...er; He is an ellipse with two foci. Facts are one, ideas are the other. -- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, vii An idea is taken for granted in the s... ...han 350 articles he has worked to communicate the message that most poor whites and blacks and working-class whites are healthy in mind and courageou... ... models for people to either follow or recognize. The conscious attempt to employ black actors in TV commercials may be even more important than the... ...n general; political philosophies, such as the feeling on the part of some militant blacks that population control is basically genocidal" (p. 114). ...

...? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast tow... ...ge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—an... ...surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driven from their homes by that fearsome flood, survivors disp... ...n word, nobody from that era has left us proof one way or another. This Black Sea-genesis account dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flo... ... line that runs roughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the Black Sea left tongue-print... ...rce greater than an idea whose time has come.‖ —Victor Hugo. ―A people cannot hope to be both ignorant and free.‖ ...

...tion and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balan...

...or will turn to secrecy instead, hiding the details of her innovation behind black box technologies and restrictive contracts, so that society never g... ...ho was the grandson of a third bookseller, who had bought the copyright from Black Frank, the Doctor’s servant and residuary legatee, in 1785 or 1786.... ...a novel that did not exist before I wrote it? One hundred years later Victor Hugo echoed the same thoughts in a speech to the Conseil d’Etat and point... ...enterprise.” 49 This is the flip side of the arguments that Diderot and later Hugo put forward. Perhaps the romantic author does not create out of thin... ...n the Sony case. Thus while Judge Kaplan’s discussion of the looming digital Black Death is nicely apocalyptic, it does not seem very accurate. How ma... ...Finally, he exploded. I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” You see a white family, it says... ...it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black....S o anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help... ..., 91. 42. Quoted in Hesse, Publishing and Cultural Politics, 100. 43. Victor Hugo, speech to the Conseil d’Etat, September 30, 1849, quoted in Bernard... ...–212, 275, 287, 290, 291, 292, 292n2. Hughes, Justin, viii, 36, 262n51, 271. Hugo, Victor, 31–32, 261n43. Hunter, Dan, 286. Hurricane Katrina, 124–126...

........................................................ 4 CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES .............................................................. ...the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet wider knowledge, not only of a country fo... ...cising myself, seek to disarm the wrath of other and less partial critics. HUGO’S ROMANCES. – This is an instance of the “point of view.” The five rom... ...olly just. R. L. S. 15 Familiar Studies of Men & Books CHAPTER I – VICTOR HUGO’S ROMANCES Apres le roman pittoresque mais prosaique de Walter Scott i... ... ideal, vrai mais grand, qui enchassera Walter Scott dans Homere. – Victor Hugo on Quentin Durward. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important positio... ... like a fine lady from sleepless- ness and vapours; he would fall into the blackest melanchol- 42 Robert Louis Stevenson ies, and be filled with remo... ...by his dog; and the dog, “scouring in long excursion,” scampered with four black paws across the linen. This brought the two into conversation; when J... ...e than the merest smattering of knowledge; whereas his ac- quaintance with blackguard haunts and industries could only have been acquired by early and... ...nd an enduring and most unmanly resent- ment; Regnier de Montigny, a young blackguard of good 122 Robert Louis Stevenson birth; and Colin de Cayeux, ...

...ontents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTER II ? SOME ASPECTS OF ROBERT BURNS.......................................................... 34 CHAPTER III ? WALT WHITMAN.......