Biographies
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:J.G. Ballard [Ballard, J.G.]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE SUMMER CANNIBALS Locus Solus. Through the dust-covered windscreen she watched him walk along the beach. Despite the heat he had been wandering about by himself for half ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-27 | Author:Jaymin Eve [Eve, Jaymin]

29 The rivers of the Desert Lands varied in colors. The ones that led off this fast-moving sand waterway were ochre like the Ostealon. As we crossed the docks, moving ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell [Scott-Maxwell, Florida]

Evolution is necessarily slow since we resent it so. A large proportion of our energy is used in holding it back, wanting to stop it if possible. The new good ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:G.I. Gurdjieff [Gurdjieff, G.I.]

SECOND TALK delivered by me in the same place to a much increased assemblage Last time, in the second half of my talk, I spoke about the supposition crystallized in ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-03-19 | Author:Carolyn Forché [Forché, Carolyn]

* * * — “You wanted to know where I live. This is one place.” We had pulled in front of a wall. He turned the engine off and checked ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

Bruce Chatwin doesn’t even get near to that kind of responsiveness and suggestiveness in the three hundred pages of The Songlines. ‘Have you noticed how often a writer’s letters are ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Hervé le Tellier [Tellier, Hervé le]

• TEN • THE NAKED TRUTH Started this diary today: eager as I am to note my very first impressions. Unpleasant. RAYMOND QUENEAU, DORMI PLEURÉ I was ten months old ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf, epub |eng | 1994-02-01 | Author:Jean Genet [Genet, Jean]

1 I used to toss my things any old place when we went to bed, but Stilitano laid his out on a chair, carefully arranging the trousers, jacket and shirt ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-07-14 | Author:Unknown

31 Cheyenne, after removing her clothes, announced to me solemnly, “I have something to tell you.” “You’re pregnant?” “Why the hell would I want to get pregnant? I’m here to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1982-10-12 | Author:Annie Dillard [Dillard, Annie]

VI The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-21 | Author:Michael Sayman [Sayman, Michael]

It had been only a couple of days since I’d been in touch with Mariana, but that was a long time for us. When I’d moved to California, we’d gotten ...
( Category: Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Carl Rogers [Rogers, Carl]

The Transcendent Aspect Another important characteristic of the community-forming process, as I have observed it, is its transcendence, or spirituality. These are words that, in earlier years, I would never ...
( Category: Motivational Self-Help October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Sylvia Plath [Plath, Sylvia]

Chair and bureau are the hieroglyphs Of some godly utterance wakened heads ignore: So these posed sheets, before they thin to nothing, Speak in sign language of a lost otherworld, ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )