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In life there are a few major questions. Among them are, «What do we gain?» «What's new?» and «What's the point?» This book creatively uses the Book of Ecclesiastes–where these questions often pop up–to investigate how we question, what we question, and why we question. Along the way you will encounter some of history's great questioners: Socrates, Soren Kierkegaard, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. K. Chesterton, and others, though they may appear in unexpected ways. Something Beyond Nothing? is an experiment in finding and making meaning that focuses on the unpredictable journey of living with questions. Taking the awkwardness of Ecclesiastes as a cue, Brian Niece's odd book is a mix of storytelling, theological analysis, poetic meditation, philosophical investigation, drama, and biblical interpretation. Herein is nonfiction and fiction–with no clear line between the two–suggesting that our modes of meaning may be as significant as the meaning they lead us to. What's more, if there is something beyond nothing, it may not be quite like what we think we know. And the God we don't yet know may surprise us.

In 'Beyond the City', the desire for money and romance drives the characters beyond the typical boundaries of their middle class Victorian lives. Lust, deceit, and financial scandals rock their placid world. The girl next door is much more than ordinary in this surprising domestic romance by Arthur Conan Doyle. A remarkable departure from his famous detective stories, 'Beyond the City' explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes.

Герой повести – модный и дорогой художник Микис Самсонов, любимец Фортуны, проходит свидетелем (или подозреваемым?) по делу об убийстве своей бывшей любовницы, тоже художницы, Елены Макеевой. В результате следствия настоящий тайфун обрушивается на тихую заводь славы модного художника, открывая завесу над тайной его творчества… Кто же Самсонов на самом деле? Гениальный художник? Великий мистификатор? Убийца? Каждый человек, если, конечно, он не наплевательски относится к себе и своей жизни, стремится к успеху – в любом начинании, в карьере, в бизнесе, в семье, в любви. Такие люди, как лягушки в банке со сметаной, барахтаются и выплывают наверх, добиваясь заслуженного успеха. Однако пути к нему они выбирают самые разные и цену платит каждый свою. История, которую предлагает автор, не рассказывает о реальных людях и реальных событиях, но характеры и обстоятельства, описываемые в книге, во многом типичны для нынешнего времени.

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.