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Memoirs of the Foreign Legion
Maurice Magnus was 39 years old when he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion to join the fight against Germany in World War I. Magnus was an American expatriot living in Rome—a theatrical agent, tutor, newspaper correspondent, writer, editor, and literary entrepreneur. He soon discovered his error—the Legion he found consisted largely of German exiles, prison-avoiding felons, and contemptuous French officers. Magnus spent about six weeks training in North Africa before a transfer to southern France provided the opportunity to desert and flee back to Italy. The Memoirs recounts his brief disenchanted tenure as a Legionnaire. After his military service his various enterprises had little success, and in 1920 a run of bad checks caused him to skip from Italy to Malta. Traced there eventually by the authorities, he faced extradition for charges of fraud and in desperation committed suicide. His acquaintances Norman Douglas and D. H. Lawrence prepared his Memoirs of the Foreign Legion for publication, hoping to clear the debts he left behind, and Lawrence wrote a long unflattering introduction. In the present volume the Memoirs is printed first, so readers have an unprejudiced experience of the text with Lawrence’s essay following for additional context. Magnus’s narrative contains offensive language. Some passages in his manuscript describing homosexual incidents that were excised by the original publisher are restored in this edition
Memoirs of the Foreign Legion
Maurice Magnus was 39 years old when he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion to join the fight against Germany in World War I. Magnus was an American expatriot living in Rome—a theatrical agent, tutor, newspaper correspondent, writer, editor, and literary entrepreneur. He soon discovered his error—the Legion he found consisted largely of German exiles, prison-avoiding felons, and contemptuous French officers. Magnus spent about six weeks training in North Africa before a transfer to southern France provided the opportunity to desert and flee back to Italy. The Memoirs recounts his brief disenchanted tenure as a Legionnaire. After his military service his various enterprises had little success, and in 1920 a run of bad checks caused him to skip from Italy to Malta. Traced there eventually by the authorities, he faced extradition for charges of fraud and in desperation committed suicide. His acquaintances Norman Douglas and D. H. Lawrence prepared his Memoirs of the Foreign Legion for publication, hoping to clear the debts he left behind, and Lawrence wrote a long unflattering introduction. In the present volume the Memoirs is printed first, so readers have an unprejudiced experience of the text with Lawrence’s essay following for additional context. Magnus’s narrative contains offensive language. Some passages in his manuscript describing homosexual incidents that were excised by the original publisher are restored in this edition.
DOI: 10.32873/unl.dc.zea.1339https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1134/thumbnail.jp
Pornografi og obskønitet
D.H. Lawrence: Pornografi og obskønitet
Dynamic Resonance of Light in Fabry-Perot Cavities
The dynamics of light in Fabry-Perot cavities with varying length and input
laser frequency are analyzed and the exact condition for resonance is derived.
This dynamic resonance depends on the light transit time in the cavity and the
Doppler effect due to the mirror motions. The response of the cavity to length
variations is very different from its response to laser frequency variations.
If the frequency of these variations is equal to multiples of the cavity free
spectral range, the response to length is maximized while the response to the
laser frequency is zero. Implications of these results for the detection of
gravitational waves using kilometer-scale Fabry-Perot cavities are discussed
On a coordinate independent description of string worldsheet theory
We study worldsheet conformal invariance for bosonic string propagating in a
curved background using the hamiltonian formalism. In order to formulate the
problem in a background independent manner we first rewrite the worldsheet
theory in a language where it describes a single particle moving in an
infinite-dimensional curved spacetime. This language is developed at a formal
level without regularizing the infinite-dimensional traces. Then we adopt
DeWitt's (Phys.Rev.85:653-661,1952) coordinate independent formulation of
quantum mechanics in the present context. Given the expressions for the
classical Virasoro generators, this procedure enables us to define the
coordinate invariant quantum analogues which we call DeWitt-Virasoro
generators. This framework also enables us to calculate the invariant matrix
elements of an arbitrary operator constructed out of the DeWitt-Virasoro
generators between two arbitrary scalar states. Using these tools we further
calculate the DeWitt-Virasoro algebra in spin-zero representation. The result
is given by the Witt algebra with additional anomalous terms that vanish for
Ricci-flat backgrounds. Further analysis need to be performed in order to
precisely relate this with the beta function computation of Friedan and others.
Finally, we explain how this analysis improves the understanding of showing
conformal invariance for certain pp-wave that has been recently discussed using
hamiltonian framework.Comment: 32 pages, some reorganization for more elaborate explanation, no
change in conclusio
Exact Calculation of the Vortex-Antivortex Interaction Energy in the Anisotropic 3D XY-model
We have developed an exact method to calculate the vortex-antivortex
interaction energy in the anisotropic 3D-XY model. For this calculation, dual
transformation which is already known for the 2D XY-model was extended. We
found an explicit form of this interaction energy as a function of the
anisotropic ratio and the separation between the vortex and antivortex
located on the same layer. The form of interaction energy is at the
small limi t but is proportional to at the opposite limit. This form of
interaction energ y is consistent with the upper bound calculation using the
variational method by Cataudella and Minnhagen.Comment: REVTeX 12 pages, In print for publication in Phys. Rev.
Some functional equations related to the characterizations of information measures and their stability
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability problem of
some functional equations that appear in the characterization problem of
information measures.Comment: 36 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.0657,
arXiv:1307.0631, arXiv:1307.0664, arXiv:1307.065
'Support our networking and help us belong!': listening to beginning secondary school science teachers
This study, drawing on the voice of beginning teachers, seeks to illuminate their experiences of building professional relationships as they become part of the teaching profession. A networking perspective was taken to expose and explore the use of others during the first three years of a teacher’s workplace experience. Three case studies, set within a wider sample of 11 secondary school science teachers leaving one UK university’s PostGraduate Certificate in Education, were studied. The project set out to determine the nature of the networks used by teachers in terms of both how they were being used for their own professional development and perceptions of how they were being used by others in school. Affordances and barriers to networking were explored using notions of identity formation through social participation. The focus of the paper is on how the teachers used others to help shape their sense of belonging to this, their new workplace. The paper develops ideas from network theories to argue that membership of the communities are a subset of the professional inter‐relationships teachers utilise for their professional development. During their first year of teaching, eight teachers were interviewed, completing 13 semi‐structured interviews. This was supplemented in Year 2 by a questionnaire survey of their experiences. In the third year of the programme, 11 teachers (including the original sample of eight) were surveyed using a network mapping tool in which they represented their communications with people, groups and resources. Finally, three of the teachers (common to both samples) were then interviewed specifically about their networking practices and experiences using the generation of their network map as a stimulated recall focus. The implications of the analysis of these accounts are that these beginning teachers did not perceive of themselves wholly as novices and that their personal aspirations to increase participation in practical science, develop a career or work for pupils holistically did not always sit comfortably with the school communities into which they were being accommodated. While highlighting the importance of trust and respect in establishing relationships, these teachers’ accounts highlight the importance of finding ‘peers’ from whom they can find support and with whom they can reflect and potentially collaborate towards developing practice. They also raise questions about who these ‘peers’ might be and where they might be found
Responding to pupil led tangential thinking: a case study of teaching romantic poetry in a post-16 setting
This paper considers alternative ways of teaching Romantic poetry to post-sixteen English Literature pupils in England. It explores how practitioners can value tangents developed by pupils’ independent thinking when pupils are given the freedom to develop their own ideas. It reflects on a lesson planned to respond to a tangent developed by the class in a previous session; that William Blake’s “The Tyger”, to a contemporary reader, explores the 21st century preoccupation of climate change. The lesson outlined in this report built
upon these ideas further, valuing the pupils’ tangential thinking.
Approaches like these are particularly important now as the performativity agenda in schools, promoted by league tables as a measure of effectiveness, can result in some schools teaching to the test, at the exclusion of encouraging personal and creative responses to texts
Global Fluctuation Spectra in Big Crunch/Big Bang String Vacua
We study Big Crunch/Big Bang cosmologies that correspond to exact world-sheet
superconformal field theories of type II strings. The string theory spacetime
contains a Big Crunch and a Big Bang cosmology, as well as additional
``whisker'' asymptotic and intermediate regions. Within the context of free
string theory, we compute, unambiguously, the scalar fluctuation spectrum in
all regions of spacetime. Generically, the Big Crunch fluctuation spectrum is
altered while passing through the bounce singularity. The change in the
spectrum is characterized by a function , which is momentum and
time-dependent. We compute explicitly and demonstrate that it arises
from the whisker regions. The whiskers are also shown to lead to
``entanglement'' entropy in the Big Bang region. Finally, in the Milne orbifold
limit of our superconformal vacua, we show that and, hence, the
fluctuation spectrum is unaltered by the Big Crunch/Big Bang singularity. We
comment on, but do not attempt to resolve, subtleties related to gravitational
backreaction and light winding modes when interactions are taken into account.Comment: 68 pages, 1 figure; typos correcte
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