![]() ![]() The protagonist, the Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep, is always at the fringes, pressing those Carter encounters and working the marionette’s strings. It occurs in a dream landscape so the fantastic and bizarre come together to aid and obstruct. This is a journey, and as such the story is fairly linear, moving towards the goal while overcoming obstacles and hurdles. Before we were spoilt by reason.Īnd so our journey begins, with Carter entering his dream after meeting with a fellow dreamer who provides the quote above. We glimpse our far forgotten first youth, when wonder and pleasure lay in all the mystery of days…before we were wise and unhappy. We try to make sense of it, but in our efforts we lose its meaning. As men, we try to remember, but we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. As children, we listen and dream - we think only in half-formed thoughts. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-20th century, the married collectors Dominique and John de Menil shook up the Texas art scene-and helped make Houston a destination for modern art, opening a museum devoted to their world-class holdings there in 1987.
![]() In part, this may be because Paris had better access to family and friends, but he is also a very good writer, and his mix of anecdote and observation is just right." ( Booklist)īarry Paris loves Audrey Hepburn, and who can blame him? His exuberant profile of the movie star traces Hepburn's life from her childhood in the Netherlands (where she aided the Dutch resistence) through her Hollywood career (from her Oscar-winning performance in Roman Holiday to Steven Spielberg's Always). ![]() ![]() "Certainly account seems more personal than other recent biographies of Hepburn have been. "Illuminates the complex inner life of the highest-paid actress of her time." ( San Francisco Chronicle) "Rich and definitive.fascinating." ( *Seattle Post-Intelligencer) ![]() With the insights of family and friends who never before spoke to a Hepburn biographer-and never-before-published photographs-Paris has created an in-depth portrait of the actress, from her childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her legendary career, and into her UN ambassadorship. (The most ambitious and personal account ever written about Hollywood's most gracious star-Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris is a "moving portrayal" ( The New York Times Book Review) that truly captures the woman who captured our hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() His non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with secrecy in the modern world. Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. A movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his post-apocalyptic novel, The Postman. His ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. ![]() At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.Įxistence, his latest novel, offers an unusual scenario for first contact. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. David Brin is a scientist, speaker, and world-known author. ![]() ![]() ![]() After his personal fall from grace and the failure of his republican cause this poem was intended to be his salvation from the damnation of ignominy. He naturally based a lot of his writing on his own life experiences with high level politics, strategy, and war his three marriages and their concomitant experiences with love and loss his republican, anti-monarchist ideas his blindness later in life his life as a fugitive from the law: his fall from power as a high level minister of government during Oliver Cromwell’s republican regime, to a hunted fugitive after the monarchists took power again after Cromwell’s death his burning desire to be famous and important. It does appear that he was also influenced by the content of Anglo Saxon poems and the plots of popular Chivalric romances. ![]() Milton, who wrote it, based his form of iambic pentameter verses upon those unrhymed ones of Shakespeare, and his poem’s structure and embellishments primarily on the King James Bible, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Vergil’s Aeneid. ![]() In Milton’s Day, much of North America was part of England, so we can claim him as one of our own if we like. It is also the latest of the four and closest to our own modern style of English. ![]() Paradise Lost is one of the Four Pillars of English along with the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and Chaucer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, It was my choice to walk away the first time. ![]() “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”įor every choice you make there are rewards, or there are consequences. As he does everything in his power to win her trust, Mikayla must choose between remaining alone and safe or letting love in. Mikayla and Jake both want more, but despite their growing closeness and intense chemistry, she tries to keep her distance and protect her heart. But Mikayla-thrust into adulthood with no one to guide her-is desperate to contain her grief and hide what she considers to be her weakness. With no one to turn to, Mikayla is forced to depend on this near stranger and his family, and he in turn is determined to take care of her. Jake, a handsome boy she just met, happens to witness her loss. Suddenly, everything she loved and everyone she relied on are tragically, irrevocably gone. So when betrayal and tragedy come in quick succession, Mikayla is completely destroyed. When Mikayla imagined her prom night, she envisioned a fairy-tale evening full of romance. While time and everything around us stands unmoving… who’s to say we can’t have it all? ![]() I wonder what events in all our lives-hers included-are The Turning Points? The points where we all determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness. More Info: Goodreads I’m grateful he showed up on my doorstep,Īnd I don’t just mean here on this journey with him. ![]() ![]() Listen, they gave us too much delta vee, they had us burn too long. Have they called up with a reentry plan yet? 'Cause we're coming in too shallow, we're coming in too damn fast. It works as a wonderful 'extra' to the Oscar-winning Hollywood film. Still, this is a key document for those digging to see the 'real' behind the story. ![]() Simple computer animations fill in the gaps, yet even the money shot-a still picture of the damaged spacecraft-is not shown. Ron Howard used no real footage in his film, which was smart since there really isn't a lot of interesting footage, just the usual launch and TV transmissions. The 'showing' part is the program's weakness. It's still hard to make the story fill an hour, so there's time to examine the space race in general and show previous missions. Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise talk about the flight (Jack Swigert died in 1982) while the technicians, including mission operations director Chris Kraft and flight director Gene Kranz, recall the moon shot and the near-fatal explosion. Produced a year before Ron Howard's film of the doomed space mission hit Hollywood, To the Edge and Back brings the real faces of the Apollo 13 saga to the forefront. ![]() ![]() Indelible is the second book in the Yara Silva trilogy, and it begins a couple of months after Intrisical ends. ![]() ![]() As new enemies emerge and old ghosts resurface, Yara finds herself in the center of another deadly mystery, and this time she has to contend with the living as well as the dead. While an angry ghost makes Yara question everything she thought she knew about spirits, she and Brent learn that there are long reaching consequences to last year s adventures. But Yara soon discovers that there are more dark secrets in her school s history than just the curse she broke. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. ![]() Series: Intrinsical (The Yara Silva Trilogy) Publisher: Pendrell Publishing (September 27, 2011) ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, however, it’s hard to see how we could agree on, create, and enforce any kind of global moratorium on certain aspects of AI development. ![]() The problem the open letter references is human-competitive intelligence systems represented by large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. That said, the AI research Kurzweil said will be harmed in the fields of health, education, and renewable energy are not ones the Future of Life open letter is most worried about. “We must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.” ![]() The open letter states the dangers clearly: The “bad guys” won’t stop, and the competition racing to catch up with OpenAI won’t either. At one level, Kurzweil is right: a declaration to pause AI research won’t be adhered to by all. ![]() ![]() Written with great verve and thoroughly researched, Smashing Statues gives readers the context they need to consider the fundamental question: Whose voices must be heard and whose pain must remain private? She traces the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, starting with the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom atop the US Capitol, and explores the surprising motivations behind such contemporary flashpoints as the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol. Thompson, the country’s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down?Įrin L. ![]() ![]() Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble others form armed patrols to defend them. ![]() An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. ![]() |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |