One curious young boy observes the courtship of spiders as he contemplates life without a father. Another delivers tracts for Lord's Assembly and stumbles into something awkward to do with adults. Yet another gathers stones to a shroud dead dog. A young man visits his disreputable, unwelcoming uncle to hear a curious tale. A medium finds herself rumbled when a spirit she conjures kisses and tells all. A wannabe Bonnie and Clyde go on a spree round the commuter belt. A former sex worker collides with her past. A singer performs to soldiers at a turning point in history. There are inexplicable mysterious things out there in the cloud forest - concrete or lush - small moments of discovery, enlightenment and recognition. Permeated with dark ironic humour and a melancholic sense of the absurd, these thirteen stories are fragments of the lives of their characters, who in being ordinary - honest or decidedly not - are exceptional.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...mentio, fed non fublata eft, non dubito tamen Chriftianam fidem apud eos facile poflc propagari, fi modo idonei fatis, & maxime pij verbi divini praecones e6 mittcrentur, quod opus maxim& Chriftianum non intermittetur, ubi Mars ab ipfis exulaverit. Hifce omnibus ita tranfaftis Anicouvij, ad magnas dignita tes afcenderunt, magnaque paflim immunitate quin & Impe rio in finitimis terris donati, latifundia centu inter fe miliari bus diflitn, ad fluvios Dunam, Witfogdam, & Soehnam pa cifice cifice poflidentes, ita uc potentiflimi, opulentiflimique fint & habeantur, nullufque fit honorum & dignitatum modus. Deliberatum imo flatutum jam apud Mofchos, deligenda adflumen Oby, & finitimis Regionibus, loca, natura fua munira, ut in ijs (truant, & praefidiario milite firment Arces, eoque mittant Gubernatorem publicum qui magis ac magis vicinas terras detegat, regnoque adjiciat: Nec defuit eventus primum enim ftruftae funt validae arces aliquot, ad formam Murorum Gallicorum, trabibus direftis perpetuis in longitudinem, fine faxis, paribus intervallis, quae multo aggere intus effarciuntur ufque ad iuftam altitudinem, quae poftea praefidio munitae funt. Tantaque in dies eo mittitur hominum multitudo, ut nonnullis locis jam colleftae fint civitates, e Polonie, Tartaris, Ruflis alijfque nationibus inter fe mixtis. Omnes enim exules, homicidae, proditores, fures & qui morte digni e6 relegantur: quorum nonnulli aliquandiu in vinculis detinentur, aliqui libere vivunt aliquot annis, refpeftu fceleris commifli, hinc populofae tandem coalverunt hominum focietates, quae un3 cum arcibus integrum conficiunt regnum, confluentibus eo quotidie multis tenuioris fortunae hominibus, ut fruantur immunitatibus, ibi conceflis. Ifti traftui nomen eft SIBERI...