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... How you touched me, you will never know Short-shorts and short stories ... ...ication For two special women: Joyce Glory Mpulula. Mother, father, best friend, goddess. My gratitude, love, and respect, always.... ...ll asleep but somewhere in my head the sound registers to be the crowing of a cock. Time to wake up. I open my heavy eyes, blink and try to focus. N... ...lute song NOBODY knew where the man who sat on the corner where two main roads intersected had come from or why he played the blues. But came he d... ...ag, all the while mumbling words that didn’t make much sense. Soon after breakfast, he’d produce his flute and start playing the blues. I had a ve... ...h. He could feel her breathing and her heart beating. He felt closer to all the elements of life too and he could also feel the rhythm of life. He c... ...ding. He also nodded and continued puffing while meditating on his two sayings and a baobab tree twenty yards away, feeling the rhythm of life and h... ...aiting, I’m the awaited” before picking up a gun to fight injustice. I love life. All of it. The emptiness, the fullness, the rhythms, the noises...

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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ted Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self... ... woman spoke in a German accent. All the elements of pronunciation shift - pacing, rhythm, intonation, and stress. The New York Times cites the cas... ....com/def/f106.htm http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FE/FELO_DE_SE.htm The "winter blues" are supposed to cause suicidal ideation. There is even a ...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of th...

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...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ...mers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Ev... ...An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Index, 297 v 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM ... ... How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they hav... ... musician, “his own sound” was the product of a number of musical traditions—blues and gospel particularly. It is out of those traditions that “I Got ... ...s Brown, and Aretha Franklin. If one can pin- point a moment when gospel and blues began to merge into a secular version of gospel song, it was in 195... ... ‘Jesus Is All the World to Me’ adding deep church inflections to the secular rhythms of the nightclubs, and the world was never the same.” 5 Michael L... ...ngs of its own musical genre. Soul is a fusion of gospel on the one hand and rhythm and blues on the other. From gospel, soul takes the call-and-respo... ...regation and the wailing vocals of someone “testifying” to their faith. From rhythm and blues it takes the choice of instruments, some of the upbeat t...

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...cohn Second Edition This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are ... ...ither are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establis... ...c. Author reserves the right to withdraw the offer at any time. Commercial and derivative uses are not authorized without express permission from t... ...ine cloth, its floor strewn with opulent pillows in purple and gold, bright blues and greens, yellows and reds. A few patrons, still clothed, sat at... ...Basc. The journey song floated to her from the frontmost transport—a lively rhythm fast enough to keep their feet light, yet slow enough to spare th... ...ns: Covenant CHAPTER 17 Loud, urgent pounding jolted Ghost from sleep. The rhythm of the knocks was right, the signal of someone from the undergrou... ...ting existence. Now he was a cart without direction, all of its cogs out of rhythm, all its wheels askew. Was his younger sister, his tadpole, still...

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...a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between vamps and humans, Savannah and Donatello discover there's more to life than saving the world -- like falling in love. www.DesertBreezePublishing.com...

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...ical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, char... ...nd storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imagina... ...ons, organizations, incidents or persons – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. J. Morgan 4 Dedication... ...e was Sasha tricking the night she disappeared?” “Not far from the House of Blues. Way I hear it. Sash had a thing for Blues men.” “That still doe... ...yed look for a second but a shake got him to spilling. “Down by the House of Blues. ‘Bout two streets over from there on Conti Street.” “Bingo!” F... ... to go cautiously and scout out the area first. If he is operating near the Blues, he wouldn’t be so stupid as to have his resting place so close to... ...me drove the sadness from my heart. Yes, this was perfection. I matched the rhythm he set with my hips, savored each moment for all it was worth. I...

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...s attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instincts as an investigative reporting are tingling, and she just can't leave it alone. She meets Jack Rhodes, Royce's business partner. Sparks fly, but can she really trust a man she knows nothing about? And why is it that every time something new develops in the case, he seem...

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... mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Name... ...ieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s ... ... locations, organizations, incidents or persons – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. Gerrie Ferris 4 Dedic... ...“I think we need to let Lucinda go ahead with her flash kick since she’s got a good rhythm going. Kata is about rhythm, balance and focus.” Lucinda... ...s eyebrows drew together and her lips pressed. She crossed her leg at the knee and rhythmically swung her foot. After a while, she sighed and dropp... ...table. A twelve-by-twelve abstract painting hung on an unfinished brick wall. The blues, the blacks, would never be found at Jakova. Well, Sammie... ...ra Kate smiled indulgently because her mama never made eye contact unless her faded blues caught someone’s eyes by accident. Laura Kate gave her a p... ...d she pressed into him. His voice frayed into soft murmurs as their hips rocked in rhythm with their pulsing blood. His hands shifted gently, and h...

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...lly, a popular Irish tenor, when she hears him sing. Starstruck, she is consumed by thoughts of love with the handsome troubadour. Real life intrudes and Morgan must put aside her own dreams for awhile. Five years later, she and her troubadour meet again, AND fate hands her the chance to make her every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can ...

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...cal means, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, cha... ... storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s imaginat... ...ns, organizations, incidents or persons – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. Barbara Scott 4 Dedication In ... ...hest heaved in and out with the heavy cadence of his breathing, setting the rhythm for her own. His touch became more demanding, the soft kid of hi... ...p in her throat. Untutored but eager to learn, Morgan’s body imitated that rhythm. He felt the heat of her increase and beckon, and he did not care... ...le blue peace of Morgan’s eyes. That explained it all. He let the lulling rhythm of his heart and the warmth of her arms ease him toward sleep. ... .... I suppose an artist would be quite intrigued by the range of purples and blues and greens you have on your face,” her friend teased before she kne...

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... the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a sin... ... Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leading authors, reviewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken wit... ... them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believabl... ...he court. Kleis unwinds my ball of thread and keeps paying it out slowly, rhythmically, her hands in time to a song she is humming to herself. The ... ...ainly, oarsman’s hands, netman’s hands, the sea’s...mine. Nothing’s more rhythmic than love with waves for bed, rocking, sucking, soothing. I lay t... ...rs. Their minds should be richer, their faces kinder, their stride freer. Rhythm should be their secret. I know this is false but I must evoke beaut... ...ng, men falling, dying, their helmets of fear, helmets of pain...yellows, blues, greys, reds. On Friday, June 6, 1505, I began to paint the Anghiari...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ssed together, would not blaze. Moreover, her husband walking with a quick rhythmic stride, jerking his free hand occasionally, was either a Viking or... ...hour being still early, the whole view was exquisitely light and airy; the blues and greens of sky and tree were in- tense but not sultry. As they dre... ... worn round their heads, and primitive carvings coloured bright greens and blues. Somehow or other, as fashions do, the fashion spread; an old monaste... ...noises of midday, which one can ascribe to no definite cause, in a regular rhythm. It was all very real, very big, very impersonal, and after a mo- me... ...other, leapt into mid- stream, and went round and round in the eddies. The rhythmic swish of the dancers sounded like a swirling pool. By degrees the ...

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...mes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil inces...

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... He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months a... ...occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to ... ...penhauer to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not bee... ...blankness and darkness rose over me. Chapter II I SEEMED swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness. Sparkling points of light spluttered and... ...change came over the face of the dream, for a dream told myself it must be. My rhythm grew shorter and shorter. I was jerked from swing to counter swi... ...nd opened my eyes. Two men were kneeling beside me, working over me. My mighty rhythm was the lift and forward plunge of a ship on the sea. The terrifi... ...; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which... ...pon him. He was quiv ering to it. He had reasoned himself into a spell of the blues, and within few hours one could look for the devil within him to ... ...arkable effect upon him. The previous evening he had reasoned himself into the blues, and I had been waiting momentarily for one of his characteristic...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...l he articulated was “That’s one lovely sight!” but he was inspired by the rhythm of the city; his love of it renewed. He beheld the tower as a temple... ...ign: “A fill in time saves getting stuck—gas to-day 31 cents”; admired the rhythmic gurgle of the gasoline as it flowed into the tank, and the mechani... ...ng the best.” Babbitt nodded his head at every fifth word in the roar- ing rhythm; and by the conclusion, in Gunch’s renowned humorous vein, he was en... ...ceful tappers. They run 1-2 under the wire. Provin and Adams will blow the blues in their laugh skit “Hootch Mon!” Something doing, boys. Listen to wh... ...son, and Mayor Prout. The young negro boot- black hummed “The Camp Meeting Blues” and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so ta...

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...irit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with t...

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...ication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this ... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...g student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...having a studious enough eye to the complete effect; for I thought these melting greens and blues so beautiful that afternoon, that I would have given... ... before he retired, worn almost through in some places, but in others making a good show of blues and oranges, none the less harmonious for being some... ...y, reading the works of others as a poet would scarce dare to read his own; gloating on the rhythm, dwell- ing with delight on assonances and allitera...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...h days I was acutely aware of an invading and growing disorder. The serene rhythms of the old established agriculture, I see now, were everywhere bein... ...by throwing open folding doors, and it was all carefully done in greys and blues, for the most part with real Sheraton supplemented by Sheraton so ski... ...woodsmen are off the stage. These are the brilliant ones—the smart and the blues… . They cost a lot of money, you know.” So far Mrs. Redmondson, but t... ...ked in the of- fice. She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window. I sat at my desk and tore a quill pen to pieces as ...

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...th century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it i...

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... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ttent drowsing as one sits, the droop- ing of the head, the nodding to the rhythm of the wheels then chin upon the breast, and at once the sudden star... ...horizontal band of squares, in which crimson and purple, orange and lemon, blues and greens, in many hues and many shades, did themselves honour. Thes... ...ecame more insistent. For a moment it seemed to Redwood that it caught the rhythm of an engine’s throb- bing—the engine he could have imagined of some... ...” cried a voice, and the two giants who were working in the corner began a rhythmic hammering that made a mighty music to the scene. The metal glowed ...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, and she was almost gla...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...untless, led the orchestra, with a ruler and a totally inaccurate sense of rhythm. The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-te... ...houts of greeting were loud in the thin bright air, and every- where was a rhythmic sound of wood-sawing. It was Sat- urday, and the neighbors’ sons w... ... a regiment a-coming down the Grand Trunk Road. He tapped his foot to the rhythm; he looked normal and reassured. But when he complimented her, “That... ...re small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues. There was no sound of sea or winds; no softness of whispers nor of f...

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...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintance eating his dinner in dignified loneliness at the head of a lon...

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...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...mured harmonies of wind and sun in my heart making an accompaniment to the rhythms of my author. Then 47 Joseph Conrad looking up from the page I saw... ...n her very ear. Stay- ing in this dull place was enough to give anyone the blues. His sister scribbled all day. It was positively unkind. He alluded t...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ore us, the pleasure of feeling my divi- sions, my proportions and general rhythm, rest all on per- manent rather than in any degree on momentary prop... ...welled for the midsummer daylight; and she was all in the palest pinks and blues. She didn’t think, at this pass, that she could “come” anywhere—Milly... ..., but visibly unused—it defied familiarity—and furnished in the ugliest of blues. He had immediately looked with interest at the closed doors, and Kat... ...s trying not to be—fully hardened and fully base. So rapid in fact was the rhythm of his inward drama that the quick vision of im- possibility produce... ...again; the air was like a clap of hands, and the scattered pinks, yellows, blues, sea-greens, were like a hanging-out of vivid stuffs, a laying-down o...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ing slowly, methodically, with a measured coughing of its locomotive and a rhythmic cadence of its trucks over the interstices of the rails. On two or... ...ion of sounds—the clatter of hammers, the cadenced scrape of saws, and the rhythmic shuffle of planes—that issued from the gang of carpenters who were... ... poetry. Soon the cadence of his paragraphs settled to an ordered beat and rhythm, and in the end Presley had thrust aside his journal and was once mo... ... dred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black. Under foot, the car...

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... the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvani... ...lication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a pa... ...Now what could these banished creatures find to do to keep from dying of the blues during the low water season! Once, in one of these lovely island ch... ...ive a genuine poem can be without the helps and graces of poetic measure and rhythm— PEBOAN AND SEEGWUN. An old man was sit...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, ...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...mes he would start in the middle of the window for variety. As he worked a rhythm began pushing its way through the hard core of his mind, leavening i... ...e battalions going back and forth over the dusty drill fields. He felt the rhythm filling his whole body, from his sore hands to his legs, tired from ... ...lly phrase took the place of the welling of music in his mind: “Arbeit und Rhythmus.” He kept say- ing it over and over to himself: “Arbeit und Rhythm... ...eets where, in the misty sunlight, grey-green and grey-violet mingled with blues and pale lights as the col- ors mingle in a pigeon’s breast feathers....