Essays & Correspondence
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Joan]

Do you know who is the first eternal spaceman of this universe? The first to send his wild wild vibrations To all those cosmic superstations? For the song he always ...
( Category: Classics July 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-25 | Author:Seneca,

There may be pleasure in the memory Of even these events one day.* He should put his whole heart into the fight against them. If he gives way before them ...
( Category: Letters July 25,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Thomas Carlyle

Luther's birthplace was Eisleben in Saxony; he came into the world there on the 10th of November, 1483. It was an accident that gave this honor to Eisleben. His parents, ...
( Category: Essays July 23,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Edmund Burke & L. G. Mitchell

These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men are the pretexts. The pretexts are always found in some specious appearance of ...
( Category: European July 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-30 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

My feet tread the shadows of the lances that spar for the kill. The taunts of my death, the horses, the horsemen, the horses’ manes, tighten the ring around me. ...
( Category: Essays July 23,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

6 Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature 1974 The two positions we are considering can be termed ‘monadist’ or ‘relativist’, and ‘universalist’. The monadist case holds that differences between ...
( Category: General July 23,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Aldous Huxley

APPENDICES I. Two other, less effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention—carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three of carbon ...
( Category: Essays July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Sapolsky

The Graying of the Troop Bill Martin, Transitions, 1978; courtesy Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco It was one of those days when all his joints ached. The rains had started, ...
( Category: Essays July 17,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-02-09 | Author:Khushwant Singh

11 Bombay, The Illustrated Weekly of India (1969–79) and the Aftermath BOMBAY, YOU WILL be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is ...
( Category: Essays July 16,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

Two days ago I changed Marmaduke’s diaper. It was right up there with my very Worst Experiences. I’m still not over it. I guess it had to happen. There are ...
( Category: Essays July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Cooper Davis [Davis, Cooper]

Thank God Josh was into self-pleasuring and did it in style. Otherwise, he never would have had what they desperately needed for this first time, and it wasn’t like the ...
( Category: United States July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Joan Rivers

JULY 11 Dear Diary: We’re starting to plan Grandma Week with Cooper. Every year he and I go somewhere special, just the two of us . . . plus my ...
( Category: Women July 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Hayes, Charles [Hayes, Charles]

Kenny B. 1958 Farmer, hunter, carpenter, electrician, plumber, avid chess player Resides in South Kona, Big Island of Hawaii Born and raised in Philadelphia HOW DO I DIE IF I’M ...
( Category: Essays July 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Madeleine L'engle

Twelve “What gives?” John called as he ran to catch up. Suzy is seldom at a loss for words, but all she could do was croak, “D-d-daddy—” and point at ...
( Category: Growing Up & Facts of Life July 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lauper, Cyndi [Lauper, Cyndi]

CHAPTER TEN I STARTED GETTING SCRIPTS from movie companies, because at the time they were really gunning for pop singers like Madonna to star in films. They wanted me to ...
( Category: Rock July 7,2014 )