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A Match of My Choice

By: Manohar Asija

...nadvertently, one on his official duty, while the other on past-time, enjoying holiday touring alone. Their next meeting, brings a female classfellow of theirs at the hill-station to make them enjoy one another’s company. This re-union continues to grow further during the years that follow. The author portrays just an account of certain events taking shape in the socia...

... also wanted thereby to express his gratitude to Mr. Malhotra who had arranged accommodation for him last night. Hemant was already under obligation of Mr Malhotra for his kind and affectionate treatment of Hemant when three years ago Hemant happened to meet him at the H.P.T.D.C. hotel at Manali where Manmeet Malhotra was working as an Astt Manager, those days. They wer...

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Abraded Emotionality

By: Manohar Asija

...r having driven over a hundred kilometers relating to the pleasure trip from Delhi to Kosani,a tourist resort situated in the Kumayun Hills a range of the Himalayas in the North of India, being undertaken by a group of very intimate three unwed oldies, all retired college teachers, when one of them is accosted by the owner of the roadside `Dhaba` (an indigenous restauran...

...helors, on their way to Kosani (Kumayun Hills), have just completed their breakfast at a roadside modern `Dhaba` and the cashier for this solid group of three looks towards his companions, as if to seek their consent to signal the `boy` to bring the bill. So, in a broader sense, we used to be treating each other as `neighbour`, during those days. He is younger to me b...

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A Match of My Choice

By: Manohar Asija

...nadvertently, one on his official duty, while the other on past-time, enjoying holiday touring alone. Their next meeting, brings a female classfellow of theirs at the hill-station to make them enjoy one another’s company. This re-union continues to grow further during the years that follow. The author portrays just an account of certain events taking shape in the socia...

... also wanted thereby to express his gratitude to Mr. Malhotra who had arranged accommodation for him last night. Hemant was already under obligation of Mr Malhotra for his kind and affectionate treatment of Hemant when three years ago Hemant happened to meet him at the H.P.T.D.C. hotel at Manali where Manmeet Malhotra was working as an Astt Manager, those days. They wer...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...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 ... ... like for normal people. It was surely a dust storm one invented in one's mind to escape loneliness but then it became intertwined in more neediness ... ..., could flaunt her around as the premier example of the dark vision in his mind and the sexual slavery of his nation all meshed together. He would ha... ...gh freedom to interweave within the slowness (a slowness that caused their minds to be more lamenting), Kumpee, at that time, made their way out of th... ...s of the trees. Everything changes. Good men are distorted into Gods, and philosophy is made into a sordid religion. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, H... ...s were the wrong choices. The enemy of my enemy is my friend was the wrong philosophy. Those were bad foreign affairs blunders. They continually int... ...ted to zoology she couldn't say unless the administration was privy to the philosophy of mice and men. All she knew was that the anthropology teacher ...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...ross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Pr... ...ic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers an... ... the truth about what he saw…the whole truth, no matter the consequence. His journalistic philosophy was one of integrity; he reported every controv... ...Iraq were exploding all around him, he felt a calmness that even he couldn’t explain. His mind had always gone into that quiet peaceful place within... ... as if it were the only thing in the universe. He strained to focus his eyes away but his mind began spinning as if in the throes of an eddy, dizzine... ...the entire world.” But, as hard as he tried, the blood-red eye of the camera captured his mind in a vise. He grabbed the edges of the desk to steady... ...reat.” - J.Cross/Stone 84 “What do you believe?” “I believe he never varied from his philosophy of world dominance. But I was in the minority.”... ...mination that science, not God, would get man to the moon.” “Is there any place in your philosophy that allows for a spiritual intervention?” “No...

...ities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Mi...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...trategicBookGroup.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wif... ... from the activity of your daily life and look around you. Do you see the mindless catle that you have become? Slaves to your technology. Slaves to ... ...“You are my second in command General Callous. I do not need to read your mind. Your surface thoughts though, those were strong when you entered and... ...le. “No, it wasn’t a question of body at that point; it was a question of mind. It was a question of will. I guess I kind of caught their atention w... ... more out there than standard Western Science can prove.” “We can’t go of philosophy for a real explanation,” Eve ar - gued. “Didn’t your science say...

...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

... email, floppy disk, network, print out, or any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines an... ...ps curved into a wicked smile. How could such lips—full, moist and capable of giving him so many of his first and only carnal pleasures—deliver such a... ...ntence? His death sentence, or very near, unless she decided to change her mind and spare him. Sahir shook her exquisitely-shaped head, jet-black curl... ...her lush eyebrows as if she knew what thoughts he harbored. "You are aware of your error, djinni?" Slowly, he nodded, loath to admit defeat as he had ... ...s in blue would be popping by for a visit, and Marsh would lose his canine mind trying to decide whose side to take and who to snarl at— mommy or dadd... ...her latest break-up with yet another brother who couldn't handle a serious-minded sister and didn't want to take the time to find out how. "Someone lo... ...Keever 297 "You do not have to hear it, to know that it is so." "Ah, Djinn Philosophy 101." Therese slid down further until most of her legs were in K...

...ughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.graciecmckeever.com)...

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

By: John Jay Chapman

...ENEDICT ARNOLD. JOSHUA SMITH. kox ANDR~. Mas. ARNOLD. W- ABNOLD, A Boy of Eight, Sun to Benedict. FATHER HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus ... ... HUDSON. CHOBUS OF WAVEB (Men). C~oaus OF CLOUDS (Women). CHORUS-LEADER OF MEN. CHORUS-LEADER OF WOMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT... ...OMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT. SCENE ACT I. THE SHORE OF THE HUDSON NU WEBT POINT. ACT 11. SITTING-ROOM. OF BENEDICT ARNOLD IN ... ...ndure. Father Hudson. Woe, woe, woe is me! Leader of Men. Untutored God! Mind ragged as thy hills, thou must accept the refining pain. Father Hud... ...Peace, Father! Do not whine. Because thou hast been spared thou art soft-minded. Because thou wast spared thou art a child. I Leader of Men. When... ...udson. Little I understand, but greatly pity. You, who have mastered all philosophy, Can surely soothe him. Leader of Men. None can reach the man... ...thou, 0 Father, see the in- visible, And know what agitates your placid mind? Father Hudson. Show me: I can re- ceive it. [The following Invocat...

THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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Watermelon Credo

By: Wally Amos

... Copyright © 2010 by Wally Amos and Stu Glauberman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tra... ...chanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the authors. Permission is given for brief excerpts to be publish... ...s watermelon hats, shirts, and shoes designed by Christine Harris-Amos Library of Congress Control Number: 2010902321 ISBN 978-0-615-34947-3 First... ...company like The Ritz-Carlton uses a credo to motivate employees to embody its philosophy of service excellence. How did I, Wally Amos, who became ... ...w much the tiniest of tots can absorb when a story is read aloud. Their little minds leap ahead, storing images, words, and ideas for future use. ... ...ularly addresses corporate and educational groups worldwide with his inspiring philosophy, "Be positive regardless!" For more information on Wally,...

...Due to the success of my Watermelon Credo Post, I created this book. Each letter in the word WATERMELON is a chapter. The W in Watermelon stands for: Whatever you believe creates your reality. And this book is a perfect example.What began as a ...

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Reaching the Top? All Paths are True on the Right Mountain

By: Lindsay Falvey

...This is the story of Lazuli, an average man with ordinary problems which, in his case, were enough to open his mind to something wonderful. Something that was already right in front of his nose – a mountain in the middle of his city that was v...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

... Published by RFS Publications This book is a work of fiction. Name, characters, places, and incidents are pro... ... Cover and interior design by Jeremy Robinson: www.jeremyrobinsononline.com No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatso... ...or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and revi... ... and Alex were experts at translating ancient Egyptian writing. “No,” Alex answered, her mind racing. “Let’s open the second cylinder.” Secret of ... ... already appeared quite lifelike. Traeus was excited to see the finished project. In his mind, he pictured what it would look like once the head an... ... at the university. He never made it. She shook her head, pushing the thoughts out of her mind, and looked backed to Mitch, trying to manage a small... ...trigue, you know. I do a little reading from time to time on certain areas of science and philosophy.” He turned back to Mitch and Alex. “You know ...

...For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands use...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ...UBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are L... ...am a terrorist?" My neighbour suddenly addresses me: "You've got nothing to say?" "To my mind, if she were a terrorist, she would have blown us a... ...My uncle, springing to his feet, circumnavigated the table to face my grandma and then, his mind changed, he exited the house, banging the door behi... ...eturn My Affair with Jesus by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. Losing my mind in a bed-sitter. Pipes crackling in the kitchenette,... ... scene. You see things you haven't known even existed. They call it "explanatory power" in philosophy of science. Her words had such an effect on me... ...raduated a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific West... ...ensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Ge...

A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...tying into his mouth from the upper coffin glided downward like the leaves of a deciduous tree; he was remembering happier times and in this confined ... ...itself in present and past tenses as well as its futuristic daydreams, his mind tried to slow this weltering; it invented its games of distractions, i... ... hanging in a tiny net of one of the inner walls of what he labeled in his mind as his "tomb." Hanging there, these two strips of a cotton contained b... ...on a molecular movement bumping and bouncing off the stored rubbish of his mind, so it was not entirely disagreeable. In many ways it besot him like o... ...he self or, at times, those marginally desperate eyes of one who, having a philosophy of needing no one, did not think that he had a reason to be desp... ...hey belonged to extreme cases, and under the "good deeds beget good deeds" philosophy of the Buddhists a wretch like him must have done something mons...

...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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Deep Fields

By: Kline, Tony

Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

...Deep Fields Out of the Dark Digging in Into the Fiery Darkness Passing Listening to Transience Seeing, Not Capturing The Meeting Pool Out Here After Long Concentration Beautiful, Shifting Light The Midnight Eye Sounds and Branches...

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The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes)

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...onstance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can fore... ...id the Latin saying “Otium cum dignitate” have a greater commentary to the mind of a poet than in this noble build- ing. The iron-work of the staircas... ...ecords on the Grand-Livre, he ought to have been studying his rhetoric and philosophy. While grinding the ministerial machine, he had no leisure to cu... ...nce which concealed the son of a porter, though none of it rubbed into his mind. His ignorance, however, taught him to keep si- lence, and silence ser... ...s marriage, about which I regret to say Felix does not behave with all the philosophy I could desire, may still not take place.” Seeing that Felix sho...

...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...

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David Copperfield Volume One Chapters One through Twenty-Eight

By: Charles Dickens

...ing chapters one through twenty-eight, by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...uld seem to re- quire. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achievemen... ...ould seem to re- quire. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achieveme... ...ut, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weatherbeaten ragged old rooks -nests, burdening their higher br... ...l. I of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. If you will allow me to take the liberty of remarking that ther...

...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -- pleasure in the ac...

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The Upanishads Translated and Commentated

By: Swami Paramananda

...he Upanishads trans. with commentary by Swami Paramananda is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ght to eliminate all that might seem obscure and con- fusing to the modern mind. While retaining in remark- able measure the rhythm and archaic force ... ...known to us. As Professor Max Mller states in his lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy: “One feels certain that behind all these light- ning-flashes of... ... value for the whole race of mankind…. Whatever new and unwonted paths the philosophy of the future may strike out, this principle will remain per- ma... ...tic, is not sufficient to make the Upanishads accessible to the Occidental mind. Pro- fessor Max Mller after a lifetime of arduous labor in this fiel... ...life unless the thought is tranquil and the energy concentrated. Until our mind is withdrawn from the varied distractions and agitations of worldly af... ... in pronouncing it one of the most perfect expressions of the religion and philosophy of the Vedas. Sir Edwin Arnold popularized it by his metrical re...

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The Meno

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... Meno by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...culty in showing that vir tue is a good, and that goods, whether of body or mind, must be under the direction of knowledge. Upon the assumption just ... ...modern times. But in the age of Socrates it was only by an ef fort that the mind could rise to a general notion of virtue as distinct from the partic... ... wisdom. There are many instincts, judgments, and anticipations of the human mind which cannot be reduced to rule, and of which the grounds cannot alw... ...he higher one of science, in the spirit of one who desires to include in his philosophy every aspect of human life; just as he recognizes the existenc... ...t of the affinities of nature (ate tes thuseos oles suggenous ouses). Modern philosophy says that all things in nature are de pendent on one another;... ...Laches, to the transcendentalism of Plato, who, in the sec ond stage of his philosophy , sought to find the nature of knowledge in a prior and future...

...Introduction: This dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ?whether virtue can be taught.? Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ?Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.? Yes, Socrates had m...

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The Soul of a Bishop

By: H. G. Wells

... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...ch it had arisen. Was it so that things had happened? The slumber-shadowed mind, moving obscurely, could not determine whether it was so or not. Had t... ...aming, of course. Was it dreaming after Raphael? After Raphael? The drowsy mind wandered into a side issue. Was the picture that had suggested this dr... ...only one aspect of his general neurasthenia. It had been creeping into his mind since the “Light Unden the Altar” controversy. Now sud- denly it had l... ...lowship. He took the Natural Science tripos, zoology chiefly. He’s good at philosophy, but of course our Cambridge philosophy is so silly—McTaggart bl... ...stration, chemistry, for example; but it is for every man to think his own philosophy and think out his own religion. One man may tell another, but no...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ave aban- doned still buzzing like a swarm of homeless bees in my head. My mind has been full of confused protests and justifica- tions. In any case I... ...e age I have reached, and wrote a book to en- gage the restlessness of his mind, very much as I have wanted to do. He wrote about the relation of the ... ...part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds that have had a kindred aspiration, have dreamt of a world of men bet... ...impossible to develop a new college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and... ...whom he waged a fierce obscure war… . It was Codger’s function to teach me philosophy, philoso- phy! the intimate wisdom of things. He dealt in a vari... ...t isn’t a very curable difference,—once people have grown up. Theirs was a philosophy devoid of finesse. T emperamentally the Baileys were specialised...

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