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...volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Karawane by Hugo Ball. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 5th, 2010. Ball wrote his poem Karawane, which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief p...

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...The Ball and the Cross is G. K. Chesterton's third novel. In the introduction Martin Gardner notes that it is a mixture of fantasy, farce and theology. Gardner continues: Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish Hig...

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...erful electric current flash between them. She had a vision of a being in existence before the universe was properly formed and the planets were just balls of boiling molten rock. The first scraps of life developed, galaxies collided and merged and later whole epochs rose and fell, and yet still he stood tall and proud, weathering each storm that buffeted him, resisting as...

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...to English meant, ‘Speedy Bunyip’ from which the locals derived the name ‘Ballistic Bunny’ presuming Bunyip and bunny, the same animal. If the local... ...an history they would know that the introduction of these cute little fur balls didn’t occur until after white man arrived on Australian shores. Non... ...ted. An end of report memo stated that Stella had a bodyguard more on the ball than any security devise known to man. It is able to leap mountains i... ...ogs, as a fox terrier once bit him. The story always begins with a little ball of fluff that supposedly conspired against the good pastor and appare... ... No more fund raisers. No more preaching on deaf ears. He had started the ball rolling and now it would only be a matter of time before living it up... ...lm himself, knowing that if he did not, reducing the imp into a tight nit ball would see others run. “You may ask yourself, why we don’t let these de... ...he sludge of Satan’s world and retrieve those lost.” Snakelex was having a ball. Evidently, the wrath of the Sullys was taking its toll on the Browns... ...rn her of such problems at deacon meetings; it only took one to start the ball of indecision rolling and you could kiss the meeting goodnight. All s...

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...se you were such a great warrior and lover." "Tiger turds! Wretched fur ball! You're not going to be happy until you get it all." "You got it."... ...all overcast by his muddy eyes. In his one real claw, Heng-chiang formed balls of void. As he muttered, he flipped them at the map. Crying black ... ...ut then he stopped. I do feel a kinship, a belonging, with this wise fur ball. Mei-chou continued, "You're supposed to be strange, be alone, a her... ...ely hear even your mind. That web makes you sound like you've got a hair ball in your head. No one's going to kill me yet. Everything's under con... ... yourself if you can! You can't; of course, you can't, you worthless fur ball." Lei-kung laughed. "I don't need flame to take care of the likes o... ...ey dragged their wool against the thorns, softer than the goose down that balled amid the underbrush. Mei-chou had kitten memories of being curled ... ...long he stayed -- his silver wings spread weakly over the sand, his claws balled beneath him -- is lost in time. Finally, he stirred. There was a ...