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Peter Watts Is an Angry Sentient Tumor: Revenge Fantasies and Essays by Peter Watts
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Peter Watts [Watts, Peter]

Chamber of Horrors Nowa Fantastyka Nov 2016 You may know that I was a biologist long before I was an author. You may not know how far back those roots ...
( Category: Essays January 16,2020 )
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Umberto Eco

Alongside this series of commonplaces, which become amusing only because they are fired off in volleys—as in the technique of the list, where the tritest of expressions become admirable for ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Michael Frayn [Frayn, Michael]

Pause. Lloyd Brooke! Brooke Sorry … Lloyd Your line. Come on, love, we’re two lines away from the end of the act. Brooke I don’t understand. Lloyd Give her the ...
( Category: Drama January 16,2020 )
Plays 1 by Kwame Kwei-Armah
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Kwame Kwei-Armah [Kwei-Armah, Kwame]

Statement of Regret The government is considering issuing a statement of regret for the slave trade on the two-hundredth anniversary of its abolition. Commemorations are to be held across the ...
( Category: Drama January 16,2020 )
Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Sharon Olds [Olds, Sharon]

41, Alone, No Gerbil In the strange quiet, I realize there’s no one else in the house. No bucktooth mouth pulls at a stainless-steel teat, no hairy mammal runs on ...
( Category: Poetry January 16,2020 )
Gene Wolfe by Michael Andre-Driussi
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Michael Andre-Driussi

Bear (Threshold) Killed By Agilus (Death and Resurrection) Legal execution Hildegrin (The Past) Apu Punchau Alzabo (Fatherhood) Zoanthrops Sorcerers (Sacrifice) Hethor’s pet Master Ash (Ragnarok: the Future) Severian pulling him ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 15,2020 )
Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
epub |eng | 2001-02-03 | Author:Judith Thurman [Judith Thurman]

CHAPTER 28 The perversity necessary to satiate an adolescent lover doesn’t devastate a woman sufficiently; on the contrary. Giving becomes a kind of neurosis, of ferocity, an egotistical frenzy. —COLETTE, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 13,2020 )
Start. by Jon Acuff
epub |eng | 2013-02-06 | Author:Jon Acuff

6: Mastering 6 Mastering You ready for a bar fight? I don’t think I’m supposed to use the phrase “bar fight” as a Christian, but in this case, my hands ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement January 12,2020 )
The Practice of Poetry by Robin Behn
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Robin Behn

THE SHORT NARRATIVE POEM Roland Flint Write a poem, eleven to fifteen lines long, in which you tell a story. Specifics: First of all, your poem must tell the story ...
( Category: Love Poems January 12,2020 )
In the Palm of Your Hand by Steve Kowit
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Kowit

A poor working stiff named McGuire ˘ / ˘˘/ ˘˘/ consigned to the Stygian Fire ˘ / ˘˘/ ˘˘/ sent a fax to the Devil: ˘˘ / ˘˘/ ˘ Are ...
( Category: United States January 12,2020 )
Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? by Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2006-09-20 | Author:Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves

I’m not a breast man. I’m a breast person.—John Wilson And a joke is still a fairly blunt instrument of communication. It’s functional, to the point; it requires very little ...
( Category: Jokes & Riddles January 11,2020 )
Walden Two by B. F. Skinner
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:B. F. Skinner [Skinner, B. F.]

20 FRAZIER led us in the direction of the personal rooms, and I hoped that we might be going to his own quarters, which I was curious to see. But ...
( Category: Jurisprudence January 9,2020 )
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Aleksandr Pushkin
epub |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:Aleksandr Pushkin

VII Lacking the lofty passion not to spare life for the sake of sounds, an iamb from a trochee he could not— [4] no matter how we strove—distinguish; dispraised Homer, ...
( Category: Russian January 8,2020 )
C. S. Lewis by James Como
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:James Como

That Hideous Strength Lewis seems always to have had some piece of writing in the works. This was true of The Chronicles, his autobiography, a narrative poem, and of Abolition ...
( Category: Modern January 8,2020 )
How to Be a Cat by Ralph Lazar & Lisa Swerling
epub |eng | 2016-11-26 | Author:Ralph Lazar & Lisa Swerling [Lazar, Ralph & Swerling, Lisa]

Contents How to Be a Cat About the Author Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar are the creators of the internationally beloved series Happiness Is . . . , the New ...
( Category: United States January 6,2020 )

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