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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...e been 40-100, though the Countess recorded in her diary more than 610 girls and 50 bodies were found in her estate when it was raided. The gi... ... prodded, pricked, and cut. The Countess may have bitten chunks of flesh off their bodies while alive. She is said to have bathed and showered in t... ...tp://www.concordance.com/ Bioluminiscence The bobtail squid lives in the shallow waters of the coast of Hawaii. During the day, it is buried deep... ...n". The luminosity perfectly matches the amount of moonlight filtering through the water, rendering the squid indistinguishable from its light-floo... ...seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. ... ...hter scale, the San Francisco tremor of 1906 was 8.3 (as was the earthquake in the Mississippi Valley in 1811), and both the Alaskan quake of 1964 ...

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...In a world torn apart by a ruthless dictator, humanity is enslaved and on the verge of extinction. The governments have fallen. The cities lie in ruin. The only hope is a man who has been in exile for over a year....

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...ON Mike Saxton Copyright © 2010 All rights reserved – Mike Saxton No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ... the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of Strategic Book Group P.O. Box 333 Durham CT 06422 www.StrategicBookGroup... ...his traitorous heathen was a per- fect example of that. “Get this waste of water and amino acids out of my sight,” Jade ordered, waving her hand to t... ... body in one of the trailers. Talbot, you and Lexi see if you can get the bodies of the other four bandits and toss them in too,” Vincent directed. ... ...It wasn’t long before Vincent came back with the pickup truck and the six bodies from the road. “ Alright, we drop the rest of these bodies inside th... ...ng?” Talbot shot her a quick glance while carrying two 24 packs of botled water, “We’ve got it, we’re almost done.” “You don’t need to be doing anyth... ...sest to him then ran. There was a three second delay on the grenade. One Mississippi…Two Mississippi…he dove and the explosive triggered, creating ...

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...plete short story by me as something that will offer up access to a story where it will be offered up for the masses to read and enjoy. This is part of the Gutenberg shorts series from me as I hope some of you can take this story in the spirit I've written this. Advance Warning: Graphic Tough Language (Come on this is Chicago you're expected to hear an f-bomb or two.)...

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...cuses as one collects; everything they fabricate becomes everything someone believes as they hang on every other word. One lie leads to destruction of another man – a question we see coming to mind; how many collate and then trim and past a plethora of statements to make someone look like they’re criminal. “How do you mean?” Small town busy bodies calling their v...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the ...

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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...es in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land),... ...ndent areas has also been added. Area: Total area is the sum of all land and water areas delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines. Land... ...imited by international boundaries and/or coastlines, excluding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on total ... ...reme Court; Turkish Cypri- ots declared their own constitution and governing bodies within the Turkish Fed- erated State of Cyprus in 1975; state rena... ...0,540 km 2 ; land area: 120,410 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Mississippi Land boundaries: 1,675 km total Coastline: 2,495 km Maritime ...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...arents who will soon die, leaving them orphans in a country without food, water but with genocidal warfare, show an intelligent and loving designer ... ...ry classes put hydrogen and oxygen together? Hasn't it always resulted in water? Two hydrogens and one oxygen make water. What if yesterday in a sma... ...p all the states or countries together. California produces more GDP than Mississippi, and Ireland produces more than Italy. ―There are som... ... rebels. We all know about heroin or alcohol addiction. And some people‘s bodies seem to be addicted to exercise. But people are not addicted to gam... ...rselves. The optimal population of the world is not the maximum number of bodies it can hold! 252 ―Don‘t any of the do-gooders see that ...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...tion of the earth with its attendant problems of insufficient clean air and water, of loss of soil and oxygen producing trees, the population induced... ...the cities, not because of migration. And few governments can provide clean water, sanitation and adequate housing, let alone education and health b... ...uela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,000 or rich Connec... ...tes made by physicists in which they calculated the amount of heat people’s bodies would put out and how that 150 watts per day per body would impac... ... seen the misery of old Calcutta when the trucks picked up the thousands of bodies from the streets every morning, bodies that had been alive the da...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ce ―Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoT... ... ahead will expose you to offbeat tales that include the following:  ―Water monkeys.‖ 2  The ―goldsmith sire of capitalism.‖  Fearsome Mongo... ...the tedium of copying their own tables that charted the paths of heavenly bodies. Printed tables, moreover, were far less likely to be corrupted. ... ... brother. At age twenty-two, before he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, Twain apprenticed at his brother‘s Hannibal Journal and then ...

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...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ... as she did so, she would think of morphine as another type of mist—not of water, but of effacing liquidity. If before she had been uncertain whether... ...en she had even had her own apartment and had been more than a kept plant watered every week or two, before Chuck became a policeman and incarcerate... ...he way the Earth would pass away in a supernova, allowing for new thriving bodies to emerge. It would be no different from what everyone else did, bu... ...n of the conflation of seminal and ovarian secretions, the product of two bodies that could never be altered until death and decomposition. As famil... ... into her face. Like her, it too was lost, like the howling dog along the Mississippi river bank that ran in one direction, and then turned and went... ...e stereo, and she even missed those family outings in her twenties on the Mississippi River with the monster steering through the inundations, his ey...

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...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...t of intimacy was rapturous and easy. A man and a woman in the friction of bodies became one, but a one that was a different entity altogether--a fire... ...bserved, she paused between a salesman's ice chest of coconuts and bottled water and a woman stringing together jasmine rosaries from a small table. L... ... the obsequious norm with a refreshing brashness that was like having cold water thrown into his face. But like a fish that was suddenly snagged on a ... ...no other demeanor for him for little did he want a battle of which rotting bodies and their stench would be the only outcome. - Why have you shoved a... ... car so they bought some fast food and turned into a parking lot along the Mississippi River. There they began to eat while looking out onto the sodde... ...hings worse. "Maybe they've been in the delta all along but migrate up the Mississippi River during abnormally warm springs." "Whatever!" she responde...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ce ―Knowledge is power,‖ a quote by Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoT... ...ower to feel and to will: the capacity for knowledge—Merriam Webster  ―Water monkeys.‖ 2  The ―goldsmith sire of capitalism.‖  Fearsome Mongo... ...the tedium of copying their own tables that charted the paths of heavenly bodies. Printed tables, moreover, were far less likely to be corrupted. A... ...er brother. At age twenty-two, before he became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, Twain apprenticed at his brother‘s Hannibal Journal and then ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...l of our fleet. I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. As the first one approached, I saw no happy faces, no lifted hands,... ... 11 I watched an anchor plunge slowly and saw the sail topple into the water and heard a man cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Vo... ...m lie down with me under the hides. Were we seven or eight? Together, our bodies grew warm and we lay still, listening to the wind and the rain thud... ...terra-cotta lamps, their wicks flaming coldly. Perspiration glowed on our bodies. A cat jumped on our bed and Phaon pushed it away: wind rustled: le... .... July 11, 1863 Was it twenty or thirty years ago, we drifted down the Mississippi, three of us on a loaded flatboat? She was well overloaded bec... ... that song in New Orleans on my first visit; I heard it later when on the Mississippi, when we were on our cargo-raft, when we tied up at a wharf. T...

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...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...using WILLIAMS' r4T^l DR. CHARLES DICKINSON TEFFT UJiNTIST Corner Main and Water Streets, Over Wells' Millinery, TELEPHONE 146-6 Williamstown, Mass. .... ... and containing infointation as to fees, etc. hv.um SARATOGAS BEST MINERAL WATER SOLD AT FIRST CLASS PLACES The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Cos... ...rt. Early artists used such great accu- racy in their pictures of diseased bodies that their works oven to- day are of value to medicine. A most strik... ...f both countries rests with the people, although the members of the ruling bodies and their mode of election may be very ditl'erent. It is most fortun... ... Dr. Kennon intends to devote his time to visits in Baltimore, Md., and in Mississippi, Dr. King will renmin in Will- iamstown to complete a German te...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...ation Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 1055 Advertizing Pg 1059 Water Pg 1062 Cleanliness Pg 1068 Movies Pg 1074 Farming Pg 107... ... No two grains of sand are exactly identical to each other. No two drops of water are exactly the same. No two snowflakes are identical to each ot... ...ticles splitting. This expansion of space creates the result of Astronomical bodies moving further away from each other. It is only Space being for... ...dynamically active on the diluted level of parts-per-million in water. Our bodies and brains are made of 98% water. All living organisms on this ... ...ish had exterminated most of the East coast tribes, or pushed them west of the Mississippi, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The ... ... the faces of the tribes already living there… Every area settled west of the Mississippi was only settled after military forts were built first in ...

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...Morgan Gable first falls for Daniel Connolly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true...

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...936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. ... ...y Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any elec... ...e she saves for her special clients and guests.” “Falkner, who let all the water in?” The solid lines of the kitchen seemed to be dissolving in a ... ...rk approach. There was no use screaming. Who would hear it under all this water? “Lord!” the shark said. “How much did she drink?” “Three ver... ...ing ever closer, until she darted the pointed toe of her shoe between their bodies, jabbing Morgan just above her waist. A groan escaped Morgan, bu... ...oisoned by that devil’s strumpet, Morg—” A sound that could have only been bodies colliding, then connecting with a solid wall cut Comstock off. “... ... Missouri once. St. Louis.” “Ah, St. Louis. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Mark Twain. Have you read any of his work?” “No, I’m a...

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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different...

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...ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-13-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gai... ...opyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by a... ...that man last bathe?” “The homeless don’t have much occasion to visit with soap and water,” Royce said, rubbing the tic in his left eye. “Ol’ Hiram... ...ewarded more often than haste. “I’ll have a small scotch over ice with a splash of water,” she said. “Then I’d like to hear what happened before t... ... a hand. “Wait,” she said. But he was relentless. “I’ve seen a few dead bodies in my time, and this one had been a corpse for longer tha... ...ight. The sheriff’s bearing held a certain savvy, one that came from knowing where bodies were buried and old reports were kept. Turning to l... ...in a telling mood.” She slowed her step, and said conspiratorially, “I was born in Mississippi.” “You talk like South Georgia.” She smiled. “... ...ought Hannah Jo was too rednecky. Royce was always trying to change me.” “Where in Mississippi were you born?” “Tunica. Dirt poor Tunica.” “Tod...

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...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

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...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ... subject matter. Yet readers come with different backgrounds, interests, and bodies of knowledge. As a result, the structure of the book is designed t... ...ter example of references to the “Persian wheel”—a string of buckets to move water. The display of scholar- ship is effortless and without artifice. If... ...holar- ship is effortless and without artifice. If the device existed to move water, he de- clares, Mr. Evans can hardly patent it to move grain. “If o... ...s of gleeful borrowing, formed as part of a musical commons—the blues of the Mississippi Delta, for example—were eventually commercialized and “frozen... ...cate stud- ies, and to judge published articles. In fact, academic scientific bodies have been among the strongest critics of database protection. But ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State ... ...nnsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BO... ...fly over in six hundred and seventy five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty five times as much as the Rhine, and th... ...uch as the Thames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, ... ...When occasion demanded, it sent members down the river upon searches for the bodies of brethren lost by steamboat accidents; a search of this kind som... ...crifice them at any time by hand ing them over to justice, or sinking their bodies in the Mis sissippi. The general rendezvous of this gang of miscr...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...fidence-Man By Herman Melville CHAPTER I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi AT SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manc... ...uddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, hi... ...easan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of 4 The Confidence-Man the Mississippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, ... ... white bulk with two tiers of small embrasure-like windows, well above the water-line, the Fidèle, though, might at distance have been taken by strang... ... of Illinois stealing out now and then, during a recess of the legislative bodies, for a few days’ shooting at human beings, within the limits of his ... ...ed the town’s guests. No mere verbal compliment, like those of some public bodies; for, on the same day, the orphans were officially installed in that...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 6 Extracts The Fairie Queen. “Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.” Sir William ... ...s trunk spouts out a sea.” Ibid. “The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.” Extracts 7 Fuller’s Profan... ...e shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen foot water.” Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass. “In their wa... ...sby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas. ... ...started the boat along the water like a hor izontal burst boiler out of a Mississippi steamer. As for Fedallah, who was seen pulling the harpooneer o... ...s chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi. Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic marked whale remains ...