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...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...ituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… which becomes you... ... to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jew... ... And still be proud of themselves as decent, rational scientific, God-fearing folk: obeying Darwin’s famous Law of Natural Selection… or God’s Will,... ...bal crop failure. Without a high diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China ... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside... ...re of Ulster had deflected attention away from England herself, and the Ire of Irish, all their energy was wasted fighting Scots in Ulster, not Engla...

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...icry, spoken somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindl... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...protection. Onlookers came out of the alleys as well as the palace. Alley folk jeered. They shouted “Christ the Juggler;” they called Him “El Puto”.... ...some, Countess Bardolph, Lord Fenton, Lady Page, were perfumed bores; the Irishmen were troublemakers... The Captain of the Guard requested a dance... ...n...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared grin. Meerie, talking Irish, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filt... ... four are difficult to appraise as we walk along Henley Street. The local folk have never heard the creak of chariot wheels. Lonely...I have been lo... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ... ...t an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With his friendly Irish spirit, he has favored Irish immigration. With his eye on the presid...

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...he bed was playing "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had b... ...estige rural traditions in Seoul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but ... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ... it been otherwise it would have even seemed a major aberration to the queer folk there. The queer folk of Korea were Koreans too and no one was more... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...

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...rvell if we understand them not: no more doe we the Cornish, the Welch, or Irish. Yet have some boasted that they understood them, as Apollonius Thya... ...clothes. Our ancient Gaules were but slightly apparelled, no more are the Irish-men, our neighbours, in so cold a climate: which we may better judge... ...hould be strange from a wise man. Let us then question to what years yong folke may be beloved.' These two last Stoicke places, and upon this purpos... ... affectui suo, aut alieno obnoxiæ: 'Neither liable to their own nor other folkes affection.' Thinking, according to Lysias perswasions in Plato, they... ...ares, and businesses: and lastly to be cured by chance of place, as sicke folkes use that otherwise cannot get health.' We make it seldome to shocke... ...him, that it is a custome of popular or base men to call for minstrels or singers at feasts, and an argument they want witty or good discourses and p...

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...ip in a hospital in Minneapolis, but still, oh well, you don’t get to know folks here, way you do up home. I feel I’ve got something to say about run-... ...? Let me warn you that the doc is a frisky bacheldore, Carol. Come on now, folks, shake a leg. Let’s have some stunts or a dance or something.” She di... ...hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious-eyed. “Those are the kind of folks I practise among, good share of the time. Nels Erdstrom, fine clean y... ...garding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oratio... ... from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had pain... ... Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taine... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui...

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...cantle of their remain- ing property. Donohoe Bertram, with somewhat of an Irish name, and somewhat of an Irish temper, succeeded to the diminished pr... ...t man, had his ain that his forebears had afore him, he wadna see the puir folk trodden down this gait.” Meanwhile, this general good opinion never pr... ...faith, when he gets them mounted. He has done more mischief to the revenue folk than ony rogue that ever came out of Ramsay.” 47 Sir Walter Scott “Bu... ... auld fights of the Mac-Dingawaies—that’s the Bertrams that now is—wi’ the Irish, and wi’ the High- 49 Sir Walter Scott landers, that came here in th... ...ict for no better reason, than that he was supposed to speak with a strong Irish accent. Even the annual rounds of the pedlar were abolished by the ju... ...eeked like a killogie [Lime-kiln] in his time, and there were as mony puir folk riving at the banes in the court, and about the door, as there were ge... ...ll be out. Oh, the devil take all ballads, and bal- lad-makers, and ballad-singers! and that d-d jade too, to set up her pipe!—You will have time enou...

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...aiting to hear more?’ ‘There is no use in losing time. I cannot cross from Folkestone till the day after to-morrow, at night. I must go to London to-m... ...t stay at home. Miss Mysie would be too set up to wear that among her fine folk. Set her up, that she should have all the treats, while her own Miss G... ...lenty of people,’ said Gillian, for they were in the midst of well-dressed folks, and Aunt Ada had more than once exchanged nods and greetings. ‘Quite... ...aid. ‘I believe her mother was a Gorfiote, but her father was En- glish or Irish. I believe he kept a shop in Malta.’ ‘Quite a mixture of nationalitie... ...n. There was no accent more interesting in her voice than a soupcon of her Irish father as she began, ‘I am sorry to have kept the lady so long waitin... ... says Kally won’t go, or sing, or anything, because—’ How tantalising! the singers reappeared, and Valetta was reduced to silence. Nor could the subje... ...and tell you all, but the poor fellow has to go home full pelt about those Irish. Jasper is writing to William, and you must get business particulars ... ...m to dine at the late dinner, which will be early, be- cause of the church singers, and Cousin Rotherwood says he and I will do snapdragon, if I will ...

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...ve all sorts of games, only I’m afraid they will be much stupider than the Irish girls.’ ‘ And ever so much stupider than the dear 111th children,’ si... ... it down my children’s throats. But what I complain of, Jane, in the young folk that come across me is not over-knowledge, but want of knowledge—want ... ...Yo n g e chiefly about music for the choral society, and the voices of the singers, about which Dolores neither knew nor cared. By one o’clock the lon... ... others’ recollections and making fun, to the extreme delight of the young folk, who had often been entertained with tales of Beechcroft. Aunt Ada dec... ...rrifield looked from one to the other, but said no more, for all the young folks were round her; but every one was so much tired, children, servants, ... ...ncle capped it with some boy- ish tales of Beechcroft, or with some droll, Irish story. With such talk, the strong, healthy young folk little heeded t... ...hat Reginald must be there as a witness, so that it is not in the power of Irish disturbances to keep him from us! May we only be at ease about Mauric...

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...e tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; ... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ... of a brother of his.” CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity BESIDES THESE HONEST FOLKS at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the ... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...,” says George, making his point at once. “One can’t live with these great folks for nothing; and my purse, sir, look at it”; and he held up a little ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair His pres... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ... ...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ...

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...e tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind. Y es, this is Van- ity Fair; ... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ... of a brother of his.” CHAPTER XI Arcadian Simplicity BESIDES THESE HONEST FOLKS at the Hall (whose simplicity and sweet rural purity surely show the ... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...,” says George, making his point at once. “One can’t live with these great folks for nothing; and my purse, sir, look at it”; and he held up a little ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair – V olum... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ...

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...on, and plenty of pluck. At this day du Tillet is a match for the greatest folks; little Popinot, the richest drug- gist of the Rue des Lombards, beca... ... world that enabled her to control the swift instinct with which coun- try folk, like wild men, reduce impulse to action. In this alone, perhaps, lies... ...had seen by chance! It seems that such things take the fancy of your grand folks, who don’t care so much about gold lace, and that my man’s fortune wo... ...He rushed off to Josepha’s lodgings in the Rue Chauchat; for, like all the singers, she lived close at hand. “Whom do you want, sir?” asked the porter... ...erchants, and earns sixteen sous a day—one sou an hour!—and feeds like the Irish, on potatoes fried in rats’ dripping, with bread five times a week—an...

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... uneasy attitudes; here two chums alongside, flat upon their backs like dead folk; there a man sprawling on the floor, with his face upon his arm; the... ...s for cooking. T ell me all about the affairs in the States, and how all the folks get along.” And so ends this artless narrative. The little man was ... ...no monopoly of that. They are called cruel; the Anglo-Saxon and the cheerful Irishman may each reflect before he bears the accusation. I am told, agai... ...tion, and the intelligence of their superiors at home! Awhile ago it was the Irish, now it is the Chinese that must go. Such is the cry. It seems, aft... ...ity for the independent. That the Jew should not love the Christian, nor the Irishman love the English, nor the Indian brave tolerate the thought of t... ...ver seen faces more viv- idly lit up with joy than the faces of these Indian singers. It was to them not only the worship of God, nor an act by which ... ...ant fact is this, that they were never needed. Painters, sculptors, writers, singers, I have seen all of these 62 Across the Plains in Barbizon; and ... ...surf that beat about the coast contributing their melancholy voices. All the folk of the north isles are great artificers of knitting: the Fair-Island...

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...s and the Methodists have got the root o’ the matter as well as the church folks.” “Nay, Seth, lad; I’m not for laughing at no man’s religion. Let ‘em... ... got the turn o’ their tongue when I was a bye. Why, what do you think the folks here says for ‘hevn’t you?’—the gentry, you know, says, ‘hevn’t you’—... ...om daughter, known to her neighbours as Chad’s Bess, who wondered “why the folks war amakin’ faces a that’ns.” Chad’s Bess was the object of peculiar ... ...ons of the flesh—put a stop, indeed, to the Christmas rounds of the church singers, as promoting drunkenness and too light a handling of sacred things... ... kin. Meantime the men lingered outside, and hardly any of them except the singers, who had a humming and fragmentary rehearsal to go through, entered... ...t love them and listen for them. Adam was not in his usual place among the singers to-day, for he sat with his mother and Seth, and he noticed with su... ...s? Or are you thinking of the danger for Arthur in crossing that frightful Irish Channel at this time of year?” “No, Mother, I’m not thinking of that;...

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...I tell you at forty a man’s a fool or his doctor—I mean, his own doc- tor. Folks don’t give enough attention to this matter of dieting. Now I think—Co... ... to go and hustle his head off getting into the soup-and-fish for a lot of folks that he’s seen in just reg’lar ordinary clothes that same day.” “You ... ... ‘dinner-jacket. ’” “Rats, what’s the odds?” “Well, it’s what all the nice folks say. Suppose Lucile McKelvey heard you calling it a ‘Tux. ’” “Well, t... ... paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 Babbitt or any other foreign government. Keep our hands strictly ... ...eered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, stooped carpen... ...arefully tucked into my vest pocket, I am reminded of the story of the two Irishmen, Mike and Pat, who were riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I for... ... also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s highest-paid singers. “‘In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shab...

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... as his partner was loved; and while Mr. Castleford, with his good-natured Irish wife and merry family, lived a life as cheerful as it was beneficent,... ... part of the father and son—rector and curate; and that the other clerical folk, ladies especially, who called on us, spoke of Mrs. F . C. Fordyce wit... ...and, by and by, Chapman, magnificent in patron- age, ushered in the church singers into the hall, and clarionet, bassoon, and fiddle astonished our ea... ... the passage, but that was just before the old Squire was took for death,— folks said that was always the way before any of the family died—’if you’ll... ...mmunicative, and made us ac- quainted with the opinions of ‘they Earlscoom folk’ with a freedom not to be found in an elder or a native. Moreover, he ... ...ern for Clarence. His own eldest son inherited a good deal of his mother’s Irish nature, and was evidently unfit to be anything but a soldier, and the...

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...t in the springtime – or say one morning rather, at the peep of day – late folk may hear voices of many men singing a psalm in unison from a church on... ... how goodly it is to see brethren dwelling together in unity. And the late folk will tell themselves that all this singing denotes the conclusion of t... ...he city lying in waves around it, those mad and dismal fanatics, the Sweet Singers, haggard from long expo- sure on the moors, sat day and night with ... ... with jolly, port-wine faces underneath. Even in the chief thor- oughfares Irish washings flutter at the windows, and the pavements are encumbered wit... ... a field of grass. The daylight shines garishly on the back windows of the Irish quarter; on broken shutters, wry gables, old palsied houses on the br... ...ight, inclines a poet to the praise of strong waters. In Scotland, all our singers have a stave or two for blazing fires and stout potations:- to get ... ...fec- tions. ‘Frae Auld Reekie,’ ‘ A guid New Year to ye a’,’ ‘For the Auld Folk at Hame,’ are among the most favoured of these devices. Can you not se...

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...limawfrey.’ ‘’Tis Midlent week, you pagan,’ replied Sir James. ‘These good folk have come a-mothering, and a share of their simnels we’ll have.’ ‘Sir,... ...ng sun of a clear March day, dry and not too cold for these hardy northern folk. Nigel, the squire, sighed in despondency; and Malcolm, who hated crow... ...cy called out, ‘Ha! you there, this is our way. That is only for the royal folk; but there’s good sack and better sport down here! I’ll show you the w... ...ng lay of victory was over; and King Henry had roused himself to thank the singers, then sighed, and said, ‘How long ago that was!’ ‘Six years,’ said ... ...universities where Scots were not—their place being taken by multitudinous Irish; yet not only were all universi- ties alike in essentials, but he had...

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...a bullock’s heart, a baked shoulder of mutton and potatoes, pig’s- fry and Irish stew. I ordered the dinner, sir, and got more credit for inventing it... ...; but 45 Thackeray every now and then Mrs. Crump would pay a visit to the folks in Connaught Square; and on the days when “the Captain’s” lady called... ...n Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose. Larkins was certainly the... ...whenever she was wanted, or when people could not afford to hire the first singers) she was asked to parties else- where, and treated with that killin... ... the college in Queer Street, ma’am, haw, haw! Mulligan, you divvle (in an Irish accent), a glass of wine with you. Wine, here, you waiter! What’s you... ...doggedly when there is a necessity for so doing, the former fights like an Irishman, and has a pleasure in it. He has been “on the ground” I don’t kno... ...he manager, whose actions were worth of remark. He sang with all the three singers, and a great deal louder than any of them; he shouted bravo! or his...

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...e thus blocked in a corner of my cabin by this speechless crowd: and a kind of rage to think they were beyond the reach of articulate communication, l... ...lands, I had never again so menacing a reception; were I to meet with such to-day, I should be more alarmed and tenfold more surprised. The majority o... ... may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. And again, not only is Polynesian easy to smatter, but interpreters abound. Missionaries, tra... ...ew children are brought up in the house or succeed to the estates of their natural begetters. That the one should be chief instead of the other must b... ...iefs, the drummers, the dancers, the women, and the priests. The drums—perhaps twenty strong, and some of them twelve feet high—con- tinuously throbbe... ...you not hear something supernatural?’ His attention thus directed, he was aware of a strange buzzing voice—and yet he declared it was beautiful—which ... ...lat sea, our dwellings upon unerected coral, our diet from the pickle-tub or out of tins; I had learned to welcome shark’s flesh for a variety; and a ... ...ere summoned (I suppose in honour of Queen Victoria) to join him. A strong breathless heat reigned under the iron roof, and the air was heavy with the...

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...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d... ...legant woman—fashionable rather than bohe- mian. She was cream and auburn, Irish, with a slightly-lifted upper lip that gave her a pathetic look. She ... ...ody!” said Jim. “But you’re British yourself,” said Lilly to Jim. “No, I’m Irish. Family’s Irish—my mother was a Fitz- patrick.” “Anyhow you live in E... ..., that they’ve exterminated all the peoples worth knowing. I can’t do with folk who teem by the billion, like the Chinese and Japs and orientals altog... ...ne, or something like that. When you’re only killing time like the rest of folks, before time kills you.” Lilly did not answer. It was not yet seven o... ...out it, privately?” “I didn’t feel much. I didn’t know what to feel. Other folks did such a lot of feeling, I thought I’d better keep my mouth shut.” ...