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...Dancing Bare is the amusing and unconventional memoir of an impossibly innocent young man who swaps the suffocating confines of middle-class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London and Europe. Revelling in the freedom...

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...Conceit, ignorance and optimism are the main ingredients of youth. Without a fair dollop of all three I'd never have dared turn up in the largest city on earth, the centre of the English-speaking theatrical world, expecting to land a job as an actor. I was nerv...

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...Chapter 1.......... In the Beginning Chapter 2..........When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear Chapter 3...........Escape Chapter 4..........Shelter, Fashion, Food Chapter 5..........When Ignorance is Bliss Chapter 6..........Jewe...

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...Glen Choi has a simple request for the universe – help him find his one true passion in life. He moves from Canada to his ethnic homeland of South Korea to find it. There, Choi encounters cultural challenges and unexpected turns in careers. With hope fading, h...

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I cemented the pain into a noun when it was a verb. The Korean language was right: It should simply be "love" - not "I love YOU."

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...1. Layers 2. Stardust 3. Go East, Young Man 4. Fiery Baptism 5. The Alpha Male 6. Parentally Yours 7. A Mantra is Born 8. Wanted: Enlightenment 9. Monastic Myths 10. Abstractions 11. Imperfect Pitch 12. In the Trenches 13. Pins and Needles 14. A Fresh Start 15. Ph.D. = Permanent...

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... return to your favorite ebook retailer andpurchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Acknowledg... ... AcknowledgementsAll the world’s a stage. This book would not have been possible without the cast of quirky,delightful and inspiring actors who hav... ...e stuff of which this memoir is made. Behind the scenes, however, a number of individuals, in their own way, helped shape thescript and its aesthetic... ...yendless list of questions about the past – the questions sometimes coming fast and furious in themiddle of the night – and for rekindling memories th... ...he evening, which was morning time in Toronto. I didn’t want to alarmher, especially in the middle of her breakfast, so I tried to tiptoe my way into ... ... of my file (and life). Weboth bowed, shook hands and walked to his office. He was a taller middle-aged man with aconservative haircut and a pen clipp... ...oi, and I’m from Canada. I want to study Oriental philosophy later on, but I chose English literature for now because my Korean language skills still... ... list of readings for my majorcourses included the likes of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, the Transcendentalistwritings of Emerson and T... ...tudies on atheism in Canada at Ottawa U. We were a goodmatch on many levels: he was of good Scottish-English-Irish-Norwegian stock while I was ofgood ...

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...Excerpt: Here's quick explanation. The story you are about to read is the collective work of a year and a half of writing. Some of it was done for a writing class, some just for fun. It is the basis for my A Future We'd Like to See series, introducing many ele...

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...sn't Knock, it Pounds.................3 Introductions Aside.................................10 Breaking and Decorating.............................17 The Anti-Quayle.....................................27 Bookworms...........................................36 Snitches............................................44 When I Was Your Age.................................64 Happy...

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...-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-DedicationsTo Jerry Hinn, who helped me develop the characters and spackleup some plot holes, and provided many Pizza House... ...I listened to over and over whilewriting. Maybe I'll write a new epic when the next album's out.To the various copyrighted things I'm parodying in goo... ... when the next album's out.To the various copyrighted things I'm parodying in good humor.Please don't sue.To Zeke Thunderclutch, Twerp, Jane, and Brui... ...Zeke Thunderclutch, Twerp, Jane, and Bruiser, all of whom werea great help in writing this story for me. All I had to do wastranscribe.And MOST IMPORT... ...oblems." "Alright," Jane caved in. "But I'm warning you, misterinffective middle management suckup, if I see one more problemwith your laughing excus... ...ers from my Dear Aunt Sally?" he spokequiety to the mail slot, in a slight scottish accent. "Agent James Eigow, 0017, report to Macroworld. There is ... ...o speak." "A good agent never relies on weapons," Eigow stated in aslight scottish accent. "To wit, we must use cunning, bravery,cleverness, and slee... ...e patrons could converse in the safety of darknessand also enjoy music and literature. And what's best was thatthey employed a sniper. If the audience... ...s, and the usual number of both poets andstorytellers trying thier luck at Literature Roulette. Breakfastwasn't exactly a large income source for the ...

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...sn't Knock, it Pounds.................3 Introductions Aside.................................10 Breaking and Decorating.............................17 The Anti-Quayle.....................................27 Bookworms...........................................36 Snitches............................................44 When I Was Your Age.................................64 Happy...

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...A step-by-step "how to" for writers - which, as the author notes up front, isn't going to work for everybody, or possibly anybody. But whether the approach works or not, some of the specific thoughts certainly will...

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...Plausibility One of the things that kept me from writing a novel for a very long time was this nagging feeling that my plots were fake. Let me give you an example that isn't mine: nine people taking on an entire realm, a powerful and prepared o...

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...Prologue Chapter One: "A Lonely Place for Living" Chapter Two: "Knocked Our SOCs Off" Chapter Three: "Please Kill Me" Chapter Four: "Hire the Best" Chapter Five: "She's Gone!" Chapter Six: "Look Out" Chapter Seven: "Try Me" Chapter Eight: "Get Out!" Chapter Nine: "Time's Up" Chapter Ten: "You Win" About the Author...

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...2th 2010 285 Robert Michael Ballantyne The Walrus HuntersA Romance of the Realms of Ice 2 CHAP... ...omance of the Realms of Ice 2 CHAPTER ONE.A ROMANCE OF THE ICE-WORLD.A SURPRISE, A COMBAT, AND A FEED.There is a river in America ... ...ROMANCE OF THE ICE-WORLD.A SURPRISE, A COMBAT, AND A FEED.There is a river in America which flows to the north-westward of GreatBear Lake, and helps t... ...th.Greygoose River was the name given to it by the Dogrib Indians whodwelt in its neighbourhood, and who were wont, every spring andautumn, to descend... ...d by the fur-traders in those days.The Indian was a tall, powerfully built middle-aged man, and, from hislook and manner, was evidently unsuspicious o... ...in front of the outpost on Great Bear Lakewhich he had helped to build.The Scottish Highlander possessed a comparatively intellectual type ofmind. We ... ...unate in the matter of companionship, ourHighlander was not well off as to literature. He had, indeed, his Bible,and, being a man of serious mind, he ... ...ally neither more nor less than banishment from the world; butas for light literature, his entire library consisted of a volume of thevoyages of Sir J... ...ll, and maybe they won't," answered the guide, with acaution worthy of the Scottish portion of his blood. "We niver knowwhat Injins is goin' to do til...

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...entsCover 1The Prince and the Pauper 3Imprint ... ... 2010 218 Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper 2 Contents.I. The birth of the Prince and ... ... dinner.VIII. The question of the Seal.IX. The river pageant.X. The Prince in the toils.XI. At Guildhall.XII. The Prince and his deliverer.XIII. The d... ... Prince a prisoner.XXIV. The escape.XXV. Hendon Hall.XXVI. Disowned.XXVII. In prison.XXVIII. The sacrifice.XXIX. To London.XXX. Tom's progress.XXXI. T... ... neither was it ornamental;from beneath it the hair fell, unparted, to the middle of the forehead,and was cropped straight around; a clerical band at ... ...he was the youngest child, and others hatedhimthese qualities being in all ages sufficient to win a parent's dearest 66love; ... ... A grim and unsightly picture met his eye. Abright fire was burning in the middle of the floor, at the other end of thebarn; and around it, and lit we... ...ne is enclosed a rough flat rockthe stone ofSconewhich many generations of Scottish kings sat on to be crowned,and so it in time became holy enough to... ...and Euripides; Jeremiah Markland, the eminent critic,particularly in Greek Literature; Camden, the antiquary; BishopStillingfleet; Samuel Richardson, ...

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... got up a club for mentalimprovement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers,they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, an... ...e Pilgrim Fathers,they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six younggirls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they... ...na, soberly; for she was athoughtful creature, very anxious to do her duty in all ways."I'd rather not know about sad things, since I can't help to ma... ... we have," said Anna,glad to discuss the matter, for she had a little plan in her head andwanted to prepare a way for proposing it."Yes, I'm always sa... ...st and furious toward the end, and when thedance broke up there lay in the middle of the floor a shabby little 49slipper, bur... ...--the height of elegance then, but veryfunny now. Then William Wallace in 'Scottish Chiefs.' Bless me! wecried over him as much as you do over your 'H... ...t-pots, and every-day people," said Alice, who wasted little time on light literature."I'm glad to hear you say so, for I have an old-fashioned fancy ... ... pansy; its purple leaves were ofamethyst, the yellow of topaz, and in the middle lay a diamond drop ofdew. Several letters were delicately cut on its... ...f whom was sure that he or she had somethingvaluable to add to the world's literature. Her advice was always thesame, "Work and wait;" and only now an...

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...First Letter to Monsieur Joubert Journal Second Letter to Monsieur Joubert Third Letter to Monsieur Joubert Tivoli, and Hadrian’s Villa The Vatican The Capitoline Museum The Doria Gallery A Moonlit Walk through Rome A Trip To Naples Pozzuoli and Solfatara Vesuvius. Patria, or Liternum Baiae Herculaneum, Portici, Pompeii To Monsieur de Fontanes...

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...François de Chateaubriand Travels in Italy (Voyage en Italie) Translated by A. S. Kline ... ...nes First Letter to Monsieur Joubert(Monsieur Joubert, the elder brother of the Advocate General at the Court of Annulment, a man ... ...t select society bound together by his presence; a manwhose death has left in my life one of those voids the years impose on us, and which they cannot... ...r by his presence; a manwhose death has left in my life one of those voids the years impose on us, and which they cannotrepair.)Turin, the 17th June, ... ...thus exhibiting the most odious species of self-love.Such is the danger of literature: the desire for fame sometimes overcomes noble and generoussenti... ...f the best quarters of Paris. They even own to a special refinement;in the middle of the streets (so that the movement of the carriage may be smoother... ... ago, at this hour? Not only is ancient Italy nomore, but the Italy of the Middle Age has vanished. Nevertheless, traces of both are still plainlyappa... ... How many observations I still need to express to you regarding Italian literature! Do youknow, I never saw Count Alfieri but once in my life; and ... ...stress, Louise, the former wife of the Jacobite claimant to theEnglish and Scottish thrones, Charles Edward Stuart, died in 1824.) The simplicity o...

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...* Grace Paulson’s train wreck of a personal life takes a turn for the better when the elementary school teacher meets a gifted artisan whose handmade jewelry boxes are featured at the local museum. Well-versed in nineteenth century Russian literature, Carl Solomon also happens to be the sch...

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... story collection represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidentsare the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictiti... ... Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief cardiologist at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, was not somemind-in-the-gutter degenerate. He never rented dirty movies - ha... ...r. Stanley Gilford, chief cardiologist at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, was not somemind-in-the-gutter degenerate. He never rented dirty movies - hadn’... ...and lascivious trysts. And yet, here he was sitting at the counter ofthe Central Ave Diner in Pawtucket, Rhode Island indulging his sexual fantasies. ... ...cus on her haughty goodlooks. No pretense or posturing - just a woman on the front side of middle-age perfectly at easein her lovely body. Stan sensed... ...n'tbother finishing the sentence. "Yes," Mrs. Carter agreed, "he just got caught in the middle." Benjamin was still trying tofigure out what exactl... ... her andwas squinting over her shoulder. Nadia smiled faintly. The director, who was of Scottish background, reminded her of amedieval, Hassidic ra... ...o the food onhis plate. Grace wracked her brains. She had a decent grounding in Russian literature—Tolstoy,Dostoyevsky, Chekhov. She’s even read so... ... inserted it in the box. “And yes, despite all rumors to the contrary,he does read Russian literature.” ****** If you wish to appeal this decisi...

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...story represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents arethe product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any r... ... ***** Table of Contents Damaged Goods Will the Rain Hurt the Rhubarb? The Hornback Alligator Bel... ...dred Spirits A Guide for the Perplexed The Indigo Children Fatally Flawed Women A Middlemarch Reunion Lyuba Thyroids, a Love Story ... ...n the slightest mind waswhen he did something wrong, which was why she was presently standing in the repair baywearing an evil expression. “No signatu... ...n evil expression. “No signature on this form.” Miranda waved a three-part invoicetruculently in the air. In her late twenties, the business secret... ... a cautionary toneas the bartender went off to fix his drink. The man, who spoke with a thick Scottish brogue,wore a tuxedo, five onyx studs decoratin... ...parkled as he wiped his mouth with the back of a hand. "My familyhails from Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands.” He lowered his voice several decibe... ...anyway, he was far too excited about thedate to worry about musty, nineteenth-century Russian literature. "Yes, I read it," Ernie lied. "Did you li... ...ng message?" "Yes, of course." “Sometimes,” Jillian confided, “when I’m reading Russian literature or the Victorianwriters, I feel like I might ...

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...ou know a story didn’t end right—but do you know how to fix these? Building on observations of how human brains are built for absorbing information, the author reveals the internal engines driving the composition of interesting fiction and non-fiction: successful (and unsuccessful) structuring of plots, characters, and symbolism; apt and vivid use of language and imagery;...

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...To understand rhetoric, then, we have to understand cognition; the one is designed to accommodate the other, after all. If writers designed their work to hold the attention of a chimpanzee, it might abound in grunts; if an ant, it might be expressed chemically. But always sender and re...

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... 1. Cognitive Collision 1 The key literary principles of Contrast and Coherence. 2. A Megalosaurus in WC1 10 Creating vividness in the face of sensory satiation: the necessity of change—and change of change. How Dickens made 500 ...

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... AcknowledgementsHeartfelt thanks to Henry Trotter for his photographs of the Yale LawSchool sculptures (fig. 1, p. vi), to Dan Pir... ...n Piraro for the Bizarro cartoons(fig. 2, 3, pp. 20, 97), and to King Features Syndicate for the Baby Bluescartoon (fig. 4, p. 170). ... ... Copyright © 2014 Paul T. BarberLibrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:Barber, Paul, 1941- Words of Uncomm... ...Publication Data:Barber, Paul, 1941- Words of Uncommon Shape: How Writers Create Vividness in Language and Story / by P. T. Barber. Includes bib... ...erence is the phenomenon of plot. It is possible—and Iam living proof of it—to get through a literature Ph.D. at a majoruniversity without really unde... ... And yet it is perhaps a sign of wisdom if our graduate 2programs in literature do not try to teach their students what plot i... ...posed, was right, but it was unsatisfactory, for everything ought to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ... ...bservation, in his discussion of the components of a tragedy, that a wholehas a beginning, a middle, and an end. Aha! I thought: a universal, truealso... ...e the reader to lose track of the story. In Scott’s Heart of Midlothian,Jeannie Deans speaks Scottish dialect until she makes a decision that isimport...

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...To Norwegians in the near future who blame Hitler on Wagner and the oppression of women on The Taming of the Shrew, Søren’s love for high culture looks a lot like “hate.” Despite being morbidly oversensitive and gay, Søren has trouble fitt...

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...Father Dorsten said that fear of ghosts was nothing next to fear of a ghost. “The Holy Ghost?” Grandma asked. “I certainly don’t believe in any other.” “What do you think he looks like?” Mother asked. “I’ve always pictured him as young and bald, riding a cloud, like one of the trebles in The Magic Fl...

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... 2019 Christian Felt ISBN: 9781089563044 Cover art:The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Details from t... ... Adriaen CoorteTo Mother CHAPTERS Part I – Moss I The Book Fair 1 II Wistling’s Great-Granddaughter ... ... 73 XI The Sheepboy of Pearls 79 XII In the Hall of the Squirrel King, Part I 84XIII In the Hall of the ... ... 124XVIII Søren Pretends to Be the Holy Ghost 134 XIX In the Hall of the Squirrel King, Part III 138 XX Chink ... ...rcumstances, for instance high school,might stand in contrast to it. “If literature can provide an escape from a world wherepeople do not care about... ...nd wouldbecome his friend, if only his essay were good enough, heeven took Middlemarch out of his bag to look up some quotes. “What’s this about?” s... ...is, would Ms. Lund be charmed? But, apparently fed up with her students’ middle-classlives, she broke off the introductions long before she got to ... ...sing to hear Hildegard of Bingentalk about her visions,” Grandma said. “In literature, as inlife, God is the ideal occasion for ‘show, don’t tell.’” I... ...ling to accept his share ofthe guilt, and propose international solutions. Scottish tablet, 117 THE BROWN BUTTERFLYc...

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...I Adolescence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797 Book XI First Literary Works 1798-1799 Book XII England, and ...

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............ 33Book I: Chapter 2: Birth of my brothers and sisters - I arrive in the world. 43Book I: Chapter 3: Plancouët – A Vow – Combourg – My father... ......... 33Book I: Chapter 2: Birth of my brothers and sisters - I arrive in the world. 43Book I: Chapter 3: Plancouët – A Vow – Combourg – My father’s ... ...r 4: Life of my maternal grandmother and her sister atPlancouët – My uncle the Comte de Bedée, at Monchoix – Release from mynurse’s vow ................. ... A note from Monsieur Pasquier – Dieppe – A change inmy education – Spring in Brittany – Ancient Forest – Pelagian Fields –Moonset over the sea ......... ...de Bedée – His eldest daughter406Book XII: Chapter 1: DIGRESSIONS: English Literature – The witheringaway of the old schools – Historians – Poets – Pu... ...ook XXXVII: Chapter 11: MORE DIGRESSIONS: Of Bohemia – Slavicand Neo-Latin Literature ................................................................... ...d in public life andshared its destiny. In the Italy and Spain of the late Middle Ages and theRenaissance, the foremost geniuses of literature and the... ...a child, I was youngand as unknown as he was: he had been raised among the Scottish heather,near the sea, as I was on the moors of Brittany, near the ... ... When I had dreamt my way through the centuries, the sound of abugle or Scottish bagpipes woke me. I saw live soldiers hastening to rejointheir bat...