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- 521: Catch 22
- ... place, the men are forced to go through endless amounts of red tape, which hardly gets them anywhere. Yossarian tries to pretend he is crazy to get out of fighting. He signs "Washington Irving" on letters he censors, and walks around naked for a couple of days. If someone is crazy he needs only ask and he can be dismissed from duty. Yet, one would be crazy to fly, and only ...
- 522: Canterbury Tales - Medieval Church
- ... largely peasant society), but the Church and the government needed men who could read and write in English and Latin. The Church trained its own men, and these went to help in the government: writing letters, keeping accounts and so on. The words 'cleric' and 'clerk' have the same origin, and every nobleman would have at least one priest to act as a secretary. The power of the Church is often ...
- 523: Broken Ground By Jack Hodgins
- ... good things his father did in his life. In the second chapter he reflects on his father's life, recalling that [His] dad never hurt a thing. Not even in the War, where he delivered letters to the soldiers at the front. He never fired a shot. That's why he hadn't really left [Charlie, his] Mother said. Goodness was something that couldn't be killed. Dad's goodness was ...
- 524: Black Bart
- ... that afternoon and organized the posse to search for clues. Among the items was a handkerchief full of buckshot, this would eventually would be his downfall. On the handkerchief in a corner was some small letters: F.X.O.7. , this was a laundry identification number. Sheriff Thorn took the evidence to Wells Fargo detective J. B. Hume in San Francisco, whereupon Hume turned the handkerchief over to special operative Harry ...
- 525: A Rose Of The South
- ... give in to the new ways. It was approximately 1920 and Miss Emily was about 50 years old when the people decided that it was time for Miss Emily to pay taxes. They sent her letters, but she would not acknowledge them. When they finally approached her at her house she would just repeat to them "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes.4" The years would go on and no ...
- 526: A Farewell To Arms
- ... says as he goes on with his daily affairs. He spends much of the rest of his life "actively disseminating that philosophy, first preaching it orally on the all-night radio program and then writing letters to the Ilium New Leader" (Bryfonski and Senick 615). But Vonnegut disagrees and "rejects the Tralfamadorian philosophy… [and] Billy's total "incapacity to understand the significance of the death of human beings" (Bryfonski and Senick ...
- 527: Hamlet - Act 5 Summary
- ... did. I then leave, after getting a 'load' off my chest. Horatio, still with me, listens as I tell him all the details of my trip to England, and back. I tell of rewriting the letters and being taken captive by the pirates. Then, Osric enters and after much speaking, informs of the request to a dual with Laertes. Then, when I am asked to come, I go to the dual ...
- 528: Animal Farm
- ... thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel. "Muriel," she said, "read me the fourth commandment. Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?" With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out. "It says, 'No animal shall sleep ...
- 529: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... it may never pay off; Alan Kay PARC s philosophical soul, who was ridiculed for many years envisioning a computer that could be tucked under the arm yet would contain the power to store books, letters, and drawings until he arrived at Palo Alto and met the people who would build it. Finally Steve Jobs, who staged a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart ...
- 530: Dr Jekyl And Mr Hyde - Chapter
- ... Oh what a lesson I have learned!". Jekyll tells Utterson that the letter came to him by delivery, not through the mail, but as Utterson leaves, he asks the servant, who tells him that no letters came by delivery... That night, Utterson has his assistant, Mr. Guest, over to look at the letter, so that he might hear his thoughts on the matter. Guest notices that Hyde's handwriting is the ...
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