Maid of Marvels
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Would I do that?
Grab the Nearest Book...
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Maid of Marvels
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But that would mean I'd have to give an example. *blinks*
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"Major manufacturers such as GE are entering the market and targeting mass markets such as street lighting and domestic applications, a market estimated to be worth $12 bn in the USA alone."
Managing Innnovation - Integrating technological, market and organizational change. Written by Joe Tidd, John Bessant and Keith Pavitt.
Or, in Haiku:
Doctor Nakamura creates,
New quantum bulb for Nichia
Adapt now or die later
Managing Innnovation - Integrating technological, market and organizational change. Written by Joe Tidd, John Bessant and Keith Pavitt.
Or, in Haiku:
Doctor Nakamura creates,
New quantum bulb for Nichia
Adapt now or die later
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Homer to Joyce
"This is certainly a transition phase between the Iliadic world, where men died because of external forces, and the coming world of fourth-century Athens, when Plato and Aristotle teach that men are responsible for their own fate. There is the further implication that men are agents of the gods; they are not the gods, but they do not act alone. Much of this is contradictory, but it befits an epic where old codes are being destroyed and new ones constructed."
-Wallace Gray
Homer to Joyce, Interpretations of the classic works of Western literature
(page 28, from the chapter on Homer's Odyssey)
New York, 1985
This is a most wonderful book. Wallace Gray was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia for thirty-two years. The book is a collection of essays that follows the thread and development of the Western literary tradition (quite literally) "From Homer to Joyce."
If you are interested in interpretative essays and the common themes between Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Virgil, Gottfried, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Swift, Dostoevsky, Eliot, and Joyce, this is a delight.
"This is certainly a transition phase between the Iliadic world, where men died because of external forces, and the coming world of fourth-century Athens, when Plato and Aristotle teach that men are responsible for their own fate. There is the further implication that men are agents of the gods; they are not the gods, but they do not act alone. Much of this is contradictory, but it befits an epic where old codes are being destroyed and new ones constructed."
-Wallace Gray
Homer to Joyce, Interpretations of the classic works of Western literature
(page 28, from the chapter on Homer's Odyssey)
New York, 1985
This is a most wonderful book. Wallace Gray was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia for thirty-two years. The book is a collection of essays that follows the thread and development of the Western literary tradition (quite literally) "From Homer to Joyce."
If you are interested in interpretative essays and the common themes between Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes, Aristophanes, Virgil, Gottfried, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Swift, Dostoevsky, Eliot, and Joyce, this is a delight.
'I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age, and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them.'
A.S. Byatt, Possession
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Egg shaped and stiffened with whalebone, it began with three circular sausage-like twists, then alternate diamonds of velvet and rabbit fur, separated by red bands: then came a sort of bag ending in a cardboard-lined polygon covered with complex braiding from which a small crosspiece of gold threads dangled like a tassel at the end of a long, too thin cord.
A description of Charles Bovary's hat, from Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (Mildred Marmur, tr.).
A description of Charles Bovary's hat, from Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (Mildred Marmur, tr.).
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Like many Clan warriors, the predator for whom the Clan Smoke Jaguar is named owes its existence to science tampering with nature. Its genes are those of the Terran jaguar, altered in the laboratory to enable it to survive in a harsher enviroment. Aleksandr Kerensky's followers brought the smoke jaguar to the word of Strana Mechty, where it thrived in fertile jungles teeming with suitable prey. -
Tom Dowd,
MechCommander Tactical Interface User's Manual.
Aaah, they don't make many game manuals like this any more.
Tom Dowd,
MechCommander Tactical Interface User's Manual.
Aaah, they don't make many game manuals like this any more.
Maid of Marvels
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I think I found a fair representation of Charles Bovary's hat.
*wince* It looks like a shoe.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Maid/Casquette_Bovary02.jpg
*wince* It looks like a shoe.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Maid/Casquette_Bovary02.jpg
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"Because pterosaurs fly, you need to pay particular attention to their housing."
How to keep Dinosaurs - Robert Mash
How to keep Dinosaurs - Robert Mash
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But flaws were scarce in the Taylor residence.
---Tonight and Always
by Nora Roberts
Half glad, half wary that the reserve of the last few days had vanished, he gave her a cautious smile
---A Matter of Choice
by Nora Roberts
He wasnt a man she should trust, personally or professionally.
---Endings and Beginnings
by Nora Roberts
I found it fascinating that, three books from the same author could lead to a story of their own.
---Tonight and Always
by Nora Roberts
Half glad, half wary that the reserve of the last few days had vanished, he gave her a cautious smile
---A Matter of Choice
by Nora Roberts
He wasnt a man she should trust, personally or professionally.
---Endings and Beginnings
by Nora Roberts
I found it fascinating that, three books from the same author could lead to a story of their own.
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poppy1963
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Do you mean making those 3 sentences the basis of a brand new story? Keeping them in that order? That is very VERY interesting! LOL!!!
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"...Harry looked at the table, then back at the house..."
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Bound Manuscript Version)
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"...Harry looked at the table, then back at the house..."
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Bound Manuscript Version)
--Jeff Lindsay
trysail
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The Story Of English
"Within the British Isles, the spread of RP [Received Pronunciation] by the BBC, first on radio, then on television, helped to reinforce what was an already strong connection in many people's minds between education and 'Standard English'- usually perceived as the pronunciation found in the public schools, the universities, the professions, the government, and the church. The influence of this association was, in its day, enormous, even though RP was spoken by only about 3 per cent of the British population, a tiny fraction of the world's English-speaking community. Henry Cecil Wyld, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford from 1920 to 1945, and credited with the dictum that, "No gentleman goes on a bus", expressed a common view when he wrote of RP that it was: "The best kind of English, not only because it is spoken by those often properly called the best people, but also because it has two great advantages that make it intrinsically superior to every other type of English speech- the extent to which it is current throughout the country and the marked distinctiveness and clarity of its sounds.' Even in the United States a refined pronunciation of the King's English became desirable: in the Hollywood films of the 1930s stars playing upper-class Americans affected 'posh' accents. (The fascination was not entirely one way. Raymond Chandler, now wholly identified with Los Angeles, liked to stress his English public school education. In 1958, the year before his death, he wrote to John Houseman, a friend from his Hollywood days, 'I have had a lot of fun with the American language; it has fascinating idioms, is constantly creative, very much like the English of Shakespeare's time, its slang and argot are wonderful...') Later, in the 1950s, Wall Street and Madison Avenue executives had English secretaries to add a touch of class to their dealings with the public."
-Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil
The Story Of English
New York, 1986
A best seller on the history and development of the English language?
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "Who woulda thunk it?"
"Within the British Isles, the spread of RP [Received Pronunciation] by the BBC, first on radio, then on television, helped to reinforce what was an already strong connection in many people's minds between education and 'Standard English'- usually perceived as the pronunciation found in the public schools, the universities, the professions, the government, and the church. The influence of this association was, in its day, enormous, even though RP was spoken by only about 3 per cent of the British population, a tiny fraction of the world's English-speaking community. Henry Cecil Wyld, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford from 1920 to 1945, and credited with the dictum that, "No gentleman goes on a bus", expressed a common view when he wrote of RP that it was: "The best kind of English, not only because it is spoken by those often properly called the best people, but also because it has two great advantages that make it intrinsically superior to every other type of English speech- the extent to which it is current throughout the country and the marked distinctiveness and clarity of its sounds.' Even in the United States a refined pronunciation of the King's English became desirable: in the Hollywood films of the 1930s stars playing upper-class Americans affected 'posh' accents. (The fascination was not entirely one way. Raymond Chandler, now wholly identified with Los Angeles, liked to stress his English public school education. In 1958, the year before his death, he wrote to John Houseman, a friend from his Hollywood days, 'I have had a lot of fun with the American language; it has fascinating idioms, is constantly creative, very much like the English of Shakespeare's time, its slang and argot are wonderful...') Later, in the 1950s, Wall Street and Madison Avenue executives had English secretaries to add a touch of class to their dealings with the public."
-Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil
The Story Of English
New York, 1986
A best seller on the history and development of the English language?
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "Who woulda thunk it?"
Maid of Marvels
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You know, Poppy, I had to look to see what you were talking about and you're right. Each of those lines from syren make up another sentence.
That might be an interesting challenge. To tell a story using lines from different books that people add to the previous. Hmmm...
In the meantime, back at the ranch: I'm still reading the same two books, and though I am tempted to pick up this other one that is teasing me, I'll skip until I'm finished with these tomes. BUT if the book I ordered yesterday comes in before I'm done with these, all bets are off cause I can't wait to talk about it.
That might be an interesting challenge. To tell a story using lines from different books that people add to the previous. Hmmm...
In the meantime, back at the ranch: I'm still reading the same two books, and though I am tempted to pick up this other one that is teasing me, I'll skip until I'm finished with these tomes. BUT if the book I ordered yesterday comes in before I'm done with these, all bets are off cause I can't wait to talk about it.
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Maid of Marvels said:
You just cannot say stuff like that not say what you are reading or gonna read if it comes in. LOL! What???? TITLES puleaseeeee!
I DID think that's what syren meant...that the three sentences put together would be the beginning of a brand new story. I can't imagine what that might be without giving it some more thought...but it was a fascinating concept to me. If that isn't what she meant, I wonder what she DID mean. Hee hee!
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The Psychopath's Bible: For the Extreme Individual
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By comparison any actual journeying, any real London must inevitably produce disapointment; for how could these ever compete with the sharpness of the imagined journey and the vividness of the dream London that des Esseintes experiences on that rainy (and very English) evening in Paris?
M. Sheringham (ed.), Parisian Fields.
M. Sheringham (ed.), Parisian Fields.
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LoL, Poppy you were right, that is what I meant. The three sentences taken together can form a new story. And Maidy, dear you are more than welcome to use that brilliant mind of yours to take my concept make it something marvelous.
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It wasnt something even the most dedicated of housewives tended to do in downtown Chicago.
---Jewels of the Sun
by Nora Roberts
Can you tell I'm a Nora Roberts fan?
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It wasnt something even the most dedicated of housewives tended to do in downtown Chicago.
---Jewels of the Sun
by Nora Roberts
Can you tell I'm a Nora Roberts fan?
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"He was credited also with utterly reforming the Spartans' political system and introducing perhaps the first system of Greek citizen self-government."
The Spartans: An Epic History - Paul Cartledge
The Spartans - awesome, awesome nation of people.
The Spartans: An Epic History - Paul Cartledge
The Spartans - awesome, awesome nation of people.
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"All the descriptions of Rudlolf that have come down to us, like his speech at the Diet of Augsburg, or his resolute courage at the Marchfeld and its aftermath, are a mosaic, compounded in part of the real man and in part of the idealized image."
The Habsburgs
Embodying Empire
Andrew Wheatcroft
The Habsburgs
Embodying Empire
Andrew Wheatcroft
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The Catcher In The Rye
"Sex is something I don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it- the same night, as a matter of fact. I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phoney named Anne Louise Sherman. Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't."
-J. D. Salinger
The Catcher In The Rye
New York, 1951
Poor, dear old Holden Caulfield. I never did quite understand him, but I've always enjoyed his observations and reflections on the thing we call life.
"Sex is something I don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it- the same night, as a matter of fact. I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phoney named Anne Louise Sherman. Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God I don't."
-J. D. Salinger
The Catcher In The Rye
New York, 1951
Poor, dear old Holden Caulfield. I never did quite understand him, but I've always enjoyed his observations and reflections on the thing we call life.
