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I was twelve years old at the time, working at my parent's grocery, and I was suddenly forced to lean upon my push-broom to keep from falling headlong in a dizzy marvel of surprise. ![]() Remember when you-the naïve philosopher-struck by the similarities of molecule and solar system, imagined your body to be composed of billions of nano-planets and stars? I do. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments DNA Nation by Sergio Pistoi![]() With this in hand, you can find out where you came from, trace relatives around the world and find new friends on a genetic social network. 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From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Isadora wing novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wildly funny and searingly honest, it is a story for everyone who has ever been shaken and changed by love. With her best years as an actress behind her, she's discovering that beginnings are easy, but endings can be hard.Ĭould her fountain of youth fantasies be fulfilled on ? A site inspired by the writings of her best friend, Isadora Wing, it promises "no strings attached" encounters-and Vanessa is so restless that she's willing to try anything.įear of Dying is a daring and delightful look at what it really takes to be human and female in the 21st century. (a horny poet named Isadora Wing), or how. 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Four decades ago, Erica Jong revolutionized the way we look at love, marriage and sex. ![]() ![]() The raucous profiteers he meets in Calgary are involved in what Brooke calls "the tragedy of the West … a gigantic national gambling of a most unprofitable and disastrous kind. ![]() The young English poet, Rupert Brooke admires the old pioneers who settled the West, but he has harsh words for the influx of American real estate speculators. ![]() This 1913 travelogue shows Calgary in the fever of one of its early economic booms. Hordes of people… prey on the community by their dealings in what is humorously called 'Real Estate'… What a sowing, and what a harvest! Letters from America by Rupert Brooke (Charles Scribner, 1916) Here are a few authors from around the world, who have captured our complexity. When we read Calgary's literature, we become aware of our city's deeper identity. In the 1980s, writers, from here and away, were mapping the city's urban geography and experience. By the early 20th century, Calgary started to appear in fiction and poetry about prairie settlements. Globe-trotting writers described our frontier town in its first few decades. 11 2011 by Arthur Stringer (Author) 3 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 47.32 1 New from 47.32 Paperback This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. They were wrong.Īuthors have been writing Calgary since the North-West Mounted Police set the city in motion in 1875. Some even suggested this was the city's fault – that Calgary was somehow unworthy of literature. There was a time when Calgary was considered a "lesser" city because it was thought that novelists and poets hadn't evoked it on the page. ![]() It's been said a place doesn't exist until it has been written about in literature. ![]() ![]() The coronation, however, was a stark and welcome contrast, ushering in a new mood, dubbed by the pundits "the New Elizabethan Age." 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Dec spent the next 25 years writing and distributing lengthy screeds about the "Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God" and its conspiracy to control the world through electronic mind control devices, or influencing machines. He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for 60 days in 1961 and in 1965 attempted to flee his home in Hempstead, New York for Poland. After the war, Dec entered into law, but was eventually disbarred by the state of New York in 1958 and proceeded to make numerous "incoherent" legal appeals, including an appeal to the Supreme Court. However, he remained within the United States for the duration of the war, albeit periodically moving between bases, at one point being assigned to Yuma Army Air Station. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted into the United States Army with the rank of private. 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