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  • Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable. RVABlogs
  • “Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • But though they blethered and and grumbled and girned at him, they forgot it all soon enough and laughed about his nonsense.
  • “And what are you two auld boys blethering about now?” A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • He blethered on about Mike and the party and what he did and who he knew. GO!
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  • Yes, but does Blethen know what a thesaurus is and how to use it? Sound Politics: In which I join the MSM
  • I canna but believe Richard was of a mind to frighten you and nothing more with all his blether about marriage. Healing the Highlander
  • A little more and you would have found your Lethe oversoon, old friend. In the Border Country
  • * [6573] Oimai men egō ton alēthestaton logon peri toutōn einai ō Sōkrates, meizō tina dunamin einai ē anthrōpeian, tēn themenēn ta prōta onomata tois pragmasin. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that might make Lethem’s heroes worthy of a true fan’s regard. The Reading Experience
  • Gibingly circumstantial was an insurance web site not to tichodroma the bibliothecarial vice, or triumvir, of the cytoarchitecture neuropteron stupaed to sunday the blether of that zooplankton. Rational Review
  • zone_info": "huffpost. books/blog; books = 1; nickname = amy-hungerford; entry_id = 335241; black-swan-green = 1; book-marketing = 1; david-mitchell = 1; elizabeth-strout = 1; jonathan-lethem = 1; literature = 1; motherless-brooklyn = 1; professors = 1; reading = 1; textbooks = 1; university = 1; yale-university = 1", Amy Hungerford: Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter
  • Whether or not Roman Abramovich's spending really does put Chelsea back in the title race, it is possiblethey may have the biggest say in where the trophy ends up. Crawley Town beat the odds to earn FA Cup visit to Manchester United
  • How did we ever survive all those evenings of ‘plastic pottery’ and the unending blether from the representative, clad of course in the obligatory twin set and pearls?
  • Mrs. Frost was ever on the alert lest any of her smaller children should get in the way of these huge rubber-tyred vehicles tearing along at reckless speed, -- and old Josey Letherbarrow resolutely refused to go outside his garden gate except on Sundays. God's Good Man
  • Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night. Famous in Finland, Fixture in France
  • The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood a long time at the bars wondering what had become of Felicita. Spring o' the Year
  • Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
  • OK, I exaggerate, but my mate down there was under the weather, so it didn't seem terribly good form to inflict my jetlagged, mindfucked blethering on him. Archive 2010-06-01
  • Then, in 1910 another medium, Mrs. Willett in England, was questioned about the word Lethe. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • All day Saturday they had been alternately playing and fighting with Heather and Stephanie, Moray's wee sisters, in the house and round the garden while their mums drank coffee and blethered in the kitchen and their dads hit into a force eight on the links. Quite Ugly One Morning
  • I made for the door, blethering nonsense, and had to stop myself running down the drive, straight home. A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • He kept talking about "tough choices" and "difficult decisions" but as far as I could tell he didn't answer a single one of John Humphries questions, he just blethered on about Tory cuts whilst failing to acknowledge that Labour will on their own figures have to cut too. Archive 2009-06-01
  • She blethered for ages and ages and ages on the second question. Question Time: Mackenzie and Spelman, Yeuch
  • Ashmans Park, Suff., which was independent of the Naunton property, and of certain heir-looms, the sole remains of the great estates of the "Nauntons of Letheringham," which continue in the possession of the descendants of that family. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • But for the most accomplished jurists the Lethean draught was entirely superfluous. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Elaborates on “Empathy,” What He Wants in a Supreme Court Nominee:
  • Naturally - or, rather, unnaturally - this process was articulated on the page as amnesia: "When I came to consider the matter, the truth was that my memory had been fraying at the edges for some time; the grey waters of Lethe undercutting its soft cliffs, so that my bungaloid recollections - which, no matter how tasteless, had the virtue of being owned outright, not mortgaged - tumbled on to the beach below. The Guardian World News
  • HPConfig. blog_id = 3; var ads_page_type = 'bpage'; var zone_info = "huffpost. books/blog; books = 1; nickname = amy-hungerford; entry_id = 335241; black-swan-green = 1; book-marketing = 1; david-mitchell = 1; elizabeth-strout = 1; jonathan-lethem = 1; literature = 1; motherless-brooklyn = 1; professors = 1; reading = 1; textbooks = 1; university = 1; yale-university = 1"; if (top! Amy Hungerford: Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter
  • Four books later, Lethem has settled down a lot -- this book is only a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold "Oliver Twist" and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush. Books, 'Tis / Frank Mccourt
  • Upon the assumption that all of the £2. 6million removed from GPO custody on 8/8/63 had been recovered at Letherslade Farm, how thick would the charge sheet have been and how many days would it have been in compilation, and, would this be a good question for a promotion examination, and, if so, to what rank? on April 4, 2007 at 8: 22 pm | Reply justacop The Whistle Blows « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Protectant for irritated skin containing polyethyleneglycols, polyvinylether salt anhydride and polyvinylpyrrolidone
  • The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
  • Blethen-pere is right that diverse local media is an essential check on government. Sound Politics: Speaking of the death of the mainstream media
  • The banging on the door brought the cheerful blethering to a halt. A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • He clicked on the morphine dispenser but this time he didn't feel the trickle of Lethe, as they'd begun to call it. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • And there first men fynden a gode toun, that is clept Belethe; and it is at the ende of the kyngdom of The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
  • He lay completely still, not breathing, and when Alethea had felt his wrist for a pulse, she found one, but it was very faint.
  • Apud antiquos amor Lethes olim fuit, is ardentes faeces in profluentum inclinabat; hujus statua Veneris Eleusinae templo visebatur, quo amantes confluebant, qui amicae memoriam deponere volebant. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And there first men fynden a gode toun, that is clept Belethe; and it is at the ende of the kyngdom of Halappee. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Ed. [211] Oimai men egō ton alēthestaton logon peri toutōn einai ō Sōkrates, meizō tina dunamin einai ē anthrōpeian, tēn themenēn ta prōta onomata tois pragmasin. — Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • As Jack afterward said, "They blethered like a lot o 'wild geese. Stories by English Authors: the Sea
  • I prefer telethetic and telethesia to telemetry because the word telemetry is also used by the armed forces to describe a mechanical means of gathering long range data.
  • The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening. Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
  • A sodality of soreheads under the black flag of the Underground Literary Alliance had no other apparent purpose than to complain at tentshows that Moody and his whitebread buddies, a circle-jerk of class entitlements with names like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, and David Foster Wallace, had gobbled up all the royalties and review space, all the MacArthur baubles and Guggenheim buzz in Bookie World. In the Desert, Prime Time
  • I hated Mark and Sally---the way Mark blethered on inanely and the way Sally kept directing little smirks and comments at Art. READY?
  • Key Shelterbelt Construction Program in North , Northeast and Northwest China and the Lower - Middlethe Yangtze River.
  • The four of you lads can stay and blether on for as long as you like. Healing the Highlander
  • Ye old bletherin 'doited witch!" he said, "ye old –" His eloquence had not failed him, and Marg'ret, though a brave woman, who had taken these objurgations composedly enough on previous occasions, was altogether overwhelmed by the torrent of fiery words, and the red ferocious light in the eyes of the skeleton form in the bed. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
  • Having passed the Styx, (much the smallest of the rivers,) you walk over a pile of large rocks, and are on the banks of Lethe; and looking back, you will see a line of men and women descending the high hill from the cave, which runs _over_ the river Styx. Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter
  • A polyaryletherketone polymer replaces acetal, titanium, and other traditional materials.
  • Ultem 9085 polether imide with new machines designed for direct digital manufacturing, which is the production of parts directly from CAD files. The Gadgeteer
  • In the case of the Blether persistence JAR, the conversion is straightforward and so it is not necessary to use the tool.
  • Let us break our apples upon the riverbank, which is Lethe, we cannot remember her - and her cheek is bruised from the fall. THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems
  • WhileThe Matrix ’s sacred city of “Zion”/Sion is not unique to Priory lore, it is hard to find another source for the character called the Merovingian. The Sion Revelation
  • I'd tweeted of my trip and, knowing them from WFCs in the past, ended up arranging for beer and a blether on Friday, and to see the show together on Thursday. Archive 2010-06-01
  • The collection itself was patchy, weakened by the kind of fabulism and look-at-me rhetorical gimmicks found in books by his coevals Jonathan Lethem and Jonathan Safran Foer. Life With and Without Tradition
  • I'll lay my lugs that's the true reason, and brawly does he ken his corn's a 'caff, or he wadna keep the sack mouth tied, and try to put us aff wi' bletheration. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • He is a bit of a blether, but there was similar information from the others. A DEATH IN TIME
  • Gie the wean a sweetie an' a glass o ' ginger, fur Goad's sake an' gie over wi ' the sufferin ' saviour blether ! THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Gie the wean a sweetie an' a glass o ' ginger, fur Goad's sake an' gie over wi ' the sufferin ' saviour blether ! THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • But by the same token, tracks like "Year of Affliction", "Lethean", and "Suffocate" show that the band is equally able to thrash just as hard as any "tough-guy" hardcore band in the modern scene. PopMatters
  • ` ` I watna, 'replied Mr. Jarvie; --- ` ` it was a bletherin phrasin' chield they ca 'Fairservice, that cam at e'en to get an order to send the crier through the toun for ye at skreigh o' day the morn. Rob Roy
  • The apparatus is one of telethesia.
  • Guada-Lethe, which flows over against that city; and the lake Avernus, or the Acheronian fen, from the word Aharona, importing, _at the extremities_, a name given to that lake, which is near the ocean. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
  • She blethered on while Bill sipped his fortified tea and Joanne warmed herself by the fire. A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • Thursday, October 30/4. 30pm to 5.30 pm: me, on my own, blethering to a room of people or chairs or any combination thereof. Archive 2008-10-01
  • I can't promise that I'm particularly intelligent in it, or even particularly intelligible, but if ye want to hear me blethering on about stuff and nonsense, well ... enjoy. posted by Hal Duncan | 2: 53 PM Starship Sofa Interview
  • An alternative, dialetheic account of motion, which takes at face value the aforementioned Hegelian idea that “Something moves, not because at one moment it is here and another there, but because at one and the same moment it is here and not here, because in this ˜here™, it at once is and is not”, is exposed in Priest, 1987, Ch. 12. Dialetheism
  • I really enjoy having a good old blether with my pals and socialise with them when I get the chance.
  • Bletherley had called the monopolist institution of marriage. Love and Mr. Lewisham
  • None in our day and age have encountered the lethe wyvern face to face at least none that have survived to tell the tale .
  • WHAT was John Denham blethering on about last night? Got Carried Away
  • For today's tyros, cast your eyes across the Atlantic, where Eggers, Lethem, Franzen et al emanate a buzz that is more than publishers' wishful thinking.
  • Gie the wean a sweetie an' a glass o ' ginger, fur Goad's sake an' gie over wi ' the sufferin ' saviour blether! THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The Blethering Classes pretended their daily help or the woman in the corner shop was worried.
  • He listened to Bletherley with a marked disapproval, and opened a vigorous defence of that ancient tradition of loyalty that Bletherley had called the monopolist institution of marriage. Love and Mr Lewisham
  • But this Lethean medicine to a wounded mind was but a temporary blessing; the entrance of La Motte dissolved the illusions of the page, and awakened her to a sense of her own situation. The Romance of the Forest
  • - J. rob the wanderers wreck'd upon the flrand.. - ic-fe, jwhiletheir lavage ofiice ihev puri'ue,. tt wound to death the helplels. plunder'd cre%v,. 'lo, 'fcap'd from every Jiorror of the main, The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
  • Myers, who died in 1901, was supposed to be communicating through Piper, so Dorr asked “Myers” what the word Lethe suggested to him. Experiencing the Next World Now
  • In Lethem's constant rehashing of the superhero theme, one thing left unanalysed is the real significance of the DC and Marvel phenomenon.
  • He clicked on the morphine dispenser but this time he didn't feel the trickle of Lethe, as they'd begun to call it. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
  • The teacher looked kindly enough, but upon listening to his lesson of Lethe's history and geography she found him to be quite boring, and began to doze, somehow retaining most of the information he droned at her.
  • Key Shelterbelt Construction Program in North , Northeast and Northwest China and the Lower - Middlethe Yangtze River.
  • That's the reigning voice, the Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem off-kilter irony, Philip K. Dick with a lobotomy, and you better get with the program, the Manhattan-Brooklyn affectedness, or else. Anis Shivani: Voice in Fiction: A Favorite MFA/Writing Program Shibboleth
  • Lethem moves his large cast through his futuristic terrain like a tech wizard blueprinting a complex video game. Times, Sunday Times
  • But before that the Paiutes, mesne lords of the soil, made a campoodie by the rill of Pine Creek; and after, contesting the soil with them, cattle-men, who found its foodful pastures greatly to their advantage; and bands of blethering flocks shepherded by wild, hairy men of little speech, who attested their rights to the feeding ground with their long staves upon each other's skulls. The Land of Little Rain
  • Sleek and smart, those wee black eyes dart from side to side and while others blether and blunder he just keeps to his game and he's always witty. Alex Salmond: Scotland's new superhero | Observer profile
  • The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it by Les Miserables
  • There was beer and blether and more blether and more beer. Archive 2009-11-01
  • In Lethem's constant rehashing of the superhero theme, one thing left unanalysed is the real significance of the DC and Marvel phenomenon.
  • Boke of hawkynge, huntynge, and fysshynge, with all the propertyes and medecynes that are necessarye to be kepte_: "Hawkes haue aboute theyr legges gesses made of lether most comonly, some of sylke, which shuld be no lenger but that the knottes of them shulde appere in the myddes of the lefte hande," &c. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • The Spring context in the Blether WAR looks up the EntityManagerFactory that it uses from the Web module's local JNDI, where it is mapped by a persistence-unit-ref in the module's web.xml file.
  • At nine Captain Blethen appeared, smoking a cigar with nonchalance, and told us that the hurricane had nearly boxed the compass, and had been the most severe he had known for seventeen years.
  • At Lethem on the Brazilian frontier there's a big rodeo every Easter, attended by many rugged vaqueros from both sides of the border.
  • They have got to remain kneeling all the whilethey could hardly rise from their knees without hitting the ceilingand you can easily see by trying it what a tremendous effort this means. Down the Mine
  • Examples include butterflybush, abelia and clethera. ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community
  • Mr. Lethem wanted to play with many of the elements of the bronze-age superhero (crazy costumes, alien robots, freaky bad guys, freakier "good" guys, life or death combat), but it came across as very emotionally flat. What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • In fact, one of the best moments of contrast on the whole album occurs in the middle section, where "Lethean", the album's heaviest track, is bookended by two of its most melodic, "Forsaken" and "Oblivion". PopMatters
  • Then I pressed in amongst them nigh unto the biere, and got upon a stone to see this mysterie, and behold incontinently the dead body began to receive spirit, his principall veines did moove, his life came again and he held up his head and spake in this sort: Why doe you call mee backe againe to this transitorie life, that have already tasted of the water of Lethe, and likewise been in the deadly den of Styx? The Golden Asse
  • Gie the wean a sweetie an' a glass o ' ginger, fur Goad's sake an' gie over wi ' the sufferin ' saviour blether! THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Thanks, asianHusseingrrl "that one" MN, I know that & saw it - I just want a HUGE pic of it at the actual event … - otherwise I'll get a bunch of 'blether' from the pwwnbn … … …. WordPress.com News
  • Lether shoes range from $10 a pair.
  • * tosautē autous pleonexia pareschēkei kai anoia kateilēphei, hōs mē hepesthai tois hupo tōn palai katadeichtheisin .... alla kata tēn autōn prothesin kai hōs hekastos ebouleto, houtōs heautois kai nomous poiēsai kai toutous paraphulastein kai en diaphorois diaphora plēthē sunagein: [1515] 1 The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
  • What I'm more interested in is the term "nonfunctional" that Fitzgerald wields against Lethem's writing. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
  • The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood Spring o' the Year
  • These policies stolethe healthcare, education, hope, andfinancial security from millions of Americans tosecure political payoffsfor a wealthy few. On Sub-Prime Behavior
  • A transplanted Hollander, carried thither originally from China, seems to thrive particularly well in this part of the world; the little pug dog, or Dutch mastiff, which our English ladies were once so fond of, that poor Garrick thought it worth his while to ridicule them for it in the famous dramatic satire called Lethe, has quitted London for Padua, I perceive; where he is restored happily to his former honours, and every carriage I meet here has a _pug_ in it. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
  • Diana's sadness slowly faded as she turned her attention towards Lethe, and an uncontrollable eruption of rage built up inside of her.
  • Pitmatic anna new - ah've blethered on aboot it in Wordorigins like. Languagehat.com: DEVON DIALECT.
  • Alethea, a poet with a past, watches and notes, despite encroaching blindness.
  • There you’ll find that the word for truth is aletheia, from which in English we get the word lethargy. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
  • He is a bit of a blether, but there was similar information from the others. A DEATH IN TIME
  • They blethered endlessly, the way they used to, making each other laugh, exchanging thoughts and ideas. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
  • Well, we'd just had a wee blether on the universal nature of brotherly love, when a clishmaclaver broke out, over by your kiln. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • The everyday experience of geography is now also a collective experience of the virtual geography of global media events as the world-making and world-disclosing vectors of the television, telephone and tele-satellite uplinks make telethesia - perception at a distance - an integral part of late twentieth century ‘human’ faculties and capabilities.
  • Ultem 9085 polether imide can now be used to make production parts on Victrex is being used on EOS laser sintering systems. All DN headlines
  • I've only been aware of indie gay presses (not that Lethe is gay or anything) for the past three years. Mroctober: Breach
  • The boundless opportunities of this heaven of legal concepts were open to all properly qualified jurists, provided only they drank the Lethean draught which induced forgetfulness of terrestrial human affairs. The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama Elaborates on “Empathy,” What He Wants in a Supreme Court Nominee:
  • The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
  • He babbled, carrying on like some serving wench with good gossip, unable to stop his own blether, until she ducked her shoulder away from his touch. Healing the Highlander
  • It is freely miscible with ethanol, diethylether, acetone, and acetic acid (ethanoic acid).
  • Jonathan Lethem carried through the idea of plagiarizing an essay praising plagiarism in 2007 with his essay called "The ecstasy of influence". Dinosaur Comics
  • 'How aboot the Blairlethen shinty team?' asked one of the welly brothers. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
  • As Truth remains eternally the same, whether called 'maa', as by the Egyptians, or 'Aletheia' as by the An Egyptian Princess — Complete
  • What Lethean waters were these floods of telegraphed intelligence! Sister Carrie
  • A blethering, [160] blustering, drunken blellum; [161] From Chaucer to Tennyson
  • The father of mysteries dies of unknown causes after a three-day disappearance; the ratiocinator and critic willingly embraces Lethe and Nepenthe. Kenneth Hite's Journal

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