And what was on her breath. There was a calf, and a thigh, and then a sickening bunch in the middle that looked like a salt-dome.

The side-to-side sway stopped. Now the light in the room did not look dull; it looked marvellously pure, marvellously full of its own gray and eldritch charm; he could imagine cranes half-glimpsed in gunmetal mist standing in one-legged silence beside upland lakes in that light, could imagine the mica flecks in rocks jutting from spring grasses in upland meadows shining with the shaggy glow of glazed window-glass in that light, could imagine elves shucking their busy selves off to work in lines under the dew-soaked leaves of early ivy in that light. They were giving you pain, and you could only move them a little, but you were moving them. "Little by little Ian relaxed between the two men, one of them black, the other white.

Heres a special weather bulletin for residents of Sheldon County - a tomado watch is in effect until 5. So why dont I get at it?

Ill say he came just when I was getting ready to leave for Steamboat Heaven to look at the ceramics. Identical rows of men (with identical bottles of nutrient hung from identical IV trays beside their beds) filled the place.

That, and the panic in her voice. But the bottles will break and even if there are no bottles, fat chance, everyone has at least a bottle of Listerine or Scope or something in their medicine cabinet, you have no way of putting back what you knock down.

Someone important to me. He supposed that, in her deepening psychotic spiral, she had begun to see all of them as poor poor things. "He turned back again and yes, her face had gone black, a dusky rotted-plum black from which her bleeding eyes bulged wildly. She came in that evening around quarter of twelve and said: "You should have been in bed an hour ago, Paul.

Mr Krenmitz rescued the surviving Krenmitz child, Laurene Krenmitz, who is eighteen months old. Youll have to change it.

But the problem was the same as the old Novril-in-the-ice-cream trick: in both cases neither was sure enough. There was a snap as the pin broke in two, the part in the lock falling in, and he had a dull moment to consider his failure before he saw that the door was slowly swinging open with the tongue of the lock sticking out of the plate like a steel finger.

Kokka no hinkaku (The dignity of (a) Nation)

Masahiko Fujiwara
Kokka no hinkaku (The dignity of (a) Nation)
Topics include (from the back cover):

* The illusion of capitalism's triumph
* Pride in a civilization based on emotion
* The importance of Japanese and kanji over English
* Knowing the limits of logic
* The revival of bushido (samurai spirit)
* Why foreign aid is unneccesary
* Love of family, love of hometown, love of the fatherland, love of humanity
* Seeking out a "true elite"

Dog gone: Kobayashi's winning marks since 2001

2006 53¾ 160 lbs
2005 49 148
2004 53½ 140
2003 44½
2002 50½
2001 50 110

John Naisbitt
Megatrends - Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives
Warner Books (Paperback), 1982, 1984.

In this book, John Naisbitt presents a new way of looking at America's future and a new way of understanding the jumble of the present. It shows you the coming decade as a period of great changes and transitions in which America will shift from industrial production to providing service and information. From it you can learn where you should live and how you should target your energies. Megatrends is a primer for the eighties that outlines where our sophisticated technology is taking us, how we will be governed and how our social structures will change. It is a must read for everyone who cares about tomorrow.

Introduction
01 Industrial society -> information society
02 Forced technology -> high tech / high touch
03 National economy -> world economy
04 Short term -> long term
05 Centralization -> decentralization
06 Institutional help -> self-help
07 Representative democracy -> participatory democracy
08 Hierarchies -> networking
09 North -> south
10 Either / or -> Multiple options
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Gathering paradise

New York Philharmonic World Premiere of Gathering Paradise
Augusta read Thomas's Gathering Paradise for soprano and orchestra had its world premiere at Lincoln Center with Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic, on September 29, 30, and October 1, 2, and 5, 2004.
New York Magazine, October 18, 2004. Review:
The New York Philharmonic's first important concert of the season, with Lorin Maazel conducting, featured the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas's Gathering Paradise - six Emily Dickinson settings for soprano (Heidi Grant Murphy) and orchestra that capture the restless fever of this poet's style in a way that few composers ever have. The 30-minute piece deals mainly in light images, suggesting a day-to-night journey in freshly minted orchestral colors and lyrical vocal lines that make the trip compulsively listenable. To my ears, the score strongly recalls the spicy neo-impressionistic music of Thomas's husband, Bernard Rands, whose compendiums for voice and orchestra are cast in a similar style. Clearly this is a family that thinks alike.
For those who found Thomas's challenging new piece too prickly, there was Lang Lang to clear the air with a virtuoso dash through Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. A brash prodigy no more, at the age of 22 Lang Lang has traded his signature teenage razor-buzz for a more conservative adult haircut, and his approach to the keyboard has calmed down considerably as well. He may have little new to say about Tchaikovsky's popular warhorse, but at least he now lets the music speak for itself.

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
  - Carl Jung