Essays & Correspondence
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

Kirilov All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes modern sensibility from classical sensibility ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Matthew Fuller [Fuller, Matthew]

Ambiguity and Paradox In his book How Mathematicians Think, William Byers differentiates the formalized, algorithmic means of doing maths from the moment of discovery. This is done in a somewhat ...
( Category: Programming April 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-30 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

“I don’t like your attitude,” said Orren Boyle. “So long as we respect the rights of the workers, we’ll want you to respect the rights of the industrialists.” “Which rights ...
( Category: Philosophy April 3,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:J. M. Coetzee & Arabella Kurtz [Coetzee, J. M.]

EIGHT Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dangerous Joy

She kicked out, landing a solid blow on the carriage door, but fortunately she was only wearing soft slippers. He trapped her legs between his own and kept her head ...
( Category: Regency April 2,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

We last glimpse the ‘handsome couple’ three years later, in Buenos Aires. Handel’s Tamerlane is playing at the Teatro Colón. Jewels ‘winked’. A Mercedes Maybach ‘whispered to the curb’. You’ll ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 2,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

[Prague, August 7, 1920] Saturday Am I really kind and patient? I don’t know about that, but I do know that such a telegram does the whole body good, so ...
( Category: World Literature April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-04-12 | Author:Mark Dery

Instead of puckered flesh, his Borg anus had been enhanced and altered to receive. He had the perfect access conduit.11 The Borg also suggest a mechano-erotic take on the gay ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 1,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Lao Tzu

XVII Simplicity of Habit When great men rule, subjects know little of their existence. Rulers who are less great win the affection and praise of their subjects. A common ruler ...
( Category: Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts April 1,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2005-06-10 | Author:John Daido Loori [Loori, John Daido]

NANYUE POLISHES A TILE * * * John Daido Loori MASTER DOGEN’S 300 KOAN SHOBOGENZO, CASE 8 Main Case ZEN MASTER MAZU DAOYI was an attendant to Nanyue and personally ...
( Category: Buddhism April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Theresa Maggio

Martina was one of the poorest people I had met in Sicily, a soft-spoken woman in her early thirties, the mother of a teenage girl. Her husband, Carlo, was out ...
( Category: Europe April 1,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Henry Hwang

scene 6 Beijing. 1963. Party noises over the house speakers. Renee enters, wearing a revealing gown. GALLIMARD: 1963. A party at the Austrian embassy. None of us could remember the ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals April 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-03-31 | Author:William Cobbett

We got to THURSLEY after our beautiful ride through Mr LEECH’s coppices, and the weather being pretty cold, we found ourselves most happily situated here by the side of an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 31,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1958-10-17 | Author:Once there was a war

MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 30,2018 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-07-20 | Author:Chelsea Cain

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 30,2018 )