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121The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud — is an essay by the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan, originally delivered as a talk on May 9, 1957 and later published in Lacan s 1966 book Écrits .Lacan begins the essay by declaring it to be situated halfway between speech and writing. By… …
122The General Is Up — is a novel set in modern Africa by Peter Nazareth. Its story seems, at first glance, to be a fictionalised version of the expulsion of Asians from Idi Amin s Uganda in the seventies. But its writer sees it as being something more than this. The… …
123The Order of Christ Sophia — (OCS) is a Christian organization that was founded in 1999. The OCS describes itself as a holy order and spiritual school that offers training in the doctrines of Christian mysticism.[1] The OCS shares beliefs with two very distinct movements,… …
124The Nigger Bible — is a book by Robert H. deCoy, published by Holloway House in 1967. It is a social and linguistic analysis of the word nigger and of the origins and contemporary circumstances of the black peoples of America. The form is varied and might be… …
125The Fox and the Grapes — is a fable attributed to Aesop. The protagonist, a fox, upon failing to find a way to reach grapes hanging high up on a vine, retreated and said: The grapes are sour anyway! The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:: It is easy to despise… …
126Word guessing — refers to a method of reading where a beginner reader doesn t know what a word is in a sentence, so he/she guesses what the word is and reads the rest of the sentence to confirm their guess, e.g. The fox jumped over the dog. If you didn t know… …
127The No Game — is a party game with only one real rule. Sid Sackson wrote about it in A Gamut of Games , but it undoubtedly existed beforehand.Play is as follows: *Locate a nice prize. *As everyone enters the party, pin a small ribbon on their clothes, one per… …
128The Devil's Coach Horses — is a 1925 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien ( Devil s coach horse is a British expression for a particular kind of rove beetle).Tolkien draws attention to the devil s steeds called eaueres in Hali Meidhad , translated boar in the Early English Text… …
