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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...ocer down the lane. Every morning, forehead wrinkled, my grandfather would fill the wooden compartments with various snacks and trinkets, at pains t... ...ce. When she did not materialise, he left his post much earlier than usual. He emptied the compartments duteously, packed the unsold goods in large... ...nor boundaries, only the nostrils quivering at the game, the surging musculature, the body fluids, the scent of decadence. Sometime, the prey becom... ...ential social condemnation, the forced commitment to a madhouse. But why? What causes this fluidal exhibitionism? The exposure of my member is impo... ...quency of my eliminations. I, therefore, feel compelled to establish no connection between fluids consumed and urine produced when intellectually en... ...om her exuberant eyes, intermittently flaring and decaying. She grows silent and swirls the fluid gently in her glass. She gazes into it as though t...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... and fro over empty canvasses. There are numerous such striking examples of the fluidity of what constitutes art and the dubious expertise of ar... ...that glass is really a liquid? Solid glass "remembers" its previous state as a fluid. It, therefore, acts as though it were a solution - as th... ... and digesting morsels of tissue and the resulting malodorous, reddish-brown wound fluid as they go along. As the flesh around them withers, ins... ...imary odors—camphorlike, musky, floral, peppermintlike, ethereal (like dry-cleaning fluid), pungent (vinegarlike), and putrid. They correspond to th... ...ts.shtml Titanic The Titanic sank in less than 3 hours despite its 16 watertight compartments. Of 2220 passengers and crew aboard - 1513 died, in...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...forms had been converted to accommodate the men's facilities and sleeping compartments. Railway tracks were hidden beneath large metal containers, o... ...h the damage caused by the plates. Though having lost most of her bodily fluid, the remnants throughout Alex's components made it difficult for him... .... Gabriel felt a little nervous on seeing Marcus setting up the drips for fluid replacement in the Techtronic. She liked the man 85 very much, one ... ...er if I'd had some sleep between shifts." Marcus placed a bag of deep red fluid onto the hook, catching Gabriel's interest for a moment. "I didn't t... ...ced Roxanne's expression soften in curiosity. "Have you kept up with your fluids?" With her friend not answering, Roxanne rolled her eyes in frustra... ... rested against the wall, barely tolerating the synthesised pain. With red fluid dripping to the carpet, the Techtronic's senses registered the rate ...

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The Kaluza Concept

By: Keith Young

... it does occur in materials in “condensed phases”, such as magnets, super-fluids, super-conductors, laser light, electric currents in metals and so... ... molecules behave as one. So how does this relate to the brain? Super- fluids and superconductors only exist at very low temperatures, whereas t... ...portional to the logarithm of the compartment volume. Fig.38. Entropy Compartments in Phase Space. 114 When phase space is compartmenta... ... representing the state of lowest entropy, and gradually wend its way into compartments of larger volume, representing areas of increasing entropy.... ... the “Big Bang”, a state of lowest entropy, corresponding to the smallest compartments of phase space, was experienced. Since then, entropy h... ...egion by far, with regions of lower entropy occupying smaller and smaller compartments. For the conditions commensurate with the “Big Bang”, or the... ...esses, modelled by a vector field in phase space (see Fig.39), to entropic compartments of ever increasing volume until when a black hole is formed...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...c elements in the Universe. Why? Because it has unique properties. It is a fluid. A fluid is an in-between form of energy. Fluid Conditions ex... ...c elements in the Universe. Why? Because it has unique properties. It is a fluid. A fluid is an in-between form of energy. Fluid Conditions ex... ...imagined is that imagination is mostly a conscious manipulation that is still fluid: whereas reality is a result of altered awareness, attitude, and ... ...f cultural values-beliefs, etc… And that will turn human society into such a fluid dynamic of total openness and unlimited potential that no imagin... ... microbes, which inhabit these ecosystems cannot be penned up into convenient compartments and owned. Water in the forms of clouds, rain, groundwat... ... changing and in flux, and steadily getting better? Where everything is more fluid and more vibrant? And face the threat of losing your own comfort... ...eeling-thought-action is one thing: and not separated into specialized insane compartments. Only then can true love grow. Because human civilizatio... ...ched forms of packaging, all detached containers, container ships, bulkheads, compartments, all buildings with detached segments of areas called roo...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...Stirring pots on the stove, setting the table, and slicing vegetables all in a fluid motion "Sixteen years old, and you still can't add?" she asked ... ...long trip to Japan," Antonio said, stowing his luggage in one of the overhead compartments. As he looked around the plane, he realized that they were...

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The Hated Son

By: Honoré de Balzac

...arvings of which were blackened by time. The rafters of the ceiling formed compartments adorned with arabesques in the style of the preceding century,... ...s impressions, when thought permeates blood with healing balm or poisonous fluids? The terror that shakes the tree, will it not hurt the fruit? Those ...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...ure them. The danger could not be imminent. The Scotia, divided into seven compartments by strong parti- tions, could brave with impunity any leak. Ca... ...tu- ralist. My delight as a professor may be conceived. Apart, in separate compartments, were spread out chap- lets of pearls of the greatest beauty, ... ...covered by water is estimated at upwards of eighty millions of acres. This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred and fifty millions of cubic m... ...ny billions in a quintillion as there are units in a billion. This mass of fluid is equal to about the quantity of water which would be discharged by ... ... to cease for a depth of one hundred and fifty fathoms. But in this middle fluid travelled over by the Nautilus, the electric bright- ness was produce... ...alls.” “But it seems to me that in this twilight, and in the midst of this fluid, which is very dense compared with the atmosphere, shots could not go... ...take some food and rest, I found a perceptible difference between the pure fluid with which the Rouquayrol engine supplied me and the atmosphere of th...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...nd it. I certainly didn’t find it at Bordeaux, where I drank a most vulgar fluid; and it is of course notorious that a large part of mankind is occupi... ...—an extreme nudity and a very queer smell—prevail through- out its endless compartments. Nothing could have been more cruelly dismal than the appearan... ...marble shrine of the Virgin, as extraordinary as all the rest (a series of compartments, representing the various scenes of her life, with the Assumpt...

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The Alkahest

By: Honoré de Balzac

... these substances be traces left within him of the passage of the electric fluid which is the principle of all fertilization? Would not elec- tricity ... ...g filled with alchohol, which focussed the light coming through one of the compartments of the rose-win- dow of the garret. The shelf of the receiver ... ...ation. Seductive as the serpent, his lips, his eyes, poured out a magnetic fluid; he put forth that power of ge- nius, that gentleness of spirit, whic...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...we must or we may break our back, pitch-poling. “Air’s a perfectly elastic fluid,” roars George above the tu- mult. “About as elastic as a head sea of... ...nceded. The new rule severely restricts plane area and lift alike. The gas compartments are permitted both fore and aft, as in the old type, but the w...

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Eptimius Felton; Or, The Elixir of Life

By: Nathanial Hawthorne

...nd.” Septimius did so, and by the officer’s direction took from one of its compartments a folded paper, closely written in a crabbed hand; it was cons... ... and joyous, as if the drink of death exhilarated her like an intoxicating fluid. “I would not let you have it, not one drop. But to think,” and here ...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...m almost painfully. Even this momen- tary possession of pure isolation and fluidity seemed to her so terribly desirable that she felt herself as if da... ... saw too how good- looking he was. Gerald was attractive, his blood seemed fluid and electric. His blue eyes burned with a keen, yet cold light, 56 t... ...d un- conscious. Then swiftly, in a flame that drenched down her body like fluid lightning and gave her a perfect, unutterable consum- mation, unutter... ...d, not to be opposed. ‘No!’ said Birkin. ‘Y ou can’t.’ There was a strange fluid com- pulsion in his voice. Gerald was silent in a battle of wills. It... ...nd full of electric fire. It is a remarkable thing, what a curious sort of fluid force they seem to have in them, those people not like a human grip—l... ... classe?—V oila!’ And he clambered into the high train. They followed. The compartments were al- ready some of them taken. But many were dim and empty...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

... he swung his head and began to play. A stream of music, soft and rich and fluid, came out of the flute. He played beautifully . He moved his head and... ...melody, very limpid and delicate. The pure, mindless, exquisite motion and fluidity of the music delighted him with a strange exasperation. There was ... ...But where is YOUR SEAT?” cried Francis, peering into the packed and jammed compartments of the third class. “That man’s sitting in it.” “Which?” cried... ...een robbed. It was as if lightning ran through him at that moment, as if a fluid electricity rushed down his limbs, through the sluice of his knees, a... ...uite weak and faint, as if he had really been struck by some evil electric fluid, he walked on. And as soon as he began to walk, he began to reason. P...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

... were waking up to the thing—I was alone in one of the dingy “third-class” compartments of that time—and the sudden nearly frantic insurgence of my ra... ...ular arrangements… . The whole scheme of the world’s government had become fluid and provisional in their minds, in small details as in great, the una...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... only four years ago.’ It was a cheap, heart shaped brass thing with three compartments for carrying the eternal betel nut, lime and pan leaf; but it ... ...urree returned gay and unstudied answers. They gave him a glass of whitish fluid like to gin, and then more; and in a little time his gravity departed...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...which has its merits, I would point out that a human being is not a set of compartments, but an or- ganism. Imagination, Miss Vinrace; use your imagin... ... bed, and she took out of it a slim elegant jar filled with a bright green fluid. 246 The Voyage Out “Creme de Menthe,” she said. “Liqueur, you know....

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The Talisman

By: Sir Walter Scott

...haggy mantle, and ere he could shut the frail door which separated the two compartments of the cavern, he heard the clang of the scourge and the groan... ...opped into a little golden drinking-cup a small portion of a dark-coloured fluid. “This,” he said, “is one of those productions which Allah hath sent ...

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Dead Souls

By: D. J. Hogarth

...e of the box contained a soap-dish, with, disposed around it, six or seven compartments for razors. Next came square partitions for a sand-box* and an... ...ssible to do so, and therefore, dipping the pen into the mixture of mouldy fluid and dead flies which the ink bottle contained, started to indite the ...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ontaining a small phial you will see there half- filled with a red-looking fluid. Bring it to me — or rather — no, Alexandre Dumas 145 no! — I may be... ...mament; then he re-opened them, and stood motionless with amazement. Three compartments divided the coffer. In the first, blazed piles of golden coin;... ... ere nightfall the whole of his immense wealth was safely deposited in the compartments of the secret locker. A week passed by. Dantes employed it in ...

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...is charity. The heart of all persons with a mania is like those boxes with compartments, in which sugarplums are kept in sorts: “suum cuique tribuere”... ...is spinal column liquid- izing as if the discharge of some inward electric fluid had melted it. “The house is ours.” “How?” “Claparon has bit it in un...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...onous, thick, emphatic. They were harshly pompous, like men in the smoking-compartments of Pullman cars. They did not bore Carol. They frightened her.... ...jacent Gopher Prairies which she had seen on drives with Kennicott. In her fluid thought certain convictions ap- peared, jaggedly, a fragment of an im...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...zzard of a bird. This slug, when disturbed, emits a very fine purplish-red fluid, which stains the water for the space of a foot around. Besides this ... ...pansion and contraction of minute vesicles contain- ing variously coloured fluids.** This cuttle-fish displayed its chameleon-like power both during t... ...one is inclined to believe that it has been sud- denly pushed up in a semi-fluid state. At St. Helena, however, I ascertained that some pinnacles, of ... ...ertain portion of the water, and it appears, therefore, probable that this fluid is taken in partly for the sake of regulating its specific gravity. T... ...ws the ordinary laws of change to act, their entire bodies become soft and fluid, with a rapidity which I have never seen equalled. I first visited th... ...gantic edental quadruped. Sixthly, a large animal, with an osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo. Seventhly, an extinct kind of... ... we gathered and brought home many.” *The cavities leading from the fleshy compartments of the ex- tremity, were filled with a yellow pulpy matter, wh...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...rden, or that touch of a needle which makes the salt in a su- persaturated fluid suddenly begin to crystallize out. Tolstoy writes: “S., a frank and i... ... contains and moulds us by its re- strictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent within the cavity of a jar. The influence is so inces- sant tha... ...fact is that men’s minds are built, as has been often said, in water-tight compartments. Reli- gious after a fashion, they yet have many other things ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

..., to say the truth, is still countenanced by some traces of the elec- tric fluid evident on the summit of the steeple of the House of the Town-Council... ...rmed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schor... ...lenished my goblet (which was about a third full of Port) with a colorless fluid that he poured from one of his hand bottles. I observed that these bo... ... To judge from the external appearance of the box, it is divided into five compartments—three cupboards of equal di- mensions, and two drawers occupyi... ...our globe well knew. They made the special effects, indeed, wrought in the fluid by special impulses, the subject of exact calculation—so that it beca...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

... with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the British prospero... ...own and knowledge and power in its assuaging by some specially appropriate fluid, then we have an altogether different matter; but the common business... ...rd carefully against the tendency to crystallise that which is essentially fluid and moving, the tendency to consider as given fact or dead data that ... ... the American population is essentially a transplanted population, a still fluid and imperfect fusion of great fragments torn at this point or that fr... ... and nowhere more strikingly than in the railway carriages. In England the compartments in these are either “first class,” originally designed for the... ...centrat- ing property and the steady fixation of conditions that were once fluid and adventurous goes on in the daylight visibly to everyone. And it h...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...but of all that life there was left in her memory only something vague and fluid like a dream. Her father had died when she was ten years old, and her... ...e passengers, who were listlessly and reluctantly sauntering back to their compartments. As we passed the station window, at which a pale, red-haired ...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...eturn’d the Greek, “witness the thirst Whence thy tongue cracks, witness the fluid mound, Rear’d by thy belly up before thine eyes, A mass corrupt.” T... ...come, Learn too, that downward from the step, which cleaves Midway the twain compartments, none there are Who place obtain for merit of their own, But... ...re, be placed about 1106. v. 38. The last.] The city was divided into four compartments. The Elisei, the ancestors of Dante, resided near the entra...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...eath the middle of the mantel-piece. In this rack, which had three or four compartments, were five or six visiting cards and a solitary letter. This l... ...”**** “Absurd!” said the king. “‘Another of these magicians, by means of a fluid that no- body ever yet saw, could make the corpses of his friends bra... ...wly to uprise. The sky was clear, the *See Archimedes, “De Incidentibus in Fluido.”—lib. 2. 54 Poe in Five V olumes winds had gone down, and the full...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...allo- cated to new enemies.The cultural effects ran even deeper. In a more fluid international environment with uncertain, changing goals and interest... ..., who is sup- ported by a Joint Staff divided into standard military staff compartments—J-2 (intelligence), J-3 (operations), and so on. Because of th...

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