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Lesson 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar

1. The roadway is about twelve feet wide, but it is narrowed every few yards by little stalls

where goods of every conceivable kind are sold.

2. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. 3. …until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…

4. …as the burnished copper catches the light of innumberable lamps and braziers.

5. The dye-market, the pottery market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb the bazaar.

6. Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a

mosque or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay…

7. It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square, and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible. 8. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards,

taut and protesting, its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding-wheels and the occassional grunts and sighs of the camels.

Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the “Liveliest” City in Japan 1. Hiroshima—the “liveliest” city in Japan 2. …as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop... 3. Was I not at the scene of the crime?

4. At last this intermezzo came to an end…

5. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skycrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt. 6. …where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands

upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony. 7. …a town known throughout the world for its—oysters. 8. I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me. 9. Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others.

Lesson 3 Ships in the Desert

1. The prospects of a good catch looked bleak. 2. After a hearty breakfast, my companions and I traveled by snowmobiles a few miles farther north to a rendezvous point…

3. Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef. 4. This “noctilucent cloud” occasionally appears when the earth is first cloaked in the evening darkness.

5. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn’t it startle us that we have now put these

clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Or have our eyes adjusted so completely to the bright lights of civilization that we can’t see these clouds for what they are—a physical manifestation of the violent collision between human civilization and the earth? 6. Also called natural gas, methane is released from landfills, from coal mines and rice paddies,

from billions of termites that swarm through the freshly cut forestland, from the burning of biomass and from a variety of other human activities.

7. We have reshaped a large part of the earth’s surface with concrete in our cities.

Lesson 4 Everyday Use for your grandmama 1. It is like an extended living room.

2. My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake.

3. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. 4. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange

white man in the eye?

5. …showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…

6. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding

humor that erupted like bubbles in lye.

7. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. 8. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …

9. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. 10. Wangero said, sweet as a bird.

11. She gasped like a bee had stung her.

Lesson 5 Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U. S. S. R. 1. I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.

2. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House

of Commons.

3. That is our policy and that is our declaration.

4. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the thresthold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.

5. I see them guarding their homes where mothers and wives pray---ah, yes, for there are times

when all pray---for the safety of their beloved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector. 6. I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly

from the soil, but where there are still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play.

7. I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, it crafty expert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries.

8. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 9. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British

whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey. 10. From this nothing will turn us---nothing. 11. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gane.

12. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with

God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. 13. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who

marches with Hitler is our foe…

14. Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men who plan, organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind…

15. On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encourged in our efforts to rescue mankind from his

tyranny. We shall be strenthened and not weakened in determination and in resources. 16. …the subjugation of the Western Hemisphere to his will and to his system.

17. …just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men

and free peoples in every quarter of the globe.

Lesson 6 Blackmail

1. As a result the nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.

2. The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. 3. His wife shot him a swift, warning glance. 4. You drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend. 5. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. 6. Her voice was a whiplash. 7. Eyes bored into him. 8. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. 9. In what conceivable way does our car concern you?

Lesson 7 The Age of Miracle Chips

1. Under a microscope, it resembles a stylized Navaho rug or the aerial view of a railroad

swithcing yard.

2. Unlike the hulking Calibans of vacuum tubes and tangled wires from which it evolved… 3. As the alarm clock burrs…

4. The percolator in the kitchen starts burbling…

5. The TV set blinks on with the day’s first newscast…

6. Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and the grocer on

the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies…

7. Next to health, heart and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the

automobile.

8. The computer revolution is stimulating intellects, liberating limbs and propelling mankind to

a higher order of existense.

9. For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are

still around the bend of a silicon circuit.

Lesson 8 An Interactive Life

1. Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven. 2. The shows of the future may be the technological great grandchildren of current CD-ROM titles.

3. To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed

electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rope in the subjects the viewer wants.

4. Interactive is like a conversation.

5. And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind?