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...The light and the dark shadows danced in grotesque shapes on the freshly painted green and cream walls, at times, reaching out, in mythical movements, towards the well baked off-white of the ceiling. A loud ticking alarm clock, from its place of importance on the ma...

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...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Invisible Man A Grotesque Romance By H.G. Wells CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHA... ...eddy. “My sakes!” And he proceeded to give Hall a vivid description of his grotesque guest. “Looks a bit like a disguise, don’t it? I’ d like to see a... ...f I cannot tell you all that I have done to-night. But I am worn out. It’s grotesque, no doubt. It’s horrible! But believe me, Kemp, in spite of your ... ...; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again.” “I never thought of that,” said Kemp. “Nor had ... ...out a wig, mask, spectacles, and costume, and go into the world, perhaps a grotesque but still a credible figure. And inciden- tally of course I could... ... I could vanish again. Finally I chose a mask of the better type, slightly grotesque but not more so than many human beings, dark glasses, greyish whi... ...nt of view to discover any forgotten chink, but it all seemed sound. I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a... ...t had just happened. They stood on the landing, Kemp speaking swiftly, the grotesque swathings of Griffin still on his arm. But presently Adye be- gan...

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...Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen. Summary by Vivian Chan...

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...ournalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce vanished while an observer with Pancho Villa's army. Four grotesque short stories about murder within the family, seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members ... usually the murderer himself. (Summary written by Peter Yearsley)...

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..................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE .................................................................................................................................... 14 HANDS.............................................................................

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.......................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE..................................................................... .... Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson’s small-town “grotesques,” I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, to... ...th, and at its best it is a terrible if narrow truth—but it is itself also grotesque, with 9 Winesburg, Ohio the tone of the authorial voice and the ... ... mad by the search for human connection. In the economy of Winesburg these grotesques matter less in their own right than as agents or symptoms of tha... ... condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit- ied and dismissed; at some point in their liv... ... truth escapes.” Yet what do we have but words? They want, these Winesburg grotesques*, to unpack their hearts, to release emotions buried and festeri... ...l notice in these stories a recurrent pattern of theme and inci- dent: the grotesques, gathering up a little cour- age, venture out into the streets o... ...Willard, the young reporter who hasn’t yet lived long enough to be- come a grotesque. Hesitantly, fearfully, or with a sputtering incoherent rage, the... ...lage at the year’s end [which may open] the lips of the old man.” What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme ...

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...n, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is c...

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... was not enough, they used the paper towels as bath towels. They were less grotesquely large at this point but returning to their monstrous shapes by ... ... am?" He remembered the stench of Kumpee. She couldn't have chosen a more grotesque image. He again felt like the ugly dark skinned Jatupon with his... ... waves of befuddlement came to him curled like talons and this twisted and grotesque inundation beat his shore pulling and pushing bits of himself fer...

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... specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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...rifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy ... ...virtuosity to annihilate by the absurd, after Caragiale’s great lesson of grotesque, have crystallized the recipe of the radical gestures in the the... ...n, the surrealist presentation of the personages (“by that very fact, the grotesque destroys the norms of the common life, and in the case these one... ...rodying of the clichés compose the antinorm as a limit to the discredited grotesque. The anti norm constitutes a drastic warning to the monotonous ex... ...he social and individual life, intends to be a therapeutic literature: the grotesque hyperbole that realizes, the abolition of the evil, with the hel... ...uced. With that are put in evidence the dangers of the relativity. If the grotesque has become a present phenomenological category, why should be cr... ...ical category, why should be created a poetry made to measure? The social grotesque distinguishes itself with the absurd and the ridiculous. The lib... ...e before belonging to literature. If Bacovia, Urmuz, Arghezi ridicule the grotesque modernism and put in question the validity of the traditions, tod... ... more, the artifices of abnormality push the writing toward the farce. The grotesque dissolves the exasperating models, the parody discredits, the ic...

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..., Maryland in November 1838. The names of the works as we currently know them were attached when they were published in Poe's collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and in the fourth volume of his Collected Works. (Summary by Catharine Eastman and Wikipedia)...

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... sleepwalkers. They weren’t passive zombies. Quite the reverse, they had become grotesque exaggerations of their real selves. Clearly Mrs Randerson...

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...Palace of the Sleeping Beauty”. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retreat of Napoleon’s army from Moscow and the grotesque massacre that was to traumatise the heroine, parting her from her lover. Their reunion is more desperate still, as the earlier event is recreated in a bizarre and vain attempt to root out madness and compel the retu...

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...e teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive gaucheries give rise to extreme reactions among his new acquaintance, ranging from anguished protectiveness to mockery and contempt. But even before reaching the city, during the memorable...

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...s in Europe and the near east, including Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, “the Holy Land”, and Egypt. What Twain records, in often humorous, sometimes grotesque but always fascinating detail, are the day-to-day ups and downs of discovering the truth about people and places. The truths they learn are often far different than their education and rumor have made them preconcei...

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...s wholly defined by the tension between being and Ie ought to be", and in grotesque and hopeless sacrificial courage casts his heart piece by piece ...

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... home. It was repugnant enough to make this paragon of honesty transformed grotesquely into an inordinate abuser--such were the fathoms of childhood t... ...f a coconut as she read a book through her heavy spectacles; an odd if not grotesque painting of Noppawan with the perspective from the forehead looki... ...fully wracked in guilt about Kimberly's death and all that had led to that grotesque spectacle which he had no power to change) and freedom always fel... ...ly with a brief thrust of his head, there was a persistent, distorted, and grotesque memory or daydream that posed as fact. He kept thinking, if it we... ...ed with wind, and to slip into it wholly? It did; and yet it seemed such a grotesque hybrid of breath and force with these continual elated, muddled, ... ...spill out onto all regions of the brain like paint from leaking tubes, mix grotesquely, amalgamate in beings, and spread their diminutive warped prese... ...t of the conversation to a tacit moodiness and the Laotian suddenly seemed grotesque and alien to him; the scenario of leaving the city limits with hi... ...r," said a gecko. The reptile was hanging from a rail on the bus, its form grotesquely large for a gecko and resembling a Silpakorn swamp monster in m...

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...narcissists, there is, actually, a burning desire – nay, NEED – to be punished. In the grotesque mind of the narcissist, his punishment is equally h...

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...in the water, in this artificial embrace that cannot hurt me, my spine so grotesque, so altered; it is as though I were turning into a canon ball. It...

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... giggling. She felt a little squeamish, herself, at the thought of children grotesquely disgorging into her senses. What made it worse was the fact ... ...action to Little Orphan Annie?" she thought. The idea was too chimerical and grotesque to take seriously. She dismissed it but the cold still streake... ...ho is this black man that makes up the face and body of a savage God in this grotesque and blasphemous mural?" demanded the priest. Gabriele lifted th... ... " "Then it is Mary." "Mary sure has a lot of naked images of black men with grotesquely large genitalia running through her head," said the priest. S...

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... expertly grafted onto it. Connected directly below the skull the body has a short neck and along with the lack of arms, legs and sexual organs looks grotesque. Shocked by what he has become Grailem moves the new body in agitation as the head scientist enters the room. Looking down at Grailem and seeing Grailem's eyes staring at him he forms his mouth into an attempt a...

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...finit fara a spune nimic”). The paradoxist’s attractiveness for atrocious and grotesque (sometimes pornographically- masked) in Nonroman ( Nonroman)... ...ession of literary show. This feature- the carnivalesque - the burlesque- the grotesque, is all the more emphasized at Smarandache as in the depth of...