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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter, a warrior, a sol... ...s why the practice of kidnapping rich millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they... ...na it became The Great Wall. In Europe it became Cathedrals. In Renaissance Italy it became Towers. No matter what form it took: whether it was pr... ...e is jealously guarded and goes to the grave with them. To be later put into museums. And centuries later…marveled at… as examples of lost artisans... ...fe-energy poured into making any artefact, the more it is revered and put into museums. That is also why we obsess and revere old, dead artefacts th... ...the millions and billions of poor people who outnumber them? People flock to museums. They flock to all the palaces in the world that have been tu...

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Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...scaped with his life, made his way out of France, and, betaking himself to Italy, offered his services to the Pope. It is proof of the consideration t... ...this type, which, I must immediately add, is not the most frequent one. In Italy, everything has a charm, a color, a grace; even desolation and ennui.... ...me to go to the Musee; the more so that I have a weakness for pro- vincial museums,—a sentiment that depends but little on the quality of the collecti... ...gzags; such a picture creates for the moment a presumption that you are in Italy, and even leads you to believe that if you mount the winding road you... ... creaking establishment, with brown, laby- rinthine corridors, a queer old open-air vestibule, into which the diligence, in the bon temps, used to pen... ...t a little, and that it is neither better nor worse than most provin- cial museums. It has the usual musty chill in the air, the usual grass-grown for...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...ch was so much: she saw the different fitted parts of him as she had seen, in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in ... ...h, once you get off on the Continent. Annie Climber was asked three times in Italy—poor plain little Annie.” “Well, if Annie Climber wasn’t captured w... ...worst case, I think, is a friend of mine, a countryman of ours, who lives in Italy (where he also was brought before he knew better), and who is one o... ...ou together and then you’ll see what I mean. He’s Gilbert Osmond—he lives in Italy; that’s all one can say about him or make of him. He’s exceedingly ... ...me—not to the ruins and the catacombs, not even perhaps to the monuments and museums, the church ceremonies and the scenery; but certainly to all the ...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as f...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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...e to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...some person who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and interpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in especial that I have gathered into this Series have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and es...

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