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... Plato, 95 [211a-212c]. 18 P lato . 19Plato, 107 [218d-219e], THE ETYMOLOGY OF TINKER, WITH A NOTE ON TINKER S DAM The OED states th at the origin o f tinker is uncertain, b u t re­ produces Dr. J o h n so n s assertion that the term derives from the verb tinkle, descriptive o f the sound m ade during...

... ecosystems but with blurry boundaries. In deference to this fact, Wohl is vague on assigning agency for the rivers’ modifications, though she walks her readers through the effects of levees, dams, industrial pollution, and other human endeavors. 2 It is here that two recent interdisciplinary edited...

... it. (Echoed in Paradise Lost as A dam s u n d er­ standing o f his relation to the Garden: to Till and K eep it.13) T hough Cohen could find little in Judeo-Christian history to June 2003 13 provide evidence for a literal interpretation of dom inion, Theis notes that there is a literal in terp retatio n...

... and geologists working on the 330-megawatt Kishanganga hydroelectric dam in Kashmir relied on the weather data from the past hundred years to assess the dam’s future performance. The dam was vital to India’s national security because it allowed India to exert claims over a transboundary river, whose waters were...

... Taylor provides a portrait m ore apposite to M ilton s hos­ pital than any I have found: O r if you please in charity to visit a hospital, w hich is in d eed a m ap o f the whole world, th e re you shall see the effects o f A dam s sin, an d the ruins of hum an nature; bodies laid up in heaps like...

... augmenting it with French cher, dear: loved and expensive.7Jessi­ ca is to be of good cheer or flesh (Elizabethan term for the gen­ itals of either sex and frequent allusion to the body of a w hore), to be perhaps resign herself to being wanton, since truly she is, as he tells her twice, dam ned. 8...

.... As this novel ends, the softened winding down o f F aulkner s word symphony ex­ tends a flickering tribute to the au th o r o f O de to a Grecian U rn, whose foster-child o f silence and slow tim e has been re­ cast in Faulkner s m em ory to becom e the actual concluding words of his story a foster-dam...

...Adam Rovner Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 A n In t e r v ie w w it h Nathan E nglander A dam Ro vner N athan Englander is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author, playwright, and translator. He has published tw o volum es of short fiction, For the Relief...

...Adam Johns Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado 2009 Octavia B u tler and the A rt of p s e u d o s c ie n c e A dam J o h n s A rt and pseudoscience have an inner connection: both are understood as much by what they are not as by what they are. The inner truth...

...Adam Sitze Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 N omos as a P roblem fo r D isciplinary R eason A dam S itze One can speak of nomos only to say that one cannot say anything about it. Arturo Leyte, 2005 Is there such a thing as a common space from which the force of law...

... eeting befo re A rth u r s d e p a rtu re with his regim ent. A dam s knocking his Squire unconscious that evening after see­ ing him kiss Hetty good-bye signifies a cataclysmic breach of class and bodily boundaries; the pink silk han d k erch ief in A rth u r s den expresses a parallel ru p tu re of H...

... this cosmic dim ension (104). He praises Pacino s Lookingfor Richard because it rem inds us of the archetype of conscience and dam ns L o n crain e s Ri­ chard III for trying to create the detailed illusion o f a 1930s fas­ cist society (with Richard as H itler) instead of probing the king s final...

...Adam Bargroff Copyright © 2014 Regents of the University of Colorado 2014 I DON T M IN D AT A L L : THE CASE OF Ba r tle b y in Ir e la n d A dam bar g r o ff Herman M elville's scrivener Bartleby is a figure of m ystery whose a u th o rity is m ani­ fest but indecipherable. Sim...

... at the work I need to do in the yard, I smile at her joy at smelling the forthcoming rain, my throwing the uprooted tree dendrite into the clouds; and how I am back, looking out from the window, shocked into my breath my body: the dam holding up love to God as if everything between is blending...

... escaped extinction and have recovered—so well that sometimes passing by on a highway, I catch sight of a beaver dam. The story is also about us, about our own “not vanishing,” and the nature of our dreams. What are we dreaming for the children of our grandchildren? How do we ensure...

... and cosmic self resides, complicating the I on the page. " Words on the Tip of the Tongue: A Response to Marcia Douglas's 'The Rastalogy of l&l: Writing into l-finity' A dam B radley M arcia Douglas's "T h e Rastalogy o f l& l: W ritin g into l-fin ity " is a te xt w ritte n in keeping w ith the m u ltiv o c...

...D. Quentin Miller Copyright © 2000 Regents of the University of Colorado 2000 68 English Language Notes sciously overheard the lilt in his own memory; and in m uch the way he had sum m oned foster-dam , he has revealed the reso­ nance again of an English heritage not entirely effaced...

... in g a frenzy. In th e h o t box, a s w a llo w dashes fu rtiv e , faster, R o und a n d r o u n d to o tra p p e d to escape. Chase the weasel. Bell-tongued leaves spread into lips. Ring around. Hibiscus trum pets dangle: stamens; pollen; stains. Feathers clot on ground, dam p but drying. Still. Hush...

..., draw­ ing on the Bible, patristic and classical learning, and Reforma­ tion material. Nakedness, for instance, refers to the actual na­ kedness of radical Anabaptists during revolts in the sixteenth century, to the alleged nakedness of A dam ians who it was thought disrobed for divine service...

... engaging its readers or hearers in m uch the same way that other public works Mandeville s Traveis or Margery Kemp s Book dealt with marvels, miracles, questions of belief or as the iconology of church decoration taught and argued the questions of the Christian life, of dam nation or salvation...