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It appears that people who are physically or emotionally exhausted are more likely to have an After-Death Communication.

But now a copy of Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin has been unearthed, thanks to sleuthing by Douglas Russell, curator of birds at the Natural History Museum, who discovered a copy among records of the work of Scott’s expeditions and has had it published in the journal Polar Record, with an accompanying analysis of Levick’s work.

The Furniture Ombudsman claims that it is ‘inspiring consumer confidence’. But what it is actually doing is giving furniture retailers licence to browbeat their customers to despair – to the point that they simply capitulate.

“Enough!” he commanded, the voice emanating from the same cold well as pale frogs with blind embryonic eyes and hairless rats and nights of no return.

The Kyoto Journal variably categorizes butoh as dance, theater, “kitchen,” or “seditious act.”

Proceeding in this vein, Bloom turns what I as common reader had thought was Stevens’ indulgence of the rabbit’s momentary grandeur into (it turns out to be instead) a cautionary tale for the modern strong poet who needs a good dose of askesis to counteract his kenosis.

In his essay Les virtuts cìviques del caganer (“The Civic Virtues of the Defecator”), American anthropologist Brad Erickson argues that Catalans use the caganer to process and respond to contemporary social issues such as immigration and the imposition of public civility regulations.

There can be no doubt that some curious electric telepathy does sometimes link together the present and the future.  Not always, however!

So what on the surface looks like a matter of bad acting vs. good acting reveals itself as a conflict between subjectivism and post-modernism on the one hand and dialectics and materialism on the other.