5/23/2023 0 Comments Knut hamsun best books![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, Hamsun was pro-Nazi, and even met Hitler and Goebbels, but there is next to nothing in his books that points toward a hatred for Jews. In an infamous piece in the newspaper Aftenposten, he wrote that the Norwegians should lay down their arms and welcome the Germans. There is no doubt whatsoever that the author had very strong sympathies toward Germany and German culture per se, and later toward the Nazi regime.īorn in 1859, Hamsun was 81 when the Germans attacked and occupied Norway on April 9, 1940. Norway's commemoration of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun's birth has made Rafael Medoff question that country's role as chairman of an international task force for Holocaust education (" A tale of 2 Norwegian Nobel Prize winners for Literature, June 30" ). NOTE! Consider delaying until first div on page If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.pubads()) (function (a, d, o, r, i, c, u, p, w, m) Right of Reply: More hunger for Hamsun - The Jerusalem Post ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments The beating heart edgar allan poe![]() You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -with what caution -with what foresight -with what dissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so by degrees - very gradually -I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture -a pale blue eye, with a film over it. ![]() It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story. ![]() I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. ![]() Above all was the sense of hearing acute. TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Anxious Disciple by Mark Mills![]() It’s times like these when we must turn to God and to each other. When we feel fear and anxiety creeping in we are presented with an incredible opportunity for growth. We are confronted with hard questions like: Will I lose my job? How will I pay the bills? Am I in infected? Have I infected someone else? Will I lose someone I love? Even deeper, are questions about our faith: Is God really who he says he is? How could God let this happen? Can I really trust Him? Anxiety and fear reveal so much about our character. We all want to feel safe and when our safety is threatened, several things typically happen: We lose perspective, our true values are revealed, and our lack of faith is exposed. Our way of life feels off and things seem uncertain. Notice the people at the grocery stores with masks on their faces and the empty shelves. Just go for a drive around town and observe the empty streets and see the restaurants with chairs on top of their tables. It’s everywhere and it seems inescapable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the last few weeks, our world has changed and there is an eerie, surreal feeling in the air. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Book in the unlikely event![]() ![]() "Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, she paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place," the description reads. According to a description of the novel on Amazon, the main character, Miri Ammerman, returns to Elizabeth in 1987 to commemorate the events. I used to read about people who'd say, 'I dream my books and then I write them down.' And I was like, 'Oh, please.' But the idea came to me with characters and plot and structure!"īased on real-life events, the book focuses on three plane crashes that occurred in Blume's hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in the winter of 1951-1952. "I would have never believed anybody if they'd told me that was going to happen. Never ever like this," the author told People magazine. ![]() Nothing has ever come to me in a flash that way. "January 2009 is when the idea first came to me. On June 2, it'll finally hit bookshelves. — - For five years, Judy Blume was hard at work on her upcoming book, "In the Unlikely Event." ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Steven pinker's enlightenment now![]() Statistics on murder rates showed that modern self-restraint had replaced a medieval tendency toward carnage, while social expectations had accentuated the positive in human nature, keeping “inner demons” in check. No one could deny that the arguments were well-packaged and well-written. Violence, he aimed to show, had long been in decline and had now reached an all-time low. In his 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, he proposed that by one crucial measure, human life was improving across the world. The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has long been a loud votary of progress. ![]() The lesson from this history is not necessarily that progress is unavailable, but that to believe in it is not easy. Yet things went south in the rise of empire and the victory of reaction, the explosion of a dehumanizing brand of capitalism, and two world wars, capped by Auschwitz and Hiroshima. After the Scientific Revolution, priestcraft and superstition lost credibility, and after American independence, the French Revolution established hopes that liberty and equality for all were on the way, putting an end to material penury and social hierarchy. ![]() Philosophers of the Enlightenment imagined that it was possible to break the chains of oppression and bring about the emancipation of all people. ![]() Belief in human progress has always depended on a kind of provisional faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is revealed that this noise is the ticking of his watch. He finds himself apprehensively awaiting each strike, which seem to grow further and further apart. He cannot tell if it was far away or nearby. ![]() He can not identify this noise, other than that it sounds like the clanging of a blacksmith's hammer on the anvil. Then he is distracted by a tremendous noise. As he is waiting, he thinks of his wife and children. Six military men and a company of infantry men are present. In the first part of the story, a gentleman planter in his mid thirties is standing on a railroad bridge in Alabama. It is later revealed that after a disguised Union scout enlisted him to attempt to demolish the bridge, he was caught in the act. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist stands bound at the bridge's edge. Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. The story, which is set during the Civil War, is famous for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Originally published by the The San Francisco Examiner in 1890, it was first collected in Bierce's 1891 book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913). ![]() ![]() ![]() Kushner's intimate view of Maurice Sendak's past two decades will only add to the appreciation of this multitalented artist, whose creative endeavors are among the most inventive and treasured imaginative works of our time. ![]() The text is by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, a longtime friend of the artist who is collaborating with him on an American version of the children's opera Brundibar. This strikingly designed volume is overflowing with hundreds of wonderful Sendak illustrations-sketches and final art for children's books, adult book jackets, posters, CD covers, and opera and theater productions from The Nutcracker ballet and The Magic Flute to Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges. Picking up where Selma Lanes's earlier, landmark monograph, The Art of Maurice Sendak, leaves off, this new book traces Sendak's life and work from 1980 to the present, representing two decades filled with projects outside the children's book arena. His uniquely expressive illustrations, which bring to life a world of fantasy and imagination, have won him both the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and the Caldecott Medal. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Maurice Sendak is one of the most admired artists in children's literature. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments North south elizabeth gaskell![]() At the wedding of her cousin, Edith, Margaret is approached by Edith's new brother-in-law, Henry Lennox ( John Light). Margaret Hale ( Daniela Denby-Ashe) and her parents Maria ( Lesley Manville) and Richard ( Tim Pigott-Smith) live in the idyllic town in Helstone in Hampshire. ![]() ![]() It was adapted for television by Sandy Welch and directed by Brian Percival. The serial is based on the 1855 Victorian novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and takes place in the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton ( Richard Armitage). The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who seem to despise their social inferiors. It follows the story of Margaret Hale ( Daniela Denby-Ashe), a young woman from southern England who has to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. ![]() North & South is a British television historical drama programme, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. ![]() ![]() ![]() The whole poem is pretty much personification. Death isn’t a person, only something that is part of life. You can’t pick up a phone, dial death and tell him to meet you at Starbucks at 10 A.M. I say, the poet is trying to make it clear to the readers that he was not afraid to die. ![]() “I have a rendezvous with Death” is repeated four times in this poem twice in the first stanza and once in stanza two and three. ![]() Sponsor Roleplay | Writing Forum | Viral news today | Music Theory ||| Analysis | Critique | Overview Below ||| Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, When Spring brings back blue days and fair.It may be he shall take my handĪnd close my eyes and quench my breath-It may be I shall pass him still.Īnd the first meadow-flowers appear.God knows 'twere better to be deep When Spring comes back with rustling shadeĪnd apple-blossoms fill the air-I have a rendezvous with Death Roleplay | Writing Forum | Viral news today | Music Theory ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The cats nick sharman![]() ![]() I really don’t want to waste any more of my time discussing it. The Scourge wasn’t absolutely terrible, but if it weren’t for that cool cover, it would be absolutely forgetable. I had a few other books by Nick Sharman lined up, but I’m in no rush to get to them now. This would have been a far better book if it had been about a bloody eyeball. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. If I had any idea that that’s what this book was about, I wouldn’t have read it. Maybe it was all the Russ Martin novels I read last year, but I am pretty damn sick of novels about telepathic mind control. ![]() This wealthy chemist makes a drug that lets him control his victims’ minds telepathically. It turns out they did something to anger the owner of a pharmaceutical company. Read 'The Cats' by Nick Sharman available from Rakuten Kobo. When pitching editors in ye olde New York City about the first book in my Squirrelpocalypse Trilogy, I was told to market it as middle grade instead of YA even though to me it was gory and funny enough to just be aimed at nerdy 30+ year olds who grew up. I had no idea what this book was going to be about, but that cover is sick as hell.Ī private detective almost dies in a mysterious car crash, and he soon finds himself investigating a bunch of people who have been hallucinating themselves to death. I must begin with a note about the cautiousness of our publishing times, well, 2013 and probably still today. ![]() |