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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ...UBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are L... .... Others find my haughty slyness loathsome. I guess I conjure my defencelessness to con my victims. It may prove unhealthy to lose our sponsors' mo... ...ence – "He will not harm her." "The worst is when you love" – my mother said – "The worst crimes are passionate." She jumped to her feet and hurri... ...ary Club Award for Social Studies (1976), and the Bilateral Relations Studies Award of the American Embassy in Israel (1978). Hundreds of professio...

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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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...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... ...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... ...men who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely accused of the crime of manslaughter; and in Korea the handicapped, he had seen, were le... ...mselves to escape their solitary enclosures, and boy and girl in part become victims of a delusive mist the making of one's selfish genes which say, "... ...munity. She would never need to see the faces of fellow counselors or fellow victims of abuse and madness; and furthermore her thoughts would not be s...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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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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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...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... ...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... ...e when under occultation to them in a journal which they never saw. 3 The crime of Josephus in relation to Christianity is the same, in fact, as that... ...ice so shocking. But, to feel a doubt, was to feel condemna- tion; and the crime that might have been was, in my eyes, the crime that had been. Now, h... ...elty is gone which the darkness bred; the moans have passed away which the victims uttered; the cloud has vanished which once sat continually upon the...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...nd in view to boot? The Duc d’Angouleme was still in Spain; and of all the crimes which a man in favour with the Commander-in-Chief might commit, this... ...do you mean? Great heavens! Can you imagine that I am to be the prize of a crime? Do you want to kill me? Why! you cannot have any religion in you! Fo... ..., did you not? Come, now, confess it ? … You are too good ever to think of crimes. But is it possible that you can have secrets that I do not know? Ho... ...uchesse de Langeais will not descend so far. Simple bourgeoises may be the victims of your treachery—I, never! Nothing gives me assurance of your love... ... island, 128 The Duchesse de Langeais and the crew of the vessel were all American sailors, who spoke nothing but English. One of M. de Montriveau’s ...

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...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hour I remem- ber portions of Belzoni’s Researches and Franklin’s terrible American adventures, and they bring back tones of my father’s voice. As an ... ...ork with the New Year, being in the meantime cautioned and lectured on the crime and danger of his evil propensities more than he could well bear. ‘Oh... ... now, however, made a strong impression on him; he was convinced that some crime or injustice had been perpetrated, and thought it ought to be investi... ...ke attempted to abscond, but he was brought back as he was embarking in an American vessel; and he then confessed the whole,—how speculation had led t... ...f way, as if it had been the plague or the Black Death, and thought of its victims as doomed. That terrible German engraving, ‘Death as a Foe,’ which ... ..., “Remember not the sins of our forefathers,” unless, now that we know the crime, we attempt what restitution in us lies.’ There was no resisting afte...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ...t always apparent (so that the dis grace seemed unmerited and rendered them victims of injustice) and with which, in the manner of children, she had ... ...laugh at her but it is not easy to be as brave as she.” “I should think not; crimes of violence and attacks on the person require more or less pluck. ... ...ed he hated her and would like to drown her. “Ah no,” said Ralph, “I keep my victims for a slower torture. And you’d be such an interesting one!” “Wel...

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...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...d, under the summer sky; and our lath-and-gum Holiness, with the attendant victims, mounts up in flame, and sinks down in ashes; a decomposed Pope: an... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w... ... would bring! Louis said few words: “He was come hither to prevent a great crime; he believed himself safer nowhere than here.’ President Vergniaud an... ...et a New Jury-Court and Criminal Tri- bunal be set up in Paris, to try the crimes and conspiracies of the Tenth. High Court of Orleans is distant, slo...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an...

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...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE... ...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 1 Contents: Preface... ...ace by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 ... ...nifying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 11... ...painter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the... ...iters sell your feelings? Do you create only for money?? Only books about crimes, sex, horror are published. Where is the true Art? In begging... . ... ...retable! Your imagination may flourish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of the PARADOXISM is especially a revolt of the emigran... ...paradoxal? How do the dreams put up with reality? Is O. J. Simpson's crime trial an example of: justice of injustice, or injustice of justice?... ...nts. This is the contemporary world! While innocents and obedient become victims (the poorest) of the society... Exterior world is real, but d...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ... synonymous terms in India -- Da Gama's ghost, pursued, by the spectres of his victims 174- 184 CHAPTER XV. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico. -- ... ...of the Totonacs -- The horrible custom of offering human sacrifices -- How the victims were obtained -- The great pyramid upon which sacrifices were m... ...stroke of a cutlass -- Severing ears from the heads, and toes from the feet of victims -- Cross-eyed John -- The price of blood 283- 289 CHAPTER XXVI.... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ut the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of AEG Publishing Group 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor - 6016 New York, NY 1... ...rty-odd miles from German borders. Soldiers there, odd-looking helmets, the Americans, how come? 'The war's over,' she hears. Relief overwhelmed by f... ... do nothing and lie back would be infinitely worse, in short - a villainous crime. A remarkable woman who laughs at the conduct expected of old fogie... ...many before of a man obsessed with power and blind to reality. How many more victims must there be 34 before the slaughter and senseless fighting sto... ...th stainless steel and wheels of sumptuous shine, but oh, the price - it's a crime! What to do? Ah ha! Into the woods, that's the place, special mushr...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...d how. Meantime, at this point, let us leave the mur- derer alone with his victims. For fifty minutes let him work 18 The Note Book of an English Opi... ...m, led the imagina- 21 Thomas de Quincey tion captive. The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; an... ...y which had given to the unknown murderer so fatal an ad- vantage over his victims. By this time, the heart-shaking news involved in the outcries of M... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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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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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ... Hiram, Solomon’s ally at Tyre, it is plain from Holy Scripture that their crimes were great. The first dispute between Rome and Carthage was about th... ... bravest of their captives. Regulus himself was not, however, one of these victims. He was kept a close prisoner for two years, pining and sick- ening... ... when some especially strong or ferocious animal had slain a whole heap of victims, the cries of the people would decree that it 86 A Book of Golden ... ...h!’ the beast would prowl round the arena, upon the carcasses of the slain victims. Almost in- credible numbers of animals were imported for these cru...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... in forests, that the latter may, without hazard, spare the lives of their victims; whereas the other cannot put a passen- ger on shore in such a case... ...to that, reader?] and yet in their behalf, we consent to forget, not their crimes only, but (which is worse) their hideous bigotry and anti-magnani- m... ...not better the case for his country- man; that, being an accomplice in the crime, making him- self the leader in the persecution against the helpless ... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...hter was a victim, like so many thousands of other children who have been the victims of drugs. Let us cry Senator, for all the children, and the pa... ...ondered how many other 53 J.Cross/Artemis innocent children had been the victims of drugs; many he thought. And how many more he asked himself?... ...miracle, that we may see the end of drug trafficking, as we know it. But, the victims and the families will need all of our help." 353 J.Cross/Art...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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