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TAYLOR: why are you not answering your phone?
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 20:57.fgfh
How do you enter things on your wiki?
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 15:07.I can't figure out how to get into the Ruth Hall wiki. How do I open it?
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 09:16."When he hobbled up to get his bit of meat, the mistress said he was too old to have any allowance; that when niggers were too old to work, they ought to be fed on grass. Poor old man! He suffered much before he found rest in the grave" (2225).
Walt Whitman
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 08:03."Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same" (2445).
Billy Budd
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 07:21."When it did, the lieutenants assigned to the batteries felt it incumbent on them, in these instances, to stand with draw swords behind the men working the guns" (2059).
"The Raven"
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 09:03."But it has always appeared to me that a close circumscription of space is absolutely necessary to the effect of insulated incident:-it has the force of a frame to a picture. It has an indisputable moral power in keeping concentrated the attention, and, of coarse, must not be confounded with mere unity of place" (1677).
"Resistance to Civil Government"
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 21:23."I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. [..] Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it" (1542).
Emerson and the Beauty of Nature
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 08:19."But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The moonlight, the dewy morning, [...], and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality" (1096).
Websters's Dictionary
Submitted by der Grimnebulin on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 08:38."And first of the occasion and inducements thereunto; the which, that I may truly unfold, I must begin at the very root and rise of the same. The which I shall endeavour to manifest in a plain style, with singular regard unto the simple truth in all things; at least as near as my slender judgment can attain the same" (142).


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