Dragon's Animadversions

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Dragons

AnimadversionsBy

Mahmoud Mazloum


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Part One

Literature

Dragons

From early ages and exactly from the heart of mysteries, legendary

creatures had been created to be the horrific part that supports either

the evil or the good side. But only and only one creature had been

classified with both sides; Dragons which were the appalling

immortals that concealed their essence away from ink that wrote

about them.

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Dragons arent just the good or bad creatures that fought for

contradictory and unusual reasons all centuries of mysteries and

myths, but they are the true meaning of strength, destruction,

assurance, hostility, anger, wisdom and sensibility - in despite of the

Dragon himself is good or bad.

Other extraordinary feature in Dragons is their dependence and

independence. A usual Dragon is independent and autonomous; it is

self-determining and certainly able to face the danger alone but if the

danger he is facing is beyond his abilities, the dragon would retreat

and depend on his own people (other dragons) in order to fight back;and this is what is called dependence.

Many things else to write about dragons, but the final thing I am

to write about is using their ability to make the world around them

as if it was made just for them. We never heard about dragons that

didnt fight for their rights, but they used their strength and power to

fight and get their rights whether the others liked it or not. And the

pressure card they used to keep themselves above all is their strengthand power which was symbolized by their fire balls.

Hamlet

n his play," Hamlet", Shakespeare develops a perfect

tragedy about Hamlet the Danish prince who went withhis friends Horatio and Marcellusat the beginning of

the playaway from the castle, but when he retuned, he saw

a spirit and chatted with it at once (act.1, scene),

suddenly the spirit told him that it is his fathers ghost who

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was murdered by his uncle Claudius. In act 2, Claudius

becomes hamlet's stepfather and the king of IDenmark. The

prince alternates between rush actions and delay that

disgusts him, as he tries to enact to revenge his father's

ghost had asked from him. The last scene presents a

tragedy as Hamlet, his mother, Claudius and Laertes (the

lord chamberlain's son) lie dead. Finally, Fortinbras the

Norwegian prince claims the Danish throne.

Rebecca

n his novel, Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurierdevelops a story about a special character calledRebecca that was married to a very rich and

wealthy man called Maxim De Winter, who had ahuge house which was called the Manderley. Manycharacters were high lighted in this story; mainlyMrs. Danvers the servant at the Manderley, andFavell who is Rebecca's cousin.

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The main conflict at the story is Rebecca's death.Maxim De Winter suspected that his wife is going forthe Happy Valley for a certain reason that he don't

know so he followed her through the woods and sawher with Favell so he thought that she loves Favell,and after some time she was dead because of abullet.

Rebecca left a certain conflict in each character,for the first time the reader thinks that she was verynice and gentle with the characters but for the truthshe was described by "the snake", she was awful for

the others and they couldn't love her for any reason,her husband hated her because she always wantedwhat she love to happen and she hadn't respectedhis wishes ever.

Mr. De Winter was sad for her after all, but afterher death he met another woman by coincidence at ahotel while he was going to see Mrs. Van Hopper who

knew him so long before. He considered this lady asthe most convenient one for him so he suddenlyshowed her the great Manderlay and married her;she was a lot better that Rebecca and he knew thatbecause she only cared about his thoughts and whathe wants and needs.

The new lady met all the servants in theManderlay and she was amazed by the huge gate

and the flowers around the house and the beachnear to it. And of course she met Mrs. Danvers andshe loved her.

That was beautiful, but the awful thing is thatRebecca conflict on the other characters kept her

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alive because Maxim can't forget her and he wouldsee her every where, and the new lady is seeingnightmares about the Manderlay which is some way

related to Rebecca.And to make the situation worst, Rebecca was

killed and the killer must be known. At the inquiry,many points of view where shown; Favell said thatMr. De Winter killed her because he thought that sheloves him, while Maxim said that she killed her self,but unfortunately Maxim had no reason to give forthe Justice to prove that she killed her self while

Favell said that he knew her very will because shewas his cousin and she wouldn't do any thing likethis, in addition to that Mr. De Winter had saw themtogether and he hated her for her actions.

In this case, Mr. De Winter was the victim and hewould be in jail for some thing he had not done so hewent searching for the truth of her murderer. Only

one man helped Maxim to get the truth, ColonelJulyan, who knew that Mr. De Winter couldn't do suchthing.

Maxim found some thing that could lead to thetruth, he found and the number of a man called Dr.Baker at his wife's appointment book, she seemed tosee him at two o'clock at the same day she died in

just before her death. That was the first thing that

might help him to get to the truth. The next day, Mr.De Winter, his wife the Colonel and Favell got Dr.Baker's home to ask him about his meeting withRebecca (Mrs. De Winter), but he could notremember her at all. To be sure, Dr. Baker brought hisnotes and searched for the day she saw him at but

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he found the name of Mrs. Danvers instead of her.Then, he remembered her, she used a fake name shewas so ill and had some problems, he could still

remember that she brought with her X-rayphotographs for her body and he told her that shehas some problems, she had a lake in some organsgrowth, and she would have no children.

That was it, it was the reason for her death, and itwas a good reason for her to kill her self, finallymaxim felt happy he is not guilty any more. But theone who felt mad is Favell because he wanted Maxim

at jail. The colonel thanked the doctor, toke the notesand left with the others. While on the way back to anear hotel, because the Manderlay is too far and it islate, Favell toke another way unhappy becauseMaxim won the case but he seemed to be so happyas if he wanted to do some thing.

At the hotel, one of the servants called and said

that Mrs. Danvers had packed and left theManderlay, for Maxim there was some thing strangeand it wasn't over yet; he felt that even afterRebecca's death she made some kind of trick. Hetoke his car and went with his new wife to theManderlay.

On their way, they were seeing a hill after anothercoming, but when they arrived to the Manderlay they

couldn't see any thing other than the ashes of thatwonderful house touching the see; it was terrible.

Maybe it's not only the Manderlay because afterwards Mrs. De Winter is still seeing that nightmare of

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the Manderlay distant from her and she is in anothervillage and can not reach it.

But the mystery is still who burnt the Manderlayand while such strange incidents are happening afterRebecca's death? She had such effect, she destroyedhis life his house even after her death she is still alivefor some people.

I Suffering Days

was getting 30 in a week and I was having

my 100th

mission as a rescuer, andprobably the most dangerous among all. Agroup of archeologists and geologistswere having a trip to the Himalayas inNepal, and I was supposed to help themovercome the blizzards they may face.

7

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of October 1955 was the arrivalday, we arrived the area on a sunnytricking day, the chopper left and wevebecome alone. In an hour we built campsand lit fire. At night, Professor Cole

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entered my camp and asked: Theweather is getting worse, so where is our

destination? so I answered: Ninasvalley, do you know what do Ninameans? It means death, professor.

8th of October 1955, at morning wepacked and moved south in a blindingstorm through Ninas valley, we weresupposed to find a natural cave fewkilometers away but we havent, wemoved in circles led by Dr. Drake thegeologist.

11th of October 1955, finally wefound the cave but unfortunately only the

professor survived, I was guarding outsidewhile he got out and said: now Iunderstood what you have said.

14th of October 1955, I becomehomeless and hopeless, alone at my birthday, the professor died 2 days ago, I amlaying on the ground of the temple we

where searching for,

My cheek is freezing over the icy stone,

I cant feel the other one,

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I need a rescuer I am alone,

Adventures are not just having fun,

I looked to the sky thinking of being alive,

Fortunately I have seen the chopper, Illsurvive.

The Pelican Brief

It was midnight on the first Monday of October whenLuke, who looked like a farmer, waited on the shore and

parked his van on the road, he waited several minutes, thena man approached the shore by his boat, this man wasKhamel, a murderer who used to kill for political reasons butnow he would kill anyone. He got on the van with Luke andboth kept silent all the way. At dawn they arrived to a hotelin Georgetown near Washington, DC. The room was booked

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for both, Khamel had received three millions for his job, andhe will receive another four millions few hours later.

As for the Supreme Court of the U.S., both Republicans

and Democrats wanted to have the Supreme Court judges tobe on their sides. The judges had some kind of threateningmessage, so the FBI have to handle this situation and defendthe judges, but only two judges havent accepted to beguarded by FBI agents inside their houses but they allowedthe agents to stay out side on foot or in cars.

The first one is Judge Rosenberg, who was ninety-one andwasnt afraid of death and hated by many people becausehe defended many people other than Americans. Khamel

sneaked into Rosenbergs house, then he entered the bedroom where he found the judge and his male nurse sleeping,he shoot both by his gun that is supplied by a silencer. Later,he got into the kitchen, opened the back door and calledFerguson- an FBI agent by his name, so he thought that itis the nurse, so he entered the kitchen and Khamel killedhim by his pistol.

The second one is Judge Glenn Jensen, who defendedhomosexuals and involved cases that are about those whothreaten the environment. He was successful with escapingfrom the FBI agents and going to the Montrose Theatre forhomosexuals in the same night, there were two old men inthe front enjoying a homosexual movie; Jensen sat in theback of the Theatre. After several minutes, Khamel enteredthe Theatre and smiled when he saw the judge there, and hesat in the back. At 12:20 the old men left, Khamel movednext to Jensen and suddenly put a rope around his neck andpulled back and down until the Judge passed away.

An hour later, Khamel was waiting at Dulles airport for hisflight to Paris.

Fletcher Coal, the president's chief of staff, woke thepresident up at 4:30 a.m. and asked him to come to theoffice. Seven minutes later he was there, and Coal told him

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that Voles called and told him that the Judges whereprofessionally killed. Coal suggested him to tell the countryabout it, so he will be more popular and elected again inorder to choose two new Judges that he can control. Thepresident asked Coal to leak to the press that Voles' FBI menwere supposed to protect the Judges in order to get rid ofVoles.

A moment later, Voles arrived and told them that there isno suspects and that his men haven't failed guarding the

judges, but they are dead because they denied to beprotected properly. Both the president and his chief lookedworry but Voles knew that they wanted his head. He got

back to his office and asked for a full inquiry into themurders.

Darby Shaw, an environmental science student atPhoenix University that changed her mind to study law at

Tulane University in order to defend the environment incourts, was sleeping next to her forty-five years old "cool"law teacher, Thomas Callahan. At dawn, she woke up andswitched the T.V. on, she listened to the president for aminute and then shook Thomas awake; he listened but was

shocked for his hero's death, Rosenberg. The presidentfinished and she switched the T.V. off, they both thoughtabout the suspects, but many groups wanted the Judgesdeath, and that it is awful if the president chooses twoRepublicans because it will become eight Republicans forone Democrat in the Supreme Court, but there is no relationbetween both, unless Darby decided to look in the library.But the entire books explained nothing, so the only thingthat could be good is the Supreme Court's files, but the files

are so many unless Darby decided to work hard.Voyles got a report from Eric East who was appointed in

charge about the suspect; there were some groups such asKu Klux Klan and rich people who have reasons for killingRosenberg such as Nelson Muncie and Clinton Lane, soVoyles asked for investigation about the suspects.

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On Friday morning, Gavin Verheek who is Callahan's oldfriend called and asked him to come to Washington, DC onMonday because they have a meeting for a conferenceabout constitutional law.

Coal and the president asked Voyles and East toinvestigate about eight members in which the president islooking forward to choosing two of them to be the newRepublican members of the Supreme Court. Coal insisted tokeep secrecy, but Voyles can't do any thing just his best.

As for Callahan, he wanted to see Darby for one moretime, so he took a bottle of wine and a pizza and went to herhome, he asked her about the investigation she made and

she told him that she made a brief, he wanted to read it butnot before bed so he preferred to read on his way toWashington.

Sarge, who is an old nagger working as a cleaner in theWhite House, would ask his son Cleve who is policeman toarrange a meeting with Gray Grantham of the WashingtonPost in order to tell him about two who could be members inthe Supreme Court.

Verheek and Callahan were drunk, Verheek suddenlyrealized that the reason of killing these judges is that theywhere the easiest to get. And by the way, Callahan gave himDarby's brief to read, so he did, but it was implausible inaddition to that it is worth considering.

On the next morning, Grantham got a call from a strangelawyer who called himself Garcia and he was talking from apay phone, Garcia said that he have some information aboutwho killed the judges, but he wasn't sure that he would tellGrantham so he ended the call. Afterwards, Granthampushed some traced the call and know that it was fromFifteenth Street.

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Finally, they showed him the brief theory that Darby wrote,and told him that they call it The Pelican Brief but it couldhurt the president and suggested him to read it. Later, Coalmet the president and told him about the brief, and that itwould be bad for the president if Voyles investigated aboutthe suspect mentioned in the brief and the press knew aboutit.

Grantham got another call from Garcia during the officehours, and this time they arranged to have another callduring lunch the next day.

Callahan and Darby were in a restaurant, he drank a lotthat night. When they wanted to leave, she asked him to

give her the car keys because he can't drive with hissituation, but he denied and set off stumbling in the carpark, she followed him but he was fast and rapidly heopened his Porsche and turned on the engine. Suddenly, thecar exploded thirty feet away from her, she ran screamingbut another explosion happened and pushed her back- wardsto the car behind her and every thing went blank for aminute. Then, she started to hear sounds of police andfiremen; a man came to her and asked if she is all right, so

she asked him about Thomas, and told him that Thomas isthe man who was in the car. Later, she woke up in a hospitaland made her way to a hotel in the French Quarter and sleptthere, but she knew that the bomb was for her and thatthere is someone who is hunting her.

Darby called Verheek and asked him about the brief andwho read it, but "I don't know" was the answer and told himabout the bomb, he was shocked, but gave her his officephone number and the phone went dead.

Coal and the president were in the office when Voylesentered; Coal left because he hated Voyles and went towatch what is happening through the security cameras. Thepresident and Voyles sat on a sofa and talked about brief;the president asked him to leave the idea of the brief and

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her to read the post; she brought the post and read it atanother Caf, there was a report that fitted her story, andanother one about the car explosion and Darby.

Alice Stark, Darby's best friend, took the key from Mrs.Chen and got into the apartment and looked for the files inthe computer that Darby asked her for, and she looked in theboxes of the diskettes but it was empty. She returned the keyand went to the restaurant to meet Darby as it wasarranged; she told her what she discovered, but Darby doesnot seem to be surprised. Since she was busy with Alice,Darby hadn't called Verheek so he become so worry abouther, and he thought she could be dead.

The next step for Darby was that she called Granthamand told him about the brief and Callahan's death.

At the funeral, Darby found an empty room on the thirdfloor; she sat at its window watching Callahan'sacquaintances, and suddenly she saw the man of theSheraton hotel; he got in the church and after ten minuteshe got out and walked to the car park, another man, a shortone, followed him and after some minutes the came backtogether and finally each went to a way.

Gavin's phone went out while he was asleep because hewas tired due to the bar nights, it was Darby calling andasking him why she haven't seen him at the funeral, theywanted to arrange for a meeting but both of them haven'tknew when to see each other and where.

At Sunday morning, Darby first thought about Thomasand how they loved each other, and then she thought aboutthe people following her. She felt hungry; she had to go tothe mall for some thing, she got down and on the BurgundyStreet he saw her, she can change her hair but she can'tchange her long legs, he followed her.

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his job is easy it is just a young lady. He went to New Orleansand called a man called Mr. Sneller from the hotel room, theman told him every thing he need about Darby, even photos.Later, Mr. Sneller called again while Khamel was practicingEnglish, he told him that one of his men saw her but hecouldn't follow her, they can't know where she is, but he toldhim about Verheek, and that they will meet at the Sheraton.

Gavin was watching TV when Darby called so turned theTV off and talked to her; they arranged a meeting near thehotel, and they decided that he will wear a black shirt andhold a news paper in his hand; they wanted to leave NewOrleans. When the chat was over, Verheek looked so happy,

he got to the bathroom to take a shower, when got back tothe room he found the lights off, but he left it on, he walkedand silently he was killed by three bullets from Khamel'shand and he went dead, Khamel made it look like that Gavinkilled him self and he left the room.

Grantham haven't found any thing about the brief, butDarby called him and told him that she will tell him the briefthe next night, and she told him that she will leave NewOrleans and who the brief was transmitted. Grantham told

Smith Keen about it all but they still need a witness, for Keenthis was big and it will get the Post back to the top.

At the next day, Darby went to a Caf and then she wentto the place she planed with Gavin at midday, Khamel wasthere wearing a black shirt and holding a newspaper, and healready practiced Verheek's voice. She thought that he isGavin so she caught his hand and went forward away fromthe place; she told him that they will definitely follow her sohe thought about making a call in order to bring someone for

guarding her, but she refused, he wanted a chance to killher. She took him to join the queue at one of the Riverwalkboats, the boat will take them to the place she parked hercar in, and then they will leave the New Orleans. While theywas about to get aboard another man came from their backsand shot Khamel in his head and disappeared in the crowd.Khamel fell dead but he spoke some words that DarbyP a g e | 16


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haven't recognized- Egyptian words- she was terrified so shecaught a cab and asked him to get to Baton Rouge for anyprice he want, but she asked him to go fast. Callahan toldher before about Verheek so she knew that he was notEgyptian.

Voyles sent East to investigate about Verheek's death, theresult was sent with Lewis. They both talked about the brief:Voyles said that he recorded the president's voice when heordered him to leave the brief although he is investigatingabout it and that he think that Mattiece is the killer, East saidthat they have to investigate about the brief because peopleare dying every day due to that brief.

Grantham had two old pictures for Darby; she calledwhen he was looking at them, she told him every thing aboutthe murdered lawyer and she asked him to come to New Yorkand promised that she will tell him who paid for killing the

judges and he accepted to come. Some hours later, he wasin the St Moritz Hotel in New York, they had a calmconversation about who did this, she told him that theMississippi River brought mud to the sea for centuries, as theoil was discovered in that area people started to build oil

factories but they endangered the environment, and one ofthese people is Victor Mattiece who found a huge source andwanted n all, he started to buy every thing respectively andhe suddenly wanted to drill the ground. A group ofenvironment keepers called Green Rescue wanted to stopdrilling, a battle field appeared at the court yards betweenMattiece and Green Rescue, and he couldn't do any trickbecause they were all blocked by the courts. Green Rescuewanted to move the case to the Supreme Court and these

people had a huge number of fans because the factorieswere about to kill many animals including the rare brownpelicans. Mattiece spent millions of dollars on this case but itmade no difference, he wanted two Republicans and Jensenwas so soft on environmental cases, so he wanted to killthese two judges and the president will choose twoRepublicans.

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Grantham asked about if the president didn't chose tworepublicans, so she said that during the time the presidentwas elected in, he was collecting money form New Orleansfor Republicans and Mattiece was there, although he stayedaway from public eyes but a photographer had a picture ofthe president shaking hand with Mattiece and both smiling.Mattiece hadn't thought of killing them by him self, but hehas many lawyers that help him in such cases, also atWashington he has two firms: Brim, Stearns and Kidlow isone of them; the other is White and Blazevich. Granthamthought that Garcia could be one of them.

They were both tired so she asked him to sleep on the

sofa while she will sleep on the bed and have comfortablenight. The next day, she went early to the library andsearched for Garcia between the members of the firms thatwork for Mattiece, but she hadn't found it so she calledGrantham for this information. While she was leaving a Cafshe saw the short man who followed her in New Orleans soshe decided to move again and after an hour she was atNewark airport; she wanted to go to Tabard Inn at theCaribbean. She just wanted to stay alive for some moreyears.

Croft spent some time outside the offices of Brim, Stearnsand Kidlow looking for Garcia but there was not Garcia.

Many people work for the government in a secret way assecret agents, and Matthew Barr was one of these agents.He was in the back of Coal's car reading the brief, he finishedthe brief and asked if it is true; Coal wasn't so sure of thatbut he wanted to know because if it is, so he will be fired. Hewanted Barr to take sure of that so he asked him to go to

Mattiece and ask him to disappear because the press willhave the story so soon, then the president will choose twonature-lovers and they will put Mattiece in jail.

At 9:30 am, Darby called Gray and told him where she isand that she will meet him at the Marbury Hotel. This hotelwas next to Keen's home and they had some things to

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discuss so he called and told him to meet him in front of thehotel after fifteen minutes, and they went in Keen's cararound the hotel and both agreed that Garcia is the key forevery thing. After some time, he got to the hotel roomholding in his hands some food, he saw an Asian womancleaning in front of the room and she said that she had seensome one getting out of the room ten minutes before, so hewent as a crazy man searching for her. Meanwhile, Darbywas searching at Georgetown library for notes about the lawfirms that work for Mattiece.

Barr went to New Orleans and meet a lawyer how toldhim to fly to Florida. There, he got a booked room at certain

hotel with a note that he will get a phone call at morning, sohe got to the room and told Coal the news.

When Darby got back to the hotel, she found a note thatGray is in the garden, she immediately went to the gardenand there she found him sitting at a table. He told her thatthere was some one inside the hotel room and that no bodyknows the room number accept for Keen, and then she toldhim that it is not a game, it is real, and people are dying andthat it is not some thing that will make him in the top and

give him prizes. She allowed him to sleep in the hotel thatnight, but he would find another one later.

At breakfast, Darby called the Georgetown law school andpretended to be one from the White and Blazevich and shesaid that the computers were damaged and she need thestudents that joined the firm at summer, she took theirnames and addresses. Later, both Gray and Darby wentasking the students about Garcia, but the first five gave noanswers. Only two are left: the first one is Judith Wilson who

was expected at her apartment at one but she was notthere, they waited for an hour so she came but unfortunatelyshe hadn't knew him as well; the second one was EdwardLinney who was disappeared for a week and non of hisfriends had seen him, but finally one of his friends told themthat he is at a private hospital because he is an alcoholic.Gray asked the nurse about him, she told him that he is atP a g e | 19


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the room 22 but she can't let him enter, meanwhile Darbysneaked into the room, the young man was surprised but sheused a fake name and asked him about the photograph, herecognized the picture but he couldn't remember more thanhis surname Morgan. So she thanked him and got out, sheused her notes and knew that Garcia is Curtis D. Morgan.

Barr went in a boat trip for five hours with a man calledLarry who met at the hotel, and both landed in the Bahamas.A car took them to an airfield where a Lear jet was waitingand then they took another car to a huge house. Barr met aman called Emil who took him around the house to the sunroom where Barr met Victor Mattiece; they had a

conversation about the brief, Barr wanted to know if it istrue, while Mattiece said that Coal is the problem because helet too many people to see the brief. Larry came to the roomfor Barr's behind silently and Mattiece said of course it istrue and left the room and Larry simply broke Barr's neck.

Darby and Gray went to the white and Blazevich's officebuilding at five pm, she saw the secretary and told her thatshe is Dorothy Blythe and she has an appointment with Mr.Morgan, the secretary went away and came with a man

called himself Jerreld Schwabe and he said that Mr. Morganwas mugged in the street and he is head, she said that she issorry and left.

Sneller knew that the area is more than New York so hemoved his money from New Orleans to the Grantham Bankand ordered four men to come with him and went forward toWashington because his information says that she is theirwith the reporter.

Gray and Darby went together to Mr. Morgan's house; hiswife was there but Mrs. Morgan's father refused to let themto see her, so Gray left his business for her and left withDarby. Gray wanted to sleep with Darby but she was notready yet. Mrs. Morgan called Gray and told him that Mr.Morgan had left a key for a lock-box at Columbia's bank andshe wanted him to get that box.

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He and Darby went to the bank, they opened the box, theyfound envelop that contains a note between to partners ofMattiece; the note says that the judges must be killed.

That was the evidence for the story. So both went to thepost and talked to Keen, he accepted the story to bepublished and corrected it after that Gray wrote it. Keen gotout and Darby told Gray that the killers are outside and thatthey are at the corner waiting them to get out of thebuilding.

Gray called a friend in the FBI called Phil and told himthat they want the FBI in the story, because it is allimportant and dangerous, Phil said that he will call back

later.

In fact, Voyles called back and wanted to talk to Keen andtold him that he will come in twenty minutes after that heknew that Darby is still alive. Then he arrived with Lewis.

Gray made two additional calls: the first one was for Coalin the white house and he asked him about Mattiece and hehad to say that he paid for the president election; and theother call was for Velmano and told him that he have the

note he send for Wakefield and that Velmano will be call forthe Supreme Court for justice.

Voyles said to all of them that he recorded the presidentwhile he told him not to investigate, unless he investigatedand found nothing, but the story they had makes every thingin sense. Then he wanted to speak with Darby alone and heasked her about the killers and she told him every thing sheknow and that Khamel was killed by one of the CIA he toldher that she will be safe and he will get her out of thecountry to avoid Mattiece.

At 11 pm, four partners of Mattiece called Mattiece but hewas in Cairo and he want help them they were alone.Wakefield said that he have a wife and six children and hecan't tell them what he had just did and he left to his officeand killed himself.P a g e | 21


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After eight days, Darby was at the Virgin Island making asun bath when Gray came and asked her for marriage, finallythey will have a safe life.

Once Upon Time

It is a rush beginning but once upon a time I traveled

through her wild eyes, then I saw the wonders of this world,

I dont mean the seven wonders you know but others. It wasa new type of adventures, a type that is only known by

those who love.

First, I went through her eyes outer layer, I was simply

surrounded by the angels singing. That is not the first

wonder but it was that angel that got out from the heavens

portal with other angels on her shoulders; then all angels

become just a chorus for her, really as Ive said before, she

had a legendary sound, the sound of love the sound that

only I can hear.

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Then, I preceded to another layer, what Ive seen so far is

marvelous but I knew that there is still more amazing,

marvelous, incredible, nice and astonishing things to see.

There, I saw space, it wasnt full of stars but millions of

galaxies containing thousands of glowing stars each, but

there was only one sweetly twinkling and dazzling all over

that wild area, then I felt relaxed as if I had no problems

ever.

After, I went deeply, there I found a grass land with

thousands of daisies distributed in the area, and a stonehinge with a lake of holly water; I felt the magic in that

water, I saw the sparkles flying out of its surface. I got

closer to have a drink but I realized that I all ready have

when I first entered her wonderful eyes.

Those are the three wonders of her eyes, the eyes that I

would get rid of all the worlds wonders just for them. I

really cant explain all what I can see in her eyes. Although,I am still talking about the eyes, then what if I talk about

her lips, but once upon a time, the time stops and I have

that wish, the wish if I can have a deeper and longer look to

her eyes, those eyes of that angel

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The Pharaoh's Curse

A Deadly Tomb

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"It was all wrong; it was a bad idea.The idea of opening that door, the stone doorthat was hiding the curse for 5000 years awayfrom carious hands" the professor said.

It was a hot summer day for gentlemen

in Al-Jiza; crews of archeologists weresearching for something new in Kofo pyramidin Egypt. Fortunately, the professor found amysterious door, so he ordered the crew toopen that entry, and wrote in his dairy:"7th of

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July 1874, it is a lucky day for my crew and Ithat we found what we were searching for".

The crew moved the door but the stonedust inside prevented them from knowing whatis there ,so the professor brought his candleclose and suddenly the light reflected back in ahorrible way ,"it is golden, the room is golden,it is full of gold" one of the crew memberssaid.

The crew members entered the room; itwas all of great pure gold. But one and onlyone thing deserves the hard work of the team,the tomb of Amon Ra mummy. The crewopened and studied the golden tomb in spite ofthe written words which says:" Any one whodares to touch the mummy will die".

A week later the crew membersdisappeared in a mysterious way accept theprofessor who wrote his last words and died inan unknown disease.

And now people ask:" Is it the mummy"

But the mystery continues.

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The Pharaoh's Curse

The Valley of the Kings

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wo years after the death of the crew, aBritish archeologist Dr. Jack Darwin

covered five miles away from the Nile to

reach the crime scene, the great pyramid of

Kofo. As a gentleman Dr. Jack found some

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problems like climate and aloneness, so he

made himself an Arabic company, a young

Egyptian who knew the area quite well andgood with both languages, Hakim.

The doctor made his way into the

pyramid as a brief studying trip for his first day

in Al-Jiza while Hakim was booking in a hotel. It

is so clear that in the two years that passed

the knowledge of reading the old Egyptianlanguage was developed because at the first

look Dr. jack noticed an article about a box of

maps which the professor had no idea about.

Immediately, he opened a door in the bottom

of the stand of the mummy's tomb where he

found the box with an eye shape on the top.

At the end of the day he met Hakim at

the hotel and showed him the box, it was an

easy test for Hakim to verify the location the

maps are pointing at. The booking was

canceled and they made their new destination,

the Valley of the Kings.

A new trip of three ten miles sailing

south in the Nile was pretty much better than

the first time. The valley is located on the west

bank of the river, opposite to the ancient town

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Luxor. The valley contains eleven caves which

store tombs of ancient Egypt. The first thing to

do is to unpack and locate the exact place inwhich the maps are pointing at in the valley. In

the early morning, Dr. Jack found the scale of

distance measurements which the ancient

Egyptians used for the maps with Hakim's

assistant and found a new door under soil, a

locked one. At midnight, the discoverers were

sitting in front of fire, Jack was reading a

mystery and the writer mentioned:" The

solution is always in front of your eyes", it was

a sign for the doctor, so he studied the box

very well and discovered that the eye on the

box is the key of the door.

"It is time to open the door", doc. said,

opened it and made his way followed by

Hakim, first he was amazed by all the stuff that

was made by Egyptian hands thousands of

years ago, but for sure the best thing among

these objects is a book shown on a stand in the

middle of the cave, the book of the dead, abook that contains all the curses, magical

spells and the secrets of the Egyptians.

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Jack thought that it is a good idea to

take the book away from carious hands, but he

forgot that his are the most curious among all,he took it and in another Arabian Night, close

to fire Hakim was singing while Jack was trying

to read that mysterious book, and in someway

he made it and read a spell, the ground

quacked and every thing shacked and a big

gap formed in the desert and swallowed both

discoverers.

"TRING, TRING" the alarm clock jingled

and Tom woke up suddenly, he ran downstairs

to the kitchen with sweat marking the way

behind him, and told his mother who was

making a cake:" Mom, Mom, Mom I had a

nightmare about pharaohs, curses and

archeologists who were killed" his mother

stopped him and said:" Take it easy Tom, it is

just a nightmare, and that it is the

punishment of who push himself in adventures

of Egypt " and a drop of tears dropped down to

the cake in her hand. But could this mystery continue

because of a drop of tears?

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Part Two

Poems

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The daisy

I laid under the trees as a lazy

Man who is felling gallous to make

A couplet of that wonderful daisy

That is standing beside the lake,

Each one was dancing with its mate

A scene that oblige you not to hate.

When I saw that, I wanted to stay

That's because it is not fake

As I've seen a reflected ray

In that picture and said:" for god sake

Some body help, I'm getting a heart attack

I'll stop I have to go to the jack".

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Just GuessYounger! It doesn't mind

Only that you are away from me,

Uncover your sweet side

And mine will show you glee.

Remember! I can't forget your

Eyes that had shown forMe, and made me sure,

Year after another, that I want umore.

Sing along your legendary name

With angels of wonderful heaven,

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Ears will notice that isn't thesame

Evermore you are better even.

Tell me the word I want to hear

Yet I know your heart has no fear.

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Part Three

Banking

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IBM: Restructuring and Sales Force

The declination in IBMs sale force in the early 1990th can only

be caused because of problems in the objectives of the company

which is caused by the problems of the structure, strategy and

compensation plan of that company which really needs a change

which must be respectively changed with the change of

objectives.

Both Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and John Akers, the CEOs of the

company at that time, considered that the sale force of the

company as the key source of IBMs problems and they looked

forward to rising the sale force as if it is the main objective

since they were planning to have the best sale force, each at his

time.This objective (which both CEOs tried to achieve) is not the

right thing to think about. The sale force is automatically raised

when the customers are satisfied and sure that the company can

support them with all their needs. Then, the objective in which

the companys CEOs must look forward to and take care of is

satisfying the customers needs at any time and any place.

These requirements can only be supplied if the companys

strategy is on a certain pattern (plan).

This plan is to create a team which is responsible for studying

the needs and requirements of customers, and the time needed to

support them with these equipments. This team must be always

in touch with other organizing teams, and with this strategy we

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will be sure that the problem of misunderstanding of the

company to its customers is over.

Other problem in the IBM system is the bureaucracy and

preoccupation. First, the pre-suggested team will solve a part ofthe bureaucracy problem, but the other part is related to the

CEO and the communicated planning of the organizing teams

and specially management teams. But the preoccupation

problem can only be solved if the CEO is convinced that the

most important thing is to take care about the customers needs

and it shouldnt be busy in other problems.

Other problem is the companys slowness in supporting thecustomers with their desires. This problem can be solved by

many ways: first, it is suggested that the company can form a

management team responsible for this issue; this team can easily

make out some way to make sure that the customers wants will

be between his hands in no time, and so the factor of time will

be studied and suggested as the most important factor in the

strategic plans.

On the contrary, the geographic strategic plan had been agood idea for the company to understand the customers' desires

but also time factor must be taken in consideration for this

process, and though, the relation between the regional product

specialists on one side and the senior managers on the other side

must be rapid in order to be understanding for the continuous

changing desires and needs of customers.

Lastly, as for the compensation plan that is adjusted eachJanuary, it is recommended to have at least two dates a year for

adjusting compensation plan because an enormous company as

IBM could need major changes in the plans any time; this is

caused by the changing attitudes of customers. This was the last

recommendation for this company, and the problems the

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company once faced can be solved by the previous plans

adjusted.

The Age of Project Management

Lately, economy has changed; enterprise managers must

compete at the worldwide market, they and their countries

are at stake. Vigorous new companies are changing their

production style, now; technology has become the key of

global competition.Companies are building a solid foundation of technology

for the manufacturing of their products; they also apply

marketing, procurement, and service processes to get it to

the customers on a timely basis.

Strategic and project management are used to cope with

the global market changes.

On the edge of management, the US can compete, yet itis not taking advantage of this potential because its business

fears Japans competitiveness. Japan is counting on project

management to compete the US, it is improving both

product and process technologies by product-process design

teams.

US can not use all what do it know about project

management, while Japan is depending on management

techniques to edge ahead in the world market place.Though, Western nations were the first to practice project

management.

Technology and its management determine the winner in

the world market place. Companies that can best manage

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other things determine the success or failure: knowledge

about management strategies and the more function of the

attitudes of the senior managers of the enterprise.

Certain nations have complex product and processdevelopment chances, along with the organizational

projects. Such countries should provide significant

opportunities for project management. The stream of

projects needs management to get better results.

Eastern Europe countries needs project management to

avoid some problems such as the replacement of aging

plants and equipment.

International Projects in Product and

Processes:

Project management supports the management of

technology, bringing it into an enterprises product and

processes. Domestic and international organizations are

designed on specific strategies called projects.

US are involving its industries in global projects. Recently,IBM invited seven European companies to precipitate in the

semi conductor research project with Motorola.

On the other hand, US technologies are still acquired by

foreign countries. Recently, the Perkin-Elmer Corporations

semiconductor equipment group was supported by Nikon.

Such acquirements requiring the application of project

management processes to acquire the technological

capability and integrate it into the business of the acquirer.

Global companies are paying approximately 200 billion $

to activate technological strategies. New project team works

are used to create significant product and process concepts.

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At Japanese Canon Company, a matrix management

structure is used to organize the products with the systems

committee design. Each product group (Camera group,

Business Machines group and the optical products group)forms the vertical axis, while the Canon systems

(accounting, personnel) form the horizontal links between

each group in the R&D, Production and Marketing. These

matrix systems promote open information exchanges

between line sections and between factories.

The European Connection:

The single European market that will be established in1992 will change the competitive game in the global market

due to the cooperative mega-research projects of Europe.

After the Cold War, Europe is convinced about that a new

era of economy and competition is starting, and it must be

the winner.

The low standard of living in Russia clamors at the new

system is the same of the highly developed capitalistic

countries. Being well economically is more important than

having the biggest weaponry, and the time is still the most

important basis too.

The changing economies requires planning and thinking

about the possible changing in global political, economical

and technological environments.

Communist-appointed managers lack the experience in

capitalistic-driven management that they will need to runtheir emerging private business. It is doubtful if these

managers will be able to function with out the respect of the

rank-and-file subordinate managers and workers whose

cooperation is needed for competitive economic system

work.

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The Japanese Connection:

High levels of research and development expenditures

for technological innovation, and using project management

to improve product and process technology will take Japan to

the highest level of competitiveness. Japanese companies

are now using long term technologies to be convinced that it

is the best in the global market place.

Japan stepped one step forward in its economy when it

moved into R&D. its economical growth is from technologies

that are copied from aboard, which gave Japan the basis of

its industries. This massive transfer is known as the key ofJapans competitiveness at the world market place which

frightens the US companies.

Another success reason is the ability of its government

and companies to transfer technologies. They also proven

their ability to conceptualize, design, produce, and market a

car in a shorter time than the US can. A part of this reduced

time will be used for engineering by product design teams.

Scientific Management

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1. Before the US Congress, Taylor suggested that scientific

management is based on the mental revolution. This

mental revolution is asked from both the working man

engaged by the industry and the managementcontrollers (people responsible for management of a

certain industry).

On the side of the working men, this mental revolution

is summarized by their duties toward their work, their

fellow men and their employees.

On the side of the management controllers, this mental

revolution makes every one in this division responsible

about his daily problems and his work men.Also, Taylor suggested that at this mental revolution

both sides must take good care about the surplus of the

company, so that it becomes all what it matters. So, the

more the attention of both sides increases the more the

surplus becomes greater and so the goal of economy is

achieved.

2. Definitely, the aim of management is achieved by both

the scientific management and Taylors mental

revolution. But, scientific management depends on

certain material issues such as project management

that depends on the technological potential of the

company and its ability to produce and market the

product (what ever it is) at minimum time, and so it

suggested that the company must get new

technologies. While, Taylor suggested a mental

revolution (non-material issue) to get the aim of

management, so he thought that if the workers and

management responsible team took good care of the

surplus of the company, it will rise.

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the surplus should had good care from the side of the

management responsible team (management team),

and the scientific management considered that a team

must take charge of the production and the marketingwhich is also the management team.

3. At Taylors testimony, he mentioned that there is: a

change in mental attitude and in other words: change

in viewpoint, by referring to these words we can

realize that his mental revolution requires changes in

behavioral viewpoint which is a clue that his revolution

and the behavioral viewpoint are different. And by

referring to the real attitude of managers and workerswe dont witness the mental revolution that Taylor

suggested especially on the side of workers. Workers

dont have the interest to the surplus that Taylor asked

for. Yet, it is not a rule to depend on, because in some

companies management team and workers works

together to rise up the surplus as much as they can.

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works done by him. And so, the stressed person is the

reason for that mistake, and if this problem is not treated;

we will surely face an organization full of stressed workers

and full of mistakes-as a result. Also, workers at theExhaustion Phase will have real physical problems which

will cause some absence cases which are not for the

organizations benefit.

Finally, it is highly recommended to scan and spot stress

cases and to deal with them in order to promote healthy

work and reduce the harmful aspects of work. Dealing with

stress is by dealing with its first cause which is work

challenging pressure.

Part Four

Shakespeare

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Hamlet's SoliloquySince first performed in the early 1600s, the title role in William Shakespeare's Hamlethas

remained a favorite of many actors because of the emotional complexity of Hamlet's

personality. Nowhere is this complexity more apparent than in Hamlet's famous soliloquy in Act

III, Scene 1. The soliloquy is a monologue in which a character reveals inner thoughts,

motivations, and feelings. Shakespeare used the technique often, and his soliloquies are poetic

and rich in imagery. In Hamlet, a play about a man whose mind may be his fatal flaw, the form

reaches its highest level.

Hamlet

By William Shakespeare

EnterHAMLET.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep

To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil

Must give us pause. There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life:

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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pitch and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action. Soft you now,

The fair Ophelia.Nymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins remembered.

Source: Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, ed. by Cyrus Hoy. New York: W.W.

Norton, 1992.

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Sonnets

Sonnet number 18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometimes declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet number 73:

That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayAs after sunset fadeth in the west;

Which by and by black night doth take away,Death's second self that seals up all in rest.In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,As the deathbed whereon it must expire,Consumed with that which it was nourished by.This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

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Sonnet number 116:

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments; love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O, no, it is an ever-fixd mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his highth be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Sonnet number 130:

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare.

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred

Tell me where is fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head?

How begot, how nourishd?Reply, reply.It is engendered in the eyes,With gazing fed; and fancy diesIn the cradle where it lies.Let us all ring fancy's knell:I'll begin itDing, dong, bell.Ding, dong, bell.

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[From The Merchant of Venice (1596?)]

Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:In a cowslip's bell I lie;There I couch when owls do cry.On the bat's back I do flyAfter summer merrily.Merrily, merrily shall I live nowUnder the blossom that hangs on the bough.

[From The Tempest(1611?)]Source: The Complete Oxford Shakespeare. Wells, Stanley, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, and WilliamMontgomery, eds. 1994. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press.

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Index

A) Part One: Literaturepage 1

Dragons page 2

Hamlet...... page 3

Rebeccapage 4

Suffering Days.page 7

The Pelican Brief.page 9 Once Upon a Time..page 19

The Pharaohs Curse(version 1).page 21

The Pharaohs Curse(version 2).page 23

B) Part Two: Poems.page 26

The Daisy.page 27

Just Guess.page 28

C) Part Three: Bankingpage 30

IBM: Restructuring and Sales Forcepage 31

The Age of Project Management.page 33

Scientific Management.page 37

Stress in Organizations.page 39

D) Part Four: Shakespearepage40

Hamlets Soliloquypage 41

Sonnets...page 43

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