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![]() It’s been two days in this wrecked, abandoned motel in remote Wisconsin, interviewing Laing about the rare films he destroyed, and I feel like I know him less now than when we first began. Laing brings one of the tapes back to the table. Lang, for whom in M and the Mabuse films there was no such thing as truth, only illusions, pitiful illusions, his characters pretending to be one thing when they are in fact another, a duplicity which lasts only so long, until the character betrays himself. Either the German Lang or the American Lang, depending on whether the films in question were made before or after he fled the fucking Nazis in 1934. For the first time I think of Laing in relation to that other Lang, Fritz, whose Metropolis had transformed everyone who saw it into detectives of film. ![]() Bright red and cone shaped, or like a metal insect that had been melted down and reshaped as a cone, about the size of a spark plug. ![]() Then he takes something from his pocket, a small object whose shape and function I still don’t understand. I make a move as if to say it's time to break but Laing gets up and walks over to the blue velvet throne-chair in the corner of the motel room and comes back to the table with one of the VHS tapes, unmarked. ![]()
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Modesitt imager series5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. ![]() is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. ![]() He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, real estate agent, market research analyst, director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant for a Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college le L. ![]()
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Bram Stoker's Dracula by Roy Thomas5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Van Helsing also provided his own blood despite having no prior emotional connection to her. Seward, was the one who cared for her, while another suitor, Quincy, contributed his blood to be transfused into her when she was in dire need of it. ![]() When Lucy was ill, the suitor she rejected, Dr. ![]() Although they all came as competitors, Arthur, Quincy, and Seward ended up forging an undying bond with themselves, as well as with Harker, Mina, and Van Helsing. Yet there was no feeling of jealousy or resentment at the individual Lucy chose or on Lucy herself. The individuals who united to destroy Dracula were not friends from the start- three of them had competed for the hands of one woman, and two had been saddened by her rejection. Within the narrative, these themes are revealed in the manner in which the characters in ‘Dracula’ interact, as well as in the outcomes of certain events. ![]() The fictional book ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker contains a number of important themes that reflects Stoker’s philosophies and attitudes and, by extension the sensibilities of the period he lived in. ![]()
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Agatha christie death in the library5/10/2023 ![]()
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The gentle art of swedish death5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With a big heart, self-knowing wit, and an efficiency you might expect from the title, the show comes not to shame people but to celebrate their resilience, one lifestyle makeover at a time.Įxecutive produced and narrated by Amy Poehler, Death Cleaning is also quite cheeky, especially for a show in which mortality is never far from the conversation. But even with this glut there’s a place for The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, the new Peacock series based on Margareta Magnusson’s book of the same name. Let there never be a doubt that a buck can be made off human slovenliness. ![]() HE-GENTLE-ART-OF-SWEDISH-DEATH-CLEANING-RS-1800 - Credit: Peacockĭecluttering has become an industry in itself in recent years, with Hoarders prompting TV viewers to recoil in shock at the sight of dwellings stacked to the brim with stuff and Marie Kondo teaching readers The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Beginning in 1950, Krug began a long publishing career on the history of US education. Krug's early works dealt with US social life. In 1947, he returned to Stanford as an associate professor, but returned to Madison the next year. In 1943, he became a visiting assistant professor at [the University of Montana (In 1945, Krug became the Wisconsin State Curriculum Coordinator and held a concurrent position as Associate Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. from Stanford University thereafter accepting a temporary appointment as assistant professor. He then taught social studies at Evanston Township High School until 1938. Krug attended Northwestern University, receiving a B.A. Herrick Professor of Educational Policy Studies. Krug (Septem– July 30, 1979) was the University of Wisconsin–Madison's first Virgil E. ![]()
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The tale of cthulhu5/10/2023 ![]() Lovecraft were pretty interesting to say the least, considering what he was able to create in his lifetime. Pretty deep and meta, but I suspect the dreams of H.P. "Why do you say this thing is new? The dreams of men are older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon, and this was fashioned in my dreams," Lovecraft remembers saying in his dream. The curator argues with Lovecraft, asking how he could try to sell something new to a place that values antiques. In his dream, Lovecraft is trying to sell a sculpture he made to a museum of antiquity. Lovecraft had a disturbing dream in 1919 and wrote about it in two letters to his friend, Rheinhart Kleiner, in 1920. Lovecraft and permeate his extensive body of work. ![]() The origins of Cthulhu are rooted firmly in the mind of H.P. ![]() This horrifying creature from the deep has terrorized the imaginations of many since its creation in 1928. ![]()
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Marking Melody by R.E. Butler5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() After being rescued from her own people by two mountain lions. Well, now I do! Three of my series actually have spin-offs – The Wolf’s Mate (which led to Ashland Pride, Hyena Heat, and The Wolf’s Mate Generations), Wiccan-Were-Bear (which led to Vampire Beloved) and The Necklace Chronicles (which led to Norlanian Brides).īelow you’ll find the reading order for my stories, by series, including cross-over information for series that have spun-off from each other. All were-mountain-lion Melody Marx ever wanted was to find her mate and start a family. ![]() Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after 'retiring' from her day job as a secretary to become a stay-at-home mom. ![]() One of the questions I get asked the most is do I have a reading order for my books. spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. ![]()
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Conquerors by roger crowley5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. ![]() In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. Descripción - As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. ![]()
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The mistress of spices novel5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ahuja, a battered and abused wife, Haroun, a taxi driver who came to America to live the American dream, the garrulous bunch of girls who rebel against their narrow-minded traditional Indian parents, and Jagjit, who faces vicious attacks of racism in school, take us through the kaleidoscopic experiences of Indian immigrant life in the United States. However, she possesses mysterious healing powers that enable her to help people achieve their innermost desires, through the magic of her spices. Set in California, The Mistress Of Spices revolves around Tilo, an Indian immigrant running a store that sells exotic spices to customers for their curries. Adjudged the Seattle Times best paperbacks of 1998, The Mistress Of Spices tells the story of Tilo, an Indian immigrant running an Indian spice shop in Oakland, who uses her inborn gift to help people through the mystical healing powers of her spices, and what happens when those powers are challenged when she falls in love with an American stranger. ![]() |