It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A
mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water and the word for Breakfast
Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge
and fight fo
When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface
of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure was
even heavier on his back. He wished, feebly, that the weight could be just enough
to drug
By sunup, Jonathan Gull was practicing again. From five thousand feet the fishing
boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust
motes, circling.
He was alive, trembling ever so slightly with delight, proud that his
It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea,
hungry, happy, learning.
The subject was speed, and in a week's practice he learned more about speed than
the fastest gull alive.
From a thousand feet, flapping his wings as
Read more…When Jonathan Seagull joined the Flock on the beach, it was full night. He was
dizzy and terribly tired. Yet in delight he flew a loop to landing, with a snap roll just
before touchdown. When they hear of it, he thought, of the Breakthrough, they'll be
Richard David Bach (born 23 June 1936) is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, and others. His books espouse his p
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Read more…ragged
bars
feebly
charts
faded
vowed
wearily
twinkling
beacon-trails
vanished
blazing
steep
upstroke
burst
churning
tremendous
blurred
smashed down
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speck
motes
plunged
thudding
gigantic
tilting and
meteor-fast
Collision
(the loop, the slow roll, the point roll, the inverted spin, the gull bunt, the
pinwheel.) = Some aerobatics maneuvers of flyers .
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?Who is a fortunate one
?When and how we can feel we are fortunate
?In which condition or situation we could be completely satisfied with no complaint
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Some months ago i was going to write a new blog post.But i had many grammatical problems and about expressions that i needed to use as well.although there are many teachers in EC but i couldn't solve my problems excerpt some simple ones
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"Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart," the alchemist had told
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