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Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

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Background: By the mid 1980s the Macintosh, and to some extent the PC, had made desktop publishing a mainstay in the world of publishing professional quality documents. At this point a significant shift occurred in the production of published materials. A key element in this production moved from the hands of the printer to the editor. Simply put, editors no longer needed to rely on printers to create their documents. Production began to move from the printing houses to the editor's desktop. Layout, typesetting, and image control are now fully available to the editor. As a result, it is important that those who traditionally were involved in the creation of print (and now digital) information be introduced to the tools that make this possible....

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Book Ten by Leo Tolstoy.

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PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up and led by the writer Florentin Smarandache since 1980’s who said: “The goal is to enlargement of theartisti shere through non-artistic elements. But expecially the countertime, counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment.”...

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pARadOXisMul - ultima avangardă a mileniului doi 1. Definiţie Paradoxismul este o mişcare internaţională de avangardă în literatură, artă, filozofie, chiar şi ştiinţă, bazată pe folosirea excesivă de antiteze, antinomii, contradicţii, oximorone, parabole, paradoxuri în creaţie. A fost înfiinţat de către scriitorul, artistul, şi omul de ştiinţă Florentin Smarandache în anii 1980 în România, care dorea “lărgirea sferei artistice prin elemente neartistice şi prin experimente contradictorii; în special creaţie în contratimp, contra-sens.” pArAdOxIsM - the last frontier the second millennium January. definition Paradoxism is an international avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, even science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, oxymoron, parable, paradox in creation. It was founded by the writer, artist, and scientist Florentin Smarandache in 1980 in Romania, who wanted "artistic broadening the artistic elements and contradictory experiments, particularly in the creation of step, contrary sense."...

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L) Limitele filozofiei Întreaga filozofie este un tautologism: adevărat în virtutea de formă, pentru că orice idee lansată pentru prima oară este dovedită ca adevărată de către iniţiatorul(ii) său(i). Prin urmare, filozofia este goală sau dezinformativă, şi reprezintă a priori cunoaşterea. Se poate afirma: Totul este adevărat, chiar si falsul! Şi totuşi, întreaga filozofie este un nihilism: pentru ca orice idee, odată dovedită adevărată, este mai tîrziu dovedită ca falsă de către urmaşi. Este o contradicţie: fals în virtute de formă. Prin urmare, filozofia este supra-informativă şi o cunoaştere a posteriori. Astfel, se poate afirma: Totul este fals, chiar şi adevărul!...

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Introducere ............................................................. 5 pARadOXisMul - ultima avangardă a mileniului doi ...................................................... 12 1. Definiţie ............................................................ 12 2. Etimologie ........................................................ 12 3. Istoric ................................................................. 13 4. Caracteristici ale Paradoxismului ................. 16 5. Direcţii pentru Paradoxism ........................... 17 „Dicţionar de informatică“, de Denis Howe .. 18 1. Neutrosofie ....................................................... 18 2. Logica neutrosofică ......................................... 19 3. Mulţime Neutrosofică .................................... 20 4. Probabilitate Neutrosofică ............................. 21 5. Statistici neutrosofice ...................................... 22 Neutrosofia, o Nouă Ramură a Filosofiei ....... 24 1. Abstract ............................................................ 24 1.1. Cuvînt înainte .......................................... 25 1.2. Neutrosofie, o no...

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An insightful journey into the power of a positive attitude, Amos asserts that it’s not one’s circumstances that determine happiness, but rather how those circumstances are viewed. This book emphasizes the impact of everyday choices, while stressing the importance of making a conscious decision to live a joy-filled life....

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Insights on How to Live an Inspiring and Joy-Filled Life

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In 1980's a new movement of avant-garde arised in literature, art philosophy and science. This is based on an excessive use of antinomies. antitheses. contradictions, oxymorons, paradoxes in the creative work at both small level and global level of the creative work. The goal is the enlargement of the artistic sphere through non-artistic elements. But especially the against-the-hair, counter-time. counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment....

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This book is perhaps the one that is most difficult to understand with just one reading, because it contains a concentration of all of A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Invitation” and then proceeds with “The Myth of Sophia-Analysis: life as a work of art”, “Choral Group Research on life as a work of art”, “The Cosmological vision of Sophia-Art”, “The Cosmo-Art Theorem”, “The Cosmo-Art Myth”, “The Myth of Ulysses contains the Cosmo-Art Myth”, “Exploring the Myth of Ulysses”, “The Ulysseans: creators of the Cosmo-Art Myth”. The Author introduces for the first time the concept of “Secondary Beauty”. Primary beauty is the type of beauty created by nature, and it is subject to time and death. “Secondary Beauty” is beauty created by human beings, a type of beauty that goes beyond the type created by nature and that,...

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The book is structured in two parts as follows: - in the first part, the theory of paradoxism through its first six published worldwide manifestos (1983, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2002, and 2010 respectively); - in the second part, the paradoxism collected from the international (English, French, Spanish/Arabic, and Romanian) folklore in images and paradoxist situations. ...

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A) Folkloric Begining. It was in the years 1980’s when the paradoxist movement started. Together with childhood friends (I use their nicknames, since these are more colorfull: Cost, Geonea, Beca, Bigioc, Piciu, Boros, Covrig ăl mijlociu, Cris, Pilă, Chesa, Grasu, Babanu) in the little parks and restaurants of Bălcești – Vâlcea drinking beer and joking. They did not like to read or write!... They all were non-literators {excepting me and Co(n)st(antin) Dincă}. We built a new literary movement without even knowing – in a paradoxical way! We did it by jokes, against-the-grain speech, amusing themselves in that bad time! I had written in Romanian language the volume „Laws of internal composition. Poems with... problems!” (1982) as a preparadoxist volume, published lately. But the First Paradoxist Manifesto in the world of the Paradoxism I published in 1983 in the first edition of my French volume The Sense of the Nonsense (Ed. Artistiques, Fès, Morocco). ...

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To Paradoxismize (Forward): 4 Paradoxism’s Manifestos (1983-2010): 7 • First Paradoxist Manifesto: 8 • Second Paradoxist Manifesto: 11 • Third Paradoxist Manifesto: 15 • Fourth Paradoxist Manifesto: 18 • Fifth Paradoxist Manifesto: 37 • Sixth Paradoxist Manifesto: 51 Worldwide Paradoxist Folklore: 60 All is possible, the impossible too! French Paradoxist Folklore: 86 Les Perles du BAC 2008 [Pearls of 2008 Baccalaureate] Spanish/Arabic Paradoxist Folklore: 127 Ser fuerte... / .. ما†ھي†القوة [To be strong] Romanian Paradoxist Folklore: 141-155 De ce, tată? [Why, father?] ...

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As if it wanted to be in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in his native country. At the same time some researchers ( Jacques Sarthou, Dan Tarchila, Doru Motoc and even... Ion Rotaru) declared him a man of genius (or close by!), while others ignored him or they haven’t yet heard about him. Without being disturbed by any of the two contradictory tendencies, the Oltenian- Romanian settled in New Mexico creates further on important works in the two large fieldsliteratures and mathematics (but also in other art and scientific fields)....

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In this edition are presented the works by Alex Listengort, written in a period of time from autumn-2008 to may 2013. Here the reader may see a circulation of different topics, of questions and answers, embodied in Poems. These Pieces of Arts do Bless and Fill Up with a Special Energy that is familiar to every living creature, and that brings peace, eternity, divine presence and Miracle of life in all its forms. Searches for a meaning of life and its integrating into the life itself, eternal existencional questions, for which the author dares to give an answer in his poems. Themes of love and beguines, motherland, nature, time and something they call the God: all that finds its reflections in authors’ poems, but the main here are the questions of enlightenment, spiritual awakening of a human being, gaining happiness, abundance and awareness: of everything, that each of us insists to find on the line, of everything, that, as author says, no one had ever really lost, and what Is just temporarily hidden under a tricky veil, that is a part of a global plan, that is a special condition of this Game. Today in our hands we all keep a total...

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DISCOVER A NEW (WELL FORGOTTEN) WORLD: A WORLD OF YOURSELF. AN ENERGY, LIVING IN EVERYTHING. A DIVINE CHARGE, OF WHICH YOU ARE AN ETERNAL GUIDE

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OCEAN OF DIVINITY Ozean der Göttlichkeit אוקיינוס של אלוהות Океан Божественности Աստվածայնության Օկվիանը Océano de la Divinidad MAY 2013 A Message Flows It faded blossom of that crazy time I would like to tell so much Golden summer Celestial eyes colored the waves of sea… Hey there, Girl… Salam! Thank you, dear Tan mucho quiero yo decir… The All-Time Nature Los ojos celestes de color de undubre A Road to Heaven APRIL 2013 When it comes the Time to Go… Wave in farewell, my dear… Each of us remain a special mission… Everyone gets a reward… La Niebla Pavonada A big amenity of being What is a Jew (מהו יהודי) Mazarin Mist Melekh Ha’Olam (מלך העולם) Kissing you last thing at night… Existencional Spin של אלוהים נוכחות ברוך מבורך A Searcher for True Love In everyone of you I am observing… Cuando se llegará el tiempo a ir... It is important such to be among the people… MARCH 2013 Es Kommt das Wahrheit, Divinidad canción Moscow Sky Sit in Carriage alongside Me Creation is Divine A bit of Delight ¡Qué bueno ser un espectador de esta noche! Little Boxes of the Mind Empieza la Noche There are ...

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“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale of love based on falling in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature and in the public opinion, but which has never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on a love that needs sky and earth, cosmic and human forces to be realized; a love that must meet and fuse within the hearts of Ulysses and Penelope. It is a love based on truth and freedom, values that are conquered at a very high price, where life faces pain and death over and over again so they can be transformed into a new creation of immortal beauty, that once created can no longer die. This type of project for the couple, which strongly contrasts with the c...

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‘The Brussels Legacy’, represents 10 years of work on a series of short stories, the appropriate recipes to accompany them, as well as the book’s full-colour illustrations which were painted on canvas and paper. ‘The Brussels Legacy’ is a satirical romp through European and American art history. Most textbooks on art are rather weighty, but in Delehanty’s stories, recipes, and illustrations, absolutely nothing is taken too seriously. The short stories are based upon the iconic presence of Brussels sprouts in art and history. There are puns, subtle visual secrets in the illustrations, like reflections of one of the characters in a wine glass, or a timid, Mediaeval figure with a spoon in his hand and a bowl of sprouts. The 22 short stories with their accompanying recipes, contain surprising and sometimes heart-breaking twists of events, but most of them end on a positive note. Author: Leanne Delehanty Pages:273 Hand-Painted illustrations:44...

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From: The Spartan Comedian:‘Silence,’ bellowed Pissistrates. ‘I’ll interrogate this boy! Tell me, sugar, where is the Ancient Shield of Perseus, the one he used to kill the Medusa? Where does it lie?’ ‘I didn’t take it,’ replied Zakaris calmly. ‘It wasn’t me.’ ‘What did you say, boy?’ ‘I swear I didn’t take it, Master.’ The other boys smirked and snorted. They whispered behind their hands. Zakaris was about to get the first beating of the year. ...

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Table of Contents Prologue Chapter 1: The Painted Hands Chapter 2: Phtatatuti Chapter 3: The Spartan Comedian Chapter 4: The Noble Racer Chapter 5: Arthur and the Song of Love Chapter 6: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress Chapter 7: Machteld’s Lament Chapter 8: Leonardo’s Invisible Invention Chapter 9: The Seer’s Unforeseen Retreat Chapter 10: The Dutch Solar System Chapter 11: Saskia’s Awakening Chapter 12: Julie the Sweep Chapter 13: The Unbearable Melancholia of Sprouts Chapter 14: Christmas in Paris Chapter 15: Another Letter from the Coalfields Chapter 16: The Scholar Who Wouldn’t Eat Chapter 17: The Eyes of Alfred Célerie Chapter 18: Pablo and the Fish Chapter 19: The Corned-Beef Thief Chapter 20: Diary of Two Fossil Hunters Chapter 21: A Very Modern Cabbage Farmer Chapter 22: And Bingo Was His Name-O Glossary Acknowledgements ...

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In the present volume, Volume IV, concluding Philosophy and containing the first part of Fine Arts, the divergence has become so marked that it is apparent that the revised "fair copy" of his catalogue made by Jefferson, and used during the negotiations for the sale, differed substantially from his earlier version....

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Introduction: There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the ?Hermann and Dorothea? of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it conforms admirably to the strict canons of art; yet it preserves a freshness and spontaneity in its emotional appeal that are rare in works of so classical a perfection in form....

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Excerpt: Annajanska is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its ?turns? little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext. Miss Lillah McCarthy and I, as author and actress, have helped to make one another famous on many serious occasions, from Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr. Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something to be condescended to, or our own art as elephantine. We should rather crave indulgence as three novices fresh from the awful legitimacy of the highbrow theatre....

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who I Was and Who She Was. Oh, while she is still here, it is still all right; I go up and look at her every minute; but tomorrow they will take her away -- and how shall I be left alone? Now she is on the table in the drawing-room, they put two card tables together, the coffin will be here tomorrow -- white, pure white ?gros de Naples? -- but that?s not it?...

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Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the partners, being bachelors and bosom friends, live there; and the door marked Private, next the clerks? office, is their domestic sitting room as well as their reception room for clients. Let me describe it briefly from the point of view of a sparrow on the window sill. The outer door is in the opposite wall, close to the right hand corner. Between this door and the left hand corner is a hatstand and a table consisting of large drawing boards on trestles, with plans, rolls of tracing paper, mathematical instruments and other draughtsman?s accessories on it. In the left hand wall is the fireplace, and the door of an inner room between the fireplace and our observant sparrow. Against the right hand wall is a filing cabinet, with a cupboard on it, and, nearer, a tall office desk and stool for one person. In the middle of the room a large double writing table ...

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Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....