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... specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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...rifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy ... ...virtuosity to annihilate by the absurd, after Caragiale’s great lesson of grotesque, have crystallized the recipe of the radical gestures in the the... ...n, the surrealist presentation of the personages (“by that very fact, the grotesque destroys the norms of the common life, and in the case these one... ...rodying of the clichés compose the antinorm as a limit to the discredited grotesque. The anti norm constitutes a drastic warning to the monotonous ex... ...he social and individual life, intends to be a therapeutic literature: the grotesque hyperbole that realizes, the abolition of the evil, with the hel... ...uced. With that are put in evidence the dangers of the relativity. If the grotesque has become a present phenomenological category, why should be cr... ...ical category, why should be created a poetry made to measure? The social grotesque distinguishes itself with the absurd and the ridiculous. The lib... ...e before belonging to literature. If Bacovia, Urmuz, Arghezi ridicule the grotesque modernism and put in question the validity of the traditions, tod... ... more, the artifices of abnormality push the writing toward the farce. The grotesque dissolves the exasperating models, the parody discredits, the ic...

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...Palace of the Sleeping Beauty”. Soon we are dragged back to the terrible masculine reality of the 1812 retreat of Napoleon’s army from Moscow and the grotesque massacre that was to traumatise the heroine, parting her from her lover. Their reunion is more desperate still, as the earlier event is recreated in a bizarre and vain attempt to root out madness and compel the retu...

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...g, it was the prototype from which most other modern computers evolved. A grotesque thirty-ton monster with 19,000 vacuum tubes instead of microchip...

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...rided customs and ceremonies. Diet, dates and divine practices all starred in these grotesque exchanges. The Latin ate unclean beasts. They used fiv...

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...and full of pus. Aislinn stared at the duke who nodded. The wound, although grotesque, was natural, not the result of a magical blade. “Go to a h...

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...earer would not disbelieve because he would know that nothing is too wild, grotesque, or horrible to hap- pen in a dak-bungalow. This credulity, unfor... ...eeking village was made plain now, and all that I had known or read of the grotesque and the hor- rible paled before the fact just communicated by the...

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...in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, spar- kling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an addi- tional flavor to the draught, — all...

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...certain times, did the rest and embellished the tale with all its fanciful and grotesquely horrible additions. A REAL FLYING DUTCHMAN. There was even ... ... of Zanzibar. His descriptions of the natives and, products of these lands are grotesque, not concerning what he himself saw, but in repeating stories... ...n the ground. Their bodies too were painted in a variety of colors and after a grotesque fashion. But this decoration was not so much due to vanity as... ...w, and painted to increase the resemblance. Others yet adopt disguises no less grotesque, and for no other reason apparently than to render the appear...

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...he wolves circled once around the three bodies of the men, who were now wearing grotesque death masks, and then moved silently off into the forest. ...

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...UBLICITY _________ 66 SLEEPING DURING THE NEW YEAR’S NIGHT ________________ 67 DILETTANTE _______ 67 PASSIONATE _______ 67 DICTATORSHIP _____ 67 GROTESQUE _______ 67 BUREAUCRATIZE ___ 67 ESTIMATION _______ 67 REJECTED _________ 67 CINDER ____________ 68 THE MOLE _________ 68 GLOVES ___________ 68 PRIMITIVISM _______ 68 THAUMAZEIN ______ 68 WINE ______________...

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...stress, they pointed out the men’s faces to each other, and laughed at the grotesque expressions on the faces of the crew who were straining every mus...

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...r landing of the spiral ascent, he paused a moment before laying hold of a grotesque knocker which ornamented the door of the atelier where the famous...

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...light, which lay upon the ground, casting all shadows upwards and making a grotesque shadow figure of himself and his bearers on the airship sides, fu... ...s head came right off, and down the body went spinning to the sea, feeble, grotesque, fantastic, with the head racing it in its fall. “Ugh!” said Bert... ...the smashing impact of bombs; witnessed for the first time in his life the grotesque, swift onset, of insatiable conflagrations. From it all he felt d... ...he great cities of the Scientific Age to suffer by the enormous powers and grotesque limitations of aerial war- fare. She was wrecked as in the previo... ...f concealment or shelter. Seen from above, the effect of this wreckage was grotesque. Y oung woods had been destroyed whole-sale by dragging wires, an... ...d the Asiatics be- came more and more intent upon breaking this up. He was grotesquely reminded of fish in a fish-pond struggling for crumbs. He could... ...oment the bridge had given way and the main bulk of the airship, like some grotesque cripple in rags, stag- gered, flapping and waving flambeaux to th...

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...iesced; his wits were clouded, and an illustra- tion even coarser and more grotesque would have won a seri- ous nod and a sigh from him. ‘Yes, we are ...

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...n to smooth its cushion, and to brush the dust from the carved flowers and grotesque fig ures of its oaken back and arms. Laurence would sometimes si... ...Grandfather smiled at the idea of Charley’s sturdy little figure in such a grotesque caparison. He then went on with 77 Hawthorne the history of the ...

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...e of indecorous humor. It was one of the secret troubles of her mind, this grotesque twist her ideas would sometimes take, as though they rebelled and... ...ht after a long talk with Miss Miniver, as a sudden remarkable thing, as a grotesque, novel aspect, that this slowly elaborating biological scheme had... ...nd in some incomprehensible way, Ramage was confused with Capes; she had a grotesque disposition to persuade her- self that this was really Capes who ... ... She had unaccountable gleams of sympathy with and liking for him. And the grotesquest fact was that she did not so much loathe, as experience with a ...

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...ngs, his low forehead,—all these personal details, which might have seemed grotesque in many men, were rendered terrible in him by two small eyes set ... ...ft a mark upon the floor; the lid was scorched and the sides gave way. The grotesque Scaevola, who had offered to the god of the Police and T error th...

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...e nature of revelations. Such was this Parsons affair. It began by seeming grotesque; it ended disconcertingly. The fabric of Mr. Polly’s daily life w... ...stared over the windowsill, he- roic, but just a trifle self-conscious and grotesque. “Lawks a mussy!” said the old lady. “Wonders and Won- ders! Why!...

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... as espaliers had now resumed their natural mode of growing, and exhibited grotesque forms, partaking of the origi- nal training which they had receiv... ...vil or his mates either.” “My good boy,” said T ressilian, who saw, from a grotesque sneer on Dickie’s face, that he was more likely to act upon his o... ...ves, alembics, crucibles, retorts, and other instru- ments of alchemy. The grotesque figure of the smith, and the ugly but whimsical features of the b... ...ressilian; “re- form thy dress as well as thou canst, and fling away these grotesque trappings; and, so thou wilt be secret and faithful, thou shalt f... ...hest description, and the most varied—some articles tasteful, some perhaps grotesque, in the invention and decoration, but all gorgeously magnificent,... ...eir bodies, being sheathed in flesh-coloured silk, on which were traced in grotesque lines representations of the heavenly bodies, and of animals and ...

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... long been conscious of need of Church re- form, though his plans took the grotesque form of getting himself made Pope, and taking all into his own ha... ...nt, seeming to play smilingly with the instrument of her martyrdom; here a grotesque miserere group, illustrating a fairy tale, or caricaturing a popu...