Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presence believe in self-improvement. Like Mormons, they abstain from alcohol, narcotics, tobacco. They also abjure onions and garlic, feeling that their odors are repugnant to the Ascended Masters to whom they pray. Furthermore, they do not keep pets in their houses. People who follow these precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Meeting in I AM reading rooms and auditoriums-of which there are five in California, two in Florida, others in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia-these Hundred Percenters pray together, believe their group prayers are more powerful than single ones...
...LIVE UNDER A BLACK SUN-Edith Sit-well-Doubleday, Doran...
...Live Under a Black Sun, her first novel, combines all these quiddity qualities. It contains two interwoven stories...
...marries the German who killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
...aggrandizing it under the huge sun, joining together in a love that is the joining of the cloven maggot, engendering little hopes, little fears, throwing up small sprays of dust, spray by spray, till they have made a universe of dust." In vigorous poetic passages like this, I Live Under a Black Sun sometimes produces a darkly exciting agitation-something like the distress of chickens when an unseen hawk is overhead, or like the uneasiness of readers who do not know what the author is driving...