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...of U.G.’s conversations, taken from many sources, offers some of the most startling and penetrating of U.G.’s words in short, easy to read paragraphs... ... right way, inspired by the Theosophists and the whole lot. And so, every morning those fellows would come and read the Upanishads, Panchadasi, Nysh... ...my real search began. All my religious background was there in me. Then I started exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy... ... all the modern sciences, everything. The whole area of human knowledge I started exploring on my own. Before my forty-ninth year I had so many po... ...ur hours at night no matter what time I go to bed then I lie in bed until morning fully awake. I don't know what is lying there in the bed. I don't ... ...call my own. Anybody can come at any time. I just see them and say, “Good morning, what can I do for you?” That's all I can do. I have nothing to giv... ...nd the problem of possibly destroying ourselves with the most destructive weapons that we have invented. So, there is no way out. You may say that I ... ... be dislodged, what they would do is anybody's guess. All the destructive weapons that we have today are here only to protect that monopoly. But I... ... But I am sure that the day has come for people to realize that all the weapons that we have built so far are redundant and that they cannot be us...

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...? 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 AGAIN, 87 -- 16 ALL SAINTS? AND ALL SOULS?, 96 -- 17 IN THE MARKET-PLACE, 99 -- 18 BOLDWOOD IN MEDITATION ? REGRET, 102 -- 19 THE SHEEP-WASHING ? THE OFFER, 106 -- 20 PERPLEXITY ? GRINDING THE SHEA...

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.... . . 79 14 EFFECT OF THE LETTER — SUNRISE . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 15 A MORNING MEETING — THE LETTER AGAIN . . . . . . . 87 16 ALL SAINTS’ AND ALL ... ...UTY IN LONELINESS — AFTER ALL . . . . . . . . . . 335 57 A FOGGY NIGHT AND MORNING — CONCLUSION . . . . 343 Chapter 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN ... ...r two defects by constant comparisons with and observations of the sun and stars, and by pressing his face close to the glass of his neighbours’ windo... ...ns, who had seen him walking across one of his fields on a certain December morning — sunny and exceedingly mild — might have regarded Gabriel Oak in o... ... more. The sky was clear — remarkably clear — and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The Nor... ...rs seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. The North Star was directly in the wind’s eye, and since evening the Bear had swung r... ...unts of its being the most flashing affair conceivable; accou trements and weapons glistening like stars— here, there, around— yet all by rule and com... ...l of meteors close at hand. Never since the broadsword became the national weapon had there been more dexterity shown in its management than by the ha... ... perfectly safe, nevertheless. My sword never errs.’ And Troy returned the weapon to the scabbard. Bathsheba, overcome by a hundred tumultuous feeling...

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...he barometer. Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did... ...must conclude was along the Time- Dimension.’ ‘But,’ said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, ‘if Time is really only a fourth dimens... ...acco jar on the mantel, and with his back to us began to fill his pipe. We stared at each other. ‘Look here,’ said the Medical Man, ‘are you in earnes... ...ce in which the machine had been. ‘You see?’ he said, laughing. We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the Time T raveller ask... ...e Medical Man; ‘but wait until to-morrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.’ ‘Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?’ asked the Time T... ...nd this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o’clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines b... ...d, and examined it at leisure. But, as it was, I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with—hands, feet, and tee... ...xt place, I hoped to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be 56 The Time Machi... ...that it was already far advanced in the afternoon, and that I had still no weapon, no refuge, and no means of making a fire. And then down in the remo...

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...n the True Whale” (Greenland or Right Whale) “in pos- sessing a formidable weapon at either extremity of its body, but also more frequently displays a... ... its body, but also more frequently displays a disposition to employ these weapons offensively and in manner at once so artful, bold, and mischievous,... ...STUFFED A SHIRT OR TWO into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pa- cific. Quitting the good city of old Manh... ...old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed. Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did... ...f the evening as a looker on. Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, “That’s the Grampus’s crew. I seed her re-... ...ried, “That’s the Grampus’s crew. I seed her re- ported in the offing this morning; a three years’ voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we’ll ha... ... upon second thoughts I dismissed it. For who could tell but what the next morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be stand... ...ooneer is actually en- gaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?” “That’s precisely it,” sai... ...his head, which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I’ve no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, you I ...

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...ONDERFUL SERENITY has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel ... ...ng down my pen, of ordering my horse, and riding out. And yet I vowed this morning that I would not ride to-day, and yet every moment I am rushing to ... ...ER remember where I stopped in my narrative: I only know it was two in the morning when I went to bed; and if you had been with me, that I might have ... ...f the day. She consented, and I went, and, since that time, sun, moon, and stars may pursue their course: I know not whether it is day or night; the w... ...ss, not to pant for its enjoyment. And now, behold me like a silly fellow, staring with astonishment when another comes in, and deprives me of my love... ...on, and to pay the surgeon’s bill; so, since that time, I have kept all my weapons unloaded. But, my dear friend, what is the use of prudence? We can ... ...erusal of a well-written book. I shall remain here a week longer, and then start again on my travels. My drawings are the best things I have done sinc... ... hastened her movements by an impatient look. She then delivered the fatal weapons to the servant, without being able to utter a word. As soon as he h...

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... because he was the tallest man in the regiment. When the dance was fairly started the sentries were released, and Private Mulvaney went to curry favo... ...it might have been the Kurile Islands for aught we knew. Very early in the morning there passed us, not a cable’s-length away, but as unseen as the sp... ...s side, calling out, ‘Can you climb on board if we throw you a rope?’ That startled me, because I fancied we were going to be run down the next minute... ...was trespassin’ ovver a compound wall after one of them mongooses ‘at he’d started, an’ we was busy grubbin’ round a prickle-bush, an’ when we looks u... ... you two?’ said the Artilleryman, who was taking his cartridge down to the Morning Gun. ‘You’re over merry for these dashed days.’ 56 Soldiers Three ... ...d so much to make them happy, too. All their work was over at eight in the morning, and for the rest of the day they could lie on their backs and smok... ...beat with their staves—heavy staves bound about with wire at the end, such weapons as those swine of Punjabis use—till, having cried for mercy, I fell...

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...our brother is at Wrangerton, the next town.’ ‘Arthur is well?’ cried she, starting. ‘Yes, yes, you need not be alarmed, but I am afraid there is some... ...Winchester barracks. ‘Is my brother at home, James?’ as the servant gave a start of surprise and recognition. ‘No, sir; he is not in the house, but Mr... ...e floor shook so that there was no taking a cigar in peace. So you see the stars ordained it, and it is of no use making a row about one’s destiny,’ c... ...g confusion, and by no means lessened the favourable impression. ‘The next morning Arthur was engaged, and left her to be the guide to the cathedral, ... ... it.’ ‘ Against her, certainly not. I have made acquaintance with her this morning, and—and there is everything to interest one in her:’ and then, as ... ...e?’ She was coaxed out of vexation for the present; but she awoke the next morning with a feeling of culpability and dread of all the Martindale famil... ...ers broke into John’s tent?’ exclaimed Violet. ‘Surely you had some better weapon?’ ‘Not I; the poor rogues were not worth wasting good pow- der on, a...

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...retended to be immensely pre-occupied with this idea, in order to make her start. In reality cela m’est parfaitement egal. I am only afraid I shall li... ...h, and we have at least our share of it over here. When you wake up in the morning you find that during the night a cartload has been de- posited in y... ...to a lively tune enough. Mr. Antrobus arrived here at eight o’clock in the morning; I don’t know how he managed it; it ap- pears to be his favourite h... ...he is extremely well-bred, and is dressed to perfection. She chatters from morning till night; but it isn’t a pleasant sound! These little persons are... ...ers are very gentle, very humane; the democratic system deprives people of weapons that every one doesn’t equally possess. No one is formidable; no on... ...ridge; he would have been useful on such occasions. On the other hand, the startling question would have presented itself—Who would have carried Plumm... ...er; you write your name in a hor- rible book, where every one may come and stare at it and finger it. A man behind the counter stares at you in si- 3...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?KASPAR! MAKAN!? The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an...

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...ER by Joseph Conrad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MAKAN!” The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant real... ...ht, over a convivial glass to his cronies in the Sunda Hotel, and one fine morning electrified Vinck by declaring that he must have “that young fellow... ...ural craving for change, was nothing loth, and packing his few belongings, started in the Flash on one of those long cruises when the old seaman was w... ...Millions I say! And all for her—and for you, if you do what you are told.” Startled by the unexpected proposal, Almayer hesitated, and remained silent... ...ense of the fat Lakamba whom they had been complimenting so much that very morning. The younger men in an access of good fellow- ship made their host ... ...n Sambir resumed its even and uneventful flow. Each day’s sun shooting its morning rays above the tree-tops lit up the usual scene of daily activity. ... ...er eyes on his in one of those long looks that are a woman’s most terrible weapon; a look that is more stirring than the closest touch, and more dange... ...le, during which one chamber of the revolver went off harmlessly, then the weapon, wrenched out of Almayer’s hand, whirled through the air and fell in...

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...d wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness aro... ...borhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other... ...f a mile off, quite to the opposite side of the mill pond, on a still Sunday morning, which are said to be legitimately descended from the nose of Ich... ...eflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path;... ... the treasures of the farm; the flail was busily resound ing within it from morning to night; swallows and martins skimmed twittering about the eaves... ...he desk before him might be seen sundry contraband ar ticles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half munched ... ... black steed, and the goblin rider, passed by like a whirlwind. The next morning the old horse was found without his saddle, and with the bridle u...

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...ues, C.G. Child and Cornelius Weygandt, for their help- ful suggestions in starting the work, and also to acknowl- edge his indebtedness to the German... ...upon the lonely heights is the sun, the wall of flames surrounding her the morning red (“Morgenrote”). Siegfried is the youthful day who is des- tined... ...her slumber. At the appointed time he ascends, and before his splendor the morning red disappears. He awakens the maiden; radiantly the sun rises from... ...lames, the day again approaches, but no longer in the youthful form of the morning to arouse her from her slumber, but in the sombre shape of Gunther,... ... die recken uz erkorn, dazen Burgonden so was ir lant genant, si framden starkiu wunder sit in Etzelen lant. 27 The Nibelungenlied Ze Wormze bidem... ...e might he win both folk and land. Now he was of the strength that he bare weapons well. Whatever he needed thereto, of this he had enow. With pur- po... ...hey never should come home again. The heroes bade lade their sumpters with weapons and with harness. Their steeds were fair and 40 The Nibelungenlied... ...d bathed him in the blood, so that his skin became like horn. Therefore no weapons will cut him, as hath full oft been seen. All the better must we gr... ...w my mind. Have I aught of trusty men, I will not withhold from them these startling tales, but will make complaint thereof unto my friends.” T o Gunt...

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... that game of dominoes. We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring. The day was ending in a serenity of still and exquisite bril- lian... ...minously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars. “And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark pla... ...ne—thought himself wronged some- how in the bargain, so he went ashore and started to ham- mer the chief of the village with a stick. Oh, it didn’t su... ...acket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity. This was simple prudence, white men b... ...ot of mysterious niggers armed with 23 Joseph Conrad all kinds of fearful weapons suddenly took to traveling on the road between Deal and Gravesend, ... ...t one of which was lost to the sixty pairs of eyes before me, and the next morning I started the hammock off in front all right. An afterwards I came ... ... was curious. He did not ask me to sit down after my twenty-mile walk that morning. He was commonplace in complexion, in feature, in manners, and in v... ...- visable, the sun being very low already, to wait where we were till next morning. Moreover, he pointed out that if the warning to approach cautiousl...

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...y and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Cane... ... has fists big enough to crush an ox at one blow. Unquestionably, Edmond’s star is in the ascendant, and he will marry the splendid girl — he will be ... ...illing Dantes? I won’t have him killed — I won’t! He’s my friend, and this morning offered to share his money with me, as I shared mine with him. I wo... ...d religion, that one Edmond Dantes, mate of the ship Pharaon, arrived this morning from Smyrna, after having touched at Naples and Porto-Ferrajo, has ... ...et come!” The bride blushed, while Fernand, restless and uneasy, seemed to start at every fresh sound, and from time to time wiped away the Alexandre... ...agine I am going to put you off in that shabby manner. To-morrow morning I start for Paris; four days to go, and the same to return, with one day to d... ...pt back by Villefort, had become, under the second restoration, a terrible weapon against him in the hands of the king’s attorney. He was no longer as... ...ather, father, in heaven’s name,” exclaimed the young man, “what are these weapons for?” “Maximilian,” replied Morrel, looking fixedly at his son, “yo... ...k, counting time now not by minutes, but by seconds. He took up the deadly weapon again, his lips parted and his eyes fixed on the clock, and then shu...

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...aordinarily brilliant period of their lives, like the course of a shooting-star, at which men wonder, as well on account of the briefness, as the bril... ... cross the threshold of the stable. The black which you bestrode yesterday morning prom- ises to be an admirable roadster, and ambled as easily with S... ... with composure, that I had ridden out to dinner as far as Noble House. He started (you know his way) as if I had said that I had dined at Jericho; an... ...riety, Darsie) to an odd volume of Tom Jones. ‘But he danced from night to morning,’ replied my father, ‘and he read the idle trash, which the author ... ...w by the inferior name of art.’ So my lamp did burn, dear Darsie, the next morning, though the owner took the risk of a domiciliary visitation, and la... ...ks? Thou hadst ever, with the gravest sentiments in thy mouth and the most starched reserve in thy manner, a kind of lumbering proclivity towards misc... ...ith a quick eye, a determined hand, and full command both of his horse and weapon. The shouts of the fellows as they gal- loped up and down in the ani... ...k into a broad buff belt, which seemed as if it might occasionally sustain weapons of a description still less equivocally calcu- lated for violence. ... ... his pistols within reach; for he keepit up the auld fashion of having the weapons ready, and a horse saddled day and night, just as he used to do whe...

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... free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the wido... ...ause it would only make trouble, and wouldn’t do no good. Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said al... ...l, but it warn’t no use. I felt so lone some I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful... ...layey, and I was dogtired. CHAPTER III. Well, I got a good going over in the morning from old Miss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she... ...to marry, they’ve got to do it — and they’ve got to do it before sun up next morning, too. And more: they’ve got to waltz that palace around over the ... ...ut sure, and doing very satisfactory. She said she warn’t ashamed of me. One morning I happened to turn over the salt cellar at breakfast. I reached f... ...as riding through the woods on t’other side of the river, and didn’t have no weapon with him, which was blame’ foolishness, and in a lonesome place h...

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...a, in September 1571, under the command of Don John of Austria; but on the morning of the 7th of October, when the Turkish fleet was sighted, he was l... ... gunshot wounds, two in the breast and one in the left hand or arm. On the morning after the battle, according to Navarrete, he had an interview with ... ...ed by its author. That it was written carelessly, hastily, and by fits and starts, was not always his fault, but it seems clear he never read what he ... ...e he finds Who shelters ‘neath a goodly tree; And such a one thy kindly star In Bejar bath provided thee: A royal tree whose spreading boughs ... ...in, “the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves.” Over co... ...ing notice of his intention to anyone, and without anybody seeing him, one morning before the dawning of the day (which was one of the hottest of the ... ...py man falling to the earth bathed in his blood, and transfixed by his own weapon. His friends at once ran to his aid, filled with grief at his misery... ...aw at the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes... ... for these reasons as because I know, as everyone knows, that a gownsman’s weapon is the same as a woman’s, the tongue, I will with mine engage in equ...

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...ke. The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the Royal George, that he had inquired what inns there we... ... applied to him for my wage, he would only blow through his nose at me and stare me down, but before the week was out he was sure to think better of i... ... captain blew through his nose so loudly that you might say he roared, and stared my poor father out of the room. I have seen him wringing his hands a... ...tle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and re- sumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog. “And now, sir,... ...h without paying much regard to our un- pleasant guest. It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-... ...er the edge of the hill in half a minute. The captain, for his part, stood staring at the signboard like a bewildered man. Then he passed his hand ove... ...think of the captain, far less to be afraid of him. He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and h... ... for my neglect. Why had not I, long before, reprimed and reloaded my only weapons? Then I should not have been as now, a mere fleeing sheep before th...

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... distinctly that was not close to them, and not rather that their dreadful stare could dart cramp, or rickets, or a wry mouth at any boy who hap- pene... ...the night-watching with William, the one relieving the other at two in the morning. The old man, contrary to expectation, seemed to be on the way to r... ...if he had been asleep, and looked at the clock: it was already four in the morning. How was it that William had not come? In much anxiety he went to s... ...4 Silas Marner hedgerows. There was nothing here, when he rose in the deep morning quiet and looked out on the dewy brambles and rank tufted grass, th... ...roasting from proceeding too rapidly during the owner’s ab- sence. The old staring simpleton had hot meat for his supper, then? thought Dunstan. Peopl... ...y able to retain the impression that the notion from which the infer- ence started was purely problematic. And Dunstan’s mind was as dull as the mind ... ... said Jem, trembling a little, and seizing his drinking-can as a defensive weapon. “If it was you stole my money,” said Silas, clasping his hands entr...

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...ere of age to bear arms, and then ordering his soldiers to lay aside their weapons and put off their own clothes, and put on the accoutrements of the ... ...t of his unwillingness to be thought to fly from his enemies, early in the morning he rode up to view the situation of the place. But finding there wa... ... till the evening, and brought his soldiers back into their camp. The next morning a gentle breeze at first arose, and moved the lightest parts of the... ...pon his men, who were all in disorder, and slew many of them. And the next morning he came into the field again, well armed, and offered battle, but p... ...s it just and equal that the Laconian towns should enjoy theirs. Agesilaus started from his seat and bade him once for all speak out and say whether o... ...orming a deep ditch and high wall, re- solving to shut up the garrison and starve it. When the ditch was brought almost quite round, and the two ends ... ... speeches against Pompey, saying in derision, that he should want no other weapon but a ferula and rod to chastise this boy with, if he were not afrai... ...vately from Rome. About that time Caesar, returning from military service, started a course of policy which brought him great present favor, and much ... ...elmet was only just so far strong enough to save him, that the edge of the weapon touched the hair of his head. But as he was about to repeat his stro...

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...e slates, in order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house. One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrapped in his cloak,... ...y shape and black sill. Like those day-blowing flowers, which in the early morning have not yet unfurled their cups, twisted by the chills of night, t... ...her adorer. Vanity, no doubt, distressed her at being seen in undress; she started back, the worn pulley gave way, and the sash fell with the rapid ru... ... Guillotine. The vision had disappeared. To the young man the most radiant star of morning seemed to be hidden by a cloud. During these little inciden... ...ine. The vision had disappeared. To the young man the most radiant star of morning seemed to be hidden by a cloud. During these little incidents the h... ...our own street? Don’t talk to me of your artists! Like writers, they are a starveling crew. Why the devil need they choose my house to flout it in the... ...strength equal to their own? If I had been brought up like this siren, our weapons at least might have been equal in the hour of struggle.” “But I am ...