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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Eco Umberto
azw3 |eng | 2000-11-09 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

4.3 WILD CATEGORIZATION At the level of NC there is a continuous organizing and reordering of “wild” categories, most of which spring from the recognition of constant precategorial features. For ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 11,2017 )
Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses by Butler Shane. Purves Alex
epub |eng | | Author:Butler, Shane.,Purves, Alex.

Even though severed limbs and toes continue to twitch, and lopped off heads still maintain a semblance of life, Lucretius denies that there is any sensation of pain because of ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 11,2017 )
James Wright by Jonathan Blunk
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Blunk

PART III 22 I have torn myself out of many bitter places / In America January 1973–January 1974 Monday morning in Jan., 73: Every poet ought to visit the grave ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 11,2017 )
Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-31 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

To Albert Mannheimer AR uses the term “rationalist” here to mean an advocate of reason. In later writings she used the term in its technical, philosophical sense, meaning an advocate ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 10,2017 )
Ayn Rand Answers: The Best of Her Q & A by Robert Mayhew
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Robert Mayhew [Mayhew, Robert]

You say the predominant trend of nineteenth-century intellectuals was collectivist and statist. But didn’t Nietzsche advocate individualism? What’s your estimate of him? It’s a low estimate, philosophically. I disagree with ...
( Category: Philosophy November 10,2017 )
Survival by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

And where the farms have gone back to forest are only soft outlines and shadowy differences – Old fences drift vaguely among the trees a pile of moss-­covered stones gathered ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 10,2017 )
Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Margaret Atwood

its intent is clarity it must forget nothing[32] This is the eye of the scribe of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Underworlds, or of the recording angel of the Christian Heaven. ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 10,2017 )
On Writers and Writing by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

Nobody hates writers more than writers do. The most vicious and contemptuous portraits of writers, both as individuals and as types, appear in books written by writers themselves. Nobody loves ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 10,2017 )
The Burgess Shale by Margaret Atwood
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Atwood [Margaret Atwood]

The poster for The All-Star Eclectic Typewriter Revue. The first, the All-Star Eclectic Typewriter Revue, took place possibly in 1974. Or maybe 1975. Or it could even have been 1976. ...
( Category: Humor November 10,2017 )
Falco: The Official Companion by Lindsey Davis
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

Once I began the Falco books, I always had a sly retrospective glance at Vespasian’s character in The Course of Honour. When he first meets Falco – a cheery old ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 10,2017 )
The Odyssey by Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-09-20 | Author:Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Poetry November 10,2017 )
The human machine by Bennett Arnold 1867-1931
epub |eng | | Author:Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

ATER a certain period of mental discipline, of deliberate habit-forming and habit-breaking, such as I have been indicating, a man will begin to acquire at any rate a super ficial ...
( Category: Contemporary November 9,2017 )
A Dictionary of Tolkien by David Day
epub |eng | | Author:David Day

Istari After a thousand years had passed in the Third Age of the Sun, an Elven ship came out of the Western Sea and sailed to the Grey Havens. Upon ...
( Category: Fantasy November 9,2017 )
The Portable Greek Reader (Portable Library) by W. H. Auden
azw3 |eng | 1977-08-25 | Author:W. H. Auden [Auden, W. H.]

THE PHILOSOPHIC HERO PLATO A MAN of sense ought not to say, nor will I be very confident, that the description which I have given of the soul and her ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature November 9,2017 )
No Name in the Street (Vintage International) by Baldwin James
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Baldwin, James [Baldwin, James]

Between the night and the morning of April 3–4, in 1967, a Marine, Michael E. Kroll, was murdered on West 3rd Street, in Greenwich Village. He was killed, according to ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 9,2017 )

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