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... a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...ven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his ... ...e would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a... ...was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied.... ...o the breasts and burying them, and the salient nipples peaking out of the burial demurely. - The name, Nawin, the name! The monk told my mother that ... ...husband, would preserve on canvases, abandoned buildings and tall skeletal structures that were never quite built after the 1996 financial meltdown, o... ... the continual shifting of the ground stable and themselves as everlasting monuments. But, he countered, what did he know? Artists might be introverte... ...was hard to believe that he had actually been in the capital. The city had monuments and a few signs in English elucidating Laotian history, but signs...

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...Excerpt: The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From ...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ations with a be- coming dignity, as the works of Nature may look down the monuments of Art. But Nature is a more indiscriminate patroness than we ima... ...e head of the West Bow. Some are crowded to the doors; some are empty like monuments; and yet you will ever find new ones in the building. Hence that ... ... of this art are in Greyfriars. In their time, these were doubtless costly monuments, and reck- 24 EDINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES oned of a very elegan... ...thereat, 26 EDINGBURGH PICTURESQUE NOTES with pipe and nightcap, to watch burials going forward on the green. In a tomb higher up, which must then ha... ..., surprizing unheard-of Dis- pensation: But took the ordinary Way of other Burials from that Place, to wit, we went east the Back of the Wall, and in ... ... nature which shall subvert Edinburgh Castle itself and lay all her florid structures in the dust. And as long as we have the hills and the Firth, we ...

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...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...med by the names that the places thereabout yet retain, and the graves and monuments of those that fell in the battle. Both armies being in sight, the... ...; upon which she was triumphantly waited upon home by the women. T ouching burials, Lycurgus made very wise regulations; for, first of all, to cut of ... ... the goddess Libitina, who presided over all the cer- emonies performed at burials; whether they meant hereby Proserpina, or, as the most learned of t... ...in the part called V elia, where his pos- terity had likewise privilege of burial; now, however, none of the family are interred there, but the body i... ...erty, they not only pulled down the castle, but overturned the palaces and monuments adjoining, and whatever else might preserve any memory of former ... ...none other, encountered the enemy; for the num- ber of the slain and their monuments testify that the victory was obtained by all in general; and if t...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 S... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...lid bridge pronounced by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of th... ...the sacred spot, the shrine of pilgrimage, of Tours. Originally the simple burial-place of the great apostle who in the fourth century Christianized G... ...e other hand, of course, it is inferior in majesty to either of these vast structures. Like Chenonceaux, it is a watery place, though it is more meagr... ...the cathedral, the castle, and the Maison d’Adam, as one of the historical monuments of Angers. 77 Henry James XV. IF I SPENT two nights at Nantes, i... ...d combinations. The great treasure of Nantes is the two noble sepul- chral monuments which occupy either transept, and one of which has (in its noblen... ...eer little primitive chapel, hollowed out of the rock, beneath these later structures, and recommended to the visitor’s attention as the confessional ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge 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 St... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copyright © 1999 The ... ...nour of the place, and most solicitous to divert my attention from the bad monuments: whereas he was never tired of extolling the good ones. Seeing th... ...en a bargain at double the money. It seemed to be his duty to describe the monuments to the people—at all events he was doing so; and when I compared ... ...ey, than they would let the people in (as they do at Bo logna) to see the monuments for nothing. Again, an ancient sombre town, under the brilliant s... ...raft—which we were gliding past. The chief of the two rowers said it was a burial place. Full of the interest and wonder which a cemetery lying out th... ...possibility, lie outside the gates of Rome, this is the aptest and fittest burial ground for the Dead City. So sad, so quiet, so sullen; so secret in ... ...ad Cart, 139 Charles Dickens with the bodies of the poor, on their way to burial in the Sacred Field outside the walls, where they will be thrown int...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned oursel...

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...First and Last Things A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...e By H.G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H.G. Wells is a ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...is work was the digesting and critical analysis of that. For documents and monuments he had fossils and ana- 25 H. G . Wells tomical structures and g... ...r documents and monuments he had fossils and ana- 25 H. G . Wells tomical structures and germinating eggs too innocent to lie. But, on the other hand... ...r a curiosity for the sake of suppressing a passion is to my mind just the burial of a talent that has been entrusted to one’s care. One has, I feel, ...

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...er commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don?t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship....

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ous handsome paintings adorn the walls and chapels, decorated with pompous monuments of Grand Masters. Beneath is a crypt, where more of these honoura... ...e in the town below look like the works of barbarians beside these perfect structures. They jar strangely on the eye, after it has been accustoming it... ... a good subject for a Ghazul, in the true new Oriental manner. These Royal burial-places are the resort of the pious Mos- lems. Lamps are kept burnin... ...Pyra- mids:Wag has conquered the Pyramids themselves; dragged the unwieldy structures a month nearer England than they were, and brought the country a...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...n the rapid light: Then to their starry domes the gods depart, The shining monuments of Vulcan’s art: Jove on his couch reclined his awful head, And J... ...orgotten now: Ne’er to return, was then the common cry, Till T roy’s proud structures should in ashes lie. Behold them weeping for their native shore;... ...g asleep, the ghost of his friend appears to him, and demands the rites of burial; the next morning the sol- diers are sent with mules and waggons to ... ... care, But now forgot, I wander in the air. Let my pale corse the rites of burial know, And give me entrance in the realms below: Till then the spirit... ... the annual procession of the sacred ship so often represented on Egyptian monuments, and the return of the deity from Ethiopia after some days’ absen... ...r daughters Eve.’ —“Paradise Lost,” iv. 323. 65 Æsetes ’ tomb. Monuments were often built on the sea-coast, and of a considerable height, ...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...r, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...s of years hence, when the digging for gold in Australia shall have long and long ceased out of the land. Forty-four shipwrecked men and women lay her... ...ou for your kindness to my son Richard upon the melancholy occasion of his visit to his dear brother’s body, and also for your ready attention in pron... ...d universal recognition, you have very benevolently employed your valuable efforts to assist such members of our faith as have sought the bodies of lo... ...king indications of the changes of manners and customs that two or three hundred years have brought about, than these deserted churches. Many of them ... ...n its outsetting tides, of the reflux to these churches of their congregations and uses. They remain like the tombs of the old citizens who lie beneat...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who ha...

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... been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... on the imagination of an untravelled American, than those other sto- ried structures, its neighbors—the Byward Tower, or even the Bloody? And those s... ...iews what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses. But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead... ...many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and content... ...have a mind to pawn one arm for the sake of the privilege of giving decent burial to the other, why in that case the arm is yours; only let the whale ... ...ille truly speakest to me in the wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm. Nor has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...in alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge 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 ... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim ... ... neck’d partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out, Where burial coaches enter the arch’d gates of a cemetery, Where winter wolves ... ... I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes, I see the burial cairns of Scandinavian warriors, I see them raised high with stone... ... eyed and materialistic priests. The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 161 Allons! yet take w... ...is belov’d by these, and loves them in return and understands them, Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds, Where thrift... ...rs dear, Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you, Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you, The gist o... ...d temples, palaces, factories, libraries, shows, courts, theatres, wonderful monuments. Are those billions of men really gone? Are those women of the ...

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...Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their interests clashed; and sufficiently wily and polit...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A m...

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...ated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John ... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tors in all classes; and, though such ceremonies were derisively called ox-burials,* they came into fashion, to the advantage of many of the more poor... ...obtain a sight of the city, its ecclesiastical, civil, public, and private structures, and especially found great delight in the still pre- vailing an... ...amiss. We admired the various brilliant representations and the fairy-like structures of flame by which each ambassador strove to outshine the others.... ...ercial activity, comfort and wealth, which announces itself to us in these monuments. Yet quite to my taste were 227 Goethe the houses, which to me s... ... step, accompanied by little, slender, light-pillared, pointed 349 Goethe structures, likewise striving upwards, and furnished with cano- pies to she...

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...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ua, an old gray town where men grow old and sleep already under moss grown monuments,—outgrow their usefulness. This is ancient Billerica, (Villarica?... ... ANTIGONE 104 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers This was concerning the burial of a dead body. The wisest conservatism is that of the Hindoos. “Imm... ... by it; but these did seem a little heathenish to us; and so are all large monuments over men’s bodies, from the pyramids down. A monument should at l... ...awn into the rapids before it finally went down the stream. These old gray structures, with their quiet arms stretched over the river in the sun, appe... ...nd such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The monuments of heroes and the temples of the gods which may once have stood o...

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...e, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muham...

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