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...e of distribution of the specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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...ry of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old co... ...f the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy and an object of study for logic, the parad... ...poetical productivities, against those regular and exhausted identities by poets who generate continuos versified floods, who untiringly and tediousl... ...d of literature!! During the last years, paradoxism has generalized the old expression of “literature” in the multidimensional spaces or on a scie... ...at means that it has not matured sufficiently. anyway, a youth without an old age is possible only in the paradox, that suspends history. In fact, C... ...o Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Morrison. As for the poets, we deal with them at a greater length afterward. one arouses a perma... ...obody ever takes the liberty of provoking simple fruitless agitation; the poets are concerned with well-concluded actions, with an aim, suggestions, ... ...radoxism does not remain within the perimeter of its obvious effects ( the comic in itself, anti- calophile struggle, anecdotal fun, indifferent laugh...

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... The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written on them was meaningless. His trans... ...ct, free of discrimination, one was free to be gay in Korea. Then the18 year-old boy was told to meet the masculine and the vicious just as his countr... ...trians. He sifted out bodies and faces. For a few seconds he appreciated the old and the young whom he saw. It was an unselfish sensation. It was spir... ... Don't know--hope not. What are you reading?" "Nothing." "What's nothing?" "Comics." "In Braille?" "Yes." "You can't see the pictures. There are no ... ...you have to develop a vivid imagination." Seong Seob did not say anything. "Comics about what?" He was trying to control this disapproving undertone... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad... ...meone now ﾁN maybe not long. He vitiates his mind with a Braille version of comics. They have Braille comics, you know. I mean, that is his busines...

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...ox and the “paradoxology” (Dumitru Ichim), recreate its (true!) history “from old times” (Ion Rotaru), an erudite and useful work for its author and... ...y 8) . Florin Vasiliu agrees, citing C.M.Popa, that “the series of paradoxist poets: Urmuz, Mihail Cozma, Geo Bogza, Tascu Gheorghe, Gellu Naum, Nic... ... even a contradiction: on the one hand are mentioned “ a series of paradoxist poets “ from Urmuz to Marin Sorescu, but afterwards it is asserted tha... ...se, Smarandache is not a writer who should like “the death of literature”, an old idea of Paul Valery 14) . He is a literary demiurge who does not w... ... of metaphorization. The invasion of metaphors met especially at some lyrical poets, Romanian and foreigners alike, brings about after a time a sti... ... reaction, at the “postmodernization” with any price of the materialistic and old-fashioned theory concerning the “development in spiral”! All the... ...topsy-turvy” answers to normal questions. The apparent inadequation and their comicality arise from the different meanings of the “pilot” word from ... ...ted by the smarandachian paradoxism, characterized through an often excessive comic. It is obtained not only through paradoxes, but also through iro...

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...d horses: The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. Sappho, about 30 years old, her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along ... ...go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some hard-working, pres... ...o speak. Atthis ran up to me. Anak- toria came. Gyrinno came. Boys yelled. Old men rushed past the house. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such cl... ... Yesterday, at the play, I sat closer than usual and was delighted by the comic faces, so new and frightful that children screamed and squealed. Goo... ...umor, but for his wisdom. His reddish whiskers and black brows gave him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth a... ... of interna- tional poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...d horses: The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. Sappho, about 30 years old, her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along ... ...go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some hard-working, pres... ...o speak. Atthis ran up to me. Anak- toria came. Gyrinno came. Boys yelled. Old men rushed past the house. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such cl... ... Yesterday, at the play, I sat closer than usual and was delighted by the comic faces, so new and frightful that children screamed and squealed. Goo... ...umor, but for his wisdom. His reddish whiskers and black brows gave him a comic look. But he sensed his pro- fundity, as he guided me about Corinth a... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates aweso... ...er, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

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...udges had to store the laws in their memories. The young looked up to the old, who held captured history in their memories. Boorstin relates awesome... ...ter, and let them dry into woven mats of paper. After he ground up hemp, old cloth, and mulberry bark, mixed them with water, and pounded them with... ...ampion of the liberal arts and sciences, even though he may have been too old to advance personally very far in such studies. Became the Holy Roman... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle... ... HarperCollins, 2006. Hogben, Lancelot Thomas. From Cave Painting to Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope of Human Communication. New York: Chanticleer ...

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...-- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdan... ...ailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sailor -- Odds and ends of strange fancies -- Curious beliefs ... ...fitable intercourse with the natives -- Hospitable but thievish -- Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Repu... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al... ...kind of savage hallo, or shriek, not unlike what is sometimes practised in the comic dances on our European theatres. They formed the triple semi-circ... ...wo of the women would advance together, followed by two men who performed many comical antics, and who, indeed, seemed to monopolize the attention of ...

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...The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Serie... ...by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University,... ...nly wide mouth, very red cheeks, a turned up nose, and certainly the most comical expression of face I ever saw. He stopped short at the door on seei... ... honour, ma’am, you’ll find in a certain angle of that dreary pile, called Poets’ Corner, a few smaller names than Slum,’ retorted that gentle man, t... ...re scarcer.” Quilp looked at his companion with his eyes screwed up into a comical expression of curiosity, and patiently awaited his further explanat... ...er,’ cries Brass, smiling, and tapping himself on the bosom, ‘is a singing comic songs within me, and all is happiness and joy!’ Kit is so improved by...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when...

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... on Comedy by George Meredith On the Idea of Comedy and of the Uses of the Comic Spirit 1 Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwith- stand... ...re productions, that notwith- standing the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If... ...ere reduced to the or- deal of the mantle. There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a fre- quent apparition; and why the great Comic poet rem... ... in that respect as dead bodies, which if you prick them do not bleed. The old grey boulder-stone that has finished its peregrina- tion from the rock ... ...t of a Tragedy, were the curtain to rise again on the performers. In those old days female modesty was pro- tected by a fan, behind which, and it was ... ...gly pleasant to 2 Realism in the writing is carried to such a pitch in The Old Bachelor, that husband and wife use imbecile connubial epi- thets to on... ...ce raised the idea of woman from the mire it was plunged into by the comic poets, or rather satiric dramatists, of the middle period of Greek Comedy p... ...f its due reward in Clouds and Birds, his po- sition as chief of the comic poets of his age was unchallenged. Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristo... ...e have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. A singular ill fate befell th...

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...gainst sowr, salt to remove salt humours. Hence Philosophers and other gravest Writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out of Tragic Poets, both to adorn and illustrate thir discourse....

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...est Writers, as Cicero, Plutarch and others, frequently cite out of Tragic Poets, both to adorn and illustrate thir discourse. The Apostle Paul hi... ...t undergoes at this day with other common Interludes; hap’ning through the Poets error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and gravity; ... ...h other common Interludes; hap’ning through the Poets error of intermixing Comic stuff with Tragic sadness and gravity; or introducing trivial and ... ...t unacquainted with Æschulus, Sophocles, and Euripedes, the three Trajic Poets unequall’d yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to w... ...e, which make the Chorus, who seek to comfort him what they can; then by his old Father Manoa, who endeavours the like, and withal tells him his purp... ...rn’d them to death by Troops. The bold Ascalonite Fled from his Lion ramp, old Warriors turn’d Thir plated backs under his heel; 140 Or grovling ... ...es of Azzi, Post, and massie Bar Up to the Hill by Hebron seat of Giants old, No journey of a Sabbath day, and loaded so; Like whom the Gentil...

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...Excerpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an ...

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... university. 3 Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE I. OLD MOODIE THE EVE... ...rliest that had indicated the birth of a new science, or the revival of an old humbug. Since those times her sisterhood have grown too numerous to att... ...in my mind, and trying to catch its slippery purport by the tail, when the old man above mentioned interrupted me. “Mr. Coverdale!—Mr. Coverdale!” sai... ...ve you up as an associate, than that the world should lose one of its true poets!” “Ah, no; there will not be the slightest danger of that, es pecial... ...rs the girl must have!” whispered Zenobia, with a look of vexation, partly comic and partly real. “I will confess to you that I cannot quite make her ... ...gs from Shakespeare, and often with a depth of tragic power, or breadth of comic effect, that made one feel it an intolerable wrong to the world that ... ...Well, say so if you like,” answered Zenobia. “You are a poet,—at least, as poets go nowadays,—and must be allowed to make an opera glass of your imagi... ...your soul’s ache into it, and turn your sympathy to good account, as other poets do, and as poets must, unless they choose to give us glittering icicl...

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...Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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... ter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christe... ...n, bold in attitude. Suddenly the noise ended, and soon after the voice of old Sewis commanded them to scatter away to their beds; whereupon the footm... ...dside. The squire 4 The Adventures of Harry Richmond was a hunter, of the old sort: a hard rider, deep drinker, and heavy slumberer. Before venturing... ...id the old gentleman; he had frowning eyebrows and a merry mouth ‘you’re a comical character.’ I felt interested in him, and asked him what he was. He... ...in the direction of Pagan Gods and Goddesses, and heathen histo- rians and poets; adding, it was not new to him, and perhaps that was why the world wa... ...uth. Dumpy children, bulky men, compressed old women with baked faces, and comical squat dogs, kept the villages partly alive. We observed one young u... ... of fourteen or fifteen—ay, Richie, have your fun out. A youngster saw the comic side of her. Do you know, that child has a remarkable character? Her ... ...on earth. Kunst, Wissenschaft, Ehre, Liebe. Die Liebe. Quick at the German poets. Frau: Fraulein. I am actually dazzled at the prospect of our future.... ...y moonlight with matter for a year of laughter, sing- ing like two Arabian poets praises of dark and fair, challengeing one to rival the other. Kiomi!...

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...as for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek authority, took place exactly as the ministry of Lord--was going to give place to that Lord--....

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...ered every hour in various ways—Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr Grantly, who had for many years filled the chair with meek authority... ...try of Lord—was going to give place to that Lord—. The illness of the good old man was long and lingering, and it became at last a matter of intense i... ...d of the month the physicians wondered, and named another fort- night. The old man lived on wine alone, but at the end of the fortnight he still lived... ...oked his big beard, sipped his tea, chatted over his misfortunes in a half comic, half serious tone, and ended by promising his sister that he would d... ...at he was destined to add another name to the imperishable list of English poets. From Winchester he went to Oxford, and was entered as a commoner at ... ...; assisted them in writing stories in rhyme, in turning prose tragedy into comic verse, or comic stories into would-be tragic poetry. She had no idea ...

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...ray ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI W e have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty- five years of her old l... ...ich has incapacitated her from all further labour, and has caused her poor old limbs to shake ever since. An illustration of that dismal proverb which... ...s us how pov- erty makes us acquainted with strange bed-fellows, this poor old shaking body has to lay herself down every night in her workhouse bed b... ...o their movements. On turning round from the pianoforte and presenting his comical mug, Kate could scarcely suppress a laugh.” And no wonder; just loo... ...efore — that these Christmas pieces are prophetic! How kind of artists and poets to devise the festivi- ties beforehand, and serve them pat at the pro... ...ere are few clowns like him. Mr Shuter, as the gravedigger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the scene-painters surpassed themselves. “Harle...

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...s not belong to it—no two gods must we serve; but (as one has seen in some old portraits) the horrible glazed eyes of Necessity are always fixed upon ... ... to him along with his beard) thrust away all other society from him. Some old friends remain, it is true, but these are become as a habit— a part of ... ...A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart; even the old dandy of sixty must have laughed at his own wondrous gro- tesque image,... ...s needle has engraved over and over again; there is a design in one of the comic almanacs of some young gentlemen who are employed in administering to... ...ch was called “Points of Humor.” These “Points” were selected from various comic works, and did not, we believe, extend beyond a couple of numbers, co... ..., “Three Courses and a Dessert,” was published at a time when the rage for comic stories was not so great as it since has been, and Messrs. Clark and ... ...t of the paint- ers and tell us who are they? How many among these men are POETS (makers), possessing the faculty to create, the great- est among the ...

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...as answered by the production of a list, in which Invernahyle (as the good old gentleman was wont to express it) appeared ‘marked with the sign of the... ...is food was brought to him by one of his daughters, a child of eight years old, whom Mrs. Stewart was under the necessity of entrusting with this comm... ... and charged the family with harbouring one of the proscribed traitors. An old woman had presence of mind enough to maintain that the man they had see... ... 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of all themes the ... ...e wa’, And stately stepped he west. As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Jo... ...rds whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various deg... ...elic song, the burlesque elegy of a countryman on the loss of his cow, the comic tones of which, though he did not understand the lan- guage, made Wav...

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... is part three of a trilogy. Eve and David’s story begins in part one, Two Poets. Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distingu... ...- rollers. Three months after his return to Angouleme, he had replaced the old fashioned round ink-balls by rollers made of strong glue and treacle, a... ...aited for an order for a bill-head or a trade circular. Marion, trained by old Sechard, prepared and wetted down the paper, helped Kolb with the print... ...en one evening when David came in from a country excursion, followed by an old woman with a huge bundle tied up in a cloth, Eve asked counsel of him a... ...ego the least of his ambitions. He is indolent, like all who would fain be poets; he thinks it clever to juggle with the difficulties of life instead ... ...it becomes intolerable to keep perpetual watch over looks and words. Great poets know this; Paul and Virginie die before youth is over; can we think o... ...hed to enclose a bottle of Portu- gal water in the package. Said our first comic man, ‘If this can make him happy, let him have it!’ growling it out i...

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...but a prodigal expenditure and the disturbance of a clear current: for the comic element is visible to you in all things, if you do but keep your mind... ...ly in his hands, he would turn about with a quotation that compared him to old Palinurus, all the while allowing his worthy and admirable burden to si... ...tic yesses and short coughings. ‘That would furnish a good concert for the poets,’ he re- marked. ‘A parting, a separation of lovers; “even as a body ... ...si- tively prepared to say that if there is no fool like what they call an old fool (and a man in his prime, who can be laughed at, is the world’s old... ...d adventures. If he only walks out to sit for half an hour with one of his old dames, as he calls them, something is sure to happen to him, and it is ... ...me upon me, as the picture of ‘your own old husband,’ with so irresistibly comic an effect that I was overcome by convulsions of laughter. I do not de...

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...tle girl of fifteen can’t invent such plans and carry them out, or make an old man of eighty-three, who has never set foot in a church except to be ma... ...evening for the last fifteen years of his life with the Abbe Chaperon. The old hypocrite never fails to give Ursula twenty francs for wax tapers every... ...r the sake of his poor. He must have mined and under- mined uncle, and the old man has just tumbled into piety. We did nothing, and here he is pervert... ...m out to settle his eye-glasses on his nose, with a movement that was half comic, and which announced the coming of a keen observation or some victori... ...entence that beautiful elegy of ‘Neere’ by Andre Chenier,” said the abbe. “Poets are sublime because they clothe both facts and feelings with ever-liv... ...ans fled towards Montargis, where there happened then to be a com- pany of comic actors. A loud and ringing voice called out as they left: “To the dau...