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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... ...UBLIC OF MACEDONIA 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 L... ...d to me. His speech is beautiful, like a gentleman's. He is wise and erudite. He speaks six languages." "Then he is definitely not for you" – my gra... ...h Polaroids on a nearby coffee table. "That's him" – she pinkie-indicates a snapshot – "In Turkey, Istanbul…" Her scent is primal, her neck too s... ...in front of everyone, anything but that. Mother passes cookies to old Monsieur Yossef from Turkey who talks incessantly. And so I doze off amidst t...

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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 ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...re between the Greeks of the west and those who lived in what we now call Turkey? Did Achilles or Hector really exist? ―This type criticism i... ...Allah are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him.‘ Still in Turkey, predominantly Sunni Kurds kill predominantly Sunni Turks. In Iraq S... ...llow the immigrants to continue the exclusive use of their 119 native languages and develop their own geographical cultural sub-societies—the Chi... ... for their Qur‘an based laws. But secular Muslim states such as Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Bangladesh are often the targets of fundamentalist terro... ...almost never means what it originally meant in the Germanic or Anglo-Saxon languages.. But it takes no imagination to use it and it makes us feel pro...

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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 the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

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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 it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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...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... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...l, Holy Father,” Antonio replied in perfect English. “I also speak five other languages fluently,” Antonio said with pride. “And, if I might say, Hol... ...ona, explain your theory to these fine gentlemen." Gonzales said and ripped a turkey leg from a platter in front of him. "It is Brand's theory, not... ...o you give any credence to this theory?" Gonzales asked through a mouthful of turkey. "Frankly, it has possibilities, but I do not believe his theo... ...a shock of terror. Gonzales returned to his chair and grabbed another leg of turkey. "I will tell you what we are going to do…I believe the United ... ...name of Jorge Matta. As an international businessman, he had mastered several languages. As a terrorist he had mastered the art of disguise. He alwa... ...edication, courage and intelligence. Each had to have mastered at least seven languages, before even being considered. Their physical and mental endu...

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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 ... ... 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... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...to his dark Brazilian skin. She spoke to all of his Morris codes and secret languages that she understood all and had contempt for everything that he... ...me in a Moslem country. For three months, when she was almost 6, she was in Turkey. She remembered that day when her mother suddenly came to Kansas ... ...policemen, was a horror. Even when so young, she intuitively guessed that Turkey was just an outward display of a refined and obscure savagery that... ...along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey. She always wandered to one side of the beach, culling certain mis... .... My assistant -- a lovely person in her own way. She's illiterate in both languages but again in her own unique way a lovely enough character. I g... ...concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish. In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept that wasn't necessari...

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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... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...y, what if you had gone to the university in Cairo or Tehran and studied Islam rather than Catholicism at Notre Dame? Might you be an imam in Turkey... ... understanding of this often nebulous idea of love.‖ --―Because of the various meanings of ‗love‘ brought to our language from other langua...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connect...

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...... ...liographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serv... ...graphies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve t... ...nd educators by providing public access to the world's most complete collection of electronic books on-line as well as offer a variety of services a... ...agreed to stay for three years. Aaron agreed only if the Patron, who spoke five languages fluently, would teach him English, which Aaron knew he wou... ...WAT team envious." "Just a warning, Ryan. Don't be so cock-sure. This is not a turkey shoot. That black forest is their terrain. They know every in...

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...but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Cla... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the P... ...ity. 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... ...th luck, impudence, and a complete command of all the Eastern dialects and languages, from Burmah to Afghanistan, to pass scot-free through this somew... ...e well cooled, a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, a pillaw of a couple of turkeys, a curried kid—anything. Begone! Give me a pipe; leave me alone, an... ...macaroons, lying in the puddle of a demolished trifle. Half a drum of best Turkey figs. Some bits of broken bread; two Dutch cheeses (whole); the crus... ... some ilegant divvled-kidneys for yourselves, and just a trifle of grilled turkeys, and a couple of hundthred new-laid eggs for the ladies?” “Pooh, po...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a public... ... Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...by sitting opposite to you.” “T o be sure I do,” cried Richard. “Here is a turkey to carve; and I flatter myself that I understand carving a turkey , ... ...le judgment of Remarkable. Before Elizabeth was placed an enormous roasted turkey, and before Richard one boiled, in the centre of the table stood a p... ... Cooper boiled; the last was a venison steak. Between these dishes and the turkeys stood, on the one side, a prodigious chine of roasted bear’s meat, ... ...arrot; that will hold a dialogue, for what an honest man knows, in a dozen languages; mayhap in the Bay of State lingo; mayhap in Greek or High Dutch....

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...a bed- tester; Boileau Despreaux (according to Helvetius) by the peck of a turkey; and this ill-starred individual by a rent in his breeches,—for no M... ...ed to grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some driv... ... civilized Life, which we make so much of, nothing but so many Cloth-rags, turkey-poles, and “bladders with dried peas.” To linger among such specu- l... ...own strength, to read fluently in 83 Thomas Carlyle almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences; farther, as man is ever the... ...n,” we are not without our anxiety. From private Tuition, in never so many languages and sciences, the aid derivable is small; neither, to use his own... ...Mandarin ones, I have studied, or seen that there was no studying. Unknown Languages have I oftenest gathered from their natural repertory, the Air, b...

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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 curious people c...

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... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...s to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me, by an interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each other as any two in... ...wift 52 and all, as in our country we do the leg of a lark. Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. ... ...t his words were articulate enough. I answered as loud as I could in several languages, and he often laid his ear within two yards of me: but all in v... ...ween her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve penny ... ...d for help in a loud voice, and in all the Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 126 languages I understood. I then fastened my handker chief to a stick I us...

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...My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ri in Italy, and at last escaped, with health damaged by a wound, to teach languages and military draw- ing in England, and, unhappily, to spread his ... ...lay until Harold, reduced to extremity at sight of one delicate shaving of turkey’s breast, burst out, “I say, Richardson, I must have some food. Cut ... ... such receipt for an appetite as shoot- ing in the snow. I remember when a turkey’s leg would have been nothing to me, after being out duck-shooting i... ... not high. But as to the luncheon, you will really have to slaughter your turkeys, and declare war on your surviving cocks and hens. He has been invi...

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...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...brary of all the works of the best authors of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the an... ...ng native, whose brown face was now livid with cold and of the colour of a turkey’s gizzard. He created an immense sensation in the passage presently,... ...e conversation; the same silver dishes; the same saddles of mutton, boiled turkeys, and entrees. Politics set in a short time after dessert, when the ... ...n imitation of it as he could command— for though he was familiar with all languages, Mr. Kirsch was not acquainted with a single one, and spoke all w... ...ed it to be. She sang, she played, she laughed, she talked in two or three languages, she brought everybody to the house, and she made Jos be- lieve t...

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...e is no telling how much he does weigh when he is out on the war-path and has his batteries belted on. He is over six feet, is young, hasn?t an ounce of waste flesh, is straight, graceful, springy in his motions, quick as a cat, and has a handsome face, and black hair dangling down on his shoulders, and is beautiful to look at; and nobody is braver than he is, and nobody i...

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...is the reason Reginald always will telegraph when he is coming,? said Miss Adeline Mohun, a very pretty, well preserved, though delicate-looking lady of some age about forty, as her elder sister, brisk and lively and some years older, came into the room....

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...Publication Beechcroft At Rockstone by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e, and Valetta’s form was under preparation for competition for a prize in languages. The great Mr. White, on being asked to patronise the High School... ...ay, and a famous lot of holly and ivy and mistletoe and flowers, and three turkeys and some hams and pheas- ants and partridges. Aunt Jane sent the bi... ...s and some hams and pheas- ants and partridges. Aunt Jane sent the biggest turkey and ham in a basket covered up with holly to Mrs. White, and another... ...glish too well for that, though I be- lieve those diplomates can speak all languages. However, you will see, for we are to go and dine with them at ei... ...d already pretty well ad- vanced in her studies, she would pick up foreign languages, the chaplain would teach her when at Rocca Marina, and music and...

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...s Publication The Stokesley Secret by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...whether German, French, or English, and her own knowledge of the two first languages was better for reading than for speaking; so after an awkward att... ... hear- ing lessons, in which Ida was governess, and made them talk so many languages that Annie was alarmed. Of course one of the young ladies was ver... ...way! I’ll have you up to the Bench, that I will, for shooting the poor old turkey-cock before my very eyes.” “Oh! don’t, don’t! I didn’t mean it,” cri... ...nrelenting. He might go to them, he said, to make up the price of the poor turkey-cock; how they could have got the gun was no affair of his; have it ... ...d take less; five-and-twenty shillings was an exorbitant price to set on a turkey-cock’s head, and perhaps half would content him. The half, however, ...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...f expression. Educational needs and public neces- sity point alike to such languages as Russian or, in the case of Great Britain, Hindustani to supply... ... and no posi- tion should be attainable by half accomplishment. Of course, languages and mathematics do not by any means round off the education of a ... ... hold. It is my impression that she will be deserted by Bulgaria, and that Turkey will be out of the fighting before the end. But these are chancy mat... ...gain and much to fear from Roumania and Greece. Her present relations with Turkey are unnatural. She has everything to gain from a prompt recovery of ...

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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s to all his friends, just as though these presents were so many Christmas turkeys. After all, I do not think that my remarks about religion made much... ...its thousand pipes? For a carpet to the organ we have a rug of the softest Turkey—the tongue, which is glued, as it were, to the floor of the mouth. I... ...ce, is but a passing fable. If then, Sir William Jones, who read in thirty languages, could not read the simplest peasant’s face in its profounder and...

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...edy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmis sion, in any way. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania... ...d nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 32 in the German, French, Spanish, and English languages. Also, we were marvelous musical prodigies—if you will allow me... ...SGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers...