Posted on 20 May 2013. Tags: h.h., Munro, Passage, Saki, Sredni, theme, This, Vashtar, What
In the dull, cheerless garden, overlooked by so many windows that were ready to open with a message not to do this or that, or a reminder that medicines were due, he found little attraction. The few fruit-trees that it contained were set jealously apart from his plucking, as though they were rare specimens of their kind blooming in an arid waste; it would probably have been difficult to find a market-gardener who would have offered ten shillings for their entire yearly produce. In a forgotten corner, however, almost hidden behind a dismal shrubbery, was a disused tool-shed of respectable proportions, and within its walls Conradin found a haven, something that took on the varying aspects of a playroom and a cathedral. He had peopled it with a legion of familiar phantoms, evoked partly from fragments of history and partly from his own brain, but it also boasted two inmates of flesh and blood. In one corner lived a ragged-plumaged Houdan hen, on which the boy lavished an affection that had scarcely another outlet. Further back in the gloom stood a large hutch, divided into two compartments, one of which was fronted with close iron bars. This was the abode of a large polecat-ferret, which a friendly butcher-boy had once smuggled, cage and all, into its present quarters, in exchange for a long-secreted hoard of small silver. Conradin was dreadfully afraid of the lithe, sharp-fanged beast, but it was his most treasured possession. Its very presence in the tool-shed was a secret and fearful joy, to be kept scrupulously from the knowledge of the Woman, as he privately dubbed his cousin. And one day, out of Heaven knows what material, he spun the beast a wonderful name, and from that moment it grew into a god and a religion. The Woman indulged in religion once a week at a church near by, and took Conradin with her, but to him the church service was an alien rite in the House of Rimmon. Every Thursday, in the dim and musty silence of the tool-shed, he worshipped with mystic and elaborate ceremonial before the wooden hutch where dwelt Sredni Vashtar, the great ferret. Red flowers in their season and scarlet berries in the winter-time were offered at his shrine, for he was a god who laid some special stress on the fierce impatient side of things, as opposed to the Woman’s religion, which, as far as Conradin could observe, went to great lengths in the contrary direction. And on great festivals powdered nutmeg was strewn in front of his hutch, an important feature of the offering being that the nutmeg had to be stolen. These festivals were of irregular occurrence, and were chiefly appointed to celebrate some passing event. On one occasion, when Mrs. De Ropp suffered from acute toothache for three days, Conradin kept up the festival during the entire three days, and almost succeeded in persuading himself that Sredni Vashtar was personally responsible for the toothache. If the malady had lasted for another day the supply of nutmeg would have given out.
Here is the passage:
The Houdan hen was never drawn into the cult of Sredni Vashtar. Conradin had long ago settled that she was an Anabaptist. He did not pretend to have the remotest knowledge as to what an Anabaptist was, but he privately hoped that it was dashing and not very respectable. Mrs. De Ropp was the ground plan on which he based and detested all respectability.
This is the Answers given to me:
imagination
pantheism
religion
rebellion
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Posted on 19 May 2013. Tags: Anyway, Benghazi, difference, Does, Make, What
Soon after the terrorist attack that left four Americans dead in Libya, reports began coming in that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not only murdered by the Muslim mob, but also sodomized both before and after his death, and his corpse dragged through the streets.
Sexual abuse and degradation is a common tactic used against non-Muslims, as the repeatedly raped. In fact, the photos of Ambassador Stevens stripped of clothes, bloodied and tortured right before he was killed very much resemble the photos of Gaddafi right before he was killed. One U.S.-supported “freedom-fighter,” can be seen sodomizing Gadaffi with a rod as others dragged him along.
Al-Qaeda affiliated men who sexually abused and killed Gaddafi are the same men who sexually abused and killed America’s ambassador.http://counterjihadreport.com/2012/09/21…
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Posted on 18 May 2013. Tags: Affiliated, Does, Mean, What
when you work for medical doctors who are affiliated with certain hospitals, what does it mean
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Posted on 18 May 2013. Tags: Here, Some, Things, What
I’m female, so my guy friend told me to watch raw and TNA.
He told me.
TNA uses
The Use of Foul Language
chairs to heads, ladders to faces and barbed wire and thumbtacks
Austin Aries just pulled off a very bad move on TNA Impact against Christy Hemme. She announced the wrong name as Aries and his teammate Bobby Roode came out. He insisted on yelling at her in the corner and he got on the top rope and put his crotch in her face.
Very violent.
Amazing talent
Woman in hardcore matches
Weapons allowed
Loud crowd
Crowd chants: Holy sh1t, TNA, swearing, you f8ck up
Middle finger legally allowed
Majority of the fans are above 15 and young adults
WWE policy
no use of foul language
no chairs to heads, ladders to faces and barbed wire and thumbtacks, No weapons allowed.
Poor wrestling matches
Majority of them are John Cena fans.
Majority of the fans that are teens above 15 and young adults saying it sucks
Quite crowd.
Majority of the fans are people under 10
My question is………………………………
My friend also said that Stone Cold and The Rock were better than the majority of wrestlers in today WWE.
WHY CAN’T WWE DO STUFF LIKE TNA DOES?
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Posted on 17 May 2013. Tags: Could, What, Would
if you have any contacts on Y!A, would you like to spend the day with any of them? what would you do with them?
me:
id steal M!key out of class and grape the ***** outta him, whether he has a gf or not. lolol.
(shhh its a secret. dont tell him)
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Posted on 17 May 2013. Tags: Agrees, Cheney, Core", dick, Does, Hard, Leftist, What, When, With
Dick Cheney on Benghazi
“”They ignored repeated warnings from the CIA about the threat. They ignored messages from their own people on the ground that they needed more security. They reduced what was already there. And the administration either had no forces ready to respond to an attack, which should have been anticipated on the anniversary of 9/11, or they refused to deploy them when our people asked for help.”
Maureen Dowd
New York Times
The administration’s behavior before and during the attack in Benghazi, in which four Americans died, was unworthy of the greatest power on earth.
President Obama knew he was sending diplomats and their protectors into a country that was no longer a country, a land rife with fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda.
Yet in this hottest of hot spots, the State Department’s minimum security requirements were not met, requests for more security were rejected, and contingency plans were not drawn up, despite the portentous date of 9/11 and cascading warnings from the C.I.A
The defense secretary at the time, Leon Panetta, insisted, “We quickly responded.” But they responded that they would not respond.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opinio…
Cheney and Dowd AGREE !
Let that sink in !
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