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...ars.” “I saw the file on Frankenberg’s computer. I just couldn’t open it.” The machine under Dan’s massive work area coughed and started and the... ...was there that the whole affair began.” Chapter the Fifth Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma “There are four groups of documents here.” – Dan said... ...spent the last ten minutes grappling valiantly with an obstreperous coffee vending machine. She finally gave up and we settled for Coke. “When Hi... ...pical opaqueness, Dan gestured retreat: “Sorry, sorry, OK? This whole thing is an enigma wrapped in mystery to me, too. I need your help, Sarid. C... ...erisively: “You can do anything with a computer. That’s why it’s called a universal machine.” He paused and turned to the flat display, his back t... ...le Libby went through her traditional and valiant battle with the coffee vending machine and, predictably, settled on three cokes. “Who says I ... ...me. Well, Bauer’s voice to be precise. It emanated from the antiquated answering machine donated by my mother as a means of remotely micromanagin... ...ll be inadvertently discovered or leaked.” – reiterated Dan – “And this is the real enigma: what are they planning? What is going to happen on April...

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... scanning his mutating neurological circuitry for a possible answer to the enigma whom he called his wife. Noppawan's flippant comment that the stopl... ...ur apartment: for the tape recorder?" he asked. She turned off the machine without the least concern about a distraction deferring her scholar... ...ables and chairs in the center and woks, burners, a refrigerator, and Coke machine in the front. It had taken the family so many years of working on t... ...penthouse but was a sidewalk-based seamster with his little antique sewing machine, a pedal, and a hill of torn clothes he was supposed to sew. He wa... ...e sustenance), sidewalk seamstresses with their antique foot pumped sewing machines, and a man with a bicycle-pulled ice-cream cart who stood there sc...

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...er his half-rimmed spectacles at Helen and after observing her for a disconcerting second, smiled enigmatically and said, ‘I hope Dr. Forsythe, you ... ...ing Gavin’s look of frustration when Helen tore herself out of his arms a few minutes ago and his enigmatic remark to her, ‘You have nurtured a dang... ...drey Blankenhagen 82 Helen surprised, replied, ‘How kind of you. Did he accept?’ ‘Yes, with the enigmatic remark that if he could not be the brideg... ... did paint a self-portrait but it was never hung because … well, it was not suitable,’ said Gavin enigmatically, making Helen even more curious about... ...ed her to face him. ‘And what about bonding with your husband, sweetheart,’ he said softly, that enigmatic look still in his eyes and a smile twisti... ...s were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal machines, huge stones and blocks of wood to impel ...

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... they were some form of solicitation, or someone he had no desire to talk with. After the machine responded with “No one’s here; please leave a messa... ... her again. He entered his apartment to a red eye blinking incessantly on his answering machine. He pressed the message button; it hummed until a r... ... curled up on the bed next to him. As he stared, he wondered how much he could trust the enigmatic Susan Stone. Not much he concluded, but felt he h... ...stions by hiding behind client privilege.” “What about Mrs. Stone?” “She’s a complete enigma. At first, I believed her, but now I’m not so sure.”... ...At first, it made no sense, then I realized he was staring at the red light on the coffee machine. I shut it off, and he stopped walking. That was t...

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...ink about things before answering and reckons on the phone people demand instant decisions and responses. We’ve a landline that goes to the answering machine so she can listen to callers and decide whether to respond.’ ‘Must be hard for her boss and staff.’ ‘Everyone emails her. When she’s home the internet’s always on and when an email arrives a little alarm sounds. It’...

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... thunder of armies. She listened more intensely to the hail that was like a machine gun with rubber coated pellets. She imagined herself riding on a... ... for her tit repulsed and stiffened her posture at times like a soldier at a machine gun in a trench and at other times like a soldier in a queue wait... ...ith the exception of creative goddesses like herself, a mind was a photocopy machine and a file cabinet. Her son needed to go to school and copy exte... ...as ringing but she wasn't aware of it either; a message on her old answering machine informing her about Nathaniel's truancy; the imbroglio discussed... ...drink and she drank it as one tends to do with drinks. "Master Card and Visa machines ainﾁOt workinﾁO today so IﾁOll assume you to have cash and you a... ... being claimed by them. She deliberated on sleep and dreams, that mysterious enigma which she had wondered about so often. It dawned on her that sleep...

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... "Where the hell is she?" he asked out loud, feeling lost. Finally, the message machine answered, "Sorry I missed your .so Johnathan Cross call. L... ...he said with question­ ing eyes. "Patience is the path of the warrior," he said enigmatically. "Richard, I'm not speaking of patience. I'm talking a... ...Hawk could speak Brent asked him, as he looked around at a host guards carrying machine guns, "You expecting World War III?" "Just precautionary. C... ...s from Virginia. He was bought and paid for by the local district's polit­ ical machine. He wanted power, and they wanted influence. Be­ tween them, ... ... now that Hawk would have the forum he needed. Hawk, however, still remained an enigma to him, but he had ab­ solute trust in him. Why? Maybe, it had... .... Hawk pushed the door open. He and Brent squeezed in. The sound of the washing machines hummed at the level of a moderate roar. "This way." Hawk wh... ...cleaning opera­ tion. At the far end of the room he saw a figure hunched over a machine that looked like a generator. As they approached, the man sp...

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...dists who would dive their bombers into American ships killing those nice American boys. Hitler‘s troops were goose-stepping cogs in a terror machin... ...for‘ other people. ―Ashley Montagu, writing the chapter on love for the Encyclopedia of Mental Health (8) has attempted to solve this enigma... ...have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank guard, copy machin...

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...obably even resented her. The Latin on the other hand was, so far, a total enigma that Kelly needed to figure out. Besides, Kelly felt comfortable wit... ...y dashed back out to the living room, saw Jordan pointing to the answering machine's flashing red light. "He probably left you a message ... Tyler, I ... ...r times before someone picked up. Tyler had almost hung up, anticipating a machine and unwilling to talk to something that wasn't a living, breathing ...

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...ns were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-whit... ...ow, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rif... ...ckling accompaniment, sounded more like the working of a gigantic electric machine than the usual detonating reverberations. The flickering light was ... ...nt flashes gave. But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand. Then suddenly the trees in the pine wood ahead... ...een nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, a... ...ing strug- gling violently—was lifted high against the sky, a black, vague enigma against the starlight; and as this black object came 115 H G Wells ...

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...we three, strangely moved, could not take our eyes from him. He had become enigmatical and touching, in virtue of that mysterious cause that had drive... ... on account of its being a likeness—an en- graved image,” muttered Hollis, enigmatically, turn- ing to the box. He plunged his fingers into it. Karain... ...bidding it under pain of death. They could only live on condition of being machines. And now, re- leased from the fostering care of men with pens be- ... ...; and when he stood up he was penetrated by an irresistible be- lief in an enigma, by the conviction that within his reach and passing away from him w... ... followed at her elbow, casting about for a magic word that would make the enigma clear, that would compel the sur- render of the gift. And there is n... ...t would compel the sur- render of the gift. And there is no such word! The enigma is only made clear by sacrifice, and the gift of heaven is in the ha...

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... the stuff he was going to turn 15 H. G . Wells out than if he had been a machine that makes guns. This was a possible substance, and he was going to... ...ch im- mersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) ... ...un hung and burned. And through it all, a warning, a threat, throbbed this enigma of sound. Boom. … Boom. … Boom. … We questioned one another in faint... ...ever and again came gusts of turmoil, hammering, the clanging and throb of machinery, and presently—the bellowing of great beasts! 61 H. G . Wells Ch... ... up a ravine, and then we passed over a place of sounds, sounds of beating machinery as if some huge hall of industry came near the surface there. And... ...ings, and who ever got to any sort of understanding with ants?” “But these machines and clothing! No, I don’t hold with you, Bedford. The difference i...

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...g else in her, not equally wonderful, but quite as deplorable, remained an enigma. Needless to say what distress was the unfortunate man’s, when, enga... ...ac unfortunate,” exclaimed the herb-doc- tor retreating. “Regular infernal machine!” “Look ye,” cried the other, stumping after him, and with his horn... ...rthy boy, I hope?” “Oh, very! I am now started to get me made some kind of machine to do the sort of work which boys are supposed to be fitted for.” “... ... familiar cordiality into his air, and said: “So you are going to get some machine made to do your work? Philan- thropic scruples, doubtless, forbid y... ...you will have neither man nor boy, bond nor free, truly, then some sort of machine for you is all there is left. My desires for your success attend yo... ...r, I’m now on the road to get me made 114 The Confidence-Man some sort of machine to do my work. Machines for me. My cider-mill-does that ever steal ... ...vorably for his heart than his tact, to beg of his host to explain the one enigma of his life. Deep melancholy overspread the before cheery face of Ch...

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...indeed, she knew him only too well; while this Albert Savaron offered many enigmas to be solved. “ Albert Savaron de Savarus,” she repeated to herself... ...ve nobleness. The situation and the woman were to Rodolphe an impenetrable enigma, of which the solution at- tracted him more and more. These last day... ...eals, I was about to find my place as a necessary wheel in the politi- cal machine, I committed the blunder of remaining faithful to the fallen, and f... ...e of those men who are born to govern society at large than a mere voting- machine? A statesman carries power with him. A common- place deputy, howeve...

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...y had made the most 14 The World Set Free partial of substitutions. Steam machinery and factory pro- duction were visibly revolutionising the conditi... ... blow us and everything about us to fragments; if I could turn it into the machinery that lights this city, it could keep Edinburgh brightly lit for a... ...and by the autumn of 1954 a gigantic replacement of industrial methods and machinery was in progress all about the habitable globe. Small wonder was t... ...rto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that... ..., were being flung out of employment by the superior efficiency of the new machinery, the rapid fall in the cost of transit was destroying high land v... ... It flashed suddenly into his mind just what the multitudi- nous shambling enigma below meant. It was an appeal against the unexpected, an appeal to t...

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...ky coast or a narrow pass; but what of that near to-morrow when the flying machine soars over- head, free to descend at this point or that? A state po... ...in evidence in this present age. The almost cataclysmal development of new machinery, the dis- covery of new materials, and the appearance of new soci... ...ken for gain, and as a means of living rather than for themselves. All new machinery, all new methods, all uncertain and variable and non-universal un... ... of physical labour. There appears no limit to the invasion of life by the machine. Now it is only in the last three hundred years that any 64 A Mode... ...a modifying cause in human development.* Plato clearly had no ideas about machines at all as a force affecting social organisation. There was nothing... ...eem. It would probably lead through one phase to the other. Women would be enigmas and mysteries and ma- ternal dignitaries that one would approach in... ...incessant sea, all in their several ways communing with the emptiness, the enigmatic spaces and silences, the winds and torrents and 188 A Modern Uto...

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...them well enough you will find an individual differ- ence even in a set of machine-made chairs—and it is only because we do not possess minds of unlim... ...ellaneous origins and social traditions to come together and work like one machine made the essential wastefulness of any terrestrial realization of m... ...it to occur at the present time; and the near advent of practicable flying machines opens a whole new world of frightful possibilities. For my own par... ...ctor, the rear of the fighting line becomes insecure, assailable by flying machines and sub- ject to unprecedented and unimaginable panics. No man can... ...eal danger of modern war lies not in the disciplined power of the fighting machine but in the undisciplined forces in the collective mind that may set... ...d socks. Beauties and blue mysteries shine upon him and appeal to him, the enigma of beauty smiling the faint strange smile of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. H...

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... ought to know, and just enough to keep him comfortable! So we work like a machine, signorina. Only, not through that Beppo, for he is vain of his leg... ...ovidence. Barto raised his hand. “We’re too low down here for that kind of machinery,” he said. “They say that Providence is on the side of the Austri... ...very one of insincerity and of faithlessness; and, being the master of the machinery of the plots, he was ready, upon a whispered justification, to de... ...urse did, know best: nevertheless it was bound to be nothing better than a machine in the hands of the dull closeted men in Vienna, who judged of diff... ...osecutor, so to, isolate or extinguish them. Who can say? Oh, ay! Yes! the machinery that can so easily be made rickety is to blame; we admit that; bu... ...uld, doubt- less, have preferred that this public declaration of the plain enigma should not have rung forth to carry them on the popular current; and... ...n? Is it insolence? Have the kindness, if you please, not to address me in enigmas. Do you”—Anna was deadly pale as she turned the cigarcase from side... ..., better employed.” “But the answer is charming and perfect,” said Laura. “Enigmatical answers are declared to be so when they come from us women,” th... ...is in me that I should wish one of my Kaiser’s officers killed?” she cried enigmatically to Lena. “But I must have freedom. Oh! to be free. I am chain...

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...li- ment you on your taste,’ said he to me. ‘I beg your pardon?’ said I. ‘Oh no, I beg yours,’ said he. ‘You understand me per- fectly, just as I do y... ...to confide in Rowley: he was only a boy, his heart must beat yet, he must still retain some innocence and natural feel- ings, he could blurt out folli... ...secrecy! But not so in the least. A part of England is al- ready buzzing with the name of Champdivers; a day or two more and the mail will have carrie... ...ng with her conscience, and the battle still hung dubious. The question of what to do troubled me extremely. I could not venture to touch such an intr...