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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...d to exhaustively inspect fellow commuters. Trust no one – exhorts a representative of the law – be on alert, examine suspect objects, call on your... ... his eyes under a sinewy arm, flanked by two thick and raven eyebrows. "They should pass a law" – he argues to no one in particular – "People ought... ...hiskers. "I got myself a sucker for a backgammon match. He is from Iran. Was a Minister of labour or agriculture or something like that…" – he hiss... ...y arm over his fluttering eyes, he blocks the fervid light and croaks: "They should pass a law." "Where's Mayer?" – I enquire. "Up in the room" –... ... explain to my wife why I am keeping silent." The hush was broken only by the sounds of his laboured scribbling. "I have a feeling that no one love... ...ween us, a stalactite of terror in the green caves of her eyes there, sentenced to forced labour: to mine her veins of hatred to shovel her conte... ... Cherubim turn swords, cast flaming fig leaves on a cursed ground. With bruised heels we labour among the bitten, festering fruits of our ignora... ... of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 – studied in business schools and law faculties across Israel – was tried for his role in ... ...News Department of an Israeli mass media group, "Ha-Tikshoret and Namer". Assistant in the Law Faculty in Tel-Aviv University (to Prof. S.G. Shoham...

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Dome of Death

By: Rigby Taylor

...d living to rue the day. Such accolades are for others to bestow. If, as frequently happens, a painter’s efforts delight no one but himself, then the labour has been little but therapy. Only those whose works impose order on the chaos of existence and reinvigorate flagging spirits by giving the viewer a glimpse of a less imperfect world, are worthy of the title “artist”. N...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...nation, contraception, and other self-centered desires run against natural law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Ne... ... gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there i... ...s kind.‘ Then a few hundred years later Christianity rekindled the Jewish law when Matthew wrote ‗So in everything, do to others, what you would have... ...o others, what you would have them do to you, 50 for this sums up the law and the prophets.‘ Then in another few centuries Mohammed cautioned ‗N... ...e easy to justify most behaviors. And while many proscriptions from Mosaic law are ignored by Christians, such as not eating pork or shellfish in Lev... ... 36. 1996-2006 International Labour Organization (ILO) 492 37. Hansson, A. ―Limits of Tax Policy‖,...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...wn. The ruling group whether Communists, Democrats, Tories, Republicans or Labour has to adjust to the realities of the world and the realistic possi... ...ry. And probably its greatest academic achievement is that it has only one law school, and, just as in the U.S., it seldom attracts top students. Le... ... laws for the society. The legal system is based on the simpler Napoleonic law which is based on the actual statutes rather than on the Common Law t... ... and the drug companies were guaranteed top dollar on the sales because the law specifically prohibited Medicare from bargaining with them for lower ... ...rican style of special interest protests, such as the French students‘ job law protests or the American immigration protests. We want our people inf... ...rom a "one child per family" policy enforced by societal pressures, then a law controlling the one child policy, and now the society of Kino require...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...y the beauty and the majesty that were the fruits of their money and their labour. Still today in Myanmar, thousands and thousands of gold leaves c... ...ction and, once it is created, it is no longer subject to death nor to the law of entropy. It is immortal and it guarantees immortality to those who... ...sk, much more real and challenging than the one Hercules faces with his 12 labours. We must particularly underline one important aspect: the gods... ...visible way, above all for those who know nothing of the artist’s toil and labour. In J.S. Bach’s “Passion according to Matthew”, an appreciative l... ...lf of his guilt and has also served his rightful sentence according to the law, is shocked by this and he remembers what his master had told him lon... ...dentity so we can acquire a better one, even though this is an ineluctable law of life that we do so. We don’t want to have to experience emptiness... ...he tragedy “Antigone” knows that Creon, the king of Thebes, has emanated a law which forbids that anyone who died while fighting against Thebes can ... ...ers. Antigone decides to give her brothers a proper burial, following the law of the heart and disobeying the law of the State. For Creon, Antigo...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...erived from femininity issues and growing up in the tunnels. While Defect labourers had slaved on the construction of the complex, children were bor... ...dvancements in the education system. Reading and writing was against Clan law, ignorance enabled a Master and his thugs more control of those they ... ..., the stockpiles of uniforms, bedding and equipment were used for Defect labour. The three services, Army, Navy and Air Force uniforms were issued ... ... knowledge came from books. Monorail made electric trains obsolete. Defect labour transformed the old system into what they were today. The names Gene... ...ow crucial you are to this complex. We exist and live as we do because we labour as a whole community, each doing their part to the best of their ab... ...ature and developed enough to marry and have children. It was against the law for any man to violate or strike a woman. The onset of pregnancy and f... ...graffiti, works of art done by youngsters. Apparently, it was against the law, but it didn't stop those living in the tunnels expressing themselves.... ...Transform the old underground railway systems using multi cultural Defect labour. In addition, self- supporting projects would provide for both staff...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...mes a time when all good men need 41 to reap the rewards of a lifetime’s labour.” He took another sip. Morris blasphemed and told Fred to ‘give him... ...oned, not that Sheila had ever mentioned this to her sister or brother-in-law. “Did you hear me Philip?” Stella said agitated. “You know as well as I... ...eadly cocktail of misinterpretation. One can spout the A to Z of Biblical law and ethics to their hearts content, but equally they will add another ... ...uperior to the other deacons, who he hoped would become nothing more than labourers for his plans. Surprisingly, Tom skipped dinner, having driven to... ...ere not present, as Darcy had been rushed to hospital the night before in labour. 146 Tom brought up the issue of the new Bibles, he was not impress... ...e who interrupted. “But that does not mean that we start paying volunteer labour. If this congregation wants a full-time Pastor then we have to be p... ...g service due to a broken heart. Comments like, ‘she sounds like a cow in labour’ and ‘her fingers don’t dance across the keys, they hobble’ were en... ...d it will live or die at your hand. We start playing God.” 170 “It’s the law of the land Fred.” Alan cleared his throat, thinking the doctor needed...

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Signature for Sunshine

By: Christine Jones

...ound additional strength and haste to her digging. “Ball and chain, slave labour my foot! What’s he talking about, he’s being paid more than if we h... ...e garden. Rick knew he had time for a quick smoke before returning to his labour. The cigarette paper stuffed with tobacco rolled easily between his ... ...d what she would like to do to her dearest friend, but it was against the law and she knew talking was a waste of time. With Rick’s eligibility, San... ...ully gain her trust. Craving for a cigarette, Rick silently cursed the new law on smoking in restaurants. He contemplated going outside to have a qui... ...’s face it, us men still have a cave man mentality, it’s just against the law to openly display such traits.” “I thought it was called the bad boy i... ...s silent, he could very well see her confronting Paul and laying down the law in his own home. Though having seen the soft side of Chris’s character,...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...rt, skirt suits that have the office boys permanently in a state of slave labour. Pity she hasn’t the brains to go with the body beautiful. I still ... ...ey’ll ask me to join them, well they are hoping I’ll be their daughter-in-law. The thought brings a smile to my cold features. I feel I have the old... ...the rocking fridge. “Fluffy and Spike are playing.” I grin. “Is there any law against socialising?” God I love every moment of this. I’m just so hap... ... if I can’t find anyone here who is, I’ll just buy someone in and save on labour costs. The conversation was boring, but the hot shower soothed the b... ...es my hand in his, looks into my eyes. “I’m no axe murderer or thief. The law does not want me for embezzlement and I’ve never had a parking ticket....

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Love's Labours Lost

By: William Shakespeare

...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love’s Labours Lost by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University,... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. LOVE’S LABOURS LOST By William Shakespeare (written about 1590) DRAMATIS PERSONA... ... country wench. Lords, Attendants, &c. (First Lord:) SCENE: Navarre. LOVE’S LABOURS LOST ACT I SCENE I: The king of Navarre’s park. [Enter FERDINAND... ...ntemplative in living art. You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville, Love’ s Labours Lost Act I, Scene i 3 Have sworn for three years’ term to live ... ...ot know. BIRON: Things hid and barr’d, you mean, from common sense? Love’ s Labours Lost Act I, Scene i 4 FERDINAND: Ay, that is study’s godlike r... ...NGAVILLE: To fright them hence with that dread penalty. BIRON: A dangerous law against gentility! [Reads.] ‘Item, If any man be seen to talk with a ... ...which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain,—I keep her as a vessel of the law’s fury; and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to tri... ...r oaths. It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law, And who can sever love from charity? FERDINAND: Saint Cupid, then! ...

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The Black Dwarf

By: Sir Walter Scott

...the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the titl... ...elling on their concernments of business, either towards our metropolis of law, by which I mean Edinburgh, or towards our metropolis and mart of gain,... ... people, than if I had sought them out by my own painful travel and bodily labour. Even so doth the tollman at the well-frequented turn-pike on the We... ... in the galleries thereof ), and have heard as much goodly speaking on the law of patron- age, as, with the fructification thereof in mine own under- ... ... of such animals might ap- pear to be similar to those so protected by the law, yet it was a mere deceptio visus; for what resembled hares were, in fa... ...ember me of any fee or honorarium received from him on account of these my labours, except the compotations aforesaid. Nevertheless this compensation ... ...an’s name was David Ritchie, a na- tive of T weeddale. He was the son of a labourer in the slate- quarries of Stobo, and must have been born in the mi... ...hich closed against him all ordinary ways of supporting himself by his own labour. Besides, a bag was suspended in the mill for David Ritchie’s benefi... ...ng Laird; “you, that profess religion, to stir your friend up to break the law, and take vengeance at his own hand, and in such a bogilly bit too, whe...

...eful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page....

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An Inland Voyage

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... O EQUIP SO SMALL A BOOK with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it ... ...ny more than if they had been fishing in an old Dutch print. The leaves fluttered, the wa- ter lapped, but they continued in one stay like so many chu... ...no mark of it. I am as strange as a Jack Indian to their official spectacles. I might come from any part of the globe, it seems, except from where I d... ...r I cannot say she looked gratified at our appearance. We were in a large bare apart- ment, adorned with two allegorical prints of Music and Paint- in... ...o allegorical prints of Music and Paint- ing, and a copy of the law against public drunkenness. On one side, there was a bit of a bar, with some half-... ...r in our coffee. Y ou see what it is to be a gentleman – I beg your pardon, what it is to be a pedlar. It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar ... ...greater delicacy, or that my mistakes in French belonged to a different order; but it was plain that these distinctions would be thrown away upon the ... ... collector of something or other, I forget what; the other, we were told, was the principal notary of the place. So it happened that we all five more ... ...rate, the talk was pretty certain to become technical. The Cagarette expounded the Poor Laws very magisteri- ally. And a little later I found myself l...

...l a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

....................................................................... 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE............................................................. ...onder cloud—Good Hunting!—loose The rain that breaks our Water Truce. T HE LAW OF THE JUNGLE—which is by far the oldest law in the world—has arranged ... ...wgli spent a great part of his life in the Seeonee Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Baloo, the Brown Bear; and it was Baloo who told him, when the boy... ...who told him, when the boy grew impatient at the constant orders, that the Law was like the Giant Creeper, because it dropped across every one’s back ... ... have, Little Brother, thou wilt see how all the Jungle obeys at least one Law. And that will be no pleasant sight,” said Baloo. This talk went in at ... ...sink. In half an hour the Little People of the Rocks would be ending their labours, and, as you know, the dhole does not fight best in the twilight. ...

.................................................................................................................................................. 4 THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE.................................................................................................................................. 19 THE MIRACLE OF PURUN BHAGAT .................................................

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The Man Who Would Beking

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy BY RUDYARD KIPLING T HE LAW, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follo... ...e been a veritable King, and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom—army, law-courts, revenue, and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear t... ...olden slip- per with a silver heel? The protection of Pir Khan be upon his labours!” He spread out the skirts of his gabardine and pirou- etted betwee... ... the head priests and the Chiefs of the villages.’ “ ‘It’s against all the law,’ I says, ‘holding a Lodge without warrant from any one; and you know w...

...Excerpt: The law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have st...

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An Essay on Criticism

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...k t’ outlast Immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the Critick’s Law, And but from Nature’s Fountains scorn’d to draw: But when t’examin... ... same: Convinc’d, amaz’d, he checks the bold Design, And Rules as strict his labour’d Work confine, As if the Stagyrite o’er looked each Line. Learn ... ... Criticism” – Pope 8 But those attain’d , we tremble to survey The growing Labours of the lengthen’d Way, Th’ increasing Prospect tires our wanderin... ...have made Pretence; Ancients in Phrase, meer Moderns in their Sense! Such labour’d Nothings , in so strange a Style, Amaze th’unlearn’d, and make ... ...ent roar. When Ajax strives, some Rocks’ vast Weight to throw, The Line too labours, and the Words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the...

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Essay on Man

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...wrong we call, May , must be right, as relative to all. In human works, tho’ labour’d on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In G... ...ool! Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature’s law , Admir’d such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew’d a Newton as we ... ...ie. Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 19 Behold the child, by nature’s kindly law , Pleas’d with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play–thi... ...e deserving steer: The hog, that plows not, nor obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know , nature’s children all divide her care... ...t is human wit; Sure by quick nature happiness to gain, Which heavier reason labours at in vain. This too serves always, reason never long; One must g... ...e. In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right, too rigid, harden into wrong; Still for the strong too w... ...se and love mankind might strongly draw , When love was liberty , and nature law. Thus states were form’d; the name of king unknown, ‘ Till common int... ...rent of his growing state; On him, their second providence, they hung, Their law his eye, their oracle his tongue. He from the wond’ring furrow call’d...

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The First Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

... Of such as drunke her life, the which them nurst; Now needeth him no lenger labour spend, His foes haue slaine themselues, with whom he should conten... ...braine, With bowres, and beds, and Ladies deare delight: But when he saw his labour all was vaine, With that misformed spright he backe returnd againe... ...g that long wandring Greeke, That for his loue refused deitie; Such were the labours of this Lady meeke, Still seeking him, that from her still did fl... .... But when she saw her prayers nought preuaile, She backe returned with some labour lost; And in the way as she did weepe and waile, A knight her met ... ...to fight. Young knight, what euer that dost armes professe, And through long labours huntest after fame, Beware of fraud, beware of ficklenesse, In ch... ... And lusted after all, that he did loue, Ne would his looser life be tide to law, But ioyd weake wemens hearts to tempt, and proue If from their loyal... ...oeus ioynts were stretched on a gin, Theseus condemned to endlesse slouth by law, And fifty sisters water in leake vessels draw. They all beholding wo... ... liues to Couetise, Through wastfull Pride, and wanton Riotise, They were by law of that proud Tyrannesse Prouokt with VVrath, and Enuies false surmis... ...rdie courage tame with dreadfull aw, That his beheast they feared, as tyrans law, His louing mother came vpon a day Vnto the woods, to see her little ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

... took him six years, and was a work which cost him much anxiety as well as labour, the more as his scholar- ship was far from profound. He was assiste... ...of. Our author’s life becomes now little else than a record of multiplying labours and increasing infirmities. In 1734 ap- peared the fourth part of t... ... was stated that various letters of lords were included, and as there is a law amongst regulations of the Upper House that no peer’s letters can be pu... ...n, he made him a warm friend; Allen, Pope’s acquaintance, a rich father-in-law; and himself, by and by, the Bishop of Gloucester. Sophistry has seldom... ...e to love. Not bubbling fountains to the thirsty swain, Not balmy sleep to labourers faint with pain, Not showers to larks, or sunshine to the bee, Ar... ...ose the low vales, and steal into the skies: 60 While labouring oxen, spent with toil and heat, In their loose traces from the fi... ...rk t’ outlast immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the critic’s law, And but from Nature’s fountains scorn’d to draw: But when t’ examine e... ...ame. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design, And rules as strict his labour’d work confine, As if the Stagyrite 13 o’erlook’d each line. Learn ... ...here, the Fates have wrapt in night. Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw; Or stain her honour, or her ne...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...him upon the beach. It was more than a year later, in the Gilberts, that the ex- planation dawned upon myself. The natives were drawing palm-tree wine... ...rowing keen- ness, the affront which I had so innocently dealt him; but it was one of those cases in which speech is vain. Tari’s son was smiling and ... ...-rate of the islanders. ‘The coral waxes, the palm grows, and man departs,’ says the Marquesan; and he folds his hands. And surely this is nature. Fon... ...e, over all the island world, abor- 28 In The South Seas tion and infanticide prevailed. On coral atolls, where the danger was most plainly obvious, ... ...o it for him; and the respectable official in white clothes could but look on and envy. At about the same time, though in a different manner, Kooamua ... ...cliff foot, and the bursting surge fell back into the boat in showers. At the next point ‘cocanetti’ was the word, and the stroke bor- rowed my knife,... ...f the West Kirk. Almost at the first word I was sure it was my architect, and in a moment we were deep in a discussion of Hatiheu church. Brother Mich... ...xistence. With a people incurably idle, dispirited by what can only be called endemic pestilence, and inflamed with ill-feeling against their new mast... ... well of Monseigneur. His character is best portrayed in the story of the days of his decline. A time came when, from the failure of sight, he must de...

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The Second Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...Himselfe refreshing with the liquid cold, After his trauell long, and labours manifold. Loe yonder he, cryde Archimage alowd, That wrou... ...hicke, And soone arriued, where that sad pourtraict Of death and labour lay, halfe dead, halfe quicke, In whose white alabaster brest d... ...cure, And stablish termes betwixt both their requests, That as a law for euer should endure; Which to obserue in word of knights they d... ... Where ease abounds, yt’s eath to doe amis; But who his limbs with labours, and his mind Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis. Ab... ... Flowre deluce, her louely Paramoure, Bid thee to them thy fruitlesse labours yield, And soone leaue off this toylesome wearie stoure; ... ... He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth. The knight him seeing labour so in vaine, Askt who he was, and what he ment thereby: Wh... ...ely to him cride; False traitour miscreant, thou broken hast The law of armes, to strike foe vndefide. But thou thy treasons fruit, I h... ...thou thy treasons fruit, I hope, shalt taste Right sowre, & feele the law, the which thou hast defast. With that his balefull speare, he fie... ... death with dread and trembling aw; So he now subiect to the victours law, Did not once moue, nor vpward cast his eye, For vile disdain...

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