6/10/2023 0 Comments Origin Story by David Christian![]() ![]() The tale of our origins is told through thresholds – key transition points when more complex things appeared. ![]()
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![]() But Sebastian Stan, as the dashing cousin Charles who shows up at the house to woo Constance and make a stab at the family fortune, is never quite able to pull off the duplicitous charm of this strange new interloper. ![]() Two men are also in the picture: Crispin Glover is always halfway to disturbed, so he makes a fine Uncle Julian, the girls' dithering relative who was paralyzed by the poison attack and now spends his days obsessively recreating that deadly dinner in his memoirs. ![]() Taissa Farmiga plays Merricat with her anxieties front and center, blindly battling a world she doesn't understand, while Alexandra Daddario makes Constance into a beautiful, naive waif whose cluelessness practically renders her a ghost. ![]() It's a shame, then, that director Stacie Passon (who previously helmed the erotic drama Concussion) makes the creepy stuff too low-key, less a case of building dread than growing impatience. But any adaptation that can't sell this central hook will put the story's other elements - Constance's sexual repression and the public's simmering hatred of the Blackwoods chief among them - out of whack. ![]() This mystery is tough to render on film, because it's so dependent on the inner mindsets of the characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Known for her influential anti-caste literature and contribution towards women’s education, Savitribai Phule’s political activism reveals that the Dalit’s struggle for education, equality, freedom and power is intimately connected with the politics of radically remaking Dalit women as historical agents and transgressive subjects of social reform.īorn on January 3rd, 1831 in the Naigaon village of Satara in Maharashtra, Savitribai Phule was a prominent figure in the social reform movements of Maharashtra. One such firebrand intellectual and pioneer was Savitribai Phule(1831-1897). Phule, Ambedkar and the larger Dalit community urged women to again every possible education to develop self-esteem, self-confidence, determinacy and daring in order to channel their agency effectively towards cleansing the community as well as striking at the roots of caste and gender oppression. The Phule-Ambedkarite Movement for Dalit rights largely conceived of a struggle and upliftment of the Bahujan community that predominantly involved women’s education and emancipation. ![]() ![]() ![]() and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie’s secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness. ![]() ![]() When he discovers she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather’s death, but she offers few clues - until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie’s past, one more intertwined with the elderly man’s passing than Trevor could ever have anticipated. The Last Song is the story of Ronnie Miller and the summer that she spends with her father at Wrightsville Beach. Claiming to be 19, she works at the local sundries store and keeps to herself. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she’s hiding.įurther complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road from his grandfather’s cabin. and yet, from their very first encounter, his connection with Natalie Masterson can’t be ignored. Tending to his grandfather’s beloved bee hives while gearing up for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn’t prepared to fall in love with a local. The Last Song Audible Audiobook Unabridged Nicholas Sparks (Author), Pepper Binkley (Narrator), & 1 more 6,174 ratings Goodreads Choice Award winner See all formats and editions Kindle 8. ![]() ![]() ![]() The full title of Racine’s first tragedy is La Thébaïde ou les Frères ennemis (The Saga of Thebes, or The Enemy Brothers). Included in the Notes and Commentary section of this translation are passages that Racine deleted after the first edition and have never before appeared in English. ![]() ![]() The Discussions are not offered as definitive interpretations of these plays, but are intended to stimulate readers to form their own views and to explore further the inexhaustibly rich world of Racine’s plays. While Argent’s translation is faithful to Racine’s text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine’s rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic pentameters, a verse form particularly well suited to the highly charged urgency of Racine’s drama and the coiled strength of his verse.Ĭomplementing the translations are the illuminating Discussions and the extensive Notes and Commentaries Argent has furnished for each play. ![]() For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed "heroic" couplets. This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays-a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Sweet soul tillie cole![]() ![]() ![]() But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers. Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW 'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW _ Two hearts. ![]() You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW 'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS 'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Mcraven make your bed![]() ![]() “Attention!” shouted the class leader, Lieutenant Junior Grade Dan’l Steward, as the instructor entered the room. A day that I knew would be filled with uniform inspections, long swims, longer runs, obstacle courses, and constant harassment from the SEAL instructors. Those mornings that I stayed in the barracks I would roll out of my Navy “rack” and immediately begin the process of making my bed. In the officers’ room, where I berthed with three other class‑ mates, there were four beds, a closet to hang your uniforms, and nothing else. There is no air‑conditioning in the building, and at night, with the windows open, you can hear the tide roll in and the surf pounding against the sand. The barracks at basic SEAL training is a nondescript three‑story building located on the beach at Coronado, California, just one hundred yards from the Pacific Ocean. The following is an excerpt from “Make Your Bed” by Admiral William McRaven ![]() ![]() ![]() Hold V - Turn on mic input, release V key to send message Press Enter - Start typing reply, press Enter again to send message Your choices and conversations with the Yandere cat girl will have a significant impact on the game's outcome, so be strategic and think on your feet.Negotiate with the complex and unpredictable Yandere cat girl, whose personality and moods will change from round to round.Immerse yourself in a truly unique gaming experience with absolutely no set script to follow.This version is for experimental purposes.Īlso support microphone input for Deutsch / Français / RussianĮmbark on an unforgettable escape room adventure where you'll have to use all your wit and charm to convince the Yandere cat girl to unlock the door, or by uncovering hidden clues and solving puzzles. ![]() Sorry for any inconvenience of setting up our game. ![]() YOUR KEYS WILL NOT BE SHARED! You could clear your keys after playing from the links above. OPENAI API <<< IS REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS GAME!Īzure Speech Service API is optional if you want to hear the voice output from the Yandere AI girlfriend for optimal experience. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Helena waugh![]() ![]() Once more Beach, with that lucid brain of his, had dispelled the fog of mystery which had threatened to defy solution.” Wodehouse wrote in a strange, baroque manner that is unique in English prose: “The puzzled frown that had begun to gather on Lord Emsworth’s forehead vanished like breath off a razor blade. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wodehouse (a writer he greatly admired), their styles have little in common. Helena is not that kind of book.Īlthough he is frequently mentioned in relation to P.G. In books like Decline and Fall (1928), Black Mischief (1932 ), A Handful of Dust (1934), Scoop ( 1938 ), Put Out More Flags (1942 ) and his World War II novels, he brings to life dozens of funny characters from the British upper and middle classes who have the element needed for comic success in that type of book: they are believable but absurd, and the absurdity contributes to the believability-there is no seam in the garment that Waugh offers us. Among modern writers in English only Ernest Hemingway, with whom he had a good deal in common, and William Faulkner created fictional voices as recognizable. Waugh wrote a half dozen of the funniest books in English, in a clear, forceful style that is as distinct as that of any twentieth-century British writer. Helen, mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, appears at first an anomaly in his career. Although Evelyn Waugh was a Catholic, Helena (1950), his novel about St. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The trials of koli![]() Yeah, I know I’m being mean but I just can’t help it. It seems to have worked just fine for Koli. “Keeping people stupid is a good way of controlling them, but it’s a tough trick to pull off.” If he can find it, there may still be a way for him to change his own fate - by saving the lives of those who are left.īy the same author, writing as Mike Carey: ![]() ![]() A story about lost London, and the mysterious tech of the Old Times that may still be there. Whole villages just like his are dying out.īut Koli heard a story, once. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into this strange world where every moment is a fight for survival.Īnd it's not just Koli's life that is threatened. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts and Shunned men. ![]() Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" ( Kirkus) - a world in which nature has turned against us - continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy. ![]() |