‘a very good miracle as times go,’ but he does not give any particulars. The late Mr. Davey, who started as a Spiritualist catechumen, managed, by conjuring, to produce answers to questions on a locked slate, which is as near a miracle as anything. But Mr. Davey is dead, though ...
and socioeconomic unrest prevailed at which time ERPDF led government had to do something to avert the looming political and socioeconomic disaster threatening the integrity of the country.
You’ve been sweating over something for weeks or months, and all of a sudden you see it from a new angle. One thought breaks in and lights up a bevy of questions, the answers to which bounce off one another in ways you never suspected. It can be profound when that happens. It does...
Vincent Van Gogh’s “conscience is a man’s compass” is another example. Illogical, but we understand the meaning. Other examples of common metaphors are “night owl”, “cold feet”, “beat a dead horse”, “early bird”, “couch potato”, “eyes were fireflies”, “apple of my eye...
In Germany, people dressed as Saint Nicholas (the saint that Santa Claus is based on) visit schools, where children say a poem or sing a song to get small gifts or sweets. In Sweden, almost half of the country watches the Donald Duck Christmas movie on Christmas Eve, since it’s played...
Michael Ondaatje," he ended the lint, "is a brilliant writer." Shapeott, whose answers to questions seemed always to. take a historical perspective, also offered praise for Canadian experimental poetry: "You do it with great confldcnce and flair. In, Australia we are in a sense away from...