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...s; - drawn-poems; - poems in Pirissanorench (language spoken in the South-West of the United States by a single person); - super-poems; - graphic... ..., 1994 – to be published). I not only wrote poems in this style, but also plays for the theater: Metaistorie (Romanian) {Meta-History} (Romania, 19... ...n to the international literary community, especially to North America and Western Countries. Working as a computer programmer and then as a softwar... ...tle bit BULB Turns nights Into day CALIFORNIA A domestic Wild West Deux autres exemples en français: PERPETUUM MOBILE Dans un ... ...classicized” art, and fight for a New Art World Order. And I would like to end with a Navajo language greeting, to see you next time: HÀ GOONÈH! The... ...e first one was just in my paradoxism`s pleasure: “And after the beginning end-/ ed the ending/ did not begin”. The longest poem is the shortest. S...

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...e higher creatures see the printed steps Of that eternal worth, which is the end Whither the line is drawn. All natures lean, In this their order, div... ...e 12 Unjust, is argument for faith, and not For heretic declension. To the end This truth may stand more clearly in your view, I will content thee e... ...h’d that bound, And she hath power to reach it; else desire Were given to no end. And thence doth doubt Spring, like a shoot, around the stock of trut... ...s pennons shook again; lightning thence fell On Juba; and the next upon your west, At sound of the Pompeian trump, return’d. “What following and ... ...Macra’s, that divides with passage brief Genoan bounds from Tuscan. East and west Are nearly one to Begga and my land, Whose haven erst was with its o... ...t join Again his scatter’d people. In that clime, Where springs the pleasant west wind to unfold The fresh leaves, with which Europe sees herself New ... ...y, and at leisure There stall them and grow fat. The o’erweening brood, That plays the dragon after him that flees, But unto such, as turn and show th... ... glittering throng. Thus vanish’d gradually from my sight The triumph, which plays ever round the point, That overcame me, seeming (for it did) Engirt...

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...orating sperm counts are caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, swine flu, and other diseas... ...reover, self-similarity is maintained. Consider a mountain - where does it start or end and what, precisely, does it include? A fractal curve (bound... ... the logical floodgate which led to the development of Set Theory by Cantor at the end of the 19 th century. It took almost another century to dem... ...itions known as the Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions. Neumann allowed the end point of a string free movement - but with no loss of moment... ... of the field of potentials (the subconscious or the regulatory system). The field plays constant host to materializing potentials (=the intrusion ... ... have affected American culture? And if so, how? A. In its treatment of nature, Western culture is based on realism and rationalism and purports... ... realism and rationalism and purports to be devoid of superstitions. Granted, many Westerners - perhaps the majority - are still into esoteric prac...

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...E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 EM Forster Howards End by E. M. Forster ONE MAY AS WELL BEGIN with Helen’s letters to her sis-... ... won’t matter if I do. Mar- vellous weather and the views marvellous—views westward to the high ground. Thank you for your letter. Burn this. ... ...hem, alas! we return. In Paddington all Cornwall is latent and the remoter west; down the inclines of Liverpool Street lie fenlands and the illimitabl... ...ving in, and he had spent money enough at Queen’s Hall— and he walked over Westminster Bridge, in front of St. Thomas’s Hospital, and through the imme... ...elong to the same club, and 69 EM Forster are both devoted to golf. Dolly plays golf too, though I believe not so well; and they first met in a mixed... ...” Mrs. Wilcox also rose. “Oh, but come upstairs for a little. Miss Quested plays. Do you like MacDowell? Do you mind his only having two noises? If yo... ... ease, still swimming gracefully on the grey tides of London. Concerts and plays swept past them, money had been spent and renewed, reputations won an...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spri...

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...a by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett Part Two Chapter 1 At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys’ house, a consultation was being h... ... after her confinement (she had an- other baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, s... ... call out all my diplomacy, and again as soon as the thing was about at an end, our friend the government clerk gets hot and red, and his sausages sta... ...rk. Venus, bright and sil- very, shone with her soft light low down in the west behind the birch trees, and high up in the east twinkled the red light... ...ad a good voice, asked her to come and sing to them in the evening. “Kitty plays, and we have a piano, not a good one, it’s true, but you will give us...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the c...

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...NARD SHAW ACT I AN OCTOBER NIGHT on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards... ...nd strange airs as the wind- 13 Caesar and Cleopatra swept harp of Memnon plays at the dawning of the moon. It rises full over the desert; and a vast... ...ake, and I will conquer ten conti- nents to pay for dreaming it out to the end. (He climbs to the Sphinx’s flank, and presently reappears to her on th... ...p- tian pillars supporting the roof of a majestic corridor. At the further end of this corridor a Nubian slave appears carrying the torch. Caesar, sti... ...e. Pothinus: this is Britannus, my secre- tary. He is an islander from the western end of the world, a day’s voyage from Gaul. (Britannus bows stiffly... ...own the hall between Rufio and Britannus) Rufio: we have some ships in the west harbor. Burn them. RUFIO (staring). Burn them!! CAESAR. Take every boa... ... my doing: the Egyptians have saved me the trouble. They have captured the west harbor. 42 Shaw CAESAR (anxiously). And the east harbor? The lighthou... ...a dog learns. CLEOPATRA. Well, then, I will learn as a dog learns; for she plays better than you. You shall give me a lesson every day for a fortnight... ...haring that pious opinion, I have not given countenance to it in any of my plays. In this I follow the precedent of the ancient myths, which represent...

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...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it,? said a voice. ?I have proved it to myself.? ?I have proved to myself that she isn?t,? said the voice. ?The cow is n...

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...match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, “She is there, the cow. Ther... ...w risen to its feet “If you please, he asks me and my brother for the week-end. We accept. At the station, no Rickie. We drive to where 7 EM Forster ... ...wenty. It’s time you thought. The Tripos is the beginning of life, not the end. In less than two years you will have got your B.A. What are you going ... ...kle is better.” “Never was bad. He’s always fussing over some- thing.” “He plays next week in a match, I think Herbert says.” “I dare say he does.” “S... ..., yours sincerely, Emily Failing X THE RAIN TILTED a little from the south-west. For the most part it fell from a grey cloud silently, but now and the... ...omnibus. His reply was “Ow,” delivered with a slight giggle. As he rumbled westward, his face was drawn, and his eyes moved quickly to the right and l... ... ring-doves, who roost early, were already silent. Since the window opened westward, 269 EM Forster the room was flooded with light, and Stephen, fin...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their...

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... 3 GB Shaw JOHN BULL ’S OTHER ISLAND by BERNARD SHAW Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the... ... the room a large double writing table is set across, with a chair at each end for the two partners. It is a room which no woman would tolerate, smell... ...d strain of Glasgow in it]. I must be going. Ivnmportnt engeegement in the west end. BROADBENT [rising]. It’s settled, then, that you come with me. 1... ...ain of Glasgow in it]. I must be going. Ivnmportnt engeegement in the west end. BROADBENT [rising]. It’s settled, then, that you come with me. 11 GB ... ...t him perplexedly; comes slowly to the writing table; and sits down at the end next the fireplace before replying. DOYLE. W ell: your letter completel... ...Doyle on the shoulder]. Thank you, old chap. Thank you. ACT II Rosscullen. Westward a hillside of granite rock and heather slopes upward across the pr... ...be for- gotten. The local cricket club— CORNELIUS. The hwat! DORAN. Nobody plays bats ball here, if dhat’s what you mean. BROADBENT. Well, let us say ...

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..................................................................................................................................... 19 LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD ...................................................................................................... 20 THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE ...........................................................................

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.......................................................... 19 LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD ............................................................. ...e crucified Christ on a stick, he somehow managed to get hold of the right end of it, and that if we were better men we might try his plan. There have... ...y to carry out their views, acting on the very dangerous delusion that the end of the world was at hand. I make no defence of such Christians as Savon... ...mple statement of fact, and that it has since been accepted as such by all western nations, does not invalidate the proceedings, nor give us the right... ...eir own skins, tor- turing themselves hideously to attain holiness. In the west, saints amazed the world with their austerities and self- scourgings a... ...ssian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on the western front. The reasons for believing in the murder of Pompey are the sa... ...hat dislike without ever having read a line of his or witnessed one of his plays; but nobody with any knowledge of Shakespear or Moliere could possibl...

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...LECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE STAGE PLAYS (CENSORSHIP) TOGETHER WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES ... ... APPENDICES. What the 4 The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet phrase “the Stage Plays” means in this title I do not know; nor does anyone else. The number ... ...irst obtaining the usual licence from the Lord Chamberlain. 2. Some of the plays licensed by the Lord Chamber- lain are so vicious that their present ... ...us that their present practical immu- nity from prosecution must be put an end to; but no manager who procures the Lord Chamberlain’s li- cence for a ... ... plain sailing tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the West end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equall... ...n sailing tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the West end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equally qua... ...y pub- lic sense was, and still is, very deeply offended by it. It made an end for me of the claim of the majority to be taken seriously. When the Gov... ...ty. But the impunity is not confined to condemned theatres. Not long ago a West End man- ager allowed a prohibited play to be performed at his theatre... ...y defended and privately amused by Mr. Alexander’s innocence. T o accept a West End manager as an expert in theatres because he is an actor is much as...

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... are so obsessed by my strained legendary reputation that they approach my plays in a condition which is really one of derangement, and are quite unab... ...intellectual confusion. If it were pos- sible, I should put forward all my plays anonymously, or hire some less disturbing person, as Bacon is said to... ...disturbing person, as Bacon is said to have hired Shakespear, to father my plays for me. Fanny’s First Play was performed for the first time at the Li... ...of Wednesday, April 19th 1911. 5 GB Shaw FANNY’S FIRST PLAY INDUCTION The end of a saloon in an old-fashioned coun- try house (Florence Towers, the p... ... elderly lady sits at breakfast reading the newspaper. Her chair is at the end of the oblong dining-table furthest from the fire. There is an empty ch... ... dining-table furthest from the fire. There is an empty chair at the other end. The fireplace is behind this chair; and the door is next the fireplace... .... What sort of person, Juggins? GILBEY. Whats her address? MRS GILBEY. The West Circular Road. Is that a respect- able address, Juggins? JUGGINS. A gr... ...ddress, Juggins? JUGGINS. A great many most respectable people live in the West Circular Road, madam; but the address is not a guar- antee of respecta...

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...monstrated with them. Mr Grein, the hardy iconoclast who first launched my plays on the stage along- side Ghosts and The Wild Duck, exclaimed that I h... ... me, not for writing this play, but for wast- ing my energies on “pleasant plays” for the amusement of frivolous people, when I can build up such exce... ... audience as I have described would be revolted by many of our fashionable plays. They would leave the theatre convinced that the Plymouth Brother who... ...tely dressed, and sumptuously lodged and fed; also that they shall, at the end of the play, die of consumption to the sympathetic tears of the whole a... ... of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and over- work. It is true that the Board School mistress wi... ...plots of two plays witnessed within the last ten years by myself at London West End theatres, one licensed by the late Queen Victoria’s Reader of Play... ... of two plays witnessed within the last ten years by myself at London West End theatres, one licensed by the late Queen Victoria’s Reader of Plays, th... ...lemen to the condition of the city they live in, provided they live at the west end of it on money earned by someone else’s labor. The notion that pro... ...ore fashionable papers, which usually com- bine capable art criticism with West-End solecism on poli- tics and sociology. It is very noteworthy, howev...

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..., A grey old man and woman; yet of old 9 Selected Poems The Gods had to their marriage come, And at the banquet all the Muses sang. T... ... their marriage come, And at the banquet all the Muses sang. Therefore they did not end their days In sight of blood, but were rapt, far a... ...riage come, And at the banquet all the Muses sang. Therefore they did not end their days In sight of blood, but were rapt, far away, T... ...ds Sear’d his keen eyeballs; Spent is the spoil he won. For him the present Holds only pain. Two young, fair lovers, Where the warm June-wind, Fresh f... ...oddess Lengthen their happiness, She lengthen’d also Distress elsewhere. The hour, whose happy Unalloy’d moments I would eternalise, Ten thousand mour... ... love, if love, of happier men. Of happier men—for they, at least, Have dream’d two human hearts might blend In one, and were through faith released F... ...“‘Poor world,’ she cried, ‘so deep accurst, That runn’st from pole to pole To seek a draught to slake thy thirst— Go, seek it in thy soul!’ “She hea... ...dows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, res... ...d night held on indignantly O’er the blue Midland waters with the gale, Betwixt the Syrtes and soft Sicily, To where the Atlantic...

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...therefore, progressively change as the growth of culture proceeds; for the end for which the facts of life are apprehended changes, and the point of v... ...ate, the barbarian fancy imputes an unfolding of activity directed to some end. It is this teleo- logical unfolding of activity that constitutes any o... ...e conversion to his own ends of energies previously directed to some other end by an other agent. We still speak of “brute matter” with something of t... ...ation of wealth, the incentive of subsistence or of physical comfort never plays a considerable part. Ownership began and grew into a human institutio... ...asi-peaceable” seems preferable. So far as concerns the communities of the Western culture, this phase of economic development prob- ably lies in the ... ...her grounds. In the apprehension of the great conservative middle class of West- ern civilisation the use of these various stimulants is obnox- ious t... ...e and consumption de- volve upon the wife alone. In the communities of the West- ern culture, this point is at present found among the lower middle cl...

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...nd measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes, until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself. When he has s... ... and genius, obeying its law, knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches. Genius studies the causal thought, a... ...e outlines of its form merely,—but, by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in ... ...ndow, with which the Gothic cathe- drals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest. Nor ... ...bais, and the first Capuchins. 19 Emerson The priestcraft of the East and West, of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individu... ...lic roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-tow... ...education at college of fools; the building of meeting- houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Soc... ...ince. Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic. In history our imagination plays us false. Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocab... ... God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and ...

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...ty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which has effectually made an end of our belief that mothers are any more to be trusted than step- mother... ...ses. They have the ferocity of a chained dog, and are proud of it. But the end of it is that they are always in chains, even at the height of their mi... ...idate themselves and live in a continual moral and political panic. In the end they get found out and bullied. But that is not the point that concerns... ...any moment as their parents are to get up and go out of a theatre where my plays are being performed. Even among my own schoolmasters I can recollect ... ...urses, out of mere laziness, because sisters in the East and nurses in the West are kept in servitude. But in a society of equals (the only reasonable... ... on it which I prepared for the Joint Committee on the Censorship of Stage Plays, and prefixed to The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet. It must suffice now... ...that people who have been taught Shakespear as a school subject loathe his plays and cannot by any means be persuaded ever to open his works after the... ...despot: the Chinese father is an object of worship: the sentimental modern western father is often a play-fellow looked to for toys and pocket-money. ... ...- tical and intellectual; none suited to the character and con- ditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity 97 Shaw which was final...

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...ough many women have been stoned to death in the east, and divorced in the west, on the strength of it. On the other hand, the innocent and convention... ...bbed to death; but the official stoning or burning of an adulteress in the west would be an atrocity because few of us hate an adul- teress to the ext... ...they were wrong in assuming that sex is an indispensable motive in popular plays. The plays of Moliere are, like the novels of the Victorian epoch or ... ...less as any- thing not absolutely inhuman can be; and some of Shakespear’s plays are sexually on a par with the census: they contain women as well as ... ...nd that is all. This had to be admitted; but it was still assumed that the plays of the XIX century Parisian school are, in contrast with the sexless ... ...ences that would follow from the first and second in real life, they would end as squalid tragedies; and in my opin- ion they would be greatly improve... ...at her: if he does, he only finds out that she isn’t beautiful. Before the end of five minutes they are both hideously bored. There’s only one thing t... ...n of self-control. MRS. JUNO [dragging her hand away and retreating to the end of the chesterfield]. No: it’s a question of distance. Self- control is...

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...re inserted a new section in which I show how the revolutionary history of West- ern Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attem... ...aw ance and self-indulgence. Nothing will cure him of this ma- nia. It may end in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new... ... by that great German dy- nasty which began with Bach and will perhaps not end with Richard Strauss. Do not suppose for a moment that I learnt my art ... ...er of Shakespeare would equally demur to my placing his popular catchpenny plays, of which As You Like It is an avowed type, below true Shakespearean ... ...sic we use for play and pleasure. Hence it is that the four separate music-plays of which it is built have become popular throughout Europe as operas.... ...is never driving at anything of this sort any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse- making as sonnets, triolets,... ... these things are unendurable. If we were a race of poets we would make an end of them before the end of this miserable century. Being a race of moral...

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...for many years past. When I became in- terested in the subject towards the end of the eigh- teen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. E... ... an age of upstarts. Men begin in Kentish T own with 80 pounds a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand. They want to drop Kentish T own; ... ...r kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gut- ter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a... ...unts for his mendacity and dishonesty. PICKERING. Oh, PLEASE, Higgins: I’m west country myself. [T o Doolittle] How did you know the girl was here if ... ...ationally] Will it rain, do you think? LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. Th... ...an dialects, Hottentot PICKERING. halls; and it’s all the same to her: she plays everything HIGGINS. clicks, things it took me years to get hold of; a... ...ins begins half singing half yawn- ing an air from La Fanciulla del Golden West. Suddenly he stops and exclaims] I wonder where the devil my slippers ...

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...uidation of their pay, and the Council had believed that they would in the end consent to some reduc- tion. But at present ill-will was caused by the ... ...eral, they cried out: “Let him bring them!” Gisco soon appeared at the far end of the garden with an escort of the Sacred Legion. His full, black cloa... ...behind her the tread of a master’s heel!” He drew Matho to quite the other end of the terrace, and showed him the garden, wherein the soldiers’ swords... ...such convulsions of the soil, such alter- nations of temperature, and such plays of light would she manifest the extravagance of her might with the be... ... nomads and intercept the commerce of the desert. If they fell back to the west, Numidia would rise. Finally, lack of provisions would sooner or later... ... with buttresses at their foot and lions’ heads at the top, reached to the western part of the Acropolis, where they sank beneath the town to incline ... ... were barking. But sud- denly the space grew wider and they recognised the western face of the Acropolis. At the foot of Byrsa there stretched a long ...