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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...which resulted from their accumulations of excess and waste. What is the principal of one-sided accumulation? It is part of a vicious cycle. ... ... its old Royal Family with a new one; by importing a German King from a small principality in Germany to be their new ruler. Unfortunately their cho... ...Greek males strutting openly together in public? And Spanish male and female dancers strutting around in public? They barely move their bodies…they... ...their inner auras. They do not pick out the best mathematicians, or the best dancers, or the superficially pretties girls, or the superficially pret...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... .... Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western... ...ich gave a blurred version of this other part of humanity; and of course the dancers, who were rather boring after a few minutes of seeing the ends of... ...oul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Village and traditional dancers no longer on the street corners but contained in a theatre. He th... ...dangling inside a fist, her son's teacher told her that she had go go to the principal's office. The word, "must," took some swallowing but she accep... ...wrapping up what little beauty she did posess would go further with a female principal. She did not believe in appearances but she was pragmatic eno...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 anyone... ...ducal blood in business: we have, genealogists 9 George Meredith tell us, royal blood in common trades. For all our pride we are a queer people; and ... ...istinctly perceptible. Lady Patterne sent a little Hebe down, skirting the dancers, for an accurate re- port of it; and even the inappreciative lips o... ... cousin Willoughby. Be it said that the hour was four in the morning, when dancers must laugh at somebody, if only to refresh their feet, and the wit ... ...nd lord in these 24 The Egoist letters to his family, despatched from the principal cities of the United States of America. He would give them a sket... ...exclusively of himself it seemed to her a condescension. In time he talked principally of her, beginning with her admirable care of his mother; and he...

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