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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ... C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man ... ...own The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man Cometh Janusz Courts Dinah My Affair with Jesus The Last Days The Future of Madeleine The Out Kid Pierre'... ... got nothing to say?" "To my mind, if she were a terrorist, she would have blown us all to kingdom come by now." I let the impact of this sane remi... ...efuge in numbers, solace in propinquity. I thought I'd join the Jesuits. I strolled to the United Nations building and met a senior bureaucrat, a m... ...d when intellectually engaged. My higher functions offer splendid regulation of my aqueous economy. My manner of urinating in plant containers is d... ... Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International (UPI). Web and Journalistic A... ...ic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Economy at a Crossroads – On the Way to a Healthier Econ...

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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...at a bit of money from a more affluent pocket into a poorer one helped the economy and was a just act. Likewise, he was not bothered by the release h... ...depicted the second queen consort's birth of a bird and her exile from the kingdom. The preface stated that both Laotian queens had prayed that life ... ...he sat on the edge of the tub next to him and heard about the crash of the United Airlines jet. Without words she took one of his hands. Without tryin... ...thier and more powerful country, or the hatred toward Israeli aid from the United States? I don't understand it. We talk and talk and yet people are... ...re with the policies of Moslem countries so that the oil that drives their economy doesn't cease. It is economic considerations that cause them to bac...

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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... ...ven David 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" --Thucydide... ...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... ...be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be imp... ...ut the ice cream business out of business. Can’t you see that? The whole economy would suffer. If the cultured people were all to forego pleasures... ... such, she had been the inheritor of a large portion of the coffers of the United States government. Only from being such an heiress had she been abl... ...ome about from sexual appetite, and that society, dominance in the animal kingdom, was sustained from the appetites for comfort, ambition, and delus...

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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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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ................................................................... 6 TOUR OF THE AREA .................................................................... ........................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ....................................................... ... position of the world. Marco Polo would be proud. It practically owns the United States. The U.S. has bought trillions of dollars worth of Chinese ... .... In less than four decades these people had risen from a backward farming economy to perhaps the greatest economic power the world has known. How di... ...ice is a non-productive, though often essential, appendage to a prosperous economy. Still, she warned, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air a... ...d, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the people and the economy ... ...not give farm subsidies as they have in the continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Korea. Finally over lunch I ha...

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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-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ...for today’s multi-billion population with space age communication, a global economy, and a myriad of religions and philosophies that divide our human... ...ically to bring back the knowledge of other civilizations to make their own kingdom better. The arts and sciences, the inventions and manufactures, ... ...n our planet. In Sarajevo, Bosnia. Kofi Anan, the Secretary General of the United Nations made the trip to the Balkans to celebrate, with trepidatio... ... competitive live in peace when I visit Muchinju. I want to look at how the United Colonies seem to have perverted the concepts of justice and democ... ...s or a saint. I don’t have the riches to make a rapid change in a society’s economy or health. But I have been on the international stage through th...

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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 ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...d they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in thei... ...world individual psychological self-centeredness prevails. The collective economy, tried by the USSR, did not reward individual initiative. It theref... ...Europe we point to Italy, with corruption at many levels of the legitimate economy as well as the underworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of ... ...so many Christians want a Christian state when Jesus told Pilate that ‗My kingdom is not of this world.‘ (18) But I would have to admit that the tax...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...ANGLADESH ............................................................ 10 ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS................................................... ........................................ 19 NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF AN EXPANDING ECONOMY .................................................. 20 POLITICS OF ... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ...cy the government of India has grabbed the reins. Slowly, since the 1994 United Nations conference in Cairo, India, with other countries, has worke... ...portant than religious mythology and theological speculation. ―The United Nations has proposed that every country reduce its total population ... ...must be done. Robert Mugabe‘s speech was about blaming others, the United Kingdom and the U.S., for the plight of his country during his years of ru...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 ... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ..................................................... ...of a declining population. In Singaling the population has dropped as its economy has increased. This is not surprising because we have found for a ... ...o keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for research. Putting the voters to work, a... ... protect the child from a diseased child. “In the last century the United States has enacted laws covering child labor, child-abuse, compulso... ... “The clerics in Iran blocked a Parliament passed acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Wom... ...hington Times, August 1, 2004 5. Leviathon, 1651 6. Dickson v. United Kingdom, 2007 7. Codd, “Regulating Reproduction: Prisoners' Families, Arti...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...UR REASONS FOR DOING ........................................................................................................... 10 FREUD--AND THE NE... ...REUD--AND THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Po... ...with rewards and punishments. As he matured, however, he became a humanist--thinking that humans are quite different from others in the animal kingdo... ...us eye problems. The vitamin A in butter was not present in the margarine. So they began to add the vitamin to margarine. In the mid-1940s the United... ...t seem to have these problems.‖ —―We guard against them. We have seen what has often happened in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and the United... ...Most of us are concerned with our family and neighbors. But that is not enough today. The Internet, cell phones, television, CNN, a globalized econom... ...emocratic republic. Therefore we must admit new ideas. The way to stop progress is to make everyone a drone. At this point in time we have an econom...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...

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...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ... for the first time, he wondered about the phrase from the Lord's Prayer, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven". It was ... ... alternative training for Americans who have been displaced due to a changing economy. We could balance the budget just on the money we're spending ... ... was right on. He tied it into all the pertinent social issues: education, the economy, and family values. Any good jockey will tell you, give a hors...

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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... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ... subject of contemplation by the declaration of the monarch, Nawin, in the kingdom of the brain. This strange, disconcerted sense of himself was almos... ...ped his mind; and even in repugning the advances and regaining this mental kingdom from the boy he was certain that Jatupon was probably still there h... ...Thailand, and so if he had to have a practical reason for returning to the United States this could be one. He had plenty of accessible money for his ... ...y an initial vehicle for transport. The money would be injected into their economy and so if the Laotian were to spend it on booze and women or seeds ... ...ter?--he could not remember any of the specifics; hadn't some uncle in the United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thun...

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...rean 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 parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...se rhetoric condemned American investments and the American control of their economy; and her response was, "Well, which is it-if you hate the guy so ... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...ideas that refused to be irrelevant. They refused to be vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant... ...orld affairs, overthrew leaders, craved for energy to give to its race horse economy despite its havoc on the environment, and believed with certainty... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l...

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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...y youth from the frightful violence and pre- sumption of the nobles of his kingdom. James’s expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there a... ...ll their true head?’ ‘They love to have it so,’ returned Sir David sadly. ‘United, they might be strong enough; but each knows that his fel- low, Doug... ... were bred up in close intercourse with the King’s own four sons, and were united with them by the warmest sympathy. In fact, since usurpation had fil... ...d all the audible voices in Paris on his side, while the cavils at Henry’s economy have descended to the present time. ‘Do you see your rival, Sir?’ s... ...in the midst of shattered health which he would not avow, the cares of two kingdoms, and the generalship of an army, with all its garri- sons, rested ...

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...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curio...

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...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ted man in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 13 the kingdom by a matter of thirteen hundred years and up ward. I’m not a man... ...and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and th... ...ree sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machin... ... was tried on, and it worked to a charm. The saving in expense was a notable economy. You will see that by these figures: We touched a trifle over 700... ...ng Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 205 CHAPTER XXXIII. SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY HOWEVER, I MADE A DEAD SET AT HIM, and before the first thi...