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B. Fuller left thousands of pages of notes to the university where he last taught.
As of early 2007 this technology is still in development and the text on the printed pages can only last between 16 – 24 hours before fading.
:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.
The last 50 pages of this 274-page work deals with pride, which he divided into five branches: love of esteem, presumptuousness, vanity, ambition and arrogance.
The second s is not simply the plural ; by an old convention, it doubles the last letter of the abbreviation to express the plural, just as pp. means " pages ".
A complete National Rail Timetable with up to 3000 pages was also available for purchase, but the last hard copy edition was published in May 2007.
By early 1894 a total of 11 fascicles had been published, or about one per year: four for A – B, five for C, and two for E. Of these, eight were 352 pages long, while the last one in each group was shorter to end at the letter break ( which would eventually become a volume break ).
This is eventually determined to have been ordered by a radical eco-terrorist group, which Rainbow tracks down and destroys in the last pages of the novel.
A postscript at the end of the published volume of transactions containing Darwin's paper states that " Whilst the last pages of this volume were in the press, Dr Withering of Birmingham ... published a numerous collection of cases in which foxglove has been given, and frequently with good success ".
New Scientist runs many pages of advertisements for jobs in the field of science in the last section of the magazine.
The critic for Time magazine acknowledged the critical storm around Fleming and Dr. No, but was broadly welcoming of the book, writing that whilst " not all readers will agree that Dr. No ... is magnificent writing, ... pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: ' At last, an unprintable book that is readable '.
Some laser printers maintain a page count of the number of pages printed since last maintenance.
At the last minute, Roddenberry sent down several pages of new script for the dinner scene, in which Spock was to give a long-winded explanation of the philosophy.
Paper contracts sometimes have the ink signature block on the last page, and the previous pages may be replaced after a signature is applied.
Digital signatures can be applied to an entire document, such that the digital signature on the last page will indicate tampering if any data on any of the pages have been altered, but this can also be achieved by signing with ink all pages of the contract.
The story of this volume ( which takes place some 500 years after Seldon ) ties up all the loose ends, but opens a brand new line of thought in the last dozen pages.
The three are mired in a love triangle in the last dozen or so pages, resulting in a tragic ending.
Like most of Charles Dickens ' novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (" Phiz "), with the last being a double-number:
* A Very Short Book: Sometimes the last sketch of an episode, it featured a well-known nursery rhyme or famous story read by a cast member who turned the pages of a book with moving pictures.
The two pages in question consisted of the short sketch " Roderick O ' Conor ", concerning the historic last king of Ireland cleaning up after guests by drinking the dregs of their dirty glasses.
For over six hundred pages, however, Joyce presents Anna Livia to us almost exclusively through other characters, much as in Ulysses we hear what Molly Bloom has to say about herself only in the last chapter.
The last pages of her book made clear that while Ms. Shapley deeply admired certain aspects of McNamara the man, and the public servant, she had seen first-hand his need to manipulate the truth, as well as to tell it.
The last ten pages of this paper contain a highly technical discussion of the identity of the Etruscan god Voltumna in relation to the Latin gods Vertumnus and Janus.

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This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.
My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
He is by no means the country boy he might have been in the last century, down from the hills with bear grease on his hair and a zeal for book learning in his heart.
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book ( The Mysterious Affair at Styles ), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book ( Curtain ), where he visits Styles once again before his death.
The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.
* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.
In addition to these geometrical constructions, Dürer discusses in this last book of Underweysung der Messung an assortment of mechanisms for drawing in perspective from models and provides woodcut illustrations of these methods that are often reproduced in discussions of perspective.
Appended to the last book, however, is a self-contained essay on aesthetics, which Dürer worked on between 1512 and 1528, and it is here that we learn of his theories concerning ' ideal beauty '.
As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.
The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.
However, forgetting the last word, he tries to trick the book by mumbling / coughing the missing word.
A substantial piece of the last part of the book is set in the resulting riotous trial at the Bronx County Court House.
Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.
Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.
In the Masoretic Text, it appears as a single work, either the first or last book of the Ketuvim ( the latter arrangement also making it the final book of the Jewish Bible ).
In most printed versions it is the last book in Ketuvim ( following Ezra-Nehemiah ).
Steven Tuell argues that having Chronicles as the last book in the canon is appropriate since it " attempts to distill and summarize the entire history of God's dealings with God's people.
However, it is also possible to divide the book into three parts rather than four by combining the sections treating David and Solomon, since they both ruled over a combined Judah and Israel, unlike the last section that contains the chronicle of the Davidic kings who ruled the Kingdom of Judah alone.
The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.
According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

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