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...en in the quantum realm they last an infinitesimal moment of time. Our measurement apparatus is not sufficiently sensitive to capture superposition... ...e the collapse event? Why does it retain a privileged status versus the measurement apparatus or act? It seems that preferred states have to do with... ...rld, during interactions between physical systems (one of which is the measurement apparatus). The Biological DNA contains all the information abo... ...tum mechanics, is that it anchors the shifty split of the world into 'system' and 'apparatus'. A second charge is that the word comes loaded with m... ... in question. This is to disregard Bohr's insistence that in quantum phenomena the apparatus as well as the system is essentially involved. If it w... ...they have considered themselves agents of the Brain - or its masters? When a neuron fires, is it instructed to do so by the Brain or is the Brain an... ...amples: all of us must die, we cannot suspend lead in mid-air, wood is consumed by fire which is extinguished by water ("Enquiry Concerning Human ...

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...ens in there. How the other pen found its way into the bowl instead of the fireplace or wastepaper basket I can’t imagine, but there the two were, lyi... ...should like to confess my surprise on finding that notwithstanding all its apparatus of analysis the story consists for the most part of physical impr... ...of land breezes breathing through the starlight of bygone nights; a signal fire gleams like a jewel on the high brow of a sombre cliff; great trees, t... ...olonnades of tree-trunks; figures passed vivid and vanishing; the smoke of fires stood upright above the masses of flowering bushes; bamboo fences gli... ... where we could in comparative safety break the law against the traffic in firearms and ammunition with the natives. What would happen should one of t... ...at un- der the wide-spreading boughs of a big tree. The blue smoke of wood fires spread in a thin mist above the high-pitched roofs of houses that had...

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... least carvings now sell for nearly their weight in gold. Hanging over the fire-place, Van Claes the martyr, painted by Titian in his robes as preside... ...itate, headlong step produces fear. When a man springs forward and cries, “Fire!” his feet speak as loudly as his voice. If this be so, then a contrar... ...a horse’s head. The skin clung closely to the bones, as though some inward fire were incessantly drying its juices. Sometimes, when he gazed into spac... ... of an old monarch, but above all they gleamed in the sparkling eye, whose fires were fed by chastity imposed by the tyranny of ideas and by the inwar... .... Then, when life is in full activity, when its hearths glow, man lets the fire burn without thought or dis- cussion, without considering either the m... ...eater, are the ones who disperse the force resulting from their electrical apparatus. Consequently, our feelings—” “Enough, Balthazar! you terrify me;... ...oice of thunder. The old man appeared. “Go up and destroy all—instruments, apparatus, every- thing! Be careful, but destroy all. I renounce Science,” ...

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...e water with its freight, the regular turning of the windlass aboard the Lighter, and the slight obstruc- tion so very near my feet. O reader, haply t... ...ic and imbecile. There was at least Light in it, whereas the windows in the former wards had been like sides of school-boys’ bird- cages. There was a ... ...eduction of self-complacency to be found in this wonderful humanity of ours. They were evidently jealous of each other, and passed their whole time (a... ...ome of the windows, the river could be seen with all its life and movement; the day was bright, but I came upon no one who was looking out. In one lar... ...reets, so broken and bankrupt, that the Found Dead on the black board at the police station might have announced the decease of the Drama, and the poo... ...othly away with them to stack them. When I was a child (the Yard being then familiar to me) I used to think that I should like to play at Chinese Ench... ... to them not by self-interest, but by their The Uncommercial Traveller 315 own magnetism and that of their cause) sleeps in a recess in the dining-ro...

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...r was taking care of a little orphan named Ursula. The news flew like wild-fire through the town. At last, however, towards the middle of the month of... ... enough to make him leave her his property,” was now stamped in letters of fire on the brains of the most obtuse heir. The post master had forgotten a... ...h Bourbon and Martinique, roasted, ground, and made by himself in a silver apparatus called a Chaptal. “Well,” said Bongrand, pushing up his glasses a... ..., Kergarouet and Simeuse naval heroes? On the paneled wall opposite to the fireplace were portraits of the Vicomte de Portenduere and of the mother of... ...avy; he will make his way like the true Portenduere that he is; he has the fire of the family in his beautiful black eyes, and we will all help him. D... ...her life at court, simple as the hermit who had never known the world, the fire of her soul is tem- pered in her eyes by sacred modesty.” I feel the v...

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...thin doors, and, indeed, like most studious young men, was overfond of the fireside, and of making life as artificial as he could, by fireside heat an... ...s house, and turning to the right sat down in his study, where, before the fireplace, stood the table with books and papers. On the shelves around the... ... help of the Devil, to turn to mischief, reading them by the light of hell fire. For, indeed, Septimius had but given the clergy man the merest parti... ...Septimius. “Gone to the village this hour past, with his grandfather’s old firelock on his shoulder,” said Rose; “he was running bullets before daylig... ...d and shrubbery that veiled it. There were a few straggling shots, by whom fired, or with what effect, was invisible, and meanwhile the main body of t... ... ter opinion, and showed Septimius how he might make for himself a simpler apparatus, with no better aids than Aunt Keziah’s teakettle, and one or two... ... come with a coal of fire from unknown fur naces, to light his distilling apparatus; it was said, too, that the ghost of the old lord, whose ingenuit...

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... man mind as we know it. We permit ourselves also a free hand with all the apparatus of existence that man has, so to speak, made for himself, with ho... ...different complexion of humanity and a different type of home and food and apparatus, to mark unfamiliar trees and plants and flowers and beasts, to c... ...ost noiselessly, past. Lantern-lit cyclists will flit along the track like fireflies, and ever and again some humming mo- tor-car will hurry by, to or... ...umes of gas, as, for ex- 45 H G Wells ample, soda, seltzer, lemonade, and fire-extincteurs hand grenades—minerals, they call such stuff in England—fi... ...ty which con- trols the high roads, the great railways, the inns and other apparatus of world communication, and the rest will pass on to private indi... ...nd go to the ends of the earth; with so much more, he may obtain elaborate apparatus and try curious novelties, build himself houses and make gardens,... ...roportioned, and rather lower than most rooms I know on earth. There is no fireplace, and I am perplexed by that until I find a thermometer beside six... ...he dusty carpets, and all the paraphernalia about the dirty , black-leaded fireplace are gone. But the faintly tinted walls are framed with just one c... ...t the *The warm imagination of Campanella, that quaint Calabrian monastic, fired by Plato, reversed this aspect of the Church. 129 H G Wells narrow c...

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..., and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the ?Coach and Horses? more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. ?A fire,? he cried, ?in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!? He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain. And with that much introducti...

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...Coach and Horses” more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. “A fire,” he cried, “in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!” He stam... ...lung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn. Mrs. Hall lit the fire and left him there while she went to prepare him a meal with her own h... ...to the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost eclat. Al- though the fire was burning up briskly, she was surprised to see that her visitor stil... ...e overcoat and hat had been taken off and put over a chair in front of the fire, and a pair of wet boots threatened rust to her steel fender. She went... ...he shock they had re- ceived. She placed the hat on the chair again by the fire. “I didn’t know, sir,” she began, “that—” and she stopped em- barrasse... ....” “Indeed, sir,” said Mrs. Hall, much impressed. “And my baggage contains apparatus and appliances.” “Very useful things indeed they are, sir,” said ... ...ve the beast opium, and put her and the pillow she was sleeping on, on the apparatus. And after all the rest had faded and vanished, there remained tw... ...omething of my secret. I tried to keep between him and the concentrat- ing apparatus I had arranged, and that only made him more curious. What was I d... ...“It was only by a frantic effort of will that I dragged myself back to the apparatus and completed the process. “I slept during the forenoon, pulling ...

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... ears, and brings his long nose and his thick lips on to it like a sucking apparatus. A commercial monster.” “Here we don’t consider him a monster,” s... ...ul emotion of his life, when he had sat within a foot of Miss Moorsom with fire in his breast, a humming in his ears, and in a complete disor- der of ... ...to his ear with the innocent eagerness of his advanced age remembering the fires of life. It was with a sort of apprehension that Renouard looked forw... ...Renouard, he added: “Don’t be afraid. You wouldn’t be putting out a sacred fire.” Renouard could hardly find words for a protest: “I assure you that I... ... choked voice. Miss Moorsom seized his wrist suddenly, and at that contact fire ran through all his veins, a hot stillness descended upon him in which... ...ins, a hot stillness descended upon him in which he heard the blood—or the fire—beating in his ears. He made a movement as if to rise, but was restrai...

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...downright consequence— 13 Sir Walter Scott ‘The horse to the rack, And to fire with the sack.’” “Amen! with all my heart, my good host,” said the str... ...having been out of the smoke of Old England; and so ever gramercy mine own fireside.” “This is but a mean mind of yours, mine host,” said the stranger... ...ndford was shot at the siege of the Brill. The devil take the caliver that fired the ball, for a blither lad never filled a cup at midnight! But he is... ...t clime are bona-robas, and being themselves somewhat sunburnt, they catch fire like tinder at a fresh complexion like thine, with a head of hair incl... ...ich T ony Foster mean you?” said the innkeeper. “Why, him they called Tony Fire-the-Fagot, because he brought a light to kindle the pile round Latimer... ...harcoal fire and the dying lamp, accorded very well with all this mystical apparatus, and in that age of superstition would have made some impression ... ...cquainting me that we should never meet again, bequeathing me his chemical apparatus, and the parchment which I have just put into your hands, advis- ... ...nd some of his courtiers, a score of years since, had a chemist’s complete apparatus, which he was obliged to leave behind him to his successors. Thou...

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...autiful moonlight night; and so mild that I must draw back from your great fire.” “But you must have found it very damp and dirty. I wish you may not ... ...h fancy-work, when- ever she could, and win or lose a few sixpences by his fireside. These were the ladies whom Emma found herself very fre- quently a... ...d watch the due time, was all set out and ready, and moved forwards to the fire, before she was aware. With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a... ... of answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically ... ...ve a very good opinion of him- self when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and en- counter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see... ... who was expected every moment from Rich- mond; and Mrs. Elton, in all her apparatus of happiness, her large bonnet and her basket, was very ready to ...

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...iosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards f... ...all the agony of my nervous symptoms. Henry saw this, and had removed all my apparatus from my view. He had also changed my apartment; for he perceiv... ...nd a garden of roses, in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart. How different from the manly and heroi... ...azzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until ... ...was the monster that he said I was. He threat ened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate. Dear lady, I had none to... ...nd depressed spirits. But I consented to lis ten, and seating myself by the fire which my odious com panion had lighted, he thus began his tale. Cha... ...eantime I sat upon the beach, employed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus. Nothing could be more complete than the alteration that had ta... ...etched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the mis erable apparatus of a dungeon. It was morning, I remember, when I thus awoke to ...

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... forehead. The kiss made my flesh creep, for it burned with that consuming fire which eats away her life, which has turned to black the azure of her e... ... say, but they represent one a sunrise, the other a moon- light scene. The fireplace is a very interesting feature in the room. It is easy to see that... ...arvel of workmanship, and the mantelpiece is most delicately finished; the fire-irons are beautifully chased; the bellows are a perfect gem. The tapes... ...is black hair and of his pearly teeth. As to his eyes, they are velvet and fire; but he is plain and insignificant. Though the Spaniards have been des... ... in my rooms. I was up and dressed. I found him solemnly seated beside the fire in the drawing-room, looking more thoughtful than usual. He pointed to... ...m has nothing of the sick-chamber in it; medi- cines, ointments, the whole apparatus of nursing, is carefully concealed. “Is not my deathbed pretty!” ...

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... Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...me critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Afric’s fires and savagery. The case occurred in old days now and again, sometimes,... ...guish her with the formidable engines called leading articles, which fling fire or water, as the occasion may require. It turned out that we had ships... ...orts to weary him out of his project were unsuccessful. He was too much on fire to know the taste of absurdity. Nevil repeated what he had written in ... ...h the ardour of the Moslem. His uncle Everard was proud of his good looks, fire, and nonsense, during the boy’s extreme youth. He traced him by cousin... ...r promise dangling at the skirts of memory, to drop away in time. For that fire-and-smoke writer dedicated volumes to the praise of a regicide. Nice r... ...ly spacious house that he took to be the old gentleman’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed ...

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...nk into 6 The War of the Worlds their planet, from which their shots were fired at us. Peculiar markings, as yet unexplained, were seen near the site... ...drogen, moving with an enor- mous velocity towards this earth. This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared it to a ... ...e political cartoon. And, all unsuspected, those missiles the Martians had fired at us drew earthward, rushing now at a pace of many miles a second th... ...he heath, forming heaps visible a mile and a half away. The heather was on fire eastward, and a thin blue smoke rose against the dawn. The Thing itsel... ...red as if by a sudden explosion. No doubt its impact had caused a flash of fire. Henderson and Ogilvy were not there. I think they perceived that noth... ...e Martian organs. Strange as it may seem to a human being, all the complex apparatus of digestion, which makes up the bulk of our bodies, did not exis... ...ot know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fi... ... busy handling-machine had al- ready put together several of the pieces of apparatus it had taken out of the cylinder into a shape having an unmistak-...

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...ssage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished bras... ...t was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of... ...ith flags, warmed (after the fashion of a country house) by a bright, open fire, and furnished with costly cabi- nets of oak. “Will you wait here by t... ...e, and furnished with costly cabi- nets of oak. “Will you wait here by the fire, sir? or shall I give you a light in the dining-room?” “Here, thank yo... ... gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on... ...er students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, an...

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...ccounted for; supposed to have been done with a bullet since inven tion of firearms — perhaps maliciously by Cromwell’s sol diers.” My acquaintance... ... electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped in a dream of the olden time, while th... ...I heard him murmur sleepily: “Give you good den, fair sir.” I sat down by my fire and examined my treasure. The first part of it — the great bulk of i... ...he man’s coat looks as if it had been done with a biscuit punch. There was a fire place big enough to camp in; and its projecting sides and hood, of... ...way merely because the market isn’t ripe yet. Now Sir Kay arose and began to fire up on his history mill with me for fuel. It was time for me to feel... ...led instantly; no, the men would not die, there was something wrong about my apparatus, I couldn’t tell what; but we must hurry and get away, for tho... ...ne on which he sat was a chain with manacles and fetters attached; but this apparatus lay idle on the ground, and was thick with rust. Chains cease ... ...k fire, sheaves of big rockets, roman candles, colored fire sprays, electric apparatus, and a lot of sundries – everything necessary for the statelies...

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...ambitions—this was the programme that he saw before his eyes in letters of fire. Journalism and politics, the immense development of the book trade, o... ...r of attorney from your wife. And bear in mind, my friend, that there is a fire burning in your affairs,” said Petit-Claud, by way of warning of all t... ...ard family owed about ten thousand francs. This is what is called “putting fire into the bed straw.” Apart from the utility of these documents to othe... ...undred francs; the rest of the plant would fetch the price of old iron and firewood. The house- hold furniture would have brought in a thousand francs... ...awyer had followed her father-in-law. “Marion, put your biggest pot on the fire!” called David; “I have my secret fast.” At this Eve put on her bonnet... ...the cellar wall; they found the floor paved with runnel tiles, and all the apparatus used in Angoumois for the manufac- ture of Cognac brandy. “Pans a...

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... military experiences of a Nun, or possibly “The Confessions of a Biscayan Fire-Eater,” is more than I know. No matter: confessions they were; and con... ...woman’s child. Happy be the sequel! Thou hast as chiding a nativity As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven, can make, T o herald thee from darkn... ... other moustachoed parts of the continent, could not live under the raking fire of Mrs. Schreiber, on the one side, with her female tact and her knowl... ...m and sitting-room; neither is his ex- pense heavy, as regards wax-lights, fire, or “bif-steck.” But 72 Memorials, and Other Papers still, even a ske... ... on the highways of England, in an age when all gentle- men travelled with fire-arms, lived in an element of danger and adventurous gallantry; which, ... ...secondly, of maps, charts, and globes; and, thirdly, perhaps of the costly apparatus re- quired for such studies as Sideral astronomy, galvanic chem- ... ...s to the province of police courts, not of literature. But, in the ancient apparatus of the Oracles although frauds and espionage did certainly form a... ... literature and scientific improvement. In deep shades he organized a vast apparatus of agents and apostles; and then retired behind the curtain to wa...

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..., still dressed in the skins of wild beasts, still worshipping the ancient fire and practising pagan rites: “Then Southern Russia, under the mighty pr... ...ulba” could not have been written without the “Odyssey.” Once more ancient fire gave life to new beauty. And yet at the time Gogol could not have had ... ... such a thing as fear in the world; when the old, peacable Slav spirit was fired with warlike flame, and the Cossack state was instituted—a free, wild... ... who sat on the box, gave him a smart cut with his whip. The young student fired up; with thoughtless daring he seized the hind-wheel with his powerfu... ...e midst of the plain, selected a spot for their night en- campment, made a fire, and hung over it the kettle in which they cooked their oatmeal; the s... ...of the right foot. The more briskly the chief of police worked his walking apparatus the less progress he made in advance. So while he was getting to ...

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...resentiments of luck that dic- tate a gambler’s “Yes” or “No.” The glow of fire and gold was on that southern face. Some seven or eight onlookers stoo... ...ription above it in letters twelve inches high: THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY’S APPARATUS. A vision of M. Dacheux rose before him, equipped by his philanth... ...on’s designs, in years of toil, had been purchased perhaps at the price of firewood. Precious caskets, and things that fairy hands might have fash- io... ...orrow, sir.” “This very moment,” Nathan answered. “Come, come, you pair of fire-eaters!” “You are another!” said the prime mover in the quarrel. “Ah, ... ...ted eyes now heavy with wine, or crossed the delirium of intoxication. The fire and fragrance of the wines acted like potent philters and magical fume... ... en- ergy; excited laughter and outcries broke out like the explo- sion of fireworks. The boudoir and a small adjoining room were strewn like a battle... ...t me of the fearful way of living which makes a man into a mere disgusting apparatus, a funnel, a pampered beast. 136 The Magic Skin “Very soon Debau... ... them, as if Raphael had not been present. “There are the rudiments of the apparatus,” he said. Then he connected one of the wooden pipes with the bot... ...g the intermediate passages, and so into the large empty flower-pot. “This apparatus, sir,” he said to Raphael, with all the grav- ity of an academici...

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...pecimen, made solely for Mme. de Pompadour’—and so on, till my man, all on fire for his what-not, forgets the fan, and lets me have it for a mere trif... ... house of his kinsman, Pons no longer counted as a man; he was a digestive apparatus. 37 Balzac In the course of a long tirade, Mme. Camusot de Marvi... ... as the indirect cause of all his misfortunes, refused him bread and salt, fire, lodging, and tobacco—the force of the paternal malediction in a Germa... ...of breaking up the best cemented alliances. “I have set La Cibot nicely on fire,” Remonencq told his sister, when she came to take up her position aga... ...an to treat me so,” wept La Cibot, now released,—”me that would go through fire and water for you both! Ah! well, well, they say that that is the way ... ...an, in the conceptions of the inventor, or the soldier’s toils of war; the fire within is apt to flash out in gleams of marvelously vivid light, like ...

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...it, would it not?” he answered coolly. Then, leaning forward once more, he fired at me: “Why did you write to an official so high?” 21 e e cummings A... ... arrival. The French government didn’t keep people like me in prison.—They fired some ques- tions about America at me, to which I imaginatively replie... ... veux bien.” And collapsed on the mattress. “Pas de quart, vous?” the face fired at me. “Comprends pas,” I replied, wondering what on earth the words ... ...hout much ado on B.’s bed— which groaned ominously in protest—and hungrily fired questions at me. The bear meanwhile, looking as if nothing had happen... ...- pable of caring whether, as a tool of the Devil, he will find the bright firelight of Hell too warm for him or no. Beneath the Surveillant were the ... ...d. We had a wood-burning stove in the middle of the room, which antiquated apparatus was kept going all day to the vast discomfort of eyes and noses n...

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...es of the heavenly Stars, but perhaps also glances from the region of Nether Fire. Certainly a most involved, self secluded, altogether enigmatic natu... ...in this or the other Dread Potentate, a more or less in competent Digestive apparatus; yet also an inscrutable venerable Mystery, in the meanest Tink... ...ke and sin; moreover, in the middle of a Public, which, without far costlier apparatus than that of the Square Enclosure, and Declaration aloud, you c... ...claration aloud, you could not be sure of gulling. “Gullible, however, by fit apparatus, all Publics are; and gulled, with the most surprising profit. T... ...methean glance, kindle no despica ble firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket wise, in successive beautiful bursts of sp... ...f; with what specialties of successive configuration, splendor and color, his Firework blazes off. Small, as usual, is the satisfaction that such can m... ...calypse of Nature enrolled to him. Fairest Blumine! And, even as a Star, all Fire and humid Softness, a very Light ray incarnate! Was there so much as... ... despairing, hate filled men; and no Pillar of Cloud by day, and no Pillar of Fire by night, any longer guides the 106 SARTOR RESARTUS Pilgrim. To suc...

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...ry. Human actions are modified in a like fashion. A burnt child dreads the fire; if a parent arranged conditions so that every time a child touched a ... ...ild would learn to avoid that toy as auto- matically as he avoids touching fire. So far, however, we are dealing with what may be called training in d... ...r his own good. A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt. But no improvement of disposition, no e... ...arsh and commanding tone may be effectual in keeping a child away from the fire, and the same desirable physical effect will follow as if he had been ... ...nd get water and put out a blaze, I respond intelligently; the sound meant fire, and fire meant need of being extinguished. I bump into a stone, and k... ...ready command of heat, light, and electricity, our ready-made machines and apparatus for every purpose, do not, by themselves or in their aggregate, c... ...f the hands to reach and grasp; and turn and twist and thump; of the vocal apparatus to make sounds; of the mouth to spew out unpleasant substances; t... ...by others and accompanies the activity, response of both ear and the vocal apparatus connected with auditory stimulation will also become an associate... ...ditory or other sense-receptors and no connections between the two sets of apparatus, it would be a sheer waste of time 80 Democracy & Education to t...