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Кто этого не хочет или не может, от того было бы справедливо потребовать, чтобы он, набравшись мужества, снарядил экспедицию к сказочным животным, в чем ему охотно окажут поддержку вышеупомянутые Лабарту и Пазузу. А они не позволяют с собой шутить - в отличие от нас, слабых человеческих существ, увы. постоянно к этому принуждаемых.

Совершенно четко представилась ему опять та сцена, когда Георг Лауффер словно выставлял напоказ — голышом — всех членов команды, характеризуя их (в большей или меньшей степени) как телесных или душевных уродов; с такой ненавистью может говорить только полоумная баба о — мужчине, который ее разочаровал или бросил.

Молодой парочке стало нехорошо. Они отступили в угол. Угол втянул их в себя.

You compensate in all the wrong ways. You wind up looking for someone weaker to bully yourself, you lose confidence and hate your weakness, and you fear and distrust the wrong people, all of which are reasons why bullied kids overwhelmingly wind up as failures in the real world, according to recent studies.

The terrorist slaughter on 9/11 seemed to put a temporary freeze on rage murders, both in schoolyards and in offices. A lot of stuff was put on hold then- including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and even this book, which was started and abruptly canceled after my first publisher's editor told me, in the aftermath of 9/11, "There's no way we can sell a book like this now."

Here he worked for the state lottery, which by definition is already a sleazy enterprise, a government-run scam that preys, like all gambling dens, on the desperate dreams of predominately lower-class fools.

But even within this 90-percent demographic, Hansel proved that he had gone the extra mentally ill mile with his murder spree. That's about the most basic definition of good mental health there is: you only kill people when your government tells you to. Murder under any other circumstance-particularly if because you feel aggrieved-is ipso facto a sign of severe illness.

Oddly enough, the first year that the federal government stopped subsidizing the USPS, 1983, was also the year of the first post office shooting, in Johnston, South Carolina.

Only a man with an Ames background can say phrase like this:

«Washington, however—much like the Russian oligarchs of the 1990s—saw the value in those vouchers, and how they could be manipulated to his advantage.»

Cullen rides this line of reasoning further down the light rail line of idiocy, implying that Harris was a Hitler in the making who was stopped in the nick of time, and we should all be grateful that he only managed to kill a dozen students or else he surely would have gassed us all.

Blaming the French Revolution and the slave rebellion in Hispaniola is Monroe's version of blaming Marilyn Manson and violent video games.

In my own experience, this cheerfulness, this desperate smile, is one of the most corrosive features to daily life in America, one of the greatest alienators—a key toxic ingredient in the cultural poison

– Вы знали, что это старейшая друидская церемония во всей Англии?
– Не знала, но, на мой взгляд, это ещё одна причина, чтобы оставить все как есть. Если у нас самих нет таких древних традиций, то не надо завидовать тем, у кого они есть.

I fervently prayed right then and there that I should never have the dubious privilege of meeting the fellow, under any circumstances. Anyone who went for a Sunday swim in his clothes and walked the way he had walked was not anyone I ever wanted to know.

Тяжкая доля — делать, не ведая, что делаешь.

— Почему нельзя? Сделать можно все! — старик пел слова злобным речитативом. Шагнув к краю, он, словно жрец, приносящий жертву, поднял руки. Седая голова тряслась, пение звучало отрывисто и дико. — Я ненавижу этот мир, сделанный не для нас!.. Эту слизь, названную влагой!... Это зверьё, чуждое людям!... Моя ненависть горит огнем, и огонь пылает в моих руках! Пусть умрет глубина далайна и его яд!

You cannot watch insanities blossom in front of your eyes that long and then forget them. Their colors will keep on with you until you croak.

It's a rub, though, for from your newest cell-block — your apartment house — the porch railings against a street lamp can look enough like a view through a bighouse window to punish a steadier man than you.

His words are acrid, boiling up from the deepest, blackest well in him.

For the next two hours he will harvest curses from men who have been cursed so deeply that now only curses will grow out of them.

We alight, tumbling out like ugly bugs from a hollow log,

Dirty-Skirt is the most dismal specimen of the four. She has lived all of her forty or more years undecided whether to scrub floors or sell joy, and therefore is unsuccessful at both.

Они могут сжечь дом, освободить узника, "снять осаду города, взять его приступом, закончить битву победой", а также "жаловать всякие почести".

"Мне с трудом удалось оттащить сто пятьдесят полусгнивших и изъеденных псами трупов, которые валялись возле моего дома и распространяли заразу, так что я был вынужден съехать оттуда. Из-за запаха и самого вида трупов, заполонивших улицы, я не мог несколько дней выходить из дому и оказывать помощь нуждающимся. Я попросил стражу проследить, чтобы больше не бросали трупы около моего дома."

It is not true for Buddhism, that, as Eliade says of primitive religions, ‘the dead know more than the living’ and therefore must instruct the living.” Extending Bond’s point, it seems the Buddhist portrayal is rendered even more extreme through the symbol of Māra: at their worst, the gods wish to hold humanity back at all costs and must be overthrown.

Buddhist rhetoric casts women’s power to entrance instead as a force masking the horror of death. In the words of Liz Wilson, this serves to feminize saṃsāra and portray the realm of death and rebirth “as a prison in which women are the agents of incarceration.”

Indra plays a key role in the Epics and Purāṇas depicting this tension, primarily through stories in which he fears losing his throne as king of the gods, usually to powerful ascetics, though his position tends in general to be considered precarious. The powers accrued by an ascetic, called tapas (literally “heat”), radiate through the cosmos

The terms usually translated as “evil” in Buddhist texts are pāpimā/pāpmā (Pāli/Sanskrit) or simply pāpa, all of which have dictionary meanings ranging from “evil” to “suffering,” “bad,” “wicked,” and “sinful.”

This is all part of the rhetoric of myth, for that is what myth is, and how I shall treat it: an attempt at persuasion.

I am reminded of something Heinrich Zimmer wrote in the opening to his work on analyzing myths, The King and the Corpse: “What [myths] demand of us is not the monologue of a coroner’s report, but the dialogue of a living conversation." Taking Zimmer to heart, though my dialogic partner in the following venture is considered lord over the power of death, I will attempt to make the endeavor as lively as possible.