 Genius Meanings
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Hue and Cry – Twisted Heart
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Sometimes we never stop talking / Sometimes we never start / I see a door I start walking / I'm better alone than apart / That's what my twisted heart tells me / It tells me how to
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William Shakespeare – Love's Labour's Lost Act 5 Scene 2
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SCENE II. The same. / Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA / PRINCESS / Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart, / If fairings come thus plentifully in: / A lady
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T.F. Thiselton Dyer – Folk-lore of Shakespeare - Chapter VI. Birds
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CHAPTER VI. / BIRDS. / Barnacle-Goose—Blackbird—Buzzard—Chaffinch—Chough—Cock—Cormorant Crow—Cuckoo—Domestic Fowl—Dove—Duck—Eagle—Goldfinch—Goose—Gull—Hawk—Heron—Jay—Kestril—
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D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love (Chap. 29)
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CONTINENTAL / Ursula went on in an unreal suspense, the last weeks before going away. She was not herself,—she was not anything. She
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T.F. Thiselton Dyer – Folk-lore of Shakespeare - Chapter VIII. Plants
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CHAPTER VIII. / PLANTS. / That Shakespeare possessed an extensive knowledge of the history and superstitions associated with flowers is evident, from even only a slight perusal of
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D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love (Chap. 14)
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WATER-PARTY / Every year Mr Crich gave a more or less public water-party on the lake. There was a little pleasure-launch on Willey
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Samuel Butler (Poet) – Hudibras - Part 2 - Canto I
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THE ARGUMENT / The Knight by damnable Magician, / Being cast illegally in prison, / Love brings his Action on the Case. / And lays it upon Hudibras. / How he receives the Lady's
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Ben Jonson – The Poetaster Act 5. Scene 1
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Banquet halls are a very special place, where under one big roof so many different memories are made. From proms to weddings to baby showers, once that DJ starts to spin, there’s
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Lord Byron – Don Juan (Canto 1)
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Don Juan is an unfinished satiric variation of an epic poem based upon the life on the legend of Don Juan.
…it may be bawdy–but is it not good English?–it may be profligate–but is
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader (Chapter 4)
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Society and Politics in the Nineteenth Century / Speech at the Anniversary of the People's Paper
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Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales (The Man of Law's Tale)
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O scatheful harm, condition of poverty, / With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded; / To aske help thee shameth in thine hearte; / If thou none ask, so sore art thou y-
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 9 - Scylla and Charybdis)
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SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS
TIME: 2.00 pm.
SCENE: The National Library
ORGAN: The Brain
ART: Literature
COLOURS: None
SYMBOL: Stratford, London
TECHNIQUE: Dialectic
CORRESPONDENCES: The
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 15 - Circe)
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Faithfull Place, off Lower Tyrone Street, where this chapter is located. Image via The National Archives of Ireland.
CIRCE
TIME: 12.00 midnight.
SCENE: Bella Cohen’s Brothel
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James Joyce – Finnegan's Wake (Chap 1.5)
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In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven! / Her untitled
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John Dryden – Palamon and Arcite (Book 3)
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Palamon and Arcite is a long poem published by Dryden in 1700. The story is adapted from The Knight’s Tale, one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales though Dryden’s embellishments and
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader ( Chap. 2 )
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Wage Labour and Capital / KARL MARX / Shortly after adumbrating the materialist
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Unknown Author (Ft. Translated by Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest) – The Mabinogion - Notes to The Lady of the Fountain
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3a ARTHUR.--Page 3. / AMONG the various characters introduced into the foregoing tale, none is more strictly and successfully maintained than that of Arthur. In him we see the
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Alfred Lord Tennyson – In Memoriam A.H.H. (Full)
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson was one of the first poets to rise to fame in the post-Romantic era. His career began with the publication of his poems at Cambridge circa 1827-29, and came
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James Joyce – Finnegans Wake (Chap. 4.1)
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Sandhyas! Sandhyas! Sandhyas! / Calling all downs. Calling all downs to dayne. Array! Surrection! Eireweeker to the wohld bludyn world. O rally, O rally, O rally! Phlenxty, O rally
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Apollonius Rhodius (Ft. R.C. Seaton) – Argonautica
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[1] Come now, Erato, stand by my side, and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea. For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love-
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Richard F. Burton – Arabian Nights,Vol. 2 (Chap. 3)
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Tale of King Omar Bin Al-Nu'uman and His Sons Sharrkan and Zau Al-Makan / And What Befel Them of Things Seld-Seen and Peregrine.[FN#138] / The King asked her, "And what was their
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Lord Byron – The Corsair
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Date: First published 1814.
Related works: The Giaour was the first of Byron’s series of Oriental romances. The poem’s success led Byron to publish three more “Turkish tales” in
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Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre (Chap. 36)
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The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave
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Unknown Author – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance
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The poem of which the following pages offer a prose rendering is contained in a MS., believed to be unique, of the Cottonian Collection, Nero A.X., preserved in the British Museum
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Miguel de Cervantes (Ft. Walter K. Kelly) – The Illustrious Scullery-Maid
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In the famous city of Burgos there lived two wealthy cavaliers, one of whom was called Don Diego de Carriazo, and the other Don Juan de Avendaño. Don Diego had a son called after
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Marcel Proust – Swann in Love (Chapter 3)
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SWANN IN LOVE / To admit you to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins', one condition
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Lord Byron – The Giaour
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The Giaour is a fragmentary narrative poem set in a Turkey. It concerns the giaour who loves Leila, a member of a harem. For disobeying her master Hassan, she is drowned in the sea
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Lord Byron – Don Juan (Canto 11)
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When Bishop Berkeley said 'there was no matter,' / And proved it—'t was no matter what he said: / They say his system 't is in vain to batter, / Too subtle for the airiest human
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 14 - Oxen of the Sun)
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OXEN OF THE SUN
TIME: 10.00 pm.
SCENE: The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street.
ORGAN: Womb
ART: Medicine
COLOURS: White
SYMBOL: Mothers
TECHNIQUE: Embryonic development
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Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Chapter 6)
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Orlando went indoors. It was completely still. It was very silent. There / was the ink pot: there was the pen; there was the manuscript of her poem, / broken off in the middle of a
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader (Chap. 2.5: "Capital, Volume One")
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Capital, Volume One / KARL MARX / Capital (Das Kapital) was Marx's magnum opus, Volume One
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Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue) [class page]
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WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot, / The drought of March hath pierced to the root, / And bathed every vein in such licour, / Of which virtue engender'd is the flower
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Lord Byron – English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is Byron’s first major satire and established his reputation among literary circles. His first major work of poems, Hours of Idleness (which
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