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...’tisunge Michael Phoya M.M. Phoya asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this collection. ... ... 1. Life! Part 1: ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo’ I’m still asleep but somewhere in my head the sound registers to be the crowing of a cock. Time to w... ...ar that is four years late. I can’t take it off because it will catch up again. Besides, it was placed up there using that type of glue that really ... ...eaking of toothpaste, I ignore the kid and head for the tap which, oddly but luckily enough, is near my house. I brush my strong African teeth using... ...f seeing his filthy face in his courtroom, he’ll give him a sentence of about fifteen years. At about twenty-five, he will fall prey to one of those... ... Behind them, just outside the bar, a local in dreadlocks is trying to sell assorted bracelets to three Caucasian ladies and two African men. They a... ...wo Americans. They head towards where his boat is anchored. Suddenly the place feels deserted. I look behind and the two ‘South Africans’ have vanis... ...ce. I love life. All of it. The emptiness, the fullness, the rhythms, the noises, the women pounding, the minibus touts, the birds in the morning...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...rs as your older population. This might be because more are educated. And African-Americans, who have less education on the average, have twice the n... ...ssions. ―We have increased the rights of deserving minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics, while concurrently expanding the rights o... ...‘t go far. The 20 billion dollars estimated to have been taken by corrupt African leaders, if divided equally among the population of Africa would b... ...be more fast twitch muscles fibers that enable it to run faster after its prey. In a giraffe it might be the genes that develop a longer neck so tha... ...do we draw the line? Worms, jellyfish, mammals, fish, flatworms, insects, birds, reptiles?‖ —―You‘re right. Animal rights advocates may have a ... ...rights to only mammals, so we can cruelly keep catching fish and shooting birds? Should we limit it to mammals whose adult weight is over ten pounds ...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hooman...

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...magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tr... ...ical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publis... ...om The moral right for the author has been asserted A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 P... ...bright colours of the f owers, the scents of the plants, the songs of the birds in the trees – it was all a projection of the Storyteller’s mind. He... ... view zoomed in on the deck and then down to the hold, where hundreds of African men and women were chained to cramped shelves. The air was thick w... ...ing. 91 The Crystal Ball ‘The slave ships,’ Lou said. ‘More than half the Africans on board died before they reached America. Those that survived th... ...to look down his long nose at Theo. ‘Made from the feathers of a thousand birds and sewn with winds captured from the heart of the desert. And where ... ... kind. Stirred by thoughts of revenge, travellers in the desert make easy prey for them.’ Ali pointed with his long index f nger towards the western... ...plied hesitantly. ‘But he does seem to be having a good dialogue with his birds.’ The man in question was whispering sweet nothings to his pigeons, p...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...ce, he equally wanted what he would always go there for: to hear nothing but birds and a whisk of wind in the tranquility of that sleepy town in one o... ... world flattered itself that doting mothers carrying their worms to the baby birds exuded such a profound love by this thoughtless emotional instinct ... ...ned to tapping that seemed more like rain. Her thoughts rambled on: "800,000 African children die from dysentery each year and yet the news is about t... ...nd. It was very exciting-more than even a racket ball game with Betty whose African American skin, muscular physique, and strong competitive strife g... ... lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the re... ...n who was her boss. She had been seduced by the demonstration that some male birds give to prospective mates when dangling worms from their mouths. I...

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...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ...nduced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be impaired with such a substance... ...es) walked on her feet and legs freely. She picked up a stick. Even lowly birds built nests with sticks and had offspring and routines, had meaning ... ...r riddance. Here among brazen crows and vicious water monitors that would prey on them or on any sundry animals that meandered along the embankment, ... ...ed to hunger with the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Her... ...ting one in its thick textured darkness, or fears that a live and growing African Spider Monkey could be swinging from her uterus, ready to come out ... ... all of them ugly. Have you ever seen such a pathetic assortment of ugly birds in your life? The whole audience is that way. It should tell you some... ..., doesn’t make it so. Are we in fact compelled to take in all these stray birds making such claims, dress them in respectable habits and wimples, and...

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...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...tying into his mouth from the upper coffin glided downward like the leaves of a deciduous tree; he was remembering happier times and in this confined ... ...raw meat that the gecko had caught before; but never before had any of its prey skinned itself and by its own volition lay before it as inanimately as... ... he imagined geckos flying low in an air born mist moving like low-flying, prey-seeking pelicans and then, as they receded from him, like squirrels ho... ...re was a flock of pelicans flying overhead, and geckos trying to elude the birds by floating on top of the mist. "Look over there," she pointed. "They... ...ns engraved on tombstones, xanthic blooms of Magnolia trees, the flight of birds observed from the car, and now nests under a bridge. Yesterday it had... ...ence overtook them until at last he concocted something to say. "You know, birds like that quickly abandon their newborn. They have so many of them th... ...d its origin in primordial man. Perhaps, she said, female Australopithecus africans needed to ensure that the providers did not abandon them and their...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ns, some of which, had they been suggested to the author by his Mæcenas or Africanus, he would probably have adopted. Moreover, those who are most exa... ... the power, but fonder of the prize! Would’st thou the Greeks their lawful prey should yield, The due reward of many a well-fought field? The spoils o... ... Jove himself displays, Of long, long labours, but eternal praise. As many birds as by the snake were slain, So many years the toils of Greece remain;... ...le on this signal day; That wretch, too mean to fall by martial power, The birds shall mangle, and the dogs devour.” The monarch spoke; and straight a... ...kes orphans, bathes the cheeks of sires, Steeps earth in purple, gluts the birds of air, And leaves such objects as distract the fair.” Ulysses hasten... ..., we have in the Homeric descriptions the complete picture of an Indian or African war canoe, many of which are considerably larger than the largest s...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...

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