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Jem: “Can I finish tea, first? Why you have to be hurry?” freakin’ Herondale asks his Parabatai that “Can we go out now?” Sorry! But they just made me laugh my ass off. Mostly my favorite scenes might be the funny scenes. Whatever, lucky me I find some of my favorite scenes on the internet so I will use those and some might be from my phone ( and I have to explain you guys cux I read in Thai :P ) So here we go! lol! I try to take the photos from the book with my phone ( those my damn favorite scenes xD ) but it’s not that great. I really want you guys to see the pictures, so I will give you a little some. I can tell that the drawing is gorgeous! It might not be the best, but it’s not disappointed me ( at least I’m satisfied how My Will portray here :P ) Love, love, love this! xD All TID Fans should NOT miss it! and also anyone who have never read this awesome series. Lewis: he wrote a whole scholarly work, The Allegory of Love, about medieval and Renaissance allegory. Perhaps this is a distinction without a difference to many readers, but it’s worth bearing in mind that if anyone should know what allegory is, it’s C. We might think of this as something like the distinction between simile and metaphor: simile is like allegory, because one thing is like something else, whereas in metaphor, one thing is the other thing.Īslan is not like Jesus (allegory): he is Jesus’ equivalent in Narnia. But he doesn’t: he is Jesus, if Narnia existed and a deity decided to walk among the people of that world. In short, Lewis rejects the idea that his Narnia books are allegory because, for them to qualify as allegorical, Aslan would have to ‘represent’ Jesus. Lewis didn’t regard them as allegory: ‘In reality,’ he wrote, Aslan ‘is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?” This is not allegory at all.’ Lewis book(s) that are Christian allegory, right?’ But C. Say ‘ Chronicles of Narnia’ or ‘ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ and many people will say, ‘Oh, the C. While generally this book is literary fiction, it covers several genres – historical fiction, science fiction, first person narrative – in one book.His endorsement helped our group know there was something profound to grasp and many fought hard to uncover it. What made Bill Gates choose this book? We’re not sure, but we agreed there was immediate credibility in its value because he choose it.As we discussed and digested our differing perspectives, several points became clear: The second book in the list of summer reading recommended by Bill Gates certainly brought mixed reviews, with several feeling strongly in opposite directions! Cloud Atlas seems to have fostered a love/hate relationship with our group but everyone agreed: it was a challenging read, a book that stretched our minds and made us think on different levels. Pascoe was born in Richmond, Victoria in 1947. Pascoe is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? (2014), in which he argues that traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples engaged in agriculture, engineering and permanent building construction, and that their practices provide possible models for future sustainable development in Australia. Since August 2020, he has been Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. As well as his own name, Pascoe has written under the pen names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. Australia Council for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award (2018)īruce Pascoe (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature.New South Wales Premier's Indigenous Writers' Prize (2016).
However, the shepherd took pity on the baby and passed him to another shepherd who gave Oedipus to King Polybus and Queen Merope to raise as their own. Laius wished to thwart the prophecy, so he sent a shepherd-servant to leave Oedipus to die on a mountainside. In the best-known version of the myth, Oedipus was born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's role in the course of destiny in a harsh universe. Together, these plays make up Sophocles' three Theban plays. The story of Oedipus is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus Rex, which is followed in the narrative sequence by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. A tragic hero in Greek mythology, Oedipus accidentally fulfilled a prophecy that he would end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster to his city and family. Oedipus ( UK: / ˈ iː d ɪ p ə s/, also US: / ˈ ɛ d ə-/ Greek: Οἰδίπους "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. Oedipus and the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Above all, they sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its fudge on where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. Together this second generation of American founders took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency, and tasked themselves with finishing the work the Founders had left undone. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants-Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun-battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. BRANDS! From New York Times bestselling historian H. Violent,calculating, and incapable of remorse, he demands his new mate's adoration. Every bit as ruthless as his reputation suggests, he ravages both her and her city, refusing to let either slip through his fingers. Steals Claire's innocence, and future, by forcing a pair-bond on the rare, unwilling Omega. Summer's Eve Reads *** Shepherd takes her for himself. Well, I'm not sure what the hell I just read, but I do know that it's on my Best of 2016 list and I f**king loved it. I wanted to know more. This book is dark, suspenseful, rife with emotional turmoil, and the sex is dark." - The Romance Reviews "The violence, emotional trauma, and complete subjugation were hard to process at times, but at the same time, I couldn't put it down. "There's no shortage of drama as alliances form and surprising betrayals are revealed." - Kirkus Reviews "Unapologetically raw and deliciously filthy, Shepherd & Claire's dark, gritty story is an emotional punch to the gut!" - Anna Zaires, New York Times bestselling author Over 1,000 5-Star reviews across the series! Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern Thoreau." The broad scope of his writing reflected upon such topics as the mind of Sir Francis Bacon, the prehistoric origins of man, and the contributions of Charles Darwin.Įiseley's reputation was established primarily through his books, including The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), The Night Country (1971), and his memoir, All the Strange Hours (1975). He was a "scholar and writer of imagination and grace," whose reputation and accomplishments extended far beyond the campus where he taught for 30 years. At his death, he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies. Loren Eiseley (Septem– July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. Sir Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alfred Russel Wallace University of Pennsylvania, MA, PhD (1937)ģ6 honorary degrees Phi Beta Kappa Awardįor "Best science book", Darwin's Century I might be too old and too damaged to ever truly experience my desires, but I want to know, just for myself, just for the record, which way I am tilted. I don't know if this Outreach thing can help me, but with their science and their skills they can tell me the kind of man I could have been, the kind of love I could have had, and there is some comfort in that. There is this need inside me that I never explored and then the trauma denied me the freedom to even consider it. It's easy to blame it on my service, to be that PTSD veteran, but it's more than that. I've not been doing great for a long time. I'm revising this story, and I'm going to learn everything The Outreach has to offer. It's making me feel all kinds of stupid about how I've played in the past, and all kinds of fascinated for how to scene in the future. It seems these guys actually know what they are talking about, and what they are saying is resonating inside me on a primal level. MALWhen my boss sent me on this assignment I thought I was writing a fluff piece, a sly little dig at the newest psychobabble trend to hitch itself to the discover yourself gravy train. Some see it as a green light for deviancy, for others it's their last chance to understand why they want the things they want. It's brand new and causing waves, politically and socially. Could this be mutually beneficial? This is The Outreach, where the kink curious can have their desires analysed, their cravings explained, and if they are lucky, find the right kind of someone to meet their needs. |