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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ht, which kept trying to suck him in and flatten him in its black hole of memory--memory as of her falling from a balcony; a woman's form, white and ... ...ruous falling through space and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something Fren... ...d of officers on board the train-- was experiencing the ablution of fading memory. Still, the repellent fetidity had a familiar, fraternal theme that ... ...ible; something partially impalpable with some of the thought, feeling and memory of this thing called Nawin was indeed following the luminary whom he... ...e ever stroked are the ones you take off as a precursor to your copulatory sports." The gecko stuck out its tongue. "Brackish succulent skin of an edi... ...of wanting to withdraw from social interaction. Tightened into the hook of memory, he unwillingly recalled the hysterical deprecatory laughter, guffaw... ...irement he would stare up into empty space from the bleachers near the lit sports stadium in that area where they both lived (an area convenient to As... ... always, he was for the most part successfully blocking out the copulatory sport of the second eldest, Kazem, and that one's playground). He may have ... ...ven if they were such, and his love of women was little short of a vaginal sport (to the immature dabbler that he was who failed to be a he-man and a ...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...ndows under a gable. A shadow shifted and she figured it belonged to the expensive sports car. She passed on by Royce’s office and came to Wyli... ...with Aunt Eleanor’s blessing, Uncle Wallace set her and Olin up in the plantation’s sporting lodge, Dovecote. Of course everyone in town joked that ... ...tion’s sporting lodge, Dovecote. Of course everyone in town joked that it was very ’sporting‘ of Eleanor. “Mornin’,” Olin said, giving his cus... ...ng at him, he hadn’t changed. His deep-set eyes were as dark as ever, and he still sported a neat black beard. A few more white strands streaked h... ...out a real dog. But don’t tell nobody.” So Hannah knew about Bobby’s despicable sport. “Don’t leave this house unless you’re with someone,” Lau... ... killer.” “What could have necessitated her murder?” “I triggered her memory,” she said, swallowing Scotch. “But I think she was doome...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ter for use in any number of hot drinks or meals, such as oatmeal or soup. Sports Dumbbells Exercise An exercise machine’s accessibility is machine... ...t so that all such material—wherever it might be found—could vanish into the memory hole. Even when it comes to waving the regulator’s wand for the pu... ...nts designed to write up their ideas, creating insti- tutional structure and memory as the project became bigger than just a few re- searchers in a ro...

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As You Like It the Pennsylvania State University's Electronic Classics Series

By: William Shakespeare

... From henceforth I will, coz, and devise 9 As You Like It Act I, scene ii sports. Let me see; what think you of falling in love? CELIA: Marry, I pri... ...; what think you of falling in love? CELIA: Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport nei... ...ure blush thou mayst in honor come off again. ROSALIND: What shall be our sport, then? CELIA: Let us sit and mock the good housewife For tune from ... ... Beau: what’s the news? LE BEAU : Fair princess, you have lost much good sport. CELIA: Sport! of what color? LE BEAU : What color, madam! how sh... ... take his part with weeping. ROSALIND: Alas! TOUCHSTONE: But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies have lost? LE BEAU : Why, this that I spe... ...M: What, my young master? O, my gentle master! O my sweet master! O you memory Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here? Why are you virtuous? ...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...on men who reproach them with them, and think by their deaths to erase the memory and testimony of such proceedings. Or if, perhaps, you are rewarded,... ...ente memoria, etiam in dissidio publicorum foederum, privati juris:” [“The memory of private right remaining even amid public dissensions.”—Livy, xxv.... ...ledge, had I had it; and that I deserved to have been assisted by a better memory. Be pleased here to excuse what I often repeat, that I very rarely r... ... by various ob- jects it rouses my reason, and employs my judgment, not my memory. Few conversations detain me without force and effort; it is true th... ...ay their parts of the farce as we do ours, and give them- selves up to the sport, without passion, care, or love; “Neque afl’ectui suo, aut alien... ...ll tell me that it is to undervalue the Muses to make use of them only for sport and to pass away the time, I shall tell him, that he does not know so... ...ime, I shall tell him, that he does not know so well as I the value of the sport, the pleasure, and the pastime; I can hardly forbear to add that all ... ...eet death with an ordinary countenance, to grow acquainted with it, and to sport with it; he seeks no consolation out of the thing itself; dying appea... ...m my blood and veins, I shall not, however, root the image of it out of my memory: “Hoc est Vivere bis, vita posse prior...

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Loues Labour's Lost

By: William Shakespeare

...ns owne Knight. 190 Lon. Costard the swaine and he, shall be our sport, 191 And so to studie, three yeeres is but short. 192 Enter... ... keeps here in court 1080 A Phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport 1081 To the Prince and his Booke- mates. 1082 Qu. Thou fe... ...ull, Holofernes, the Pedant and Nathaniel. 1151 Nat. Very reuerent sport truely, and done in the testi-mony 1152 of a good conscience. 11... ...let them dance the hey. 1886 Ped. Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport away. Exit. 1887 Enter Ladies. 1888 Qu. Sweet hearts we ... ... that contempt will kill the keepers heart, 2042 And quite diuorce his memory from his part. 2043 Quee. Therefore I doe it, and I make no ... ... 45 - Loues Labour’s lost Shakespeare: First Folio 2045 Theres no such sport, as sport by sport orethrowne: 2046 To make theirs ours, and ours...

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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

... great and unpar alleled misfortunes. I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my... ...st born. The father of their charge was one of those Italians nursed in the memory of the antique glory of Italy—one among the schiavi ognor frement... ...wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have bur dened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good God! In what desert ... ...o had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy? I could not sust... ...luble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards... ...vated by the enchanting ap pearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of... ...ards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport. She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river... ...uti ful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy. Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me t... ...nds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...s a daring innovator and a pioneer of hyperlinked-like textual design. It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically arranged ser... ... some users and on their willingness to pay for content. Browsers already sport "What's New" and "What's Hot" buttons. Most Search Engines and direc... ...onal agencies. Periodical publications (magazines, newsletters, bulletins) sport an ISSN (International Serial Standard Number). National libraries d... ...re devalued and common it becomes and the less institutional and cultural memory we seem to possess. In the battle between paper and screen, the for... ...logical. The oft-vindicated Moore's law predicts the doubling of computer memory capacity every 18 months. But memory is only one aspect of computin... ...eneration, this will be how they remember Alice in Wonderland, just as my memory of it was a golden inscribed red leather edition my family used to ... ...tore music, such as removable hard drives, recordable DVDs, Compact Flash memory cards and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The afor... ...er in the search results. This holds true even when both Websites A and B sport the same PageRank. This holds true even if the bulk of Website A's i... .... 5. Moore's Law and Metcalf's Law delineate an exponential growth in memory, processing speed, storage, and other computer capacities. Where is...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... opposed to the received wisdom of the random walk model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizons. Volat... ... Street" published in 1999. Not all markets are strongly efficient. Most of them sport weak or "semi-strong" efficiency. In some markets, a filte... ...st but by no means least, as opposed to oft-reiterated wisdom - the markets have no memory. Russia has egregiously defaulted on its sovereign debt a... ...umer's welfare (pharmaceuticals, for instance). These economies are also likely to sport a largish public sector, most of it service oriented. No n... ... the US Congressional Helsinki Commission. The south-eastern Europe Stability Pact sports its own Stability Pact Anti-corruption Initiative (SPAI).... ... humans without the aid of an apparatus (with the exception of pencil and paper as memory aids). Moreover: no insight or ingenuity were allowed to ... ... It is a blueprint for a computing device with one "ideal" exception: its unbounded memory (the tape is infinite). Despite its hardware appearance (... ...hysical systems (=the absence of physical effects), we are hard pressed to explain memory away. Memory is a physical effect (=electrochemical acti... ...al effects (in recipient brains) defy Death. The physical system which produced the memory capsule will surely cease to exist - but it will continue...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...t retrieval of data and redundant usage of obtained data (through working, "upper" memory). 4. The basic concept of the workings of the brain mus... ...he absence of physical effects), how can we account for memories of the deceased? Memory is a physical effect (electrochemical activity of the bra... ...t brains). They seem to defy death. Though the physical system which produced the memory capsule surely ceases to exist - it continues to physical... ...sical systems long after its demise, long after it was supposed to stop doing so. Memory makes death a transcendental affair. As long as we (or wh... ...east, fully) dead. Our death, our destruction are fully accomplished only after our memory is wiped out completely, not even having the potential of... ...d by virtue of their association and affiliation with the group - are arrogant and sport haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frus... ...ier stage of capitalist development and distrusts even their limited expression in sports and games. He extols cooperation and teamwork while harbo... ... to reproduction? Both statements, alas, are false. Stable and functional families sport far fewer children than abnormal or dysfunctional ones. Be... ...y human commands pertaining to the crossing of busy roads or to driving (dangerous) sports cars? Which level of risk should trigger robotic refusal...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...t retrieval of data and redundant usage of obtained data (through working, "upper" memory). 4. The basic concept of the workings of the brain mus... ...he absence of physical effects), how can we account for memories of the deceased? Memory is a physical effect (electrochemical activity of the bra... ...t brains). They seem to defy death. Though the physical system which produced the memory capsule surely ceases to exist - it continues to physical... ...sical systems long after its demise, long after it was supposed to stop doing so. Memory makes death a transcendental affair. As long as we (or wh... ...east, fully) dead. Our death, our destruction are fully accomplished only after our memory is wiped out completely, not even having the potential of... ...d by virtue of their association and affiliation with the group - are arrogant and sport haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frus... ...ier stage of capitalist development and distrusts even their limited expression in sports and games. He extols cooperation and teamwork while harbo... ... to reproduction? Both statements, alas, are false. Stable and functional families sport far fewer children than abnormal or dysfunctional ones. Be... ...y human commands pertaining to the crossing of busy roads or to driving (dangerous) sports cars? Which level of risk should trigger robotic refusal...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...all Street" published in 1999. Not all markets are strongly efficient. Most of them sport weak or "semi-strong" efficiency. In some markets, a filte... ... opposed to the received wisdom of the random walk model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizons. Volat... ...ciences has decided to award the 1997 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Robert C. Merton, Harvard Un... ...st but by no means least, as opposed to oft-reiterated wisdom - the markets have no memory. Russia has egregiously defaulted on its sovereign debt a... .../ support levels - psychological boundaries to price movements assumes market price memory 15. Volume analysis - comparing the volume of trading to...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...care benefits - will all vanish from the law books and become a nostalgic memory. The dispossessed will grow in number and in restlessness. Wealth w... ...illa Brown, Alan Deardorif, and Robert Stern observe wryly: “While Baden Sports can quite credibly claim that their soccer balls are not sewn by ch...

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King Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare

... Who did guide, I mean, who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together, as you guess? NORFOLK: One, certes, that promises no ele... ...truth. SURREY: This cannot save you: I thank my memory, I yet remember Some of these articles; and out they shall. Now, i... ... have told him What and how true thou art: he will advance thee; Some little memory of me will stir him— I know his noble nature—not to let Thy hopefu...

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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth: A Historical Play

By: William Shakespeare

..., 92 I meane who set the Body, and the Limbes 93 Of this great Sport together? 94 Nor. As you guesse: 95 One certes, that ... ... What, and how true thou art; he will aduance thee: 2330 Some little memory of me, will stirre him 2331 (I know his Noble Nature) not to let...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...?’ ‘He is only under the obligation not to cast disrespect on his father’s memory, my lady; and to be honest, while he can.’ ‘But, Mrs. Harrington! su... ...rd I won’t forget it, sir, if he does; and I suppose he’ll be drowning his memory just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grim... ...d that her inspired echo of Uniform, on board the Jocasta, had drowned the memory, eclipsed the meaning, of that fatal ut- terance of Shop! 40 Evan H... ...mbitious walks behind the curtain, and toyed with little flowers of palest memory. Utterly tasteless, totally wanting in discernment, not to say grati... ...bird Mrs. Mel had herself brought down, and she had for him something of a sportsman’s regard for his victim. Dandy was the cleaner of boots and runne... ...ed his wound, and put him to bed; crying contempt (ever present in Dandy’s memory) at such a poor creature undertaking the work of housebreaker. Taugh... ...had no fear of him; he is really admirable with the men—easy, and talks of sport and politics, and makes the proper use of Por- tugal. He has quite wo... ...p in the Court of Portugal, he is barely English. There they have no manly sports. You saw him pass you?’ ‘Him! Who?’ asked Harry. ‘My brother, on the... ... hypoc- risy of confessing, she justly might, why, then, unless he was the sport of a farceur, here seemed a gilding of the path of duty: he could be ...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ering stone. Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if ... ...live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn ... ...r to distend their paunches, and sweet intoxication never comes to drown the memory of the past, but mere saturation and waterloggedness and distentio... ...stening to her fables; for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original... ...— “By George! I can enjoy myself well enough here chopping; I want no better sport.” Sometimes, when at leisure, he amused himself all day in the wood... ...d write their names, as at the White Mountains; but, alas! I have too good a memory to make that necessary. I could not but notice some of the peculia... ...ods and this field, to the pond. It is one of the oldest scenes stamped on my memory. And now to night my flute has waked the echoes over that very wate... ...all perch, about five inches long, of a rich bronze color in the green water, sport ing there and constantly rising to the surface and dimpling it, so... ...e they flee to carts and sheds. Let not to get a living be thy trade, but thy sport. Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and fai...

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The Snow Image and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...thorne 7 dreaming that she might see the golden haired children of paradise sporting with her own golden haired Violet and bright cheeked Peony. Now,... ...e while, and seemed as much in their element, as you may have seen them when sporting with a snow storm. Violet and Peony stood laughing at this prett... ...eak a day, and after sunset too. He soon perceived the little white stranger sporting to and fro in the garden, like a dancing snow wreath, and the fl... ...ned him to forgetfulness after his decease. Once in a while, it is true, his memory was brought up in connection with the mag nificent palace which h... ...t crime, in its indistinct blackness, seemed to overshadow him, and made his memory riotous with a throng of evil shapes that as serted their kindred... ... almost to grotesqueness, and the whole face left a deep im pression on the memory. The forehead bulged out into a double prominence, with a vale bet... ...t pause to drink at that fountain, and keep his heart pure by freshening the memory of home. Robin distinguished the seat of every individual of the l... ...n a low hanging branch before her eyes; and how the little one of all, whose sports had hitherto broken the decorum of the scene, un derstood the pra... ...e lady of the scarlet petticoat. A sharp, dry cachinna tion appealed to his memory, and, standing on tiptoe in the crowd, with his white apron over h...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...such catastrophe would be looked for that day, as Mr Sowerby and the other sports- men were within the stable-yard when he entered the door. ‘Then, la... ...it was one of those hunting days got up rather for the ladies than for the sport. Great nuisances they are to steady, middle-aged hunting men; but the... ...ws like them because they have thereby an opportunity of showing all their sporting finery, and of doing a little flirtation on horseback. The bishop,... ... of movement is another of those contagious dis- eases. And then again the sportsmen would move at an undertaker’s pace, when the fox had traversed an... .... ’ ‘Lady Lufton does not dress young. ’ ‘That is it. She never has, in my memory. She always used to wear black when I first recollect her. She has g... ... coming on him, and he would soon be swept away out of the knowl- edge and memory of those with whom he had lived. But, nevertheless, he would bear hi... ...e last; but methinks that no more terrible torment can be devised than the memory of self-imposed ruin. What wretchedness can exceed that of rememberi... ...also, Dr Thorne had seen something, and it may be ques- tioned whether the memory of that was more alluring than the reality now existing at Greshambu... ...terrible morning to him, and one of which every incident will dwell in his memory to the last day of his life. He had been so proud in his posi- tion—...

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Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ys to do what he said; never to spill anything but water; to have a better memory than flies usu- ally have; to keep his hands to himself, to do the s... ...then, put the true character of this virtuous woman on the tablets of your memory, go your ways, and let me go mine. The good Madame Petit was not one... ...o not, then, know the physiognomies of your own wife, you old fool without memory! You deserve to be hanged.” “I hold those features of my wife in too... ...to get to bed early, since this adventure had brought his good wife to his memory. When he was harnessing himself, and was knocking off his nether gar... ...hom the king was exceedingly par- tial—King Charles the Fifth, of glorious memory. Beneath the shelter of the favour of this Sieur de la Riviere, Lord... ...cion. Bertha thanked the Virgin that her son had been so taken up with his sport. Retaining his presence of mind, Jehan, who had not forgotten the les... ...e among the artifices of these new pearls of laughter. Ye gods! but she is sporting herself in them like a hundred schoolboys in a hedge full of black...

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