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

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...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...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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...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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...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...

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...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... ...uctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance. He didn't mind that so much. To embark on a deep friendship with strong personal c... ... an eternal trip, cramped on a seat in the bus, disconnection was making his mind jittery, soft, and rolling like a ball away from him. He tried slee... ...ery, soft, and rolling like a ball away from him. He tried sleeping but his mind kept trying to imagine what really took place between his sister and... ... dilated her pupils. Gabriele thought about this subject or quasi-subject of philosophy. She wasn't even a philosopher and yet in a minute and a half ... ...him, she could advocate Gabrieleism everywhere. It would be her movement--a philosophy of self-containment and human empowerment to ward off loneline... ... into them because they were the substance of who he was. As the founder of philosophy, Thales, stated, everything was made of water. Sang Huin, this...

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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...to know himself far beyond his tutors, whether in knowledge or in power of mind. This was the case, so far as regarded knowledge at least, not with my... ...inst a person whom he had never seen; and I thought of letting him know my mind in Greek, which, at the same time that it would furnish some presumpti... ...tter Grecian. Calmer thoughts, however, drove this boyish design out of my mind; for I con- sidered that the bishop was in the right to counsel an old... ... when I am oppressed by anxieties that 39 Thomas de Quincey demand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy presence to support, and yet remember tha... ... the gentlemen in the cotton trade 15 at Manchester in affecting the Stoic philosophy, but not in this. Here I take the liberty of an Eclectic philoso... ...nd starts, or fragmentary efforts. Mathematics, for instance, intellectual philosophy, &c,, were all become in- supportable to me; I shrunk from them ...

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...Introduction: The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled The Single Hound, published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here collec...

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...nity....................................................176 Part Five The Single Hound .....................................................251 Index of First Lines.....................................................................327...

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...son Bianchi A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Emily Dickinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...rave— T o that new marriage, justified Through Calvaries of Love!” Her own philosophy had early taught her that All was in All: there were no degrees ... ... life than anything else that any one has ever written.” Mystic to mystic, mind to mind, spirit to spirit, dust to dust. She was at the source of thin... ...t opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old; What interested scholars most, What competitio... ...,— And that ’s the skies! 32 XLVI A THOUGHT went up my mind to-day That I have had before, But did not finish,—some way back, I co...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...the most permanent of his produc- tions, form a magazine out of which such minds as those of Bacon and Shakespeare did not disdain to help themselves;... ...e Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent. But, at the sam... ...of literary 7 Montaigne anatomy, where we get a diagnosis of the writer’s mind, made by himself at different levels and under a large variety of oper... ...se at the first occasion; and that this was the real object and aim of all philosophy. He then took my hand, and continued: “Brother, friend, there ar... ...noth- ing which has been written or been laid down, even in the schools of philosophy, respecting the sacred duties and rights of friendship, could gi... ... TO DIE O DIE O DIE O DIE O DIE CICERO SAYS—[Tusc., i. 31.]—”that to study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.” The reason of whic...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dle at a maturer age, when the characteris- tic features of the individual mind have been unfolded. And I contend that much more than amusement ought ... ...fruits, gathered hastily and without effort, by a vagrant but thought- ful mind: through the coercion of its theme, sometimes it became ambitious; but... ...l value upon intellectual forwardness? Serene and capacious as my sister’s mind appeared to me upon after review, was that a charm for stealing away t... ...rsery audience, he did not pursue. For some time he turned his thoughts to philosophy, and read lectures to us every night upon some branch or other o... ...nded at last to join us; but there ended the course of lectures on natural philosophy. As it was impossible, however, that he should remain quiet, he ... ... Edinburgh. Lord Monboddo himself trod an eccentric path in literature and philosophy; and our tutor, who spent his whole life in reading, withdrawing...

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...Excerpt: The United Force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more...

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...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ke him try to win a new character, but it only added a fresh terror to his mind; and nurse grew fond of manifesting her incredulity of his assertions ... ...y father and mother were both of the old-fash- ioned orthodox school, with minds formed on Jeremy Tay- lor, Blair, South, and Secker, who thought it t... ...amesake. However, when he took leave he repeated, as he kissed my mother, ‘Mind, Mary, don’t be set against the lad. That’s the way to make ‘em desper... ...rooms, but the light wasn’t to be seen except at Christmas. Griff with the philosophy of a university man, was certain that all was explained by Clare... ...more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in even an antiquary’s philosophy. He owned himself per- plexed, but reserved his opinion. At brea...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

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.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... mother was a woman of strong character and emotions, as well as excellent mind, but she was excessively formal, and she seems to have inspired more a... ... boys read poetry, whether in verse or prose, and fewer still criticism or philosophy; to ev- ery normal boy the gate of good literature is the good s... ... the nation. 19 Thomas De Quincey There was an impression upon the public mind, natural enough from the continually augmenting velocity of the mail, ... ...to the uttermost its privilege of imperial precedency, and astonished weak minds by the feudal powers which I hinted to be lurking construc- tively in... ...een inordinate desire and stupid indifference; etc.” (Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, Vol. I, p. 169). Zeno, who died about 264 B.C., founded about 3... ...scrip- 103 Thomas De Quincey tions of battles, the Anglo-Saxon fatalistic philosophy teach- ing that, certain warriors entered the conflict faege, “d...

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... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ...Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fi... ...d have been more to the purpose than my cut- lass. Of a sudden things began to go strangely easier; I found stumps, bushing out again; my body began t... ... the flageolet, till glory should call me farmering. I took up at the fit time Lafaele and Mauga—Mauga, accent on the first, is a mountain, I don’t kn... ...he wood will silently and swiftly heal them up with fresh effervescence; the cunning sense of the tuitui, suffering itself to be touched with wind-swa... ...it’s really rather riper), the t’other thing from Seeley, and I’ll tell you, you may put in my letter to the Church of Scotland—it’s not written amiss... ...St. Ives has paid the penalty. I must not let you be disappointed in St. I. It is a mere tissue of adventures; the central figure not very well or ver...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the Second Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among ...

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...s Series Publication Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...che, the soul or life, whose emblem is the butterfly, thus even in heathen philosophy strained towards the higher Love, just glimpsed at for a while. ... ... I was so much terrified lest he should speak to me that I had much ado to mind my steps. I know he had white gloves and diamond shoe-buck- les, and t... ...han our dear mamma?” “No, indeed! lovely was never the word for her, to my mind,” said Betty; “her face always seemed to me more like that of one of t... ...I am vexed beyond measure that he should have seen such rusticity.” “Never mind, dear Harriet. Most likely it was no such per- son, for it was not wel... ...t she never found out that it was an elaborate exposition of the Newtonian philosophy, including Mr. Arden’s views of the miracle at the battle Beth-h... ...uld, and if Mr. Arden’s sermon had not been of Solomon’s extent of natural philosophy, and so full of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin that she could not foll...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a carefu... ...ty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett re... ...ving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose inti... ... xiii PREFACE Steven James Bartlett Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University and Visiting Scholar in Psychology & ... ...iest ones, and read several passages. But I could not continue; I felt my mind wrapped in fog; my hands became icy. I shut my eyes and said to mysel... ...me and suggested we stroll in private. Obviously, he had something on his mind! He began by offering me an exquisite scarab, saying he had purchased... ...c as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. It must be graceful, stron...

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A collection of the author's original poetry centered around the themes of spiritual search and individual identity in the modern world.

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...Loose, Shifting Ghost Incantation Soul’s Mirror Trying To Make It Behind the Words Reflection No One Mind and Its Light Babel’s Tower Core Remains Word The Book Grave Goods Stranger You Build the Tower Birthing Your Image The Singing Here The Name River We Can Listen Writing Me I Entered Lances The Kingdom...

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...bsence All Kinds Hill-Fort Whitethorn Earth-Flame That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformatio...

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...Dark Matter A Figure Seated In The Twilight After The Flurry, Under The Moon March Winds Considering An Index Of First Lines Moor-Deep A Portable Inferno A Stirring Of Leaves Exhortation To The Self-Inventors Sun On Stone Light On The Lake Dale The Underlier Road-Kill Far Shores Heimat One Last Look The Walker In The Dea...

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...Wayfaring Parting A Dream Of The Sea Passage The Perfect Hour Shower Navigation Beyond In Which We Shine How Near New Muse Being Not Metaphor Without Raging Troubling The River-Bend Leavings The Mind-Muse Not Performance The In-Itself O...

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...Quietly Respect the Creatures In the Fire How Far Mind’s Gift Feel the Black Soil Sing Not Simpler Out of the Other Language Loosing Go Han Shan’s Mountain Plum Buds Diving Seeing World This Place Immortal, Ephemeral Going Past One Universe, Shining Empty Meaning...

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A new collection of the author's original poetry.

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...chitectures No Track One Leaf Direction The Seas It Doesn’t Last Tangled History, Futures Programme Singing In The Silence Human Gatherers Of Light Powerless Directions Mind Through You I See Make Riding The Earth Orbits The Silent Fire Arrow-flights Turnover Beyond Specifics Night Music Experience Not By Naming Getting There Looking Back One Pu...