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...fictitious." He tells of the fighting on the Somme and Ancre fronts during the last part of 1916; his characters are a company of an English regiment he calls the Westshires. Hero is Bourne, a gentleman ranker, who has come through the Somme battles with his two chums, Shem and Martlow, without a scratch. Not regular soldiers, they are veterans now, have the veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen him proved...
TALES TOLD OF SHEM AND SHAUN- James Joyce-Black Sun Press (Paris...
...read, it. must be puzzled over. In his famed Ulysses, this Jabberwocky manner cropped out only in occasional shoals and semi-submerged reefs; most of it was plain sailing. But Ulysses, describing the events of one Dublin day, was a daybook. Work in Progress, of which Tales Told of Shem and Shaim are three disconnected fragments, describes the thoughts of one Dublin dreamer, is a night-book. He who runs will not be able to read; he will have to slow down to a walk, perhaps stop altogether, look long and wonderingly...
...cities to be founded after the waters prevailed upon the earth and Jahveh ordered Noah and his entourage into the ark, has given up more of its interments: the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition found the traces of the tribe of the Elamites, descendants of Elam, son of Shem, grandson of Noah. The Elamites had a fearsome custom of burying alive the attendants of a dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs...
...ruins of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. A Mohammedan can enter and behold the golden urn in which repose two hairs from the beard of the True Prophet. A Christian may adore the stone on which Jesus found miraculously inscribed, the name of his Father In Heaven ("Shem"), by pronouncing which he worked miracles. Jews can see the place where Abraham was stayed by the Angel's hand from offering up Isaac. Nearby is the Coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails. It is written that when they all fall out the World will come...