**Finally, the slick mountains of love break over us. ** This is the last part of Mary Oliver's poem , honoring the poet's dead dog. .................. How strong was her dark body! How apt is her grave place. How beautiful is her unshakable sleep. Finally, the slick mountains of love break ...

I WISH TO PROPOSE THE NAME OF GIOVANNI PAPINI 1881-1956, DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER 1879-1958, THE BOOK "LIFE OF CHRIST" PUBLICATION DATE-1923 TOPICS-JESUS CHRIST PUBLISHER-NEWYORK: HARCOURT, BRACE, AND CO. "THE LIFE OF CHRIST" BY GIOVANNI PAPINI WAS PUBLI...

Need help finding a copy of a misplaced book - it was a literary compilation of verse, poems, speeches, plays, bible verses. Very old. Maybe written during a war. Thin leatherette cover with gold embossing, very thin paper. One of the verses was Man from Nantucket (not the profane version). ...

Rainer Maria Rilke: On Solitude - The Culturium - Rome, 14th May 1904 I skip all text in between. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one...

I would like to know what "the morning when the darkness would be gone" means in the following sentences: That night I lay awake in bed, the other guys fast asleep around me, the moon pouring in through the half-open curtain. Sharp memories knocked on the door of my consciousness, and what came ...

I would like to know what "which welcomed the touch of unknown fingers and summer air" means in the following sentences: ‘Come on,’ he said, taking the flask from me and letting his hand travel along my thigh, ‘let’s go. We’ll be better somewhere more quiet.’ He stood without waiting for my reac...

I would like to know what "He told me how he’d been in the war" means in the following sentences: I wanted to run home straight away, knew I had to get away from this place, and remembered Granny, who’d already be worried to death. But I didn’t. Because after I had released myself in this strang...

I would like to know what "which gradually became the only thing we knew" means in the following sentences: On the first morning of camp they woke us early, storming into the hut and blowing a whistle, leaving us just enough time to brush our teeth in the washrooms and have some milk soup and te...

I would like to know what "a guy from the year below" means in the following sentences: At mealtimes I sat with Karolina and Beata, a friend from lectures. She was short and round-faced and busty, quick to laugh and quick to be frightened. She told us she was getting married right after the camp...

I would like to know what "They can’t bear to see us having fun" means in the following sentences: At mealtimes I sat with Karolina and Beata, a friend from lectures. She was short and round-faced and busty, quick to laugh and quick to be frightened. She told us she was getting married right aft...

I would like to know what "Like an unwritten piece of paper" means in the following sentences: It did me good, this walk. It reminded me of the aimless ones I would take in Wrocław, when I could no longer stand being in the same space as Granny or at school. There was nowhere I could be without ...

I would like to know what "along a narrow arm of the river that snaked its way into the forest" means in the following sentences: On our last evening the comrade leader made a speech, thanking us for our hard work. Then he ordered us down to the river. We walked in little groups, unsure what wou...

The chorus of Adam Lambert's "There I Said It" goes like this: So there, I said it And I won't apologize to you anymore 'Cause I'm a grown ass man And I won't live again And I'm sick and tired of livin' in your shadow So there, I said it No, I won't apologize to you anymore 'Cause I'm a grown as...

I would like to know what "a country junction" means in the following sentences: The first car that stopped took us east. The driver, a middle-aged man, eyed us from time to time but asked no questions. We drove silently along country avenues lined with tall chestnut trees, past fields bordered ...

I would like to know what "I was paralysed by possibility, caught between the vertigo of fulfilment and the abyss of uncertainty." means in the following sentences: ‘Goodnight,’ you said after you’d switched off your torch. You undressed without a trace of self-consciousness, your silhouette in ...

I would like to know what "suddenly close again in the dark" means in the following sentences: We walked out of the barn and into the house. There was a dark corridor that smelled of must and soot and earth. Nothing seemed to be moving. A few beams of light revealed a world of dust specks floati...

I would like to know what "said through a bite of radish" means in the following sentences: ‘So you’re students,’ the mother said. ‘Yes, ma’am,’ you said through a bite of radish, looking more at ease than I felt. ‘Just finished our studies.’ She nodded, as if she was agreeing to something uncer...

I would like to know what "letting its current take over" means in the following sentences: You smelled of water and pines. There was softness, and there was hardness. I could sense your tan under my fingertips, and with your strong, solid hands you drew me afresh, creating me, the small of my b...

I would like to know what "There was so much I could not get enough of, so much I would never be able to grasp or possess, no matter how much I tried." means in the following sentences: You smelled of water and pines. There was softness, and there was hardness. I could sense your tan under my fi...

I would like to know what "total inconsequence" means in the following sentences: ‘You coming?’ First I slipped off my sandals, then my shirt. I folded it carefully and lay it on a soft spot on the ground. I took off my shorts, and then, with a flicker of hesitation, my underwear. You had turned...

In "In the Midst of Alarms" (1894) by Robert Barr, the author is describing a young boy in a Canadian village, who was smoking: Young Hiram’s devotion to the Goddess Nicotine had never reached the altitude of a cigar. He had surreptitiously smoked a pipe in a secluded corner behind the barn in d...

“Acting and the theatre provided a liberating image of human—or, at least, masculine—power: the power to transform oneself and the world.” (“Medieval and Renaissance England” reading, page 200, using the page numbers at the top of the page) You may find it useful to go back and read pages 200 and...

In chapter 43 of Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, the lady at the hospital mentions "Mary" several times. It seems like Mary is Jerry's wife: “Well, Barker,” she said, “it would be a great pity that you should seriously risk your health in this work, not only for your own but for Mary's and the child...

I often read that some things are very difficult to translate without losing significant meaning. For instance, many Muslims say that the Koran can be understood only in the original Arabic: Translating the Quran has always been problematic and difficult. Many argue that the Quranic text cannot ...

Reading a story called Ancient Lights, and I am not sure if the meaning is the one mentioned in the title: He had that instinct, and as a rule it served him well. “A mile or so due west along the sandy road till you come to a stile on the right; then across the fields. You’ll see the red house s...