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Oathbound victoria mccombs5/31/2023 Truly, there is no one like you across all the seas.įrom behind the bar, Bart and I exchanged glances. My closest friend and the fairest maiden in all the land. Though less than a meter away, his slurred voice paid no regard to volume as he spread out his arms and grinned. He bounded across the floor and pulled out the seat opposite from mine. With a strained smile I raised my hand in greeting. To reinforce his point, he raised an imaginary tankard, then scanned the heads of our few customers. His voice reached the dusty rafters above and settled over the tavern like a promise-a vow that today would be the start of something wonderful. As if he’d waltzed into a fancy establishment among fine nobles instead of a seaside tavern with the smell of fish and saltwater filling the stale morning air.Īs if he could read my thoughts, Arn threw his head back and bellowed, It’s a great day, indeed. He paused to shake a few hands and tip his head in greeting. Whosever death this was, Arn danced in the face of it. Further news of death was not welcome here. He practically sang as he declared loudly enough for the room to hear, He’s dead! Finally.įrom my seat in the back, I cursed. Golden waves for the ocean he loved so dearly. He hadn’t bothered to lace the front strings of his shirt, showing the curls of his tattoo underneath. The creaky door of the Banished Gentlemen tavern swung wide as a young man with a cutlass strapped to his side sauntered in with his fists raised in triumph.
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The kreutzer sonata tolstoy5/31/2023 For the rest, it remains a fictional universe of relationships, where a woman is averted to intercourse even with a hint, and all men are unconscious slave owners. The story is clearly written for immature people, who follow Christian morality, but who suffer from the inapplicability of these dogmas in their life. He puts truth into a mad's mouth and he would like to see this truth in people, he sincerely believes that truth would make these people happier. “ The Kreutzer Sonata” is an almost desperate experiment to change people, in which Leo Tolstoy hardly believes. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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Barbarian days a surfing life5/31/2023 But the full extent of Finnegan’s surf obsession has remained publicly untold. When literary non-surfers declared it the best piece of writing ever done about surfing, many surfers agreed. When “Playing Doc’s Games” was finally published in 1992, it sprawled far beyond its protagonist, chronicling the magnetic pull of our sport and the author’s own ambivalence about a life dedicated primarily to waves. Mark Renneker, a physician and big-wave surfer in San Francisco. Sure, his editor at The New Yorker knew that Finnegan was a surfer in fact, he was waiting for a draft of the piece Finnegan had pitched about Dr. WIN: An all-expense paid dream trip for two to Tavarua So Finnegan didn’t mention surfing, or the hardships he’d endured in the name of waves: schoolyard scraps on Oahu, acid trips and backseat camping near Honolua Bay, proletarian worship at Kirra, malarial sweats brought on by a pilgrimage to Nias and feral Polynesian meandering eventually leading to the grail-like discovery of pre-resort Tavarua. The young writer wanted to be taken seriously while discussing armed rebellions in Central America or apartheid in South Africa. When William Finnegan moved to New York in 1986 to earnestly pursue a career in journalism, he kept his past secret from the men in dark suits he interviewed - politicians, lobbyists, professors. |