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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...nt. I look in the mirror and I don’t like what I see: bloodshot cow eyes, a big flat nose, yellowish-brown uneven teeth, dark red lips, and a... ...What’s the point of bringing kids into this world if you can’t even afford to feed them? I want to take a stab in the dark and ask my wife... ...ver reach sixteen. She was standing together on the road with a man who was sitting on the boot of the car. The man was big and dark and had red eye... ... thought he was killing her and I ran away. I was scared and I didn’t tell anybody. After some time when it was getting dark the scary man l... ...’s womb. Stripped his mother and his brother in front of the neighbours, it did. When he was five, his brother recollected those dark tales to him a... ...s truly a place to be. At first glance, it seems like just another sleepy Malawian village. From the old clinic standing in the shadows casted by th...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...orld before us, whose substance of the elements in reality is coarser and darker than in all the worlds preceding it. However, the shapes and the el... ...ore, upon the temporary loss of but a small cognizance, the entire wisdom darkens before our eyes, for all its issues are tied to one another very s... ... is light.” As one who has candles but no light to light them sits in the dark, one who has Mitzvot but no Torah sits in the dark. This is because t... ... Torah sits in the dark. This is because the Torah is Light, by which the darkness in the body is illuminated and lit up. no T All por TionS of ThE T... ... K a b b a l a h f o r T h e s T u d e n T of, “and create darkness,” meaning the Light is removed from the Yetzira and the love rema... ...C h r a It is written (Song of Songs, 2), “Until the day breathes, and the shadows flee away.” We must understand what are shadows in the work, and w... ... away.” We must understand what are shadows in the work, and what is “two shadows.” The thing is that when one does not feel His Providence, that th... ... that there are two kinds of shades. And this is the meaning of, “and the shadows flee away,” meaning that the shadows will flee from the world. The ... ...ly above reason. It follows that one does not pray to the Creator that the shadows will flee from the world. Rather, one says, “I see that the Creato...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

... The book will consist of 180 pages, 6j^ by 9 inches, bound in full cloth, dark blue, with the let- tering in red, which combination gives the colors ... ...eat by Illinois 3-2—HomeRun by Lewis—Chicag;o Beaten 4-2 by Heavy Hitting: Darkness put an end to a re- markable exhibition of baseball between teams ... ...rst in the discus. While there are always in such a large meet a number of dark horses that upsnt all calculations and the points in each event are un... ...s in the windows, the heavy panell- ing of the gotbic doors and the use of dark wood througbont, the architect has succeeded in pre- serving ithe eccl... ...ounging room at the left of the entrance is finished in mission style with dark wood throughout. The dining room on the opposite side of the house is ... ...old how tlie faculty shared with the members of the graduat- ing class the shadows of regret at their departure and repeated the dying message of Prof...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradford starts with the oldest possible perspe... ...ch Siblings After Christ‘s ministry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some call the Dark Ages. Meanwhile two historic Informatio... ...inistry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some call the Dark Ages. Meanwhile two historic Information Technologies—paper and print—... ... stopped altogether for half a millennium, but the recovery during those ―Dark Ages‖ was very sluggish. Setting the stage for Gutenberg One tr... ...emagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of the ―Dark Ages‖ prevented the complete collapse of intellectual... ...ero was a dangerous idea. Those Greeks believed that only emptiness and darkness prevailed before the universe. That gave birth to a primal fear o... ...t villas surrounded by fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to darken.‖ Barbarian natives from the north periodically ruptured such def... ...sted almost a century, but its inventor‘s name remained hidden behind the shadows of history. Ottmar Mergenthaler, nevertheless, deserves a plac... ...t one of many riveting Information Technology stories hidden in history‘s shadows—deserves a whole volume of its own. The Stationers and their d...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...tops give us such a panoramic view, with breathtaking wonder. The valley has shadows that can turn ominous at times. On the other hand, valleys do hav... ...r it. And I must look for it if I’m to keep moving forward and not allow the shadows to scare me off. I’ve received enough 59 encouragement to tell m... ...ld the light of Elendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” The V alley of Rejection has ... ...s, when all other lights go out.” The V alley of Rejection has many of those dark places. And last year all other lights did go out at one point. But ... ...ast year all other lights did go out at one point. But the Lord illumined my darkness with His great light and even today, after hearing of this disco... ..., after hearing of this discouraging rejection, He still lights my path. The shadows in the valley may hem me in, but I am not without hope. Someday I... ... free of the V alley of Rejection and ascend the Mountain of Acceptance. The shadows will still be there—the light never eradicates them entirely on t... ...and get different meanings. For me this passage is very straightforward. The darkness is a mental not a physical thing. And the light is our faith. Fa... ... and do the believe in yourself cheer. A series of stumbles landed me in the dark and I packed away my pompoms. The darkness hit me a few years ago, w...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

......................................................................99 From Darkness to Light............................................................. ...ed in their slumber, not paying attention to it... And we are here in the dark, as the dead, verily as blind searching the wall. It is unbecoming fo... ...we can currently perceive. Scientists are saying that there is a kind of “dark energy,” that there are all kinds of white or black spots in the univ... ...Where our thoughts come from? It could be said that we are living in the dark, except that while we are in it, we have a false sensation that we un... ...the c reator but feel that He is hidden from us, then we are in spiritual darkness, a state called “night.” In that state, we should make efforts an... ...not of the essence itself. For example, the sense of sight offers us only shadows of the visible essence as they are formed opposite the light. Simi...

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Attaining the Worlds Beyond

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...faith." However, we often mistakenly believe that faith implies groping in the dark, without seeing or perceiving the Creator. In fact, faith means ex... .... If the Creator wants to bring the separated part closer to Himself, then the dark void between the Creator and thepartwillbestowasenseofhopelessness... ...bythe part, which, at most, can only imagine how it feels to perceive Him. The dark void, which is perceived by the part, is experienced as our normal... ...rsonalInterests -61- doing anything, shattering our minds, plunging us into a dark chasm of hopelessness and reflecting back to us our own insignific... ...urgent necessity, or no necessity at all, the Light of the Kabbalah turns into darkness. As a result, the more they study, the deeper they sink into t... ...ll welcome them. WewillrecognizethattheCreatorhasofferedusthegiftof perceiving shadows, or the incomplete darkness, so that we may seek the Source of ...

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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold; A Play for a Greek Theatre

By: John Jay Chapman

...ration. [71 TREASON AND DEATH First Picket. Uneasy has been my watch. Dark have been my forebod- ings, standing first on one foot and then on t... ... wheeling about above me, assail me, tear me with their beaks and talons. Dark looms the cloud bank through the black portals of the river. The fog... ..., suspect some evil. Some foul play is in the mountains, stalking in the shadows of the dawn. Would God the releasing trumpet would blow and the f... ...ened the hillsides once, We bring you Thought. Chorus of Women. From the dark heart of man that scorns the light, From Wisdom, found in Meekness ... ...abitation, Walking distress, Blighting presence, Nemesis, Evil, Good-in-Darkness, Passing from breast to breast, Reaching easily all men, And th... ...e distant hills; While from the Vulture half a thousand men Land in the darkness. Thus without a blow, But with the magic of a countersign, West...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...nts only to give, and that we want only to receive. This is the emptiness and darkness of the Kli (vessel) as opposed to the Light. Acknowledging th... ... now we are in it, though we are unaware of it. By wanting to come out of the dark state we are in and awaken to feel our real existence, we draw to... ...A H 108 ality. As a matter of fact, the sensation of the outside reality over- shadows the sensation of the reality perceived in our five senses beca... ... for the perception of reality: For example, the sense of sight offers us only shadows of the visible essence, according to how they are formed oppos... ...4 Similarly, when leaving Earth’s atmosphere, we discover that outer space is dark. It may sound strange, considering that sun- rays spread out acros... ...ng on the make up of the sensor. The sight sensor evokes a reaction of light, dark- ness, and colors; the sound sensor evokes sounds; the smell senso... ... we perceived through different senses, what appears as light would appear as dark, or even as something so fundamentally different that we cannot i...

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Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...oney, you’re 17, practically an adult. It's 2220, not 2100. This isn't the dark days of New Florida's past. Daddy Dearest shouldn’t be telling you wh... ...f a DNA strand and contemplated the data. Outside it was starting to grow dark, but he hardly noticed, so intent on the problem in front of him. If ... ...t's going on, Naiya, all you have to do is ask instead of skulking in the shadows eavesdropping.” Naiya stepped from her hiding place with a grin. “D... ...almost overdressed. To her left lay a white wolf with a gray foreleg. His dark eyes seemed old and held the weight of knowledge that made Laylah shy... ...ck home, or at least find someone to help Jacques. It was starting to get dark and she hated nighttime. She started walking, not sure what direction... ...one confused moment to catch sight of the person grabbing her — blue eyes, dark brown hair, man — before being tossed behind him. She screamed in ago... ...s Zina worked them into a feverish pitch. “We will no longer skulk in the shadows, waiting for our day in the sun. We are the future and it is here!... ... now, Stefan. Is that any way to greet a friend?” Drayden emerged from the shadows. “I have no friends. Let's get this over with.” “You’re still so br... ...howing up unannounced, very rude.” Kattcha watched Stefan emerge from the shadows with a genuine smile on his face. “Come now, Kat, you know that gam...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...y 1944 It is written (Song of Songs, 2), “Until the day breathes, and the shadows flee away.” We must understand what are shadows in the work and wh... ...e away.” We must understand what are shadows in the work and what are two shadows. The thing is that when one does not feel His Providence, that He ... ...ng in this concealment: 1. When one still has the ability to overcome the darkness and the concealments that one feels, justify the Creator, and pra... ... Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) 41 It follows that there are two kinds of shadows, and this is the meaning of, “and the shadows flee away,” meaning ... ...nd this is the meaning of, “and the shadows flee away,” meaning that the shadows will flee from the world. The shade of Klipa (Shell) is called “Ano... ... the day of the Lord! Wherefore would ye have the day of the Lord? It is darkness, and not light” (Amos 5): “There is a parable about Rabbi Yehu... ...he sunlight? On the contrary, for one who has no eyes, the sunlight only darkens more. We must understand that parable, meaning how the eyes are co... ... parable in that regard about a bat, that one with no eyes remains in the dark. We must also understand what is the day of the Lord and what is the ... ... ground, we call it “day.” And when the sun does not shine, it is called “darkness.” It is the same with the Creator. A day is called “revelation” a...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ifferent -and more ominous - beast altogether. He rambles on about the metaphorical dark chamber of his secrets, the key to which he wishes to shar... ...re of the world. But Truman chooses. He chooses the exit door leading to the outer darkness over the false sunlight in the Utopia that he leaves be... ...an invention are the documentation and representation of brain waves. They are mere shadows, symbols of the real presence - our mind. How can we re... ...tem. It contains and applies rules of symmetry (left vs. right), physics (light vs. dark, colors), social codes (face recognition, behaviour) and sy... ...e internet – it is all here, in colourful and provocative prose. From "The Mind of Darkness": "'The Balkans' – I say – 'is the unconscious of the w...

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The Prelude Or, Growth of a Poets Mind

By: William Wordsworth

... Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes t... ... undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o’er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude 395 12 The Prelude of 1850 Or blank desertion... ... resounding horn, The pack loud chiming, and the hunted hare. So through the darkness and the cold we flew, And not a voice was idle; with the din 440 ... ...wind, And all the shadowy banks on either side 455 Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion, then at once Have I, r... ...e revelry Continued and the loud uproar: at last, 15 When all the ground was dark, and twinkling stars Edged the black clouds, home and to bed we went... ...d, But no one owned them; meanwhile the calm lake 440 Grew dark with all the shadows on its breast, And, now and then, a fish up leaping snapped The br... ...calls him forth 515 To industry, by glistenings flung on rocks, Whose evening shadows lead him to repose. Well might a stranger look with bounding hear...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e eaten kimchee or someone's dog being as hungry as he was. It became fully dark and he would have known entire blackness were it not for the speckli... ...wear and his book bag from the locker and dressed himself marginally. In the dark sleeping room of the mokotang, where many businessmen got their only... ...ll bus terminals in cities under a million people had cement floors and were dark and dirty like a cellar. Just like he had seen in myriad other termi... ...able to the next--one part of the country to the next--falling homeless into dark holes. Sadness punched him in the stomach. It was enough--"nomu" (to... ...ngling conundrums of feeling, ideas, and senses in sleep. If all people were shadows of this realm in the flickering of light, what solid entity cast... ...ght, what solid entity cast the shadow? Was it God? Was there a god? If the shadows were more concrete than the light, what would this say about life... ...nly measurable impact that he knew of were ramifications of deep, paralyzing shadows that the three of them fell into--so far and so eternal had been ... ...that which most excited them on the tatami mats of the floors. Others joined shadows of faintly visible figures groping around in a state of almost co... ...dows of faintly visible figures groping around in a state of almost complete darkness. For him only lighter rooms were an option since less illusionar...

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The Cosmo-Art Theorems and Axioms

By: Antonio Mercurio

...born with, and in their old behaviors they have always identified with, are shadows. They are not living beings, even though they may think they are.... ...Where are you now, and were do you want to go? RULE VI Accept the dark night. Accept the darkness and turn your gaze to the bright spots ... ...cide to transform your heart. The homicidal and suicidal drives not only darken the sky but they also often stir up frightening storms. This hap...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... Consequently, nothing can be sold at low prices. For example, we must buy dark-blue stone from abroad. It's expensive, as it comes all the way from C... ...t, and in the evening we used to plough again. We might plough right until dark. Ploughing with buffalo was very slow. For example, ploughing about 10... ...rectly on the ground turned out to be an uncomfortable living space, being dark, dank and unhealthy in the rainy season. Cars had now appeared in yard... ...s down the river, to drift along slowly with the candles reflecting on the dark surface of the water. Loi Kratong has now become a two-day festival in... ...the imaginations of their time they were ancestors' boats, drifting on the dark stream towards the realm of the dead. December 5th is the King's birth... ...ths from Aids will gradually become less interesting and designated to the shadows of human life. Those infected are now more commonly prostitutes or ... ...er it is possible to wipe out the 'drug culture' or social inequality, the shadows of capitalism, from the country. The fact is that in ten years, Tha...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...cks in Tallahassee at the time. I fell into the throes of puppy love. The dark theater was the per­ fect place for Kitty and me to carryon our torrid... ...e, it was important to Shirlee. We spent happy times at home. But the old shadows of my past behavior soon returned to haunt the relationship. Many... ...mained committed to creating a new life for myself. Even through the most dark and depressing parts of this story, even when I privately thought thi...

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Woman of Honor

By: Nicole Zoltack

...er asked, looking puzzled. His green eyes widened. His hair had once been a dark and handsome brown but now it was whiter, older, as the rest of hi... ...tted the entire facade. Massive towers climbed to the clouds. The roof was a dark blue, steadfast and romantic, pure and innocent. “Shall I wait f... ...tared at him. King Patrick seemed a kind and just ruler. His hair was mostly dark, only a strand or two of white marred the darkness. King Patrick... ... a strand or two of white marred the darkness. King Patrick’s eyes were also dark as he mulled over her request. After waiting several long but bli... ...behind him, she noticed a small boy, perhaps her own age staring at her. His dark hair, so similar to the king’s. He must be the crowned prince. ... ...odies so don’t piss me off.” He left, running through the trees, hugging the shadows and Aislinn lost sight of him within seconds. She sighed and ... ... frame was frail and thinner than a month before and his face was gaunt. The shadows under his eyes were darker, almost purple, and made his eyes l... ...the truth. Before they could speak any further, a figure stepped free of the shadows. Although both Caelan and Geoffrey reacted defensively, Aisli...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...ed at the plush office of Sir Creepton, the boss’s secretary. There is no darkness, unbearable heat or bubbling sludge pits here; Creepton works in ... ...ing several decades on the bench with nothing better to do than watch his dark cohorts fight and throw sludge at each other. Though Snakelex knew he ... ...gs of the promotional ladder to knock Shutenhog off his perch. The former dark spiritual authority of a certain small town was considered by many to... ...h. Snakelex was not impressed with members of his establishment. Numerous dark brothers had nothing better to do than hang over fences, off basketba... ... To Sir Creepton You need to send more re-enforcements. Preferably, mature dark demons with some knowledge of what to expect and the proper procedure... ... won the footy. From a distance, Snakelex scrutinised the Manse, watching shadows pass windows and those smaller, perceived jumping up and down on b... ... appeared and graciously took up positions around the town, forcing evil shadows out of doorways and gloomy back streets. These evil shadows silent... ... and a bright full moon was left as a sign of victory. The remaining dark shadows were only that which belonged to the earth. Though the words spoke...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...ther (the human side), are powerful symbols that Homer uses to portray the dark negative forces. i. At the end, however, the Suitors are extermina... ...equires a profound transformation; it requires the transformation of one’s darkness into light. This is why wisdom, cunning, deep humility and the a... ...ar process happens in the Cosmos when a star is created. First, there is a dark cloud, and then this cloud condenses and collapses on itself, then, a... ...wear she will not say anything to his mother. By keeping Penelope in the dark about his plans, he breaks the complicity that so often exists betwe... ...ng new life, today and for eternity. All the other Greek heroes are vague shadows when compared to him. They are shadows who cry over the lives the... ...Ulysses, who is alive and who came into Hades as a living man, watches the shadows of thousands of those who lived in the past (Agamemnon, Achilles, ... ...stances that nurture the development of a fetus. The cave of Polyphemus is dark, and it frightens Ulysses’ companions, who beg him to take the food ... ...onscious vindictive drive is always present. It remains undisturbed in the shadows and it poisons our existence. Not only are we unable to recognize... ...idden depths of humanity and be able to encounter them as if they were the shadows of death or the shadow of Teireisias. The shadows of the dead a...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...sms in our 3-dimensional Universe are: long-short, large-small, past-present, dark-light, empty-full, hot-cold, up-down, attraction-repulsion, weak-... ...ey feared the night, they were protected from attack by the predators, and the dark by worshipping their God and feeding their God all night so he bu... ... habituated to looking at only one thing: the fire. At night, everything was dark; the only bright thing was the dire they all stared at. The artif... ...hey are night creatures; who hunt by stealth and in secret under the cover of darkness. How many human societies have had groups of killers hunting ... ...uman societies have had groups of killers hunting by night under the cover of darkness? What is the archetype of the rapist? Someone who hunts smal... ...le: he described the human race as a bunch of cave dwellers fascinated by the shadows on the cave wall created by the Sun streaming into the cave. ... ...s cave called civilization. We are more fascinated by the reflections of the shadows of the Sun. Only… we re-reflect our own reflections. Until t... ...of the Sun. Only… we re-reflect our own reflections. Until they become pale shadows. We are more fascinated by the reflections of the world than t... ...housand years ago Plato wrote the puzzling observation about people staring at shadows on the walls of their cave rather than going out into the worl...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over th... ...et. In stories about stem cell and gene sequence patents, critics have mused darkly about the way in which the state is handing over monopoly power to... ...come strong propo- nents of “public, open highways” (though some people muse darkly that they do very well out of that rule). Still, most people want ... ...ers, on the other hand, think criticisms of the DMCA are overblown, that the dark tales of digital control are either paranoid delu- sions or tendenti... ...gument. They still have to fear their raptor-like competitors lurking in the shadows. Perhaps. Or perhaps it also takes the con- sistent threat of ant... ...are when he talked of the person who lights his taper from mine but does not darken me, but the idea is the same one. Copying software is not like figh...

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Poems by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell (Charlotte, Emily, And Anne Bront‰)

By: Acton Bell

...st, he plunged all Galilee 9 Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë In dark bereavement—in affliction sore, Mingling their very offerings with the... ... by night; Oh, opening skies, I hail, I bless pour light! Part, clouds and shadows! Glorious Sun appear! Part, mental gloom! Come insight from on hig... ...r, to watch the setting sun, Or see the stars born, one by one, Out of the darkening sky. Nor would she leave that hill till night T rembled from pole... ...ne. Thus the pale blight of time and sorrow Will shade with grey her soft, dark hair; Then comes the day that knows no morrow, And death succeeds to l... ...ms by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë “That mind my own. Oh! narrow cell; Dark—imageless—a living tomb! There must I sleep, there wake and dwell Cont... ...rld is not in yonder tower, Earth is not prisoned in that room, ‘Mid whose dark panels, hour by hour, I’ve sat, the slave and prey of gloom. “One feel... ...range, and darkness dim, Efface both light and quiet; No shape is in those shadows grim, No voice in that wild riot. Sustain’d and strong, a wondrous ... ... within my soul, That light lies hid from men; Yet glows unquenched—though shadows roll, Its gentle ray cannot control— About the sullen den. Was I no... ... I descended, Nor do I come to mingle tears; But sweet is day, though with shadows blended; And, though clouded, sweet are youthful years. “I—the imag...

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Winesbur Inesbur, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

... book I wrote might be seen as a gesture of thanks for the light—a glow of darkness, you might say—that he had brought to me. Decades passed. I no lon... ...ost souls wander about; they make their flitting appearances mostly in the darkness of night, these stumps and shades of humanity. This vision has its... ... little cour- age, venture out into the streets of Winesburg, often in the dark, there to establish some initia- tory relationship with George Willard... ...ful, touched their hearts and they let him escape. As he ran away into the dark- ness they repented of their weakness and ran af- ter him, swearing an... ...of soft mud at the figure that screamed and ran faster and faster into the darkness. For twenty years Adolph Myers had lived alone in Winesburg. He wa... ...e sun had disappeared and the road be- yond the field was lost in the grey shadows. Go- 24 Sherwood Anderson ing into his house he cut slices of brea... ... tigress whose cub had been threatened would she appear, coming out of the shadows, steal-ing noiselessly along and holding the long wicked scissors i... ...ttle side street. George Willard trembled more violently than ever. In the shadows by Williams’ barn George and Louise stood, not daring to talk. She ... ...e, heard coming out of the darkness by the cemetery wall, or from the deep shadows of the trees on the hill that ran up to the Fair Grounds from Water...

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The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare

... that judgment is, That did never choose amiss. Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow’s bliss: The Merchant of Venice... ...s and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. [Enter PORTIA... ... to bed now, being two hours to day: But were the day come, I should wish it dark, That I were couching with the doctor’s clerk. Well, while I live I’...

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

...recious substances that nourish fetal development. But Polyphemus’ cave is dark, and it frightens Ulysses’ companions, who beg him to be able to jus... ...y decision to actively face his intrauterine trauma, and to transform this dark part of himself, is a substantial part of this effort. Ulysses is t... ...t the day before. How often are we overcome by intense anguish and deep darkness, like Ulysses was when he was facing the storm, and we can not p... ... 33 All the other Greek heroes, and especially Achilles, are just vague shadows when compared with him. They are shadows that cry over the life t... ...n he talks about Ulysses’ descent into Hades. (Od. Book 11) Thousands of shadows of those who had lived before (Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Aj... ...times I am one hundred thousand, like in Hades, where one hundred thousand shadows pass before me and they would all like to be alive. Sometimes I a...

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Light & Dark : The Awakening of the Mageknight

By: Daniel M. Fife

...him, after a fierce battle with an ancient Shadow. Danny learns that a simple card game, designed to pit the forces of the Light against those of the Dark, is more than simply a game. Accepted into a school for young Squires, destined to become Knights of the Light and battle the forces of the Dark with magical weapons called Bondeds, Danny and his friends are trained in t...

...r a moment while thumbing the engraved symbol of Light upon the scabbard of the dagger, a solid white chain interlinked with a black chain of seeping dark flames. "What does the symbol of Light stand for?" he was mesmerized by the emblem. Tyramear followed Danny's captivated gaze down to the small sheath. "At the core, the symbol is meant to represent a balance of a sor...

...Cover Purchase a print copy of this book Light & Dark Series Chapter 1 - A New Face Chapter 2 - Trigger of Power Chapter 3 - A Date with the Dark Chapter 4 - Becoming Friends with a Drake Chapter 5 - Into the Light Chapter 6 - The Gift of Sight Chapter 7 - The Trials...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...y has it happened? His arms in bandages, his eyes forever bandaged by the dark. “Alcaeus...” He heard my whisper and shuffled backwards, bumping hi... ...to consider its flame, the why and wherefore of its integrity, fragility. Shadows are commonplace when we ignite a lamp. Yet, without a light, there... ...onplace when we ignite a lamp. Yet, without a light, there are profounder shadows. P I hear that Alcaeus goes out alone, forbidding his servants to... ...e jottings about my girls: Atthis—lover of yellow ribbons, scared of the dark. To avoid going out, will invent a headache, a toothache or a stomach... ... the music can flow... The wings of the swans have drawn you toward the dark ground, with yoke chariot bearing down from heaven... Come to me..... ... morning, when she whispered about Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... ... ...parently at the same speed. Twice the flocks covered the sun and our town darkened, tiled roofs turning grey. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 55 There were... ... us drinks. “Are we better friends?” he asked. “I trust you more.” Tree shadows moved across his mouth and chin. “Trust is not always friendship. ... ...e years...I overstepped propriety.” How pale Libus was, in his grey robe, shadows ridging the fabric, chalking his face, thickening his lips, greyin...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...has been used, in particular, to suggest a new solution to the problem of “dark matter” in cosmology [11, 5], based on the proposal that chaotic gravi... ...tion [12]. In this case there would be no need for additional non baryonic dark matter, since the various observed non-Newtonian dynamical L. Nottale.... ... Volume 1 PROGRESS IN PHYSICS April, 2005 effects (that the hypothesis of dark matter wants to explain despite the check of all attempts of detection... ...caleR related to a minimum momentump= /R. Another interesting approach to dark matter, dark energy and the cosmological constant based on a vacuum co... ...le of the Machian principle in constructing quantum cosmologies, models of dark energy, etc. . . has been studied in [52] and its relationship to modi... ...e G., Papini G., Scarpetta G. Phys. Letters, v. A224, 1998, 349. Papini G. Shadows of a maximal acceleration. arXiv: gr-qc/0211011. 22. Feoli A., Lamb... ...e G., Papini G., Scarpetta G. Phys. Letters, v. A224, 1998, 349. Papini G. Shadows of a maximal acceleration. arXiv: gr-qc/0211011. 68. Castro C. Int....

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...de were derided in the Ancient World. This derision was partially eroded during the Dark Ages. It survived only in relation to trade and other "non-... ... former function is inevitable: some sensory input is immediately relegated to the darker and dimmer kingdoms of the subconscious and unconscious w... ... evil and evildoers because, through them, one vicariously expresses the repressed, dark, and evil parts of one's own personality. Evildoers, accord... ...ay, indistinguishable from lichen-covered trunks of silver birches - their habitat. Darker moths were gobbled up by rapacious birds. Their mutated g... ...st science and the values of the Enlightenment. We are on the threshold of the New Dark Ages. Read about the New Dark Ages - click HERE. 5. The q... ...an invention are the documentation and representation of brain waves. They are mere shadows, symbols of the real presence - our mind. How can we re...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ble that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that,... ...nd was not yet dissolved, though there were some open spaces, and it was all dark colored and saturated with water. There were some slight flurries of ... ...e to view it from the inside. The hens were driven in by my approach. It was dark, and had a dirt floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, on... ... at every cottage window, inspiring lunatics, and tainting meats, and making darkness visible, instead of steadily increasing his genial heat and bene... ... at such a time; and the clear portion of the air above it being shallow and darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lo... ...uld fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was o... ...t, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows morning and evening reach farther than their daily steps. We shou... ...n dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity over head, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? These forms are more agree... ...d? Well, we are safe and strong, for now we sit Beside a hearth where no dim shadows flit, Where nothing cheers nor saddens, but a fire Warms feet and h...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...We know that. They ’ll be all alone in that cabin all winter, — a mighty long, dark winter. Kilkenny cats, — well?” The Frenchman in Baptiste shrugged... ...s the joint child of the Great Cold and the Great Silence, and was born in the darkness of December, when the sun dipped below the southern horizon fo... ... the Northland had that crushing effect, — the absence of life and motion; the darkness; the infinite peace of the brooding land; the ghastly silence, ... ...its unwonted sound. There was no sun. This was the Universe, dead and cold and dark, and he its only citizen. Weatherbee? At such moments Weatherbee d... ...of cheer, from which not even the meanest packer was excluded. As the way grew darker she seemed to stiffen and gather greater strength, and when Kah ... ...uched closely, even jealously, over the stove. For a long while the slush lamp shadows played tragedies upon the wall. “But Unga!” cried Prince, the v... ...ed came to his feet, nodded curtly, and went back to his camp amid the crimson shadows and the singing of the robins. Hay Stockard finished his pipe by... ... closer to the hori zon. The heavens in that quarter grew red and bloody. The shadows lengthened, the light dimmed, and in the sombre recesses of the... ... barbed arrows. The sun shot up, and they swayed back and forth in the crimson shadows. Twice, with his axe blocked by too deep a blow, they rushed hi...

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The Magician a Novel

By: Somerset Maugham

...young painters with whom of late she had mostly consorted. But those quick dark eyes were able to express an anguish that was hardly tolerable, and th... ...ease look at the man who is sitting next to Mr Warren.’ Arthur saw a tall, dark fellow with strongly marked fea tures, untidy hair, and a ragged blac... ... mouth was large, with heavy moist lips. He had the neck of a bullock. His dark, curling hair had retreated from the forehead and temples in such a wa... ...ality. They must return eventually to the abyss of unending night, and the darkness of death afflicted them always. But it was thought that in the sam... ...he eyes. These alone were visible, large and som bre, and the lashes were darkened with kohl: her fingers were brightly stained with henna. She moved... ...to know tortuous narrow streets, white houses of silence with strange moon shadows, and the glow of yellow light within, and the tinkling of un couth... ... it was impossible to bear the undying pain that darkened it with ruthless shadows. Impelled by a great curi osity, she sought to come nearer, but th... ...ness of the west? She turned round, and a cry broke from her lips, for the shadows there were lurid with a deep red glow. ‘It looks like a fire,’ she ...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... and a forehead with a look of expansion, partly due to the crisp waves of dark hair being as short as a boy’s. The nose was well cut, and each delica... ...efore her—a little purple, green-winged orchis, a cowslip, and a quivering dark-brown tuft of quaking grass. He came and stood behind her, saying— “Yo... ...h stage, hardly redeemed by the keen ardour and inquiry that glowed in the dark eyes, set like two hot coals beneath the black overhanging brows of th... ... beneath the black overhanging brows of the massive forehead, on which the dark smooth hair was parted. The features were large, the complexion dark b... ...HE THE WHITE SL WHITE SL WHITE SL WHITE SL WHITE SLA A A A ATE TE TE TE TE Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street. Do... ...ad been formidable enough by day, but was ten times worse in the confusing shadows. That brought them into a lane darkened by its high hedges, where ...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...ing so too, and were almost as much charmed as their brothers, with her lively dark eye, clear brown complexion, and general prettiness. Had she been ... ...o indeed. Miss Anderson! I do not know who or what you mean. I am quite in the dark. But I will quiz you with a great deal of pleasure, if you will te... ... laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling green... ...interruption was given by the entrance of Mr. and Miss Crawford, who, late and dark and dirty as it was, could not help coming, and were received with... ...ression of the face on which his own eyes were fixed — from seeing Sir Thomas’s dark brow contract as he looked with inquiring earnestness at his daugh... ...thing looked so beautiful under the influence of such a sky, the effects of the shadows pursuing each other, on the ships at Spithead and the island be...

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Jarek

By: Rigby Taylor

... Bob’s girlfriend reckoned there’d be eels and leeches in the river, so she refused to go down. Then the others also chickened out, saying it was too dark, probably dangerous and a stupid idea. ‘Fuck you lot are wimps’, Raylene yelled, grabbing Zeno’s hand and dragging him down to the strip of sand. A half-moon provided enough light to see, and it was hot and humid so Z...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...came from inland valleys, Crying, the pirates drove his swine To fill their dark beaked hollow galleys. I called my battle breaking men And my loud bra... ...eaves old. I sang how, when day’s toil is done, Orchil shakes out her long dark hair That hides away the dying sun And sheds faint odours through the ... ...d slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your bea... ...pon love’s bitter mystery; For Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood, And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelle... ...about the times When we bent down above the fading coals And talked of the dark folk who live in souls Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;... ...and the tufted reeds Of the drear Hart Lake. And he saw how the reeds grew dark THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS 51 At the coming of night tide, And dreamed ... ...TS And had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the sky And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest. HE BIDS HIS BELOVED BE AT PEAC... ... said yesterday: ‘Your well beloved’s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time can but make it easier to be wise Though ... ...n it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot beg...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...red with a thin coating of ice; tears quivered on them and on the trees; a dark slush of mud and melting snow flowed along the roads and paths. In sho... ...lowed along the roads and paths. In short, it was thawing, but through the dark night the heavens failed to see it, and flung flakes of fresh snow upo... ...t would not let the snow settle on the ground, and whirled it round in the darkness at random. Savely listened to all this din and frowned. The fact w... ...ard, but the wind banged on the roof, and again there came a tinkle in the darkness. “ And it’ s the same thing now!” Savely went on. “It’ s not for n... ...as, and understood Savely. The thought that he had to go out into the cold darkness sent a chill shudder all down him, and he winced. “I might sleep a... ...flooded with moonlight, while the other side lay in black shadow. The long shadows of the poplars and the starling-cotes stretched right across the st... ...rch and then the windows were flashing in the light of the rising sun, and shadows stretched across the yard over the dewy grass from the trees and th... ...ed, and the whole village was by now bathed in a red quivering glow: black shadows moved over the ground, there was a smell of burning, and those who ... ... in the bright moonlight she looked very pale, strange, and beautiful. The shadows on her, and the bright moonlight on her skin, stood out vividly, an...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...aves is swinging tempest-tossed among the winds of time. Look now for your shadows. O man of formulae, is this a place for you? Have you fitted the sp... ...es and the winds blow, the wood is filled with an innumerable multitude of shadows, tumultuously tossed and changing; and at every gust the whole carp... ...th, that, by the order of things, by the greatness of the universe, by the darkness and partiality of man’s experience, by the inviolate secrecy of Go... ...e holds. These truths survive in travesty, swamped in a world of spiritual darkness and confusion; and what a few comprehend and faithfully hold, the ... ...they do not find that view in their own hearts; they have taken it up in a dark despair; they are but troubled sleepers talking in their sleep. The so... ...ts own officials: ‘We went round all the dormi- tories, refectories, etc.– dark and dingy enough, with a su- 54 Robert Louis Stevenson perficial clea... ..., as it were, the evening of the night of persecution– a sort of twilight, dark indeed to us, but light as the noonday when compared with the midnight... ...urn. The sun, going down behind the Pentlands, cast golden lights and blue shadows on their snow-clad summits, slanted obliquely into the rich plain b... ... to behold that landscape, over which, as over his life and his cause, the shadows of night and of gloom were falling and thickening. It was while wai...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...y. Now and again I am troubled by the thought: What next? My ‘future’ is the darkest thing in the world to me, but as there still remains a great deal... ...own-going. I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightnin... ...he sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud— man. But still am I far from them, and my sense speaketh not ... ...d said this, the buffoon vanished; Zarathustra, however, went on through the dark streets. At the gate of the town the grave-diggers met him: they sho... ... latest of virtues, which is up- rightness. Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, in- deed, were delusion and faith something different. R... ...ay the sun of my love upon me, in his own juice stewed Zarathustra,—then did shadows and doubts fly past me. For frost and winter I now longed: “Oh, t... ... be- yond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but fugitive shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. Verily, it is a blessing...

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders along the borders of the darkened clouds, and strikes fire from his sword to kindle a new sun and a ... ...made fruitful, but robbed and murdered, insomuch that its clear waves grew dark with the blood of the slaughtered men. Then did the lake Him mourn, an... ...held it sinking. And from the swan grew a white ship, and from the ship a dark train of clouds; and a voice came from the waters: ‘Get thee hence wit... ...nd of Heroes) relates the ever varying contests between the Finns and the “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Gr... ... meaning of the Kalevala, how ever, points to a contest between Light and Darkness, Good and Evil; the Finns representing the Light and the Good, and... ... cruel treatment, Blinds its eyes and breaks its fingers; And when evening shadows gather, Kills the young child while it slumbers, Throws its body to...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...hose who were being punished there and the angels who pun- ished them wore dark raiment like the air of the place. Certain persons there were hanging ... ...And other men and women were aflame up to the middle, and were cast into a dark place and were beaten by evil spirits, and their inwards were eaten b... ... of an everlasting contest be- tween the powers of light and the powers of darkness for the possession of his soul; that man not only knew good from e... ...in the material pre- sented. T o the “irony of facts” must be ascribed the shadows as well as the high lights. No distortions or speculations can infl... ...as it can be known. Most of every man’s heredity is hidden in the mist and darkness of the past. He inherits more or less directly through an infinite... ...pers should not publish the details and that the killing should be done in darkness and silence. In that event no one would be deterred by the cruelty...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...rificed to the proportions of the portrait; the lights are heightened, the shadows over- charged; the chosen expression, continually forced, may de- g... ...eel is a terror for the machinery of law, that we can hear tearing, in the dark, good and bad between its formidable wheels with the iron stolidity of... ... detective; as when the lantern of the patrol flashes suddenly through the darkness of the sewer; or as when the fugitive comes forth at last at eveni... ...but this is not how we feel with Gilliat; we feel that he is opposed by a “dark coalition of forces,” that an “immense animosity” surrounds him; we ar... ...In the same set danced Jean Armour, the mas- ter-mason’s daughter, and our dark-eyed Don Juan. His dog (not the immortal Luath, but a successor unknow... ...d shrewdness, and with a somewhat melancholy air of thought, and his large dark eye “literally glowing” as he spoke. “I never saw such another eye in ... ...le, that, in this my de- crepit age, I shall be compelled to fight against shadows, and howlets that dare not abide the light.”* Now, in this, which m...

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