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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 a...

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...ver seen…cinematic descriptions…finally some real love, emotion and humor in a fantasy novel…painfully beautiful…passionate, sensual…loved the sarca... ...ual…loved the sarcastic cat…bittersweet…full of action…awesome love scene in the thunderstorm…heartbreaking…best adolescent hero since Catcher in th... ...st adolescent hero since Catcher in the Rye.” Originally published in 1994 by Omnimedia. It is the first, original fantasy novel published el... ...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... .... The silver lids lifted slightly. Even at first waking, the oddly-hued blue eyes glowed with energy long dormant. The pointed tail curled lazily... ...e wondered who she would talk to if he passed on first. A small snort of blue- gray smoke popped from the nostrils: passed on first? Dragons always... ...way. The dragon dropped translucent membranes over his eyes, dulling the blue. The cat wisely slept with her tail to the cave mouth. There would ... .... "Was Kuan-ti really smarter than you are?" Ao Rue started out of his rhapsody and laughed. "Oh yes, I don't think there's been a better schola...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...y’s holdings. Imagine what that would be like. Imagine the little underlined blue hyperlink from each title—to my son it made perfect sense. The book’... ...hat, and about a lot else. 54 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 54 The blueprint for new intellectual property policy online came from the Paten... ...ent paper would be disappointing—irritating, even. But this document was the blueprint for the intellectual property regime of cyberspace. But do thes... ...ete, just as Apple could change the iTunes software to lock out Real Music’s Rhapsody. Doing so would have been quite within their rights. Indeed it i... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://...

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Excerpt: Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence.

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... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...y beautiful, passive, soft- skinned, soft-limbed. She wore a dress of dark-blue silky stuff, with ruches of blue and green linen lace in the neck and ... ...ockings, her large grass-green velour hat, her full soft coat, of a strong blue colour. And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstabl... ...colourless hair was untidy, wisps floating down on to her sac coat of dark blue silk, from under her blue silk hat. She looked like a woman with a mon... ...she had finished. But just as he was going to reply, she resumed her queer rhapsody—’never car- ried away, out of themselves, always conscious, always... ...ation, her white, rapt form drifting here and there in a strange impulsive rhapsody, seem- ing to be lifted on a breeze of incantation, shuddering wit... ...if the py- thoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in a rhapsody-wearied voice: ‘And you see, Rupert isn’t this, he isn’t. He is fr...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hamlet by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...rom the body of contraction plucks The very soul, and sweet religion makes A rhapsody of words: heaven’s face doth glow: Yea, this solidity and compo... ...ur soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infec... ... flat a mountain you have made, To o’ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus. HAMLET: [Advancing] What is he whose grief Bears such...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] j...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...r we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; w... ...here then were no hearsays. Canopus shining down over the desert, with its blue diamond brightness (that wild blue spirit-like brightness, far brighte... ...yebrows they formed Asgard their Gods’-dwell- ing; his skull was the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyp... ...solitudes answered not. The great Heaven rolling silent overhead, with its blue-glancing stars, answered not. There was no answer. The man’s own soul,... ...; as a well-written book, or indeed as a book at all; and not a bewildered rhapsody; written, so far as writing goes, as badly as almost any book ever...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d necklaces, and had mounted upon an elephant to the sound of the march in Bluebeard, in order to pay a visit of ceremony to the Grand Mogul. Charm- i... ... in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness. He was... ...is apothecary, Dr. Gollop, when he came to inquire about the liver and the blue-pill. Being an invalid, Joseph Sedley contented himself with a 27 Tha... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...ll you forgive the child for poor George’s sake?” Osborne broke out into a rhapsody of self-praise and im- precations;—by the first, excusing himself ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... as soon as it’s done,” replied the mother. “Isn’t it done?” he cried, his blue eyes staring at her in indignation. “Then I’m goin’ be-out it.” “You’l... ...was an engineer—a large, handsome, haughty man, proud of his fair skin and blue eyes, but more proud still of his integrity. Gertrude re- sembled her ... ...er, loved her mother best of all; but she had the Coppards’ clear, defiant blue eyes and their broad brow. She remembered to have hated her father’s o... ...ringly sensitive thing—seemed nothing to her. Even her soul, so strong for rhapsody, was not enough. She must have something to reinforce her pride, b... ...now what for. When she returned she was pursed up close. But it was only a film over her fire. He, with ruffled hair, was sulking upon the sofa. She s...

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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ir on each side of his smooth face, and with eyes of such a very undecided blue that they seemed to have somehow got mixed with their own whites. He w... ...right-side flaxen curls and whisker, and following Mrs. Joe about with his blue eyes, as his manner always was at squally times. My sister had a trenc... ...any. I remem- ber Mrs. Hubble as a little curly sharp-edged person in sky- blue, who held a conventionally juvenile position, because she had married ... ...y of unhappiness I got these broken words out of myself, I don’t know. The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed o... ..., and love me though he did, the light left his face ever and again, and a film came over the placid look at the white ceiling. “ Are you in much pain... ...officer away . The change, though it was made without noise, drew back the film from the placid look at the white ceiling, and he looked most affectio...

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...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...wer portion of one leg became visible, and I instantly recognized the gray-blue material of trou- sers he often wore, but the stuff appeared semitrans... ...ten feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose af- finities are rather with flowers and birds and all en-... ...iam James us then resolutely turn our backs on the once-born and their sky-blue optimistic gospel; let us not simply cry out, in spite of all appearan... ...ttle the ice is melting, and the inevitable day drawing near when the last film of it will disap- pear, and to be drowned ignominiously will be the hu... ... special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely di... ...pecially the latter parts, and Jefferies’s wonderful and splen- did mystic rhapsody, The Story of my Heart. 413 William James its prestige as distinc...