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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 ... ...e rotting platforms of the train stations of all these small towns, he had listened to sounds. Then a game of exhilaration instead of a game of the mu... ...through the silence. "Since you were about ready to go on your trip to the states, Nawin of the Thais with your American passport, we decided to delay... ...ar? - A guy can never know. One day he might be shooting some balls on the court when suddenly his underwear falls from his hips down to his feet like... ...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 ... ...inst this land where na๏ve belief in the goodness of the Chakri dynasty is supreme, belief that Taksin the Great after his wars with the Burmese had ... ...es he ascribed to him; and he wanted to deliver him the way he did of 7-11 clerks and food cart restaurateurs in his worthless good wishes but with sl...

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would su...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publicat... ...N. TO _________ WILLIAMS, SPRINGFIELD, March 1, 1845. FRIEND WILLIAMS: The Supreme Court adjourned this morning for the term. Y our cases of Reinhardt... ..._______ WILLIAMS, SPRINGFIELD, March 1, 1845. FRIEND WILLIAMS: The Supreme Court adjourned this morning for the term. Y our cases of Reinhardt vs. Sch... ...ink annexation an evil. I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (para... ...write. Unless I can get some one to do this, Hardin, with his old franking list, will have the advantage of me. My reliance for a fair shake (and I wa... ... LINCOLN. 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DECEMBER 22, 1847 Whereas, The Pres... ...es- sary was that the Postmaster-General should be required to do what the law, as it stood, authorized and required him to do. We come then, said Mr.... ...ulation of such funds on draft offices could not be known to the financial clerks of the department in time to control it, and too often this rendered...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

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