The Metal Monsterby A. MerrittPROLOGUEBefore the narrative which follows was placed in my hands, I had never seen Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, its author.When the manuscript revealing his adventures among the pre-historic ruins of the Nan-Matal in the Carolines (The Moon Pool) had been given me by the International Association of Science for editing and revision to meet the requirements of a popular presentation, Dr. Goodwin had left America. He had explained that he was still too shaken, too depress
The Vanished Messengerby E. Phillips OppenheimCHAPTER IThere were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one ofLiverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the eveningof April 2 - possibly because the platform in question is one ofthe most remote and least used in the great terminus. Thestation-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector inattendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travellingulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather...
江× 女,21岁,林学院的二年级学生。穿一件黄色的 T恤衫,带一副眼镜,性格内向,接触时表情腼腆,说话声音轻声轻气。主要症状为不敢与人接触,开始见到男同学感到紧张,自己觉得脸部发红,心跳加快,后来逐渐发展到对女同学也会感到害羞,心理紧张不安,并且出现头痛、头晕,莫名其妙的焦虑、紧张。开始就诊时,江×认为自己发病的原因是失恋,本来自己周围也有许多朋友,后来与同年级的另外一位同学恋爱,逐渐与其他同学疏远。这个男同学的父母离异,加上与另外一位女同学失恋,而江×的父亲因患肝癌逝世,使江×情绪低落,两人相互安慰,“同病相怜”,所以在短时间内两人感情很好。后来男同学提出要发生性关系,立刻遭到女孩子的拒绝,两人关系出现危机,男同学就不理睬她,于是心里感到很失望,情绪低落,头部发胀,晚上睡眠也不好。...
THE SPIRIT OF LAWSBy Charles de Secondat, Baron de MontesquieuTranslated by Thomas Nugent, revised by J. V. PrichardThe Translator to the Readerby Thomas Nugent1752The following work may with the strictest justice be said to have done honour to human nature as well as to the great abilities of the author. The wisest and most learned man, and those most distinguished by birth and the elevation of their stations, have, in every country in Europe, considered it as a most excellent performance. And
序序言:假如王小波还活着文/欢乐宋假如王小波还活着,至少多活十年吧,这个亲爱的死鬼会有怎样的人生际遇呢?如果不是遭遇特殊的事情,王二应该还会坚持写作。毕竟,对他来说,爱写作,就像爱生命。王小波说过,写作的意义在于与人交流,所以他应该还会不停地投稿,说不定会在梅开二度之后,再次拿到《联合报》的文学奖。用一句足球界的黑话来说,那就叫上演了“帽子戏法”。但是,那又能怎么样?毕竟那只是在海外获得一个大陆并不知名的文学奖。他很可能继续郁闷着他的郁闷,去寻找明天的“发表”。可以想象,会有很多出版商找到王小波,不论托多少关系,花多少代价,也要请老王吃饭,然后谈“正事”。比如金丽红,现在她已经到了长江文艺出版社。这个平台有足够的实力捧红一位默默无闻的作者,何况鼎鼎大名的王小波呢?老王这时候可以摆谱了:“版税20%,起印30万册,一次性提前付清。”金大姐会说:“哥们,小崔的《不过如此》...
第一部分代 序作者 : 陈雪琰 让记忆与想像结伴而行 付良举 二○○五年十一月十五日于兰州西关 很多个夜晚,我总是喜欢像个小孩子那样安静地坐在阳台上,听着舒缓的音乐,仰望璀璨的星空去想像倘若记忆永远无法磨灭,伴随生命的轮回,一世又一世的存在,那将会是怎样的情景?在所有的认识中,孟婆汤总是打碎我们有关此类想像的毒药。 此刻,电脑屏幕上的《紫色星昼》似乎给予了我答案,尽管这样的答案让我伤心而难过。 我忽然有些伤感地明白,记忆的延续其实就是为了彻底的忘却。可是尽管如此,任何人总不希望自己永远生活在一片混沌之中,于是努力地去寻找各自丢失的记忆,即使心痛也心甘情愿。追逐与逃离、靠近与抗拒、深爱与错爱,不能说谁对谁错,在爱的国度里从来没有彻底的对错。...
430 BCALCESTISby Euripidestranslated by Richard AldingtonCHARACTERS IN THE PLAYAPOLLODEATHCHORUS OF OLD MENA WOMAN SERVANTALCESTIS, the Queen, wife of ADMETUSADMETUS, King of ThessalyEUMELUS, their childHERACLESPHERES, father of ADMETUSA MAN SERVANT(SCENE:-At Pherae, outside the Palace of ADMETUS, King of...
The Enchanted BluffWe had our swim before sundown, and while we were cooking oursupper the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the whitesand about us. The translucent red ball itself sank behind thebrown stretches of cornfield as we sat down to eat, and the warmlayer of air that had rested over the water and our clean sand bargrew fresher and smelled of the rank ironweed and sunflowersgrowing on the flatter shore. The river was brown and sluggish,...
Thoughts on ManHis Nature, Productions and DiscoveriesInterspersed with Some ParticularsRespecting the AuthorbyWilliam GodwinOh, the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion, than to start a hare!SHAKESPEARELONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1831.PREFACEIn the ensuing volume I have attempted to give a defined and permanent form to a variety of thoughts, which have occurred to my mind in the course of thirty-four years, it being so long since I published a volume, entitled, the Enquirer,thoughts,
Nisidaby Alexandre Dumas, PereIf our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naplesand then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment forvisiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at themole, or at Mergellina, on a fine summer day and at the hour whensome solemn procession is moving out of the cathedral. Nothing cangive an idea of the profound and simple-hearted emotion of thispopulace, which has enough poetry in its soul to believe in its own...
A Hero of Our Timeby M. Y. LermontovTRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF M. Y. LERMONTOVBy J. H. WISDOM & MARR MURRAYFOREWORDTHIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces ofRussian Literature, under the title "A Heroof our Time," and already translated into at leastnine European languages, is now for the first timeplaced before the general English Reader.The work is of exceptional interest to thestudent of English Literature, written as it wasunder the profound influence of Byron and being...