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哪儿来的九十九？ ：-）

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河沙是指“多”吧？a lot.

These two lines don't seem to be translated right. To beg a tale of breath too weak To stir the tiniest feather! 缠着要个故事要那般气息轻灵 以至无法煽动最最微小的羽毛！ What do you think? ar btw, do I sound like from the CIA? :-)

Inventions of the Monsters (1937 20 1/4 x 30 3/4 in. (51.4 x 78.1 cm) Paintings Oil on canvas. Ownership: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA The Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection 1943.798 When Dali was informed in 1943 that The Art Institute of Chicago had acquired 'Inventions of the Monsters,' he sent the following telegram, 'Am pleased and honored by your acquisition.' According to Nostradamus the apparition of monsters presages the outbreak of war. This canva

http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/gte142p/project3.htm He is well known for his painting in which there is a picture of a pipe and the words: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

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a good intro. How about Bernstein's Candide, A Quiet Place and Mass?

都看过。的确是精品中的精品。再加上Nights of Cabiria算第八部，Roma算半部。也凑个8 1/2。 :-)

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/pyrrho.htm Pyrrho (c. 360-c.270 BCE.) Pyrrho was a Greek philosopher from Elea, and founder of the Greek school of skepticism. In his youth he practiced the art of painting, but passed over this for philosophy. He studied the writings of Democritus, became a disciple of Bryson, the son of Stilpo, and later a disciple of Anaxarchus. He took part in the Indian expedition of Alexander the Great, and met with philosophers of the Indus region. Back in Greece he was frustr

Although similar ideas can be traced back to the Greek Sophists, social-contract theories had their greatest currency in the 17th and 18th centuries and are associated with such names as the Englishmen Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

周国平 see http://book.peopledaily.com.cn/gb/paper41/1/class004100001/hwz3188.htm

Die Tote Stadt (‘The Dead City’) The action of Die tote Stadt takes place in Bruges at the end of the 19th century. In Act 1 Paul (tenor) mourns the death of his young wife Marie. The decaying city is a constant reminder to him both of her and of the past, and in a room in his house he keeps a ‘temple of memories’, a museum of all the objects that remind him of her, the most precious of which is a braid of her golden hair. Paul’s friend Frank (baritone) arrives to find him in an excited state; he ha

结尾在此。 可能原文太长吧？ １９５５年７月，陈璧君在一份自白书中又写道： 　　我少子来见我，给了数本书，女监也每早九时送报纸给我，后来便求得自己订一份《解放日报》，我很用心的从它学习理论和了解人民政府的措施。我便渐渐信服共产党、毛主席领导下的人民政府的正确理论和用心了。尤其是我借得《论人民民主专政》的一文，我读了八遍，不够，要还给人家，我便将它抄下来。日日的看，看了一遍又一遍，我完全了解了。有个姓龙的朋友送了现在这一大批书给我，我便明白了共产党为什么胜利，国民党为什么灭亡，是一个历史铁一般

I am wondering why the reviewer does not mention that the prostitute David Lurie slept with, the student he seduced, and the three boys who raped his daughter are all black.

Oh well, the poem is better left untranslated, or at least before it's understood.

If you search for the English form: Sodom and Gomorrah, you will find plenty of references. And, btw, the Proust's French title is translated into English as Cities of the plain.

Doesn't seem to be in it. Here's the content of the book: Contents: - from Eveline / Anonymous - from My secret life /Walter - from Rosa Fielding / Anonymous - from Th閞鑣e Raquin / 蒻ile Zola - from My life and loves / Frank Harris - from Venus in India / Charles Devereaux - from The Cremorne / Anonymous - from The voluptuous night / Anonymous - from Flossie / Anonymous - from The perfumed garden / Richard Burton - from Dracula / Bram Stoker - from The lustful memoirs of a young

Many libraries have the book. Here's one from UC San Diego: http://roger.ucsd.edu/search~S5/t?SEARCH=teleny The other one is hard to find.

The author of the book Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe is Daniel Hoffman, published in 1972.

Title: Teleny : a novel attributed to Oscar Wilde Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Edited: Winston Leyland. Publication: San Francisco : Gay Sunshine Press, Edition: 1st ed. Year: 1984 Description: 182 p. : port. ; 23 cm. Language: English Standard No: ISBN: 0917342321 (lim. ed.) :; 091734233X (pbk.) SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Gay men -- England -- Fiction. Genre/Form: Erotic fiction. Note(s): Based on the 1893 English text and the 1934 French text

Title of the book is: Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas.