Arts & Literature 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 | 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 )
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 )
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 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I dreamt last night that my little one was walking towards me along the pavement, with dirty cheeks, for some reason, and in a dark little coat; I ask him ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Albert Cohen [Cohen, Albert]

CHAPTER 54 Perched on a ladder with a lantern in one hand, the tiny creature examined herself in the mirror on the wall, made faces at her reflection, then rouged ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Carl Schmitt [Schmitt, Carl]

The complete inventory of this system of antitheses and their possible combinations is contained in the 1814 treatise by Benjamin Constant. He maintains that we are in an age which ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

IXTEEN CHARLES MALLISON This is what Ratliff said happened up to where Uncle Gavin could see it. It was January, a gray day though not cold because of the fog. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]

Elena dreamed of Pierre and Bijou. The full-fleshed Bijou, the whore, the animal, the lioness; a luxuriant goddess of abundance, her flesh a bed of sensuality – every pore and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )