Pushkin eugene onegin7/4/2023 Peeking through the crack of a door into a room, Tatyana sees a variety of monsters holding a party and, in their midst, Onegin, who domineers over the festivities. A bear appears, chases her, and then, once she can run away no more, carries her to a house full of festive sounds. That night, Tatyana has a fantastical nightmare set in a snowy landscape. However, she becomes frightened of the idea and instead goes to sleep. Tatyana in particular treats the divinations very seriously, to the point that she makes plans for an all-night spirit conjuring. Following the Yuletide tradition, the Larin girls and their maids play several divination games, many of which predict future husbands. The chapter begins with winter descending upon the countryside.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Gordon Wasson, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom,” in Life Magazine 44–60. Riedlinger (ed.), The Sacred Mushroom Seeker (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1997), 257–66. For the complete bibliography on Gordon Was-son’s work, which counts almost one hundred entries, see Ruck, Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986). Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrish, Jonathan Ott, and Carl A. Gordon Wasson, The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica (New York: McGraw Hill, 1980) Ruck, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanov-ich, 1978) Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. Gordon Wasson, George and Florence Cowan, and Willard Rhodes, María Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974) Robert Gordon Wasson and Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968) Gordon Wasson, Mushrooms, Russia, and History, vol. The following books represent Wasson’s work most relevant to Sabina and his overall project on the cultural use of sacred mushrooms in the history of mankind: Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and R. What makes an epic book like this, and War and Peace, a truly great piece of literature is the level of riveting detailed that is maintained throughout the writing.Īnother initial impression I have from reading the first few hundred pages of A Man without Qualities is what a brilliant and amazing wit Musil possesses. He starts, of course, with his main character, Ulrich-the very man without qualities-and then gives us portraits of those with whom Ulrich has contact, from the maid of a distant cousin, to a convicted murder in the news headlines, to important members of the Austrian government. Musil constantly switches his narrative back and forth among different characters, buildings layers of interest through his third person point-of-view. My reading experience reminds me, so far, of War and Peace, which I devoured the winter before last in a matter of three weeks. I’ve spent the last couple of days immersed in Musil’s enormous, 1,400 plus, two volume, unfinished Magnum Opus and have been completely drawn in and captivated by his writing. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:06:10 Associated-names Lewis, Anthony, 1966- Boxid IA1827516 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The knife of never letting go series7/3/2023 This discovery opens holes in the received wisdom about the Spackle, and Noise, and the death of the women, and Todd and Manchee find themselves fugitives, fleeing to another settlement they hadn't even known existed. Until one day they discover a tiny pocket in the swamp where Noise does not penetrate. Todd and his rather wonderful dog Manchee - who has a limited vocabulary largely confined to Poo, Todd, poo and is my favourite character - lead a tense life in Prentisstown, buzzing with the pressure of other people's secrets and thoughts. Life is a continuous shock of Noise from one's own, to one's neighbour's, to one's pet's and even from the squirrels in the trees and the crocodiles in the swamp. Noise is other people's thoughts, you see, and every man in Prentisstown can hear every other man's thoughts. Oh, Todd knows the history of Prentisstown alright. And the Noise was a virus unleashed on the unsuspecting human settlers by the native species, the Spackle. There are no women in Prentisstown, a human colony on another planet. Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. Bookbag doesn't approve of the cliffhanger ending, which is the only thing keeping it from a five star rating. Summary: A compelling, original and pacy future dystopian book with great originality and a dollop of wonderfully observed humour. Oscar wilde de profundis full text7/3/2023 His pronouncement, Scarry writes, is “only slightly distorted in Oscar Wilde’s ‘God spare me physical pain and I’ll take care of the moral pain myself,’” a somewhat glib admission of the relative privilege of mental suffering in comparison to torture. In her landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry describes “the annihilating power of pain,” which is “visible in the simple fact of experience observed by Karl Marx, ‘There is only one antidote to mental suffering, and that is physical pain.’” Marx’s comment defines a class distinction between types of pain: that of the overtaxed body of the worker and the mind of the bourgeois subject with the liberty for morbid self-reflection. Neuromancer trilogy7/3/2023 The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of " Burning Chrome" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from " Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him in contact with a powerful artificial intelligence.īefore Neuromancer, Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals-mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Nixonland review7/3/2023 Between 19 America experienced no less than a second civil war. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency of the United States. Rick Perlstein’s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know-American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19-into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.” -Jeffrey Toobin “Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” -Jon Meacham His success is dazzling.” - Los Angeles Times “Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. Dresden files 37/3/2023 Whether they are plunging into the underworld of Chicago’s criminal scene or plunging into the literal underworld like in LOTR, they’re both people who go to dark places and are a threat, not necessarily because of what they can do, but mostly because of what they know. “They perform the same role they just have a different hat on. “I realized wizards and private eyes do the exact same things,” Butcher told Strand Magazine. The world’s only “consulting wizard,” he faces off against a variety of beings-including spirits, vampires, werewolves, and other monsters-accepting cases from human and nonhuman clients, as well as the Chicago PD’s Special Investigation unit. The Dresden Files is a hard-boiled detective and urban fantasy series by Jim Butcher that follows private investigator and wizard Harry Dresden, who investigates supernatural cases in Chicago. “When I realized wizards and PIs were the same character, it became real easy.” |