... entered the
yard. His eyes went around the buildings that enclosed it, from the
stables and sheds to the smokehouse, the brewery, the kitchen, the bath-
house, the god-shrine, and thence to the hall. ... lived their entire lives on the starships, raised their
families there, and never set foot outside their own Enclave during
their landings on Earth. They grew to despise Earthers, and the
Earthers ... Herjulfsson.
"His father, maybe Tfoilr the Red?" asked Gerald.
"Oh yes," I said. "If you mean the Norseman who came hither because
of a manslaughter, and left Iceland in turn for the same...
... decided they
should take the old interface in Mac OS 8 and try to graft it
on top of the NeXTSTEP codebase. According to Cordell
Ratzlaff, the manager who was charged with overseeing the
job, the ... during which they’d show him their latest
mockups. For each element of the new interface the
menus, the dialogs, the radio buttons—Jobs requested
several variations so that he could select the best ... had the working
code running on another machine that was placed next to
the Director demo. When they showed the working code to
Jobs, he’d lean forward, his nose to the screen, and
examine them...
... screaming at both of them, but they had some
way of weathering that. There have been cases, people
who have been with him for a very, very long time. His
admin worked with him for many, many years. One ... products come
from the usual sources: studying the market and the
industry, seeing what new technologies are coming down
the pipe and how they might be used. The system is that
there is no system,” ... instructions.
Ovitz had set up the constant interruptions beforehand to
test the interviewee. He wanted to keep them on their toes
and see how they handled distractions. Jobs does the
same thing: “Many times in...
... were they? At
what distance from the buoy? The sound of the bell had frightened them; its silence
terrified them. The north-wester drove them forward in perhaps a fatal course.
They felt themselves ... from the mast. From the depth of the night's
darkness came the toll of the bell.
The doctor resumed,
"There is in the midst of the sea, halfway between Portland and the Channel
Islands, ... crew.
Helpless they clung to the standing rigging, to the transoms, to the shank painters,
to the gaskets, to the broken planks, the protruding nails of which tore their hands,
to the warped riders,...
... lanterns. The building which encloses and sustains this
In place of the skipper, who was the pilot, remained the chief, who was the captain.
The Basques all know the mountain and the sea. They are ... driving the hooker on the Caskets. They were nearing them; no evasion
was possible. They drifted rapidly towards the reef; they felt that they were getting
into shallow waters; the lead, if they ... have been thrown into the water by the shock.
There is variety in struggles with storms. After the hurricane, the shoal; after the
wind, the rock. First the intangible, then the immovable, to be...
... on the centre of the deck.
The doctor dried the ink on the signatures by the heat of the torch, and folding the
parchment into a narrower compass than the diameter of the neck, put it into the ... mingle their reverberations. It is this
confusion of the two gulfs which terrifies the dying man.
They had spent their last grain of hope on the direction of life; hence they turned in
the other. ... to die."
Then he took the torch from the hands of Ave Maria, and waved it.
A spark broke from it and flew into the night.
Then the doctor cast the torch into the sea.
The torch was extinguished:...
... not avow.
In the completely wicked man this exists in hideous perfection. So much the worse
for others, signifies so much the better for himself. The shadows of the caverns of
man& apos;s mind. ... Lord David had one,
Barkilphedro the other. However, to enter straight into a bedchamber was, in the
old code of manners, a thing not in the least out of the way. Thence resulted
incidents. La ... appearance, everything in the root, such was the influence of
Barkilphedro over the queen. There is nothing more difficult than to drag up these
bad grasses of the court they take a deep root,...
... was the penetration of two misfortunes into the ideal which absorbed them. The
rejected found a refuge in each other. Two blanks, combining, filled each other up.
They held together by what they ... all in all to each other, the feeble and the deformed.
The widowed were betrothed. An inexpressible thanksgiving arose out of their
distress. They were grateful. To whom? To the obscure immensity. ... can.
How many men have believed that they prayed to Jupiter, when they prayed to
Jehovah! How many believers in amulets are listened to by the Almighty! How
many atheists there are who know...
... heaven."
Their hands met and grasped each other. They spoke no more, but were silent in
the plenitude of love.
Ursus, who was crabbed, had overheard this. The next day, when the three were
together, ... Ursus.
Besides, were they not already married? If the indissoluble existed anywhere, was
it not in their union? Gwynplaine and Dea! They were creatures worthy of the love
they mutually felt, ...
nature, the obscure fermentations willed by the Creator. At times, therefore, he
looked at the women who were in the crowd, but he immediately felt that the look
was a sin, and hastened to retire,...
... that of a man, too large for that of a child.
It was probably the foot of a woman. Beyond that mark was another, then another,
then another. The footprints followed each other at the distance ... lose his way in the fog,
in the snow, or in the darkness, without falling into the deep waters of the gulf on
the right hand, or into the raging billows of the high sea on the left. He was ... ossifrage.
The summits exist no longer where the labbes and the skua gulls used to flock
together, soaring, like the envious, to sully high places. In vain might you seek the
The ManWho Laughs...
... fashion to the
point of knowing Hebrew. The Duchess Josiana Latinized. Then (another fine
thing) she was secretly a Catholic; after the manner of her uncle, Charles II., rather
than her father, ... of Corneille, the septuagenarian, to a girl of twenty "Marquise, si mon
The advantage of prudes is that they disorganize the human race. They deprive it of
the honour of their adherence. ... to the stars, which did
not prevent his always putting the ascent off to the following year. He waited in the
advance and two back, is expressed in the dances of the period, the minuet and the...