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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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... forever" --Thucydides Part I Koan 0 There was tranquility to be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the ide... ...erwards with excruciating pain from her backbone being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under he... ...e woman to briefly escape their hours of vacuity, only with less force and greater ease. It importuned that she should walk into the fetid baptism ... ...s peremptory but tacid mandates of a less beautiful and smaller being to a greater expanse, that she should do so expeditiously, and that like the mo... ...n card to the inspection of police officers, to leave the public areas of parks, and other miscellaneous interactions indicating that one like her wa... ...rific? Sheltered refuse and those in piles on overpasses, at the edges of parks, with legs dangling from the benches of bus stops, within obscure sh... ...er homelessness she was. It was as though she had taken every ride at the amusement park: the Aladin, the Enterprise, the Boomerang, and the Log Rid... ...inst it--Kenyon Dubois, married to a Charles Patrick Dubois; according to Orlando Florida police records you ran away from parents, a native Indian f... ...as we inquired about you and found a missing person's report filed in the Orlando office; Miami Records show that at seventeen you were married brie...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State ... ...yes. They who knew him and like him were reconciled by the lower face. The greater number who knew him and did not like him, felt and resented,—even t... ...said a word to flatter the son, did in truth give his offspring credit for greater talent than he pos- sessed, and, even when appearing to scorn them,... ...home from his chambers every day, and on Sundays could to the round of the parks on foot. Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, he dined at that ... ... the aunt. Mrs Roby was pleased with little intrigues, was addicted to the amusement of fostering love affairs, was fond of being thought to be useful... ...ere in doubt,—whether or not, for instance, that consistent old T ory, Sir Orlando Drought, should be asked to put up with the Post-office or should b... ...f the country were their only considerations. Lord Thrift made way for Sir Orlando Drought at the Admiralty, because it was felt on all sides that Sir... ...y come to?’ asked Mrs Boffin. ‘T o a man burning in Rome, my dear, for his amusement, dressed in a satin petticoat and a wreath of roses.’ ‘I don’t th...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... precise in his apparel as if he was named for mayor. He talks of breaking parks, and taking the highway, in such fashion that you would think he haun... ...e forms, partaking of the origi- nal training which they had received. The greater part of the ground, which had once been parterres and flower-garden... ...into which the Master of Cumnor Place conducted his worthy visitant was of greater extent than that in which they had at first conversed, and had yet ... ... belonging to the Robsart family entitled Sir Hugh to pursue his favourite amusement of the chase. The old mansion was a low, venerable building, occu... ...speare (whom I think, my lords, we have all heard something of), the manly amusement of bear-baiting is falling into comparative neglect, since men wi... ...ies the point, and not in any ways touching his former errors, in breaking parks, or the other follies you speak of.” “Why, truly, madam,” replied Sus... ...Arise, Sir Richard Varney.” [The incident alluded to occurs in the poem of Orlando Innamorato of Boiardo, libro ii. canto 4, stanza 25. “Non era per v...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... what was alleged had been just, had the best right to com- plain. Far the greater number of those unfortunate gentle- men suffered with the most dign... ... would meet with little sympathy from the world. It may be added, that the greater part of the banished Jacobites, and those of high rank and conseque... ...f it, and had never seen the Kittle Nine-steps nearer than from Bareford’s Parks. [A pass on the very brink of the Castle rock to the north, by which ... ...e manning the Cowgate Port, especially in snowball time, was also a choice amusement, as it offered an inaccessible station for the boys who used thes... ...ures against idleness, as if I en- joyed or was making use of the means of amusement! But then I cannot at heart blame either the motive or the object... ...ARS MEDENDI, art of medicine. APPROBATE, approve. ATLANTES, a character in Orlando Furioso. AULD REEKIE, Edinburgh. ADVOCATO DEL DIABOLO, lit. ‘the de...

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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 disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ... property, and especially the property in periodical literature. But a far greater diffi- culty lay in the labor (absolutely insurmountable to myself)... ...may or may not happen occasionally to reach a higher station, at which the amusement passes into an impassioned interest. Some pa- pers are merely pla... ... the individual mind have been unfolded. And I contend that much more than amusement ought to settle upon any narrative of a life that is really confi... ...een swallowed up by the abyss; the lesser star could not rise before the greater should submit to eclipse. Summer, therefore, had connected itself w... ...s past all counting, read to me, in Hoole’s translation, the whole of the “Orlando Furioso;” meaning by the whole the entire twenty-four books into wh... ...univer- sally to the condition and appearance of gravel walks in pri- vate parks or shrubberies. The average rate of velocity was, in consequence, exa...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ...ife. The Duke’s wealth was fabulous, and as a great part of it, if not the greater, had come from his wife, there would probably be ample provision fo... ..., and conde- scended to ask a question about Prime Minister. Racing was an amusement to which English noblemen had been addicted for many ages, and ha... ... out in wrath and threaten the lad,—to threaten him as to money, as to his amusements, as to the general tenure of his life. The pity was so great tha... ...l for her pains,’ said the Earl, shambling off again. Lady Mabel spent the greater part of the afternoon alone, endeavouring to recall to her mind all... ...r seen! He sat on one of the high seats behind Sir Timothy Beeswax and Sir Orlando Drought, listening, or pretending to listen, to the speeches of thr... ...ame,—some man’s bread and wine,—some man’s jewels and titles and woods and parks and gardens,—if I can get them. Time can help a man in his sorrow. I... ... left about six inches for him between 549 Anthony Trollope Roper and Sir Orlando. You’ll have the privilege of looking just down on the top of his h...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...er his lamp, with his sister at work a little way off, listening with some amusement to his sighs and groans at the holiday tasks that lay before him.... ...ages than through anything else.” “And to be taught how to learn is a much greater thing than to be crammed,” said Carey. “Of course when one be- gins... ...hat Allen, who was always ready, tender and sympathetic to her, was a much greater comfort than his sister; nay, that even little Babie 72 Magnum Bon... ...fraid Babie likes fine words,” said her mother; “but our museum is a great amusement to us Londoners.” They all walked home together, talking merrily,... ... mischievous enterprise. The man in the velvet coat, whose proper name was Orlando Hughes, was as much of a boy as any of them, and so could Mr. Acton... ...nd clung to the door of the carriage, standing on the step. It was Johnny. Orlando Hughes, who was next the window, grasped his hands, and, in answer ... ...d all society where he could fall in with her, and only wandered about the parks to feed his melancholy with distant glimpses of her on horseback, whi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ... These bears are caught among the hills, and are thus im- prisoned for the amusement of the hotel guests. “Them Southerners,” said my friend, “are jis... ...e fort with all 21 Trollope the honors. A dinner on shore was, I think, a greater treat to us even than this. We also inspected sundry specimens of t... ...that he is going from a richer country into one that is poorer, and from a greater country into one that is less. An Englishman go- ing from a foreign... ...omen forms a question which cannot be solved by the chivalry of any modern Orlando. The property invested in these four mil- lion slaves forms the ent... ...— from five and twenty, perhaps, to thirty—who had long since given up the amusements and levities of life. I very soon abandoned any attempt at drawi... ...bt much whether the people of New York will ever enjoy such verdure as our parks show. But there will be a pleasant assemblage of 241 Trollope walks ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...s; I have seen many such. They are all of the seventeenth century, and the greater num- ber are conceived in this jovial and popular style. As a matte... ...enius enough and wit enough to do without any such expedient, even for the amusement of those persons who look more to the laugh to be got out of a bo... ...oil, as did Demosthenes, when it was told him, that his expense on oil was greater than on wine. I truly hold it for an honour and praise to be called... ... occult and hid properties; in the number of which are reck- oned Whippot, Orlando Furioso, Robert the Devil, Fierabras, 175 Rabelais William without... ...he heat of a scorching sun. It begirdeth and encompasseth forests, chases, parks, copses, and groves, for the pleasure of hunters. It descendeth into ... ... brick wall. So they are, said Double-fee; for they sometimes put castles, parks, and forests into the press, and out of them all extract aurum potabi...