... his father's house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their ... so the god Hath lately shown to me by oracles. Thus as their champion I maintain the cause Both of the god and of the murdered King. And on the murderer this curse I lay (On him and all the ... tell thee straight, or with thee pass within. OEDIPUS Speak before all; the burden that I bear Is more for these my subjects than myself. CREON Let me report then all the god declared. King...
... OEDIPUS THEKING ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the ... his father's house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their ... so the god Hath lately shown to me by oracles. Thus as their champion I maintain the cause Both of the god and of the murdered King. And on the murderer this curse I lay (On him and all the...
... Mountain. They lived together very happily, and the queen had a son. And thus eight years had passed over their heads, when theking thought of his father; and get into the circle if he could. Then ... his word. Then Heinel said, ‘Father, give yourself very little trouble about that; I shall be too much for the little man.’ When the time came, the father and son went out together to the place ... value upon them. Then they gave him the cloak, and he wished himself a fly, and in a moment he was a fly. The cloak is very well,’ said he: ‘now give me the sword.’ ‘No,’ said they; ‘not...
... Street on the East part backward to the West unto part of the ground built on by the said Copper Company the Wall between the Warehouse and said messuage." When, in the year 1867, the plan ... premises[Pg 14] for the accommodation of the growing Postal staff. The work began on the 26th September. The cost of the new wing was estimated at £16,000. Beneath the superstructure there were two ... believe there is an end of the controversy, and have very little doubt but that I shall shortly receive the Ministers' commands to carry the plan into execution to the other parts of the kingdom....
... Yearbook, The Freelance, and The Pen Newsletter. But apparently alot of the aspiring Wolfes and Hemingways out there either don’t read thosethings, don’t believe them when they do read them, or ... Demon Infestations. I know all the things in it fromfirst hand. Contents include stories from The World of Voodoo,” The World of the Aether,” and “TheWorld of the Living Dead.” I include recipes ... fellow’s chest; in the third, the man I presume to be Detweiller is reaching into the chest cavity;in the last he is holding up a dripping thing for the others to look at. The dripping thing looks...
... benign.“Besides, it’s never the informant they want to sue for false arrest any-way—it’s the cop who came and read them their rights and then took themdowntown in a car with no doorhandles in the back doors.”Informant. ... up—to get him thinking all sorts of nasty thoughts. The plainclothesman who had verified the fact that Detweiller was indeedstill working at the House of Flowers was looking at the “Sacrifice Photos”when ... Barfield, the proprietor of record according to the papers on file at City Hall, waited on him. The fellow who actually got the flowers, cut them, and wrapped them, was wearing a name tag with the word...
... take the Grail into the city,’ said Sir Galahad. So they took the Grail and left the ship. There was no king in that country, because the dead king had no son. The great men sat in the castle ... in the Church. ‘Call the knights to London. Then we will find the new king, ’ Merlin told the Archbishop. The knights came to London. They met at a large church, and the Archbishop spoke to them. ... going to die,’ King Uther said. ‘Who will be king after me?’ ‘Call your knights and great men,’ Merlin told the King. ‘Tell them, "My son, Arthur, will be the next king! ”‘ King Uther told...
... heard, the enclosed Post clipping (Ididn’t bother to include the centerfold photo of the asylum with the obliga-tory dotted line marking the dotty General’s likely route of escape and the obligatory ... proffered me the paper the Post, of course. He’s the only onearound here who reads it. Kenton and Wade read the Times, Gelb andJackson bring the Times but secretly read the Daily News (the hand ... reaction. Not to the thing itself the contents of the package were something of an anticlimaxafter all the sound and fury—but, I am convinced, to the hands whichplaced the lid on the small white...
... radioantenna except for the tightened curls of the new leaves along its length.Other tendrils have begun to crawl along the shelf where I put the plant,and they are attaching themselves in the best ivy ... face, or the face of the moon. Or even better, it came the way Faulkner says the darkcomes, not falling out of the sky but rising inexorably up out of the ground. Only in this case I believe the ... into the maw of the hugeshapeless trunk she calls her purse, and preened for a moment. “None ofthem were accompanied by return postage. That’s why they’re there. It’snot our business to send them...
... yes, there is the kadath. It is growing all over the walls and the carpet, thinning as it advances toward the reception area,thick and luxuriant further down the corridor. Somewhere down there,Carlos ... corridor in the office suite, it makes that lit-tle zigzag jog in the middle. We call the part running through the editorialoffices the front corridor.” Beyond the jog are the mailroom, the janitor’scubby, ... bottles. The man in the green pants and shirt stays aboard the elevator car. Patella the soft-drink seller has one last glimpse of the military fella as he (Patella)turns the corner toward the RainBo...
... refuses the offers of the army. Which marches to London.Enters the city. And gives the law to the parliament. Theking listens to the counsels of the officers. Andintrigues against them. Rise of the ... for their attachment to the cause of the country. The consideration of the resolutions was then resumed; terror had driven the more pusillanimousfrom the house; and on the second division the ... declaration on the part of[a] the parliament; that itwas the real intention of theking to satisfy the demands of the papists by altering the national religion, and the rapacity of the Cavaliers...
... Her father, being brother of the late king, and uncle of the present one, was made lieutenant general of the kingdom, having thus the second place, that is, the place next to the queen, in the ... were in their train. Among them was Anne Maria. The queen regent took Henrietta and the prince into the carriage with her and the young king, and they proceeded thus together back to the palace. ... honor. The queen regent took the young king into the carriage of state, and rode some miles along the avenue, through the forest, to meet the prince and his mother when they were coming. They...
... fort, the fourth, which was as large as the other three together, advanced towards the entrance. The Saxons all took the posts previously assigned to them on the walls. Edmund strengthened the ... from the north the Danes are flocking down into Mercia, and although the advent of the West Saxons to the aid of theKing of Mercia forced them to retreat for a while, I doubt not thatthey will ... of the Saxons proved their ruin.Breaking their compact ranks they scattered in pursuit of the Danes, and these, seeing how small was the number of their pursuers, rallied and turned upon them,...