Irebelled against the king of the genii. to punish me, he shut me up in this vase of copper, and he put on the leaden cover his seal, which is enchantment enough to prevent my coming out. then he had the vase thrown into the sea. during the first period of my captivity i vowed that if anyone should free me before a hundred years were passed, i would make him rich even after his death. but that century passed, and no one freed me. in the second century i vowed that i would give all the treasures in the world to my deliverer; but he never came. in the third, i promised to make him a king, to be always near him, and to grant him three wishes every day; but that century passed away as the other two had done, and i remained in the same plight. at last i grew angry at being captive for so long, and i vowed that if anyone would release me i would kill him at once, and would only allow him to choose in what manner he should die. so you see, as you have freed me today, choose in what way you will die. –“the story of the fisherman,” andrew lang based on the evidence in this text, what is the best inference about the genius’s motivation?

Even the insistent cough of the woman next to him wasn't enough to draw his eyes away from the tiny type of the ancient book its pages were brittle and felt like they could crumble at the slightest disturbance he noticed the musty odor if each page as he carefully it over.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

What is the source of tension in this excerpt? ellery searching everything insects filling the light fixtures ellery standing on the desks louise carpenter whispering