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Train of Thought

By: Elisabetta Benedetti

... Sometimes you see bridges collapsing behind you, illusions migrating to distant lands, and you think you are falling for centuries and landing some... ...m I a stranger? From my mobile look-out point, I see a new and almost foreign landscape that drives me away, fleeing behind me. And I let it run i... ... through the window. But I am unable to see. There is nothing unusual about the landscape for me. “What?” I ask. “The clouds!” 21 Who kno... ..., without understanding where it leads, without seeing a light at the top of the hill? Then what’s behind that constant reflection? Outside the w... ...times only captures a few images of his journey, and these are fragments of the landscape that please his eye and nothing else. But when your heart... ... Sometimes you see bridges collapsing behind you, illusions migrating to distant lands, and you think you are falling for centuries and landing some... ...s?” “Hallucinations,” I decide to tell him. From the window I see chains of hills and a mirage of myself waving to me then vanishing. “Dreams ... ...am unable to clutch at anything. 68 It’s wonderful to see new lights on the hill and the ignes fatui lend substance to my illusions, and I woul...

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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold; A Play for a Greek Theatre

By: John Jay Chapman

...end and thy relief. Our post is changed; The pickets are extended up the hills, And this low post abandoned. First Picket. That is strange, To le... ...s the north wind, We bring you Mist. Chorus of Women. From the rank low- lands of the Delaware, And from the even margin of low sand, Where the At... ... Cum~an Cave, And from the mountains where Apollo's shafts Whitened the hillsides once, We bring you Thought. Chorus of Women. From the dark hea... ...endure. Lo, thy old trees are as grass; thy ancient summits as fresh ant-hills. Chaldea sends thee this message, father; Egypt salutes thee; Greec... ...n. Woe, woe, woe is me! Leader of Men. Untutored God! Mind ragged as thy hills, thou must accept the refining pain. Father Hudson. Woe, woe, woe i... ...d. Because thou wast spared thou art a child. I Leader of Men. When thy hills shall [ 13 I TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD have been steep...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...,000 years ago). Curiously, he also said that the Atlantians conquered all the lands of antiquity, bar Athens (which only came into existence i... ... rituals - often resulted in death. The dancers - many of them hailing from foreign lands - were not clinically insane. Men and women were equally ... ... 1848- 54. Stamps were first proposed by a schoolmaster and civil servant, Rowland Hill, in 1837, in his manifest "Post Office Reform". He was knig... ...Liberty is the largest copper sculpture in the world. Mount Rushmore - in the Black Hills near Keystone - is both the largest monument and the most ... ...actors. Teapot Dome was leased to Harry F. Sinclair's Mammoth Oil Company. The Elk Hills reserve in California was rented to Edward L. Doheny's Pan... ...de public in 1922 in a long investigation by the U.S. Senate's Committee on Public Lands led by Senator Thomas J. Walsh from Montana and Senator Ro... ...o protect the interests of the government. The Supreme Court annulled both the Elk Hills and the Teapot Dome leases in 1927. But, though government... ...ters beneath the seafloor. Tsunamis can also be caused by volcanic eruptions and by landslides. Tsunami waves are followed by three to five oscilla... ...cross the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submarine landslide, a tsunami at least 375 meters high struck the island ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...nish notes inside. Then I jiggle Eli's shoulder. He comes to in panic, surveying the alien landscape. Then, mechanically, he snatches our neatly pa... ... emphatic whoosh he vanishes behind a gloomy curve. Eli and I, left crouching on a foreign hillside, far from any settlement, the night a velvet mu... ...toys. I can't remember if I have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate b... ...r struck and boats bobbed up and down abstracted waves. Moon, cleaved by stooping branches, hills vaporising into mist. I circumvented them, resting... ...e had a gurgling, erupting laughter, Uzi had. We climbed a thorny, stone-filled road atop a hill, pausing to look at the vanishing Kibbutz at our fe... ...et's mother. We came close to doing so, though. One Saturday we mutely decided to climb the hill and drop by the seniors' home. Instead, we ventured... ...ed our forced estrangement. And so began my mutiny. Lured by the siren songs of far-flung lands, of sexual liberation, and of equality, I travelled... ...mb. I am among them. Return The Old Gods Wander by Sam Vaknin Your promised lands with reticence. Grey, forced benevolence. They s...

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Call Me Montana

By: John Richman

... station lot, over the small pine stand that bordered it and over the prairie hills to the distant mountains that made up the spine of the Rockies.... ... her. A mile or two through the woods the trail opened up again into the low hills that were common around Laramie. I was hoping that when we moved... ...o read that Congress in Wash- ington is working to open up some of the Indian lands in Oklahoma. Might be an opportunity to pick up a ranch of my ow... ...w when we got into Dodge City. Having heard stories about Marshal Earp, Boot Hill, and the famous Long Branch Saloon, I thought it would be bigger.... ...it him out, from the edge of the nearby woods. I watched as he rode over the hill and disappeared onto the Triple T. It seemed to take hours, tho... ...and mist made good cover for us. We rode under the ridge of a series of small hills. There were lots of ups and downs, but the land was mostly open... ...ope it turned out to be worth all their trouble. Looking out at the silvery landscape, I also thought back to the little ranch up in Bighorn Lake....

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...s of Babylon sent any other nations to people it, as is said with respect to the lands occupied by the other ten tribes; after all this, until the re... ..., from the four corners of the earth:” that these being gathered into their own lands, shall be lords over those very nations of which they had been... ...eremiah it is said, that God shall gather the remnants of his flock from all the lands whither they were dispersed, and conduct them with his omnipot... ...aid, that the Lord will gather all the children of Israel from all the nations, lands, and places, whither he cast them in the time of his fury, of h... ...apes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.” What meaneth this? It means, they say, that in the... ...s, they shall rain celestial consolations upon the true believers: that all the hills shall be cultivated [Vulg. culti erunt], that is, there shall ... ...hall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go ... ...l be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come an... ...ysically increase in size, and become elevated above all the other mountains or hills that stand around Jerusalem. Let us for the present pass over ...

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Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...! Now climb, Beautiful, climb.:: “No way!” Laylah stared in dismay at the hill in front of her. “I’m not going to make it!” Panic set in when the se... ...sight that greeted her made her want to hide. All the animals were on the hilltop with her and the mystery man. Everything was quiet, so still you c... ...l be standing. Her own heart was racing. She wanted to live, not die on a hilltop. “Go home, Gerard, and take your pups with you.” Gerard tried to st... ...den walked away, leaving Stefan to wrestle with his thoughts. ~***~ On the hilltop beyond the forest behind the Le Croix property, a large gray wolf s... ... kept me moving even though I wanted to give up. That voice got me to the hill and to you, Donil.” She abruptly stopped and blushed as her eyes conn... ...nt in Council contracts. I’m not here to try to claim my half of Le Croix lands from my twin. Henry always did have a better head for business than ... ...sn’t play politics like the others and he tends to stick to his ancestral lands and territories.” “Hmm, interesting. Who administered the Alpha test?... ... his next words. “I was at the boundary between Le Croix and Silentshadow lands.” “Donil Vince Silentshadow, have you lost your senses?” Grandpa Hans...

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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...e them and wait. Seconds later I open them again. I see dull colours. It’s dawn. I yawn and stare directly above. My eyesight lands on the wall wh... ...nd stare directly above. My eyesight lands on the wall where there’s a big crack. Some crack! I shift my view to the left and it lands on a calendar ... ... GOO and picks the fifth book on it. Literature: Reading fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay. He flips to a page randomly and lands on page 602 wh... ...g as smart as possible. Age and reason, I think, makes you do that. Makes you sit down there and look as smart and stable as the hills themselves. T...

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Sri Guru Granth Sahib

By: Guru Arjan Dev

...Free Distribution by: SIKH KHALSA MISSION INC. 9 – HAMLIN STREET, QUAKERS HILL, N S W – 2763, AUSTRALIA [Tel /Fax No. 61 2 9837 2787] ... ...sorts of sufferings at home and leaving his own country wanders in foreign lands. But despite all this, he could not get ride of all the five demon...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...is curious in itself, and casts light upon the value in which the work is held in other lands. In order to prepare a proper prospectus of that which... ... what a thought, that this deluge of sin shall be baled out, that the long long covered hills and valleys of holiness shall again present themselves;... ...to bring in everlasting righteousness, the king, of David’s loins, to sit upon the holy hill of Zion, and to have the heathen for his inheritance, an... ... the rest; considering it as a separate piece, as an island, which though near to other lands is not joined to any of them. If these two suppositions... ...ies round about. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the pr... ... expression like that of the following Psalm. “Let the floods clap their hands, let the hills be joyful together before the Lord, for he cometh to j... ...earth:” and that of the 114 th Psalm: “The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.” To this likewise we should advert, that t... ..., were given into the hand of this same Nebuchadnezzar. “And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, m... ...into favour with their God; who shall collect them with his omnipotent arm from all the lands and countries where they abide in exile and dispersion...

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The Devil‘S Legacy- to Earth Mortals. Being the Key Note to Black Arts!! Witchcraft, Devination , Omens, Forewarnings, Apparitions, Sorcery, Daemonology, Dreams, Predictions, Visions, And Compacts with the Devil!! with the Most Authentic History of Salem Witchcraft!

By: M. Young

... IRON CHANGED INTO BRASS.—It is reported that in the Mountain Carpatusan, Hill of Pannonia, at a certain town called Smolinitum, there is a lak... ...in- dows and sometimes even down the chimney. At length fires were set on his lands which did him much damage. Whereupon he gave up the clothes an...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... suicide, go bankrupt, endure major depressive episodes, do drugs. But this massive landscape of resulting devastation does not deter him. He prefer... ...tently immoral, that the film loses its urgent ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situatio... ... "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mountains at a... ...orld War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of other peoples' lands under the flimsiest of pretexts. Its expansion was always ...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...and like a restive boy he slowly dragged his suitcases. He imagined remote Hill Tribe villages on the sidewalks and himself taking his suitcases throu... ...d suicidal inclinations to kill and enlarge their brambly world. They were landscape artists of their personal deserts: hating, destroying, and replan... ...'s in Canada, Nawin? It's got a few walking snowmen but what else? Snowy landscapes and cold temperatures good for penguins. When someone thinks of... ...walk-based seamster with his little antique sewing machine, a pedal, and a hill of torn clothes he was supposed to sew. He was all alone on a cement ... ...ose from the spewing mouth of his mate --a warm soothing wind crossing the hill of his nose; the tactile wearing of another's skin by touch more luxur... ...om deep in the stagnant pool of his being, there was only the window and a landscape of waxy greenery in the rain. He was mesmerized in the mellifluo... ...future owners of their parents' factories) they were walking down the same hill toward their deaths no different than the worker ants. None of them c... ..., she caused uniqueness in form if not attitude, she continentally drifted lands for the hell of it, she erupted volcanoes and earthquakes in the damn...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...ur world: stories about people, animals, trees and flowers, mountains and hills. However, in truth, it tells us about the soul and the higher forces... ...ng The Zohar is good for the soul. The Path of RASHI, in the name of Rabbi Hillel of Paritch Each and every letter in The Book of Zohar and the writin... ...er and the seven parts in the ball are the 264 uNloCkiNg the Zohar seven lands. And all the people in the six lands differ in their appearances acc...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of M... ..."The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the W... ... MADE OCEAN HISTORY AND ESTABLISHED CHRISTIAN SUPREMACY OVER THE MOST SAVAGE LANDS OF THE EARTH. RECITING ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERT... ...ONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND RECORDING A DESCRIPTION OF THE RIOT OF MURD... ...he shores of the Red Sea a race of people who dwelt chiefly in caves among the hills of the sea coast and subsisted by fishing; whatever attempts they... ...known, a large body of natives armed with bows and lances rushed down from the hills and attacked them. Their hostile intentions were presently restra... ...on their arrival at that place, they proceeded overland until they reached the hill country of Badakhshan, situated in Central Asia, where Marco falli... ...who were subjects of the Khan. The city was beautifully situated among fertile hills and dales, but which were not cultivated to any considerable exte... ...who, observing the movements of their enemies, retreated around the protecting hills, as the Zipanguans came in sight, and being swift of foot contriv...

...s of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of mur...

...tion of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -...

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He Moolelo Aina : A Cultural Study of the Puu O Umi Natural Area Reserve and Kohala-Hamakua Mountain Lands, Districts of Kohala and Hamakua, Island of Hawaii

By: Kepa Maly

...ed that Kumu Pono Associates LLC conduct detailed historical-archival research that would describe the traditional-cultural and historical setting of lands within existing, or proposed Natural Area Reserves on the Island of Hawaii. This component of the study discusses several ahupuaa that contribute to the land area of the Puu o Umi Natural Area Reserve situated on the Ko...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

... great, and I presume, good White Chief sends us word that he wishes to buy our lands. How can you buy the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is ... ... now almost forgotten. Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by s... ... especially his rugged good looks. He was not the ordi­ nary fare around Beverly Hills or the Bel Aire Circle; he was different, serious, exciting. ... ...hecked her watch, it was six o'clock, she had one meeting left: Hawk and Arthur Hill. Alana reached into her purse for her compact mirror and lipsti... ...ext to her, "we can watch it from here until Arthur comes." "Arthur?" "Arthur Hill, he's my assistant. He's setting everything up for the news con... ...arate silent button that clicked opened the door to her private office. Arthur Hill was mostly grey haired. He was dressed in his usu­ al dark blue ... ..."I am? I've done nothing but make their lives miserable. I've strip-mined their lands, desecrated their sacred grounds, brought death and disease by... ...d new communities in 'Toxic Free Zones'. Preferably on uncon­ taminated Federal Lands. Johnarhan Cross 4) Begin, immediately, the clean up process... ...e Department ofIn­ terior are setting up temporary housing on State and Federal Lands." "I've met with the Secretary of the Interior, and the Congre...

...arth; the sacred balance of life. Upon the next day's passing, Seattle signs the Port Eliot treaty relinquishing ownership of Suquamish ancestral lands to the United States government in favor of a small reservation to the North. He sees that a war would ultimately prove futile and wishes instead to preserve his people's lifeblood through appeasement. In a final speech...

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Love at First Stake

By: J. Morgan

...restrain yourself until the perfect moment.” He looked out across the green hill leading to the playground. “So, you learned about my history, but ... ...ind me. In spite of my tantrum, I was glad he hadn’t decided to run for the hills. The thought of facing Rufio by myself made me go weak in the kn...

...When newbie slayer Savannah Marshall lands her first assignment, she doesn't plan on meeting the vamp of her dreams. Staking Donatello Ravell might not have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. Wi...

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Collected Poems of John Keats : Volume 5, The Reader's Library

By: John Keats; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...n tears amid the alien corn;             The same that oft-times hath     Charm’d magic casements, opening on the foam  Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.   VIII Forlorn! the very word is like a bell     To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well     As she is fam’d to do, deceiving elf. Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive a...

... To My Brothers Addressed to Benjamin Robert Haydon To G(eorgina) A(ugusta) W(ylie) To Kosciusko Sleep and Poetry I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition On the Grasshopper and Cricket After Dark Vapours Have Oppressed Our Plains To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt To the La...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d it. But I know he did not return home. Instead, he has rambled into the hills again. Now the others are gone. And I wonder, looking towards the sl... ...eep. So, that was the resumption of our love...and, as I leaned against a hillside olive, the salt air fresh about me, I accepted defeat, aware that... ...eat, aware that my loneliness would appear again and again. There, on the hill, gazing seaward, where fishing smacks moved, I rubbed the horny bark,... ...Hand in hand, Sappho and her daughter, Kleis, walk along a path through hillside olive groves, the ocean white below, the murmur of waves part o... ...by the shore until the ball of fire sank wearily into the dark water. The hills had a beaten look, the sea an oppres- sive flatness. A gull’s cry wep... ...ing across the floor to the window, stopping there, leaping out, to other lands, other times, backlashing with the net that contains yesterday...fla...

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