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The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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Democracy in America — Volume 2Democracy in America — Volume 2 The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character. This same state of society has, moreover, engendered amongst them a multitude of feelings and opinions...
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Democracy in America — Volume 1Democracy in America — Volume 1 Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on...
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Hunting SketchesHunting Sketches It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting-crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to...
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Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His SonReminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son IN one of his letters to his great-aunt, Alexandra Andreyevna Tolstoy, my father gives the following description of his children: The eldest [Sergei] is fair-haired and good-looking; there is something weak and patient in his expression, and very...
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Catalan's Constant to 1,500,000 PlacesCatalan's Constant to 1,500,000 PlacesThe algorithm used is the one presented by Greg Fee on ISSAC '90 (using only integer arithmetic in the main loop). Again, I have verified the previous 1000100-digit value using LiDIA and text comparison. Catalan constant to 1500000 digits computed...
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The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusThe Tragical History of Doctor Faustus - From the Quarto of 1616 SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. FOOTNOTES: For this...
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George Silverman's ExplanationGeorge Silverman's ExplanationBut, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again, without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it comes into my mind that they have an abrupt appearance. They may serve, however, if I...
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Holiday RomanceHoliday RomanceThis beginning-part is not made out of anybodys head, you know. Its real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you wont understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must...
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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan CONTENTS THE GONDOLIERS ACT I ACT II THE GRAND DUKE ACT I. ACT II. H.M.S. PINAFORE ACT I ACT II IOLANTHE ACT I ACT II THE MIKADO ACT I. ACT II. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE ACT I...
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Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles DickensHunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles DickensMost of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however...
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PhiloktetesPhiloktetesWhen Sophokles produced the Philoktetes in 408 B.C., three years before his death at the age of ninety, the ancient story of the tragic archer, abundantly represented in Greek literature, achieved a dramatic and psychological sophistication of a kind never before seen on the...
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This Side of ParadiseThis Side of Paradise Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy...
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyA Sentimental Journey Through France and ItalyIt must have been observed by many a peripatetic philosopher, That nature has set up by her own unquestionable authority certain boundaries and fences to circumscribe the discontent of man; she has effected her purpose in the quietest...
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La Duchesse De PallianoLa Duchesse De PallianoJe ne suis point naturaliste, je ne sais le grec que fort mdiocrement; mon principal but, en venant voyager en Sicile, n'a pas t d'observer les phnomnes de l'Etna, ni de jeter quelque clart, pour moi ou pour les autres, sur...
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Vittoria AccoramboniVittoria AccoramboniJe me trouvais Mantoue il y a quelques annes, je cherchais des bauches et de petits tableaux en rapport avec ma petite fortune, mais je voulais les peintres antrieurs l'an 1600; vers cette poque acheva de mourir l'originalit italienne dj mise en grand...
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Les CenciLes CenciLe don Juan de Molire est galant sans doute, mais avant tout il est homme de bonne compagnie; avant de se livrer au penchant irrsistible qui l'entrane vers les jolies femmes, il tient se conformer un certain modle idal, il veut tre l'homme...
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Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts joursLe tour du monde en quatre-vingts joursEn l'anne 1872, la maison portant le numro 7 de Saville-row, Burlington Gardensmaison dans laquelle Sheridan mourut en 1814, tait habite par Phileas Fogg, esq., l'un des membres les plus singuliers et les plus remarqus du Reform-Club de...
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De la Terre à la LuneDe la Terre à la LunePendant la guerre fdrale des tats-Unis, un nouveau club trs influent s'tablit dans la ville de Baltimore, en plein Maryland. On sait avec quelle nergie l'instinct militaire se dveloppa chez ce peuple d'armateurs, de marchands et de mcaniciens. De...
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Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècleLe rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècleLa petite ville de Verrires peut passer pour l'une des plus jolies de la Franche-Comt. Ses maisons blanches avec leurs toits pointus de tuiles rouges s'tendent sur la pente d'une colline, dont des touffes de vigoureux...
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