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...ng at Intervals We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd O Hymen! O Hymenee! I Am He that Aches with Love Native Moments Once I Pass'd through a Populous City I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ Facing West from California's Shores As Adam Early in the Morning CALAMUS In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand For You...

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...ve parted …” The lyrics float up through the rotunda of San Jose, Calif.’s City Hall. It’s Dec. 1, 2009, World AIDS Day. I am one of the two altos si... ...V is robbing him of his vision, but not of his vigor. He is active on the city’s HIV/AIDS task force, teaches A Course in Miracles, helps run an HIV ... ...ity issues for four years, and I was at a rally protesting the passage of California's Proposition 8. Before Rev. Mike ever spoke, I was keenly aware... ..., at Rosicrucian Park ... and I felt it again that day outside San Jose's City Hall. There was a loving, warm and healing presence. When Rev. Mike ... ...was surprised. Here was a man in clerical garb, invoking "the god of the redwood trees, ocean breezes and warm autumn mornings." I may have cried; I... ...e of color and women into something righteous. Yet, with Proposition 8 in California, SB 1070 in Arizona and Oklahoma's new law requiring vaginal ul...

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... minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of the grea... ...s and the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be useful as model... .... (1) In five years, by 2030, five billion will live in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first h... ...th no national debt and a huge oil income, the main hospital of its capital city finds people bedded in the halls, set off from the passers-by by sc... ...is sound and active mind. Nights were magic. Sitting on the expansive redwood deck he looked up at a heaven dotted with a million microscopic ... ...he was entranced by the sparkling quilt of lights that covered the sleeping city. On clear windy days he would cut his college classes and drive to G... ... resting from a long night of assembling toys, when I heard footsteps on my redwood deck. I looked out the bedroom window and there were James Cagne... ...hat we can support the present world population in the style of the average Californian is not only ephemeral, its reality can never be. We may be e...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ...end S. Behrman again,” added Harran, grinding his teeth. “He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Uls... ...e ranches were thus connected by wire with San Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New York, and at last, and most imp... ...that was as green, as fresh, and as well-groomed as any in a garden in the city. This lawn flanked all one side of the house, and it was on this side ... ...r a moment, looking about him. In the dull light of the lowered lamps, the redwood panelling of the room showed a dark crimson as though stained with ... ...I IN HIS OFFICE at San Francisco, seated before a massive desk of polished redwood, very ornate, Lyman Derrick sat dictating letters to his typewriter...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ...now the whole district may be smiling with farms, passing trains shaking the mountain to the heart, many- windowed hotels lighting up the night like f... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...es. More of the bay became ap- parent, and soon the blue peak of Tamalpais rose above the green level of the island opposite. It told us we were still... ...till busy in these parts. The fame of Vasquez is still young. Only a few years go, the Lakeport stage was robbed a mile or two from Calistoga. In 1879... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul... ...now the name of nothing in En- glish. He taught me the madrona, the manzanita, the buck-eye, the maple; he showed me the crested moun- tain quail; he ... ...s house. “Who first found the forest?” asked my wife. “The first? I was that man,” said he. “I was cleaning up the pasture for my beasts, when I found... ...but the pines look down upon the rest for underwood. As Mount Saint Helena among her foothills, so these dark giants out-top their fellow-vegetables. ...

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...are over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through the de... ...on which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and to judg... ...ts to the station of a different railroad. Chicago seemed a great and gloomy city. I remember having sub- scribed, let us say sixpence, towards its re... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ...ile it is man in his short-sighted greed that robs the country of the nobler redwood. Yet a little while and perhaps all the hills of seaboard Califor...

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...ports settling lower and lower to the water’s level as forests of pine and redwood stratified themselves along their decks and in their holds; coal ba... ... in the business. We go down here twice a year off Cape Sain’ Lucas, Lower California, an’ fish for blue sharks, or white, if we kin ketch ‘em. We get... ... Do you know there’s millions made out of the day-bree and refuse of a big city? How about an ocean’s day-bree, just chew on that notion a turn; an’ a... ...nd he was the commander. On shore it would have been vastly different. The city-bred fellow, with a policeman always in call, would have known how to ... ...see how it feels to be in Mexico.” “Mexico?” said Wilbur. “That’s so—Lower California is Mexico. I’d forgotten that!” They went ashore and spent the a... ...nee-boots. As he looked at the two, Wilbur asked himself where else but in California could such abrupt contrasts occur. “All light,” announced Hoang;... ...se, what you’ll say. I’ve said it to myself often of late. I belong to the city and to my life there, and you—you belong to the ocean. I never knew a ...

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...which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned ... ...oth Beaufort and himself from her mind, and went on: “I’ve never been in a city where there seems to be such a feeling against living in des quartiers... ... prove the first of their mutual services by making him look at his native city objectively. Viewed thus, as through the wrong end of a telescope, it ... ...ch, for the moment, I prefer not to mention either to Mr. Skipworth or Mr. Redwood.” The gentlemen he spoke of were the other senior partners of the f... ...pective relationship, I should prefer your consulting Mr. Skipworth or Mr. Redwood.” Mr. Letterblair looked surprised and slightly offended. It was un... ... ‘em out of it. When I built this house you’d have thought I was moving to California! Nobody ever HAD built above Fortieth Street—no, says I, nor abo...

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...once more, and’”—here a rolling explosion of oaths—”’you’ll go back to the city in the Morgue wagon. Ain’t I got a right to cross a street even, I’d l... ...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ... society; things of iron and cloth and wood; all the detritus that a great city sloughs off in its daily life. Zerkow’s junk shop was the last abiding... ... man. He was the Man with the Rake, groping hourly in the muck-heap of the city for gold, for gold, for gold. It was his dream, his passion; at every ... ...p. They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate. ... ...les. Selina had painted a view of the Golden Gate upon a polished slice of redwood that answered the purposes of a paper weight. Marcus Schouler—after... ... the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed. McT eagu...

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... Moments................................120 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City .....................................................121 I Heard You... ...es of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ....................................................1... ...s Up and Consumes...133 Trickle Drops....................................134 City of Orgies....................................134 Behold This Swarthy... ...the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California.....................138 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me........... ..............204 BOOK XIV......................................216 Song of the Redwood Tree................216 BOOK XV..................................... .............................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships.....................................307 The Centenarian’s S... ...savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink ... ..., giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense. Farewell my brethren, Farewell O earth and sky, far... ...en by strong arms, Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes, there in the redwood forest dense, I heard the might tree its death chant chanting. Th...