Description Details
...oth, of this bizarre masterpiece which has reverberated ever since through high and popular culture.“Against Nature” (or in this version “Against The Grain”) explores to the furthest limit the life of the world-rejecting aesthete living a reclusive existence devoted entirely to artificial paradises of his own devising. This is no solemn tract, however: the book’s anti-hero...

Excerpt Details
...excepting me and Co(n)st(antin) Dincă}. We built a new literary movement without even knowing – in a paradoxical way! We did it by jokes, against-the-grain speech, amusing themselves in that bad time! I had written in Romanian language the volume „Laws of internal composition. Poems with... problems!” (1982) as a preparadoxist volume, published lately. But the First Parado...

Table of Contents Details
...evil, viscous,’ ‘How slow the horses go,’ ‘Light sheds its meagre ray’ ‘A troubled sigh of leaves’ ‘I hate the starlight,’ The Casino ‘Poisoned grain: exhausted air.’ Akhmatova ‘Horses’ hooves clattering there,’ ‘By candlelight it’s sweet to dream’ ‘Not crediting the miracle of re-birth,’ ‘The stream of golden honey pouring viscous,’ ‘Still far away are Spring’...

Description Details
...The authors use linguistic paradoxes, play against the grain on linguistic clichés, and employ mathematical combinations of words involving contradictions, antitheses, oxymoron, which fully characterize the paradoxism movement in literature and science....

Description Details
...ather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do with grain-elevator business, with railways, strikes, and commercial and financial matters generally, woven skilfully into a human story of love. -- The Commercial Advertiser 'Calumet K' is a novel that is exciting and absorbing, ...

Table of Contents Details
...30 56) I Guess You Wanted More 132 57) A Killing For Convenience 135 58) Sing Out A Song- 1976 137 59) 42nd Street-1976 139 60) Amongst The Grains Of Sand 142 61) The Light Of The World 144 62) American Transcendentalists 146 63) The Road 148 64) Time 150 65) The Desert Storm 152 66) Hey There Young Lady (To Kobie) 154 67) Calling Out To You 15...

Full Text Search Details
...e original sorites puzzle, attributed to Eubulides of Miletus: If a single grain of wheat does not make a heap, and nor does two, or three grains of... ...make a heap, and nor does two, or three grains of wheat . . . then if 9,999 grains of wheat do not make a heap, 10,000 grains of wheat do not make a... ... of chaining argument proceeds in the reverse direction as well: If 10,000 grains of wheat make a heap, then so do 9,999 grains ... as do 3 grains, ... ...s of wheat make a heap, then so do 9,999 grains ... as do 3 grains, as do 2 grains: so that one grain of wheat makes a heap. The paradox might seem... ...ly to semantic vagueness in defining the maximum or minimum number of wheat grains constituting a "heap", however, as noted in the Stanford Dictiona...

Full Text Search Details
...Poissons retournés sur le gril... noircis inégalement par le feu et assaisonnés çà et là du craquement d'un grain de sable... Jedemo polako, u tišin... ...c carottes, oignons, huile, jus de citron. Aromatiser ca cuisson avec fenouil, coriandre, céleri, poivre en grains, thym et laurier. Laisser refrodir...

Full Text Search Details
...is in the dust of the earth, should discover and make use of some small though precious grains, which might well escape the eye of the eagle? What wo... .... The second will embrace the observations, —which may be likened, in some sort, to the grain which is sown. In the third, and last, we will do our ... ...es it, and hinders it from growing; not otherwise than do the tares in the midst of the grain; and we know the end and destiny of both. It appears v...

Full Text Search Details
...ok her shoes off. The sand was hot and soft and she walked slowly. Sand grains got in-between her toes. From time to time, she stepped on a tiny s...

Full Text Search Details
...ears neither seed nor fruit by the power of Heaven, as ours does, and the grains grow again only once in several years. Hence, it is written of them... ... Ohr Hochma. Hence, our land, which receives in Malchut de ZA, receives a grain and a seed. However, the Heavens in Arka do not have the Light to bea...

Full Text Search Details
...conomy. Between 1916 and 1920, industrial output plunged by more than four fifths. Grain harvests in both 1920 and 1921 disastrously dwindled, lead... ...flation and the need to cap the prices of non-agricultural goods. Peasants hoarded grain for speculation purposes. A black market in goods was deve... ... The USA had a Wartime Prohibition Law during World War I (intended to conserve grain stocks). According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "By...

Full Text Search Details
...m hers to mine, between ours and the heavens. I will create islands out of a grain of sand, divide countries and their people and serve her the kingdo...

Full Text Search Details
... the brain of a Socrates or a worm fifty yards long. But being without a grain of humor, he took it into his head to make a vertebrate or perhaps a...

Full Text Search Details
...knotted in it, if applied thereto. Plants that are hollow, as the stalks of Grain, Reeds, Leeks, Garlick , etc., are good to purge, open and soo...

Full Text Search Details
... each object. For example, a wheat seed will never produce any other kind of grain besides wheat; it will produce only the previous shape of wheat ... ...en the glow of a tiny candle and the radiance of infinite light, or between a grain of sand and a whole world. Obtaining the spiritual life is the r...

Full Text Search Details
...ly chosen mawla could safely release him. He needn't build pyramids from a grain of sand. Their Lord, Allah knows best about them... Oh but how she ha... ... favorite Red Shoe Diaries episode. Not even the unpleasant parts—plucking grain and grit out of her hair and nether regions days after—was enough to ...

Full Text Search Details
...our own animals. You will provide his evening feed of the same treacle and grain formulation you provide to your own horses. You will find him in ...

Full Text Search Details
...about not complaining so much?” Mitch grinned at her. “You’re heartless! May millions of grains of sand find their way into your un- derclothes,” sh...