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Crome Yellow
Aldous Huxley
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“Crome Yellow” by Aldous Huxley ; 1922 A young English poet, Denis Stone, is spending some time at Crome, an English estate and mansion of the Wimbush family. He is in love with Anne Wimbush, the niece of Henry Wimbush. The other guests include a few other writers, an artist, and it is in essence a small gathering of people who are also close friends. Denis has just started to write a novel. But he is going through a period of questioning himself as a writer. He is also unhappy that Anne does not love him. One particular evening he is feeling particularly miserable: “..........................Why had he climbed up to this high, desolate place? Was it to look at the moon? Was it to commit suicide? As yet he hardly knew. Death—the tears came into his eyes when he thought of it. His misery assumed a certain solemnity; he was lifted up on the wings of a kind of exaltation. It was a mood in which he might have done almost anything, however foolish. .." Denis's train of thoughts is interrupted by Mary, another guest. He confides in her and she suggests that perhaps he should return to London, on the excuse of urgent business. But the next day, as prepares to leave Crome, has anything been resolved ? The story ends on this note: “…..............Obediently Denis left the room. Never again, he said to himself, never again would he do anything decisive. Camlet, West Bowlby, Knipswich for Timpany, Spavin Delawarr; and then all the other stations; and then, finally, London. The thought of the journey appalled him. And what on earth was he going to do in London when he got there? He climbed wearily up the stairs. It was time for him to lay himself in his coffin............................”
A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
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After publishing A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of the Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Desert of Egypt by adding the present volume. To facilitate direct comparison of all Sinai dialects, the dialect descriptions in both volumes run parallel and are thus structured in the same manner. Quoting from his own extensive material and using a total of 95 criteria for comparison, De Jong applies the method of 'multi-dimensional scaling' and his own 'step-method' to arrive at a subdivision into eight (of which seven are 'Bedouin') typological groups in Sinai. An appendix with 68 maps and dialectrometrical plots completes the picture.
The AI wrapper scam.
Pat Vojtaskovic
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How the AI wrapper (and other online scams) work and why very few ever get in any trouble. Even more about this at: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/tell-me-about-offer-lab-and-po-UOWAZt97QJelFyLb_EV7Xg#0
8 Simple Freelancing Skills That Can Give You an Edge and Help You Survive This Stay At Home Era And Beyond.pdf
Elabor Godfrey
8 Simple Freelancing Skills That Can Give You an Edge and Help You Survive This Stay At Home Era And Beyond
Lectures Delivered in America in 1874
Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley (editor)
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The year before his death, the author of The Water Babies and other beloved fantasy novels, collected five lectures from his tour of America for this volume: "Westminster Abbey," "The Stage As It Was Once," "The First Discovery of America," "The Servant of the Lord," and "Ancient Civilisation."
Do português arcaico ao português brasileiro: outras histórias
Klebson Oliveira
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Mais uma realização do grupo de pesquisa PROHPOR (Programa para a História da Língua Portuguesa), Do Português Arcaico ao Português Brasileiro é a terceira coletânea realizada pelos especialistas do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal da Bahia, depois do sucesso de A Carta de Caminha: Testemunho Lingüístico de 1500 e O Português Quinhentista: Estudos Lingüísticos. Esta obra, organizada pelos ilustres pesquisadores da área, Américo Venâncio Lopes Machado Filho e Sônia Bastos Borba Costa, recobre estudos que vão do português arcaico e avançam ao português brasileiro contemporâneo, passando pelos séculos XVI, XVII, XVIII e XIX, recuando, em alguns casos, ao latim.
Consideration of Abiotic Natural Resources in Life Cycle Assessments
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The book contains a collection of articles dealing with how the extraction of mineral resources can be considered in environmental analyses such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The consumption of resources, e.g., metals, is increasing strongly worldwide. This is associated with more energy use; environmental pollution; and social, economic, and political consequences. An increase is also expected for the coming decades. At the same time, modern products and technologies, even in the field of renewable energies, require a large number of critical raw materials. A crucial question here is the exhaustibility of natural resources. What is the relevance of resource depletion today? Must a geological shortage of metals be expected in the foreseeable future? How could such a thing be considered in the LCA of products and weighed against other environmental aspects? The articles in question have been written over the past three years by leading experts in both geology and environmental sciences and show the breadth of the controversial discussion.
Medievistica del Novecento
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A comprehensive collection spanning five decades of full-length book reviews and short synopses by Giovanni Tabacco, whose scholarly concerns were never separate from a lifelong engagement as an exacting critical reader. Inspired by wide-ranging historical interests and with a special emphasis on issues of power and culture, these essays provide a valuable commentary to the progression of Medieval Studies during the twentieth century. Guglielmotti, Paola (ed.)È qui raccolto un corpus imponente di recensioni e note bibliografiche pubblicate nell'arco di un cinquantennio, un esercizio di rigore critico che ha accompagnato senza interruzione l'attività scientifica di Giovanni Tabacco. Scritte con larghezza di interessi e con particolare attenzione ai temi del potere e della cultura, sono pagine che costituiscono un prezioso commento agli sviluppi della medievistica nel Novecento. A cura di Paola Guglielmotti.
