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- 1381: Heart Of Darkness
- ... undersized railway truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air.... I came upon more pieces of decaying machinery, a stack of rust rails.... No change appeared on the face of the rock. They were building a railway. The cliff was not in the way of anything, but this objectless blasting was all the work going on." (Conrad 19.) George Washington Williams wrote in his diary that three ...
- 1382: Catcher In The Rye And For Esm
- ... uses the view of the characters to inject humor into both of these stories. In "The Catcher in the Rye", we see Holden's thought about old-aged Spencer's bed being hard as a rock. He also adds "I didn't feel like being lectured to and smell Vicks Nose Drops and look at old Spencer in his pajamas and bathrobe all at the same time" (Holden Caulfield, The Catcher ...
- 1383: Cyrano De Bergerac
- ... I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated-on the spot! Friendly: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. Descriptive: ‘Tis a rock-a crag-a cape- A cape? Say rather, a peninsula!" Cyrano de Bergerac is a heroic comedy, a play which is light and humorous and is composed of jokes, satire, and humorous performance. In this ...
- 1384: Brave New World
- ... about his mescaline adventures are The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, nicely chronicled through letter correspondences during the time in Moksha. The title of Doors of Perception, lifted from poet William Blake, inspired rock singer Jim Morrison to name his group "The Doors." Then in 1963 Huxley with his wife by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed. Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World shows ...
- 1385: Bird Imagery In The Awakening
- ... signs of her success in escaping and continue to foreshadow her actions. Upon hearing Mademoiselle Reisz play "Solitude", Edna envisions a free bird for the first time. She imagines "a man standing beside a desolate rock...with hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him" (25). The appearance of a free bird provides an important sign of Edna's beginning freedom and success. Also ...
- 1386: Big Two-Hearted River
- ... fish. Nick tries as hard as he can, but the fish snaps the line and escapes. Then, as Nick thinks about the fate of the trout which got away, Hemingway writes, "He felt like a rock, too, before he started off. By God, he was a big one. By God, he was the biggest one I ever heard of." This sudden switch to first-person narration is startling to the reader ...
- 1387: Beowulf
- ... last request. Before Beowulf died after losing the fight he had with the dragon he had only one request for if he did not live: ...Now hurry, dear Wiglaf; rummage the hoard under the grey rock, for the dragon sleeps, riddled with wounds...be quick so that I may see the age-old golden treasure...once I have set eyes on such a store, it will be more easy for me ...
- 1388: Cyrano De Bergerac 2
- ... I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated-on the spot! Friendly: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. Descriptive: Tis a rock-a crag-a cape- A cape? Say rather, a peninsula!" Cyrano de Bergerac is a heroic comedy, a play which is light and humorous and is composed of jokes, satire, and humorous performance. In this ...
- 1389: Granite
- Granite Vigorously wiping off the dead grass and dandelion petals from the rock, the girl’s hand brushed a jagged edge roughly. As she quickly drew her hand away for examination, she saw what her hand had lain upon. The right upper corner of the baby’s headstone ...
- 1390: Great Expectations The Book Ve
- ... negative criticisms are… “The film is proof that if you repackage the classics… for the youth market in an era of MTV dislocation, what you get, in essence, is postmodern Cliffs Notes with an alt-rock soundtrack.” (Gleiberman) “If Charles Dickens were alive today, he'd probably demand that his name be removed from this weirdly misconceived update of his work, which will make young viewers think he must have been ...
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