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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 ...

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...“It’s your movie – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom ... ...All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means, electronic... ... otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publishing Ltd., 46 Station Road, Stoke ... ...iver’s head wobbled on its axis. Theo was about to insist when the young Indian explained: ‘See, in the country of my parents we do not really beli... ...ratic piles. Next was a street magician who seemed to be demonstrating the Indian rope trick. A coil of rope ascended vertically from a basket and he... ...f a taxi-driver I once met in London,’ Theo laughed. ‘I think he was from India.’ ‘India?’ Mohammed sneered. ‘A land of heretics who believe in a the... ...s a little loopy. Knowing you’re only a character in a Story told for the amusement of a bunch of drunken Bloons …well, it makes you wonder what’s t... ...g his two front teeth, or the young couples falling in love under trees in parks across the world. ‘These days, in some parts of the Story, the Hypno... ...aloud, his circus instincts inclining him to pause and watch the scene in amusement. His smile soon turned to shock as he saw that the boy on top ca...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In 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 ...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ............................................................ 17 MEDICAL COSTS IN THE U.S. ................................................................. ... that education and high level job s are now available to women. China and India are making headway in this area after studying Korea‘s success, but... ... rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered North Africa, India, and Spain and forced major societal changes. When trains replaced ... ... ethic. So we put our money into better education, better libraries, better parks and pools, and better musical productions of opera, musical theater... ...ter skills, programming, electronic engineering, and other such scientific amusements. We also have special history study, which often includes free ...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... how the dynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid mouth which ... ...ynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid mouth which they are c... ...h their neighborhoods. You think nothing of driving your car through national parks, but build a road through your own living room and will be horri... ... and children in immaculate houses. Middle-class children play in immaculate parks with immaculate toys. Their parents buy them immaculate bicycles... ...secret public spectacle for them… not for you… to look at in secret… for the amusement of the filthiest undead pornographic obscene unseen rotten in... ...ys and does away from the writer. The writer merely becomes a tool for their amusement. These undead thing live off of abstraction. The more abstr...

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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... ...hat she would experience on awakening from these sleeps was serendipitous in its own way, for it made her reluctant to use the drug, or to use it spa... ... Back then, wasn't there a belief that this family of indigenous American Indians and pseudo-animists of a Catholic nuance, this seemingly eternal u... ...ome of the occasional drops on her tongue, the way she, a belated American Indian severed of the culture, horselessness notwithstanding, had galloped... ...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... ... rock were inscribed, among so many other names, the names of her American Indian family of Degenerative Scoliosis, her mother, Big Chiefess Lady Ga... ...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...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ... Should the U.S. Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it... ...roduce an effect directly the reverse of that which was produced by the East India Company’s monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essex’s monopoly of sweet win... ...aint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept of propert... ...n existing sources of conservationist sentiment—love of nature, the national parks movement, hikers, campers, birdwatchers. They built coalitions betw... ...the end of the nineteenth century, the poem was being quoted, sometimes with amusement and sometimes with agreement, on both sides of the Atlantic. Se...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...vailed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in ... ...should not behold her hus- band for a year after marriage, and to this the Indian ver- sions lend themselves; but Apuleius himself either found it, or... ...r over his shoulder the names of places and their owners when they came to parks bordering the road, and castles “bosomed high in the tufted trees.” O... ...gardener began by viewing them as his natural enemies, but soon relaxed in amusement at their pretty sportive ways, gave them many precious spoils, an... ..., sir?” she asked, with an intonation that made him reply, with a sound of amusement. “I am no judge in such matters, but they are ladies con- nected ... ...er new rank. Know- 144 Love and Life ing that the bridle-path lay through parks, woodlands and heaths, so that there was no fear of dust, she put on ...

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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 Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s it possible that these charred and slashed and splintered persons, those Indians hanging from hooks, those walkers in the fiery furnace, have had gl... ...aesthetics the crowning triumph of civilization, and cosiness and innocent amusement, those ideals of the nurs- ery, the whole purpose of mankind….” “... ...spiracy of silence about their real behaviour. But when on my way to visit India for the third time I turned off to see what I could of the fighting b... ...g to do?” He repeated it. It is the only question for the aristocrat. What amusement? That for a footman on holiday. That for a silly child, for any c... ...t jolly things that they were to do together, expeditions, entertainments, amusements, and adventures, with a voluble swiftness, and suddenly in a fla... ...mplary memorials of imperialism that humanity has ever made. The roads and parks and prospects constructed by this vanished Emperor of Hayti, had long...

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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. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...passed through life in perfect ease and good-humour. The hot- test suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never shook it. He wa... ... taken any notice of her all night. The Captain continued that deleterious amusement of smok- ing, long after the inn and the street were gone to bed.... ...ide out of England. Every day during this happy time there was novelty and amusement for all parties. There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery—... ...ets of passers-by, or riding a showy chestnut, and ogling broughams in the Parks—those who know the present Sir George Tufto would hardly recognise th... ...st after partaking of a quiet tumbler, than to figure at any other sort of amusement. Peggy, for her part, would 40 V anity Fair – V olume Two have l... ... V anity Fair – V olume Two his little grandson Georgy to the neighbouring parks or Kensington Gardens, to see the soldiers or to feed the ducks. Geor...

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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. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...which he returned to Europe, and which was the source of great comfort and amusement to him in his native country. He did not live with his family whi... ...ughts of joining the party at supper: as, in truth, he found the V auxhall amusements not particularly lively—but he paraded twice before the box wher... ...and saved me a steward.”— And in this confidential strain, and much to the amusement of the new-comer, the conversation continued for a considerable t... ...ets of passers-by, or riding a showy chestnut, and ogling broughams in the Parks—those who know the present Sir George Tufto would hardly recognise th... ...edley’s delight to take out his little grandson Georgy to the neighbouring parks or Kensington Gardens, to see the soldiers or to feed the ducks. Geor... ...rs were drinking under the chequered shadow of the trees; by old halls and parks; rustic hamlets clustered round ancient grey churches—and through the...

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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. Vanity Fair: Volume Three (Chapters Fifty-one through Sixty-sev... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... .... And they talked English with adorable simplic- ity , and to the constant amusement of Becky and my Lord Steyne, she would mimic one or other to his ... ... I take it, essentially different from those of the present day: and their amusements pretty similar. To us, from the outside, gazing over the policem... ...ase with all persons of merit, she had her share. At this time the amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France, and was conside... ...fortable quarters. There was a large 70 V anity Fair – V olume Three West Indian, whom nobody came to see, with a mahogany complexion, a woolly head,... ...rs were drinking under the chequered shadow of the trees; by old halls and parks; rustic hamlets clustered round ancient grey churches—and through the... ...hung fondly by his godfather’s side, and it was his delight to walk in the parks and hear Dobbin talk. William told George about his father, about Ind...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any,...

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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. Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...- ity. His road lay through several places of interest, and he enjoyed the amusement of travelling, more than he himself thought would have been possi... ...all possible occasions, 27 Sir Walter Scott turning their cattle into his parks, stealing his wood, shooting his game, and so forth, “for the laird, ... ...6 Guy Mannering CHAPTER V . —You have fed upon my seignories, Dispark’d my parks, and fell’d my forest woods, From mine own windows torn my household ... ...hem. These tribes were, in short, the Parias of Scotland, living like wild Indians among European settlers, and, like them, judged of rather by their ... ...ssible, from the limited qualities of his mind, which sought its principal amusements among the petty ob- jects around him. As he was about to turn hi... ...evenue adventures did the Laird of Ellangowan seri- ously incline, and the amusement which he derived from Kennedy’s society, formed an excellent reas...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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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 American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... to “exercise.” He had no theory with regard to cold bathing or the use of Indian clubs; he was neither an oarsman, a rifleman, nor a fencer—he had ne... ...ither an oarsman, a rifleman, nor a fencer—he had never had time for these amusements—and he was quite unaware that the saddle is recommended for cert... ...in the least on his conscience, and was not given to cross-questioning the amusement of the hour. He believed that Europe was made for him, and not he... ...n his sense of duty? He liked everything, he accepted everything, he found amusement in everything; he was not discriminating, he had not a high tone.... ...in our Western country. One of them is married to the owner of the largest india-rubber house in the West.” “Ah, you make houses also of india-rubber?... ...les, and ruins. Several times, taking a walk from his inn into meadows and parks, he stopped by a well-worn stile, looked across through the early eve...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, 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. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...to accept this occupation. The King was passionately fond of hunt- ing, an amusement that was carried on with far less state, without that abundance o... ... at his expense, M. de Noyon was extremely vain, and afforded thereby much amusement to the King. A Chair was vacant at the Academic Francaise. The Ki... ...e his witticisms, his verses, and his pleasant- ries had afforded infinite amusement for many years. M. le Duc wished to take him to Dijon. Santeuil t... ...e a number of Swiss in addi- tion to those posted at the doors, and in the parks and gar- dens. These attendants had orders to stroll morning, noon, a... ...t for three objects: stag-hunting, once or more each week; shooting in his parks (and no man handled a gun with more grace or skill), once or twice ea... ...money and all our jewels; and this idea was in no way con- cealed, for the Indian Company was allowed to visit every house, even Royal houses, confisc...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few 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 deligh...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou 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 be ginning to unfold ... ...old man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contributed anything to the amusement of my contemporaries.” “My dear father, you’re too modest!” “Th... ...verted to the ter rier. “My father’s name?” “Yes,” said the young lady with amusement; “but don’t tell him I asked you. They had come by this time to... ...es latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by midsummer. When they reached home ... ...ical, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather wild and pig headed and had not been of much use as yet... ...as if they took it out in theories mostly. Their radical views are a kind of amusement; they’ve got to have some amusement, and they might have coarse... ...t the hotel and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather—a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you ...

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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 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...tifies so, for my own ear, to the anxiety of my provision for the reader’s amusement. I felt, in view of the possible limitations of my subject, that ... ...d man shook his head. “I don’t pretend to have contributed anything to the amusement of my contem- poraries.” “My dear father, you’re too modest!” “Th... ...The Portrait of a Lady “My father’s name?” “Yes,” said the young lady with amusement; “but don’t tell him I asked you.” They had come by this time to ... ... latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by mid- summer. When they reached home ... ...al, a contemner of ancient ways. His other brother, who was in the army in India, was rather wild and pig-headed and had not been of much use as yet b... ...he hotel and wandered all over the place. It was lovely weather —a kind of Indian summer, only not so good. We just lived in that park. Oh yes; you ca...

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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. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...is office. He was now fully himself, benevolent, combative, gay, alert for amusement or the probeing of schemes to the quick, weighing the good and th... ... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... ...king of the many things which are nothing, and so mel- ancholy for lack of amusements properly to follow Old V euve, that he could ask himself whether... ... English! They give you all the primeing possible for 107 George Meredith amusement and jollity, and devil a sentry-box for the exer- cise of it; and... ... quite commend- ably: ‘It’s a pity we seem to have no means of keeping our parks select.’ Victor flung Simeon Fenellan at him in thought. He re- membe...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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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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