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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and drinking some of P ap s whiskey (som ething only a life-threatening snake-bite would motivate him to do), Huck kills the second reptile and rights the situation b u t n o t before recalling that a dead snake s m ate will always seek it o u t and curl around it, a fact that had not been part of his...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 165–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Shira Dentz Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 LE T THE POSSUM GO SHIRA DENTZ i like thoreau because i like the nature crackling soon am going to be too tired for anything. but wanted to see. light on the m ountains red-snaked, where the speeding is going, the sky...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 55–57.
Published: 01 December 2002
...John Flood Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 Decem ber 2002 55 a long convalescence since the leg and thigh, in this case, h ad b een red u ced . . . almost to a state of digestion. T he rest of the collection consists of stories or anecdotes about the great snakes...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 247–252.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the film 's initial garden scene, Satan voices the human doubts of Jesus at prayer: "N o one man can carry this burden. I tell you. It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly." Jesus defies Satan, stom ping on the snake sent toward him by the female face in the shadows. Yet the externalizing...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 March 2008
... Language Notes 46.1 Spring / Summer 2008 168 E n g lis h La n g u a g e N o t e s 46.1 S p r in g / s u m m e r 2 0 0 8 Today my beautiful child eviscerates me a charmer a snake he fits m y living heart into his fist blunt fangs and I go w illingly into love w ith him. he is every day a new child and every...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 April 2024
... “mites had bitten him” and “everything had become infected and festered” ( CS , 210). Poisonous snakes and tigers ready to “tear you to bits” roam around, completing Jan’s jungle inferno ( CS , 210). Of course, Joo followed the military’s common practice and proceeded to destroy the village after...
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (1): 42–43.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and snakes, and Liver of basphem ingjew (5-26). University ofLa Verne Jeffrey Kahan NOTES 1 William C. Carroll, Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (Boston: Beford Books, 1999) 159. Carroll follows Revels editor R.B. Parker, who argues in his edi­ tion to A Chaste Maid in Eastcheap (Manchester: Manchester UP...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 9–20.
Published: 01 April 2020
... brown tree snakes arrived in Guam as stowaways on US military ships or aircraft. Having no natural predators, the snakes quickly multiplied and colonized the island. In just a few decades nearly eight hundred thousand native birds were killed and most species became extinct, while a few were taken...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 200–213.
Published: 01 April 2020
... before creation, before the snake descended. It will take you to see her. She is enormous, fearsome. But you must not fear it. You must let her embrace you. Her embrace will take you to ancient places, where life doesn’t exist, not even its embryo. Drink. . . . Give them more than what they asked...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 63–74.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Indigenous nations in the Wal-mapu 7 and is largely centered on the story of a flood caused by a pair of warring brothers: Kai-kai-filú (the snake who ruled the waters in the underworld) and Treng-Tréng (the snake who ruled the land). Kai-kai-filú tries to drown all living beings, moving his tail to raise...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 185–189.
Published: 01 March 2013
... snake poisons harm ­ less. W ith the proper term s and the right utterance syntax and inflections, ailm ents as diverse as a difficu lt labor, poverty, and powerlessness w ill yield to the com m and o f incan­ tations. Other poetic form ulas exist that can be used to compel people to agree w ith one's...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 49–54.
Published: 01 November 2024
... pounds! Cut to: me in the very heart of Greenwich Village standing in a snaking line of six-foot-distanced patients waiting to have our temperatures taken to enter Mt. Sinai Hospital. And those ten pounds. What can I say about those ten pounds? Since puberty, I’d always been a bit much. I’m fairly...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 45–55.
Published: 01 March 2014
... alongside the ongoing environm ental harm w ro ug ht by US m ilitarization. Perez uses the in ­ vasive brown tree snake firs t brought to Guahán by US m ilitary cargo ships as a sym bol o f invasion and environm ental harm: "About 100 tim es a year, a brow n tree snake w ill scale a pow er line...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 133–148.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., then a whispering, and lisping, and tin­ kling as if the blossoms were . . . little crystal bells. The source of this crystal music reveals itself as a trio of green-golden snakes, whose movement in the branches of the tree scatters the light of a thousand glittering em eralds through the dark leaves...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 86–95.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on platform two is a cow and the tracks are the underworld’s river before it silts and snakes into old age. It’s older than you think. In the distance trumpets and a brahmin asking for 2,500 rupees to ensure your father’s spirit does not starve. The mosquitoes in your berth aren’t hungry. You have seen...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 121–143.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Benin) of the straw family. Health/disease, transformation of earth and nature Brown, black Ọsanyìn Leaves Green and white Òṣùmàrè Vodun of the straw family. Snake. Rainbow Green, gold, white, and the rainbow colors Ṣàngó Fire, thunder, lightning, quarry, war, justice Red, brown...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 105–111.
Published: 01 March 2008
... when, mimicking in his own lines the effects he was disdaining, he censured the slow m onotony o f badly written pentameter ("And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line") and the poet­ ic fashion o f annexing "a needless Alexandrine [. . .] /T h at like a w ounded Snake drags its slow length along."2...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 214–225.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Wars theme as hummed by Karahkwenhawi; the flippant use of “tighty-whities” and white T-shirts as key elements in the stormtrooper costumes; similar use of children’s four-wheeled toys as jet fighters by adult actors; a stuffed snake for the serpentine monster in the trash compactor scene...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 35–47.
Published: 01 September 2009
... reserved only for men. One of the most noted female perform ers was La Vettoria, a m em ber of the mountebank troupe of Girolamo Ferranti, the maker o f "orvietan," a remedy for snake bites. A 1616 description reports that Vettoria "packs in great crowds w ith her dangerous leaps, her divine dancing, her...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (2): 167–180.
Published: 01 September 2009
... a spaceship to return home to Pluto, when som ebody would call out from a front porch, "Your story about the snake handler really got to me. How'd you find him? How'd you get him to talk to you?" That was the easy part.The flat Midwestern landscape bristled w ith quacks and zealots and grizzled hucksters all...