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ever once managed to analyze and finally decide everything down to the last detail, and there were no longer any doubts left—at that point he would most likely have renounced it all as absurd, monstrous, and impossible. But there remained a whole abyss of doubts and unresolved details. As for where to get the axe, this trifle did not worry him in the least, because nothing could have been simpler. It so happened that Nastasya was constantly in and out of the house, especially during the evening:

for students whose constant aim it shall be to bring out the relations of the special subjects. One of the greatest of all gaps lies between the natural sciences and the study of humanity. It is the duty of the geographer to build one bridge over an abyss which in the opinion of many is upsetting the equilibrium of our culture. Lop off either limb of geography and you maim it in its noblest part. In speaking thus we are not blind to the necessity of specialism within geography itself. If you would do

turned toward the wall. A sharp, nervous trembling shook her from head to foot. An occasional sobbing sigh or, rather, gasp escaped from her lips, while she pressed her clenched hands more tightly on her eyes, as if to increase the darkness of the abyss in which she felt herself to have fallen. "Come! Come, my child!" muttered Mme Boche. "If you knew! If you only knew all!" answered Gervaise. "Only this very morning he made me carry my shawl and my chemises to the Mont-de-Piété, and that was the money

he said, ‘at your age I was fighting a war.’ Where do I sign? 15.6 Things were starting to get messy again and I knew that if there was any chance of the Karen situation being resolved, allowing me to focus on bringing Kudocities back from the abyss, then drastic action would be required. I would need to do the grown-up thing: to be honest with both her and Savannah and to make my mind up what the hell it was I wanted. Karen was suspicious about my relationship with Savannah and Savannah claimed

depuis 1966, lorsque Leland C. Clark avait maintenu en vie une souris immergée pendant plusieurs heures dans une solution d’hydrocarbures perfluorés saturée en oxygène. En 1989, la respiration liquidienne a été connue du grand public grâce au film Abyss même si peu de spectateurs soupçonnaient qu’il s’agissait d’une technique existante. La ventilation liquidienne était née de la recherche médicale pour aider les bébés prématurés à respirer, en couveuse, comme dans le ventre de leur mère. Les poumons

Baudelaire himself made but an imperfect use of such symbols as he had; and these he found ready to his hand in the works of the American poet. The Tomb, the symbol of death or of an intellectual darkness inhabited by the Worm, who is remorse; the Abyss, 319 which is the despair into which the mortal part of man's mind plunges when brought into contact with dead and perishing substances; all these are borrowed from Poe ». Baudelaire et son poème en prose Au sujet du poème en prose de Baudelaire

much more specifically Indian. Keep in mind that India still has a vast population of terribly impoverished citizens who struggle merely to survive from day to day. The small middle class that rises above the prevailing poverty can readily see the abyss yawning below it. Anxiety about success is pervasive, and the main path to success is through education. Parents place great stress on doing well in school and in passing the periodic uniform examinations that act as gateways to better jobs and family

is most frequently apocalyptic. So it is that many of our contemporaines extrapolate scientific invention, technical progress and économie aflBluence as increasingly uncontrollable forces a conjunction of which would tend to throw humanity into an abyss. It seems easier to project man's achievements than his aptitudes for adaptation. (Réf. : FRANÇOIS HETMAN, l'Europe de Vabondance, Paris, Fayard, 1967.) Cf. Modes of knowledge of the future ; Modes of understanding the future. 343 FEEDBACK

capacité d’absorption absorptivity n. (phys.), facteur d’absorption 2 • abstergent abstergent abstergent adj. n. (chim.), détergent m. abstract n., résumé m. abundance n., abondance f., teneur (phys. nucl.), ~ ratio (phys. nucl.), rapport de teneurs abyss n. (géol., océano.), abîme m., gouffre m. abyssal adj. (océano.), abyssal ac (alternating current) (électr.), courant alternatif ac vector representation n. (électr.), représentation f. de Fresnel (du vecteur tournant) Acarina n. pl. (arthr.), acariens

achondroplasia n. (path.), achondroplasie f. achromat n. (instr., opt.), achromat m. abstergent abstergent adj. n. (chim.), détergent m. abstract n., résumé m. abundance n., abondance f., teneur (phys. nucl.), ~ ratio (phys. nucl.), rapport de teneurs abyss n. (géol., océano.), abîme m., gouffre m. abyssal adj. (océano.), abyssal ac (alternating current) (électr.), courant alternatif ac vector representation n. (électr.), représentation f. de Fresnel (du vecteur tournant) Acarina n. pl. (arthr.), acariens