Literary Awesomeness!

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Chekhov.docx

This is easier than emailing myself.

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Hmm.

They come on to my clean
sheet of paper and leave a Rorschach blot.
They do not do this to be mean,
they do it to give me a sign
they want me, as Aubrey Beardsley once said,
to shove it around till something comes.
Clumsy as I am,
I do it.
For I am like them -
both saved and lost,
tumbling downward like Humpty Dumpty
off the alphabet.

Each morning I push them off my bed
and when they get in the salad
rolling in it like a dog,
I pick each one out
just the way my daughter
picks out the anchoives.
In May they dance on the jonquils,
wearing out their toes,
laughing like fish.
In November, the dread month,
they suck the childhood out of the berries
and turn them sour and inedible.

Yet they keep me company.
They wiggle up life.
They pass out their magic
like Assorted Lifesavers.
They go with me to the dentist
and protect me form the drill.
At the same time,
they go to class with me
and lie to my students.

O fallen angel,
the companion within me,
whisper something holy
before you pinch me
into the grave.

--Anne Sexton

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It's_A_Good_Life-_Jerome_Bixby.pdf

This is most definitely relevant to the site. And just one of a mountain of reasons I wish I had the power to bend reality (along with the Twilight Zone episode it helped to inspire...)

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I NEED this question answered! Anybody! I'd love to have this book back in my possession! I lost it, and I must get it back! Somebody help me please!

And if it's gone by the time you get to this, the question is as follows:

The title of this science book?

I've been scouring the Internet for the name of a book I received some years ago, and lost just recently.

It has a yellow hardcover, with a ladybug and a satellite on it, and I got it in the 90's, so it still lists Pluto as a planet. Yet, it's not just a space science book. It features information of animals near the beginning, and space science and technology near the end. I don't know what company made it, and I don't have a clue as to any keywords that are in the title, but I'd really love to find it, because, aside from the Pluto thing, it's a great book.

I apologize, I don't have much specifics to go on, but if somebody could suggest some titles matching my description for me to look up, so I could replace the book, then it would be most appreciated.

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Hm.

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 I require that science book. I loved it so much! I hated so much to lose it! I wish there was some way to just type in the description and the book's title just pop up!

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Was it a book for children or adults? What age children? Was it illustrated—were there illustrations on every page, taking up most of the page, or did text take up most of the page? Or were most of the pages all text, with only occasional illustrations?

A Nything you can tell us might help.

I'm searching, but further information is required.

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 I know, that's the difficult part.

I can remember vague details about it.

My mom seems to recall it being from Webster.

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I made a thing here, but more information is needed to narrow it down.

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 Children's book. I was between 7 and 9 when I got it, but I'm not sure if that's the age range. It seemed sort of like a textbook, but it didn't have problems or anything in it, so it may have been a school book, but ot anything used to do work out of.

There were illustrations, but they weren't like childish--they were scientifically accurate. Different landforms, and a table of animal classification and general human anatomy pictures and whatnot. Planets, plants, animals, the human life cycle. All sorts of sciences.

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The winds are changed, your friends from danger free
Or I renounce my gift of augury.

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 Nice.

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Twilight Rant.

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Before the Dead.

Not my work. The work of one of my Facebook friends. I haven't read it yet, but if you get the chance to, let me know what you think.

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OMG, Zalermancer! I came across the name of the book! Ermahgersh! Yes! Most indubitably! In the deed! So says I! *long, convoluted rant* Shall be done! YES!

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Feast your brain on this.

'Tis the tale of Finnegan's Wake (A Work by James Joyce).

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For nearly ten years, from 237 onwards, Tholtig defended her ancestral home of Circletower alone. Each of these years year saw one hundred or more elves lay siege to the empty halls where Tholtig's entire clan lay sleeping, only to be driven back in bloody defeat. Alone she stood, hammer in hand, the only force between her home and fiery conquest. Despite the injustice of fate that had taken away her children and the inevitability of defeat, she held her ground until at last in 246 when old age struck her down, something no mortal weapon could have aspired to. And so fell the last dwarf of the Bronze Orbs - and with Tholtig's death ended their entire civilization and history.
Tholtig had lived for one hundred and fifty-six years, all of which had seen no peace for her, and outlived all of her children, her friends, and her husband.

   
The story of Tholtig Cryptbrain, The Waning Diamonds, Queen of the Dwarves.

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How the heck, in the midst of this thread, and the Forum at large, did I never post Jerome Bixby's It's a Good Life here???

[Must be remedied]

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Now THIS is some literary awesomeness for ya.

It's a Good Life

by Jerome Bixby