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...A vivid and descriptive novel in search of a feature-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course, the cats do speak (o...

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...Fire and Fur The Last Sorcerer Dragon By Roger C. Schlobin FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND F... ... FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON THE LAST SORCERER ... ...GON by Roger C. Schlobin Readers’ Praise for Fire and Fur: “…best dragons I’ve ever seen…cinematic descriptions…finally some real love, emot... ...Y A vivid and descriptive novel in search of a feature-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Cho... ...He let them mingle with the jewels: glowing lilac for contemplation, ruby red for passion, pearl black for perseverance, warm rust for tenderness. ... ...d the plenty and ran back to their burrows with the unexpected treasure. Red-leg partridges pecked at the bounty that spilled from their packed che... ...w he pushed the air. It screamed through his scales, turning their edges red with heat. His claws gouged the stone with the force of his landing. ...

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...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...children run and get it. When I was a child, we still had some Thai style (dragon roofed) houses in our village, but there are none today. They are ol... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ...aviour. When I was a soldier, every Wednesday we were shown a very warlike film to give us courage, and I wasn't afraid of dying then. Now I am afraid... ...e might plough too deep, and then one won't get a decent crop, because the red subsoil is mixed with the topsoil. The costs of purchasing, repairing a... ...ted with fretwork, and the roof structure may be multi-layered like in old dragon houses. Teak timber is available again, imported by Thailand from ne... ... smithies. Upper-class houses used to have multi-paned, curved, so-called dragon roofs, like those still seen today on temples, and they were also co... ...ivation in dry season: garlic, onions, various chillies (peppers, phriks), red peppers, yardlong bean and peanut, that have been grown for generations... ...ald Buddha's carriage, with the donors receiving a small parcel wrapped in red paper in return. The evening ended with dance performances which belong...

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...all. I‘ve arranged for us to have our chat over lunch. Here at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Itali... ...n‘t have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be quite certain that Muhamm... ...lories and avoid highly saturated fatty foods. I know that I should avoid red meat and eat vegetables. If I opt for the hamburger or ice cream when ... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...od, sends fire on Sodom, orders the killing of whole nations, or lets the Red Sea engulf the pursing Egyptians after Moses had crossed. Can he tell ... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea... ...ted the real wealth of the world eastward. As the yuan grew from gecko to dragon and the Western currencies shrunk from elephantine to ant-like propo...

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...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male mate while copulating. The male red ba... ...the society? Italy‘s tight society and strong family security run counter to the competitiveness needed in global economics. No need to fight dragon... ...nowledge. This also frustrates our pursuit of what is good for us. What if someone says ‗I‘ve heard that people who drink alcohol, especially red wi... ...n non-drinkers. So I drink two bottles of red wine a day.‘ That person‘s knowledge of the effects of alcohol were incomplete because that much red wi... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,...

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...calls a singularity which was the origin of the Big Bang. If you reverse the film of a pebble hitting the 2-dimensional The Path of Splitness Cha... ...t, and has preserved to the present day. Einstein’s idea of a ‘gravitational red-shift’ is a complete blunder not only because he used Newton’s obs... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...s another medium like water, or a transparent pane of glass, or a transparent film of plastic. Space is a Pure Formless Medium. The only reason ... ...exactly like the living continent of Africa was sliced apart. So we could eat red meat. What is hatred? It is: ate red, the hatred of red blood. ... ... meat. What is hatred? It is: ate red, the hatred of red blood. If you eat red meat: you will become a hater. All living things will hate you, a... ...the complete fairy-tale fantasy idols of ancient Kings, warriors, dungeons and dragons that are sold to children. Once TV sold only stories about co... ...at rage. They deflected their rage into throwing firecrackers at the Gods and Dragons they were supposed to be celebrating and worshipping. It wa... ...s in far-east Asia. What was the Imperial symbol of China? The Royal Red Dragon representing the biblical evil of the snake. Which became an I...

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...nt me," said one, "or do you want another?" Sang Huin's face turned a bright red like it did with drinking a bottle of beer. He smiled and looked towa... ... sarem. He chuckled and then smiled at the faces he took in. He waited at a red light with other pedestrians. He sifted out bodies and faces. For a f... ... a tank through a desert and into Baghdad half-naked and exposed, waving her red white and blue brassiere from the opened hatch of the tank. Yes, she... ... the television instructor. The child she had given birth to had been like a dragon of the womb, pushing its young being of fiery hell out of her. Thi... ...g what was once pure and cloistered waters. With a temperature, black spots filming over her vision, and the need to vomit on and off for a period of... ...shoo away the pesty fly that was as pesty as Mormon flies (those sententious dragon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Na... ...le." It was published by the Latter Day Saints. She wondered whether these dragon flies were so insecure that they even needed children to validate ... ... brains but cast themselves as more Disney characters into this metaphysical film within the most salient roles. God that destroyed humanity in the f... ...h him how to become a man. When the movie ended the man said he had a better film in his apartment and they went away together to his furtive domain. ...

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...on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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... natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first ... ...er off than his father. Nine hundred first class dev ils, whose God was a Red Bull on a green field, would attend to Kim, if they had not forgotten O... ...nfusedly remembering O’Hara’s prophecies, ‘there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, a... ...g into English–‘nine hundred devils.’ ‘Ah,’ said Kim, ‘I shall remember. A Red Bull and a Colo nel on a horse will come, but first, my father said, w... ...ust do mysteries before fools; but have a care for thine eyes. Is there a film before them al ready? I save the babe, and for return thou–oh, shame...

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...N TAINA? ........................................................................................................................................ 118 RED DOG .............................................................................................................................................................. 119 CHIL?S SONG .............................................

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......................................................................... 118 RED DOG ...................................................................... ...e ra- 6 The Second Jungle Book vines burned up to broken wires and curled films of dead stuff; the hidden pools sank down and caked over, keeping the... ...thing of the wicked little Gondee axe that whirls across a clearing like a dragon-fly. “It was a pointed stick, such as they put in the foot of a pit-... ...tinging fly that comes out of white smoke [Hathi meant the rifle], and the Red Flower that drives us into the open. Y et for one night in the year the... ...Hill-food is very simple, but with buckwheat and Indian corn, and rice and red pepper, and little fish out of the stream in the valley, and honey from...

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...e portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. At this stage of the proceedings, a narrow ... ...dings, a narrow bright red car- pet was unrolled and stretched from the top of the marble steps to the curbstone, along the center of the black carpet... ...ious colors, and belonged to social organizations called “corps.” There were five corps, each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue cap... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ... heart whose love had more honored him than all his victories in war. When the people heard this resolve of his, they came and told him there was a pi... ...THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as full of history as he could stick, said that in the Middle Ages a most prodigious fire- bre... ...e ate men and cattle impartially, and was exceedingly unpopular. The German emperor of that day made the usual offer: he would grant to the destroyer ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with...

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... yoho! yoho! Nancy is off!’ the farmer cried, Advancing by the river side, Red-kerchieft and brown-coated;—’So, My girl, who else could leap like that... ...he dale 26 He leaps and lights, till his moments fail, Buried in blossoms red and pale, While the sweet birds sing his dirges! O Winter! I’d live th... ...s amorous whispers: But O such a lover Must win when he utters, Thro’ rosy red lispers, The pains that discover The wishes that gush From the torches ... ...ood with you. Heed that snare. Muffled by his cavern-cowl Squats the scaly Dragon-fowl, Who was lord ere light you drank, And lest blood of knightly r... ...ts no thing in nature, nought; Man the least, save when grave Age From yon Dragon guards his thought. Eye him when you hearken dumb To what words from... ...Inly only thrilling-shrewd, Such a servant as none saw Through his days of dragonhood. Days when growling o’er his bone, Sharpened he for mine and thi... ...ce plays T o bewitch, overcloud, illume. The dusty mote-images rose; Sheer film of the surface awag: They sank as they rose; their pain Declaring them... ...ring of space, By covert hoods and caves, Is promise of her secret face In film that onward waves. For darkness is the light astrain, Astrain for ligh... ...agrant wits that had Ideas buzzed; they were the feebly mad; Pursuers of a film they hailed ideal; But could be dangerous fire-flies for a brain Subdu...

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...ath, the tufts of flowers, purple and white columbines, and great oriental red poppies with their black chaps and mulleins tall and yel- low, this fla... ...lame in sunshine. She moved with a slow grace of energy like a blossoming, red- flowered bush in motion. She, too, seemed to come out of the old Engla... ...l in the head. The moment they forgot their tricks of criti- cism, the old red glow of his authority came over them again. He was not to be quenched. ... ...ston of the gun sprang back, there was a sharp explosion, and a very faint film of smoke in the air. Then the other two guns fired, and there was a lu... ... fellow was no fun. Instantly, like the gallant he was, he took her on the dragons, grim-toothed, round-about switchbacks. It was not nearly so exciti... ...ting as a tram-car actu- ally. But, then, to be seated in a shaking, green dragon, up- lifted above the sea of bubble faces, careering in a rickety fa... ... so well. So they warmed up to the fair. 39 England, My England After the dragons they went on the horses. John Thomas paid each time, so she could b...

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...into their usual seats, a little beyond the font, where they could see the red- furred tails of the bellropes waggle and twist at ringing time, they w... ...’s woman writes—that you can still tell ‘em by headmark. Their hair’s foxy-red still—an’ they throw out when they walk. He’s in- toed-treads like a gi... ...made—” He broke off. “The beasts!” she went on. “They’d be sure to build a red-brick lodge at the gates, and cut the lawn up for bed- ding out. You mu... ...eport her presence. She had always imagined Wax-moths to be like blood-red dragon-flies. “You had better fan out this corner for a little,” said the o... ... that again is the strong westerly blow through which we rose. Overhead, a film of southerly drifting mist draws a theatrical gauze across the firmame... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...ulder. “I’m chasing the night west.” The stars ahead dim no more than if a film of mist had been drawn under unobserved, but the deep airboom on our s...

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...nks—popes, and lord treasurers, and all sorts of old fel lows, with great red faces, and broken noses, turning up ev ery day—buff jerkins too—match ... ... time— woman—woman—bewitching woman,’ and down came the sovereign with the dragon (called by courtesy a woman) uppermost. Mr. Tupman rang the bell, pu... ...ost alarming manner, and making himself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever. Officers ... ...n on either side, as far as the eye could reach, but a long perspective of red coats and white trousers, fixed and motionless. Mr. Pickwick had been s... ...l be sufficient for our purpose to relate, that escaping the snares of the dragons in white aprons, who guard the entrance to that enchanted region, h... ...is features grew less and less distinct, and his figure more shad owy . A film came over T om Smart’s eyes. The old man seemed gradually blending int... ...g to run away with an immense rich heiress, from boarding school.’ ‘What a dragon!’ said Sam, refilling his companion’s glass. ‘It’s some boarding sch...

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...yez tous, nul ne touche!” struck me greatly. The supporters, a griffin and dragon gules, enchained or, made a pretty effect in the carving. The Revo- ... ...reaths of flowers and fruit; the windows had cambric curtains trimmed with red, the buffets were old pieces by Boulle himself, and the woodwork of the... ... coolness of the night calmed me. I crossed the Indre by the bridge at the Red Mill, took the ever-blessed punt, and rowed in front of Clochegourde, w... ...harply defined on the blue of the sky; the insects that live by light, the dragon- flies, the cantharides, were flying among the reeds and the ash-tre... ...nd collected group were bathed in the fading light of the setting sun; its red tints coloring the room, impelling the soul—be it poetic or superstitio... ...th trifles, we looked at the sedges along the banks and the blue and green dragon-flies; the countess wondered perhaps that she was able to enjoy such... ...ve her the viaticum. A few moments later her breathing became difficult; a film overspread her eyes, but soon they cleared again; she gave me a last l...

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...XXXIII DARE you see a soul at the white heat? Then crouch within the door. Red is the fire’s common tint; But when the vivid ore Has sated flame’s con... ...dlers be, infer. 29 XL THE thought beneath so slight a film Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the... ...on. “’T is iris, sir, and aster, Anemone and bell, Batschia in the blanket red, And chubby daffodil.” Meanwhile at many cradles Her busy foot she plie... ...ime ’t is,” she said; “The bumble-bees will wake them When April woods are red.” XI PIGMY seraphs gone astray, Velvet people from Vevay, ... ...ner through realm of briar Than the meadow mild, Oftener by the claw of dragon Than the hand of friend, Guides the little one predestined T o... ...89 The sweets of Pillage can be known 304 The thought beneath so slight a film 29 The treason of an accent 313 The way I read a letter’s this: 158...

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...aplets for their innocent brows 36 V olume One With the green ivy and the red wall-flower, That mock the dungeon’s unavailing gloom; The ponderous ch... ...d. Nature’s most secret steps He like her shadow has pursued, where’er The red volcano overcanopies Its fields of snow and pinnacles of ice With burni... ...in slumber, whence the regular breath Of innocent dreams arose; then, when red morn Made paler the pale moon, to her cold home Wildered, and wan, and ... ...nd Custom, and low-thoughted cares, _115 Like thunder-stricken dragons, for a space Left the torn human heart, their food and dwelling-pla... ... dead, And shared in fearless deeds with evil men, Calm as an angel in the dragon’s den— How I braved death for liberty and truth, And spurned at peac... ...ves not up its dead _1820 T o evil thoughts.’—A film then overcast My sense with dimness, for the wound, which bled Freshly... ... men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart Dare the unpastured dragon in his den? Defenceless as thou wert, oh, where was then Wisdom the ... ... in the Elysian calm Of its own beauty, floating on the line Which, like a film in purest space, divided _230 The heaven bene... ...the pool, _235 And on it little quaint and filmy shapes. With dizzy motion, wheel and rise and fall, Like clouds of gn...

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...leave to it: volunteer defenders, riflemen or pikemen in green uniform, or red nightcap (of bonnet rouge), defile before it daily, just on the wing to... ...glie chivalry; Royalist foot 22 The French Revolution - V olume Three ‘in red facing and nankeen trousers;’ breathing death and the gallows. And lo, ... ...l Tartarus for him; his horizon girdled now not with golden hope, but with red flames of remorse; voices from the depths of Nature sounding, Wo, wo on... ...Oeil-de- Boeuf: now there is that watched Circuit of the Temple, girt with dragon-eyed Municipals, where, as in its final limbo, Royalty lies extinct.... ... through thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respect- ability; trample it not, lest the f... ...ountain; Hercules- Peuple, with uplifted all-conquering club; ‘many-headed Dragon of Girondin Federalism rising from fetid marsh;’— needing new eloque... ...ot forever; no. All Anarchy, all Evil, Injustice, is, by the nature of it, dragon’s-teeth; suicidal, and cannot endure. Chapter 3.6.VI. To finish the ...

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...late colour (so far as her dress had any colour) slashed in one place with red flannel. She let him in and talked to him guardedly and peered at him r... ...xious.—Winkles, a frightful duffer … former pupil of mine … no good…. Mrs. Red- wood—unmitigated confidence in Winkles…. You know, man with a manner l... ... a second monster shone wickedly. An- other—a mere dreadful blackness with red-lit eyes and flesh- coloured hands—clutched unsteadily on the wall copi... ...wigs and no nettles, but there were at least three water- spiders, several dragon-fly larvae which presently became dragon-flies, dazzling all Kent wi... ...d his hopes and faith of a greater world to come no more than the coloured film upon a pool of bottomless decay. Littleness invincible! So strong and ...

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... Strongest of men, they pierced the mountain boar, Ranged the wild deserts red with monsters’ gore, And from their hills the shaggy Centaurs tore: Yet... ... of the sky: Lest, roused to rage, he shake the bless’d abodes, Launch the red lightning, and dethrone the gods. If you submit, the thunderer stands a... ...s shades around, The altars heaved; and from the crumbling ground A mighty dragon shot, of dire portent; From Jove himself the dreadful sign was sent.... ...the queen of soft desire. 83 Struck with her presence, straight the lively red Forsook her cheek; and trembling, thus she said: “Then is it still thy ... ...ra’s conquest was enjoin’d; A mingled monster of no mortal kind! Behind, a dragon’s fiery tail was spread; A goat’s rough body bore a lion’s head; Her... ...rk infold, T wice ten of tin, and twelve of ductile gold; Three glittering dragons to the gorget rise, Whose imitated scales against the skies Reflect... ...l mists. “But to nobler sights Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed.” “Paradise Lost,” xi. 411. 1...

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...was low. Dense masses of smoke hung amid the darting snakes of fire, and a red malign light was on the neighbouring leafage. No figures could be seen.... ...Richard were two pretty men,” in parody of the old ballad. Young Richard’s red eyes, and the baronet’s ruffled demeanour, told him that an explana- ti... ...with her ancient indecision what colours to assume on detection, flew from red to white, from white to red, across his fallen chaps. Letty laughed tri... ...Sweet are the shy recesses of the woodland. The ray treads softly there. A film athwart the pathway quivers many-hued against purple shade fragrant wi... ...th CHAPTER XX ENCHANTED ISLANDS have not yet rooted out their old brood of dragons. Wherever there is romance, these monsters come by inimical attract... ...ing, and Adrian turned away laughing at these Arcadians. Adrian was a lazy dragon. All he did for the present was to hint and tease. “It’s the Inevita... ... and then. It was not long before he heard a bellow for help—the roar of a dragon in his throes. Adrian placidly sat down on the grass, and fixed his ... ...51 George Meredith nite influence upon us, and yet we cannot fasten on the filmy things and make them visible and distinct to ourselves, much less to ... ...ows), and perhaps the clear-thoughted, intensely self- examining gentleman filmily conceived, Me also, in com- mon with the poet, she gazes on as one ...