Chapter 11 chapter 11 queens and Nightmares one lightly colored to the many servants and courtiers that approached. I could see that she had an intense affection for him. I was looking around for Chin. Each doorway had a thick cloth that could be rolled down from the top for privacy. She bit her lip […] Read more

Mrs. Gardiner’s caution to Elizabeth was punctually and kindly given on the first favorable opportunity of speaking to her alone; after honestly telling her what she thought, she thus went on: “You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it; and, therefore, I am not afraid […] Read more

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, […] Read more

Audition Script Centuries-old advice and musings tend to have broad applicability if we still know them so far into the future. What makes for motivation? Why do certain people look extra-motivated, in constant movement, while others seem like they can’t drag themselves off the couch without a forklift? What is this intangible, imaginary quantity that […] Read more

Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down. ‘Jimmy? Jimmy McCann?’ It was. A little heavier than when Morrison had seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise […] Read more

The basic question is this: given human nature, are any of us really capable of change? The mistakes other people make are usually patently obvious. Our own are tougher to recognize. In most cases, our path through life reflects a fundamental truth about who we are now and who we’ve been since birth. We’re optimists […] Read more

It was long after midnight. The flickering torches around the castle yard, already replaced once, had begun to burn low again. Will had watched patiently for hours, waiting for this moment – when the light was uncertain and the guards were yawning, in the last hour of their shift. The day had been one of […] Read more

Before movies and recordings gave musicals a degree of permanence, all that existed was live performance. People streamed into vaudeville houses, theaters, and concert halls for their musical entertainment. But by the late nineteenth century, a nascent mass entertainment industry was appearing. In 1877 Thomas Alva Edison invented a cylinder “talking machine,” advertising that “it […] Read more

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