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The Devil's Dictionary: Weather

by Ambrose Bierce WEAKNESSESWEDDINGWEATHER -n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to…

Drowning Mona

Director:Nick GomezWriter:Peter SteinfeldDestination Films; PG-13; 90 minutesRelease:3/00Cast:Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell Verplanck is a village in upstate New York where Yugos…

John Donne: Love's Alchemy

Love's AlchemySome that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie. I have loved, and got, and told, But should I love, get, tell, till I…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Dirge for the Year

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To NightDirge for the Year Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated January 1, 1821. 1. Orphan Hours, the Year is dead, Come and sigh, come…

Tao Te Ching: Chapter 20

Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi, trans. James Legge Chapter 19 Chapter 21 Chapter 20 1 When we renounce learning we have no troubles. The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'-- Small is…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Summons

The SummonsA sterner errand to the silken troop Has quenched the uneasy blush that warmed my cheek; I am commissioned in my day of joy To leave my woods and streams and the sweet sloth Of…