and which the French Academy was in after days to inhabit, cast chill shadows over this a... ...After this discussion, which was like all discussions, the widow’s friends united in giving her one and the same ad- vice; which advice did not in the... ..., Philippe took up the daz- zling idea of joining General Lallemand in the United States, and helping him to found what was called the Champ d’Asile, ...
Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge 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 State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...ble— to sound his praises in his own land. Let us suppose that a courteous Frenchman ventures an opinion among En- glishmen that Wellington was a grea... ...own-trodden country of slaves and pau- pers.” Under such circumstances the Frenchman would probably be shut up. And when I strove to speak of Wash- in... ...e no blame to the old country. But there is the fact. The Irishman when he expatriates him- self to one of those American States loses much of that af...
........................................................................................................................................ 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS ............................................................