09-10-08 Chapter 6 - The Eclipse IN the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to REALIZE your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a...

09-10-08 Chapter 5 - An Inspiration I WAS so tired that even my fears were not able to keep me awake long. When I next came to myself, I seemed to have been asleep a very long time. My first thought was, Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! I reckon I'v...

09-10-08 IT seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt. Sir Dinadan the Humorist was the first to awake, an...

09-10-08 MAINLY the Round Table talk was monologues -- narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. As a general thing -- as far as I could make out -...

09-10-08 THE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just on a visit or somethi...

09-10-08 CAMELOT -- Camelot, said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely. It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, an...

09-10-08 THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only p...

09-09-24 Hollywood actor John Travolta is expected to appear in court during an extortion trial in the Bahamas. 好莱坞演员John Travolta将要出席巴哈马群岛一起勒索案的法庭审理。 Jett was John Travolta's only son Former senator Pleasant Bridgewater and medic Ta...

09-09-14 The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague is due to deliver a verdict on a former official court spokeswoman. 海牙国际战犯法庭将会宣布对一位前官方女发言人的判决。 Ms Hartmann described top-level talks about the Bosni...

09-08-24 Honduras's supreme court has rejected a Costa Rica-brokered deal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power and ordered his arrest if he returns. 洪都拉斯最高法院否决了哥斯达黎加作为中间人意图使被赶下台的总统Manuel Zelaya恢复权利的提议，并下...