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A journal on one of Florentin Smarandache's adventures!

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În Vestul Sălbatic ..................................................................... 5 Oraşul fantastic ........................................................................ 8 În ţara lui Pelé ........................................................................ 15 Florentin la Florenţa ............................................................... 87 Cu „carozza” spre Veneţia ................................................... 126 Turnul din Pisa ..................................................................... 134 Eterna Eladă ......................................................................... 154 Civilizaţia incaşă .................................................................. 200 The Wild West ....................................... 5 Fantastic city ................................... 8 Pele country ................................. 15 Florence Florentine .......................................... 87 With "Carozzi" to Venice ............................. 126 Tower of Pisa ............................................... 134 Elad Eterna ................................................ 154 ...

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A journal of various ideas that may be helpful to those who are looking to emigrate. It gives some helpful ideas on what to expect.

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Cuvânt înainte M-am luptat cu viaţa în prima jumătate a drumului insidios pe care mi l-a hărăzit soarta. A trebuit să prestez, în lagăr cât şi-n exil, pentru a supravieţui, munci din cele mai diverse: de la măturător, zugrav, muncitor necalificat în construcţii, traducător, ghid, până la inginer şi profesor universitar. Paginile acestea cuprind însemnări răzleţe, cotidiene, prinse din mers, reflectând diferenţe specifice între culturi, limbi sau popoare - şi transcrise, printre picături, în avion, pe bordul maşinii, la volan, într-o pauză la Honeywell, ori seara, când mă-ntorceam istovit de la lucru. Un fel de sfaturi şi impresii pentru amatori. Nu-s grupate pe teme, ci au forma unui jurnal, venind să completeze volumul de mare succes la public "America, paradisul diavolului", care a cunoscut patru ediţii într-un interval scurt (1992 primăvara, 1992 toamna, 1994, 1999). Cartea poate fi utilă celor care (mai) doresc să emigreze. Pentru a şti la ce s-ar putea aştepta...

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A book on Florentin Smarandache's travels through Russia.

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Rusia – mamă vitregă pentru România! În Moscova, sunt 11 linii de metrou. Pe hartă, apar cu diverse culori. Vechiul oraş e cuprins în interiorul liniei 5 (centura). Nouln oraş s-a dezvoltat împrejur. Tunelul metroului trece când pe sub râuln Moscova, când pe deasupra, pe poduri solide. Până la aeroport, am schimbat două autobuze şi două metrouri. Dmitri şi Larissa m au condus. Îmi părea rău de despărţire, dar mă bucuram de întoarcerea acasă – am atâtea de făcut (s-au adunat în perioada călătoriei) Îmi iau la revedere: Paka!...

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1. Întâlnirea cu Moscova ......................................................... 5 2. Prin Oraşul lui Petru cel Mare ............................................. 19 3. În vizită la Petrodvoreţ ........................................................ 31 4. Farmecul Veneţiei ruseşti .................................................... 44 5. Salutări din Moscova! .......................................................... 75 6. În Puşcino – oraş de cercetare ştiinţifică .............................. 83 7. „Dac-aţi şti şi voi ce frumos oraş Şi ce seri sunt la Moscova!” ............................................... 98...

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In chapter 1, following the Special Theory of Relativity, we generalize the Lorentz Contraction Factor C(v) to an Oblique-Contraction Factor OC(v, θ), which gives the contraction factor of the lengths moving at an oblique angle with respect to the motion direction. In the chapters 2-5 we show several inconsistencies, contradictions, and anomalies in the Special and General Theories of Relativity...

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1.3. Oblique-Length Contraction Factor The Special Theory of Relativity asserts that all lengths in the direction of motion are contracted, while the lengths at right angles to the motion are unaffected. But it didn’t say anything about lengths at oblique angle to the motion (i.e. neither perpendicular to, nor along the motion direction), how would they behave? This is a generalization of Galilean Relativity, i.e. we consider the oblique lengths. The length contraction factor in the motion direction is: C(v) = The square root of (1 – (v squared divided by c squared )(5) Suppose we have a rectangular object with width W and length L that travels at a constant speed v with respect to an observer on Earth. ...

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Chapter 1. Contraction and Dilation Factors in The Special Theory of Relativity: 15 Chapter 2. New Paradoxes for The Special Theory of Relativity: 38 Chapter 3. Other Paradoxes for The Special Theory of Relativity: 53 Chapter 4. Dilemmas for The General Theory of Relativity: 77 Chapter 5. Open Questions and Remarks: 101 ...

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“The Analects of Confucius” are considered a record of the words and acts of Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the Spring and Autumn Period through the Warring States Period（475 BC - 221 BC) the Analects is the representative work of Confucianism and continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thoughts and values today. In neutrosophy, between two ends there are many, sometimes a continuous range of neutralities (degrees of middle, or degrees of synthesis). Each middle (called “neutrality” or “indeterminacy” in neutrosophy) is a k% degree of truth and a (100-k)% degree of falsehood. We have a paradox if the sentence is 100% true, 100% false, and 100% indeterminate....

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Negative Part 3 You want to know a person truly, not only to understand this person’s words, but also understand this person’s actions and ideas. Commentary on Negative Part 3 Confucius did not mention to understand people’s ideas. While the words and actions are controlled by the ideas. Neutrosophic Part 3 The person’s time and energy were limited. For knowing a man truly, besides one person’s ability, other person’s help is needed in many cases, sometimes even the machine and the measuring appliance and so on are needed....

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Brief Introduction ……………………………………..3 Foreword………………………………………………..5 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 1…...……..13 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 2………….30 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 3………….48 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 4……….....54 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 5……….....58 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 6……….....63 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 7……….....69 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 8……….....74 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 9……….....79 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 10….……..84 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 11………...89 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 12….……..95 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 13……….101 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 14.………108 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 15……….115 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 16……….120 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 17……….126 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 18.………132 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 19……….136 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Book 20…….…141 Postscript ………………………………………...

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The experimental digital arts on the front and back covers represent the “World Trade Center Towers before 9/11” and respectively an “Aquatic Monster” done by the cyberartist....

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Science and Art resemble Horace’s concordia discors (discordant harmony) from his “Epistles” and both are built on imagination. Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is (Oscar Wilde). Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination (John Dewey). And similarly for the advance in art and letters....

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This anticreation is a 1990-2006 experimental poetry collection. It intends to be the worst book and in the same time the best trash published in the United States and maybe in the world....

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Good Morning This is GOD. I will be handling all your problems today. I will not need your help. So, have a nice day!

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The Latin Vulgate Bible is a bible originally translated in the late fourth century. Since then many more translations and editions have been published. The image cover for this particular one is from an illuminated chaptered Latin Vulgate Bible c.1250 A.D., from Paris, France that has been handwritten on vellum....

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Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and traditional folk tales. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain sacred texts (sūtras). The bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin), on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing — together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse. These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as an atonement for past sins. Journey to the West has a strong background in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology and value systems; the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas is still reflective of Chinese religious beliefs today. Enduringly popular, the tale is at once an adventure story, a...

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58 Versions of 2,000,000 eBooks Producing 116,000,000 eBooks. World Public Library Literary Machine Translation System (LMTS), is an automated translation service that provides automated translations between 58 different languages. It produces translated editions of all of our 2,000,000 eBooks. Each eBooks will be available to be downloaded in any combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editions, we hope to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written....

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Florentin’s Laws are neither Murphy’s (pessimistic) Laws nor Peter’s (optimistic) Laws, but partially pessimistic and partially optimistic, while another part is neutral (ambiguous: neither pessimistic nor optimistic) – as in neutrosophic logic. Therefore, each Florentin’s law includes negatives and positives, unlike Murphy’s law which has only negative attributes, and respectively Peter’s law which has mostly positive attributes or results....

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Florentin’s Laws: To hell with Murphy, deviate! 1. If anything can go wrong, pass it on to someone else! 2. When your team wins, it is thanks to you. If the team looses, it is because of others. 3. Get a reason to award your friends, and a pretext to punish your enemies. 4. Even good things have negative side effects. Moreover, negative things have positive side effects. 5. Don’t play by others’ rules. Build your own rules that allow you to win. If you still don’t win, prove the game is useless. 6. If he’s better than you, deny him. If he’s worse than you, praise him....

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Preface: If anything can go wrong, pass it on to someone else! Adventures and Variations in Murphy's Law: 4 What and Why Florentin’s law: 8 Florentin’s Laws: To hell with Murphy, deviate!: 13 Florentin’s Laws: Ignore Peter’s, relax!: 17 Florentin’s Interdisciplinary Laws: 19 More variations in Florentin’s law: 22 Call for Contributions: backcover...

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“The Art of Wag” is a unique booklet comprised of advices and possible tips you can use on how to make the best out of your pet/dog in workplace and other situations. Some of these gems come from our own experience, and some come from watching these practices surrounding us. As our last advice before you jump through this book, (a) do these advices at your own risks; (b) managing the dog outside is much easier than managing ‘the dog’ inside yourself; (c) don’t take your dog to workplace/office if you are not confident enough that your dog is always at your side. ...

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• If you’re not the lead dog … the view never changes. • All is really possible, especially with a big Doberman. • In a meeting, it’s easier to argue your point with a big Doberman besides you. • It’s more effective to convince people with persuasion and a big dog, rather than with persuasion alone. • There are two types of dog-approach in office: (a) first bring a small and funny dog, like Chihuahua or Dalmatian, (b) then bring a big Doberman. • It’s possible to bring your Doberman when asking for a raise. ...

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Preface 4 The Art of Wag 8 Call for Contributions 16

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This book has four chapters. In chapter one we just recall the notion of RD codes, MRD codes, circulant rank codes and constant rank codes and describe their properties. In chapter two we introduce few new classes of codes and study some of their properties. In this chapter we introduce the notion of fuzzy RD codes and fuzzy RD bicodes. Rank distance m-codes are introduced in chapter three and the property of m-covering radius is analysed. Chapter four indicates some applications of these new classes of codes....

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DEFINITION 1.12: The ‘norm’ of a word v _ VN is defined as the ‘rank’ of v over GF(2) (By considering it as a circulant matrix over GF(2)). We denote the ‘norm’ of v by r(v). We just prove the following theorem. THEOREM 1.2: Suppose ____GF(2N) has the polynomial representation g(x) over GF(2) such that the gcd(g(x), xN +1) has degree N – k, where 0 _ k _ N. Then the ‘norm’ of the word generated by _ is ‘k’. ...

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Preface 5 Chapter One BASIC PROPERTIES OF RANK DISTANCE CODES 7 Chapter Two RANK DISTANCE BICODES AND THEIR PROPERTIES 25 Chapter Three RANK DISTANCE m-CODES 77 Chapter Four APPLICATIONS OF RANK DISTANCE m-CODES 131 FURTHER READING 133 INDEX 144 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 150...

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Our book will update the old Chinese thinking in Tao Te Ching to the modern way of life, where contradictions are accepted and two opposite ideas 'A' and 'nonA' and their neutrality 'neutA' can all three be true at the same time. Firstly, we are willing to point out that 'Tao Te Ching' already has some limitation, because many questions we are interested in cannot be answered within 'Tao Te Ching'. For example, 'Tao Te Ching' basically discussed the matters in China, however considering all possible situations it should matter in foreign countries as well, i.e. the “global village”. This was impossible in Lao Tzu’s time. Secondly, if the original “Tao Te Ching” is regarded as “Positive Tao Te Ching”, its opposite is “Negative Tao Te Ching”, while the intermediate or compound state is “Neutral Tao Te Ching”. Thus, our book presents the way to extend the original “Tao Te Ching” in various neutrosophic interpretations....

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Positive (Original) Chapter 1 The Way that can be followed is not the eternal Way. The name that can be called is not the eternal name. The Principle that can be explained is not the eternal Principle. “Nonexistence” is the name of the origin of heaven and earth; “Existence” is the name of creating the myriad things. Therefore, the essence of Principle always can be seen from “Nonexistence”; The operation of Principle always can be seen from “Existence”. These two are profound and from the same origin, while their titles are different. More and more profound, that is the general door to all essences. Negative Chapter 1 The Way that cannot be followed is the Eternal Way. The name that cannot be called is the eternal name. The Principle that cannot be explained is the eternal Principle. ‘Nonexistence’ is not the name of the origin of heaven and earth; ‘Existence’ is not the name of creating the myriad things. Therefore, the essence of Principle cannot ever be seen from ‘Nonexistence’; The operation of Principle cannot ever be seen from ‘Existence’. These two are simple and from the different origins, while their ti...

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Brief Introduction……………………………………………………..……….3 Foreword………………………………………………………………..………6 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 1…………………………….14 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 2…………………………….16 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 3…………………………….18 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 4…………………………….19 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 5…………………………….20 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 6…………………………….21 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 7…………………………….22 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 8…………………………….23 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 9…………………………….24 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 10…………………….……..24 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 11…………………….……..26 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 12…………………….……..26 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 13…………………….……..27 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 14………………….………..28 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 15………………….………..29 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 16……………….…………..30 Positive, Negative and Neutrosophic Chapter 17………………….………..31 Positive, ...

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The Florentin's Cliché should be constructed as follows: - Change the figurative language [figure of speech] of a cliché to a literal language; - Or distort the clichés, make them abnormal, deviate their common sense by simple substitutions of words; - Or eliminate some words from a cliché, or switch the verbs between assertion and negation, in order to give the cliché a surprising new significance: - Or consider a chain of (more or less) contradictory clichés and put together with a unitary semantics; - Or juxtapose a cliché with a … (partial or total) contradictory syntagma! And as a whole the Florentin’s Cliché should be bended with humor. ...

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51. To be in the right place at the left time! 52. The German language you learn it’s Greek to me 53. This dirty and shaded homeless saved me like a knight in shinning armor 54. In cold blood but hot under the collar he throws cold water on her to getting hot 55. Do not step on his toes, but on his shoes. 56. I don’t like you. Nice to see you! 57. The director jumped to conclusion from the third floor through the window… ...

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Preface: Changing the Figurative Language to a Literal Language: 4 Florentin’s Clichés: 12

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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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Eleven linguistic categories are presented (Murphy’s laws, the clichés, homonyms, tautologies, proverbs, metagrams, translations, definitions, figures of paradoxism, monorhymes, and abbreviations), which afterwards are respectively turned into their corresponding Florentin’s Laws, clichés, homonyms, etc. and exemplified....

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Let’s Make Experiments in Linguistics (General preface) - 6 1. FLORENTIN’S LAWS If anything can go wrong, pass it on to someone else! - 8 1.1. ADVENTURES and VARIATIONs IN MURPHY’s LAW (Preface) - 9 1.2. What and Why Florentin’s law - 11 1.3. Florentin’s Laws / !An Author to the Cube! - 13 1.3.1. Florentin’s Laws: To hell with Murphy, deviate! - 14 1.3.2. Florentin’s Laws: Relax Peter’s! - 16 1.3.3. Florentin’s Interdisciplinary Laws - 18 1.3.4. More Variations in Florentin’s Law - 20 2. FLORENTIN’S CLICHÉS The dictator lifts the state of emergency with a crane - 22 2.1. Changing the Figurative Language to a Literal Language (Preface) - 23 2.2. Florentin’s Clichés - 28 3. FLORENTIN’S HOMONYMS Send me an e-male - 36 3.1. Preface: Send me an e-male = Florentin’s Homonyms = - 37 3.2. Florentin’s Homonyms - 39 3.2.1. First face of the story (Homophones) - 40 3.2.2. Second face of the story (Homophones) - 42 3.2.3. Multiple faces of the story (Homophones) - 44 3.2.4. Others (Homographs) – 45 4. FLORENTIN’S TAUTOLOGIES - 46 4.1. About Florentin’s Tautologies - 47 5. FLORENTIN’S PROVERBS - 48 5.1. Introduction: Dev...

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A book on vocabulary.

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A view on substitute teachers.

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Preface Dedication 1 Where's Madame? 2 Yippee- a Sub 3. Getting the Call 4. Sink the Sub 5. What was your name again? 6. The most creative minds on the planet 7. I forgot to tell you 8. Embarrassingly human 9. Revelations 10. More burdens that it is fair to bear 11. Technically a challenge 12. Back-up in a crisis 13. The Detective in Me 14. Where Education Shines 15. Is this the way I want to serve the world? 16. I am Way Old 17. Mistakes, I've made a few 18. Feedback from the Peanut Gallery 19. Humor on a Blah Day 20. Privilege 21. Familiar Face 22. Food is a Bonding Experience 23. Pretty thick molasses and hard to get through 24. Reassurances 25. Surprise in the Exam room - Compassio 26. Why some people hate school, understandably 27. The Second Mile- hey, may as well 28. What Still Needs Perfecting 29. What's Right in the schools 30. The Randomness of it all - 1 31. The Randomness of it all - 2...

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This is a cerebral play that underlines the pettiness of a person lost among things (of an unnatural size), and much more: lost among ordinary people.

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SCENE I A laboratory equipped with all the advantages of modern medicine. It appears to be a waiting room in a sanitarium, with four doors - one to either side of the stage and two against the back. The doors are marked in order, "0", "Ward 1", "Ward 2", and "Ward 3." The interior is dark. Stuffed people. A "New Man" is kept frozen in a trunk made of glass. He is a specimen of new technology, and above him are pinned up revelatory advertisements and newspaper clippings. Doctors and Assistants are dressed in black smocks, their faces cold and inhuman, and their eyes glassy. The patients are dressed in the striped overalls of the infirm. Both the patients and useless medical staff limp, though more so the former. The Doctor, enveloped in frosty mist, is seated in an elaborate chair with his back towards the audience. Only the nape of his neck shows during the play, though his chair is stirring from time to time. He seems to turn himself towards the audience sometimes, but he gives up. Neither in the intervals, nor at the end of the play this actor does not show up for cheers. His voice is unearthly... synthesized....