| Until death do us part (fiction) | by The Debutante | 'I keep you by my side because that is what I said I would do.' It came out as a whisper, but in my mind I was screaming. It was almost as if I were drowning in shock, and terror, and disbelief. I couldn't call for help and I couldn't breathe. Every breath was getting shallower and shallower. It didn't matter how hard I concentrated, it was a struggle. Then the room began to move, even though I was standing perfectly still.
He'd asked me one question, but...
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| Earl of Landaff (person) | by aneurin | The Earl of Landaff was a title in the Peerage of Ireland that was in the posession of the Mathew family between the years 1797 and 1833. Its holders are often referred to as being the Earls of Llandaff since that is the more usual spelling of the Llandaff, that is today a suburb of the city of Cardiff in Wales, the title is however most properly that of the Earl of Landaff as it was "so spelt in the patents".
The Mathew family of Llandaff, Radyr and Thurles
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| 1 (fiction) | by stainedglass | The tracework of thin black lead sailed in and out of a sea of colour. It was a pure colour, virgin and untainted, that was the only way to describe it. There, in its depths, washed unutterably beautiful crystal-shard sparklings, born of a single split ray of sunlight. It took Peg's breath away, quite unexpectedly.
All her life, she'd imagined that to be an exaggeration. 'It took my breath away', people would say to her, and she'd nod in response. Up until now it had meant...
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| Why I love Everything2 (log) | by Heisenberg | | It's easy to fall in love with E2.
From my point of view, there are two main reasons for this:
1. The quality of the content.
You can spend hours trailing the softlinks, following somebody's train of thought and miraculously hopping from one excellent, irreverent or touching node to the other. The diversity of the writings is mindboggling, so boredom is out of the question. Here you will find poetry, prose, sci-fi, facts, fiction, diary entries, drivel. Indeed...
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| Are you hoping for a miracle? (review) | by XWiz | The miraculous is all around us.
23rd July, 2008: Birnin Kebbi, whilst consuming fried beef, spots the name of Allah inscribed in the unpalatable curves of a piece of gristle. The restaurateur, upon further searching, discovers three more pieces of similar meat, each containing the holy message. A vet explains that the appearance defies scientific explanation, while visiting Islamic scholars claim 'it was a sign to show that Islam is the only true religion for...
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| measure (idea) | by eien_meru |
Typically, I try to avoid meddling in the arcane machinery of set theory. But measure theory is a pre-requisite for several branches of mathematics, from functional analysis to statistics. So let's avoid a great deal of complexity and just say that we will always work within the bounds of some unnamed model of ZFC (be...
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