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...pty beds--had formed a defensive line on the torrid gravel in front of Jake's. By day a respectable diner and by night a bar that promised totally exotic dancing--whatever that meant, since no local dared investigate--Jake's was the social epicenter of Blue Earth...an ever-diminishing farming town that might as well have been located in Iowa for all the difference the u...

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...urbed region is possible. The resulting distortion is reminiscent of the "warp drive" of science fiction. However, just as it happens with wormholes, exotic matter will be needed in order to generate a distortion of spacetime like the one discussed here....

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...ing the following time travel methods: to travel faster than the speed of light, to use black holes, cosmic strings, negative ener-gy, negative mass, exotic matter, or wormholes. After making some brisk calculations with my favorite pocket calculator, I came to the conclusion that the easiest, and financially accessible, way to travel back and forth in time is to build a ...

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... It's for luck and the b— Jury had known and she hadn't. And now it didn't matter because she wasn't pregnant anymore and she didn't have a husband an... ...d that term almost as much as Riano did. "I think you're too beautiful and exotic to be from anywhere as mundane as New York." Desert Dreams by Graci... ...real and she didn't think Sahir or Darius would be able to hold her job no matter how hard they tried if things came to that. Therese almost laughed o... ...ot like it when she was upset. And this upset him that her vexation should matter so much. Ah! Such trivialities! Kane berated himself, sprung from hi... ...hould, that he is the enemy, the killer and the taker. Her body is another matter, cannot struggle, and does not want to leave. "Mawla..." He whispers... ... for wanting Sahir Binte? He was, after all, a genie-man. And Sahir was an exotic and beautiful countrywoman, a genie-woman. Who was she to compete ag... ...rabia." "We all have to be from somewhere," Therese drawled. "It's just so exotic and far away." Therese thought she'd like to exotic her sister's-in-... ...ver football players with Justice and Riano; in the kitchen when he traded exotic Arabian recipes with Jamilah and Marilyn for their African and Spani... ...c and jazz concert. Darius leads Jury to his table upon where all sorts of exotic trinkets lay. He solicits Jury's time, offers one of the trinkets at...

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...he sexual experience arena any day. She heard his latest girlfriend was an exotic dancer named Babs. A stripper. Lord help her, Julia still got u... ...think about the way he deftly evaded her question or that it really, really mattered to her how he answered. He pulled the truck into her driveway... ...ng establishment in town.” Cade polished off the rest of his sandwich in a matter of minutes while Julia took smaller, slower bites, enjoying the q... ... “I suppose,” Cade said with a casual shrug, “when you’re in love it doesn’t matter.” “Love-shmove.” Julia snorted with disgust and leaned back on h... ... realize he had practically forced himself on her. What the hell was the matter with him? He was losing his mind, that’s what. He wanted her so ... ...go along with the boxes of files she prepared for the opposing counsel. No matter how often she redirected her thoughts, they inevitably routed back...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven i...

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... quality of life and his will to live. I hope you do not think it indelicate of me to raise this matter so soon.’ Helen looked up and stared, almos... ...se nasty children are well chastised by their parents for their unkindness to you.’ ‘It does not matter now, Rosita. My handsome cousin, Gavin, resc... ...d up a long, semi-circular gravel drive bordered by rhododendrons, oleanders, hibiscus and other exotic bushes, many of which were not familiar to H... ...hed in rose pink and grey, looking out at the Indian night. The sweet scent of jasmine and other exotic perfumes wafted towards her and looking up a... ...ce, obvious in the way she bit her lip, was not lost upon Rosita who questioned her, ‘What is the matter, querida?’ ‘He still thinks I am that littl... ...e centre of each arch was suspended a brass vessel burning aromatic oils, perfuming the air with exotic scents. By the entrance to the hall stood a... ...of the table was a magnificent vase of Dresden china in the shape of a swan which was filled with exotic blooms. Audrey Blankenhagen 80 The walls... ...apkins for the guests to wash and dry their fingers. Gavin guided Helen through the menu and the exotic names of the delicious dishes. Helen was gl... ...udge your lover too harshly. If he is the man I believe he is, he will be worthy of your love no matter what he has done,’ and Helen wondered if the...

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...omething neurotic about it all, some pent-up aggression that is almost palpable. Matters didn’t improve in the queue to the idling taxis and my mo... ...it on and inserted the diskette. It contained a strange file that wouldn’t open no matter what I tried. This was the first time in days that I f... ...xcruciating pain. “The cancer,” – he volunteered unnecessarily – “it’s killing me.” Matter of factly. “Some fools in the SD and the SS even learne... ...r that!” “Whether or not he treated the Jews leniently, at least until 1941, is a matter for a debate among historians that goes back to the 1970s... ...told this dénouement, I was shell-shocked and devastated. I often wandered what do exotically-sounding medical conditions like a collapsed lung or a... ...t go to such great lengths and he definitely wouldn’t fire his best - and, for that matter, his only – research librarian over a trifle. There was s... ...coffee and I will tell you everything you wanted to know about Madagascar and other exotic destinations the Nazis had in mind for the Jews.” Chapt...

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...e laws of nature are different. This is the same tired regularity theory in a more exotic guise. They are all descendants of Hume's definition of c... ...nyone done careful environmental measurement before? Businessmen always say, ‘what matters gets measured'. Social scientists started quantitative m... ...ses and only at their inception. Global warming will, therefore, continue apace no matter which sources of energy we deploy. It is inevitable. Rat... ...s (remember the physicist's desk which is 99.99999% vacuum with minute granules of matter floating about). To reconcile these two concepts, we must... ... surroundings (one‟s bed, home, or workplace); (2) The nested dreams share subject matter, some continuity, and a narrative, a plot, or story line;... ...om-made”? Why presume that they all must share the same genetic heritage? For that matter, why should they have a genetic make-up at all? Is our DN... ...cernible. We are seated at a New Year's dining table, loaded with a roasted pig and exotic salads. I, the Jew, only half foreign to this cradle of S...

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...e of the two resulting heaps in the strongbox in our room. He pleadingly commands me: "No matter how much I beg and threaten, order or cajole – do ... ...oise distracts him. Without braking, he turns around and enquires: "What is it? What's the matter?" "There's an Arab woman here" – one volunteers t... ... hair braked, cropped, atop her shoulders. Janusz, taken aback, studied her as one would an exotic species. His hands, two violent spirals, breached... ...e fiercer the cascade, sculpting the loam to form lakes of mud and rustling froth. Another matter that greatly occupies me is the in-depth perusal ... ...es from the dark stain that encompasses my squirting manhood. A beautiful woman is another matter altogether. If she happens to detect me, it has t... ..., I discharge meticulously, in a thin and measured trickle, free to ruminate on theoretical matters or to consider the last woman to have abandoned ...

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...t a major Spiritual Revolution will take place. Mind develops according to matter. And until mind is not relatively materially-satisfied, it cannot tu... ...uman on a horse” was used, from times unknown, to represent the “mind over matter”, “intelligence over instincts” relations in us. And “spirituality o... ...gical body and mind only, I shall imagine them to be the sole reality that matters to me. They will be my whole reality. And hence, such things as sou... ...h. And these experiences always follow approximately the same pattern, no matter what patient’s faith, religion, intelligence, culture, nationality a... ...od Bliss, to give Goodness to God. Every our act can give Bliss to God, no matter what this act is. Whatever we do in our everyday life it could give ... ...into which thousands of worshippers could gather together, vast parks with exotic blossoms and orchards, with straight alleys and sparkling cascades. ...

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...ammer from a previous night of quaffing Laos Beer, so be it. What would it matter to him? Perception was more fleeting than even the beings who were p... ...rock thrown in a creek begets one ripple that begets another it would not matter. He would not be able to successfully delude himself for long; at be... ...y escape (scaling the prison walls of the subconscious as the boy did), no matter how many thousands of dollars in baht he was commissioned to paint h... ...elieved to relieve himself of fluids and issues, he could have allowed the matter to stay there, but he wanted a guarantee that nothing like this woul... ...to an examination of his self- absorbed ruminations on decadent living, no matter how critical and regardless of the domestic nature, like this one in... ...noodles, boiled eggs, sticky rice and mangos of the more wealthy almost as exotic as French cuisine, and out of respect to them ostentatious, flickeri...

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...ne recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions, nor even their comp...

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...are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to ... ...complete idea of the man as he was. Many letters relate to home and family matters, such as it would be useless and impertinent to divulge; and yet it... ...quite early at six. My tutor said that, without any absurd feelings on the matter, he should not think himself of going to such a thing in Lent. “It w... ...ays, ‘His speeches were singularly free from the bombast and incon- gruous matter with which Eton orators from fifteen to eigh- teen are apt to interl... ...t, I should be his guest, and therefore any similar act of mine would make matters worse. You can therefore see why I wish T ues- day to be the day fo... ...t seem needful to account for the catastrophe. Altogether, these lads were exotics in New Zealand, and exceedingly fragile. In the very height of summ... ...ound theology of the Church of England; the fragrance is rather that of an exotic plant; here and there I mean—though I feel angry with myself for dar...

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...o crystallize about it, and after a time the Boynes had laughingly set the matter down to their profit-and-loss account, agreeing that Lyng was one of... ...he gesture of one who handles something harmless and familiar. “What’s the matter with you this afternoon, Mary? I thought you’d got bad news.” She st... ...enhouses, among the spiced scents and waxy pinks and reds of old-fashioned exotics,—even the flora of Lyng was in the note!—she learned that the great... ... And when?” “He went out of the front door, up the drive, Madam.” It was a matter of principle with Trimmle never to answer more than one question at ... ...tances of Elwell’s death. And then people are talking of it now; the whole matter’s been raked up again. And I thought, if you didn’t know, you ought ... ...ed: “He will not understand you here any better than he did on earth.” “No matter,” she said; “I shall be the only sufferer, for he always thought tha... ...stimation.” Mrs. Roby, returning to Hillbridge from a prolonged sojourn in exotic regions—the other ladies no longer took the trouble to remember wher...

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...ty. Was it a commercial impropriety? Com- mercial impropriety is a serious matter, for it aims at one’s pocket. Or was he only a purist in conduct who... ... hole in the ground? And then my thoughts escaped me altogether— away into matters of life—and no very high matters at that— ships, freights, business... ...ly to keep the cabin-table in a perpetual mess of mould and dead vegetable matter. “Rear most beautiful flowers,” he insisted with an upward glance. “... ...mu- latto lad may resemble a big, stout, middle-aged white man. It was the exotic complexion and the slightness of his build which had put me off so c... ...al- ity? Heavens! It goes into the bill, of course. He spreads such little matters all over his account. He can take care of himself! Why, it’s busine... ...t to do with himself or even how to get home to his island again. It was a matter of two hundred rupees or so, but, when I turned up, the family made ...

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... object the way to which was clear before his eyes. Silence therefore on a matter which is common in the mouths of most men was less difficult to him ... ...belief abroad that he was ruined, but they who interest themselves in such matters had found out,—or at any rate believed that they had found out,—tha... ...e present day won’t give themselves the trouble to occupy their minds with matters which have, or should have, real interest. Pope knew all about when... ...ct all the while to a cold east wind, he went home and thought of the same matter while he lay in bed. Even were he to get the girl’s assurances of lo... ...te battle, might perhaps be fought with other strategy; but, giving to the matter his best consideration, Lopez thought it expedient to go at once to ... ...s with flowers. Of course there would be the bill;—and he, when he saw the exotics, and the whole place turned into a bower of every fresh blooming fl... ...ing left towards the end of the house he came upon a new conservatory. The exotics with which it was to be filled were at this moment being brought in...

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...len into my memory, without my exercising any choice or volition about the matter. Of course—permit me to say you do not think of relinquishing an occ... ...primly—without curls, or other ornament, except a single flower. It was an exotic of rare beauty, and as fresh as if the hothouse gardener had just cl... ...here already) will take the domestic and indoor part of the business, as a matter of course. T o bake, to boil, to roast, to fry, to stew,—to wash, an... ...eal better if the philanthropy had been left out. At all events, as a mere matter of taste, I wish he would let the bad people alone, and try to benef... ...nderstood him—she had friends; and this is positively all I know about the matter.” Grim Silas Foster, all this while, had been busy at the sup per t... ...committee for pro viding our infant community with an appropriate name,—a matter of greatly more difficulty than the uninitiated reader would suppose...

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...ultivate appeared somehow ex- travagantly overgrown, as if belonging to an exotic clime; and Captain Hagberd’s upright, hale person, clad in No. 1 sai... ...ear, he would be well on his way to not saying any more about it. In other matters he was quite rational, so this, too, was bound to come. Such was th... ...rned for himself the reputation of an awful skinflint, of a mi- ser in the matter of living. He mumbled regretfully in the shops, bought in-ferior scr... ...ngly. “For the present,” he muttered, in a crest- fallen tone. “What’s the matter with him?” The stranger addressed Bessie with the utmost familiarity... ...ss seemed involved together. “Oh—I am so sorry,” she murmured. “What’s the matter?” he said, with serenity. “Y ou needn’t be afraid of upsetting me. I... ... perhaps bundle him into chokey for that without asking questions—no great matter, only he was confoundedly afraid of being locked up, even in mistake...

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... them in alternation; and they seemed to give a point to her Ori- ental or exotic aspect. A compliment had once been paid her, which, being repeated t... ... her companion’s touch. “Well, some day you must do it for me. It does n’t matter now. Indeed, I don’t think it matters,” she added, “how one looks be... ...n’t think it matters,” she added, “how one looks behind.” “I should say it mattered more,” said Gertrude. “Then you don’t know who may be observing yo... ...e of a pensive cast; they take things hard. I think there is something the matter with them; they have some melancholy memory or some depressing expec... ...ed to be founded upon a degree of material abundance for which, in certain matters of detail, one might have looked in vain at the frugal little court... ...x, smiling. And she closed her eyes a little. It had by this time become a matter of almost exciting anxiety to Charlotte what Gertrude would say or w...

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...love procure access to. But, on the other hand, was it not clear that such matter as must here be revealed, and treated of, might endanger the circula... ... had not previously corresponded. The Hofrath, after much quite extraneous matter, began dilating largely on the “agita- tion and attention” which the... ...lcome; the world enjoyed what good was in them, and thought no more of the matter. The man Teufelsdrockh passed and repassed, in his little circle, as... ...? His Life, Fortunes, and Bodily Pres- ence, are as yet hidden from us, or matter only of faint 21 Thomas Carlyle conjecture. But, on the other hand,... ...al enough, in his Transcendental Philosophies, and humor of looking at all Matter and Material things as Spirit; whereby truly his case were but the m... ...ces: what is ours still but a continuation of the same; be the Appearances exotic-vegetable, organic, mechanic, stars, or starry move- ments (as in Sc...

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...rward with his discovery of the release of atomic energy. 1956—or for that matter 2056—may be none too late for that crowning revolution in human pote... ...reality has happened, a fairly adequate diagnosis of the essentials of the matter. One happy hit (in Chapter the Second, Section 2), on which the writ... ... of all that was most established and fundamental in the constitu- tion of matter, is really at one with the rest of the elements. It does noticeably ... ... atoms as we thought of bricks, as solid building material, as substantial matter, as unit masses of lifeless stuff, and behold! these bricks are boxe... ...s still so slow as to escape our finest measurements. Every scrap of solid matter in the world would become an available reservoir of concentrated for... ...led like one who is favoured and anticipates great pleasures. There was an exotic richness, a chuckling flavour, about the voice in which he gave his ...