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... to Know His World and Himself, and Elizabeth L. Einsenstein‘s specialized epic, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultura... ...the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate ... ...to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangular tip of a stylus into s... ...all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landholding rights, obligations toward individuals, judicial dec... ...Tech siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of findin... ... Many of those reforms impacted trade, court, writing, and governmental records systems. Possibly even more significant was the rapid increase in ... ...pe. Travelers to and from the Orient included not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all re... ...cs trained to operate them—served as:  Gathering places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and...

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... to Know His World and Himself, and Elizabeth L. Einsenstein‘s specialized epic, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultura... ...the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate class... ...to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangular tip of a stylus into sof... ...r all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landholding rights, obligations toward individuals, judicial dec... ...foTech siblings. . According to the son of Christopher Columbus, Polo’s epic travelogue aroused his father’s interest in the possibility of findin... .... Many of those reforms impacted trade, court, writing, and governmental records systems. Possibly even more significant was the rapid increase in ... ...pe. Travelers to and from the Orient included not just merchants but also artists, diplomats, doctors, scholars, scientists, and priests from all re... ...cs trained to operate them—served as:  Gathering places for scholars, artists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and...

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...m Moses proclaims the closing of the museums and the transformation of the artists in programmers of our phantasms - in order to amplify an art or cr... ...nism, of which Gheorghe Grigurcu has established the particular spectrum: epical character of the lyrical discourse, intertextuality, heterogeneity o... ...nsumption. Dadaism, avant-garde, modernism have countersigned our elitist records. Formalism, the cultural and playful appearance of postmodernism, e... ...inal form that Rene Berger calls “an attempt to communicate” (even if the artists are attached to ideologies and structures, it seems that their exp... ...literary norms”). In the case of the precursor Urmuz, the pastiche of the epic, the derisory dimensions, the irony against the technical literary au... ...tic Researches and Studies in Bordeaux. He is a member of the Writers and Artists International Association, led by a versed in the paradoxist pheno... ...ounding-member of “Rebel Academy”. He is named in many catalogues of records which are periodically issued in the United States and England: Sm...

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...ct art on a practical basis for hundreds of years. It is one reason why many artists were ahead of their time. Because when they used the concept ... ...nfinity around their necks for over 200 years now: first as scholars, then as artists, and finally as a fashion statement denoting the highest socia... ...y incapable of mechanically identifying or measuring life- energy at all. Artists have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life o... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...e will have to give the ball over to him or her? Then foot races will become epic races so thrilling that the replay camera will show how he got rid... ...misery and horror they had suffered, and only kept the fairytale Romances and Epics alive in their cultural memories. Because the actual truth of Me... ...a stomach-filler. And clogged the colon, which has now led to colon cancer in epic proportions. Ask yourself: if a freshly killed animal’s meat...

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...d permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, H... ...local buildings (synagogues) involving neither sacrifices nor priests. The records portray Je- sus as participating both in Temple worship and in syna... ...al material relating to first century Palestine is so scanty that the only records on which to base a conclusion are the texts in the New Testament. C... ...h synagogues, one all- important addition was made. By the time historical records come upon the scene, Christian worship centered on a special ritual... ...note that the same journey was written up in the ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gil- gamesh, written before 2000 BC, in which it is a journey under... ...y, which, however, he lost on MYSTICISM 161 his return journey.] 122 This epic served as a religious text for the Sumerians and Babylonians for some ... ...e spiritual, more individually creative in the arts and crafts. We are all artists, in a dream-centered life, rather than relegating art only to speci...

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...academics or athletics will be nurtured in areas not addressed in the schools or gymnasiums. If I‘m the only one who knows something about the Epic o... ...is otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings, the popes and the caliphs. Historical record... .... When a person finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artist... ...professional sports team, as a means of developing a feeling of importance. Others identify with people by collecting pictures, autographs or record... ...choose? Maslow quoted Child (21) to back up his thesis that the highest achievers in a ‗human area‘ think similarly. Child found that the best artist... ...ke some basic needs for the love and the esteem of others in order to live alone and quietly meditate on the mysteries of nature. And how many artist...

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...PACE COLORED PLATES, DRAWN ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK BY AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL ... ...-- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing of the first pri... ...istory, like nations, has its periods of existence; as peoples disappear so do records, and a new cycle in human affairs begins. In the years to come... ...which they maintain themselves to be the first discoverers. There are some old records in China which seem to support these claims, and in which we re... ...ven the novelist material for a thousand tales, the poet matter for a score of epics. It is impossible to overrate the literary value of material whic... ...h exquisite manner that they vastly surpassed the best workmanship of European artists; and besides these, a Spanish helmet, which had been sent to Mo... ...feelings which Elizabeth entertained for Drake, made him the hero of a hundred epics, and fawned and flattered him as far as the power of speech and a... ...me for British commerce. Besides the crews there were scientists, naturalists, artists, astronomers, and the young man, Omai, whom Captain Furneaux ha...

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...be so wildly out of pro- portion with the perceived level of threat that the records of postworm discus- sion lack any indication that they were even ... ...rkers; the elimination, re- lease, or nefarious alteration of vital personal records hosted at medical offices, schools, town halls, and other data repo... ...th the video they record, people will discover DVR software like MythTV that records and plays TV shows on their PCs. 108 If mobile phones are too exp... ...ativity it enables among coders, but also by the creativity it enables among artists—and among groups of each. 90 THE GENERATIVE PATTERN Generative te... ...blishers, Untrustworthy Systems, and the Dream of a Digital Rev- olution for Artists, 114 H. L. R. 2438, 2455 – 56 (2001) (asserting that the No ... ...ntributions or editing along a specific theme.” The Barnstar of High Culture, Epic Barnstar, and Ancient Ruin History Barn- star are examples of barnst... .... 7. Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr., The Video Privacy Protection Act, http://www .epic.org/privacy /vppa/ (last visited June 1, 2007). 8. S G,...

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...e from a thousand years after the time of Moses. Were there other written records, now lost, that came 31 directly from Moses? Were the Biblical... ...vents written about. It seems strange since there are often other written records from the same time and from that geographical area, such as the Co... ...ls and epistles, were written from about 50 AD to 150 AD but the earliest records of them are from about 200 AD. Although some people date them earl... ...such a testimony to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to the street artists‘ First Amendment rights of free speech. ―The fact that the yo... ...he Biblical story was probably adapted from other flood stories, like the Epic of Gilgamesh. And the Koranic story was taken from the Bible. ... ...ka, Eugene O'Neill, Dorothy Parker, Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams; artists like Claude Monet; musicians like John Lennon, Elton John; and a n...

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...reate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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... out a Tory at Last,— yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of pla... ... is, for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turn... ...perience, Perhaps they ‘ll have some more about a year hence. My poem ‘s epic, and is meant to be Divided in twelve books; each book containin... ...pillar, not uncouthly hewn, But which neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna’s carnage on its face, While weeds and ordure rankle ro... ...mirari’ Was what he call’d the ‘Art of Happiness;’ An art on which the artists greatly vary, And have not yet attain’d to much success. Ho... ... and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare Withal: it ... ...anto Sixteen” 330 But as Lord Henry was a connoisseur,— The friend of artists, if not arts,—the owner, With motives the most classical and pu...

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... important an ingredient in the analysis of his his- tory, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this ... ...o have written the Batrachomyomachia, or Battle of the Frogs and Mice, the Epicichlidia, and some other minor works.] Besides the satisfaction of driv... ...erriment. These loose songs were not collected together, in the form of an epic poem, till about Peisistratus’ time, about five hundred years after.” ... ... to be formed, we should be able to make a guess at the time when the old epic poems were first committed to writing. Now the period which may with t... ...ull six measures held, By none in weight or workmanship excell’d: Sidonian artists taught the frame to shine, Elaborate, with artifice divine; Whence ... ...ow’d Among his spoils this memorable load. For this, he bids those nervous artists vie, 429 Pope That teach the disk to sound along the sky. “Let him...

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...little Edward, his next younger, who died now at the age of nine, Mr. Hare records that John copied out, in large school-hand, a History of Valentine ... ...ic, elo- quent utterance, and noble generosities and pieties of his pupil;—records in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire in some neighbori... ...ing was married: “at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830,” say the records. His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor... ...e divined by those who cannot flee him. The Lyric Art is childish, and the Epic barbarous, compared to this. But of the true and perfect Drama it may ... ...arly than anything else. Let the most gifted intellect, capable of writing epics, try to write such a Leader for the Morn- ing Newspapers! No intellec... ...soul, seeking guidance towards eternal excellence from the official Black- artists, and successful Professors of political, ecclesiasti- cal, philosop...

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...ases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists pro- duce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smal... ....” But this is wrong; for it is unreasonable to expect all men to be great artists, and born with the ge- nius of Mr. Williams. Now it will be remembe... ...at Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie, would have made first-rate artists; and it is on all accounts to be regretted, that the priggism of Ci... ... Palatinæ. Of such general extent is that remark of Cicero, in relation to Epicurus the Atheist, of whom he observed that he of all men dreaded most t... ... fool of himself by attempting what is as much be- yond his capacity as an epic poem. Others, however, tell me that he is meditating a revenge upon me... ...and a noon-day prosperity, both personal and public, that rang through the records of his people, and became a byeword amongst his posterity for a tho... ...; the angel of Meditation on the right hand, that must cleanse these lying records with fire, even as of old the drap- eries of asbestos were cleansed... ...est grew, no doubt, from the constraint inseparably attached to the law of epic unity. Joanna’s history bisects into two opposite hemi- spheres, and b... ...ailty of human nature—reveals its deep-seated Pariah falsehood to it- self—records its abysmal treachery. Perhaps not one of us es- capes that dream; ...

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... that were impossible, to perplex and con- found,—any relics of historical records which might happen to survive from his youthful studies. ‘ And I am... ...somely monotonous; and, by com- parison with any parallel section from the records of other nations in the earliest stages of dawning civilization, of... ...ong the com- mon places of general history which survive even in the daily records of conversation. Few people can fail to know—that each of these mem... ...olyandrium on the field of battle, would be mea- sured and observed by the artists against the public applica- 133 Thomas de Quincey tion for their s... ...rise; viz. that the leg- endary Hercules was never delineated by the Greek artists as more than an athletic man of the ordinary standard with respect ... ...t the low (but we regret to add—and in all but the very highest) of London artists. Many things, which the wretched Von Raumer said of English art, we... ...wmarket language, if ranked against Chrysippus, or Plato, or Aristotle, or Epicurus, he would be found ‘nowhere.’ He is reduced, therefore, at one blo... ...e magician’s rod, she had called up spawn in- numerable of authors, lyric, epic, dramatic, pastoral, each after his kind. But by whom had France moved... ...ive and I bequeath, old Euclio said’—and the ridiculous story of the dying epicure insisting upon having his luxurious dish brought back to his death-...

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...y himself, he might be regarded as the most aristocratic and fastidious of artists. But who meantime was the victim, to whose abode he was hurrying? F... ...tered. And the reason which governed him is strik- ing; because at once it records—that murder was not pur- 38 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eate... ... This would be to defeat his whole purpose in murdering her at all. T o an epicure in murder such as Williams, it would be taking away the very sting ... ...reation, for instance, does not belong to the earthly or merely historical records, but to the spiritual records of the Bible; to the same category, t... ... as not to know, that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret and separate acceptation in the... ... terms of his contracts. At least I know of people now-a-days (much better artists) that would execute such contracts, and enter into any penalties fo... ...and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists. Such are the works of blind elements, which (poor things!) cannot ... ...niture for his house; by consulting her on his own plans of life.’ Q. ‘Did Epicurus maintain any doctrines such as are here ascribed to him?’—A. ‘Perh... ...ty of transcendent poets; meaning narrative poets, or, even more narrowly, epic poets. The duty thrown upon the second cou- plet is to characterize th...

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...rethren will fly to meet and welcome. Now, therefore, judge if our Patriot Artists are busy; tak- ing deep counsel how to make the Scene worthy of a l... ... strangest cloudy coil; out of which has visibly come, as we often say, an Epic Preternatural Machinery of suspicion; and within which there has dwelt... ...ne Schuld; full of the elements of Pity and Fear? This brother man, if not Epic for us, is Tragic; if not great, is large; large in his qualities, wor... ...w easy were it! But it is not so. New clothes are needed, as usual, in all Epic transactions, were it in the grimmest iron ages; consider ‘Queen Chrim... ...a stupendous new Coach built, of the kind named Berline; done by the first artists; according to a model: they bring it home to him, in Choiseul’s pre... ...e fatallest issue! What L’Escuyer’s word of admonition might be no History records; but the answer to it was a shrieking howl from the Aristocrat Papa... ...essive. (Roederer, Chronique de Cinquante Jours: Recit de Petion. Townhall Records, &c. (in Hist. Parl. xvi. 399-466.) Indeed, his Majesty’s reception...

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...and it is amusing to retrace in immedi- ate succession to this incident of epic dignity, which has its only parallel by the way in the case of Vasco d... ...t read- ers. Under the modest title of Commentaries, he meant to offer the records of his Gallic and British campaigns, simply as notes, or memoranda,... ...hem equal, but running through every gradation of guilt. But the elogia or records of their commitment, he would not so much as look at. With such ino... ...ueting rooms; nor was a dinner held to be complete without such a dessert. Artists were sought out who had dexterity and strength enough to do what Lu... ...fably adapting itself to human imperfections. This was the phi- losophy of Epicurus; and undoubtedly, as a beginning, and for the elementary purpose o... ...an. In fact, it offers the Stoic humanized in his scheme of means, and the Epicurean exalted in his final objects. Nor is it pos- sible to conceive a ... ...the most thoroughly human and practical. In evidence of which, one body of records is amply sufficient, which is, the very extensive and wise reforms ...

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...t anything you do,’ he answered. ‘I’ll be an artist, and I’ll do things.’ ‘Artists always want money, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty poun... ...ording to the powers He has given you—’ ‘Modest man! Go on.’ ‘Half a dozen epicene young pagans who haven’t even been to Algiers will tell you, first,... ... wish I had; but I forgathered with some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of them could draw,—but they wouldn’t draw. They g... ...ling From the beginning he told the tale, the I—I—I’s flashing through the records as telegraph-poles fly past the traveller. Maisie listened and nodd... ...’s wedding to an English bride. This shall be 94 The Light That Failed an epic. It’s a sweet material to work with.’ ‘It’s a scandalous waste of time... ...at they call an artist by profes- 117 Rudyard Kipling sion. You know what artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop lab...

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...s; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for posses- sion of the portly dames. There is immensity, swingin... ...s country’s welfare and advancement, these, with 84 One of Our Conquerors records, items, anticipations, of the manlier sports to deco- rate, were hi... ...red portable; thus we pass into the conceptions of our fel- lows, into the records, down to posterity. Anecdotes of England’s happiest man were relate... ...the expedition: indeed one of the eminent ones of the world; matter for an Epic; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a C... ...ause he fain would not have had—sufficient stuff to furnish forth a soul’s epic encounter between Nature and Cir- cumstance: and metaphor, simile, ana... ... to female char- acter. That likewise may be the hypocrite’s mask. Popular artists, intent to gratify the national taste for ef- fects called realisti...

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..., in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerable French Records, darkness too frequently covers, or sheer distraction bewilders. On... ...pter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. As all Delineation, in these ages, were it never so Epic, ‘speaking itself and not singing itself, ’ must either found on Belie... ...ey-species. Man-midwives, as Levasseur of the Sarthe, are not wanting. Nor Artists: gross David, with the swoln cheek, has long painted, with ge- nius... ...irty-eight years four months and twenty-eight days. (Newspapers, Municipal Records, &c. &c. (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 298-349) Deux Amis (ix. 369-373), M... ...g back over Cannibalism, through Purchas’s Pilgrims and all early and late Records, will perhaps find no terrestrial Cannibalism of a sort on the whol... ...gods of this lower world will sit on their glittering thrones, indolent as Epicurus’ gods, with the living Chaos of Ignorance and Hunger weltering unc... ...Ship has got to land;—and is there, shall we figuratively say, changed, as Epic Ships are wont, into a kind of Sea Nymph, never to sail more; to roam ...