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The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium by Christopher Vaccaro
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Christopher Vaccaro [Vaccaro, Christopher]

Notes 1. Adapted from the conference paper “Blasphemy and the Creation of the Orcs” given at the 4th Annual Tolkien Conference at UVM, April 13–15, 2007. 2. Though published and ...
( Category: European June 23,2020 )
Au Revoir, Tristesse by Viv Groskop
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Viv Groskop

7. True happiness may involve quite a lot of hypocrisy: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Or: Beware people who dump you by leaving a note in a basket of apricots) ...
( Category: Humor June 23,2020 )
Christian Sorcerers on Trial by Kate Wildman Nakai
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Wildman Nakai

Those Mentioned in the Addenda to Mitsugi’s Testimony • Harimaya Kinoshin was once Mitsugi’s follower, he joined her for water austerities, and he [was aware of her performing] strange acts. ...
( Category: Asian June 22,2020 )
Before Trans by Rachel Mesch
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Rachel Mesch

11 DEATH BY MARRIAGE IN 1889, RACHILDE MARRIED Alfred Vallette and gave up pants-wearing for good. “I buried my life as a boy,” she later wrote of this transition.1 That ...
( Category: LGBT June 22,2020 )
The Passion of Meter by Brennan O’Donnell
epub |eng | | Author:Brennan O’Donnell

[“]What days and what sweet years! Ah me Our life were life indeed, with thee So pass’d in quiet bliss, And all the while,” said he “to know That we ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 22,2020 )
Hawthorne in Concord by Philip McFarland
epub |eng | 2004-06-14 | Author:Philip McFarland

23 CREATING A LIFE I have been delayed by the necessity of going to Salem,” Hawthorne wrote Pierce from the Wayside on August 6. His sister Louisa’s funeral was the ...
( Category: Authors June 22,2020 )
Digging the Past by Frances E. Dolan
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Frances E. Dolan

Figure 6. Hawthorn from Gerard’s Herbal. Reproduced by permission of the University of California, Davis, Special Collections Library. Like compost, dung, and manure, discussed in Chapter 1, the word “hedge” ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2020 )
The Mystery of Everett Ruess by W. L. Rusho
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:W. L. Rusho

Can a strong mind maintain independence and strength if it is not rooted in material independence? Yes, as many great souls prove. They were not independent. Dependence and independence are ...
( Category: United States June 21,2020 )
A Bite of the Apple by Lennie Goodings
epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Lennie Goodings [Goodings, Lennie]

Chapter Nine Beyond Borders We had a little run-in with boundaries in the late 1980s. We received a manuscript from an agent who told us she was representing a British ...
( Category: European June 21,2020 )
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Raine [Raine Kathleen]

This beautiful passage, with that concrete visual quality to which Blake always responded when reading any abstract work, gave him at once the philosophy and the images of the poem. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 21,2020 )
Global Health Watch 4 by Global Health Watch
epub |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Global Health Watch

In contrast, Fiji has been able to intervene effectively by banning mutton and lamb flap sales (see Box C3.2). Conclusion While they cannot claim to be representative of the whole ...
( Category: Epidemiology June 19,2020 )
The Heart by Marc Petitjean
epub |eng | 2020-04-28 | Author:Marc Petitjean [Petitjean, Marc]

After Frida left France, probably because war was about to break out, my father received no further response from the deputies. Nothing was achieved by Diego either. Mexican passports were ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 19,2020 )
Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge by Wai-yee Li
epub |eng | | Author:Wai-yee Li

YOU TONG, “ON THE MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE PLANK BRIDGE” Yu Huai showed me The Miscellaneous Records of the Plank Bridge, which he authored, so that I could write a ...
( Category: Women June 19,2020 )
The Writing System of Scribe Zhou by Haeree Park
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Haeree Park

4.3.2Regional variation in use of decorative strokes In the Chu form (曾侯乙鐘) the ‘belly’ and 廿 part are attached to each other while the symmetrical slanting stokes between them which ...
( Category: Asian June 19,2020 )
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

The Relentless Desire of Bob Mizer In November 1951, three months after Charles Beach burned J. C. Leyendecker’s private papers after his funeral, a young gay photographer and fitness enthusiast ...
( Category: LGBT June 18,2020 )

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