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... his mind and decided to help Juan, “for the true good is one highest good in which the good and the highest are one.” 6 His motivation is to “extend the perfection” of the Qur’an. And while he says Muslims will never “abandon the one good truth” 7 —a thinly veiled allusion to Juan’s desire to use...

... ith the square and its notion of perfection w ith the horizon o f so much tim e and space in front o f me, I no longer feel the need to explain my suffering, to justify the hours I spend in bed w ith my leg propped up, or to quan­ tify pain in terms extrinsic to my experience of em bodiment. And yet...

... h u n t for the creature, Victor is pursuing a shade o f himself, h isju n gian shadow figure, an im perfect being in you th at follows af­ ter and does everything that you are loath to do, all the things you are too cowardly or decent to do. 8The creature represents those aspects of V ictor s own...

... baptism, is headed by the phrase "[and the m ind] in its entire substance and rela­ tions to things, w ill be perfectly intelligent" (490).This quotation, from Zengzi's com m entary on the Daxue [Great Learning] of Confucius, comes from the chapter "On perfecting knowl­ edge," a discourse known to any...

..., by the middle of the nineteenth century, anti-vaccination would become the largest medical resistance campaign in W estern history.7 As Mary Shelley's apocalyptic Last Man anticipates in 1826, perfect im m unity proves w holly untenable. Verney survives precisely due to his embrace of the "negro half-clad...

... elaborate) description (VI. vi. 36ff.) o f Arlo Hill. 2 English Language Notes To explain: according to the De Proprietabus Rerum, the me­ dieval encyclopedia ofBartholom aeus Anglicus (which was trans­ lated into English by Jo h n Trevisa in the late 14th century), M ount T h ab o r s natural perfection m...

..., saturated in deictic signification of its own m ateriality and event ("this writing," "these w o rds precludes com m entary in a hypercom m entarial way, in the movement of desire fo r itself as perfect and perfecting com m en­ tary: And the brothers may not say: "This is another rule." Because...

... hy Dexter got together w ith Rita in the first place: as a victim o f marital abuse, Rita was herself em otionally incapable of sexual relations, making her the perfect partner for a serial killer who needed to hide his own hollow interiority. Rita was Dexter's perfect beard, perfect because so...

... was no hindrance to her work and activity she turned to her eternal profit.” Martha’s words to Jesus bidding him to have Mary get up (Luke 10:40) are interpreted as “I [Martha] want her [Mary] to learn life and possess it in essence; bid her arise that she may be more perfect.” 13 So contemplation is like going...

..., avian or otherwise). Instead, it focused on human beings among whom diffe re nt levels of perfection of form ed life were m aintained on the basis of how intricately they were driven by vital forces into the form endowed w ith logos, and how com pletely the power of logos rendered them autarchic...

... perfect, perhaps, o f all the paper stereographs we have seen, the door at the farther end of the cottage is open, and we see the marks left by the rubbing o f hands and shoulders as the good people came through the entry, or leaned against it, or felt for the latch. It is not impossible that scales from...

... to theology. And Young went beyond [Matthew] Prior to become the perfect Protestant reactionary and archaist (226). But as we haveju st seen, Parker quotes so selectively from Night 6 that he eliminates the eith er/o r structure of the sentence in lines 726-29. He thereby alters Young s meaning so...

... fa m ilia r account o f p h o to g e n ic d ra w in g as a w a y to u n d ersta n d w h a t Atkins, w h o perfected the fo rm , was doing in her relatively obscure p hotographic experim ents.The ep iste m o lo g y o f A tkins' im ages is e m ine n tly photographic, having to do w ith the form al...

...-kāmil fī maʿrifat al-awākhir wa ʾl-awāʾil ( Book of Perfect Man through the Cognition of Endings and Beginnings ). Vol. 1 . Cairo : al-Maṭbaʿat al-ʿĀmira al-Bahiyya , 1304/1884 . Jung Leo . Fallen Angels in Jewish, Christian, and Mohammedan Literature . Philadelphia : Dropsie College...

... by the im age content. Traum atic iconography ruled the im aging practices associated w ith Hurricane Katrina, and photobiologics gave th e ir g ram m ar a com pelling force th a t reveals much about o u r im ag­ ining of the National Body and our a b ility to identify. Perfect Storms Like being "fixe d...

...; an d it is n atu re alone, and the im pulse o f a great m ind, which attracts them , without the guidance of a master. The delight they take in these stud­ ies induces them to seek a master, and they gladly dispose themselves to obey him , being in servitude that they may carry their art to perfection...

... the awareness that I was an im perfect body attem pting to describe a perfect form . I love you the architect said, bevel o f crow n glass sh im m e rin g behind him . But I am not, never was, in love w ith yo u , he said, sh iftin g aw ay fro m the lig h t.T h e ad je ctive effortless is used to describe w hat...

... that is historical, axiological, and political. Calling for “humane technologies” that accommodate and support human variation rather than eliminate it in the name of progress, Garland-Thomson proposes a nonteleological view of humanity that does not seek perfection by eliminating everything deemed abnormal...

... a whole with him. . . . 2In h er search for a rem edy to conju­ gal inequality, and for the perfect example of what a woman raised to an equal partnership in marriage would be like, Fuller turns to Milton: I fin d the whole o f w hat I w ant in this relation in the two epithets by which Milton makes Adam...

... one another in order to be perfected from below, and subsequently to be perfected from above. These halls cleave to one another. All of them cleave to one another like the colors of the eye. All that is within them—like the vision visible in concealment when the eye rolls and the sparkling radiance...