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An anecdote [1] [2] is "a story with a point", [3] such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.
Jessie Coulson, in the introduction to a 1966 Penguin publication that includes the story, states of "A Nasty Story": Its theme is the terrible gulf between a man's idea of himself, his ideals, and his motives, and what they prove to be in the harsh light of reality.
Atti Dell 'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (in Italian). 132: 243– 264. Walther Amelung (1927). Notes on representations of Socrates and of Diogenes and other cynics. Archaeological Institute of America. pp. 281– 296. David Pinski (1930). Aleḳsander un Dyogenes (in Yiddish) (republished 2002 by National Yiddish Book Center ed ...
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The artwork consists of a brown dog with a human figure, wearing grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans, and dirty red Converse shoes. [1] [2] [4] [5] He is smirking with his hands in his pocket, with the caption written by Banks that he is a "chill guy".
This is a list of urban legends.An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore.It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements.
A number of religious and spiritual traditions encourage simple living. [6] Early examples include the Śramaṇa traditions of Iron Age India and biblical Nazirites.More formal traditions of simple living stretch back to antiquity, originating with religious and philosophical leaders such as Jesus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Zarathustra, Gautama Buddha, and Prophet Muhammad.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was conceived on 4 July 1862, when Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up the river Isis with the three young daughters of Carroll's friend Henry Liddell: [8] [9] Lorina Charlotte (aged 13; "Prima" in the book's prefatory verse); Alice Pleasance (aged 10; "Secunda" in the verse); and Edith Mary (aged 8; "Tertia" in the verse).