However, another source simply suggests that the cards were exquisite works of art in their own right; even to the extent that Kings — such as King Charles VI of France — would pay handsome sums to skilled artists to create custom decks for use in court. It seems likely that ...
(In one of the great stories in Woman Wang, the bound feet serve as fleshy shackles.))There are two main English translations by David Hawkes/Penguin (5 vol.) and Gladys Yang/Foreign Language Press (3 hc or 4 sc vol. FLC). Hawkes' translation is said to use a more refined/readable...
It seems Margaret did all the driving up and down – to get groceries, reach the drugstore, fill the tank of their fifteen-year-old Buick. Genevieve, the daughter, lived with another lesbian woman in Western Massachusetts. She did speak with her mother every week, so there was that. “B...
In Sharia women caught in adultery are murdered thieves have their hands amputated gays and lesbians are beaten and executed [sic] in America the intolerance of Islamic Law cannot be tolerated, Our Founding Fathers who wrote the US Constitution ...
(Short story – Text translated in English) Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in making what the servants...
A woman with so much achievement at the age of 33. Please accept me for who I am”.“You don’t have to do something elaborate”, I interrupted.“I don’t need the cameras. To hell with the cameras. I just need God’s will for my life. And as long as he’s standing right ...
The title of this blog may bring to mind the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery in John chapter 8 or maybe even the woman at the well in John chapter 4. I was saved on July 30, 2009. I was 35 years old and had lived all my life searching and running and running...
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”(Matthew 5:27-28) “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect....
He added: “They had had a tough time in their marriage for a while. They put it back together through faith.” Many in the crowd of nearly 350 at the candidates forum Thursday night at the Balboa Bay Club were caught by surprise when a man approached the stage and started shouting at...
a woman sitting in saul steinberg’s box two rows down fairly shouted. marla didn’t hear. she had her back to the court and was starting to sign a big batch of eight-by-ten glossies of herself in cutoffs and a hard hat. the autographing scene was interrupted briefly by a woman ...