6/8/2023 0 Comments Chekhov short stories![]() ![]() Most people will know Chekhov through such quotations as this, ascribed to Chekhov and quoted and quoted ever since: ‘Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. ‘The Kiss’ by Anton Chekhov (1887) – Turning the love story on its head, or turning it inside out, or… ![]() If “utility” is an odd word to use around literature, one might well wonder at it especially when used about such a story as this: getting us roped into this protagonist’s thinking and feeling so that we are utterly trussed up by the end, caught, pinned down, exposed… one might as well ‘gaze at the lamp for a long, long time’, then shake your head and start packing. If one were ever to ask, what is literature for, you might be well advised to refer the questioner to this story, and simply say: “This.” ![]() Could you ask: how might it be improved? In which ways, exactly, does it fall short? What does it do, after all, for the reader? There must be, of course, stories by Chekhov which don’t amount to much, which don’t achieve what Chekhov sets out to achieve (which is what exactly?) however, ‘Verochka’ is not one of these stories. To take an early story such as ‘Verochka’ when, supposedly, Chekhov was still some way from ‘mastering his art’, and to wonder at how good it is, does seem to miss the point. ![]() …if this piece of fiction doesn’t have ‘utility’ in buckets then how can fiction be said to have a use at all? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Before that, Lightsey served as associate dean of community life and lifelong learning, clinical assistant professor of contextual theology and practice at the Boston University School of Theology. Since January of 2018, she has served as vice president of academic and student affairs and associate professor of constructive theology at The Meadville Lombard Theological School. Lightsey describes herself as a multi-vocational queer lesbian woman: theologian, ordained United Methodist elder, and social justice activist. Black spirituality, especially Black women’s spirituality, is connected to our very being.” In this second episode of Contemplating Now, Lightsey shares about contemplation's role in activism and asks, “What does protest mean for a scholar?” In Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology, Pamela Lightsey writes, “Black spirituality is deeper than-and can also be absent from-any relationship with the church universal. ![]() ![]() ![]() The essay captures O’Rourke’s gift for technical explanation with wry twists. ![]() The simply dull were like a house party in an English murder mystery without the murder.”Īnother O’Rourke winner is his study of the now ubiquitous Airbus A380, just as the gigantic airliner was being unveiled. ![]() “The earnestly dull were deeply concerned with the fate of the Yangtze sturgeon. “There were three package tours of Europeans on board, mostly British of a certain age and divided between the earnestly dull and the simply dull,” he writes of an excursion to the Yangtze River. As with his talk-show appearances, he just seemed to be trying too hard.īut that soon gives way to some very fine travel writing, the best of which is wickedly droll - O’Rourke at his very best. Predictable and clownish, it made me want to hurl the thing into the fireplace, and not for the political orientation, for I am all over the map on this stuff myself. Oddly, his weakest piece - and it is gushingly annoying - is the opener, in which he and a bunch of Texans head off to the Galápagos Islands to ridicule the locals (the wildlife) and speculate on how some of the rare beasts may taste. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Color & light james gurney![]() ![]() Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package (weekly, monthly or yearly package) Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original "one week"/"one month"/"one year" package unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period You will be able to color all available images for the duration of the subscription Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase Due to the time sensitive and promotional nature of these events, we are unable to offer price protection or retroactive discounts or refunds for previous purchases in the event of a price reduction or promotional offering. We occasionally run promotion prices as incentives or limited time opportunities for qualifying purchases made during the promotional time period. All prices are subject to change without notification. You can subscribe for new daily updates (every day, new images will be available for download) ![]() Share with friends on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook Messenger.Easily color any image and wait for the surprise in the end!.Choose from a variety of super fun images and follow the numbers to bring them to life. Color by number in this new addictive game. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments President teddy roosevelt![]() ![]() ![]() Only two days before, the editor-in-chief of The Outlook characterized Roosevelt as “an electric battery of inexhaustible energy,” and for the next 90 minutes, the 53-year-old former president proved it. The bullet is in me now, so I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.” “Fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet-there is where the bullet went through-and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. Holding up his prepared remarks, which had two big holes blown through each page, Roosevelt continued. He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a bullet-riddled, 50-page speech. “It takes more than that to kill a bull moose,” the wounded candidate assured them. The horrified audience in the Milwaukee Auditorium on October 14, 1912, gasped as the former president unbuttoned his vest to reveal his bloodstained shirt. (Credit: Stock Montage/Stock Montage/Getty Images)Ĭlearly, Roosevelt had buried the lede. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The guardians of childhood![]() We don't have long to wait to see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. #gotgvol3 #floor /boqj4l5Rh6- James Gunn May 2, 2023 #GuardiansoftheGalaxyVol3 only in theaters this Friday. Test footage of Rocket’s childhood friend & cellmate Floor by character played by Mikaela Hoover. This one is a little more disturbing as the cute rabbit has mechanical spider legs, a mechanical muzzle of sorts over their mouth, and antennae. The second clip is of Rocket's childhood friend and cellmate Floor the rabbit, who is played by Mikaela Hoover in the movie. 3, and we've known since the first film that he had a bunch of experiments done on him to make him into who he is when he is first introduced. ![]() We've seen baby Rocket in the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() 3, and the first one is just about eight seconds of baby versions of Rocket and Lylla, a sapient otter, playing before he gets up and walks toward the camera.īaby #RocketGG test footage from UK for #GotGVol3 /x187OZ45rW- James Gunn May 1, 2023 Gunn took to Twitter to share the clips from Framestore, a company that helped with the visual effects for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Fredrik backman anxious![]() ![]() ![]() Personal life įredrik Backman married Neda Shafti Backman in 2009. Following the success of his first book, Atria bought the rights to his other novels and had them translated into English. After his debut novel, A Man Called Ove, was translated into English, it remained on the best seller list for 42 weeks. Many of his books have been translated into English. The rights to his book Beartown were bought by Swedish production company, Filmlance, and are set to be adapted for television. The novel was adapted as a film which premiered on December 25, 2015, and again in 2023. Backman debuted as a novelist in 2012 with A Man Called Ove. He has been writing for the Swedish newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad and for the Swedish men's magazine, Moore Magazine. Biography īackman grew up in Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden. ![]() ![]() Backman's books have been published in more than twenty-five languages. The books were number one bestsellers in his home country of Sweden. He wrote A Man Called Ove (2012), Things My Son Needs to Know about the World (2012), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (2013), Britt-Marie Was Here (2014), Beartown (2017), Us Against You (2018), Anxious People (2020), and The Winners (2022). My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorryįredrik Backman (born 2 June 1981) is a Swedish author, blogger, and columnist. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Hell's Teeth by James Fahy![]() ![]() Thank you very much to James Fahy author of The Changeling series and Hell’s Teeth for nominating me to take part in The Writer Q & A Tag. ![]() New Release: The Hedge Witch And The Musical Poet #poetry #flashfiction #forest #witch.Some news: My Blog Now Has A Mailing List!! 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Hammed Animashaun as Kay in Black Ops (Photo: BBC/Ricky Darko) The Big Interiors Battle ![]() Gahlot meets a traumatised teenage boy lucky to have survived an encounter. In Karnataka, Bangalore’s surrounding villages have been terrorised by attacks and the frequency is rising. Reporter Mandakini Gahlot joins with the government’s Leopard Task Force, assembled to contain the growing threat. Unreported WorldĪs India’s population grows and cities expand, suburban areas are increasingly encroaching on the natural hunting grounds of leopards. ![]() Presented by Edsilia Rombley, acts performing include 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra, Subwoolfer, Stefania and TIX. Meanwhile, over on BBC Three at 8.30pm, The Big Eurovision Party sees some of the biggest stars in the recent history of the song contest perform their best-known Eurovision bangers and ballads. Fleur East and “a panel of celebrity Eurovision super-fans” toast the 20 most successful Eurovision songs that didn’t win – entrants whose songs have gone on to rack up millions of internet views and streams worldwide. A look at how even Eurovision failure is no bar to success. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Ten big ones![]() Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Hardcover): ![]() Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market): Tricky Twenty-Two: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Hardcover): Top Secret Twenty-One: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market): Takedown Twenty: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market): ![]() Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market): Smokin' Seventeen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market):Įxplosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Mass Market): Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum Novels #16) (Mass Market): Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum Novels #13) (Mass Market):įearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #14) (Hardcover):įinger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum Novels #15) (Mass Market): Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels #12) (Mass Market): To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #9) (Mass Market):Įleven on Top (Stephanie Plum Novels #11) (Mass Market): Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #8) (Mass Market): Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #7) (Mass Market): Hot Six: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #6) (Mass Market): High Five (Stephanie Plum Novels #5) (Mass Market): ![]() Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #3) (Mass Market):įour to Score: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels #4) (Mass Market): Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum #2) (Hardcover): One for the Money (Stephanie Plum #1) (Mass Market): This is book number 10 in the Stephanie Plum Novels series. ![]() |