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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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...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...

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...s the better man. As for this little Petersburg swell, they’re turned out by machinery, all in one pattern, and all precious rubbish. But if he were a... ...k God, was doing well; but informed him that the buckwheat in the new drying machine had been a little scorched. This piece of news irritated Levin. T... ...d been a little scorched. This piece of news irritated Levin. The new drying machine had been constructed and partly invented by Levin. The bailiff ha... ...and partly invented by Levin. The bailiff had always been against the drying machine, and now it was with suppressed triumph that he announced that th... ...th an Oriental, languid type of face, and—as every one used to say—exquisite enigmatic eyes. The tone of her dark dress (Anna immediately observed and... ... diamond among glass imitations. This glow shone out in her exquisite, truly enigmatic eyes. The weary, and at the same time passionate, glance of tho... ... and could not understand him, and looked at him and his life as at a living enigma. Levin and he were very friendly, and so Levin used to venture to ... ...smiles and dimples. Levin tried through her to get a solution of the weighty enigma her husband presented to his mind; but he had not complete freedom... ...ess of death, revived in Levin that sense of horror in face of the insoluble enigma, together with the nearness and inevitabil ity of death, that had...

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...er fall- ing from their own lips or those of others. Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. Yet I a... ...ow all about members now, and I will explain it to you. You will work that machine very well; you can live in Paris, and become there what my mother c... ...we-inspiring eyes, and mine fell before them. Dear, this man is a hopeless enigma. He seemed to ask whether my words meant love; and the mix- ture of ... ... boy, following the King of Spain to Valencay. What has passed within this enigmatic being? He is no longer the same man. He came, dressed quite simpl... ... to one that here is really a thinking being, not a mere animal or sucking machine. His smiles are full of meaning. I have been 145 Balzac so success...

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...carriage had left the court. He had not long to wait, for the queen scarcely remained a quarter of an hour with Mazarin, but this quarter of an hour o... ...s, count, and a splendid duel, too; a duel in which I hope you will take your part.” “Where are we to go, my lord?” “To Her Majesty the Queen of Engla... ...of the court carriages and proceeded slowly to the end of the Rue Saint Christophe, now entirely deserted. When it arrived there, four guards and a po...

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...to enchant, to create and to uncreate, he mixes these women and their dark machineries with the power of armies, with the agencies of kings, and the f... ...en beneficially. But in the case of for- eign languages, in attaining this machinery of literature, though anomalies even here do arise, and men there... ... It wanted, however, as yet, the principle of its vitality, in wanting the machinery of sylphs and gnomes, with which addition it was first published ... ...sed to a course of sea-bathing; and accordingly at the door of his bathing machine, whilst he stood shivering with cold, two stout fellows laid hold o... ...dipped.” What more he would have said is unknown to land or sea or bathing machines; for having reached the word 148 Biographical Essays dipped, he c... ...hich have been written upon it by the Hurnboldts, Schlegels, &c., make the enigma still more enigmatical. We shall not venture abroad upon an ocean of... ...patriot sovereign amongst the princes of Germany. Thirdly, the quantity of enigmatical and unintelligible writing which he has design- edly thrown int...

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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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...ly; - paradox within/from paradox: there are infinitely many; - world's enigma; - nature's essence; - enigma of the world; 26 - any substance ... ...ects have their abstract qualities. Laromiguière called our senses: machines of making abstractions. Mechanical Philosophy? Devices of produ... ... b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us. Philoso... ...y Gilbert Ryle). Neutrosophic Existentialism: Life is, now, machinized. Machine is, now, humanized by science's sensorial improvements. 68 This... ...ing of strange, bizarre ideas. g) Futurist Philosophy: ideas created by machines, robots, computers using artificial intelligence; this is the ph... ... major evolutionary algorithms studied are: genetic algorithm (a model of machine learning based on genetic operators), evolutionary programming (a ...

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...n excellent hotel—capital baths, warm, cold, and shower—first rate bathing machines—and as good butchers, bakers, and grocers, as heart could desire. ... ...town to the beach and back again; you have a clean and comfortable bathing machine, dress, linen, and all appliances; and the charge for the whole is ... ...f weariness for their money; and we have also an association of individual machine proprietors combined against this formidable rival. M. Feroce, our ... ...g the English language), on the wooden 45 Charles Dickens horses of which machine grown up people of all ages are wound round and round with the utmo... ...snuffle (and no wonder!) deep down under the pink hood of a little bathing machine, and can never peruse even so much of his lineaments as his nose? W... ... kimbo, to the Ratcatcher’s Daughter. As tonishing establishment, amazing enigma! Three other shops were pretty much out of the season, what they wer...

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...mit herself. “Y ou don’t know the news, then?” said Madame de Saint- Remy. “What news, madame, is it possible for two girls to learn up in this dove-c... ...g, calm and decided, great in his resolution, and consequently carrying with him a tenfold dose of that potent fluid which the shocks of mind cause to... .... The man with the feathers went up to the stone, stooped, slipped his hands under the face lying upon the ground, stiffened his Herculean muscles, an... ... only persons on foot pass.” “No one has any right to give orders here, except my- self,” said Buckingham. “On what grounds?” inquired Manicamp, with ... ...ast down; intimidated, dazzled, and with impeded respiration, she withdrew herself as much as pos- sible aside, unaffected even by the nudges Montalai...

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...de, would the rude Norse heart feel. Has he not solved for them the sphinx-enigma of this Universe; given assurance to them of their own destiny there... ... tide of vision and impulse rushing on him he knows not whence, is ever an enigma, a kind of terror and wonder to himself,—should have felt that perha... ...re open; glimpses of many things would doubtless be taken in, and lie very enigmatic as yet, which were to ripen in a strange way into views, into bel... ...as Hela, has died out into the clanking of a World-MA- CHINE. “T ree” and “Machine:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to ... ...e:” contrast these two things. I, for my share, declare the world to be no machine! I say that it does not go by wheel-and-pinion “motives” self-inter... ...jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it is not a machine at all!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world tha... ...l!—The old Norse Heathen had a truer motion of God’s-world than these poor Machine-Sceptics: the old Heathen Norse were sincere men. But for these poo... ...g-down of cant; a saying to oneself: “Well then, this world is a dead iron machine, the god of it Gravitation and selfish Hunger; let us see what, by ... ...man! Y ou will, for thc first time, begin to see that he was a man; not an enigmatic chimera, unintelligible to you, incredible to you. The Histories ...

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...since, other- wise, slackness was apt to supervene, and the working of the machine to grow rusty and feeble; but that, in spite of all, the present oc... ...t up a complete industrial organisation, and the springs of the industrial machine were in vigorous working order, and each had become able to reinfor... ...and in our provincial towns there exists a class of men whose lives are an enigma—men who, though they will seem to have exhausted their substance, an... ...356 Dead Souls magician, Chichikov’s lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look ...

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.............................. ........................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES ..................................................................... ... day’s training added something to the spread and effectiveness of the two machines. As a conse quence, Aleck made imaginary money much faster than a... ...nd is filled with jars, and bottles, and electrics, and wires, and strange machines; and every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, ... ... every week other scientists came there and sat in the place, and used the machines, and discussed, and made what they called experiments and discover... ...en you have deserved: the wanton insult of Old Age.” *** THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES From My Unpublished Autobiography SOME DAYS AGO a correspondent ... ...have not seen any other animal do that before. I said I believed it was an enigma; but she only admired the word without understanding it. In my judg ... ...dmired the word without understanding it. In my judg ment it is either an enigma or some king of a bug. If it dies, I will take it apart and see what...

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...ense strain has a seat somewhere about the mouth of tragedy, giving it the enigmatical faint wry pull at a corner visible at times upon the dreadful m... ...it has only stiffened the dolt; and dolt won’t do any longer; the military machine requires intelli- gence in all ranks now. Ay, the time for the Celt... ...ou don’t care for? It puzzles me com- pletely.’ She assured him she was no enigma: she hushed to him to hear. He dropped his underlip, keeping on the ... ...al planet it bids wink to his unreceptive stars—acknowledging him the bare machine for those two to drive, no instrument of enjoyment. He lives by rea... ...losed to him if he has thrown too extreme a task of repairing on that bare machine of his. The sight of a broken-down plough is mournful, but the one ... ...sity upon me,’ remarked the young practitioner. ‘Outside the wheels of the machine, sir, we indulge our hallucination of immunity. I’ve been one in th... ...r their wealth. Not without pathos in the abstract perhaps do the wretched machines pursue their revolutions of their factory life, as incapable of co...

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...dow, of Etiquette: at intervals the growl of Chapel Organs, like prayer by machinery; proclaiming, as in a kind of horrid diabolic horse-laughter, Van... ...to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gra- tuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, ... ...ng mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of Supernatural Machinery wondrously move the Epos of the Revo- lution. The Brigands are he... ...llets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery? To most people none; but not to French people, in a time of Revo... ...nough of Immortals fighting in its battle-ranks, and never want for Epical Machinery? Be this as it may, the Brigands are clearly got to Paris, in con... ...t not what you can call a false man: there is the specialty! It will be an enigma for future ages, one may hope: hitherto such a product of Nature and... ...s, till these amenities be exhausted.”’ (Dumont, Souvenirs, p. 278.) A man enigmatic, difficult to unmask! For example, whence comes his money? Can th... ... generation in what superfinest moral- ity one can; gives meanwhile rather enigmatic account of fair Mademoiselle Pamela, the Daughter whom she has ad...

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...dow, of Etiquette: at intervals the growl of Chapel Organs, like prayer by machinery; proclaiming, as in a kind of horrid diabolic horse-laughter, Van... ...to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless indeed machinery will do it? Gratuitous Tailors and Restaurateurs may start up, at... ...ng mirrors, become a whole Brigand World; and, like a kind of Supernatural Machinery wondrously move the Epos of the Revolution. The Brigands are here... ...llets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery? To most people none; but not to French people, in a time of Revo... ...128 The French Revolution: V ol. One therein a cunningly devised Beheading Machine, which shall become famous and world-famous. This is the product of... ...t not what you can call a false man: there is the specialty! It will be an enigma for future ages, one may hope: hitherto such a product of Nature and...

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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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...youth becom- ing through the needs of his country part of a great fighting machine was presented with an earnestness 47 Joseph Conrad of purpose, a s... ...een wounded by the mystery… . OEdipus, half way to finding the word of the enigma, young Faust, re- gretting already the simple life, the life of the ... ...eep the competitors for the privilege of improving the nigger (as a buying machine) from flying prema- 92 Notes on Life and Letters turely at each ot... ..., conscious of an enormous following, the clumsy swaying of the tall black machine, the chanting of the surpliced clergy at the head, the flames of ta... ...elpless prey of the Shadows I had called up. They were crowd- ing upon me, enigmatic and insistent in their cling- ing air of the grave that tasted of... ...all? Oh, yes, we know. The greatest scene of potential terror, a devouring enigma of space. Yes. But our lives have been nothing if not a continuous d... ...I was taken into the sheds. I walked respectfully round and round a lot of machines of all kinds, and the more I looked at them the more I felt someho... ... galloped me across a vast expanse of open ground to the water’s edge. The machine on its carriage seemed as big as a cot- tage, and much more imposin...

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...g, but, in spite of all that memory and con jecture could do, more and more enigmatic; whereby the old disquietude seemed fast settling into fixed dis... ...n the ha rangue, he gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough laugh (for the machinery of laughter took some time to get in motion, and seemed crank a... ... region of Nether Fire. Certainly a most involved, self secluded, altogether enigmatic nature, this of 22 SARTOR RESARTUS Teufelsdr¨ ockh! Here, howe... ...t of his own personal his tory only at rare intervals, and then in the most enigmatic manner. Whole fascicles there are, wherein the Professor, or, a... ...tice we can gather of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh’s genealogy. More imperfect, more enigmatic it can seem to few readers than to us. The Pro fessor, in whom... ... a man with Activ ity almost superabundant, yet so spiritual, close hidden, enigmatic, that no mortal can foresee its explosions, or even when it has... ...look back on it; for my whole Universe, physical and spiritual, was as yet a Machine! However, such a conscious, recognized ground plan, the truest I... ...lace here. Into the Hofrath’s Institute, with its extraordinary schemes, and machinery of Corresponding Boards and the like, we shall not so much as g... ...must live in it the while), what better, what other, than the Representative Machine will serve your turn? Meanwhile, however, mock me not with the na...

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...come as well as I know that a box of matches will come out of an automatic machine when I put a penny in the slot: you would be ashamed to say any- th... ...d you break off our confi- dences and become quite strange to me? TANNER. [enigmatically] It happened just then that I got something that I wanted to ... ...class, not to that which employs him. He now gets into the car to test his machinery and put his cap and overcoat on again. T anner takes off his leat... ...son. My business is to do away with labor. You’ll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink eith... ...mine. Except, of course, when he is lying on his back in the mud under the machine trying to find out where it has given way. Well, if I don’t give hi... ...is destiny] D’y’mean it? TANNER. I do. STRAKER. When? TANNER. Now. Is that machine ready to start? STRAKER. [quailing] But you can’t— TANNER. [cutting... ... are you happy here? DON JUAN. [Springing to his feet] No; and that is the enigma on which I ponder in darkness. Why am I here? I, who repu- diated al... ... me as one who has sold out: to the young women I, who have always been an enigma and a possibility, shall be merely somebody else’s property—and dama...

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...s, produced because they are useful in the continual struggle of the human machine to maintain its environment in a favorable condition, a process inc... ...s superseded by Acts under which newspapers were seized and their printing machinery destroyed by simple police raids a la Russe, and persons arrested... ...my father. He bought what was left of the business—the build- ings and the machinery and things—from the official trustee for enough money to enable m... ...ought they could have happened. But they didn’t. ELLIE. Why do you look so enigmatic about it? You are such a sphinx: I never know what you mean. MRS ... ...ept forever in the mud by these hogs to whom the universe is nothing but a machine for greasing their bristles and filling their snouts? HECTOR. Are M... ...nerals: they are not dangerous. But one could fire a grapnel and wind in a machine gun or even a tank. I will think it out. MRS HUSHABYE [squeezing th... ...y! Do you mean to say you’re married already? HECTOR. Bigamy! This is some enigma. ELLIE. Only half an hour ago I became Captain Shotover’s white wife...

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...der into it, through the spout. Then he lighted it, and took this infernal machine into the next room; but he came back immediately and shut the door.... ... more closely than you do, or than I do myself. She knows what a faultless machine I have be- come, the machine of which she makes fun, the machine wh... ...achine of which she makes fun, the machine which is too well wound up, the machine which cannot get out of order—and she knows that I cannot make a mi... ... small disturbance in the imperfect and deli- cate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, an... ... nourishing itself with difficulty on air, herbs, and flesh; it is a brute machine which is a prey to mala- dies, to malformations, to decay; it is br... ...urned-up nose, with its quivering nostrils, and to her large eyes, full of enigma and fun—over a dark stuff dress, which was fastened at the neck by a... ... might have done whatever she liked with me. “I was under the charm of her enigmatical and mocking smile, that smile in which her teeth gleamed cruell...

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