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On the End of the World by Joseph Roth
epub |eng | 2019-03-14 | Author:Joseph Roth [Joseph Roth]

IV I think of the seventy-two-year-old Jew forced to climb to the top of that fireman’s ladder. No foreign correspondent was present. And if one had been, he wouldn’t have ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
The Double Life is Twice as Good by Jonathan Ames
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Jonathan Ames

I leave the girls and think about what they said—specifically the phrases “TV show” and “theme park.” In America we want to live in theme parks and TV shows. Why? ...
( Category: Anthologies March 22,2020 )
Bag of Hammers by Edward Riche
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Edward Riche

EVERLAND He was scowling at his menu, not even bothering with a hello when I arrived. It had been years and years yet he carried on as if I’d just ...
( Category: Humor March 22,2020 )
The Soul of the Marionette by John Gray
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:John Gray

HUMAN REDUNDANCY AND THE CYBORG ECONOMY The pioneers of modern robotics, Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann, were both involved in the Manhattan Project which produced the atomic bomb. Wiener ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater
epub |eng | | Author:Lauren Slater

THIS ALL OCCURRED during the late 1950s and 1960s. Harlow was studying love and had earlier fallen out of love. He was always at his lab, never at home. Clara, ...
( Category: Experimental Psychology March 22,2020 )
Collected Essays by Arthur Miller
epub |eng | 2016-10-21 | Author:Arthur Miller

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Introduction to A View from the Bridge (TWO-ACT VERSION) 1960 A play is rarely given a second chance. Unlike a novel, which may be received ...
( Category: Poetry March 22,2020 )
Life Is Short – Art Is Shorter by David Shields
epub |eng | | Author:David Shields [Shields, David; Cooperman, Elizabeth]

Elizabeth Cooperman Creation 8.Trick Story The world is no longer speaking to you. It’s high time you got tricky, wily, clever–in order to deal with life. Rick Moody: Primary Sources ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Camille Paglia [Paglia, Camille]

April 26. Sukiya, the Japanese word for teahouse, means “the abode of emptiness.” It uses rugged, hard, deliberately irregular wood, rubbed by hand. Irregularity of this kind is so un-Western. ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers by Calhoun Alison
epub |eng | | Author:Calhoun, Alison

Chapter 4 The Deaths of the Philosophers [A] Le but de nostre carriere, c’est la mort, c’est l’object necessaire de nostre visée: si elle nous effraye, comme est il possible ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 22,2020 )
Preoccupations by Seamus Heaney
epub |eng | | Author:Seamus Heaney

The Sense of Place I think there are two ways in which place is known and cherished, two ways which may be complementary but which are just as likely to ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
Religion and Power by Martin David
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Martin, David

Conclusion In contemporary usage charisma has broken free from its specific theological and social scientific meanings to become a floating signifier, and that immediately implies the central relevance of charisma ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 22,2020 )
The Ethical Writings by Cicero
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

Ref. 108 Illiberales, unworthy of a free man. Ref. 109 For men of senatorial, or even equestrian rank, these employments, if practised for gain, were regarded as derogating from respectability. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 22,2020 )
It Leaves Me The Same by E.A. Green
epub |eng | | Author:E.A. Green

A woman travelling with a cow in Amiens March 1918 On leaving Rouen, I followed Allen’s route to Amiens in my hire car, which was luxury compared to his ride ...
( Category: Memoirs March 22,2020 )
The Voice That Thunders by Alan Garner
epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Alan Garner [Alan Garner]

* * * 1 This lecture was delivered at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on the theme of “Science Fiction at Large”, on 26 February 1975. 8 Potter Thompson ...
( Category: Essays March 22,2020 )
So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch
epub |eng | 2019-06-21 | Author:Lydia Lunch

ten HUBERT SELBY JR.: THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE Born in 1928 in the badlands of Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. stomped a new asshole in the face of literature ...
( Category: Punk March 22,2020 )

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