...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ... had escorted him around galleries, parties, and auditoriums where he gave speeches. Bangkok gossip columnists had sometimes even mentioned her presen... ...erratic. They hopped and skipped over each other and he held tightly onto parts of the clothing he lay on. Then with photographic images, he dreame... ...rotting surface of scaling skin, and deformed slabs of flesh spread out on parts of the overpass with fidgeting partial limbs. They all had nearly emp... .... They are stupid. Nobody has ever done anything like that; but the real parts of the stories are gaining courage and strength. My husband was in hi... ...elated to Australopithecus) humans had not learned love. They had learned speech and social skills for society to exist but they hadn't learned love....

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...e running around in the collecting waters--one kicking water up to the lower parts of the mirror that covered the walls. It all reminded him of his m... ...such things. As Dr. Lee had pointed out, even happenings in the most remote parts of the world often spread amuck like an oil spill in a global commu... ...cause she couldn't go. He had taken it. He loved symphonies and there were parts of this day when he told himself that he would go to Seoul for that... ...n though she had never wanted to hold onto anything. A lucid and excoriating speech was in her parched mouth but she could not say it. She only said ... ... temporary art exhibition where many of her works were on display and then a speech she gave to art students, faculty, and others interested in her ar... ...with quotations from Emerson, Thoreau, and myriad artists. It was a typical speech presented and specifically catered to those who yearned to hear mo...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...