![]() ![]() Furthermore, I find The Iliad to be so profound, so true in what it says about being a human being and living in this world, that it never fails to make me see and understand the world differently and, I hope, better.įor a number of reasons, The Iliad is different from most of the literature we are accustomed to, and it helps to know something about those differences and the reasons behind them before reading the poem. ![]() ![]() When I read these books, I visit with these friends. So why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? A better answer is because I love it.Īs I said earlier, I like to think of books-the physical objects, books-as holding a world that I can enter and as I also said, some of my best friends, some of the people I know best, live in books. ![]() I obviously could teach the book without rereading it, and besides, no one requires me to teach this particular book. Why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? The simple answer is that I have taught it many times and each time I teach a book I like to reread it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The more important connection here is that The Sandman and Locke & Key are both excellent fantasy comics that work by taking a recognizable version of our world and then laying a mythology just beneath its surface. Goyer, and Gaiman himself as showrunners.įor now, at least, this crossover is strictly comics-based. ![]() The second season of Locke & Key is currently filming, while an 11-episode Sandman series is in development with Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg, Batman Begins writer David S. These two worlds meeting is an intriguing prospect - and, at a digital New York Comic Con panel, Locke & Key creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez teased a little of what we can expect from the crossover.ĭespite coming out two decades apart, and from two different publishers, the two books do have a lot in common - and not just because both are being adapted by Netflix. ![]() Crossovers are nothing new in comics, whether it’s a meeting between characters you don’t normally see together or even a collision of two different publishers’ universes - but there’s something unusual about the forthcoming Hell & Gone, a crossover between IDW Publishing’s Locke & Key series and The Sandman, the legendary DC Vertigo title that made Neil Gaiman’s name in comics back in the early ’90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() It began when, researching the history of his home town Kelso, he found this had no documented past before the 12th century. He was among the lost Welsh kingdoms of the North. ![]() ![]() Any member of the Scottish Assem- bly who reads it could find himself walking round and round his office bemusedly touching the brand-new furniture for, in searching for the historical Arthur, Alistair Moffat, of all things a television executive, to his own amazement found himself in a time when all southern Scotland was Welsh-speaking, when Edinburgh was Caer Eidyn, Eidyn's fort, and they called another settlement Glas-gow, in their language 'the `green hollow'. 320 Disbelief will be the first reaction to this piece of fascinating historical detective work. ARTHUR AND THE LOST KINGDOMS by Alistair Moffat Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins with David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcé who is a professor of Romantic poetry, getting involved in a disturbing affair with one of his students. ![]() ![]() The novel is a masterfully layered account of differing stories of people, both black and white, who are still struggling to deal with the reality of racial subjugation that had occurred in the past. Coetzee is a contested novel that addresses the echoes of racial tensions within the South African context. For this reason, I chose a text to discuss this week that speaks to the perils of polemic disputation.ĭisgrace by J. Maya Angelou once said, 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’ While I certainly agree with the sentiment of the saying, I truly believe that in not forgetting how you felt, it leaves the window cracked open allowing for the dust to lie dormant, only until a gust of wind blows it into disarray. It makes me ponder the nature of conflict particularly conflicts that do not originate from acts of ill will but by matters of belief or aesthetics. The political and social climate in Egypt saddens me. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the future, Eliana arrives in the Empire's capital as a broken shell of herself. Separated from Audric and Ludivine, she embraces the role of Blood Queen and her place by Corien's side, determined to become the monster the world believes her to be. Meanwhile, whispers from the empirium slowly drive her mad, urging her to open the Gate. Queen Rielle, pushed away from everything she loves, turns to Corien and his promises of glory. The incredible conclusion to the Empirium Trilogy that started with the instant New York Times bestsellers Furyborn and Kingsbane! This series is perfect for those looking for books for teen girls and is also one of the best fantasy series for adults and teens! Two queens, separated by a thousand years must face their ultimate destinies. ![]() ![]() This blog also appeared on SCN Business Trends on July 3, 2014. That seems about right to me – what do you think? Social media is about a decade old and, based on the above generalization, would be less prevalent with those who are 45 and older. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Īpply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.In the essay Adams suggests a set of rules which describe our relationship to technology: ![]() ![]() The Salmon of Doubt also includes an essay called ‘ How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet’ which first appeared in the News Review section of The Sunday Times in August 1999. ![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest outstanding upgrades for Chaos might be: (1) Increase the resolution or pixel size of the display. See our Chaos GitHub repository for the Chaos code online. Or use our algorithms to spin off smaller programs. You are free to alter the Chaos code and upload new versions. It's possible to run the Chaos program on any virtually any platform, inside a DOS shell called DOSBox. The CHAOS executables and parameter files. ![]() The program was written in consultation with James Gleick about his brilliant book, Chaos: Making a New Science. ![]() Josh Gordon did the interface, and much of the implementation of the algorithm code. Rucker wrote most of the algorithms, except for the Fractal Landscapes algorithms, which are by John Walker. This is a free release of the source, manual, and executables of a 1991 Autodesk DOS program that was called "James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software." The software was written by Josh Gordon, Rudy Rucker and John Walker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rosen Association manufactures the androids on a colony on Mars, but some androids rebel and escape to Earth, where they hope to remain undetected. Moving away from Earth comes with the incentive of free personal androids: robot servants identical to humans. Synopsis Background and setting įollowing a devastating global war in what was then the near future the Earth's radioactively polluted atmosphere leads the United Nations to encourage mass emigrations to off-world colonies to preserve humanity's genetic integrity. The book served as the basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner, even though some aspects of the novel were changed, and many elements and themes from it were used in the film's 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049. kill) six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who has to "retire" (i.e. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. ![]() ![]() How often does that happen? Also, a quick perusing of the jacket flap for The Apothecary revealed a scenario that is unique to middle grade novels - a teen who has to flee Hollywood for London with her screenwriter parents when they are blacklisted in the 1950s. Maile, author of a well received short story collection and two novels for adults, had her first book for kids published in the same year that her brother, Colin, frontman and songwriter for the popular band The Decembrists, had his first book published. ![]() First off, the name "Meloy" caught my attention right away, having just finished reading and reviewing Colin Meloy's Wildwood when The Apothecary came out last October. The Apothecary by Maile Meloy has so many intriguing things to recommend it. ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was in middle school I rode the bus to school and every day this teenager with rumpled hair and scuffed motorcycle boots would catch a ride with us. I’d swear it was stolen from one of Kemper’s now famous Rubbermaid container boxes of nostalgic paperbacks, but I gave my midget ninjas specific instructions NOT to take anything from Kemper’s abode, but simply take a look around, so the presence of this book on my shelves is still a mystery. It all started with shifted some books around and finding this ratty well loved copy of The Exorcist that inexplicably found its way into my book collection. I get a wild hair every so often and recently I decided that I needed to go on a 1970s blockbuster horror novel extravaganza tour. ![]() ”In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, fallsĭrop by drop upon the heart until, in our own ![]() |