item: #1 of 12 id: 17028 author: Doctorow, Cory title: Eastern Standard Tribe date: None words: 55755 flesch: 88 summary: Riding him and then being ridden in turns, slurping and wet and energetic until they both lay sprawled on the hotel room's very nice Persian rugs, dehydrated and panting and Art commed Fede, and Fede told him it could take a couple weeks to sort things out, and why didn't he and Linda rent a car and do some sight-seeing on the East Coast? Art's earliest memory: a dream. keywords: art; ass; audie; bed; book; boston; car; colonelonic; comm; couple; course; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; fede; friends; fucking; gink; good; gran; hand; head; hell; jersey; job; junta; license; linda; london; look; mom; moment; need; new; office; people; right; roof; room; shit; shut; sir; sorry; story; stuff; talk; thanks; thing; thought; time; trepan; tribe; use; way; week; work; world; years cache: 17028.txt plain text: 17028.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 17759 author: International Meridian Conference (1884 : Washington, D.C.) title: International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings date: None words: 67787 flesch: 56 summary: The basis of Mr. Gyldén's system is that time meridians should be separated from the standard initial meridian by either 10 or some integral multiple of 10 minutes. Greenwich time is exclusively used in Great Britain, and differs from mean local time about eight minutes on the east and about twenty-two and a half minutes on the west. keywords: adoption; britain; conference; congress; day; delegate; france; general; greenwich; longitude; meridian; meridian conference; point; present; president; prime meridian; question; reckoning; resolution; states; subject; system; time; united; united states; universal; vote; west; world cache: 17759.txt plain text: 17759.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 27053 author: Repp, Ed Earl title: The Day Time Stopped Moving date: None words: 6162 flesch: 93 summary: THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVING By BRADNER BUCKNER _All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. Dave Miller would never have done it, had he been in his right mind. keywords: dave; erickson; eyes; helen; major; miller; right; time; way cache: 27053.txt plain text: 27053.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 31663 author: Lafferty, R. A. title: The Six Fingers of Time date: None words: 9823 flesch: 89 summary: You had not imagined that there were only two phases of time, had you? Lately I have come to suspect that there are many more, said Charles Vincent. And there was a taxi which crept along, but Charles Vincent had to look at it carefully for some time to be sure that it was in motion. keywords: charles; clock; hand; hour; man; minutes; people; state; time; vincent; work cache: 31663.txt plain text: 31663.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 32905 author: Ernst, Paul title: Mask of Death date: None words: 11050 flesch: 90 summary: A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies_] _1. The signature was: Doctor Satan! _2. keywords: bay; blue; chichester; doctor; eyes; keane; madame; man; room; satan; sin; weems cache: 32905.txt plain text: 32905.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 44838 author: Arthur, James title: Time and Its Measurement date: None words: 22399 flesch: 75 summary: The above table shows the variation of the sun from mean or clock time, by even minutes. One rotation of the earth in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, nearly, of clock time. 3rd. keywords: clock; date; day; days; dial; earth; fig; half; hand; hours; illustration; japanese; line; night; noon; point; seconds; sun; time; watch; watches; year cache: 44838.txt plain text: 44838.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 44867 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Discovery of the Future date: None words: 9597 flesch: 58 summary: All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars. And now, if it has been possible for men by picking out a number of suggestive and significant looking things in the present, by comparing them, criticising them, and discussing them, with a perpetual insistence upon Why? without any guiding tradition, and indeed in the teeth of established beliefs, to construct this amazing searchlight of inference into the remoter past, is it really, after all, such an extravagant and hopeless thing to suggest that, by seeking for operating causes instead of for fossils, and by criticising them as persistently and thoroughly as the geological record has been criticised, it may be possible to throw a searchlight of inference forward instead of backward, and to attain to a knowledge of coming things as clear, as universally convincing, and infinitely more important to mankind than the clear vision of the past that geology has opened to us during the nineteenth century? Let us grant that anything to correspond with the memory, anything having the same relation to the future that memory has to the past, is out of the question. keywords: day; future; human; knowledge; man; mind; past; people; present; sort; things; world cache: 44867.txt plain text: 44867.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 49462 author: Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) title: Lord Tedric date: None words: 11025 flesch: 88 summary: Nor, if you did, couldst know who it was neath all this iron? Art wrong, Lord Tedric--nay, not 'Lord' Tedric; henceforth you and I are Tedric and Rhoann merely--I have known you long and well; would recognize you anywhere. * * * King Phagon and Tedric were standing at a table in the throne-room of the palace-castle, studying a map. keywords: god; gold; king; like; llosir; lomarr; lord; phagon; rhoann; sciro; sire; tedric; time; tis cache: 49462.txt plain text: 49462.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 49651 author: Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer) title: Tedric date: None words: 7882 flesch: 87 summary: No priestess I, Lord Tedric! By Llosir's brain, girl, you're right--you've been wasted long enough! The key figure is Lord Tedric of Lomarr, the discoverer of the carburization of steel. keywords: god; good; iron; llosir; lord; man; metal; sarpedion; sword; tedric; time cache: 49651.txt plain text: 49651.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 59515 author: Fontenay, Charles L. title: Z date: None words: 8825 flesch: 87 summary: I'm Summer Storm and this is my husband, Wyn Storm, and we live at 138 March Street, she said, all in a rush. Does this explain, the strange co-existence of Summer, Mark and Wyn?_ keywords: house; know; mark; past; storm; summer; thomas; time; wyn; years cache: 59515.txt plain text: 59515.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 59712 author: Walton, Bryce title: The Floater date: None words: 5248 flesch: 86 summary: Barton couldn't figure out why they were so concerned, especially the neuropsychologist or whatever he was, Von Ulrich, who was always coming around in his clinical space boat, studying Barton, asking him questions, giving him all kinds of tests. A few months later, Von Ulrich was back, watching Barton moulding something out of clay, a sort of human shape without a face. keywords: barton; basketball; sir; time; ulrich; von cache: 59712.txt plain text: 59712.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 9252 author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel title: Time's Portraiture (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") date: None words: 3028 flesch: 69 summary: If you would meet Time face to face, you have only to promenade in Essex Street, between the hours of twelve and one; and there, among beaux and belles, you will see old Father Time, apparently the gayest of the gay. Wherefore I have bethought me, that it might not displease your worships to hear a few particulars about the person and habits of Father Time, with whom, as being one of his errand-boys, I have more acquaintance than most lads of my years. keywords: day; face; gentleman; hour; street; time; year cache: 9252.txt plain text: 9252.txt