![]() ![]() In my day people in London would have been shocked. The Royal Academy recently gave a retrospective exhibition of Dada art and they decorated the gallery like a public lavatory. Even Buckingham Palace has a large reproduction of Magritte’s famous slice of ham with an eye peering out. Surrealism is no longer considered modern today and almost every village rectory and girl’s school have surrealist pictures hanging on their walls. Through her fictional character, Carrington ironically posits that the avant-garde movement will join the art canon and establishment it initially so violently opposed: ![]() ![]() 1In the following extract from Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet (1976), the heroine predicts what will come of surrealism in the art world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he’s all in, she’ll choose him instead? Except now she’s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and… and… man overboard! He’s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Living with his best friend should have been easy. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can’t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. In fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. ![]() She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. Now, Hannah’s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time–in bed and out–and that’s exactly how he prefers it. King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.īest known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. ![]() Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.Īn acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by more recent writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. In Valkyrie, Jóhanna Katrín Fridriksdóttir introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. ![]() ![]() Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war – to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. ![]() ![]() It is this kaleidoscope that allows us to celebrate the infinite richness of Agustina’s work and, in turn, it is this infinite richness that allows us to enlarge the kaleidoscope, adding glasses, mirrors, reflections or, as the writer would say, “human proof of love, justice, truth”.Īlain Corbel was born in Brittany, France, in 1965. Through them, these women and their narratives, we come across ten of Agustina’s books once again through them, these portraits and the way they have been recreated from passages, we engage with ten perspectives on how to read Agustina’s work, which may or may not coincide with ours. And also of Lourença, Purinha, Ofélia, Camila, Ema, Fisalina, Rosalina and Ana. Sampaio, João Fazenda, João Maio Pinto, Luis Manuel Gaspar, Mantraste, Pedro Lourenço, Sebastião Peixoto, Susa Monteiro and Tiago Manuel) includes depictions of Quina, the Sybil, and Fanny Owen. This exhibition of portraits by ten illustrators (Alain Corbel, Cláudia R. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Agustina said, “ The model must be the artist’s intimate conscience, having spent a long time within its moral and physical evolution, to the point of having participated in it, so that one day, by dint of the creative and vindictive memory, it appears as a portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]() He expresses his sympathy with Wordsworth's poems and the losses that he and Wordsworth share-losses that are common to all of humanity. From the beginning, Shelley alludes to Wordsworth's famous poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" in which Wordsworth reflects on the loss of the wonder and majesty he felt toward the natural world as a child. Through form and content, Shelley engages in a dialogue with the older poet, expressing his sense of betrayal due to Wordsworth's changing political views. The poem is modeled after a Shakespearean sonnet with an altered sestet. ![]() " To Wordsworth" takes the form of an apostrophe to the poet William Wordsworth, a first-generation Romantic poet. ![]() ![]() Some of the most militant racist prison gangs, skinheads, and open fascists venerate the same Gods of the Aesir. Hundreds of neo-Nazi and white nationalist bands and magazines take their names from the Northern Tradition. It is the clear association between Heathenry and an openly racialist subculture, one that has taken on Norse myth and symbols as a primary form of identification. This is not simply because of its origins, or the warrior ethic present in its primary source materials, the Eddas and Sagas. Today Asatru is one of the most divided areas of the new pagan groundswell that is happening world wide. Yet it is not those elements that most of those with quick glances see when they notice a small silver Mojinir around a believer’s neck. ![]() ![]() As Thor, Freya, and Odin are mentioned, faces around the table can envision what those names meant to their family deep in the past. It is the attendance to and memory of ancestors, the veneration of them just as the Gods, both of which can be traced back in a familial lineage. Much of the Yule Celebration is based around this key concept for those who identify with Asatru, the revival of the traditional Norse pagan religion. For those who raise the bowl in offering and veneration of the Old Gods, there is a glimmer of their connection to the past. ![]() ![]() Melville's widow Elizabeth began to edit the manuscript for publication, but was not able to discern her husband's intentions at key points, even as to the book's title. Melville began work on the novella in November 1886, revising and expanding it from time to time, but he left the manuscript in disarray. ![]() The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes Billy's lack of intent, but claims that the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged. Billy Budd is a "handsome sailor" who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's works. ![]() ![]() Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. ![]() ![]() Wolfe and Blue Jacket are rushed out of dry dock on a seemingly pointless mission. The people who remained behind actually still fought the occasional police action or ground war! They just weren't as bright and enlightened as the off-worlders. It is common knowledge that only the best and the brightest were siphoned off to settle the stars. ![]() He's from old Earth rather than the new colonies. Like the Blue Jacket, her commander, Jackson Wolfe, is a misfit in the new navy as well. The point being that Bluejacket despite her age was intended to take a punch. The old girl even carries a battery of rail guns designed for close ship-to-ship combat rather than lobbing missiles across mind-boggling distances. Multiple, redundant systems run through her bones. Massive plating and shields line her hull. Although built after the last war, it was still built with war in mind. The Blue Jacket is an anachronism of that more lethal age. The new, sleek, ultra-modern ships = while powerful - are built more for shuttling civilians about space than for honest-to-goodness in your face combat. ![]() With no shooting war in over a hundred years, the interstellar navies of the loosely aligned human states, atrophy. ![]() ![]() With unlimited resources and unlimited planets to colonize, the wars of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries are a distant, uncomfortable memory of a darker, more savage past. Faster than Light travel has been a Godsend to humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracy Kidder has reported the hell out of important stories before, but never more finely and relentlessly. That abstraction vanishes in the pages of Rough Sleepers. “The nightmare of homelessness can seem both overwhelming and slightly abstract to the safely housed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family Jim O’Connell, connect us to unforgettable individuals, who allow us to get closer to the suffering that is only one part of what we need to see." “What does it mean, in our time of inequality, to care for the vulnerable in ways that strengthen the better angels of our common humanity? Tracy Kidder’s book, and the work of Dr. ![]() But that year turned into his life’s calling-to serve the city’s unhoused population, especially the “rough sleepers,” people who sleep on the streets, in the rough. ![]() Nearly forty years ago, after Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Chief of Medicine made a proposal: would Jim defer a prestigious fellowship and spend a year as a doctor to homeless citizens? Jim took the job because he felt he couldn’t refuse. The inspiring story of a doctor who helped to create a medical system for the homeless people of Boston - by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains. ![]() |
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