The Sublime Heights of Generous Passions

The Sublime Heights of Generous Passions

Author: Ernst Delma

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1553694805

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A fate impregnated of unspoken prophecies, a phenomenal tour de force - to properly speak - a tour de force commanding a favorable manipulation of the things of life has brought together what nature has created to live in harmony and that all egocentric human conventions tend to shamelessly set apart through racial pretexts and irrelevant schemes. On a propitious stage - laid by Providence, supreme architect, unforeseeable genie of organization, as by enchantment, as by an imperious necessity, as if nature wanted to impose its supreme will in the intimacy of human affairs - are joined two destinies dressed for the conquest, the mastery and the triumph of life's noblest sentiments. In an exceptional situation arranged by a circumstance of the most unaccustomed came to life one of the most striking episodes of life sagacious occurrences promoter of those sentiments that are said to be too beautiful to be true. Two human entities joined wisdom, patience and stubbornness to ensure the triumph of the most powerful because the truest and the purest sentiments of life. Gustave Brun - a man of color from humble social and economic background - has become the archetype of intellectual success, possessor of solid almost autodidactic Academic formation. Having walked his way with small but firm steps up to the zone where elitist intellectualism finds its more explicit definition, he silently nourished a male desire to succeed instilled in him by the harsh existence he has survived. A huge, quiet, logic and understandable ambition -"a vaulting ambition which overleaps itself," would say William Shakespeare - stayed the beacon that has led every single one of his short but constant strides in the long but fruitful crusade for the fulfillment of his manly aspirations. Holder of undeniable credentials, he transcended to deserve a Professorial chair of Cultural Anthropology in one of the most prestigious establishments of Education on earth, as it occurs Princeton University. Yet, he still felt short on his success, which he acknowledged, unfinished until he would have the opportunity to add to his intellectual accomplishment what he would eventually consider as the most important acquisition of his lifetime: love, true love, the one that crowns all human longings. Her Assistant secretly hung his heart high on the frontispiece of love, and - as he is going to admit it later - since day one, since his hungry eyes, thirsty of romantic complicity were posed on her adorable silhouette. Celine Lakadus, young female Caucasian, bearer of a proverbial sweetness in the neighborhood of culture, innate sweetness inside-outly expressed and inherited from the Latin background of her Romanian father, heiress of a colossal otherwise extravagant fortune and possessor of what can ensure high life standards in uppercase characters. At the paroxysm of her womanly dreams, armed with a solid cultural formation, her quest for happiness came to an unexpected height when fate has placed on her way at the right time the unexpected and the inevitable. Her who felt before like abandoned on the endless boulevard of ecstasy - by fault of her own demanding character when it comes to sentimental questions - as a flower condemned to wither at the next dry season suddenly learned to dream. Gustave Brun, her former mentor, stole her heart. She has learned - aided by her natural perspicacity to weigh details and to discover the truth of all things. During the course of several months of frank camaraderie although limited to intellectual exchange of ideas, she has arrived to the self-persuasion plateau and assessed him as being the man she's been expecting for so long. Why, would ask the stupefied, petrified spectator? "Reasons of the heart that reason ignores", she would argue. For both, it's the renaissance of life in its entire splendor. A life that appeared for both senseless in its essence where any materialistic accomplishment that it is eco


Heights of Passion

Heights of Passion

Author: Don Schecter

Publisher: Booksurge Publishing

Published: 2009-01-13

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781439210680

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From the eerie mystery of You've Got Male and the homicides of Happy Hour, to the insistent rhythms of El Baile and the glitter of Heights of Passion, these tales bristle with excitement. A man plans to leave his wife for a lover. Two queens get their dead batteries jumped by a foreign student. An older man attempts to train a young stud as his pet. Murder/suicide in Ft. Lauderdale. One man's life is influenced by a closeted mentor. Another's is altered by his knife-wielding mother. Bisexuals profit from a torrid novel. A Hollywood director finds excitement in domination. A spinner of tales seduces a straight man. Conquest in a Spanish dance bar. A retired doctor finds a wet dream in a chat room. An older man is stalked on the internet. A traveler breaks new ground with a Korean novice. An artist uses food as a metaphor for sex. An observer is asked to referee a squabbling couple in bed. Each story is designed to intrigue.


The Passion Paradox

The Passion Paradox

Author: Brad Stulberg

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1635653444

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The coauthors of the bestselling Peak Performance dive into the fascinating science behind passion, showing how it can lead to a rich and meaningful life while also illuminating the ways in which it is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to cultivate a passion that will take you to great heights—while minimizing the risk of an equally great fall. Common advice is to find and follow your passion. A life of passion is a good life, or so we are told. But it's not that simple. Rarely is passion something that you just stumble upon, and the same drive that fuels breakthroughs—whether they're athletic, scientific, entrepreneurial, or artistic—can be every bit as destructive as it is productive. Yes, passion can be a wonderful gift, but only if you know how to channel it. If you're not careful, passion can become an awful curse, leading to endless seeking, suffering, and burnout. Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness once again team up, this time to demystify passion, showing readers how they can find and cultivate their passion, sustainably harness its power, and avoid its dangers. They ultimately argue that passion and balance--that other virtue touted by our culture--are incompatible, and that to find your passion, you must lose balance. And that's not always a bad thing. They show readers how to develop the right kind of passion, the kind that lets you achieve great things without ruining your life. Swift, compact, and powerful, this thought-provoking book combines captivating stories of extraordinarily passionate individuals with the latest science on the biological and psychological factors that give rise to—and every bit as important, sustain—passion.


The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Author: Derek B. Scott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1317041976

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The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and, at the same time, to provide an instructive example of a particular way of working and thinking. The essays have been written with a view to helping graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. The team of contributors is an exceptionally strong one: it contains many of the pre-eminent academic figures involved in popular musicological research, and there is a spread of European, American, Asian, and Australasian scholars. The volume covers seven main themes: Film, Video and Multimedia; Technology and Studio Production; Gender and Sexuality; Identity and Ethnicity; Performance and Gesture; Reception and Scenes and The Music Industry and Globalization. The Ashgate Research Companion is designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companion's editor brings together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.


Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Bronte

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0593244036

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The classic tale of tormented love and the inexorable pull of the past, from one of history’s greatest literary talents, with an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor’s daughter, Cathy. But over the years, their childhood friendship morphs into a desperate, twisted, possessive love, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy’s brother and the confines of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and tortured heartbreak reverberating through the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors. With striking force, Emily Brontë’s mesmerizing prose claws at the nature of human folly, defying the gender, religious, and social mores of its day. Wuthering Heights is a transcendent, mystifying masterpiece that examines the cruelty of love, and the ways in which the past, scratching at a windowpane with ghostly fingers, never lets us go. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.


Making Love Better Than Ever

Making Love Better Than Ever

Author: Barbara Keesling, Ph.D.

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 1998-06-15

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1630265330

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Drawing from her years of professional experience as a sexual surrogate and therapist, Keesling delves into the profound and complex powers of sexuality, offering readers the idea that sexual exchange between loving partners contains all the elements necessary for healing and happiness: touch, intimacy, communication, physical activity, and playfulness.


Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot

Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot

Author: Various Authors

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 1246

ISBN-13: 1317288645

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This set reissues 5 books on George Eliot originally published between 1963 and 1989. The volumes examine many of Eliot’s most respected works, including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. As well as proving in-depth analyses of Eliot’s work, this collection also includes an extensive collection of her critical articles written between 1846 and 1868. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature.