... Kabbalah. People like you, whose point in the heart (the point that makes us wonder about the meaning of life) has awakened, sent me these ques- tio... ... men, and so are the ways in which women can approach the Creator. Q: Can any woman rise to the spiritual world, and if so, to what degree? T H E S... ...and if so, to what degree? T H E S T U DY O F K A B B A L A H 95 A: Yes, any woman can, and no less than a man, provided she has the desire from Ab... ...re a difference in the study of Kabbalah between men and women? A: No. Man or woman, it doesn’t matter. Women must also de- velop spiritually. The on... ...atisfied that aspiration over thousands of years? A: The aspiration to know is wonderful, although it mustn’t be an aspiration for knowledge alone, b... ...since a true analysis cannot come at the beginning of the learning process, I wonder what efforts we can make in our desires to change ourselves? Ca... ...hing that is written there. We will have to experience all the events and the characters in it, and only after that will we be able to actually sens... ...ill be like Moses, or to be exact, that each of us must be like all the other characters in the Torah, such as Pharaoh, Balaam, etc. But Moses is th...

... answers in the text, experiencing them in the simplest meaning of the word. Any student of Kabbalah, novice or advanced, will find this book to be a wonderful companion and a great reference for a fountain of genuine knowledge....

...world of symbols you preferred. When I was a teacher I came across a young woman who cried amidst much suffering: “Oh that Oedipus Complex! It’s tortu... ...lly came to be used for a female bodhisattva as Buddhism spread. 25 We may wonder why Buddhism, as adopted by modern Westerners, retains the original ... ... in contrast to the Oriental feeling that a Buddha might equally well be a woman. The explanation may be simply that Buddhist converts in the West com... ...imagination? 35. See Myoho-Renge-Kyo, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, Tokyo, Rissho Kosei-Kai, 1970, pp. 307-8. 36. For example, P... ...c syllables, which are called “seed,” must not be regarded as mere written characters, or symbolic representations of things, but as living beings sta... ...a. This is the premise which pervades The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, particularly popular in Japan. Nevertheless be- lief in perm... ...ce a very similar dilemma. A drama usually includ- ed a number of roles or characters to be played on stage, yet tra- dition demanded that the actual ... ...wo, or at most three. How is it possible for there to be, let us say, nine characters in a drama while using only three ac- tors? The obvious solution... ... that person’s cultural conditioning an image of a presumed “supernatural” woman seen with the “inner eye,” so to speak, must be the Virgin Mary becau...

... 43 By corroborating my obsessive dream with the occurrence of 1959, I wonder whether during the past of the Cluj University or of a similar one ... ...rfection of His own work, by first acting and then judging. One shouldn′ wonder that within such a context, the view on the Last Judgement is seen a... ...’s missionary works). 75 How else can we explain the existence of such characters, at least during those times, than by the fact that they were o... ... means be death sentenced. Do not sleep with a man like one sleeps with a woman.> V.T. Exodus 20.14;22.10 Leviticus 18,22 This summary o... ...ed externally, as Einstein put it, by the way Jesus judged the depraved woman;<… who thinks he is no sinner, let him be the first to throw the sto... ...would have been possible after approximately 150 years. Is it realistic, I wonder, to suppose that at the beginning of the third millennium, the fam...

...tional writings by e-mail, and read them on desk and wall calendars. I often wonder how to apply that day’s “lesson” to my writing, and how to share m... ...esires of your heart.” Psalm 37 (NIV) F or many years, I misinterpreted this wonderful verse of the Psalms. I took it to mean that if only I could fig... ...ng of God’s word. Even as I study the Bible to find answers for my fictional characters, I find wisdom for my own life. Instead of fame, God has bless... ... take our breath away daily. Taking a reflective and genuine notice of these wonders is like a supernatural embrace from the Designer Himself. What an... ...ging voice in my head, wonderful words often begin to bloom. In fiction, my characters will sometimes invent solutions, or better yet, new problems f... ...life-lessons leading to the development of meaty story lines and full-bodied characters. No paper dolls. Yet, I often get hung up with observations, ... ... because of one very small statement by my cowboy, Raul Escobar. He told the woman of the house in Argentina, “I…I think I’m a Catholic.” She replied,...

...f Bina. Zivug—coupling—is translated as a sexual union between a man and a woman in this world. Since spiritual actions are absolutely detached from ... ...ated it mixed with the Kelim (desires) of Bina, thereby demonstrating how wonderful it would be to be like Him. While performing altruistic actions,... ...e referred to as “Rabbi Chiya.” Naturally, Rabbi Shimon and all the other characters of The Zohar are spiritual Partzufim, rather than people of our... ...prophet Micha (Micah) says of this: “As we fled the land of Egypt, we saw wonders.” However, this was only the beginning, for it was only in the End ... ...arsaot in one bound. And as soon as this empty firmament stops, an impure woman emerges at once, seizes onto this empty firmament, and partakes in i... ... restricted and closed to the reception of Light. And this is a great and wonderful secret, for, as Malchut objects, even on the first day, it is sa... ...ells-garments, like the corporeal bodies in our world. Similarly, all the characters depicted in Kabbalah do not designate any images; rather, they ... ...l desire to perceive His plans as though they were plans of one born of a woman, i.e., as though they were of this world. And since he likens the Cr... ...paid a visit to Rabbi Shimon. Just like all the other names of places and characters mentioned in the Torah, the Talmud, and the Kabbalah, names of ...

...t the Creator cannot be called a Creator if there isn’t a creature, just as a woman cannot be called a mother if she doesn’t have a child. It is only... ... womb (Bina). The conception lasts nine months, the same time it takes for a woman to give birth in our world. The birth of the soul is the transiti... ...art. But each name can only be attained once and in a certain degree. Man and woman are a union of Zeir Anpin and Malchut of the world of Atzilut. I... ...ec- tion. That is why the body doesn’t change when the soul changes. Even our characters remain the same. My rabbi was still running around at the a... ...uls. “Meaning, everyone from Israel is guaranteed finally attaining all these wonderful attainments that God has resolved in the Thought of Creation... ...that every man from Israel is guaranteed the ultimate attainment of all these wonderful attainments that God resolved, in the Thought of Creation, t... ...re PA RT F O U R : P RO P E R S T U DY 289 without any effort, that would be wonderful. There is no necessity to look for hardship in our world. Ho... ...ust be immediately ascribed to ourselves, out inner state. We must relate the characters to our properties, the events in our world are actually rel...

...en they are faced with pain and death (see Charlie in the movie "Scent of a woman"; A.M. "La nascita della Cosmo-Art: Primo Laboratorio di Cosmo-Art ... ...ts silk into a garment or a scarf that ends up beautifully draped around a woman's neck. We also don't know who will weave the beauty we have create... ...t as well. The I-You couple is not only the couple created by a man and a woman, it can also be the couple formed by two people who fuse together t... ...d by two people who fuse together through friendship as a decision: see the characters Slide and Charlie in the movie "Scent of a Woman" , Andy and R... ...s pressing request and her unconscious manipulation. There is certainly no wonder that thousands of them then look for an accommodating uterus in th... ...and there are the Phaeacians who are ready to welcome you and fill you with wonderful gifts. ***** 73 OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR AMO...

...se of fertilizers is quite common. My family has used only improved seed ('Wonder Rice') for quite some time now. I only grow enough rice for our own ... ...n this village, the highway has been the key to change and development. No wonder that the villagers talk about construction of the roads when thy are... ... suitable for industrial cultivation, the most famous being the so-called 'wonder rice' varieties. In the 1950s, an international testing station was ... ...ds have been tied in the morning, the man then returns to his home and the woman starts decorating herself and dressing up. In the afternoon, about 5 ... ...y in the past, nor did guests bring presents money wasn't used. Today, the woman doesn't need to pay for anything when she marries. Before, the man di... ...sh; even today, Thai and Chinese family businesses in Lampang often have a woman director. There has been no hierarchical division of labour in villag... ...t in a city-like dream environment, in luxurious urban homes, and the main characters solve their perennial narcissistic human relationships problems,...

...rstand it. The stuff is also a lot of fun to think about. I live in constant wonder that they pay me to do so. Should you be able to tell the story of... ... the U.S. Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it mean t... ...t should expire eventually. But remember, in the Library of Congress’s vast, wonderful pudding of songs and pictures and films and books and magazines ... ...successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism o... ...d expressive work; can a mousetrap or a drug molecule express the riddle and wonder of the human spirit?) Whatever their moral basis or their ambit, t... ...The Second Enclosure Movement -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater vil... ... for literature: the expan- sion of copyright’s ambit to cover plotlines and characters makes it more questionable. Certainly many recognized forms of...

...s reserved. http://www.jdhollyfield.com This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's i... ...y oldest daughter who constantly wanted to know what Laylah and the other characters were doing. My daughter's boundless interest kept me motivated. ... ...nd she watched the progression of a group of felines as they herded a man, woman and child to the spot where she stood. The small family was unceremo... ... deep gouge marks on Zina’s chest. With a snarl, Zina leaped at the other woman. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Henry and Laylah escaping. ::... ...her. They made it a few feet down the hall before it occurred to Laylah to wonder how Britta found her in the first place. “Brit, how did you know I ... ...tor’s mouth and knew he’d hit a nerve. “She did, didn’t she? I swear that woman needs to learn some new tricks. Of course, you can’t teach an old do... ...at!” The look in Gerard’s eyes gave Jacques pause. He had only a second to wonder before he was bowled over from behind by a giant snarling leopard. ... ...were tale spinners who helped her leave misery behind and find comfort in characters who could not be disappointed. With a light step and smile, Lay... ...sitting in her seat as Miss Lipps began to teach. The entire time, Laylah wondered what her best friend felt was so urgent. She really hoped it wasn’...

...nk You If life is anything, it's people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all connected and we all need each other. My fr... ... your business is not the end of the world. Sharing my story proved to be wonderful therapy. The audience became the doctor, and I, the patient. And... ...nd hardest worker there was. The only non-farm work available to a black woman in the South who did not read or write was as a domestic servant. So... ... sit in the front of the bus, since it was empty except for a young white woman who was the bus driver's girlfriend. Ruby felt justified in her deci... ...r a fix of her treats. The pause in the day for the ritual of eating, the wonderful taste, and the warm feelings I felt for the person who made them... ...roadened distribution. Their strategy was well thought out, and it worked wonders. Sales soared, and The (Nameless) Amos Company recovered. When Por... ...cure the missing chocolate chips. Along the way they meet many enchanting characters to whom they teach the joys of living and loving. 93 94 • Ma...

...t in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes such characters, and we shall send him away to another city after pouring... ...s that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western wedding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture wit... ...Lin as if, after a long search, that creature had found his alter ego in the woman and would not let it go. After five minutes of waiting alone, sitti... ...itch that would every now and then startle him into wakefulness and he would wonder where he was: Muguk, Chongju, Seoul, or "Miguk." Sometimes at the ... ...he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a woman; and except for once of saying, "Well...I understand, but" (and sto... ...eyond pleasant countenances to a suffering innate in other beings, it was no wonder that he was peculiar. It was no wonder that at Christmas parties o... ...d walked to the bathhouse called a mokotong. The day was fiercely hot and he wondered if it would be better to jump on a city bus since he had experie... ...t was deflating her of all energy to the point where she couldn't follow the characters or plot since the figures were now helter-skelter in the meani... ... told herself that being here with illiterate, drug dependent, and lethargic characters was not all that different than her work as a staff psychologi...

...of Honor 1 The Kingdom of Arnhem Book 1 Woman of Honor By: Nicole Zoltack Nicole Zoltack ... ... retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the auth... ...ns – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. Woman of Honor 3 Dedication To my parents who told me over ... ...reams come true. Nicole Zoltack 4 Child Aislinn Woman of Honor 5 Chapter One Arnhem, 1155 AD “Father?” A... ...r. The same boy from the throne room stood before her, his face so stoic she wondered what thoughts formed behind his dark eyes. “Hello, I’m Caelan... ...cing brown eyes accessing her. Turning abruptly, he stormed away and Aislinn wondered if he approved or not, not that it mattered either way. “Who ... ...be Adamina’s mentor. This hurt Aislinn more than her aching muscles, and she wondered just what it was about Adamina that drew them like flies to mo...

...On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills, Impressed, upon all forms, the characters Of danger or desire; and thus did make The surface of the univ... ...the rhymes were gone that once inscribed 150 The threshold, and large golden characters, Spread o’er the spangled sign board, had dislodged The old Li... ...lides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not 415 If high the transport, great the joy I felt, Communing in ... ... heart of human kind. While this was uttering, strange as it may seem, 110 I wondered not, although I plainly saw The one to be a stone, the other a s... ...al fear, Unless it leap upon him in a dream, Touches him not. To enhance the wonder, see 310 How arch his notices, how nice his sense Of the ridiculou... ...workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree; Characters of the great Apocalypse, 640 The types and symbols of Eternity... ... our pastoral hills, I heard, and for the first time in my life, The voice of woman utter blasphemy— 385 Saw woman as she is, to open shame Abandoned, ... ...h people yet astir, The feeble salutation from the voice 665 Of some unhappy woman, now and then Heard as we pass, when no one looks about, Nothing is... ... upon her arm, Of hawker’s wares—books, pictures, combs, and pins— Some aged woman finds her way again, 30 Year after year, a punctual visitant! There ...

...on in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s im... ...ess of the unemployed. My dear mother is a typical example of a well-bred woman, who has about as much independence as a man in a straight jacket wi... ...lated, shit for brains, which in his case is incurable. The symptoms are, womanising, idolising one’s self, sucking up for self-gain and when it com... ...you. The weather here interferes with the prehistoric phone lines; it’s a wonder we haven’t already been cut...” Hanging up is easier than being 6 ... ... tyre, kick to the back tyre, oh no not the bodywork, yep the bodywork. I wonder if they’re into martial arts. After assessing the situation, I concl... ...swinging open to reveal Mr. tall, dark and wet. Oh my God, he’s the ninth wonder of the world. Where’s my camera when I need it. By invitation, he i... ...lty tonight, nappies, diva, granny snatching?” I did say my brother was a womaniser and he isn’t fussy. 9 “Very funny Sis; least you still have a se... ...his house; it’s so full of character. All you got was a house filled with characters, so don’t blame me!” “I’m not blaming you!” Well I was, but I’m...

... your address and not all were once human. Australian author Christine Jones writes for many genres from science fiction fantasy to humor. Though the characters in this book are fictitious, many of the incidents took place and by yours truly. The farm itself is real, right down to every description. I ought to know, I once owned it....

...microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you plant an orange seed and wonder about it. If you care for the seedling, and study its growth cl... ...der about it. If you care for the seedling, and study its growth closely and wonder about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it.... ...o a tree and wonder about it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branc... ...r Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 191 It is the story and the characters that evolve, and change, and grow… not the writer. Using ... ...into an amateur theatrical production, and create an entire cast of fictional characters, and an entire make-believe world for them to live in: TH... ... Dynamics 236 cells won the space race to get to the moon. Kennedy was a womanizer. He fucked more girls than any American President in Americ... ...ouncil centers. Girls and women were forbidden to assume a sitting posture. Woman had to get on their knees and bow before them in order to be lowe... ...re the men cannot have multiple wives anymore as they once did: they force one woman to do the work of five or ten that had previously shared the bur... ...writers in the world… who try to make their fictitious lies, these fictitious characters… the most well-spoken, the most intelligent, the most lovin...

...on in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s im... ...ontinued to speak aloud, as though the demon in question was present. “No wonder you got the boot. You never start a report with upstairs has a firm... ... appearance. We can definitely use this to the fullest, thanks to a most wonderful curse, which you incited and He upstairs inflicted upon women, n... ... young single women of the town. Harold and Bertram’s idea of romancing a woman is a tractor ride across the back paddock to their favourite creek to... ...lligent, arrogant and is a delight to work with. Morris has a tattoo of a woman on his stomach and with vigorous belly movements she dances, which h... ... who know her would say, you would have to search long and hard to find a woman like Stella Brown; the type of person one takes an instant liking to... ...to be awoken some time ago, but the memo got lost in the system. Snakelex wondered why head office ever bothered with 24 imps, as they never knew h...

... death forever, and a type of beauty that is created only when a man and a woman manage to produce glorious concordance, after much suffering and aft... ...scribes, in poetic form, the spiritual alchemical process that a man and a woman can undergo so as to meld into “a single soul”. This can then creat... ...more beautiful and more precious than this when with a single soul man and woman run their household; the malicious are rendered furious but their ... ...ly remember his cunning and thirst for knowledge. No one seems to stop and wonder about the many woes that Ulysses had to endure. Why is it that no... ... their madness. While Ulysses and Aegisthus are obviously two different characters, I believe that Ulysses represents only one part of Homer, whi... ...ng come face to face with death while still in the womb, Ulysses will have wondered for a long time about the meaning of life and why death exists. H... ...y” (apòtheton kàllos) on page 157, by the author Nicetas (11th century). I wonder if he was speaking of the same type of beauty that I am. Otherwi... ... You , of the masculine and feminine principles, represented by the female characters that Ulysses encounters during his journey and that are always... ...er mythological figures mentioned in the Odyssey exist. (Nor do any of the characters invented by Shakespeare or Pirandello or any other author exis...

...the individual finalized only to himself, and today even the common man or woman can say that he or she is a person and not a thing. Based on this c... ...ill make her pay for it in every moment. Will this mother be 19 a happy woman? Absolutely not. But try to tell her to give up her power over the l... ...u of another brief definition of humanity: what does it mean that a man or woman is a person? It means that a man or woman is a being from the begin... ...aged to make my SELF emerge? Some examples come to mind that I find myself wondering about. Let’s look at Baudelaire: I would think that he became a... ... negative moment of humanity’s inability to achieve its purpose. All these characters, which seem to me to have acquired their own identity, who exp... ... joy of living we must first develop our ability to love. I can’t help but wonder, though, if the ability to love hasn’t always been a necessary sta...

............................................................ 48 A Second-Rate Woman......................................................................... ...ith our degree. —The Lost Bower. THIS IS THE HISTORY of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into prin... ...s begin and many come to an evil end. The mistake was due to a very clever woman making a blunder and not retrieving it. Men are licensed to stumble, ... ...onical.’ Mrs. Mallowe laughed to herself. Then she grew suddenly sober. ‘I wonder whether I’ve done well in advising that amusement? Lucy’s a clever w... ... and he shall become a success as great a success as your friend. I always wondered how that man got on. Did The Mussuck come to you with the Civil Li... ...Hauksbee of wasting her time. Otis Yeere was one of those wandering ‘dumb’ characters, foredoomed through life to 17 Rudyard Kipling be nobody’s prop... ...hat was wrong of you. You haven’t been moping? She. Not very much. Can you wonder that I’m disinclined for amusement? He. Frankly, I do. Where was the...

...Illusion ........................................................................................................................... 48 A Second-Rate Woman................................................................................................................... 62 Only a Subaltern........................................................................................

...d commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRA... ...y intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRAU, author and historian: “...Characters and scenes are so right and living...it is so beautifully done,... ... a name and confirm that this was another, not Alcaeus. But no, I knew. A woman knows a man she has loved, however battered he may be. I turned to w... ...n. I could not remain any longer. I hurried home, past his house to mine, wondering what kind of haven it could be, wondering what people would say a... ...ome like this.” “It’s spring, Alcaeus, don’t talk like that,” I said, and wondered what spring might signify to him. He did not speak for a while, ... ... fool. What right have I to criticize anybody? So he brought home a slave woman. Haven’t I had my share?” I did not interrupt, preoccupied as I was... ... often enough!” He was trembling so hard, he could hardly speak. It is no wonder Alcaeus calls him a “stick of driftwood.” He has an abandoned air t... ...y and read to him, the honey- suckle makes its fragrance outside, surely a woman’s flower, so fecund. I try to keep my voice and thoughts within the ... ...haped oval, unlike any I had seen. An amethyst was set in the center with characters engraved around it. “An Etruscan scarab should make a pretty ke...

...be born crystallizes at the moment of voluntary and intentional fertilization. If a woman knowingly engages in sexual intercourse for the explicit ... ...ly (except, to some extent, smokers -–but, then they gamble, not contract). When a woman engages in voluntary sex, does not use contraceptives and ... ...e fetus emerges and the pregnancy continues OUTSIDE her womb? Even after birth, the woman's body is the main source of food to the baby and, in any ... ... he is constantly threatened both by his internal and by his external universes. No wonder that there is a close affinity between the personality di... ...nd ubiquitous enemies - Jews learned to closely cooperate in order to survive. No wonder that all modern global networks - from Rothschild to Reut... ... in other words, are like everyone else. Can we say the same about anti-Semites? I wonder. The Anti-Israeli: The State of Israel is likely to end ... ...ity with its representation through media images. Actors are misperceived to be the characters that they play in a TV series, wars are fought with ... ...he above conditions. h. Explanatory – The plot must explain the behavior of other characters in the plot, the hero's decisions and behavior, why ... ...e above conditions. h. Explanatory – The plot must explain the behaviour of other characters in the plot, the hero's decisions and behaviour, why ...

...o and a small num- ber of stories like “The Egg” and “The Man Who Became a Woman” there has rarely been any criti- cal doubt. * * * 8 Sherwood An... ...wift, and Wash Williams are not, nor are they meant to be, “fully-rounded” characters such as we can expect in realistic fiction; they are the shards ... ...ore, but something inside him was altogether young. He was like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him was not a baby but a youth. No, it wa... ...ing inside him was not a baby but a youth. No, it wasn’t a youth, it was a woman, young, and wear- ing a coat of mail like a knight. It is absurd, you... ... Perhaps our talking of them will arouse the poet who will tell the hidden wonder story of the influence for which the hands were but fluttering penna... ... dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she d... ...ran to a window. All of the people stirring about excited his mind, and he wondered what his mother was doing in the house in town. From the windows o... ...nt. “Your minds are lazy. Your indifference to education is affecting your characters. You will amount to nothing. Now mark what I say—Louise will be ...

... quail. Yet if I tell the dream—but let me pause. What dream? Erewhile the characters were clear, Graved on my brain—at once some unknown cause Has di... ... with me alone, That fire of feeling freely shone; She loved not awe’s nor wonder’s gaze, Nor even exaggerated praise, Nor even notice, if too keen Th... ...ys: “She loved me more than life; And truly it was sweet T o see so fair a woman kneel, In bondage, at my feet. “There was a sort of quiet bliss To be... ...haos varies; Poised in the eddy to the storm, Before the eye it tarries. A woman drowned—sunk in the deep, On a long wave reclining; The circling wate... ... latchet, holds A candle to his sight, And Gilbert, on the step, beholds A woman, clad in white. Lo! water from her dripping dress Runs on the streami... ...eyes. 38 Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë Those tears flow over, wonder not, For by the inscription see In what a strange and distant spot H... ...oncealed, Unto the vision of my soul Were graciously revealed. But while I wondered and adored His Majesty divine, I did not tremble at His power: I f...

...te to her family on the subject till actually married. Lady Bertram, who was a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably easy and indol... ...her’s existence during the eleven following years, or at least to make it very wonderful to Sir Thomas, that Mrs. Norris should ever have it in her po... ...en of my sisters? — and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just — but you know I am a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be frightened from a ... ...as sanguine in the hope of her being materially better for change of air. Poor woman! she probably thought change of air might agree with many of her ... ...ing. Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and g... ...r by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness; Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid servants sneered at her clothes... ...ke no dif ficulties. Lord Ravenshaw and the duke had appropriated the only two characters worth playing before I reached Ecclesford; and though Lord R... ..., so many things to be attended to, so many people to be pleased, so many best characters required, and above all, such a need that the play should be... ...this great irreconcileable difference, they wanted a piece containing very few characters in the whole, but every character first rate, and three princ...

... and household utensils as were essential, and the concierge told me of a woman who would come in for half a day and make my café au lait in the mo... ...ould have been ashamed to see it repub lished. As I read The Magician, I wondered how on earth I could have come by all the material concerning the ... ... of the flowers were withered. The formal gar den reminded one of a light woman, no longer young, who sought, with faded finery, with powder and pain... ...stinction which him self had never won. Though too much interested in the characters of the per sons whom chance threw in his path to have much ambi... ...ng person. She has beauty and grace and sympathy. But 12 TheMagician your characters are more different than chalk and cheese. Notwithstanding your b... ... Margaret’s young enchantment in all that was ex quisite. She was a plain woman; but there was no envy in her, and she took the keenest pleasure in M... ...gh too much engrossed in his beloved really to notice anyone else; and she wondered how to make conversation with a man who was so mani festly absorb... ... state. It seemed a little fright ened still, but otherwise recovered. ‘I wonder what the deuce was the matter with it,’ said Arthur. Oliver Haddo lo... ... which her eyes rested; and it was with a little pang, her mind aglow with characters and events from history and from fic tion, that she turned away...

... always for Miss Allen when the sick girls wanted to be amused.” “Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was interested about. ... ... curiosities of a man of cultivation, and pre- sided over by his mother, a woman of much the same bright, keen, alert sweetness of air and countenance... ...ou were the very best mother in the world:” and he came and kissed her. “I wonder what she will say, the dear child!” “May be that she has no taste fo... ...th the little brown hands into his own, and looking into the widely-opened wondering eyes; while she answered, “if I may,”—the very words, almost the ... ... caseine matter was in the cow’s milk,” said Janet in her 18 Magnum Bonum womanly tone. “Or by what rule the pigs curled their tails,” said her fa- t... ...s height, and there were cases for which he was very anxious. The good old woman, who had lived nearly all her life with her mistress, was broken-hear... ...Armine and Babie were 147 Yonge everybody else in turn, except the wicked characters, who were represented by the cabbages and a dummy. “Reading was ... ... who had never kept her boys at a distance, and who understood their ways, characters, and code of honour; and besides Rob was her eldest, and she had... ...iscipline. We have to think not only of justice but of the effect on their characters.” “That’s the modern system,” said the Colonel indignantly. 168...

...e brick bank; no matter where, no matter how much or how little. I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the... ...his was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful tri angles! What distant and different beings in the various m... ...ide, clothes introduced sewing, a kind of work which you may call endless; a woman’s dress, at least, is never done. A man who has at length found som... ...atives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cannot be wondered at, since, as far as I have heard or observed, the principal obj... ...dicament as the man who was earnest to be introduced to a distinguished deaf woman, but when he was presented, and one end of her ear trumpet was put ... ...ve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries; and I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking w... ... a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of king Tching thang to this ... ...venging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest? Nevertheless, of all the characters I have known, perhaps Walden wears best, and best preserves it... .... How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters, are they! We never learned meanness of them. How much fairer ...

...on the beach and soak up the sun and get a really awesome tan. Xel-ha is a wonderful place to go snorkeling to see dazzling fish swimming around the s... ...n years old this July. She weights about eleven pounds now. We’ve had many wonderful years together, and we’ll have many more. She’s not the shy timid... ...ek to the hospital. To my wife’s amazement everything looked like a winter wonderland. She exclaimed, “It’s like being shaken up inside a snow globe!”... ...he change that occurred in America during its his- tory. It’s not just the characters in Star Wars that af- fect America, however. The very setting of... ...reat business into my dispatch” (1.6. 79-80). This type of behavior from a woman was unheard of in Shakespeare’s time according to Roland Muschat Frye... ...nge roles in terms of the amount of ambition they display. Al- though both characters blatantly crave power, it is Lady Macbeth who is initially prese... ...” (5.1. 53-55). Williams interprets this modification in Lady Macbeth as a woman “whose madness is the heart- rending devastation brought about by the... ...lot more closely, however, a concise relationship among the play’s pivotal characters is evident. Shakespeare creates a fascinating link within the si... ...hat statute defines marriage under federal law as the union of a man and a woman, and declares that one state may not redefine marriage for other stat...

...uch occasion our whole fellowship of Christians falls back in disapproving wonder and implicitly denies the saying. Christians! the farce is im- puden... ... spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of man- and woman-kind. In this way he came upon many depressed ambitions, and many int... ...of residence. But far stranger is the resident, man, a creature compact of wonders that, after centuries of custom, is still wonderful to himself. He ... ... were of an inexhaustible pur- veyor, the source of aspects, inspirations, wonders, cruel knocks and transporting caresses. Thus he goes on his way, s... ... short of necessary bread. Does he think he is not loved?– he may have the woman at his beck, and there is not a joy for him in all the world. Indeed,... ... of the imagination which attach him to mankind or to an individual man or woman; cross him in his piety which connects his soul with heaven; and he t... ... are there, who might have done exceeding well in the world, had not their characters and spirits been totally de- pressed and Nicodemus’d into nothin... ...is talent. In some ways, indeed, it may be held inferior to Chronicles and Characters; we look in vain for anything like the terrible in- tensity of t... ... of the child’s game, growing hot. There are many pieces in Chronicles and Characters that might be detached from their original setting, and embod- i...

... OF THE OLD MOTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 THE HEART OF THE WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 THE LOVER MOURNS FOR THE... ...S DREAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 A WOMAN HOMER SUNG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 WORDS . .... ...AWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 ON WOMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 THE... ...avy quern, A king sitting upon a chair of gold — And all these things were wonderful and great; But now I have grown nothing, knowing all. Ah! Druid, ... ...t, And his young sweetheart close beside him knelt, Stared on the mournful wonder of his eyes, Even as Spring upon the ancient skies, And pondered on ... ...m? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna’s c... ...ould you leave the lamp Burning alone beside an open book, And trace these characters upon the sands? A style is found by sedentary toil And by the im... ...ginable things The most unlike, being my anti self, And, standing by these characters, disclose All that I seek; and whisper it as though He were afra... ...from the Gort forge, Restored this tower for my wife George; And may these characters remain When all is ruin once again. THE TOWER 1928 THE TOWER...

...aligna, matrix serpentis, divitiarum subterranearum cus tos,” a malignant woman, the mother of the snake, and the guardian of subterranean treasures.... ... conceived as 27 The Kalevala being of divine origin. In fact, the acting characters of the Kalevala are mostly superhuman, magic beings. Even the fe... ...ge aids to this end, inas much as their words are strongly trochaic. This wonderfully versatile metre admits of keeping the right medium between the ... ...Bear, That he may the stars consider. Thus our hero, Wainamoinen, Thus the wonderful enchanter Was delivered from his mother, Ilmatar, the Ether’s dau... ... to the smallest, Long was he as man’s forefinger, Taller than the hand of woman; On his head a cap of copper, Boots upon his feet were copper, Gloves... ... his belt was copper; And the handle of his hatchet Was as long as hand of woman, Of a finger’s breadth the blade was. Then the trusty Wainamoinen Tho... ...word I offer battle; Come thou, famous bard and minstrel, Thou the ancient wonder singer, Let us try our strength with broadswords, let our blades be ...

...bles’ was composed in the very difficult ascent from the station to Eza—that wonderful Moorish village in the rocks. My most creative moments were alw... ... 24 Thus Spake Zarathustra 4 ZARATHUSTRA, HOWEVER, LOOKED at the people and wondered. Then he spake thus: Man is a rope stretched between the animal ... ...Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive—so wis- dom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior. Ye tell me, “Life is hard to bear.... ...tter to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman? And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing b... ...men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman. Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! if their filth ha... ...rethren, what small domains have even the most spacious souls hitherto been! Characters of blood did they write on the way they went, and their folly ... ...men, than your own faces! Who could—recognize you! Written all over with the characters of the past, and these characters also pencilled over with new... ...unto us than unto his disciples?” Zarathustra answered: “What is there to be wondered at! With hunchbacks one may well speak in a hunchbacked way!” “V...

...y in love, and, with perhaps too much aping of the angel, relinquished the woman to his brother. Even though the brother were like to die of it, we ha... ...ther were like to die of it, we have not yet heard the last opinion of the woman. But be that as it may, we have here the explanation of the “rarefied... ...es; what is feigned merely puts a sense upon what is; we do actually see a woman go behind a screen as Lady T eazle, and, after a certain interval, we... ... foundly different, taught him otherwise; and, in his work, the individual characters begin to occupy a comparatively small proportion of that canvas ... ... and great hills pile themselves upon each other’s shoul- ders. Fielding’s characters were always great to the full stat- ure of a perfectly arbitrary... ...is indeed unity out of 22 Robert Louis Stevenson multitude; and it is the wonderful power of subordination and synthesis thus displayed, that gives u... ...nest moment of the book is when these two share with the two other leading characters, Dom Claude and Quasimodo, the chill shelter of the old cathedra... ...y some beginning of that curious series of English blunders, that makes us wonder if there are neither proof-sheets nor judicious friends in the whole... ...repugnance, explain them with difficulty, and raise our hands to heaven in wonder when we find them in conjunction with talents that we respect or vir...