mormon enigma: emma hale smith pg 102

emma’s father had died January 11, 1839.  his tombstone bore the inscription: “the body of isaac hale, the hunter, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of their lettering and gilding, lies here, food for worms, yet the work itself shall not be lost, and it will appear once [...]

rockets, missiles and space travel chapter 2

the unicorn climaxed the second installment in 1672, mars happened upon giovanni cassini “who found, to his amazement, that the distance from the sun to the earth had to be more than 80 million miles (actually it is 93 million)”.  (more than) 80 million miles?  that’s like more than double any previous estimation of the [...]

persuasion chapter 18

“there are several odd-looking men walking about here, who, i am told, are sailors” finally, a letter from mary: My dear Anne, I make no apologies for my silence, because I know how little people think of letters in such a place as Bath. but mary must break this self-imposed silence for some important news: [...]

persuasion chapter 17

“. . . i fear its lessons are not in the elevated style you descibe” the last time anne lived in bath was as a depressed and sullen teenager, alone at school, immediately after the death of her mother.  these (dead) memories which still haunt partially account for anne’s cold reception of her second stay [...]

persuasion chapter 16

it was a reference to the future, which anne, after a little observation, felt she must submit to. sir walter seems surprised by anne’s look, ‘less thin in her person, her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved—clearer, fresher. had she been using anything in particular! ‘no, nothing at all.’  ‘ha! he was surprised by [...]

persuasion chapter 15

it had originated in misapprehension entirely bath—kellynch hall, uppercross, capt wentworth and the musgroves have all disappeared . . . but that nothing still exerts a ghostly presence.  those memories shared by anne and those who have read the previous chapters are not mentioned explicitly; sir walter and elizabeth “had no inclination to listen” to [...]

persuasion chapters 13 and 14

“a new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress’s head!” two days after returning from lyme, two days after the accident, anne must leave uppercross.  lady russell arrival reminds anne of her move to bath; buried under the concerns of uppercross, “she had lately lost thought [...]