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...Lunch break, and Mr. McDonalds’s Physics lab is almost full, mostly girls, an’ definitely no teachers. I’m standing behind the front bench, a fish-tank on the right, my trusty assistant John on the left. Grabbing a large goldfish from the tank, I stuff...

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...relates the history of how Hindus settled on this unlikely island and later uncovers the little-known Lontar palm-leaf manuscripts which reflect Bali's connection with ancient India. An expatriate Australian married to a Balinese shares her keen insider-outsider cultural insights, and there is a rich sampling of the Hindu arts, music, painting and dance which permeate Bali...

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..............................................................................................................................................145 GALLIO?S SONG .......................................................................................................................................................... 166 THE HOUSE SURGEON ............................................

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...................................................................145 GALLIO’S SONG ....................................................................... ............................................................... 167 THE RABBI’S SONG ....................................................................... ...om everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn’t it somethin... ...s had warned Sophie that Chapin was not to take interest even in other men’s interests; but a familiar sensation at the back of the neck after one hou... ...interests; but a familiar sensation at the back of the neck after one hour’s keen talk with a Nauheimed railway magnate saved her any trouble. He near... ...arly wept. “And I’m over thirty,” he cried. “With all I meant to do!” “Let’s call it a honeymoon,” said Sophie. “D’ you know, in all the six years we’... ...ve never told me what you meant to do with your life?” “With my life? What’s the use? It’s finished now.” Sophie looked up quickly from the Bay of Nap... ...tween four and five million. But it isn’t the money. You know it isn’t. It’s the principle. How could you respect me? You never did, the first year af... ...a, Bayreuth, and Florence, and were grateful to find her again at Claridge’s, for she commanded situations, and knew where prescrip- tions are most ca...

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...ssarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s song....

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...might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia’s song, — ‘It is engendered in the eyes, By reading fed—and... ...it gives for study of the times and delineation of characters. Shakespeare’s Henry IV. and Henry V., Scott’s Louis XI., Manzoni’s Federigo Borromeo, B... ...y IV. and Henry V., Scott’s Louis XI., Manzoni’s Federigo Borromeo, Bulwer’s Harold, James’s Philip Augustus, are all real contri- butions to our comp... ...and the patient, steadfast heroism of the man who can smile aside his wife’s endeavour to make him tacitly betray his faith to save his life. Surely i... ...e sacrificed, and that the order of time must be preserved. In Shakespeare’s days, or even in Scott’s, it might have been pos- sible to bring Henry II... ...ance of the la- dies at Montauban is described in Madame Duplessis- Mornay’s life; and if Berenger’s education and opinions are looked on as not suffi... ...on as not sufficiently alien from Roman Catholicism, a reference to Froude’s ‘History of Queen Elizabeth’ will show both that the customs of the count... ...bor- dered every seam of the sweeping skirt with a train befitting a count’s daughter, and meandered in gorgeous constella- tions round the hem. The l... ... who had received the pearls; but, in the miserable anarchy of Charles VI.’s reign, the elder brother had been on the Burgundian side—like most of the...

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...Excerpt: From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty?s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed?st thy light?s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine wher...

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....8 4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend ..................9 5 Those hours, that with gentle work did frame ............9 6 Then let not winter?s ragged hand deface .................10 7 Lo! in the orient when the gracious light ..................10 8 Music to hear, why hear?st thou music sadly? ..........11 9 Is it for fear to wet a widow?s eye ........................

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... hours, that with gentle work did frame ............9 6 Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface .................10 7 Lo! in the orient when the gr... ... why hear’st thou music sadly? ..........11 9 Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye .............................11 10 For shame! deny that thou bear’... ...my verse in time to come, ...........15 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? ................16 19 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,... ....16 19 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, ..........16 20 A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted ...17 21 So is it not with me as w... ...ppy plight, ...................21 29 When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, .....21 30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought ........... ...26 39 O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, ...........26 3 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 40 Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; ......27 4... ...ve shall be, as I am now, ...................38 64 When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced .......39 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor ... ...he map of days outworn, ...........41 69 Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view .41 70 That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, ...... ...78 So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse .................46 4 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 79 Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, .......................

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...al that I have gathered into this Series have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and estimate of it contributing thus by some fine little law to intensification of interest. The somebody is often, among my shorter tales I recognise, but an unname...

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...wn impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this person’s access to it and estimate of ... ... by right of intrinsic wit) unwarranted participant, the impersonal author’s concrete deputy or delegate, a convenient substitute or apologist for the... ...view of it; that nearness quite having thus to become an imagined observer’s, a pro jected, charmed painter’s or poet’s—however avowed the “minor” qu... ... may be one of the liveliest sources of amusement in “The Golden Bowl.” It’s not that the muf fled majesty of authorship does n’t here ostensibly reig... ...des rigidly by its law of showing Maggie Verver at first through her suitor’s and her husband’s exhibitory vision of her, and of then showing the Princ... ...hen showing the Prince, with at least an equal intensity, through his wife’s; the advantage thus being that these attributions of experience display t... ... and every one and every thing else, but as they are visible in the Prince’s interest, so to speak—by which I mean of course in the interest of his be... ... a like consistency we see the same persons and things again but as Maggie’s inter est, her exhibitional charm, determines the view. In making which ... ...olden Bowl less to ornament, I recognise, than if Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn’s beautiful pho tographs, which they reproduce, had had to suffer less red...

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...‘Jarek’ takes a tongue in cheek swipe at the extreme elements of 'women’s liberation', while offering a serious alternative to the way we currently teach our children. ...

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...Chapter 1. Zeno Skinny-dipping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The ...

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...OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, 26 -- FERGUS AND THE DRUID, 26 -- CUCHULAIN?S FIGHT WITH THE SEA, 28 -- THE ROSE OF THE WORLD, 31 -- THE ROSE OF PEACE, 31 -- THE ROSE OF BATTLE, 32 -- A FAERY SONG, 33 -- THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, 34...

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...S AND THE DRUID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 CUCHULAIN’S FIGHT WITH THE SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 THE ROSE OF THE WOR... .... 74 THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 ADAM’S CURSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 RED HA... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 RED HANRAHAN’S SONG ABOUT IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 THE OLD MEN ADMIRING THEMSE... ... PRAISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 THE FASCINATION OF WHAT’S DIFFICULT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 A DRINKING SONG . . . . . . . . . ... ...LWAY RACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 A FRIEND’S ILLNESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 ALL THINGS... ...BLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 VERONICA’S NAPKIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 SYMBOLS . . ... ...R ANNE GREGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 SWIFT’S EPITAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 AT AL... ... . 267 VII CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS . . . . 267 VIII GIRL’S SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 IX YOUNG... ...G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 IX YOUNG MAN’S SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 X HER ANXIETY . . ...

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...ones, or if Dillinger could make a clean getaway in a cherry red hovercar. These artists were writing cyberpunk stories from inside The Great Gatsby’s mansion, and they invited everyone to the party. What was missing at the time was a sense of community. We had fashion designers, musicians, architects, directors, sculptors, mechanics, authors… almost every artistic ...

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... then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happened. A huge pack of New York bankers got greedy. And the country was the one to cop it in the teeth when it all headed south.” “Nah. It weren’t that.” “It was too. And everyone knows it. Bankers got greedy, they ...

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...1.3 Proportional Conflict Redistribution rule . . . . . 33 1.3.1 PCR formulas . . . . . . . . . 34 1.3.2 Examples . . . . . . . . . 35 1.3.3 Zadeh’s example . . . . . . . . 39 1.4 Uniform and partially uniform redistribution rules . . . 41 1.5 RSC Fusion rules . . . . . . . . . 43 1.6 The generalized pignistic transformation (GPT) . . . . 45 1.6.1 The classical pign...

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...In Zen circles it is often said that a teacher’s finger, pointing at the moon, should not be confused with the moon itself. The implication is that no lesson on Truth, no matter how profound, could ever be a suitable substitute for Truth itself. Zen is a tradition that ...

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...e features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostly the result of S. N. Haleole’s researches in the work and workings of the Sorcery priesthood, is a revelation of the power and influence of that body over the Hawaiian race in all their vocations, and through his connections with members ...

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... “What sort of illness have you that you hide yourself?” She said to them, “I do not know; (I am) simply languid. ” The women then said to her, “Let’s see; we will examine you. ” She took off her garment and they examined her body while one of the women took hold of and felt of her breasts, which, on releasing the hand, they observed the contraction of the nipples of her...

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...e—Puheneheixe—The Sled—The Runner—Pahee—Olohu— Swinging -- 192 -- Boxing—The Long God—Bathing by Jumpíing—Kite Flying—Surf-Riding—Dancing—Ko-nane—Cat's Cradle—The Puzzle—Game of Koi —Arrow-Slinging—Cock-Fighting -- 202 -- Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race -- 222 -- Traditional Hawaiian History -- 239 -- Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions Viti—Fiji—New Zeala...

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...of a neglected industry with great commercial potential from improved management. The story starts with the emergence of Thailand as one of the world’s major agricultural exporters in many fields often to the neglect of useful by-products. Treating hides as a by-product of the bovine industries has held Thailand’s own leather industry back. This book explains means by whic...

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...What is it that makes Kate Nicolaisen's life history so interesting? One of the answers is the way she tells it. Despite often having lived a hard life, particularly during her childhood, Kate Nicolaisen has never lost her optimism. Despite being wounded deeply ...

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...Birth, Father, Strussliden (1910-16), Klara, To Gammalstorp (1916), Life and death (1917), Mother going to hospital, Mother's coffin, The funeral, "Miss", "Miss" becomes Mrs., To Ballingslöv (1918), To Eslöv (autumn 1918), To Bjärnum (winter 1918), Clogs, Puppy love, To Duvemölla (1919), The river, Tunes, Everyday life in Duvemölla (1919-24), Dome...

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...The April-May-June edition of Hinduism's flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. The issue takes you to South America, Texas, Vermont, Nepal, Northeast India and more. Hold on to...