The most important thing to bear in mind I think is that the inscription will be there for hundreds of years. Do not be hurried into choosing an epitaph straight away. I always encourage people to wait at least
When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory;but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace. “Santiago,”the boy said. “Yes...
In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station, so l ong as it receives message of beauty, hope, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the wires are all down, and all the central places of your hear...
"eat, drink, and be merry". but most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. in stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sen...
1. Take in the skyline from the 1,092-foot-tall TOKYO TOWER For an unparalleled view of the city, you’ll want to visit Tokyo Tower. This communications tower is an iconic Tokyo landmark, and bears the distinction of being the second tallest tower in the city and in the country. It...
Summer months had been taking more and more from October, pushing the fall months out further and further.Then from behind her she heard a low crackling sound, like the thick ice of a frozen lake breaking. His laugh sent chills down her spine–and not in a good way....
of their usual car-washing and lawn-mowing pursuits,the inhabitants of Privet Drive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses,windows thrown wide in the hope of tempting in a non-existent breeze.The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a ...
InLove in the Time of Cholera, old age and death are always looming in the lives of the protagonists. The narrative opens with the description of Antillean refugeeJeremiah de Saint-Amour’s dead body, which his friendDr. Juvenal Urbinois summoned to examine. When the doctor sees the dead bo...
When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory;but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace. “Santiago,”the boy said. “Yes,...
It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week. 对我来说,这是生死攸关的问题:我随身带的水只够撑一个星期。 The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. 第一天晚上,我就睡在远离人间烟...