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... why. I got a post card from there. It didn't say much other than he had taken his first flight. Can you imagine just buying a ticket, leaving, and ... ...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... ...usbands and were afraid that they and their children would not be properly taken care of. But there was certainly no chance of children. She slept wi... ...it; although from it, despite its limitations, he was always introduced to people so different than he was. They were the favored ones whose ideas we... ...icemen, who could easily be bribed, were never to be trusted. The favored people did not have everyday to roam the streets like homeless but highly m... ...the pronouncement of street names called out from the back seat. "Do young people like you have money to go off wherever you wish?" The words pierced ... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ...r and woks, burners, a refrigerator, and Coke machine in the front. It had taken the family so many years of working on the street to be able to affor... ... Then he obfuscated. "Didn't you read in an encyclopedia one time that the American president, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'In the civil war it is quite po...

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...sible. Thank you all from the botom of my heart. v Prologue F or years, people talked about various ways that the world would end - plague, foods,... ...with strife. It began on May 7 th , a day that began like any other day. People around the world went about their typical routines. Soon they found... ...tense heat, fames, and wind scorched and destroyed structures, cars, and people themselves. No one saw it coming. There was no warning. There was n... ...ay of the fall, Zodiac declared himself the Lord and Master of the North American continent. The remnants of the government and military had fallen... ...rmed him. “What about Groton, at the sub base?” asked Vincent. “Groton was taken over; it’s a Seeker base now. I heard some- thing is going down in th... ...er, the dreaded Seekers marched on the area. Those that weren’t dead were taken. They never had a chance. Danbury had never been so quiet. In the po... ...e post Flash Storm world, noise just atracted trouble. The rebels who had taken ref- uge in the city did not wish to atract trouble. They had no plan... .... “IDIOT! Always check all angles, especially when it comes to the former American government. Those fools were the greatest liars and hypocrites ev... ...cords, and other stuf. Looks like they were com- piling information on all Americans…Oh, sorry Vincent, didn’t mean to steal your thunder.” Vincent h...

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...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...s of state, Helen. You must introduce me to that handsome, Nordic- looking Scotsman who has hardly taken his eyes off you since your dramatic entranc... ...‘My darling, you are a green-eyed siren who would tempt the gods. Another minute and I would have taken you here, to-night, before our wedding cerem... ... door, only turning once to say, ‘Don’t worry, madam, I will not trouble you again. I have never taken a woman by force,’ and then he added caustica... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al...

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...e decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but there is something neur... ...lse are actually in our warehouse.” I don’t mind being lied to. But I hate being taken for a fool. For the first time, I felt real good for havin... ...ddy” – I said slowly, trying to convey the gravity of the occasion – “Who are these people? I came here by sheer chance. We wouldn’t be talking now ... ...ou see” – I patronized him – “I don’t have an appointment with anyone or any three people.” Eddy was on his feet, gun drawn, long before I ended ... ...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...r? ‘Hitler does not approve of the indiscriminate and general action which has been taken against the Jews … He is believed to be very moderate in h... ...onal details inserted and left-adjusted in their appropriate rubrics. It must have taken hours to prepare. No snap decision at the heat of the mome...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, an... ...ss she had to read a theme on the use of the Cumulative Index, and she was taken so seriously in the discussion that she put off her career of town-pl... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...cars, but these towns—left to chance. No! That can’t be true. It must have taken genius to make them so scrawny!” “Oh, they’re not so bad,” was all he...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ... pride restrained, And the mean burgher’s joys disdained; And chiefs, who, hostage for the* clan, Were each from home a banished man, There thought up... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ... to me peculiarly adapted to poetry. The change in their manners, too, had taken place almost within my own time, or at least I had learned many parti... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...y of the Rebellion, Lond. 1802, 4to, p. 381).” 525. Idoean vine. Some have taken this to refer to the “red whortleberry,” the botanical name of which ... ...sidered it as churlish to ask a stranger his name or lineage before he had taken refreshment. Feuds were so frequent among them, that a contrary rule ... ...rrow and winding streets of a suburb, inhabited by the lowest order of the people, and an approaching thunder-shower de- termined him to ask a short r... ...rench, whom chance made acquainted with it. The Vidame of Chartres, when a hostage in England, during the reign of Edward VI., was per- mitted to trav...

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...ides reading it individually you discuss it in groups, together with other people who are enthusiastic about the ideas it proposes. Even though the... ...a spiral but a spiral is completely different from the line and the circle taken separately. * A concrete example of linear thinking can be found i... ...r own lives and of the life of the universe can give rise to a new kind of people: people who have a soul, a soul made up of the energy of love and ... .... 2) – Sophia-Analysis is a method of individual and group work that helps people become Persons, people who have their own identity, are internally... ... * This chapter is taken from a paper presented in a conference in Milan, Italy, in September... ...tilizing the cosmoanthropic principle. d) question a truth that has been taken as valid, every time that humanity dismantles one of its illusions ... ...lopment of my reflections on the anthropic principle created by a group of American scientists. Anyone who would like to know more about the anthro... ...ch. It is a beauty that is held within the walls of the royal palace, held hostage by the Suitors who have besieged it . The Suitors are a symbol of... ...gant demands of the ideal of perfection we use to keep the beauty of life hostage, as well as keeping beauty to be created at bay. Troy is like ...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean 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 ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... .... He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually "honja," ... ...e knew that he needed slip-ons that would foster a quick exodus after he had taken them off at the door. He stepped out over the crevice of a yard. A ... ...y in Seoul that Kwang Sook had given to him because she couldn't go. He had taken it. He loved symphonies and there were parts of this day when he t... ...s, if not an outright fool, since he had shown himself to be kind and easily taken advantage of in business (he would have continued to tolerate only ...

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..., should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, ... ...s coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted. Summarised from: American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Stat... ... Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Malignant Self Love – Narc... ... He devalues Sources of Supply, callously and off-handedly abandons them, and discards people, places, partnerships, and friendships unhesitatingly... ... are, perhaps, the most difficult to comprehend and to accept. These swings produce in people around the narcissist emotional insecurity, an eroded... ... information that I learned here I would probably be looking for a pine box! As I have taken my 'baby steps' in recovery, I find that I have regaine... ... bouts of arrogance, curiosity and pseudo-stupidity, all transformations of aggression taken to the extreme. It is difficult to tell envy from hatr... ...arcissist ever become a tolerable narcissist while in a marriage and when the abuse has taken place over many years? David: I'll add to that questi... ...o the prevailing ethos of capitalism. Social thinkers like Lasch speculated that modern American culture – a narcissistic, self-centred one – increa...

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...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ... be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, adulation, att... ... (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalen... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...ne after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing essentially the same things (though with changing content... ...'s capacity to serve as a FRESH Source of Supply. The veteran employee, now taken for granted by his narcissistic employer, becomes uninspiring as a... ...hing bag for his rages, a co- dependent, a possession (though not prized but taken for granted) and nothing much more. This is the ungrateful, FULL ... ...nd his source. When the narcissist judges that the source is his and can be taken for granted, he reverts to his former, classically narcissistic s...

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... Oh, hell no. This isn't happening. "We've got one victim down ... African-American male, early twenties ... wounds to the chest and abdomen..." Toy c... ... he'd believed in kingdom come. He'd believed in money for the way it made people stand up, deliver and respect when he'd produce more than enough. He... ... she's had enough of that from you to last her a lifetime." Who were these people? Kelly wondered. Did he really belong with them? The pasty-faced cou... ...d-sickly-flower routine was getting tired. Kelly was certain he could have taken Dr. Gibson, pasty-face Curtis and the Latin shorty-rock all at once. ... ...the chair. "Can't say I blame 'em. It's not like I'm one of their favorite people in the world. I think they actually hate me more than they hate your... ...ectably distant. "...She might seem like a stranger at times..." Tyler had taken this news with a grain of salt. Dagny had been a stranger to him for ... ...then she'd had the nerve to make a joke out of it, like she hadn't already taken a dozen years off Tyler's life. Typical, self-centered Dagny. That wa... ...ow had been the perfect forum for Madam Camilla's interview as the host—an American Wiccan high priest—was a fundamentalist opposed to drugs and blunt... ...armhouse, turned to Kelly. "And you? What's your background?" "I'm African-American. My family's originally from the south. Georgia, to be specific." ...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...ers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, t... ...rty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be view... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ed materials of the collection. This labor, most fortunately, was suddenly taken off my hands by the eminent house of Messrs TICKNOR, REED, & FIELDS, ... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ... power to lay aside reserve; and many, again, cannot be so with particular people. I have witnessed more than once the case, that a young female danc... ...h noon when I reached the chamber door: it was locked, but the key was not taken away. Entering, I closed the door so softly, that, although it opened...

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...e by eight months; and if the expression be allowed in speak- ing of young people, so unequal in position, friendship had united us. I made up my mind... ...cs due to various tradesfolk. He had written out false receipts from these people, and put them in his accounts. He was a little man, gentle, affable,... ...forth, could not be performed except upon the backs of mules and of horses taken from the equipages of the Court and the army. The state of the roads ... ...e, their cellars were found to be stored with gunpowder, of which they had taken good care to say no word. What they meant to do with it is uncertain.... ...sed one. But for four years he had turned it over in his mind and had even taken the first steps to bring it about. It was the more difficult because ... ...r. The fact of these royal persons being sent for by the King at once made people think that a mar- riage was in contemplation. In a few minutes they ... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...n master of our ambassador, so as, in case of acci- dent, to have a useful hostage in his hands as security for his own ambassador. He put off therefo...

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... T reasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson TREASURE ISLAND T o S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following nar... ...udden and fierce and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be. Every day when ... ...cret about the matter, for I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms. He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of e... ...unk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed. His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dread- ful stories they were—about hanging, and walkin... ... and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described. My father was always... ...f sneering, patted me on the shoulder, told me I was a good boy and he had taken quite a fancy to me. “I have a son of my own,” said he, “as like you ... ... with that he took his lancet and opened a vein. A great deal of blood was taken before the captain opened his eyes and looked mistily about him. Firs... ...o know about number four, and that boy, why, shiver my timbers, isn’t he a hostage? Are we a-going to waste a hostage? No, not us; he might be our las... ...here is, and not so long till then; and we’ll see who’ll be glad to have a hostage when it comes to that. And as for number two, and why I made a barg...

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...ui—sensitive plant—our deadliest enemy. A fool brought it to this island in a pot, and used to lecture and sentimentalise over the tender thing. The t... ...by a man, and it shuts up; the whole silent battle, murder, and slow death of the contending forest; weigh upon the imagina- tion. My poem the Woodman... ... tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There was a vast mass... ...thought to the business since the year of grace 1871; you can imagine with what interest I sat down yesterday after- noon to reduce my observations; f... .... MONDAY , 31ST? NOVEMBER. Near a week elapsed, and no journal. On Monday after- noon, Moors rode up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in... ... up and I rode down with him, dined, and went over in the evening to the American Consulate; present, Consul-General Sewall, Lieut. Parker and Mrs. ... ...as all forenoon in the Mission House, lunched at the German Consulate, went on board the Sperber (German war ship) in the afternoon, called on my lawy... ...age-long talk about Edinburgh folk; it was very pleasant. He has been studying in Edinburgh, along with his son; a pretty relation. He told me he knew... ... been riding up of late on moon- less nights. Jack is a bit of a dandy; he loves to misbehave in a gallant manner, above all on Apia Street, and when...

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...character of Roman emperor became truly and mysteriously awful. Gibbon has taken no- tice of the extraordinary situation of a subject in the Roman emp... ...uld have been otherwise who lived and conversed with that genera- tion and people. But if superstitious, he was so after a mode of his own. In his ver... ...essed by them. And if so much su- perstition as even this implies, must be taken to argue some 21 Thomas de Quincey little weakness, on the other han... ...rs of the Augustan era, it would seem that this custom was not confined to people of distinction, but was familiar to a class of travellers so low in ... ...and extensive ravages by fire, such as now happen, not unfrequently in the American woods, (but gen- erally from carelessness in scattering the glowin... ...re met him from the neighboring garrison of Ariminium. The tribunes of the people, those great officers of the democracy, corresponding by some of the... ...r fears. On the contrary, to any but a Roman mother his valedictory words, taken in connection with the known determination of his character, were of ... ... the benefit of Rome. And the children of these kings might be regarded as hostages, ostensibly entertained for the sake of education, but really as p...

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...ains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with crea- tures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to ev... ... my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world? My father, my aunt, my nurse, my relations, our friend... ...hile she took the greatest liberties with me, would never permit any to be taken with her in return, treating me precisely like a child. This makes me... ...y Latin, history, and antiquities; I could hardly recol- lect whether such people as Romans ever existed. When I visited my father, he no longer behel... ...ired effect, for, being alarmed, I took whatever they offered, which being taken to Mr. V errat, was presently meta- morphosed into a breakfast, and d... ...it easier to take than to ask for; but I never in my life recollect having taken a farthing from any one, except about fifteen years ago, when I stole... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,... ... would be glad to see me banished to the island, and to keep me there as a hostage for the works I might be tempted to write, and sounded their dispos...

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...estions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo. I believe, if she had not been laden, and I ... ...aderousse, beginning the con- versation, with that brutality of the common people in which curios- ity destroys all diplomacy, “you look uncommonly li... ...eking to rem- edy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people.” “What would you have me do?” said Fernand. “How do I know? Is it m... ...le reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel th... ... this misery — I am quite sure of it,” whispered Caderousse, who had never taken his eyes off Fernand, to Danglars. “I don’t think so,” answered the o... ...er documents of a compromising character be found upon him, will it not be taken for granted that all who uphold him are his accomplices?” With the ra... ...ly rich to pay a ransom, a messenger is sent to negotiate; the prisoner is hostage for the security of the messenger; should the ransom be refused, th... ...y by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard — I am a cosmopolite. No country can say it saw my ...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ...rgy, it applies to Space and Time as well. It is a Law that is so simple, so taken for granted: that nobody ever has thought to state it formally a... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ... travel through for granted; they don’t think about it… just like Science has taken the Medium of Space for granted once it found that there was som... ...eans it is a Medium which we are not designed to live in, that’s all. A fish taken out of water perceives the Medium of Air to be just as much of a... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving...