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...ennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, ... .... Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 ... ... the Engineers, she had settled, like many mem- bers of the martial miscellany, well within sight of the hereditary enemy, who however had left her le... ... rights, on the part of oth- ers, that such beauty as hers created? I was in a position to answer that question after Mrs. Meldrum had answered a few ... ...assion. That sentiment was coloured by the vi- sion of the dire exposure of a being whom vanity had put so off her guard. Hers was the only vanity I h... ...impression this made upon me—my immediate pang of resentment, a disgust almost equal to Flora’s own. I felt as if a great rare sapphire had split in m... ...hat charming town, a lady who, it appeared, had a special vocation for helping rich young men to find a use for their leisure. She had always one or o... ...ith it a faint impression that I shouldn’t like his son the result of the two images was a whimsical prayer that the girl mightn’t miss her possible f... ...the next time he should turn up. The idea was sharp within me that there were relations and complica- tions it was no mission of mine to bring about. ...

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... Eulogy for us, because 23 Father 24 The Idealist Who Wouldn’t Let Go 25 Youth’s Revenge 27 The Masquerade 28 Baby Grand Piano 29 Faces 31 New Glasses 33 Passing By 35 The Waiter 37 Hopelessly Lost 38 Last Dream 40 To One Who Has Deemed Me an Enemy 43 The Businessman 44 The Janitor 45 Shy Attack 46 The Fisherman Views Creation 48 The Drunkard Views Creatio...

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...een phone, swiping his finger across the screen and scratching his nose at the same time. Seated opposite Cannon Johnson Jr., he took off his reading glasses and placed it on the table yawning, ‘Freaking tech stuff, they keep evolving! Clara should have gotten me a much cheaper easy-going and user-friendly gadget. I’m too old for this you know, one of those 2002 or the ear...

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...iri. De obediente gânduri eu atârn senin (în aer spânzurat) şi-o fIacără-de-cântec izbucneşte-n gât. I open a bottle full of longing dull and wine glasses dripping-in memory. I thought hang clear of obedience (in air hung) and the-song neck breaks....

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...cated. And then I saw your bottle of wine Standing at attention before two glasses. The pledge that bowing to anything or anyone was wrong...that peop... ...nd forks (Sometimes hardened in scalloped potatoes Or bent) and knives and glasses (Glasses sometime with folded bread inside)... But forever coming d...

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...ted by the sun and squeezed by lights. The wine drops memories into the glasses. I open a bottle full of gloomy longings. Winds are stil passing i... ...rn their backs to me." He himself recognizes that "The wine / drops in the glasses / rememberences," and sometimes, when "Through the night's mud / th...

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...ypsum pillars next to our chairs. We fervently gulp the champagne from the tall, prismatic glasses and nibble at the tiny sandwiches. We are that l... ... humour irresistible. It often is. My baby face is framed by the plastic quadrangles of my glasses. I broadcast innocence and guile. The reactions ... ... I mount the bus and sit near a dishevelled, unshaven man. His abraded pair of horn-rimmed glasses is adjoined to his prominent nose with a brown a... ... Swathed in luminosity, we stir with measured competence our amber drinks in long-stemmed glasses. You are weighing my offer and I am waiting for ... .... I watch you kindly and the artificial lighting of this magnific vestibule bounces off my glasses. My eyes are cradled in blackened pouches of wit... ...efrain. You will not do it. "Another drink?" – You ask. I smile, my chubby cheeks and wire glasses sparkle. "No, thanks" – I say. Return Janu... ...a thickset tome, exaggerated eyes peering through the magnifying lenses of his gold-rimmed glasses. From time to time, he chases a dogged, greasy c... ... – "Dinah will see you tomorrow." Janusz's body crumbled. His shoulders bowed, he took his glasses off, withdrew a patterned flannel shirt from his... ...ed him and listened attentively to his seafaring tales, echoes of distant places, among the glasses of scented Araq, a powerful absinthe. They munch...

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...d someone else. Confused, Julia turned and studied their target. His dark glasses hid his eyes and an expensive, creamy tan overcoat kept her from... ...ng forward to get a better look. Just as she grasped the ring of keys, her glasses fell to the ground and the briefcase slid from under her arm. Wi... ...in paperwork. His hungry, lust-glazed eyes took in the little black-framed glasses perched on the end of her nose and one slim, tapered finger abse... ...apkin dripped while she leveled him an exasperated look over the top of her glasses. “I know you work here. I meant what are you doing in my offic... ...her smooth, dark brows. She tossed the other napkin and pushed her reading glasses to the top of her head. “Yeah. Sure. Take them all if you need... ...lock, okay?” “Sure.” Julia nodded and sat behind her desk. She pulled her glasses back to her nose and began to read again. Cade realized he had ... ...Cade took her arm, forcing her to hesitate. Julia reached up and tilted her glasses down her nose and said with more disdain than she truly felt, “S... ...l, she could not bring herself to move away. Cade reached up and snaked her glasses from her face. “I want to see your eyes,” he murmured. For all... ...ower of wills and undeniable need. With deliberate slowness, Julia took her glasses from him but didn’t put them back on. “You can’t have me, Cade....

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...Thailand anytime soon to be peered at through his wife's thick dark framed glasses. At present there were only the wills of three individuals cowardl... ...is brain without having to get dirty. She wanted to continuously wear the glasses that caged her tepid orbs and to not succumb them to rapturous non-... ...owing themselves up was love. Certainly Rachmaninoff was love. "Her glasses are ugly, you know. They have thick frames and what really makes t... ...shamefully. He thought about telling Porn that Noppawan never removed her glasses when she went to bed. It was partly true. He had even had sex with... ...fell into a ditch. Stupefied, he did not say anything to the dark skinned glasses-girl. "I'm Noppawan Piggy," she continued. "What are you reading?... ...h a face that looked like his aunt when she had peered out at him from her glasses. His stare seemed incessant and those eyes burned his face that bl... ... and the invitation to visit here all meant. His aunt's stare through her glasses had long ago been like a version of the sanphraphun, the dollhouse ... ... their wishes. She had been his guardian spirit in a sanphraphun of those glasses and yet she had abandoned him. Like the aunt, Suthep's eyes were pr... ...d up. "Your time is up again." Jatupon faced a scrawny teenager with glasses who was a year or two older than he was. "Are you reading or buyin...

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...ar as a waiter is passing by carrying a tray of champagne. Kevin grabs two glasses off the tray as he and the waiter are simultaneously in motion. He ...

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...ss the verandah and into the entrance hall. Isabel de Silva was standing near him with a tray of glasses and a jug of iced nimbu pani and as he rea... ...e dining room talking to Rosita. Isabel joined them from the pantry with a tray of madeira-filled glasses and Helen noticed that she, too, had chang... ...cause the late autumn evenings in the Himalayan foothills were quite cool. A carafe of wine with glasses and a cold collation were set on a table in... ... glasses and a cold collation were set on a table in front of the fireplace and Gavin filled two glasses, one of which he handed to Helen. ‘Would y... ...she had seen him at their first meeting in Mirapore. He was holding a bottle of champagne and two glasses, which he placed on a little table as he c... ...his non-teetotal guests, was conveyed on camels’ backs and beautiful silver tableware and crystal glasses graced the white damask tablecloths at mea...

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...his weit from one leg to the other. I could imagin him on my canvas, with his glasses and the school uniform hanging on him. “I wasn’t,” he said,...

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... I was mocking him or not. His smallish body tensed and he put on a pair of rimless glasses that he removed from an inner pocket of his shirt. He st... ...no choice, a la guerre comme la guerre.” – in guttural French. As he took off his glasses, I noticed the abnormal proximity of his eyes, set in ca...

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...now. DOMIN It's all over now. HELENA (entering from left with decanter and glasses) What's all over now? What's the matter with you all? HALLEMEIER A ...

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...ll table set up with several small glass objects that appeared to be shot glasses. 174 Mike Saxton “This guy has got to be drunk. He’s standing righ... ...ime but had been stained in the blood of an unknown number of people, and glasses walked through. The door shut on its own 198 Mike Saxton with no ... ...to him with what appeared to be a few botles of whiskey and several shot glasses. As they heard the roar of the Harley motor, they all turned to se... ...e table where the leader was pouring the last few shots into various shot glasses that had im- ages of naked women on them. These guys were defnitely...

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...‘sorry’ every two minutes as the waiting staff brought an endless succession of glasses, bottles, black pepper, parmesan and their meals to the tab... ...ved an enormous cocktail from the waiter. Dave Sturn took his pint. They clinked glasses. Despite losing the footage from the showdown in Windsor Wa...

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...as, it didn’t help. “May I help you,” she asked sternly, but politely over a set of half-glasses set low on her over-sized nose. “Professor Zlata... ...rigerator and found a bottle of orange juice. He smelled it for freshness, and poured two glasses. He guzzled the first one, and brought the other b...

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...ot-without my beard-to mark the occasion. I cut my hair short, bought new glasses, Christine hung a colorful flower lei around my neck, and Presto! ...

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...y. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I hate the stuff. He then touched our glasses as if to toast something. “Robb told Katie that Judge Green d...

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...rough the many pockets on his vest for a small book of hieroglyphs. He put on his reading glasses and began flipping pages in the well-worn book. Af...