“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” ― G.K. Chesterton
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A short story about multisensory technologies, artificial intelligence, and the challenging quest for authentic experiences.
First, AI knows how to drive. Now, they know how to write. When are they going to learn to cut my lawn or add in morally dubious scenes into my movies?
The spaceport was nearly empty. In fact, Jack was not 100% sure there was any other organic life currently at this spaceport.
When the line between source code and literary fiction blurs. You can't decide if you're reading a story or a program -- I'm afraid it won't run, though
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Dennis and Mac had been driving for almost a week, and they hadn’t seen a single soul. They were worried. When they’d left the ranch, they’d thought maybe they’d run into someone, another survivor. But there was no one. The roads were almost empty. There was the occasional abandoned car, but that was it. They drove mostly on highways, to make better time. Mac wondered if they might not have better luck on the smaller country roads, but Dennis wouldn’t have it. Those roads had curves and were thick with trees. There was no way of seeing danger coming. If someone wanted to spring a surprise on you, you wouldn’t know it until it was too late.
Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new life began for Dr. Jekyll.
The inherent disposition of monarchy to march back towards past conditions was first and most particularly manifest in Spain.
Hope approached him and knelt. Derek and I could hear their voices, although the babble of the crowd went on.
"She's sane," he reiterated. "Though from what you tell me, it's a wonder that she is."
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Hardly had she swallowed them, when she lost her human shape, and ran out into the courtyard, as an old she-ass.
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And as she thus lamented, some one said to her, “What ails you, King’s Daughter? You weep so that even a stone would show pity.”
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He tried in vain—such was his state of mind—to remember the beginning of the Lord's Prayer.
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Some kinds of reading - such as science fiction - can allow us to reflect on who we are as we develop empathy for the characters.
Sometimes you have a problem as a programmer and you have nobody to turn to
This is a story about a near-future dystopia. In that future, society has collapsed. This tale presents a vignette of the resulting order of things.
This is an illustrated science fiction story about climate change that was generated by a web app from my uploaded content.
Thomas Harris' best work explores the dark and twisted inner of the human mind.
Maya's Tuesday takes an unexpected turn when her tentacles turn her neighbor into soup.
With thousands dead from an unknown virus, this is just the beginning as an eco-terrorism group lays claim to the disaster and promises more to come.
Once upon a time, the kingdom was terrorized by a silent altar. They would bow down and pray to it so hard, but they never heard a reply. Then one day it spoke…
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I have often remarked—I suppose everybody has—that one’s going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for change in it.
A mind-reading glass squid causes trouble in a relationship.
Recognition of the importance of rotating memory devices in display applications is evident in the reports.
That is as much as anyone can tell you of the glare upon Sidderford Moor and the alleged music therewith.
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She still scarcely realises, you see, the scrape she has got into.
He woke up, turned over, saw the new moon on the window, wondered a little, and went to sleep again.
If you want to see what 2050 could be like, prepare to be blown away by the coherent science in this article.
The chief additions to the Introductions in the Third Edition consist of Essays on the following subjects:—
You must use your thought as directed in previous chapters, and begin to do what you can do where you are; and you must do ALL that you can do where you are.
Then she gathered together the money into this, and was rich all the days of her life.
There was a poor, good little girl, who lived alone with her mother, and they had nothing more to eat.
A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful; but the doctor carried it off gaily.
The two Princes wanted to set fire to the tree, and suffocate the bees, so as to remove the honey.
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There was once a man who had seven sons, but never a daughter no matter how much he wished for one.
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It can also perform most of the calculations necessary for real-time guidance of the course of the experiments.
In the height of her enjoyment, her Master came back, and cried, ‘Hurry, Grethel, the guest is just coming.’
It was one of my uncle's profoundest remarks that human beings are the only unreasonable creatures.
Suddenly a fit of depression came upon her. She felt alone—absolutely alone—in a void world.
And the mouth of him who last told this story, is still warm.
The Angel made an irresolute movement. "Your eyes are very beautiful," he said quietly, with a remote wonder in his voice.
A youth's entry to adulthood is threatened by the imminent arrival of an asteroid which will destroy life on earth.
I have to acknowledge many obligations to old friends and pupils.
YA writers and how they can influence young readers negatively. Colleen Hoover, Anna Todd, Stephanie Meyer are the examples debated..
This is a fairy tale about a mysterious girl named Alice who discovers a powerful tool called ChatGPT in an enchanted forest.
Appendix A. TABLES OF PROPERTIES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMPUTERS
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A critical little girl eyed our couple curiously and made some remark to her ragamuffin friend.
The memory has a multibus structure which permits each bus to communicate simultaneously with a separate memory module.
Incredible! Impossible! I did not say it, though my thoughts were written on my face, no doubt.
Of the 46 system reports, 35 were sufficiently complete to be useful in a detailed analysis.
It was never really quiet on the ship. There was always some noise, some vibration to be felt even with the ship's precision mechanisms. Nonetheless Sensei had
Two systems were clearly stated to be in successful on-line operation with external computing centers.
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THEY waited two days at Settler's Station. To push along the line into the desert would have been useless, both men were convinced that an airplane would arrive
The river of sound he decided to be the sound of a vibrational explosion of some sort.
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“Annoying her!” That any human being should do that!
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Hope murmured. "The three-part music comes first. There will first be the spiritual."
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And then the marriage of the King’s Son and Briar-Rose was celebrated with all splendor, and they lived contented to the end of their days.
The clergy recognised in this the sign from Heaven, and asked him on the spot whether he would be Pope.
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“Confound him!” said Mr. Lewisham, arguing the matter out with the bedroom furniture. “Why the devil can’t he mind his own business?”
The movement toward computer systems began in earnest about 1962.
The Missionary is an operative, an end effector unit, for a BioMechaGenics product reclaim and recycle team.
The gate closes upon him with a slam, and he vanishes from our ken.
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The Vicar's eyes fell with unwonted eloquence upon the door.
“Now set to work. If by to-morrow morning early, you have not spun this straw into gold, you must die.”
‘Open your sack, Mr. Fox! open your sack!’ cried the Cat; but the hounds had gripped him, and held him fast.
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The delivery of his country into the clutches of a merciless, ultra-modern religion can be prevented only by Dr. Hagstrom's deciphering an extraordinary code.
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As Crump would tell you, people do not do that kind of thing unless there is something wrong with the nervous system.
She glanced over her shoulder and saw Hoopdriver. “Damn!” said the other man in brown, quite audibly, starting as he followed her glance.
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It had been the intention of the government to deny the public even this knowledge.
“This is our home,” he said smiling, and with thoughtful eyes on me.
There was a dull muttering in the sky to the east, and a speck appeared, drew nearer swiftly, grew larger, and became a small army biplane.
After the King’s death, Dunderhead inherited the Kingdom, and lived a long time contentedly with his wife.
“Figgers is a bit big for the houses,” said the policeman, anxious to do impartial justice. “But that’s Art. I lay ‘e couldn’t do anything ... not arf so good.”
"The lunatic! Very likely. These half-witted people.... My dear, I don't think I shall ever forget that dreadful encounter. Yesterday."
Then the Servant grew terribly frightened, and signed to the Doctor to come outside.
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They did not look round, and he kept them just within sight, getting down if he chanced to draw closely upon them round a corner.
The 24th Chapter of the Gospel of Luke tells one of the most popular New Testament Bible Stories and here we offer an illustrated science fiction version of the
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I have seen this little tale under both of these titles at various times. It is story more or less designed to pique the heartstrings.
I think if I had yielded to the impulse of my heart, I would have poured out all those protestations of a lover’s ecstasy
I told OpenAI's ChatGPT model to write The Great Gatsby, but with zombies. Here's what happened...
At last he fell a-yawning so much that very reluctantly indeed he set about finishing this great and splendid day.
The laboratories are Colorado, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Texas, Wisconsin, Washington, Yale Linac, and Yale Van de Graaff.
The man to whom I spoke was a scientist. He replied gently, "My boy, when you are grown older and wiser you will realize that nothing is impossible."
Then the wedding with young Mr. Fox was held, and there was merry-making and dancing, and if they haven’t stopped, they are dancing still.
I was trembling. Everything depended upon me now. I must get up into the tower. And, above everything, haste was necessary.
The very wide range of types of data-acquisition equipment in use necessarily contributes to the spread in DAS costs.
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"I wish to show those of you who failed to see it the sinking of the Stellar, on which I was a passenger and, I believe, the only survivor."
Then she married him; and he was rich, so rich that he had enough for all the rest of his life.
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"This business," said the Vicar, "this unfortunate business of the barbed wire—is really, you know, a most unfortunate business."
But the King and the Queen, with their six brothers, lived many years in happiness and peace.
There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie. And when she had grown up her father said, “We will get her married.”
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Well, if you lived in Europe in 1490, and someone told you the earth was round and moved around the sun—that would have been an "astounding" story.
In Figure 14 the cost of the standard I/O equipment is shown plotted against the cost of the CPU for 36 different systems.
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We start with the large computer system. All classes of jobs can be handled by this powerful system.
The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset.
But Red-Cap thought to herself, “As long as I live, I will never leave the path to run into the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.”
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I stood on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Dr. Frank, watching the arriving passengers...
The previous session—their friendship was now nearly a year old—it had never once dawned upon him that she could possibly be pretty.
He looked about him in a puzzled way. "I had a kind of vision while you were playing. I seemed to see——. What did I see? It has gone."
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Faith will van... ish in... to sight, Hope be emp... tied in del ... ight, Love in Heaven will shine more bri... ight, There... fore give us Love"
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The correct strategy to employ in every case should be consistent with the size of the laboratory and with the capabilities of its staff.
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“Now we are boys so fine to see, Why should we longer cobblers be?”
We first list the main uses to which on-line computer systems have been put. We start with the simple operations, which we call Class 1.
The first digital electronic device employed to collect nuclear data was the binary electronic counter (scaler) of the 1930's.
Thus the lord got back his wealth, and Doctor Knowall received a large reward and became a famous man.
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Jim Dodd, the young archaeologist of the party, could be seen apparently wrestling with something that looked like a suit of armor.
“Let us at least have this little time for ourselves,” he said, and that seemed to settle their position.
Whether the watchmen came in to see a ghost of me lying there on the floor I did not know, nor did I care. I whirled into the shadows.
I stood listening to their vehement, half-whispered words. For a moment or two, absorbed, they ignored me.
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Then the young Prince said, ‘I am not afraid; I am determined to go and look upon the lovely Briar Rose.’
A large amount of information was available for analysis.
They could see one another, but it was impossible for them to make their voices heard above the rasping of the beetles' legs.
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"Oh! in return for things I do for him, you know. We go in for division of labour in this world. Exchange is no robbery."
That airplane of the slanted wings, the bulbous, almost bulletlike fuselage, what of it?
"If these are angels," said the Angel, "then I have never been in the Angelic Land."
At the thought of that new life together that was drawing so near, she came into his head, vivid and near and warm....
There was once upon a time, an old Queen, whose husband had been dead for many years, and she had a beautiful daughter.
‘Now, you see,’ said the Fox, ‘what a braggart you are. You throw your hatchet so far that you can’t get it back again.’
I think I was first conscious of a queer calmness which had settled upon me, as though now I had withdrawn contact with the turmoil of our world!
The basic use of these systems is pulse-height analysis.
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“Ordinary people snuggle up to God as a lost leveret in a freezing wilderness might snuggle up to a Siberian tiger….
Before proceeding with the discussion it is convenient to find a simple scheme for classifying computers.
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What the hell is a áswetséwet? it is a Cahuilla word for eaglesnake. It is another name for Quetzalcoatl.
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Thirty thousand of these pieces he handled every day, nine or ten million every year—how many in a lifetime it rested with the gods to say.
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The Editor’s desire is to restore to the children as large a collection as possible of Grimm’s Fairy Tales unmutilated in their literary perfection.
We have information, Johnson––there’s some under cover plot here aboard. I want to know what it is.
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“You, our King?” cried the birds angrily. “You have done this by trick and cunning!”
This proceeding in some occult way led to the purchase of a note-book and pencil, and that started the conception of an artist taking notes.
There was once on a time, an old Goat who had seven little Kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children.
“Unspeakable cad! My dear girl! Possible I AM an unspeakable cad. Who wouldn't be—for you?”
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"Dear me!" said the Vicar. "I had no idea." He came forward cautiously. "Excuse me," he said, "I am afraid I have shot you."
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There was once an old castle in the midst of a large and thick forest, and in it an old woman, who was a Witch, dwelt all alone.
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EVERY great religion has as its psychological reason for existence the mission of compensating for some crying, unsatisfied human need.
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PRESTER KLEIG, ordered to Madagascar from the Secret Room, had been merely an operative.
“I should not have alighted if I had not—imagined that you—er, waved something white—” He paused.
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"All kinds of artists, Angels with wonderful imaginations, who invent men and cows and eagles and a thousand impossible creatures."
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I DID not appear at that morning meal. I was exhausted and drugged with lack of sleep.
“You are a fine fellow, and as clever as your brother,” said his father. “I do not know to which I ought to give the house.”
“I’m damned if he overrides it,” said Lewisham, under his breath.
The laboratory was a small room of board walls, board ceiling and floor. Windowless, with a single door opening into the cellar of the apartment house.
IT was a wicked night, the night I met the man who had died.
The Brothers were quite satisfied with this decision, and they said: ‘It is better so than that we should quarrel over it.’
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“A mother's love,” she said. “I bear her THAT.”
‘Why, bless my life and soul!’ said Mr. Omer, ‘how do you find yourself? Take a seat.—-Smoke not disagreeable, I hope?’
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In general the more words that a system can retain the better; but the greater the memory, the greater the expense.
I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
IT WAS shortly after that mid-day meal when I encountered Venza sitting on the starlit deck.
How long he had remained unconscious, Tommy had no means of determining.
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The engines of the Almirante Gomez were going dead slow. Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally
“You are, I perceive, cycling through this delightful country,” said the clergyman.
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it.
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The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled.
“Beastly cheap, after all, this suit does look, in the sunshine.”
“GOOD GOD, what was that?” Dr. Frank’s face had gone white in the starlight. Snap stood like a statue of horror.
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A “Works of Fiction Disclaimer” that embodies the concept of having some entertainment value in addition to its desired “suitability to purpose”:
“I’ve heard them at twilight. They say, ‘Come back. Come back.’ But what has that to do with——”
“But would you really marry a girl ...?” began Lewisham, with an unprecedented admiration for Dunkerley in his eyes.
A sneering chuckle broke from Bram's lips. "Yes, it's me, James Dodd," he answered. "I'm a little surprised to see you here, Dodd, but I'm mighty glad."
As if, in love, joy, sorrow, hope, or disappointment; in all emotions; my heart turned naturally there, and found its refuge and best friend.
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Gripped by anxiety, Jackson settled into his seat. He did not want to fasten the seat belt yet. He thought he might want to go pee again. One never knew when the stewards would tell everyone that the restrooms were closed for take-off preparations. The rules inside these metal beasts seemed so arbitrary. Whether on the tarmac or not, once one was in the fuselage, one’s rights and choices seemed to evaporate.
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Her callings are domestic and sympathetic, she watches over a cradle or assists a sister soul heavenward.
One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that Jurgis became desirous of learning English.
When the King was informed of this he said, “Let the rascals go. They have the best of it.”
And now my written story ends. I look back, once more—for the last time—before I close these leaves.
The manifold problems of consciousness in their entirety can be examined only through an analysis of the hysterical mental process.
There was once a man whose wife died, and a woman whose husband died; and the man had a daughter, and the woman also had a daughter.
He fidgeted into the bedroom and stopped as dead as a pointer.
The dramatic interest of the Dialogue chiefly centres in the youth Charmides, with whom Socrates talks in the kindly spirit of an elder.
And they lived thenceforth happily until their death.
When he awoke in the morning, all twelve had been to the dance, for their shoes were standing there with holes in the soles.
"The strange thing," said the Angel, "is the readiness of you Human Beings—the zest, with which you inflict pain. Those boys pelting me this morning——"
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We go on—we grow.
All life had turned to rottenness and stench in them—love was a beastliness, joy was a snare, and God was an imprecation.
‘Go and fetch some big stones, children, and we will fill up the brute’s body while he is asleep.’
Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.
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And besides, there was that between us that should have seemed more beautiful than any picture....
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For years and years, Mr. Barkis had carried this box, on all his journeys, every day.
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“By God!” said Ann Veronica for the first time in her life. “But I will! I will!”
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There was a gasp. The audience sat frozen. On the stage, with no one lifting a hand to stop her, the crimson murderess made a leap and vanished.
‘Your Majesty, we are all rejoicing here, how fares it with Her Majesty the Queen? Is she still alive in the tower, or has she perished?’
Fresh off the Virgin Martian Express, Jackson had a layover at the Blue Origin moon base. He was trying to get to the Starbase Autonomous Zone
So it was Lewisham enrolled his first ally in the cause of the red tie—of the red tie and of the Greatness that was presently to come.
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I PASS over all that happened at school, until the anniversary of my birthday came round in March.
“Oh! life is hard,” she said. “I can’t. They—they wouldn’t let me stop in London.”
“I will be perfectly frank with you,” said the other man in brown.
The phobia is thrown before the anxiety like a fortress on the frontier.
I returned to my own world. And Derek stayed in his. Each to his own; one may rail at this allotted portion—but he does not lightly give it up.
At the Rutgers-Bell (RB) nuclear physics laboratory, work has been done with two different two-CPU systems.
But who is this that breaks upon me? This is Miss Shepherd, whom I love.
“AS dead. It was one of the luckiest shots I ever fired. And I wasn't much over nine at the time, neither.”
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In the darkness on the table something faintly luminous, a greenish-white patch, stirred and hopped slowly among the dim shapes.
"Mr Hilyer, I protest. I know. Not anything you can say will alter my opinion one jot. Don't try. I never suspected you were nearly such an interesting man."
“I never dreamt,” he said in even tones.
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From the first moment of her dark eyes resting on me, I saw she knew I was the bearer of evil tidings.
There was once a little man whose mother made him a beautiful suit of clothes.
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"It is just possible," he said to himself rather than to the Angel, and began another piece of silence.
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So he turned on to a side path and the Ant-King cried out to him, “We will remember you—-one good turn deserves another!”
So, ingloriously, ended the Angel's first and last appearance in Society.
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There's sure some sort of hoodoo on these Antarctic expeditions
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“I will do what has to be done.”
WE kept, on the Planetara, always the time and routine of our port of departure.
Lewisham growled, went from page 1 to page 3—conscious of their both looking to him now—even intensely—and discovered Chaffery in a practical vein.
Then all their heads fell to the ground, and he remained sole King and Lord of the Golden Mountain.
“Ah, unhappy girl that I am! If I had but taken King Thrushbeard!”
To judge by the room Mr. Lewisham thought little of Love but much on Greatness.
“Lord LOVE us!” said Hoopdriver, and pulled the bedclothes over his ears.
Ah, if only he could have foreseen it—but then, he would have foreseen it, if he had not been a fool!
And now nothing more was wanting to their happiness as long as they lived.
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I try to stay my tears, and to reply, ‘Oh, Dora, love, as fit as I to be a husband!’
The children tried very hard, but they could not pull the beard out, it was caught too fast.
"You know that the stimulus for a dream always lies among the experiences of the preceding day."
I mentioned to Mr. Spenlow in the morning, that I wanted leave of absence for a short time
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It was fine in the morning, particularly in the fine mornings. It looked a very fresh, free life, by daylight: still fresher, and more free, by sunlight.
“This,” it came to me, “is England. That is what I wanted to give in my book. This!”
HAVE you ever stood on the seashore, with the breakers rolling at your feet, and imagined what the scene would be like if the ocean water were gone?
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That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish.
All the balance of his life he had done nothing but try to make it understood.
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And when they had arisen, the King’s Son ordered the three attendants to set out and fetch the father and mother of the girl to the marriage feast.
She was therefore called little Snow-White. And when the child was born, the Queen died.
There had been a heavy snow, and now a thaw had set in; fine sleety rain was falling, driven by a wind that pierced Jurgis to the bone.
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From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house.
“I’m hard up, too, my goo’ fren’,” he said. “I’ve got cruel parents, or I’d set you up. Whuzzamatter whizyer?”
Since early 1966, Yale and IBM Research have been engaged in a joint study in the application of computers to nuclear-data acquisition.
FOR a long moment Sarka looked broodingly out across the world beyond the metalized glass which formed the curving dome of his laboratory roof.
“Alas, what does it profit me?” said the unhappy woman, “that I should see my beloved, only to lose him again?”
Bird-Found said, “Neither now, nor ever, will I leave you.”
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The surface of the Earth was one vast building, like a hive, and to each human being was allotted by law a certain abiding place.
For three weeks after his injury Jurgis never got up from bed. It was a very obstinate sprain; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued.
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“A ridiculously small price for such a precious creature!” they cried all together, and willingly gave him what he had asked.
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I realized that he could not be aware we knew he was the murderer.
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A fearful cry followed the word. I paused a moment, and looking in, saw him supporting her insensible figure in his arms.
“You are the poorest and also the richest,” said he to her. “Come with me, you shall be my Bride.”
The word remained like a little ash after a flare.
He gave an order that if the Knight made off again he was to be pursued and brought back.
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So soon as the Angel had passed, one of the three hummed this tune in an aggressive tone.
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There were no means known to Tommy of reckoning time in that strange place of twilight. His watch had been broken in the airplane fall
Bullets, shrapnel, shell—nothing can stop the trillions of famished, man-sized beetles which, led by a madman, sweep down over the human race.
“There are no gods, but Socrates believes in the existence of the sons of gods, which is absurd.”
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It was sublime and terrible, and on the result of that conflict.
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“I dare make no experiments.”
‘Be so good as to fetch me the little bundle I left behind at the inn, and I will give you a ducat.’
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The disk is a Data Disc unit with a removable disk (128 tracks and a movable head) on the same shaft as a smaller disk and three fixed data heads.
The Vicar examined his visitor critically—for the first time. "He will be difficult to explain," he said to himself softly.
Then Two-Eyes came to her, waked her and said, “Have you been asleep, Three-Eyes? You are a good caretaker! Come, we will go home.”
The King said, “My dear Child, I have given away my kingdom, what shall I give thee?”
The vaunting cruelty with which she met my glance, I never saw expressed in any other face that ever I have seen.
Mr. Dick and I soon became the best of friends, and very often, when his day’s work was done, went out together to fly the great kite.
Then they lived happily, and all prospered with them until their death.
The man, who loved her, thought, “Sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost you what it will!”
He was pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand’s experienced fellow-townsman, as “that beast Lewisham—awful swat.
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So the wedding was celebrated, and they lived happily together until their death.
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Jurgis started. “I—I—” he stammered. “Is it Socialism? I didn’t know. I want to know about what you spoke of—I want to help. I have been through all that.”
“My charm of manner, I suppose. But, indeed, he’s very human.”
The story of Tommy Reames' rescue of Professor Denham and his daughter marooned in the fifth dimension.
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“I know—I know I’m not. I know…. I’m a devil. A poor, lost, homeless devil.”
I left all who were dear to me, and went away; and believed that I had borne it, and it was past.
Maid Maleen, however, refused it, and said, “I wish for no honor which is not suitable for me.”
Hans ties Grettel to a rope, and leads her home, where he puts her in a stall, and ties her up. Then he goes into the house to his Mother.
They decided to go to Switzerland at the session’s end. “We’ll clean up everything tidy,” said Capes....
I could not get over this farewell glimpse of them for a long time.
“Oh,” answered the son, “she has eaten so much, not a leaf more she’ll touch.”
It was no matter of wonder to me to find Mrs. Steerforth devoted to her son.
The extraordinary incidents began about 1 A.M. in the night of June 8-9, 1935.
The Waiting-woman then mounted Falada and put the real bride on her poor jade, and they continued their journey.
The general air of the place reminded me forcibly of the days when I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.
“There is only one way out of all this,” said Ann Veronica, sitting up in her little bed in the darkness and biting at her nails.
“Tu, nisi ventis Debes ludibrium, cave.”
When the master saw him he was delighted, and said to him: ‘You shall stay with me, and have a good time as long as you live.’
“I believe you would,” said Mr. Hoopdriver, admiring her. “You're plucky enough—goodness knows.”
With the new life, came new purpose, new intention. Great was the labour; priceless the reward. Dora was the reward, and Dora must be won.
Sadly, sternly, the old professor reveals to his brilliant pupil the greater path to glory.
He drew her to him, whispered in her ear, and kissed her.
BENDA conducted me personally to a room very much like an ordinary hotel room.
‘I suppose history never lies, does it?’ said Mr. Dick, with a gleam of hope.
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Once or twice Lewisham misquoted the testimonial—to no purpose. And May was halfway through, and South Kensington was silent. The future was grey.
‘Good-bye for ever. Now, my dear, my friend, good-bye for ever in this world.
The firmament––black interstellar space with its blazing white, red and yellow stars––lay spread around us.
“Are you sure that he is dead?” he demanded. “Ai! ai!” she wailed. “Yes; we had the doctor.”
Then they rode away together, and came to a land where famine and war were raging. The King thought he would be utterly ruined, so great was the destitution.
"This—ahem—gentleman," said the Vicar, "or—ah—Angel"—the Angel bowed—"is suffering from a gunshot wound."
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A letter dated January,1918 written by Monsignor Darcy to Amory, who is a second lieutenant in the 171st Infantry, Port of Embarkation, Camp Mills, Long Island
“I'll be level with you yet,” ran like a plough through the soil of his thoughts.
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Once again, let me pause upon a memorable period of my life. Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself.
"Do you think I am a Man—like yourself? As the chequered man did."
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“I hope,” said Lewisham, making a resolute plunge, “perhaps while you are staying at Whortley ...”
This news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed.
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In general, however, I am of the opinion that unfulfilled wishes of the day are insufficient to produce a dream in adults.
Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth?
A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway, where some waggons were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet.
It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.
Then the Youth took the axe and split the anvil with one blow, catching in the Old Man’s beard at the same time.
Then she sat down on a bench, pulled off her wooden clog and put on the slipper, which fitted to a nicety.
"A little while ago I was a little pink baby."
“I saw you yesterday. And I rode over to see you.” I had now come close to her, and stood looking up into her face.
“Dreams like mine—abilities like mine. Yes—any man! And yet ...—The things I meant to do!”
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There was an instant when I stood numbed, fumbling for a weapon at my belt, undecided whether to run or stand my ground.
They were beaten; they had lost the game, they were swept aside.
And now the bird threw down to her a dress which was more splendid and magnificent than any she had yet had, and the slippers were golden.
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“It's my first ride, as a matter of fact. But that's no excuse for my ah! blundering—”
He started back from the motionless figure. "Dead!" he said suddenly, and turning, panic stricken, fled headlong through the wood.
The huntsman replied, “Lord, I will venture it at my own risk; of fear I know nothing.”
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It was, to conceal what had occurred, from those who were going away; and to dismiss them on their voyage in happy ignorance. In this, no time was to be lost.
During the summer the packing houses were in full activity again, and Jurgis made more money.
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“I am pleased that you long for your home again. You have served me so faithfully, that I myself will take you up again.”
How will artificial intelligence properly serve humans and the planet?
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“Little green Waiting-Maid, Waiting-Maid with the limping leg, Little Dog of the limping leg, Hop hither and thither, And bring me the great box.”
"Did you really make that up yourself?" said Mrs Jehoram, sparkling her eyes at him, "as you went along. Really, it is wonderful! Nothing less than wonderful."
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In his madness he ran into the forest and must have died there of hunger, for no one has ever either seen him again or heard of him.
“It’s all I’ve got,” he pleaded, his voice breaking. “I must get some one—my wife will die. I can’t help it—I—”
Sometimes you just fill out the foursome with anybody so you can play.
“The old, old thing, you see! The weak protest of the living.”
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“Your servant, your most humble helper in God (your God),
Who could doubt that she was a help?
We might have gone about half a mile, and my pocket-handkerchief was quite wet through, when the carrier stopped short.
She did not once show me any change in herself. What she always had been to me, she still was; wholly unaltered.
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We've grown up with amazing stories, and we can't help but have a soft spot for their universes. In this thread, we discussed our favorites fictional worlds.
—all the romance of our engagement put away upon a shelf, to rust—no one to please but one another—one another to please, for life.
Bell saw what he was looking for, out in the throng of traffic that filled the Avenida do Acre, in Rio.
“Pretty, pretty, pretty—that is our business. What man hesitates in the choice? He goes his own way, thinks his own thoughts, does his own work ...
“WORK. Stop playing at life. Face it like a man.”
At last the Judge, quite out of breath, cried: ‘I will give you your life, if only you will stop playing.’
He had in his hand too large a projector. Its ray would kill me. If he wanted to take me alive, he would not fire. I chanced it.
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Then the little sister cried, “Pray, dear little Brother, do not drink, or you will become a wild beast, and tear me to pieces.”
I must here speak by theory alone, saying not that which I know, but that which I suppose to be most probable.
He came to Princhester an innocent and trustful man.
No one was really sorry about this except poor Elzbieta, who was inconsolable.
“The first thing I began to read again,” said Mrs. Garstein Fellows, “—I'm not saying it for your sake, Bishop—was the Bible.”
"The fact is," said the Vicar, "this is no world for Angels."
HE sat in a small half-darkened booth well over in the corner—the man with the strangely glowing blue-green eyes.
“Now to God the Father, God the Son——”
They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.
"I am poisoned," said Ortiz. He tried to smile, but it was ghastly.
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It was a day without a flaw, or at most but the slightest speck. And that only came at the very end.
“This has almost killed your father.... After Gwen!”
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
“Hard luck, old man,” he said, when they were alone; “but maybe it’s taught you a lesson.”
“Flounder, Flounder in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, Dame Ilsabil, Wills not as I’d have her will.”
It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions.
I STOOD on the turret-balcony of the Planetara with Captain Carter and Dr. Frank, the ship surgeon, watching the arriving passengers.
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The pride and envy of her heart grew like a weed, so that she had no rest day nor night.
And Mrs. Gummidge took his hand, and kissed it with a homely pathos and affection, in a homely rapture of devotion and gratitude, that he well deserved.
“You may die like a madman,” he said, “but you won't die like a tame rabbit.”
“I don’t know why. But this is like—like walking round a house that looks square and complete and finding an unexpected long wing running out behind.”
Involuntarily I halted at the entrance to my snug bachelor quarters as the flood of light my turning of the switch produced revealed a huddled figure.
“Oh staunch old heart who toiled so long for me, I waste my years sailing along the sea—”
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So the rich Brother had to put his Brother’s Turnip into a cart, and have it taken home.
“I'm not a-going to tell all my secrets to any one who comes at me,” said Hoopdriver. “Not Likely.” And added fiercely, “And that I tell you, sir.”
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The wind had gone down with the light, and so the snow had come on. It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick.
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In such a place Ona would not have stayed a day, but for starvation; and, as it was, she was never sure that she could stay the next day.
“Behold one of those who live in the darkness.”
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I had advanced in fame and fortune, my domestic joy was perfect, I had been married ten happy years.
“I did not want—to do it,” she said; “I tried—I tried not to do it. I only did it—to save us. It was our only chance.”
“No good hiding our light under a Bushel,” he would remark.
Ann Veronica had an impression that she did not sleep at all that night, and at any rate she got through an immense amount of feverish feeling and thinking.
“It’s perfectly splendid. Of all the fine weather the best has been kept for now. My last day. My very last day.”
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The assistant read a list of ‘ologies and ‘ographies. “Fifty resident,” said Mr. Blendershin concisely—“that’s your figure. Sixty, if you’re lucky.”
The Bride asked what she meant, and she answered, ‘Let me speak with the Bridegroom in his chamber to-night.’
Tom Forsythe, the only son of an old recluse, moved in to a secluded laboratory in the woods.
If it had been Aladdin’s palace, roc’s egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it.
There came another silence. “It's all gone so differently,” she said. “Everything has gone so differently.”
I never saw a man so hot in my life. I tried to calm him, that we might come to something rational; but he got hotter and hotter, and wouldn’t hear a word.
Grethel, however, ran as quick as lightning to Haensel, opened his little stable, and cried, “Haensel, we are saved! The old Witch is dead!”
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In due time, Mr. Micawber’s petition was ripe for hearing; and that gentleman was ordered to be discharged under the Act, to my great joy.
One day I was informed by Mr. Mell that Mr. Creakle would be home that evening.
Upon the reading of this letter,I made sure my colleague was insane; but till that was proved beyond the possibility of doubt,I felt bound to do as he requested
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The structure, pivoting downward, plunged Quest to his waist in the osmotic solution.
When I awoke in the morning I thought very much of little Em’ly, and her emotion last night, after Martha had left.
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His honest face, as he looked at me with a serio-comic shake of his head, impresses me more in the remembrance than it did in the reality.
At the end of a long task, the translator may without impropriety point out the difficulties which he has had to encounter.
I could scarcely lay claim to the name: I was so disturbed by the conviction that the letter came from Agnes.
Until the day arrived on which I was to entertain my newly-found old friends, I lived principally on Dora and coffee.
‘The message was right enough, perhaps,’ said Mr. Barkis; ‘but it come to an end there.’
I heard what he said. You shall not die. We shall go away to your place, where there are no beetles to eat us
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth
‘My dear Copperfield, a man who labours under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage.
I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking.
Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.
My will is law beyond this king—beyond these palace soldiers—beyond any power you have ever known.
Commander John Hanson of the Special Patrol Service records another of his thrilling interplanetary assignments.
Life was a struggle for existence, and the strong overcame the weak, and in turn were overcome by the strongest.
He would walk, begging for work, until he was exhausted; he could not remain still—he would wander on, gaunt and haggard, gazing about him with restless eyes.
I saw, in my aunt’s face, that she began to give way now, and Dora brightened again, as she saw it too.
My spirits sank under these words, and I became very downcast and heavy of heart.
Norman and Hackett, bulky in their thick flying suits, seemed to fill the little office.
“Ghosts are such dumb things,” said Alec, “they’re slow-witted. I can always outguess a ghost.”
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She spoke at last with an effort. “That it hurts me,” she said, and grimaced and stopped again.
"Suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, one of the men on guard was jerked into the air feet upwards."
‘You will find her,’ pursued my aunt, ‘as good, as beautiful, as earnest, as disinterested, as she has always been.
It was now two years since Edwin Leland bought the estate for a song and took up his residence in the gloomy old house.
I have one of the weirdest cases on my hands that I have ever been mixed up in...
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According to an unwritten law, the buying a drink included the privilege of loafing for just so long; then one had to buy another drink or move on.
Marable, in a desperate frenzy, hacked at the reptile's awful head.
Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books.
My first parliament was the parliament of the Suffragettes.
This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women.
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And the old woman answered him weakly: “It’s Antanas. He’s dead. He was drowned out in the street!”
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I introduce myself, begging grace that I intrude upon your busy minutes, with my only excuse that perhaps I may amuse you.
MANY of my readers will remember the mysterious radio messages which were heard by both amateur and professional short wave operators during the night
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On the day of the next full moon every living thing on earth will be wiped out of existence
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THE great discovery came when a box was brought to the dingy room and Mr. Collins was asked to show what was inside it.
"Where are we?" each demanded of the other, as they staggered out.
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The beginning of the quarrel was trivial enough.
A plan had occurred to me for passing the night, which I was going to carry into execution.
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All the relief and benefit of his experience in London had vanished out of his life.
And when he could shout no more he still stood there, gasping, and whispering hoarsely to himself: “By God! By God! By God!”
The object shot forth another tentacle.
“If you know it ain't the way to get off—whaddyer do it for?” said the heath-keeper, in a tone of friendly controversy.
My new life had lasted for more than a week, and I was stronger than ever in those tremendous practical resolutions that I felt the crisis required.
Young Fisher’s home was a little two-story brick house, dingy and weather-beaten outside, but attractive within.
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worthwhile.
“Nothing,” said Widgery, and aside in her ear: “You really ate scarcely anything, you know.”
There comes out of the cloud, our house—not new to me, but quite familiar, in its earliest remembrance.
The first tremor that set the timbers of the house to creaking brought Garry Connell out of his bunk and into the middle of the floor.
The dream takes advantage of this symbolism in order to give a disguised representation to its latent thoughts.
This sentiment gave unbounded satisfaction—greater satisfaction, I think, than anything that had passed yet.
“It’s an unrest—a longing—What’s that?” The waiter had intervened. “Parmesan—take it away!”
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Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine, for behind them poured a stream of hideous monsters—giants of the ray!
Robert Thorpe seeks out the nameless horror that is sucking all human life out of ships in the South Pacific.
The biological laboratory had an atmosphere that was all its own.
She was exactly the same as ever, and the same immortal butterflies hovered over her cap.
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"Here's a health to King Charles, Here's a health to King Charles, Bring the bowl that you boast——"
There was no use hiding from the truth. Somebody had blundered—a fatal blunder—and they were going to pay for it!
Dr. Bird discovers a dastardly plot, amazing in its mechanical ingenuity, behind the apparently trivial eye trouble of the President.
The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.
Crispness folded down upon New York a month later, bringing November and the three big football games and a great fluttering of furs along Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.
“Men,” said Miss Miniver, “NEVER have a reason. Never! And they don’t know it! They have no idea of it. It’s one of their worst traits, one of their very worst.
My mother was also very punctual with her religious duties, and rejoiced to watch me in the choir.
"He's a rag-picker, A rag-picker; A rag-time picking man, Rag-picking, picking, pick, pick, Rag-pick, pick, pick."
I am well aware of all the inconveniences arising for the reader from this difficulty, but I know of no way to avoid them.
“My faith in God grows,” he said.
Fate throws two young Earthians into desperate conflict with the primeval monsters of an electron's savage jungles.
The Martian gestured with a reptilian arm toward the ladder.
And I remember her coming in late one evening with a note-book in her hand.
I read the telegram for the second time. Then I folded it up, put it in my pocket, and pressed the little button on my desk. My mind was made up.
The SF-22 and her convoy were surrounded by these unearthly rays.
The inquest into the mysterious death of Darius Darrow, savant, inventor, recluse and eccentric, resembled a scientific convention.
Under the glass portcullis of a theatre Amory stood, watching the first great drops of rain splatter down and flatten to dark stains on the sidewalk.
I come to the most evasive and difficult part of my story, which is to tell how Isabel and I have made a common wreck of our joint lives.
Such a self-contained man I never saw.
And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly with great sweeps of the ax.
Her head was a little to one side, in the attitude of one who listens intently.
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She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis.
Like pitiless jaws, a distant crater opened for their ship.
“I feel—All this is the rightest of all conceivable things. I want to tell every one. I want to boast myself.”
His definition of Prejudice impressed White as being the most bloodless and philosophical formula that ever dominated the mind of a man.
“It is not the poverty I fear,” said Lady Ella.
“I suppose pride and self-assertion are sin? Sinned against heaven—Yes, I have sinned against heaven and before thee....
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not whiten this little hand."
Row after row of the monsters roared by, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.
“But—but—” stammered Jurgis. He had somehow taken it for granted that he should go out with his union. “The packers need good men, and need them bad,”
To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war....
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They don't laugh at you.... At least—they laugh differently....
At first Amory noticed only the wealth of sunshine creeping across the long, green swards, dancing on the leaded window-panes, and swimming around the tops.
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“Perhaps you don’t. But a human being who is young and clean, as you are, is apt to ennoble—or explain away.”
We had been captured by a race of gigantic beetles.
Then came a letter which plunged abruptly into criticism.
All the sordid suggestions of the place were gone—in the twilight it was a vision of power.
“Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour, To think of things that are well outworn; Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower, The dream foregone?"
I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days drew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong’s.
He never wrote anything for his public with his own hand.
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He adopted an urban style of dressing with the onset of Tono-Bungay and rarely abandoned it.
“He does it and forgets it. We remember it. These joyful bounds just lace into the stuff of my memories and stay there forever. Living’s just material.”
“Aunt Dove demands it. Like celebrating the virginity of Queen Elizabeth….”
In striking contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all.
A terrific force was emanating from that devilish globe above.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well;
This main strand is the story of my obvious life, my life as it must have looked to most of my acquaintances.
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Another manifestation of the dream work which all incoherent dreams have in common is still more noticeable.
IT came suddenly, without warning, and it brought consternation to the people of the world.
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"Our sons who have shown us God...."
And now for some weeks Ann Veronica was to test her market value in the world.
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
For a time she sat on a rail before leaving the road for the downland turf. “But I wish,” she said, “I had some idea what I was really up to.”
“A synthetic God,” said Boon. “If it is to be called a God at all.”
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
“We got to make a fight for it,” said my uncle. “We got to face the music!”
We were going on some mysterious cruise to the South Seas, the details of which I did not know.
“If you don't want your face sp'iled, Charlie, why don't you keep your mouth shut?” said the person in gaiters.
Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend.
Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon—only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong
“The trees are green, The birds are singing in the trees, The girl sips her poison The bird flies away the girl dies.”
“Decent honest lives!” said Dayton to his bread-crumbs, with his chin in his necktie. “WASTE!”
I dreamt first of states and cities and political things when I was a little boy in knickerbockers.
“Or a play. There’s a deal of money in a play, George. What would you think of me writing a play eh?... There’s all sorts of things to be done.
“And I do want to make things pretty about us,” she said. “You don't think it wrong to have things pretty?”
‘Now’s the day, and now’s the hour, See the front of battle lower, See approach proud EDWARD’S power— Chains and slavery!
"It interrupts everything," said Hugh suddenly. "These Prussians are the biggest nuisance the world has ever seen."
I’m sorry I haven’t done the whole lot though....
“There is a Fountain, filled with Blood Drawn from Emmanuel’s Veins,”
“That's good!” said Weston Massinghay, with all his teeth gleaming; “I shall use that against you in the House!”
The young are the food of war....
Oh, why had he been such a Britling? Why was he still such a Britling?
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The interest of him, the absurdity of him, the story of him, is that.
Steerforth and I stayed for more than a fortnight in that part of the country.
Displacement is the core of the problem, and the most striking of all the dream performances.
“See already the new gravity in people’s faces, the generosities, the pacification of a thousand stupid squabbles——”
"I'm not fit to touch her," he cried aloud to the four walls. "I'm not fit to touch her little hand."
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"I suppose I must let you go," she said. "Oh! I'd hate you not to go...."
“His heart failed him.
"I can imagine wanting another woman under certain transitory circumstances, but I can't imagine taking her."
Not that I mean to say these were special marks of distinction, which only I received.
‘My dear,’ said my aunt, after taking a spoonful of it; ‘it’s a great deal better than wine. Not half so bilious.’
“You've got to do the thing you can,” he said, after a pause, “and likely it's what you're fitted for.”
"It was a hard fight, but I didn't give up and I came through!"
"If you really loved me you'd want every one to know it."
At that the autobiography stopped short, and the intercalary note began.
The Knickerbocker Bar, beamed upon by Maxfield Parrish’s jovial, colorful “Old King Cole,” was well crowded.
“I’ve had false ideas about the world,” I said. “Oh! they don’t matter now! Yes, I’ll come, I’ll take my chance with you, I won’t hesitate again.”
“He consults friends—impalpable, intricate, inexhaustible friends.
Next morning, after breakfast, I entered on school life again. I went, accompanied by Mr. Wickfield, to the scene of my future studies
“Stay it out. I want you to see the fun. I remember—the other time.”
The oldest novel in the world at any rate, White reflected, was a story with a hero and no love interest worth talking about.
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The whole illimitable place teemed with suggestions of indefinite and sometimes outrageous possibility, of hidden but magnificent meanings.
Some observant element in his composition guessed, and guessed quite accurately, that she was nineteen....
I will not resist you, I replied.
“Lord!” he said at the sight of me. “You’re lean, George. It makes that scar of yours show up.”
"Of course," he said, turning to Direck, "Rendezvous is the life and soul of the country."
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"My word," said Mr. Direck in a good old Farmer Hayseed kind of voice.
Being apart—whatever has happened or will happen to us—is like begging for mercy from a storm, Anthony; it's like growing old.
“Air and sunlight,” said the earl. “You can’t have too much of them. But before our time they used to build for shelter and water and the high road.”
I was rumoured to be dreadfully “clever,” and there were doubts—not altogether without justification—of the sweetness of my temper.
“They were traders—and nothing more. Just as we are. And when they were rich they got splendid clothes and feasted and rested. Much as we do.”
The projector, belching forth its stinking breath of corruption, swung in a mad arc over the ceiling, over the walls.
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