No More Learning
XVIII
1\Dof Kublal
I have told you of that emperor's city 1Il detw And wtll tell you of the
m Cambaluc
that hyght the secret of alchemy They take bast of the mulberry-tree,
That 15 a sklll between the wood and the bark, And of thIS they make paper, and mark It
Half a tornesel, a tornesel, or a half-groat of stIver, Or two groats, or five groats, or ten groats,
Or, for a great sheet, a gold bezant, 3 bezants, ten bezants,
And they are wrItten on by offiCIals,
And smeared WIth the great khan's seallll vermlixon, And the forgers are punIshed WIth death
And all thts costs the Kahn nothmg,
And so he IS rIch 1Il thIS world
And hIS postmen go sewed up and sealed up,
TheIr coats buttoned behllld and then sealed,
In thlS way from the voyage's one end to Its other And the IndIan merchants arrIvmg
Must gtve up theIr Jewels, and take thIS money
In paper,
(That trade runs, 1Il bezants, to 400,000 the year)
And the nobles must buy theIr pearls" - thus Messlre Polo, pnson at Genoa-
ct Of the Emperor"
There was a boy 1Il ConstantInople,
And some bntlSher kIcked hIS arse
cc I hate these french," saxd Napoleon, aged 12,
To young Bournenne, cc I Will do them all the harm
that I can"
In hke manner Zenos Metevsky
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If some
of them are
in battles and campaigns,
Philip is jealous of such men, and drives them away---
so my informant tells me--wishing to keep the glory of
all action to himself.
fi- cos que llamamos nuestros, y
dotar a nuestra existencia de una orientacio?
A brief anger had often
him but he had never been
able to make it an abiding passion and had always felt himself passing
out of it as if his very body were being divested with ease of some
outer skin or peel.
Thus there was obvious danger in appointing to the
highest court a man so thoroughly grounded in the
intricacies and complexities of modern business; a
man who looked at
problems from the point
of view of the public and of the employee; and one,
moreover, who would probably continue to press on
beyond the bounds of legal technicality and judicial
precedent to the realms of fact and reality.
The arbitrary character of the orthodox view becomes clearer if we
how it might appear to a member of some other religious community.
a
female
laden with cordials,
medicines, and embrocations.
One is mad in love
with married women, another with youths; a third the splendor of silver
captivates: Albius is in raptures with brass; another exchanges his
merchandize from the rising sun, even to that with which the western
regions are warmed: but he is burried headlong through dangers, as dust
wrapped up in a whirlwind; in dread lest he should lose
out of
the capital, or [in hope] that he may increase his store.
He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
, il
l'amitie de Sainte-Beuve et de Flaubert (tout
recemment poursuivi pour avoir ecrit _Madame Bovary_), des moyens
de defense dont les minutes ont ete conservees et dont il transmettait
la teneur a son avocat, Me Chaix d'Est-Ange.
Modern memoirs are generally written by people who have
lost
their memories and have never done anything worth recording.
g I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor
he-goats out of thy folds, io For every beast of the
forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a
hills.
She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly
estranged as might in two meetings
every past hope, and
leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there
was such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain
Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause.
While not purporting to offer fresh
evidence, he established a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other travellers would follow.
Yet more; when the first symptoms of disease, 315
When
heats, their restless members seize,
They think the plague by wrath divine bestowed,
And feel, in every pang, the avenging God.
58 The Other Change
In the fall of 1985, I had the opportunity to visit
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on a trip to Asia.
Of her own accord earth
proffers her gifts, and
the beasts of
## p.
High from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees
As he esteemed them trifles,
And then he spied a breeze,
And
softly
Upon a pile of wind
Which in a perturbation
Nature had left behind.
dten [Twelve Ballads of the Big
56
in Provence is famous for the legend of the Tarasque, a mythical amphibious mon- ster (daughter of Leviathan) who terrorized and killed the inhabitants of the village before herself being killed by Saint Martha.
Paul us Afiarta, the evil genius
of the late Pope, who had brought about the ruin of Christophorus and
Sergius, was sent under arrest to Ravenna, where the
Leo, to
Hadrian's indignation, put the unfortunate prisoner to death.
This was just
what
had intended.
Melody is a whole
of many
beautiful proportions, it is the reflection of a well-
ordered soul.
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of the preface
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
--Of the love songs of Abelard no
vestige remains, though they lived as folk-songs for many years, and are referred to as late as 1722.
Every true propangandist hates most bitterly his nearest
neighbors.
Our era is
to judge itself not from on high, which is mean and bitter, but in a certain sense from below.
There are few pains so grievous as to
have seen, divined, or
how an excep-
tional man has missed his way and deteriorated;
but he who has the rare eye for the universal
danger of "man" himself deteriorating, he who like
us has recognised the extraordinary fortuitousness
which has hitherto played its game in respect to
the future of mankind—a game in which neither
the hand, nor even a "finger of God” has partici-
pated !
24), and the
{-dhyanas and drUpyas).
