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...re of dysfunctional disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer... ...side this dynamic balance? This question is unanswerable because there is no record or trace of how we lived 90,000 years ago. But one thing is obv... ...tivation is the human subconscious mind. Even down to the most basic fight-or-flight chemical reaction of their hormone balance. Why? Because even... ...f human misery-pain-trauma on all levels, and in all ways. The entire span of recorded human history is a history of this endless repetitive cycle. ... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...ng. Each calling or profession is basically a racket designed to benefit the holders of that expertise at the expense of the exploited and excluded ... ...s. Their immigration is a confession of hopelessness and resignation. Their flight is also their fear of fighting and struggling against the stacke... .... They took what the Germans did and did it back to them ten times worse, at altitudes so high: the German anti-aircraft guns couldn’t even reach t... ...t; invented it. It signified a cheap death by the sword: death by the sword holders, death by those who held the sword. Killing lowly peasants who...

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...to neither of the opposing corps placed himself in a good position to umpire the combat; another student stood by with a watch and a memorandum-book t... ...on about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are al- ways volunteering. A corps student told me it ... ... XIII My Long Crawl in the Dark WHEN WE GOT BACK to the hotel I wound and set the pedometer and put it in my pocket, for I was to carry it next day an... ... a hotel chambermaid has nothing to do but make beds and fires in fifty or sixty rooms, bring towels and candles, and fetch several tons of water up s... ...ckery, that once he gets his tongue or his pen started on his darling theme, he cannot well stop until he drops from exhaustion. He has no more sense ... ...anged their mind and considered it necessary to start at once and visit a sick relative in Siberia.” “Ah, me, you struck the summit! You struck the lo... ...led us once—about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau—and for aught I knew it might be getting ready to fool us again. We were only certain as ... ... was already up and off at daybreak—and swearing like mad about something or other. We could not find out what the matter was. He had asked the landla... ...entioned this noble idea to Harris, with enthusiasm, and was about to order the Expedition to form on the Gorner Grat, with their umbrellas, and prepa...

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...sible. Y.M. There must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many year... ...hat no man ever sacrifices himself; that there is no instance of it upon record anywhere; and that when a man’s Interior Monarch requires a thing of... ...M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That list of sects is not a record of studies, searchings, seekings after light; it mainly (and sarcas... ...hese have exalted him, en thused him, ambitioned him to higher and higher flights; in a word, made his life worth the living. But by your scheme, all... ...utside my door. I said to myself, “Jean is starting on her usual horseback flight to the station for the mail.” Then Katy* entered, stood quaking and... ...of George III. I see him stretching up the hill, part of him occupied by a flight of stone steps; and I can locate Stephen to an inch when he comes in... ...them, and two years hence all will be. In that day the peasant of the high altitudes will have to carry a lantern when he goes visiting in the night t... ...t since his last round. And also in that day, if there shall remain a high altitude peasant whose potato patch hasn’t a railroad through it, it would ... ...med, it is true, by the distance that lay between the lofty boss pilotical altitude and my lowly one, yet percep tible to me; perceptible, and transl...

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... and dirk. King Louis is not without hope: in the chapter of chances; in a flight to some Bouille; in getting popularized at Paris. But what a hoping ... ...tion- alism, whichever for the month may have convinced the royal mind. If flight to Bouille, and (horrible to think!) a drawing of the civil sword do... ...qu’a la mort.’ Third, and most important, that 43 Thomas Carlyle official record of all this be solemnly delivered in to the National Assembly, to M.... ...ore, let the French National Solemn League, and Federation, be the highest recorded triumph of the Thespian Art; triumphant surely, since the whole Pi... ...in brave Bouille, last refuge of Royalty in all straits and meditations of flight, has for many months hovered occa- sionally in our eye; some name or... ...o purpose. For the Carabineers, to whom after the hardest Sunday’s ride on record, he has come circling back, ‘stand deliberating by their nocturnal w... ...non, and how, in a peaceable trading City, so many householders or hearth- holders do severally fling down their crafts and industrial tools; gird the... ...ants, men who thought the Constitution would march! Lafayette rises to the altitude of the situation; at the head of his Army. Legislative Com- missio...

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... on his own fool- ish quests. Except for some stir it the branches and the flight of four startled magpies; there was neither life nor sound about the... ... broken laths, and the walls were scrawled with names, sentiments, and hop records. “They’ve been keeping pigeons here,” she cried. “And you could dri... .... Cloke threw on act and inci- dent were more amazing than anything in the record. There- fore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shon... ...uld give a sniff and a snort, just loud enough to call my attention to the flight. Garm might go out forty times in the day and Vixen would never stir... ...ampled alighting- board. “Excuse me,” she began, “but it’s my first honey- flight. Could you kindly tell me if this is my—” “—own hive?” the Guard sna... ...n a two-thousand foot slant at an angle (the dip-dial and my bouncing body record it) of thirty-five. Our turbines scream shrilly; the propellers cann... .... 2s. 6d. SANGERS WEATHERS OF THE WORLD. 4s. SANGER’S TEMPERATURES AT HIGH ALTITUDES. 4s. HAWKIN’S FOG AND HOW To AVOID IT. 3s. VAN ZUYLAN’S SECONDARY... ...ons and Reactions days at Credence Green, and they have trained the house- holders to keep the place select. Penfentenyou made a griev- ance of this a...

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..., as lightning shone The face of my Deliverer God. “My song for ever shall record That terrible, that joyful hour; I give the glory to my God, His all... ...in knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold. Y et when Jonah fairly takes out his ... ...ish, all careening, glides to sea. That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded smugglers! the contraband was Jonah. But the sea rebels; he will n... ...s; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records. At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with ... ... how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-s... ...uck with the most lively terrors,” and “often in the precipitancy of their flight dash themselves against the rocks with such vio- lence as to cause i... ...he mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to los... ...found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows. On this hint, attempts have been made to construct ela... ...shion, he has no proper foun- 235 Herman Melville dation for his superior altitude. Hence, I conclude, that in boast- ing himself to be high lifted a...

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...to the courts at Andelys for a judgment, which should enable his baptismal record to be transferred from the registry of the parish to that of the may... ...ot being pure at a less height than seventy feet above the ground. At this altitude the worthy proprietor enjoyed an enchanting view of the windmills ... ...mount, and his living had ab- sorbed one half of that profit. Such was his record. His neigh- bors, little envious of such mediocrity, praised his exc... ... At the further end of the vestibule the staircase went up in two straight flights, and between them was the space which had given Cesar some uneasine... ...n a speculation of that kind we must have a warranty from the sellers, and record the deeds, and pay in cash, before we are really owners and co-partn... ... or death, that on no consideration must he or any one talk about Roguin’s flight. Tell Cesarine to come down to me, and beg her not to say a word to ... ... hundred thousand francs to pay over to Roguin the day before the latter’s flight, and Roguin had returned the money to du Tillet. Claparon, therefore... ...digo when they have monopolized the trade, and pull down rice to force the holders to sell at low prices, and so enable them to manage the mar- ket? A...

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...of Germany by ini- tiating peace negotiations. But apart from their steady record and reminder of German brutalities and German aggression, the press ... ...inated. A history of military method for the last few centuries would be a record of successive alternate steps in which offensive and defensive contr... ...the attack at the moment of vic- tory. The trench falls back to its former holders under this fire and a counter attack. Check again for the offensive... ...ographs and last week’s photographs, marked maps and all sorts of aids and records. If he is a Frenchman he is only too happy to explain his ideas and... ...her fresh branch of air activity in the ma- chine-gun attack at a very low altitude. Originally I believe this was tried in western Egypt, but now it ... ...g the back of the engine and creepers painted up its sides. But that was a flight of the imagination; the commonest camouflage is merely to conceal. T...

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...ing jib boom, and fastened there the mystic symbol of the ban. This put to flight a party of girls who had been observed swimming toward us. Toss- ing... ...wings over us, and then skimmed away silently as if from a plague-ship. Or flights of the tropic bird, known among seamen as the “boat- swain,” wheele... ...aghast at its scattered contents, and with one wandering hand tak- ing the altitude of a bump on his head. 39 Melville CHAPTER XII. DEATH AND BURIAL ... ...have sealed our fate in the end), when a sharp cry shot by my ear like the flight of an arrow. It was Salem: “All ready for’ard; hard down!” Round and... ...h we afterward used for cups. On the second day nothing happened worthy of record. On the third, we were amused by the following scene. A man, whom we... ... commotion. Powders and pills were voted mere drugs in the market, and the holders of vials were pronounced lucky dogs. Johnson must have known enough... ...hips touching in her harbours. It is a significant fact, and one worthy of record, that while the influence of the English missionaries at T ahiti has...

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...t was I who, to this day , am blamed by her family as the companion of her flight; and were I in their neighbourhood, would be fain to wear a shirt of... ..., possessions, and safety—church-lands are resumed, T ony, and well if the holders be not called to account in Ex- chequer.” “That were ruin,” said Fo... ...All’s over and lost now. But if ever I have that V arney within reach of a flight-shot, I will bestow a forked shaft on him; and that I swear by salt ... ...fter him.” “With neck reguardant,” said the herald. “And on the day of her flight, and that was on Saint Austen’s Eve, I saw Varney’s groom, attired i... ...ere was no kissing in the matter, and the defendant hath put the denial on record. But what say you to his present practice, my lord, on the stage? fo... ...ard you,” said. one, “how graciously she spoke to Mas- ter Bailiff and the Recorder, and to good Master Griffin the preacher, as they kneeled down at ... ...wn at her coach-window?” “Ay, and how she said to little Aglionby, ‘Master Recorder, men would have persuaded me that you were afraid of me, but truly... ...her giant of romance, without raising himself nearer to heaven even by the altitude of a chopin. The legs and knees of this son of Anak were bare, as ...

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...g to the footfalls of angels and demons. “No man,” Poe himself wrote, “has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life.” In th... ...ville. He left that institution after one session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a cred... ... prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he contracted debts and h... ...le somebody. He could not have been more than two feet in height; but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equil... ...ix o’clock. I was still rapidly ascending, and my barometer gave a present altitude of three and three-quarter miles. Immedi- ately beneath me in the ... ..., body of air incumbent upon our globe. It is also calcu- lated that at an altitude not exceeding the hundredth part of the earth’s diameter — that is... ... terrestrial fastenings, flies with him, forthwith, to the satellite. The “Flight of Thomas O’Rourke,” is a jeu d’ esprit not altogether contemptible,... ...ekeeper of an Irish peer, whose eccentricities gave rise to the tale. The “flight” is made on an eagle’s back, from Hungry Hill, a lofty mountain at t... .... By this time the cries had ceased; but, as the party rushed up the first flight of stairs, two or more rough voices in angry contention were disting...

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... things befell not, they were slowly done; not in an hour, but through the flight of days: what was to be said of it? This hour seemed altogether as t... ...ar. He, like an eagle or vulture, or mixture of both, preens his wings for flight homewards. (Fils Adoptif, Memoires de Mirabeau, t. iv. livv. 4 et 5.... ...led off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...d prisoner); was noticed fording estuar- ies of the sea (at low water), in flight from the face of men. He has pleaded before Aix Parlements (to get b... ..., till death, jusqu’a la mort.’ Third, and most im- portant, that official record of all this be solemnly delivered in to the National Assembly, to M.... ...on, and how, in a peace- able trading City, so many householders or hearth-holders do severally fling down their crafts and industrial tools; gird the... ...ts, men who thought the Con- stitution would march! Lafayette rises to the altitude of the situation; at the head of his Army. Legislative Commissione...

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...was. And who was the Gray Champion? Perhaps his name might be found in the records of that stern Court of Justice, which 11 Hawthorne passed a senten... ... except when a long, deep, and irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the flight of his spirit. The minister of Westbury approached the bedside. “Ven... ...llaston, or Merry Mount. In the slight sketch here at- tempted, the facts, recorded on the grave pages of our New England annalists, have wrought them... ...sts were led astray by the crowd of vanities which they should have put to flight. Erring Thought and perverted Wisdom were made to put on masques, an... ...f the spirit, made their appearance in New England. Their repu- tation, as holders of mystic and pernicious principles, having spread before them, the... ... and in madness; but noth- ing can exceed the bitter mockery with which he records the loathsome disease, and “death by rottenness,” of the fierce and... ...ough Ilbrahim was young to be sad for such a cause, from wounded love. The flightiness of his mirth rendered him often guilty of offences against the ... ...th of cen- turies, though mossy with age, had barely reached three feet in altitude. Next, they came to masses and fragments of na- ked rock heaped co... ...ere those of a general officer, and something in his mien reminded the be- holders of one who had recently been master of the Province House, and chie...

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...th, 1945, at 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, a B- 29 heavy bomber flying at high altitude dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More than 4 square mil... ...r that the effect of a single atomic bomb could be determined. The weather records showed that for five years there had never been two successive good... ...ties, among them Hiroshima. The planes approached the coast at a very high altitude. At nearly 8:00 A.M., the radar operator in Hiroshima determined t... ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rise vertically and finally mushrooms out at an altitude of about 25,000 feet depending upon meteorological con- ditions. T... ...grees depend- ing upon the color of the fabric. A number of instances were recorded in which persons wearing clothing of vari- ous colors received bur... ...rations and necrosis (breakdown of tissue) followed. Blood counts done and recorded by the Japanese, as well as counts done by the Manhattan Engineer ... ...uried so that their services in rehabilitation were not available, a panic flight of the population took place from both cities immediately following ... ...bombed cities. This terror, resulting in immediate hysterical activity and flight from the cities, had one especially pronounced effect: persons who h... ...e been pinned under the wreckage or who have been lost sight of during the flight. There is no help for the wounded and some die. No one pays any atte...

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...t the standard of living which prevails at any time or at any given social altitude will in its turn have much to say as to the forms which honorific ... ...ny evidence of indigence or squalor about the sacred place affects all be- holders. The accessories of any devout observance should be pecuniarily abo... ...g anything more than a somewhat transparent pre- tense. Even in its freest flights, fashion rarely if ever gets away from a simulation of some ostensi... ... among its officers especially, a larger proportion of men with a sporting record than the proportion of such men in the aggregate population of the c... ...fication and its high- est accentuation in the higher pecuniary and social altitudes. The cults of the lower-class devout portion of the commu- nity, ...

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...ty-five. Travelers who write their travels are con- stantly called upon to record that number, so that it may now be considered as a superlative in lo... ...ed with gradual pauses, so that time for oblivion may accrue, and no exact record be taken. No such meal is known at American hotels. It is possible t... ...e first place there is a great national expenditure incurred in moving old records and in keeping double records, in moving the li- brary, and, as I h... ...above. This smaller fall is again divided; and the visitor, passing down a flight of steps and over a frail wooden bridge, finds himself on a smaller ... ..., but still I felt no satisfaction. It was private property, divided among holders and pastured over by private cattle. Salisbury Plain is as wild, an... ...hant’s. This is attached to a huge gra- nary or barn; but in order to give altitude within the barn for the necessary moving up and down of this trunk... ...ised himself some- what above the crowd, becomes sooner dizzy with his own altitude. An American of mark, though always anx- ious to show his mark, is... ...III. with his cackling was certainly not efficacious in restraining such a flight. But it is gratifying to see how this new people, when they had it i...

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...is gestures which should pro- hibit one from stigmatizing those efforts at altitude as a failure. No doubt he did achieve much; but, nevertheless, the... ...appearing to Lady Arabella as though he rose in his anger nearly a foot in altitude before her eyes. ‘What has passed between them? and who says so?’ ... ...me- what above nine hundred registered voters, of whom the greater portion recorded their votes early in the day. At two o’clock, according to Sir Rog... ...transaction which took place in the earlier part of the day deserves to be recorded. There was in Barchester an honest publican—honest as the world of... ...nd what lurking evil effect the excitement have on him—of these matters no record was kept in the history of those proceedings. Sir Roger’s eloquence ... ... hint. ‘Say something about their daughters, ’ whispered George, whose own flights of oratory were always on that subject. Had he counselled Mr Moffat... ...rge as to make the house behind it look like another building of a greater altitude. This portico was supported by Ionic columns, and was in itself do... ... and was in itself doubtless a beautiful structure. It was approached by a flight of steps, very broad and very grand; but, as an approach, by a fligh... ...ffused his cheeks, and his tottering steps were unable to bear him away in flight. Once, and twice, the cutting whip came well down across his back. H...

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...e considered merely as what it calls itself, a Family Chronicle—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during those years of early life wh... ...their father strode up three steps at once, turned at the top of the first flight, made his bow to them, and presently came down with his little daugh... ...ne, bearing the date and initials of those who lay there, and many of them recording former generations of Mays, to whom their descent from the head- ... ... right, but it was coldly, and he smiled.” “He is too sober-minded for our flights,” said Margaret. I know the feeling of it, Ethel dear; but you know... ... would be that the para- graph of the county paper, where “N. W . May” was recorded as prizeman and foremost in the examination, had not penetrated ev... ... be turned off on the spot where the crime took place—a warning to all be- holders. Only let me send home for old Neptune’s chain, if you please, sir—... ...gladness conduces to no vain-glory of thine own, in beauty, or in graceful flight, but thou art a creature serv- ing—as best thou canst to his glory.’... ...tain intelligence of the wishes of the incum- bent of the parish or of the holders of the land in question. The ladies abused all colleges—as prejudic... ...he Himalayas, and had become engrossed in scientific observations on their altitudes, as well as investigations in natural history. Going to Calcutta,...