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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The patient also had to se... ...ahatma Many myths abound about Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand known as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948). He was NOT born to a poor Indian... ..., October 31 was called in England "All Hallows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on Novemb...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...e times before holding the burning torch to the mouth of the corpse to signify the passing of its soul. Finally he set the pyre alight and sat quiet... ...dangerously attractive, Rosita, and I will have to be careful not to become his slave in body and soul. Do you think he will learn to love me as muc... ... Gavin French the right man for her Helen? Rosita had always believed that each human being has a soulmate with whom a union in this life would brin... ...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...at on low, cushioned divans placed around the room to be entertained by dancing girls and Indian musicians. Then it was all over and time for the g... ...bedecked elephants, uniformed cavalry, troopers of the Emperor’s camel corps, covered palanquins, musicians, and foot soldiers poured through the ga... ... a typical Kashmiri meal of several courses, Gavin took Helen on a doonga, a pleasure boat, where musicians sang love songs to the accompaniment of ... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...everages were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con... ...ich is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the la... ...th diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne s... ... might be proposed. His master’s idea charmed him; he perceived a heart, a soul, under that icy exterior. He began to love Phileas Fogg. There remaine... ... port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations: En- glish, French, American, and Dutch, men-of-war and trad- ing vessels, Japanese and Chinese... ... run northward, and would aid us. “Pilot,” said Mr. Fogg, “I must take the American steamer at Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki.” “Why not?” ... ...mselves upon the narrow benches and into the boxes opposite the stage. The musicians took up a position inside, and were vigorously performing on thei... ... a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that ...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ught the eye, here and there, by one of those optic lures which render the soul —one knows not how or why—perplexed and dreamy. The fragrant freshness... ...mperfect image of the magic scene which delighted the still impressionable souls of the young officers. Thinking that the poor recruits must be leavin... ...oolness and self-possession. These are the moments in which to judge men’s souls. The commandant, better informed of the dan- ger than his two officer... ...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ...ho must be satisfied—he’s here!” he added, striking his stomach. “Have the musicians come?” said the marquis, in a con- temptuous tone, turning to Mad... ... impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuning their instruments and the dancing was about to begin,... ...tiated into the secret, began to under- stand its nature, so that when the musicians gave the signal for the dancing to begin no one moved. “Mademoise...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...tinsel look to the visitor full as well at a little distance,—as doubtless Soult and Junot thought, when they despoiled these places of worship, like ... ...ck funnel and gilt portraiture of “Lady Mary W ood” at the bows; and every soul on board felt glad to return to the friendly little vessel. But the au... ... he commands at Belem, by this time, and, I have no doubt, played to every soul of them the twelve tunes of his musical-box. It was pleasant to see hi... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ..., and drink wretched muddy coffee, and to listen to two or three miserable musicians, who keep up a variation of howling for hours together. But the ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ng. He gulped a cup of coffee in the hope of pacifying his stomach and his soul. His stomach ceased to feel as though it did not belong to him, but Ve... ... paled before the alluring opportunities for tete-a-tetes that invited the soul to loaf in the long library before the baronial fireplace, or in the d... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...Writing and Improving the Memory, Motion-picture-acting and Developing the Soul-power, Banking and Spanish, Chiropody and Photography, Elec- trical En...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...’t genuine,’ she faltered. ‘Perhaps one doesn’t really want them, in one’s soul—only superficially.’ A hard- ness came over Gudrun’s face. She did not... ...nic suggestion, such an untouched reserve. Ursula admired her with all her soul. ‘Why did you come home, Prune?’ she asked. Gudrun knew she was being ... ...-worn with consciousness. She was passionately inter- ested in reform, her soul was given up to the public cause. But she was a man’s woman, it was th... ...gation—but nega- tively something, at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced yo... ...y syllable distinctly. She looked at the cover, to verify herself. ‘An old American edition,’ said Birkin. ‘Ha!—of course—translated from the French,’... ...iked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of me- chanical motion i...

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The Europeans

By: Henry James

... and he went about laughing at everything he saw. You would have said that American civilization expressed itself to his sense in a tissue of capital ... ...r; but he was not. My poor father was born in Sicily, but his parents were American.” “In Sicily?” Gertrude murmured. “It is true,” said Felix Young, ... ...little girl, a cousin of theirs, a very pretty creature; a thorough little American. And then there is the son of the house.” “Good!” said the Barones... ...nui. But as yet she had not taken the alarm. The Bar- oness was a restless soul, and she projected her restless- ness, as it may be said, into any sit... ...t or hostess. He told her how he had played the violin in a little band of musicians—not of high celebrity— who traveled through foreign lands giving ... ... on; “but in her own way she is almost as clever.” He paused a moment; his soul was full of an agreeable feeling and of a lively disposition to expres...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

... intimate living personality, exposed down to its salacious corners as the soul of no con- temporary can ever be exposed. Of those double strands it i... ...nto his study, left not only the earth of life outside but its unsuspected soul. 3 3 3 3 3 Like Machiavelli at San Casciano, if I may take this analog... ...aving, Dick, but money. That’s only good to spend. All these things. Human souls buried under a cartload of blithering rubbish… . “I’m not a fool, Dic... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ... upon Margaret one evening. She was just back from the display of some new musicians at the Hartsteins. I remember she wore a dress of golden satin, v...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e man in England who could make a gentleman of him, went to the perfumer’s soul; and if there was one thing on earth he longed for (not including the ... ... Wives “How are you, Tiny my buck?” says the Captain. “Much doing?” “Not a soul in town. I ‘aven’t touched the hirons all day,” replied Mr. Eglantine,... ...ir, and only act as a friend between you and him. I give you my honour and soul, I do.” “I know you do, my dear sir.” The last two speeches were lies.... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ... his heyday of fashion was gone, Sir George still held his place among the musicians of the old school, con- ducted occasionally at the Ancient Concer... ...g, he pointed to our admirable English composer, Sir George Thrum. The two musicians were friends to the last, and Sir George has still the identical ...

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Virgin Soil

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...” She squeezed Nejdanov’s hand a second time and went out. “There is not a soul in St. Petersburg who is so attached to me as this eccentric person,” ... ...ife of dependence and longed for freedom with all the force of her upright soul. There was a constant inner battle between her and her aunt. V alentin... ...-parted lips. His depression left him and a wonderful calmness entered his soul. Meanwhile he was being discussed in the bedroom below. 42 Virgin Soi... ...rest flowers surround me, Sunlight laugh about my bed, Let the sweetest of musicians To the door of death be led. Bid them sound no strain of sadness—... ...contained nothing but a few painted wooden chairs and a couch covered with American cloth. There were pictures everywhere of an indifferent variety . ... ...ands. They are not heroes, not even ‘heroes of labour’ as some crank of an American, or Englishman, called them in a book he wrote for the edification...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or he... ...in returned the scenes of youth, Of confident, undoubting truth; Again his soul he interchanged With friends whose hearts were long estranged. They co... ... a lion’s mane.’— XIII. Minstrel,’ the maid replied, and high Her father’s soul glanced from her eye, ‘My debts to Roderick’s house I know: All that a... ...e. Presence-chamber. Cf. Rich. II. i. 3. 289: “Suppose the singing birds musicians, The grass whereon thou tread’st the presence strew’d” (that i...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...by the bedside; and there this wounded and timorous, but gentle and loving soul, sought for consolation, where as yet, it must be owned, our little gi... ...oung Ensign was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and en... ...he town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity and insole... ...g by a lake covered with swans, and barges containing ladies in hoops, and musicians with flags and penwigs. Indeed Raggles thought there was no such ... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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Blix

By: Frank Norris

...For Condy had joined a certain San Francisco club of artists, journalists, musicians, and professional men that is one of the institutions of the city... ...r drink it here.” “Where?” “In one of the restaurants. There wouldn’t be a soul there at this hour. I know they serve tea any time. Condy, let’s try i... ...m the centre of the ceiling over a huge round table of mahogany. And not a soul was there to disturb them. Below them, out there around the old Plaza,... ...’t; I wish we hadn’t now. We’ve been playing a game of checkers with human souls. W e’ve an awful responsibility. Suppose he kills her some time?” “Fi... ...d—a venture in which he had had the as- sistance of the prodigal son of an American divine of international renown. The trade to Peruvian insurgents o... ... around the line in those little, out-o’-the-way republics along the South American coast, and things happen to you. Y ou hold a man’s life in the cro... ...ver schooner that sunk fifty years before his time in one of the big South American rivers, during a flood—I heard of this myself. Schooner went down ...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...tion to (I) the production, (2) the distribution, (3) the consump- tion of American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat ... ... wear them after all. My poor little flowers.” But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. “Yes,... ...e opera business in the whole world.” But the orchestra was returning, the musicians crawl- ing out one by one from a little door beneath the stage ha... ...n his studio and regularly kow-tow to it, and talk about the ‘decadence of American industrial arts.’ I’ve heard him. I say it’s pure affectation, tha... ...e one he tried to swing before he died. Oh—how long ago was that? Bless my soul, that must have been fifteen, yes twenty years ago.” The deal of which... ... as much energy, and shrewdness, and competitive spirit into the saving of souls as they did into the saving of dollars that we might get somewhere. A... ...ade—any more than Christ was—to cultivate—beyond a certain point—their own souls, and refine their own minds, and live in a sort of warmed-over, dilet...

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Mcteague : A Story of San Francisco

By: Frank Norris

... were a small marble-topped centre table covered with back numbers of “The American System of Den- tistry,” a stone pug dog sitting before the little ... ...anted the evening papers. Then all at once the street fell quiet; hardly a soul was in sight; the sidewalks were deserted. It was supper hour. Evening... ...knew absolutely nothing further than that she 17 Frank Norris was Spanish-American. Miss Baker was the oldest lodger in the flat, and Maria was a fix... ...at one time possessed of an incalculable fortune derived from some Central American coffee plan- tation, a fortune long since confiscated by armies of... ...tary; no trains passed at this hour; except the distant rag-pickers, not a soul was in sight. The wind blew strong, carrying with it the mingled smell... ...revocably; struggle against it as she would, she belonged to him, body and soul, for life or for death. She had not sought it, she had not de- sired i... ... fin- gers. McTeague was stupefied with admiration . “That’s what you call musicians,” he announced gravely. “Home, Sweet Home,” played upon a trombon... ... McTeague, bewildered. “It’s the intermission of fifteen minutes now.” The musicians disappeared through the rabbit hutch, and the audience stirred an... ...- ing about him with eyes full of a vague distress. At length, just as the musicians were returning, he stood up and whispered energetically in his mo...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...hought of this individual just as it had when he actually encountered him in Soul. Sang Huin was always traveling--especially when he was in the State... ...gh the continual exposure to greenery and remoteness had been healing to his soul. He left the bus in Chongju (where he was more or less residing) an... ...ed one since he knew that it might be true that he was one of those tattered souls who weren't needing to learn how to be loving at this point but jus... ...fudge. Three old ladies ran up to them before leaving. They stood beside the musicians who were dressed in red and blue ponchos so that someone could ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ce or understanding arm and hand movements. We are humanizing the plastic souls of the rambling robots. The questions now revolve around whether to ... ...st achievement in a society. The same is true for actors and many popular musicians. But it also holds for many in business or in government. Fame s... ...at they should be played at a highly ethical level, that fair play is the soul of real sport, and that sport should be the beacon for our societies....

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...mbol (as apt at this moment as it was two thousand years ago) of the Human Soul, with its choice of Innocence or Evil close at hand, in the pretty fig... ... kneaded into one substance, along with the kindred qualities in the human soul. Trees, grass, flowers, woodland streamlets, cattle, deer, and unso- ... ...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...he might have knelt before the cross, and received the holy light into his soul, and so have been blest forever. But he resisted the sacred impulse. A... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ... to spread itself instead of cushions. On one of the stone benches sat the musicians, whose strains had enticed our wild couple thitherward. They prov... ...y other pastime. As Miriam and Donatello emerged from among the trees, the musicians scraped, tinkled, or blew, each according to his various kind of ... ... outward means for lead- ing an agreeable life in the old villa. Wandering musicians haunted the precincts of Monte Beni, where they seemed to claim a...

... earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewise, is seen a symbol (as apt at this moment as it was two thousand years ago) of the Human Soul, with its choice of Innocence or Evil close at hand, in the pretty figure of a child, clasping a dove to her bosom, but assaulted by a snake....

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...own Germany. And how much has that old imperial vanity clung to the German soul? Did not the German kings inherit the empire of bygone Rome? It was no... ...he crucifix itself is nothing, a factory-made piece of sentimentalism. The soul ignores it. But gradually, one after another looming shadowily under t... ...e peasant, but also with a kind of dogged nobility that does not yield its soul to the circumstance. Plain, almost blank in his soul, the middle-aged ... ...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...ance again, but without the fusion in the dance. They have had enough. The musicians are thanked, they rise and go into the night. The men pass off in... ...and thin and somewhat German-looking, wearing 99 Twilight in Italy shabby American clothes and a very high double collar and a small American crush h...

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