1.  And that is part of this same, unremarkable theme: spring does come. In the garden the rue anemones come marching out, bright as toy soldiers on their parapets of stone. The dogwoods float in casual clouds among the hills.
    This is the Resurrection time. That which was dead, or so it seemed, has come to life again the stiff branch, supple; the brown earth, green. This is the miracle: There is no death; there is in truth eternal life.
    So, in the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark compost, rake fine the crumbling clods, and press the inert seeds into orderly rows. These are the commonest routines. Who could find excitement here?
    But look! The rain falls, and the sun warms, and something happens. It is the germination process. Germ of what? Germ of life, germ inexplicable, germ of wonder. The dry seeds ruptures and the green leaf uncurls. Here is a message that transcends the rites of any church or creed or organized religion. I would challenge any doubting Thomas in my pea patch.
    Everywhere, spring brings the blessed reassurance that life goes on, that death is no more than a passing season. The plan never falters; the design never changes. It is all ordered. It has all been always ordered.
    Look to the rue anemone, if you will, or to the pea patch, or to the stubborn weed that thrusts its shoulders through a city street. This is how it was, is now, and ever shall be, the world without end. In the serene certainty of spring recurring, who can fear the distant fall?

2.  The laptop computer is a small, portable computer that's light and small enough to hold on your lap. It is smaller than a luggage but larger than a notebook computer. A laptop usually weighs between 8 and 14 pounds, and when folded shut is about the size of a small briefcase. Laptops can be plugged in or run on batteries, although the batteries must be recharged every few hours. Laptop computers use a thin, light weight display screen called a flat-panel display, rather than the cathode ray tube technology of larger personal computers. Laptop displays vary widely in quality. Typically, their display screens show fewer lines than displays on larger computers and can be difficult to read in bright light. Laptops are self-contained units, having their own CPUs, memory, and disk drives. While more expensive than a desktop computer with equivalent computing power, a laptop can be ideal for the on-the-go user who needs a second, portable computer. Laptops aren't always a suitable replacement for desktop computer, since they can't be expanded or modified easily should your computing needs change. Also, the display is inferior to standard video graphics array (VGA) displays, although active matrix displays compete well except for size.

3. 
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    A RADIANT COMPLEXION
    A pearl extract, whose composition is close to the NMF (Natural Moisturizing Factor), helps reinforce the skin's natural hydration: the skin is perfectly hydrated and comfortable all day long. Light reflecting pigments create a "halo", which optically smoothes out the skin's surface, thus reducing small imperfections: the complexion is even, translucent and brightened.
    A REDEFINITION OF FACIAL CONTOURS
    Bi-reflecting pigments enliven features, and redefine facial contours while playing with light and shadow. The reflection highlight the round areas of the face(forehead, cheekbones, chin). The amber reflection shapes the face by enhancing the shadowy areas (cheeks, sides of nose). Facial contours are re-sculpted, features are refined.
    A FRESH STAY—TRUE COMPLEXION ALL DAY LONG
    TEINT DE PERLE VISAGE FIN provides exceptional softness to touch and ensures a flawless finish.
    The presence of "long radiance" pigments coated with silica helps color last for hours. This coating acts as a shield against sebum and perspiration production, main causes of shade tarnishing. The long-lasting matt finish is ensured by a combination of "anti-shine" powders characterized by their softness and absorbing properties. Sunscreens (SPF 20) protect the skin from UVA and UVB and help preserve the complexion's fairness.
    The complexion remains fresh and radiant throughout the day.
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    Apply TEINT DE PERLE VISAGE FIN after your regular day care. The double sided applicator enables you to adjust the coverage according to your mood.
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    —Damp sponge for a more sophisticated and flawless finish
    —Puff side for touch-ups during the day. A rapid, unifying and matifying application, without creating a masklike look.
    Be careful to frequently wash the sponge with soap and water and to let it dry completely after use.

4.  Style, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech. By a figure, obvious enough, which yet might serve for an epitome of literary method, the most rigid and simplest of instruments has lent its name to the subtlest and most flexible of arts. Thence the application of the word has been extended to arts other than literature, to the whole range of the activities of man. The fact that we use the word "style" in speaking of architecture and sculpture, painting and music, dancing, play-acting, and cricket, that we can apply it to the spontaneous animal movements of the limbs of man or beast, is the noblest of unconscious tributes to the faculty of letters. The pen, scratching on wax or paper, has become the symbol of all that is expressive, all that is intimate, in human nature; not only arms and arts, but man himself, has yielded to it. His living voice, with its undulations and inflexions, assisted by the mobile play of feature and an infinite variety of bodily gesture, is driven to borrow dignity from the same metaphor; the orator and the actor are fain to be judged by style.

5.  An acquaintance has kindly informed me that there is in the scribbling of mine too much introspection, meditation, reflection. "Co out," quotes he, "into the beautiful world, and write down what you see there." I think he is wrong. There is far too much description clone as it is. It is easy to go to a place and easy to write a sort of cataloguing description when one goes. Fitly to describe any visible thing whatever is the work of an artist, I question not. But artists are few and easy work is tempting: it seems well to me that some of us scribblers should sit at home and think. The result may not be magnificent, but there is sufficient rarity in the exercise to give it a sort of an odd flavor which may not be so dull to everybody as to my acquaintance. I always follow advice, however, and so, having received this, I took my hat and went out into the beautiful world, with the intention—but it really is a base intention—of writing down what I saw there.