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atozphantomsquadron · 1 year

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Chapter Twenty-Three: Living Hell

Day 17

The journey through Hell has been strenuous. It’s been torture on my spirit, on my body, on everything that I believe in. I’ve felt betrayal. I’ve felt elation. I’ve felt anger and sadistic rage, and devastating sorrow. I can only thank God that it’s nearly over, and dread what awaits me at the finish line.

Our trek through the remainder of Antenora and all of Ptolomaea took over three days. The rings are too large to fly through without exhausting myself, so we had to walk. I’ve had the pleasure … so to speak … of observing the punishments of condemned sinners throughout the trail we’ve taken. I’ve observed far too much cannibalism for one lifetime, and was very happy to finally leave behind the traitors to nations.

Then we passed through Ptolomaea, with its souls guilty of treason against guests. Even worse than Caina, these sinners only had faces sticking out of the ice. It was also worse because there was no way of walking through without breaking noses with every step.

I can’t help thinking that many of the souls weren’t dead yet. Dante mentions in the Inferno that many of the worst souls are condemned to Hell and reside there even before their bodies die. As I step over familiar looking faces, I can’t help but think there might be one or two living souls that I’m stomping on. It makes me uneasy.

We awaken on the cusp of Judecca, greeted by fierce winds and biting cold. I take another sip of holy water … my sipping is getting out of control, as I’ve drunk a quarter of the final bottle. It does its job, though, and warms me back up. By the time I’m ready to go, Abaster’s already waiting for me.

Today it seems like I’m the one who’s more eager to continue. “Are you ready?”

He seems a little lifeless today. “I suppose, but … I need to know, how did you know where your father’s going to be after talking to that soul in Antenora?”

I clutch the Sword tightly in my fist. “It was when he mentioned Dad’s soul was taking the place of one already here. There’s one soul that might think of an idea like that … the soul of a master tactician, of a man evil enough to betray one of history’s most storied rulers for his own gain in another empire. A man evil enough to wield the Sabre of the Invader.”

Abaster looks confused. “I don’t follow.”

“You said it yourself, Judecca is where traitors to lords are punished. We need to find the place where Tyrelius Scolar is supposed to be being punished for all of eternity.” I place a hand on Abaster’s shoulder. “We’re going to find Dad today, I’m sure of it. Let’s go.”

Abaster swallows hard, then steps forward and leads me into the final ring of Circle 9. Immediately, we can feel the air growing ever colder. My own blood chills more, though, when I look up and see a familiar sight, one I saw several days ago: the towering figure of Lucifer, standing at the center of Hell.

Abaster raises his arm toward the despot. “Vexilla regis prodeunt Inferni.”

This close, I understand why this mega-demon was able to spot me from my mid-air position so far away, as I can see that he has three faces on his head, facing three different directions. Each of the faces chew on souls in their mouths. By the readings of the Inferno I’d done to prepare, I remember who those souls were: Brutus and Cassius, who betrayed and assassinated Julius Caesar; and Judas, who betrayed Christ to the Romans.

Suitable punishment for such deep betrayals.

While it’s interesting to watch these punishments, I have a job to do. My attention turns to the souls directly close to us, frozen in twisted poses into ice columns. Many of them have shocked expressions on their faces, like they don’t understand why they are being punished. There seems to be fewer souls here than in the surrounding rings, though.

“Is it just me, or is it lighter …”

“SWEET JESUS, NO! NOT HER!”

Abaster’s panicked cry has me on alert immediately. Clutching the Sword’s hilt tighter, I rush over to where my guide is standing. He’s bawling, staring into one of the ice pillars.

“What’s wrong?”

His wailing is inconsolable. It seems to take all of his effort to point at the soul trapped within the ice, a naked female soul whose face seems familiar …

Then I realize why it’s so familiar. It’s the Vice President of the New Empire of America. “Is this a living soul? She’s still alive and kicking and trying to kill every supernatural on the planet in the living world.”

Abaster wails. “Jennifer, why? Why, why have you been sent here? What have you done?” He crumbles before the ice pillar, still weeping. His tears form steamy clouds around his face.

Okay, now I need to know. “How is this soul such trauma for you? What is your knowledge of this woman?”

Abaster looks up and sniffles, tears pouring out of both of his eyes, even more so out of the vacant eye socket. “You don’t understand, Alanna. This is my sister. My baby sister, who I took under my wing, who wanted to join my ministry, to help me reach out and save souls … Jennifer, why have you been sent here?” More wailing.

This explains some things. Jennifer Regent apparently started out as Jennifer Abaster. The evil she perpetrates in the living world makes her a perfect candidate for living hell, but of all the places she could be, why is she here? What lord did she … oh wait, she betrayed God. If she was in Abaster’s ministry, she’s a major betrayer of God.

And it’s likely Abaster’s going to spend time here, too. I feel compassion for my guide all of a sudden. I crouch down and collect him, try to stand him back up. The urge overcomes me, and I feel the need to embrace this man, to show him some measure of sympathy.

He accepts the hug, lifting his remaining arm to return it. “Thank you, Alanna. I’m sorry, we must continue.”

“It’s okay. I tell you what, once I’m done here, I’ll try my best to save her soul for you, okay?”

Abaster sighs. “I appreciate the gesture, but … I’m afraid that living souls that come here are beyond saving. The only consolation is that I’ll be with my sweet sister once more.” His face returns to business. “Come, your father must be nearby.”

I look around me, and a familiar face leaps out at me. “Closer than you think.” Now it’s my turn to start crying, as I step around Abaster and come face to face with a helpless soul being wrongly frozen in an ice pillar.

“Dad … oh God, Dad, I’m here.” My tears start falling, dropping on the base of the ice. He’s trapped in a strange position, with both arms pinned over his head and one leg looped behind him. His face looks pained, but his eyes do eventually find mine. His eyes appear to glisten within the ice, even as his lips mouth words at me.

I can’t hear him, but he won’t stop talking. What’s he trying to say? I wish I could read lips better. It looks like … “turn around?”

When I do, my heart jumps back into my throat. My guide is being run through by the Sabre. Standing behind him is a giant armor-clad man, glaring down at me.

The Invader. The actual Invader.

“Hello, hatchling!”

He yanks the Sabre out of Abaster and kicks the damned soul aside. He’s standing at least nine feet tall, brandishing the weapon and waiting for me. I know for sure, especially after hearing the voice, this is Scolar.

“You’re the traitor who deserves this punishment, Scolar! What business do you have with Cole Sharpe?”

“Haven’t you figured it out yet?”

He teasingly sways.

“With your great quest, with your search for your father, haven’t you been listening? There’s a revolution going on. The New Empire is just the start … we will soon unleash Hell on Earth, and it will be GLORIOUS!”

He rushes, Sabre directly in front of him. I barely have time to draw the Sword and meet his thrust, and the sound the two weapons make on contact makes the entire ring shudder. I’m convinced that we’ve just drawn the attention of every single being within Hell. Scolar continues to slash away, trying to reach me with the weapon.

It’s all I can do to block his blows. The Sword feels like it’s about to vibrate out of my hands every time it meets his strokes. I need an advantage somehow … desperate, I take to the air and flutter back away from the swings.

“Come back and fight, coward!”

He flings the Sabre at me. Unlike the living world, however, the Invader armor does not disappear: instead, it seems to get larger.

“Who’s the true coward? The one who ducks attacks or the one who steals an innocent soul and uses the body?”

I tuck my wings and make my own thrust at a weaponless Invader, who slaps me down to the frozen plain. I roll with the blow and return to my feet. Scolar regains his weapon, charges me again …

I’m dead. Dad, I’m sorry … wait …

I catch a fleeting glimpse of Dad’s ice pillar. It’s starting to crack, originating from the places where my tears struck the ice. An idea strikes me … an idea that will be catastrophic if it doesn’t work.

I put the Sword into one hand and reach behind me, grasping the last bottle of holy water. With my thumb I spin the cap off the bottle.

Scolar sees what I’m doing, and doesn’t get it. Instead, he decides to insult me.

“Is this a joke? You plan to defeat me with water? What a pathetic excuse for a warrior … what are you going to do, splash me to death, HATCHLING?!”

I take a large swallow of the holy water. I’m going to need all the energy I can manage for this. I cock the arm with the bottle back and fling it, praying that it reaches its target.

Please, God, let this throw work!

The bottle seems to travel in slow motion, holy water splattering out of the opening in a wide arc following the path of the throw. Finally, it strikes its target … the pillar of ice containing Dad.

The plastic splits on contact. Holy water coats the ice, which immediately starts to crack and melt. The ice finally explodes out from around Dad, releasing his soul as a sputtering heap. Quickly I rush to his side and pull him free of the newly-created hole in Judecca.

I hope I’m right about this …

Scolar looks at us, crouching down. Then he looks over at where the pillar once was. His eyes go wide.

“No! This can’t be! I won’t be defeated like this, not by a little girl!”

He screams, dropping his weapon. Dark, hellish energy rises up from the broken pillar, forming tendrils which grasp to every part of Scolar’s body, dragging him back to his rightful place among Judecca’s condemned. His scream continues unabated until the ice finally rises up to encase him once more.

I stand up and approach the column, Sword still drawn. Scolar’s face looks out at me, fearful and panicked. The familiar scars look comical on his surprised expression, as does his pathetic body, twisted into the pose Dad had been frozen into.

My vision goes red. I grit my teeth.

“This little girl just defeated you, once and for all. Enjoy oblivion, you bastard!”

I bring the Sword back and thrust it cleanly through the ice pillar, and through Scolar’s body. I can’t hear it, but I watch his face twist into a scream, then collapse into a pocket of dust, permanently sealed into Judecca’s icy landscape.

Scolar’s gone. Truly dead and gone now.

I can finally sheathe the Sword, so I do. I turn around, away from the pillar. Abaster is just recovering from his injury and starting to stand up, but my attention isn’t on him. It’s on the soul that remains seated on the frozen ground. I rush to his side and crouch down with him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

“Dad? Dad, please talk to me.” My eyes are getting warm again. “Daddy?”

He finally looks up, with a dulled expression on his face. That dullness dissipates, though, as he finally recognizes me. A hand comes up to stroke my cheek. “Alanna … you did it, you got my message …”

I’m so happy to see him again … he’s been missing for so long …

My arms are immediately around Dad, clutching him tightly and weeping into his bare shoulder. He wraps his own arms around me, with all the strength that I remember. We embrace for a long time, our joy untempered by our hellish surroundings.

I’ve got my Daddy back.

#phantom squadron #infernal eighteen

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desknight · 2 years

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The 5th Circle of Hell, Pluto

"As for my own home in Florence, I quickly found that not even death stopped the Roman Empire. The old pagans quickly reconstituted themselves under the banner of their death god and marched across Europe once more. Stopped only by the machinations and impregnable fortresses of the Nam-Lugal to our east.

Perhaps it is a saving grace that the republic took stewardship of these lands now filled with confused and lost Christians. While it is difficult to confess for Christ's love when we've all been rejected, all have fond nostalgia of those "better" times. Now witch and priest live hand in hand, until it is decided that blood debts must still be paid..."

-Dante Alighieri, Inferno Pt II

On some levels, Pluto is an idyllic Roman-esque land where gargantuan aqueducts bring life giving water and allow transport between settlements. Gothic cathedrals are now manned by witches and warlocks rejected in their time, but now play an essential part of Pride's economy. Sinners worldwide will gladly pay to know their futures from astrologers, or even get a chance to communicate and keep tabs on their living relatives through mystic seers. Even Demons are known to parlay with Plutonian magi, where the Ars Goetia would otherwise deny their requests of knowledge better left forbidden.

Though augury and foresight can only do so much in war and deception. Many old families have brought their feuds and rivalries with them to Hell and vie for control of the grand Senate, hoping ignite the flames of empire once again. Woe to those unwittingly caught in grand conspiracies, cogs in an incalculable machine of prediction and betrayal where all parts are replaceable in time. Yet, just as the war between thrones and families has gotten more sinister in damnation, so too has the war for the soul...

That old Inquisition still haunts Europe, along with Witch Covens that claim to utterly reset a person's soul to its "pure" state. Both factions desire the end of all peace in Hell for the benefit of all, yet couldn't serve more opposed masters.

Pluto gives the impression that its people are at peace in Hell, but in truth it is constantly embroiled in a state of constant civil war and mistrust. Truly it is Hell when everyone you ever met was planning to kill you from the start.

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FOR DMs

Pluto is a “go-to” Circle for adventuring in Vivzie’s Hell, especially for a more urban mystery oriented campaign. DMs should play up the whimsical mega structures and classically beautiful architecture of gothic and roman styles, with the people largely at peace with their current state of affairs.

Pop your players with a sudden and shocking event at any time, from a found murder, to a case of mistaken identities, or mysterious strangers giving cryptic messages. Anything can be the start of a conspiracy for your players to get them involved with Hell’s politics and factions, especially if they don’t want to get involved...

If your players aren’t fond of webs of mystery and conspiracy, Pluto is still a great Circle purely for information especially concerning life or characters on Earth. If your players are willing to pay the hefty price for a diviner worth their salt to break through the planes and contact the mortal realm. Should Earth or spying on other demons not catch their fancy, they can always have their fortunes read. Knowledge of the future can in itself be a plot hook to lead them to more adventure.

The Mother’s Coven and God’s Hammer factions will be discussed as their own unique posts.

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#dnd #D&D #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #homebrew #desknight #hell and hazbins #pluto #europe #inquisition #witch coven #hell

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literarypilgrim · 3 years

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Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls”

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#books in Gilmore Girls #reading list #booklr #have you read?

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Not anon hate, legitimately confused as to how you seem to think that just because modern Greeks are Orthodox, they apparently have no say in their cultural heritage, which happens to be ancient Greece, mythology included. It is a part of our cultural and ethnic identity, we learn about our ancestors awfully detailed in school and ancient Greek is a mandatory subject even though the language is officially "dead". The religion is open and we welcome people of all backrounds into the Panthenon, but that does not mean that somehow this gives you ownership or that it erases our ties to our history. (my english is not the best)

Because you're not the people who created and worshipped those gods. That's not how any of this works. Those people are centuries dead. You're not the same culture, you're not the same religion. There's a reason we speak of 'Ancient Greece' and 'Greece' as two distinct places and concepts.

You worship a different religion, you speak a different (if very close, granted) language, you hardly have identical customs, the social, political, cultural and economic landscape is wildly different, and you're the product of 2,000 years of cultural evolution (or more) from when these myths originated.

The Hellenistic Pantheon was worshipped so many ways in so many places, and the myths were not actually necessarily as consistent as the ones that come down to us are seen as. They had different names in different places - to the point where in the Roman Empire-era prayers to Zeus were known to basically start with "Zeus, or whatever you'd like to be called today". The basic principles of who these gods were existed, yes, but otherwise, they were used and reused in myth and fiction and myth based on fiction and fiction based on myth. The various comedic and tragic plays from Ancient Greece that survived (which are a fraction of what existed) were - if they used the figures of religion and myth - basically fanfiction involving these gods and heroes and monsters.

The Illiad and the Odyssey, and even Hesiod's Theogony, were probably not the Bible of their day - they were at best, probably Word of Dante rather than Word of God, collecting and utilizing some of the things that everyone around them agreed were true about the gods while also including a great deal of artistic license and interpretation. By accident of history, that's what came down not only to us, but to Greek writers and philosophers a few hundred years later.

Leaving aside all that ambiguity, there's nobody left alive who actually worships these gods the way they were intended to. They can't.

Here's a challenge: Try recreating Orthodox Christianity (if you had no memory or knowledge of what it was) with only like, the Book of Genesis, half of 2 Kings, some fragmented summaries of the Book of Daniel, fragments of the Gospels (no complete gospel and difficulty telling which fragment was from which Gospel) 2 of Paul's letters (which ones don't matter) and then throw in a few texts by Early Church Fathers, a bad translation of Dante's Inferno and by complete accident, the incorporation of some of Luther's wrtings someone thought was related to Orthodoxy 100 years ago and it stuck.

That's probably being generous for our ability to actually understand how the Ancient Greeks actually understood and worshipped their gods.

So no, you don't get to dictate to modern neopagans how to worship the Ancient Greek gods, and you certainly don't get to dictate how fanfiction based on these characters (Zeus, etc) works.*

When people try to use their fanfiction or neopagan beliefs to try to talk over actual scholars of actual Ancient Greek Culture, History, Mythology, Etc, then yeah, that's bullshit. When people try to present either as the 'true' historical fact (like that notion that bounces around Tumblr saying that the 'real' version of the Rape of Persephone was some sort of feminist empowering story and then the evil men ruined it) that's also bullshit. But just because someone is from Greece doesn't make them a scholar on the subject.

And none of that bars what (and this is the context of my original complaint) people like Rick Riordan are allowed to write in novels like Percy Jackson and the Olympians, etc.

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*For that matter, You don't get to dictate how someone writes Bible Fanfiction, even, and Christians can at least claim some degree of legitimate ownership over Jesus. If someone wants to write a novel where Jesus is a flamingly homosexual man who has public orgies and kicks over the bowls of beggars, I mean, that's stupid, but they're allowed to do it. They just can't try and claim that novel as authoritative.

#Asked and Answered #History #Mythology #All Religions Are Fair Game Here #Greek Mythology #Christian Mythology #Greek Neopaganism #Religion #You Can't Claim Ownership Of A Culture You Killed #Or A Culture You No Longer Practice #Modern Egypt Doesn't Really Have Legitimate Ownership Of Ancient Egypt Either #Except in the 'Possession is 9/10ths of the Law' sense and not even then always

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amunvulcan · 3 years

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Fortuna (Latin: Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance. The blindfolded depiction of her is still an important figure in many aspects of today's Italian culture, where the dichotomy fortuna / sfortuna (luck / unluck) plays a prominent role in everyday social life, also represented by the very common refrain "La [dea] fortuna è cieca" (latin Fortuna caeca est; "Luck [goddess] is blind").

Fortuna is often depicted with a gubernaculum (ship's rudder), a ball or Rota Fortunae (wheel of fortune, first mentioned by Cicero) and a cornucopia (horn of plenty). She might bring good or bad luck: she could be represented as veiled and blind, as in modern depictions of Lady Justice, except that Fortuna does not hold a balance. Fortuna came to represent life's capriciousness. She was also a goddess of fate: as Atrox Fortuna, she claimed the young lives of the princeps Augustus' grandsons Gaius and Lucius, prospective heirs to the Empire.[1] (In antiquity she was also known as Automatia.)[2]

Fortuna's father was said to be Jupiter and like him, she could also be bountiful (Copia). As Annonaria she protected grain supplies. June 11 was consecrated to her: on June 24 she was given cult at the festival of Fors Fortuna.[4][5] Fortuna's name seems to derive from Vortumna (she who revolves the year).[citation needed]

Roman writers disagreed whether her cult was introduced to Rome by Servius Tullius[6] or Ancus Marcius.[7] The two earliest temples mentioned in Roman Calendars were outside the city, on the right bank of the Tiber (in Italian Trastevere). The first temple dedicated to Fortuna was attributed to the Etruscan Servius Tullius, while the second is known to have been built in 293 BC as the fulfilment of a Roman promise made during later Etruscan wars.[8] The date of dedication of her temples was 24 June, or Midsummer's Day, when celebrants from Rome annually floated to the temples downstream from the city. After undisclosed rituals they then rowed back, garlanded and inebriated.[9] Also Fortuna had a temple at the Forum Boarium. Here Fortuna was twinned with the cult of Mater Matuta (the goddesses shared a festival on 11 June), and the paired temples have been revealed in the excavation beside the church of Sant'Omobono: the cults are indeed archaic in date.[10] Fortuna Primigenia of Praeneste was adopted by Romans at the end of 3rd century BC in an important cult of Fortuna Publica Populi Romani (the Official Good Luck of the Roman People) on the Quirinalis outside the Porta Collina.[11] No temple at Rome, however, rivalled the magnificence of the Praenestine sanctuary.

Fortuna's identity as personification of chance events was closely tied to virtus (strength of character). Public officials who lacked virtues invited ill-fortune on themselves and Rome: Sallust uses the infamous Catiline as illustration – "Truly, when in the place of work, idleness, in place of the spirit of measure and equity, caprice and pride invade, fortune is changed just as with morality".[12]

An oracle at the Temple of Fortuna Primigena in Praeneste used a form of divination in which a small boy picked out one of various futures that were written on oak rods. Cults to Fortuna in her many forms are attested throughout the Roman world. Dedications have been found to Fortuna Dubia (doubtful fortune), Fortuna Brevis (fickle or wayward fortune) and Fortuna Mala (bad fortune).

Fortuna is found in a variety of domestic and personal contexts. During the early Empire, an amulet from the House of Menander in Pompeii links her to the Egyptian goddess Isis, as Isis-Fortuna.[13] She is functionally related to the god Bonus Eventus,[14] who is often represented as her counterpart: both appear on amulets and intaglio engraved gems across the Roman world. In the context of the early republican period account of Coriolanus, in around 488 BC the Roman senate dedicated a temple to Fortuna on account of the services of the matrons of Rome in saving the city from destruction.[15] Evidence of Fortuna worship has been found as far north as Castlecary, Scotland[16] and an altar and statue can now be viewed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.[17]

The earliest reference to the Wheel of Fortune, emblematic of the endless changes in life between prosperity and disaster, is from 55 BC.[18] In Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon, a chorus addresses Fortuna in terms that would remain almost proverbial, and in a high heroic ranting mode that Renaissance writers would emulate:

O Fortune, who dost bestow the throne's high boon with mocking hand, in dangerous and doubtful state thou settest the too exalted. Never have sceptres obtained calm peace or certain tenure; care on care weighs them down, and ever do fresh storms vex their souls. ... great kingdoms sink of their own weight, and Fortune gives way ‘neath the burden of herself. Sails swollen with favouring breezes fear blasts too strongly theirs; the tower which rears its head to the very clouds is beaten by rainy Auster. ... Whatever Fortune has raised on high, she lifts but to bring low. Modest estate has longer life; then happy he whoe’er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to land.[19]

Ovid's description is typical of Roman representations: in a letter from exile[20] he reflects ruefully on the “goddess who admits by her unsteady wheel her own fickleness; she always has its apex beneath her swaying foot.”

Fortuna did not disappear from the popular imagination with the ascendancy of Christianity.[21] Saint Augustine took a stand against her continuing presence, in the City of God: "How, therefore, is she good, who without discernment comes to both the good and to the bad?...It profits one nothing to worship her if she is truly fortune... let the bad worship her...this supposed deity".[22] In the 6th century, the Consolation of Philosophy, by statesman and philosopher Boethius, written while he faced execution, reflected the Christian theology of casus, that the apparently random and often ruinous turns of Fortune's Wheel are in fact both inevitable and providential, that even the most coincidental events are part of God's hidden plan which one should not resist or try to change. Fortuna, then, was a servant of God,[23] and events, individual decisions, the influence of the stars were all merely vehicles of Divine Will. In succeeding generations Boethius' Consolation was required reading for scholars and students. Fortune crept back into popular acceptance, with a new iconographic trait, "two-faced Fortune", Fortuna bifrons; such depictions continue into the 15th century.[24]

The ubiquitous image of the Wheel of Fortune found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond was a direct legacy of the second book of Boethius's Consolation. The Wheel appears in many renditions from tiny miniatures in manuscripts to huge stained glass windows in cathedrals, such as at Amiens. Lady Fortune is usually represented as larger than life to underscore her importance. The wheel characteristically has four shelves, or stages of life, with four human figures, usually labeled on the left regnabo (I shall reign), on the top regno (I reign) and is usually crowned, descending on the right regnavi (I have reigned) and the lowly figure on the bottom is marked sum sine regno (I have no kingdom). Medieval representations of Fortune emphasize her duality and instability, such as two faces side by side like Janus; one face smiling the other frowning; half the face white the other black; she may be blindfolded but without scales, blind to justice. She was associated with the cornucopia, ship's rudder, the ball and the wheel. The cornucopia is where plenty flows from, the Helmsman's rudder steers fate, the globe symbolizes chance (who gets good or bad luck), and the wheel symbolizes that luck, good or bad, never lasts.

Fortuna lightly balances the

orb

of sovereignty between thumb and finger in a Dutch painting of

1530 (

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg

)

Fortune would have many influences in cultural works throughout the Middle Ages. In Le Roman de la Rose, Fortune frustrates the hopes of a lover who has been helped by a personified character "Reason". In Dante's Inferno (vii.67-96), Virgil explains the nature of Fortune, both a devil and a ministering angel, subservient to God. Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ("The Fortunes of Famous Men"), used by John Lydgate to compose his Fall of Princes, tells of many where the turn of Fortune's wheel brought those most high to disaster, and Boccaccio essay De remedii dell'una e dell'altra Fortuna, depends upon Boethius for the double nature of Fortuna. Fortune makes her appearance in Carmina Burana (see image). The Christianized Lady Fortune is not autonomous: illustrations for Boccaccio's Remedii show Fortuna enthroned in a triumphal car with reins that lead to heaven.[25]

Fortuna also appears in chapter 25 of Machiavelli's The Prince, in which he says Fortune only rules one half of men's fate, the other half being of their own will. Machiavelli reminds the reader that Fortune is a woman, that she favours a strong, ambitious hand, and that she favours the more aggressive and bold young man than a timid elder. Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea features Fortuna, contrasted with the goddess Virtue. Even Shakespeare was no stranger to Lady Fortune:

When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state...

Ignatius J Reilly, the protagonist in the famous John Kennedy Toole novel A Confederacy of Dunces, identifies Fortuna as the agent of change in his life. A verbose, preposterous medievalist, Ignatius is of the mindset that he does not belong in the world and that his numerous failings are the work of some higher power. He continually refers to Fortuna as having spun him downwards on her wheel of luck, as in “Oh, Fortuna, you degenerate wanton!”

In astrology the term Pars Fortuna represents a mathematical point in the zodiac derived by the longitudinal positions of the Sun, Moon and Ascendant (Rising sign) in the birth chart of an individual. It represents an especially beneficial point in the horoscopic chart. In Arabic astrology, this and similar points are called Arabian Parts.

Al-Biruni (973 – 1048), an 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and scholar, who was the greatest proponent of this system of prediction, listed a total of 97 Arabic Parts, which were widely used for astrological consultations.

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Lady Fortune in a

Boccaccio

manuscript

Sculpture of Fortuna,

Vienna

La Fortune

Charles Samuel

(1894), Collection

King Baudouin Foundation

Fortuna Annonaria brought the luck of the harvest

Fortuna Belli the fortune of war

Fortuna Primigenia directed the fortune of a firstborn child at the moment of birth

Fortuna Virilis ("Luck in men"), a woman's luck in marriage[26]

Fortuna Redux brought one safely home

Fortuna Respiciens the fortune of the provider

Fortuna Muliebris the luck of a woman.

Fortuna Victrix brought victory in battle

Fortuna Augusta the fortune of the emperor[27]

Fortuna Balnearis the fortune of the baths.[27]

Fortuna Conservatrix the fortune of the Preserver[28]

Fortuna Equestris fortune of the Knights.[28]

Fortuna Huiusce Diei fortune of the present day.[28]

Fortuna Obsequens fortune of indulgence.[28]

Fortuna Privata fortune of the private individual.[28]

Fortuna Publica fortune of the people.[28]

Fortuna Romana fortune of Rome.[28]

Fortuna Virgo fortune of the virgin.[28]

Fortuna Faitrix the fortune of life

Pars Fortuna

Fortuna Barbata the fortune of adolescents becoming adults[29]

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so now that we have the name of every side that has been introduced so far (and we know that there’s one more coming), i would like to talk about the symbolism of their names.

so first we have logan and patton which most of us agree are almost directly derived from logos (logical appeal to persuade) and pathos (emotional appeal to persuade) respectively. this is spelled out pretty explicitly in THE HEART vs. THE MIND which is quite literally a battle between wishful thinking vs practicality. and i know a lot of y’all want ethos (utilizing ethics/credibility of a person making an argument to persuade) to join the club but none of the other sides really fit that description. so now we have roman.

like the other “light sides” (i use the term hesitantly because they aren’t really “light/good” more than they were just the ones thomas openly embraced/accepted and didn’t repress), roman’s name ends with that infamous an/on sound. but where is it derived from? rome/the roman empire, sure, but with the reveal of his brother remus in DEALING WITH INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS, we know his name is more directly associated with romulus, the founder of rome. (and remus? well, he’s remus, the brother that had to die—the brother romulus KILLED—in order for the empire to flourish).

onto janus, the roman (stolen from the greeks but that’s besides the point) god of beginnings, doorways, passages, & duality. we “literally kn[e]w him as deceit” until PUTTING OTHERS FIRST - SVS REDUX, but it has been revealed he’s much, much more than that. he’s looking out for thomas (and i won’t dive too deep into name symbolism here because that’s literally just his name, but it’s interesting how the sides all have names derived from words/names that all end in “s” like the man they are meant to portray) just like any other side—even remus, in his own way.

and that leaves us with virgil. you may know virgil as the roman poet in dante’s inferno who leads protagonist dante through the nine (9) circles of hell, but he was also publius vergilius maro, the roman poet who wrote the aeneid (an epic about the rise of rome). ties in with roman/romulus and remus pretty nicely, no?

so, onto my theory:

because of everything above, i believe that the “light sides” (again, used hesitantly) decided to obtain normal-sounding names for practical reasons (as thomas grew, they didn’t need to explicitly spell out what they were anymore so logos became logan and he probably convinced pathos to do the same and become patton). likewise, when creativity “split into two parts,” they embraced romulus, who decided instead to go by roman in order to fit in. (and also, wouldn’t he choose for his name to literally be the empire? sooooo in character). abandoned, remus found solace in the company of janus and vergilis/virgilius, the trio banished to the far corners of thomas’ mind. until virgil left, shedding the end of his name and getting his “seat at the table” in ACCEPTING ANXIETY PART 2: CAN ANXIETY BE GOOD.

so that might be why his name is different than the others, but they’re all interconnected, they’re all a part of the same soul. and they’re all doing their best to look out for thomas.

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tagged by @heresy-in-fair

1. 3 ships in any order: i’ll just go with the ones that have been on my mind lately: lesbian hamlet/horatio, beatrice/fem!benedick, and dante/vergil

2. last song you listened to: turn the lights off by tally hall. definitely not for an au i’m writing.

3. last movie you watched: knives out

4. currently reading: volume 5 of the decline and fall of the roman empire, dream country by shannon gibney, and a french translation of inferno

5. currently watching: avatar the last airbender and john mulaney specials

6. currently consuming: uh... food-wise, nothing. media-wise, the magnus archives?

7. food you’re craving: peanut butter. yes, straight up peanut butter.

tagging @wisteria-clarke @cithaerons and @dieinthylap , although i encourage anyone to say i tagged them if they have a burning urge to fill out these questions

#tag meme #food mention #my post #screams from the abyss

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readingloveswounds · 4 years

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Reading List

It’s the end of the month! Here I am, with what I’ve managed to read and plans for the future.

Read:

Regrets - du Bellay

These poems were written while du Bellay was in Rome, working for his cousin who was a cardinal. During the mid 1500s, Rome was a city of change in very many ways. His poetry discusses various papal reforms, political changes, and Italian/Roman society, as well as war and confinement in the city during that time. There’s a whole lot of different subjects - even more than I just listed, and honestly some of them really struck home as someone who was far from home and facing uncertainty at the time.

Les Antiquités du Rome - du Bellay

Even more poems written while du Bellay was in Rome. Dedicated to Henri II of France, this collection focuses more on Rome as city when it comes to visual terms, though themes include the passage of time and empire. It’s much shorter and more cohesively themed than Regrets.

Currently Reading:

Il Principe - Machiavelli

I’ve read this multiple times in English, but wanted to check out the original version. It’s an older Italian, so it’s not easy - apparently I enjoy torturing myself.

The Alexiad - Komnene

Anna Komnene’s history of her father’s reign. While the historical aspect of it is interesting, since I don’t know much about Byzantine history, I think what’s making this a truly engaging book is interrogating her choices. What does she devote time and description to? Who does she talk about? This book has a hefty amount of notes that talk about how she represents or misrepresents both people and events, but even within the text, she continually insists upon her attempts at diminishing her positive bias towards her father. I live for her digressions.

Inferno - Dante

Another one that I’ve already read in English. Technically I’m ‘just’ reading this one aloud, but reading it aloud definitely helps me with not only pronunciation but also poetic structure and some comprehension.

Plan to Read:

Le Songe - du Bellay

The third section of my du Bellay collection.

Lais - Marie de France

Technically I’ve already read these for a French class I took last year. However, this edition has a side by side modern French translation, which I didn’t have last time - and her writing is difficult to get through without one. I think a second read-through will help me understand more, now that I’ve really had time to internalize a lot of the aspects that she’s working with.

Anna Komnene: the Life and Work of a Medieval Historian - Leonora Neville

Biography of Anna Komnene - the reviews on the back seem to suggest that Neville is taking a newer look at her life and work. This is the reason I’m reading the Alexiad.

#reading list

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the ultimate rory gilmore book guide

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

13. Atonement by Ian McEwan

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

16. Babe by Dick King-Smith

17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

21. Beloved by Toni Morrison

22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

23. The Bhagava Gita

24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali

29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

30. Candide by Voltaire

31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

32. Carrie by Stephen King

33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

36. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

37. Christine by Stephen King

38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

52. Cujo by Stephen King

53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

61. Deenie by Judy Blume

62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

64. The Divine Comedy by Dante

65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

66. Don Quixote by Cervantes

67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

73. Eloise by Kay Thompson

74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen

76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

79. Ethics by Spinoza

80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

83. Extravagance by Gary Krist

84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

92. Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce

93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald

94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

112. The Graduate by Charles Webb

113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

116. The Group by Mary McCarthy

117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

125. Henry V by William Shakespeare

126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

137. The Iliad by Homer

138. I'm With the Band by Pamela des Barres

139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

153. Lady Chatterleys' Lover by D. H. Lawrence

154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

169. The Love Story by Erich Segal

170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies

173. Marathon Man by William Goldman

174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

179. Mencken's Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It's Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

196. Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

197. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

206. Night by Elie Wiesel

207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

212. Old School by Tobias Wolff

213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster

218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

219. Othello by Shakespeare

220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind

236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

237. Property by Valerie Martin

238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

244. The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

253. Robert's Rules of Order by Henry Robert

254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

256. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

258. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

275. Sexus by Henry Miller

276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

277. Shane by Jack Shaefer

278. The Shining by Stephen King

279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

282. Small Island by Andrea Levy

283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

289. Songbook by Nick Hornby

290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

292. Sophie's Choice by William Styron

293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

298. Stuart Little by E. B. White

299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

300. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

306. Time and Again by Jack Finney

307. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

312. The Trial by Franz Kafka

313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

316. Ulysses by James Joyce

317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

318. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

319. Unless by Carol Shields

320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

323. Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

327. Walt Disney's Bambi by Felix Salten

328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

334. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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I´ll go on then... I guess. 7. Can Ember and Garret have a child together? 8. Why does Mist hate Luther so much, and why does Riley for that matter? Is he just an ass? 9. Which origin do you think every character has? Which country? 10. Dante and Faith as a couple? 11. Is Talon only in America, or do hatchlings grow up all over the world? 12. Can dragons from different factions train each other? Such as a Viper training a Basilisk? 13. Still want more? The past 2 years have got me thinking...

So, I guess we’re doing this.

7) I've actually put thought into half dragons! I think that it’s possible— dragons and humans can share blood, after all— but I don’t know if it would end well for the child in question. There would probably be a lot of room for birth defects, and the child would definitely be infertile themselves (most crossbreeding between species leads to this). And I don’t think that humans or dragons would be particularly accepting towards a hypothetical half-n-half child. Humans can’t even accept biracial children, and dragons show pretty heavy prejudice against humans. So I think it’s possible, but I don’t know if Garret and Ember would want to go through with having a child.

8) Luther’s a bitch. He’s up there with Griffin. It’s an inherent personality trait of his to be a bitch. Riley and Mist, being (ex)Basilisks, have probably just had to have encountered him the most, which means that they already had an opinion on him. (I will always trash-talk Luther)

9) You have just opened Pandora’s box, mon ami(e).

I think that Ember, Dante, and Garret are from America. Garret was proven to be born there in Legion, and Ember/Dante grew up in New Mexico.

Wes is from England, obviously, but considering his parent’s income status (not too hot), they could very well have come from out of the country, making him a first-gen Englander. (my personal HC is that his parents are Portuguese, but there’s literally nothing to support that)

I think that Riley is Latin American. There’s barely any evidence supporting this: he knows spanish fluently enough to make a joke to a native speaker, which means that he understands the humor off the top of his head; and he said in Inferno “I forgot how much I hated rainforests”, which can mean that he either visited one in the past, or that he grew up in one. I like to think that his country of origin in Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Jade is Chinese. Obvi. I don’t know nearly enough about China to pin down an exact region.

Tristan is from Kandahar City, Afghanistan. There’s literally NO evidence of this in the series, but I’ve always imagined him as Middle Eastern, and I really like the idea of Afghan Tristan.

I honestly don’t know about Mist. I think that she’s probably American, or at least been in America for a very long time.

Gabriel Martin is French. Martin is the most common surname in France, and Gabriel is also very common.

The Elder Wyrm is from the Holy Roman Empire (germany), the Archivist is from the Ottoman Empire, Reign is from England, Ouroboros is either from Greece or Egypt.

(I’m realizing that this was probably more than you or anyone else bargained for, but I have opinions)

10) I haven’t ever really thought about it, tbh. But I can definitely see it. I like the Team Vegas dynamic as a whole, and wish that they got a bit more screen time (and that two thirds of them weren’t dead). If they had both lived, I think that they would have had a very profound impact on one another, whether or not there was romance involved.

11) I highly doubt that Talon is JUST in America. I think that it’s prescence is most heavy in the USA, but I can also see it being heavy in areas that the United States is imperialising (Latin America, South America, the Middle East, parts of Africa, the Phillipines, etc.). They probably raise hatchlings in all areas of their empire as well, so that they can blend into their culture.

12) I don’t think that one faction could train another, because they don’t know the skill set as well, but I think that similar factions could be trained in proximity, such as a Basilisk and a Viper sparring together, or a Gila and a Chameleon learning how to act professional while also being aware of their surroundings.

13) If you’re not sick of hearing my opinions, I will not be sick of writing about them. Most of my blog is just me talking about my opinions.

IF ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO WEIGH IN, PLEASE DO.

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please tell us more about the subversiveness of dante!!

so there are…a lot of aspects of the divine comedy that are intensely transgressive— from the explicit condemnation of the papacy, to the inclusion of virtuous pagans in limbo that flew in the face of all established theology, to the by-name callouts of sometimes-still-living individual public figures as present in hell. and that’s not even counting the poetry, or de monarchia, which is a whole other post on its own.

i mean, the political aspect of it is one thing. in dante’s time, europe was essentially split into guelfs, who supported the right of the papacy to act as a political power; and ghibellines, who thought that the papacy ought to limit itself to just the religious sphere, and the holy roman empire ought to do all the politicking. ideally, that is. oftentimes ghibellines were leaders of independent city-states who just wanted the papacy to stop sticking its nose where it wasn’t wanted. but the thing is that by the time dante came of political age, in the 1290s, the golden age of ghibellinism had come and gone with the failure of frederick ii to consolidate an empire in italy— before dante was even born, every single ghibelline had been violently driven out of florence. for him to express the explicitly ghibelline views he does in the divine comedy, then, is an incredibly radical thing; had he not already been exiled, that would probably have done the trick. ghibellines in the political sphere were simply not tolerated, especially after the ascension of boniface viii— one of the most politically-involved popes of the middle ages, and in many ways the forerunner of alexander vi— to the throne.

besides all that, dante was fiercely opposed to political corruption and barratry in a way that most people just weren’t, because such practice was considered typical, even necessary. think gilded-age america, and the massive political machines that ensured that the government ran smoothly (if unfairly). this makes a lot of sense when you remember that when dante was exiled in 1302, the offense he was charged with was taking bribes during his time as prior back in 1300— something he emphatically did not do, but was punished for anyway. therefore, he has zero tolerance for corrupt officials, and that sentiment extends toward a relatively new practice at the papal court: the indulgences boniface initiated for the first-ever papal jubilee, in 1300.

which brings me to my next point: dante hated the papacy, and especially popes boniface viii and clement v. he thought the papacy was an agent of corruption in politics and in the life of the spirit, and (as you might imagine) was in no way convinced of the pope as the mouthpiece of god on earth. we actually see multiple popes in hell! in heaven, st peter himself rails against the debasement of his office! the extent to which dante not only wanted the papacy out of politics, but actively despised what it had become, cannot be overstated. and in a guelf world, a world in which the papacy was one of the most important political powers in europe and would continue to be so for the next 250 years, that was not a very popular opinion. people call dante the medieval luther for his attitude towards the papacy, and towards papal corruption— and while i can see where they’re coming from, the key difference is that dante was a radical in service of the church, because he understood that christianity is not theology alone but community as well, whereas martin luther was a radical in separation from the church. (fuck martin luther, is what i’m saying.)

all that aside! i could also talk about the ways in which dante is theologically subversive, the ways in which his cosmology is at odds w/ a thomistic perception of the world, but i don’t know anything about theology, so what i AM going to talk about is the sexual aspect. this goes back to the whole courtly love schema, which is: lover is in love with his lady, but in an idealized, un-physical manner, and his devotion requires nothing from her. she doesn’t even have to notice him. that’s the tradition that informs the way dante writes about beatrice, but when he does it, it’s…different, in several important ways. one is that dante is also informed by the poetry of his best friend/poetic mentor/possible (probable) boyfriend guido cavalcanti, who wrote that love is a sickness, an affliction that ought to be avoided so that you can live a good life. for dante, love— his love for beatrice, at least— is absolutely an affliction, in the cavalcantian sense. in his first book, la vita nuova, he chronicles the story of their, uh, “romance,” which mostly consists of him being in awe of her and her occasionally noticing him, until she dies and he resolves not to write any more poetry about her until he’s skilled enough to do her justice. but whenever she gets close to him— whenever she touches him, smiles at him, even just looks at him— he completely loses the ability to be a person. he gets faint, turns pale, can’t even speak; i think he even swoons once or twice. the thing is, though, that that love-sickness, that pain, isn’t a bug, as guido would say, but a feature— for dante, being hurt is a part of being in real, transcendent, spiritual love.

now, that’s not something new— it’s a very catullan, very classical elegist sentiment— but it becomes pretty darn transgressive when you couple it with the other way in which dante subverts the classic courtly love schema. in that, the lady is almost always silent, disengaged— i wouldn’t go so far as to say objectified, but she isn’t a part of the emotional life of the poetry. she doesn’t engage with the lover, or if she does, it’s brief and perfunctory. that’s somewhat like the beatrice we see in la vita nuova— as much power as she has over dante, as easily as she can make faint and dizzy with emotion, she doesn’t really talk. she isn’t participant. she doesn’t care what she is to him. in the divine comedy, though, that all changes— from the minute beatrice shows up, in the last canto of purgatorio, she’s extremely vocal. she spends most of that canto yelling at dante for letting himself get lost in that metaphorical dark wood of inferno i; for letting himself stray from her, and (by implication, because the whole thing is that beatrice is the personal embodiment of the divine) from god. and when she’s done with him, when he’s on his knees in front of her, he tries to answer her, and finds that he’s physically lost the capacity for speech. he’s been reduced to total silence. and this is so much not just because it very clearly subverts the normal courtly love formulation of vocal lover/silent lady, but also because his voice, his words are what make dante important, in the grand scheme of things. he’s a poet— he proclaims himself one of the six best poets of all time— without that, he is absolutely insignificant. that’s what beatrice makes him, when she takes his voice away.

that dichotomy continues, even into the rest of the poem. most of paradiso, all the knotty theological explanation is done by beatrice, rather than dante having some male saint relate it. she talks, teaches him; he listens, learns, is enlightened, because she’s divine and he isn’t. there are a couple of times when he asks her to tell her something, and she says: i can’t do that, because you’re human, and fragile, and i don’t want to break you. the point is, though: she knows and he doesn’t, she speaks and he’s silent, she can make him faint with just a glance. she has power over him in every possible way, which is partly an extension, but mostly a subversion, of the courtly love schema. and when you take that and you add in the theological explanation, the fact that beatrice is the one who imparts to dante the truths of the universe— it’s a kind of mixing of sex and scholasticism that you just. didn’t do. not even if you were heloise and abelard. he’s helpless to her in every way imaginable, and their power differential is framed with theology. it’s so much, y’all.

#i been down on bended knee #bookshelf blogging #I LOVE DANTE YOU GUYS #terpsikeraunos #q&a

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comradevo · 6 years

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books!!

tagged by @valtheimm! sadly my boring ass is reading mostly academic books rn, so I don’t think many of these will make anyone’s reading list on here lol.

What is your favorite book of all time?

fiction: The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. that man changed how I write completely. I still cry when I read it, lol. it’s really super incredible, and I love what he does with formatting.

historical fiction: Dante’s Divine Comedy, esp Inferno. it’s a wild ride, tho technically a poem, not a novel I guess. does Othello count? also technically not a novel....

historical ‘nonfiction’: Procopius’s Anecdota, that wild son of a gun. what a gossipy bitch, I love it. ‘my boss is a literal demon sent from hell, he’s Absolutely Terrible, he’s Ruining The Roman Empire And Will Cause The World As We Know It. you can tell the end is nigh bc all the football hooligans are wearing Pants and short hair.’

What are you currently reading?

several books, every single one of them nonfiction lol. the only one I’m reading for enjoyment instead of class is Why Does He Do That?: Inside The Minds Of Angry And Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft.

the most important/relevant to my degree book that I’m reading atm is Chronographia, by Michael Psellos, and like. aaaaalllll the supplementary material I can get my hands on. it’s like Procopius’s Anecdota, but marginally less gossip-y.

Have you ever thought about writing a book?

often lol. I’ll actually be expected to in my career, but those’ll be all nonfiction, academic texts. some day I’d like to write a fiction book tho.

What’s your favorite series?

the Percy Jackson series has a special place in my heart tbh.

What is a book you want to read?

tbh....I almost want to stop reading for a little bit, ya know? I’m so fucking tired. someday when I have money I’m going to try to pay @jottingprosaist to write a full length novel and it’ll be the only fiction I’ll ever read ever again

What’s in your TBR list?

the Heroes of Olympus series, once I get some leisure time again. also The Hobbit but we’ll see if I can force myself to have the patience for it.

Who are your favourite fictional characters?

prooooobably Percy Jackson. I feel no need to be original lol.

What is your favourite ship?

Percabeth, you absolute fools

Open the first page of the book closest to you and write down the first paragraph.

the book closest to me is actually The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang. which is fascinating and informative, but uh. maybe not quite what you wanted. the second closest is Berry Baldwin’s The Roman Emperors, which is also fascinating and informative, but still not quite there. I don’t...actually know where the nearest fiction book is, so I’ll pass.

What’s the first fandom you were in?

including all media, Kirby. just books.......probably Harry Potter? ofc it was Harry Potter.

tagging @rapunzelatthewindow, @aph-wisconsin, @wyrmbloods, and @sengawolf, if y’all want!

#i promise my interests are usually more organized than this #i just have a lot of history classes this semester

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conundrum-esoterica · 7 years

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References mentioned in ‘’A Series of Unfortunate Events’’(SPOILERS!!)

It’s not a lie that Daniel Hadnler really likes to reference and do easter eggs of his favorite writers and artists in his book.

So i tried to find and collect some of the references mentioned in ASOUE (They are A LOT so if i forgot something tell me to add it! Also because i have read the books in greek and some of them in english, and a lot of things are lost in the translation.)

The name Beatrice and also the name Baudelaire, are references to the ‘‘cursed poet’‘ Charles Baudelaire and his long poem ‘‘Beatrice.’‘ This is actually a reference in a reference because this poem is also a reference to Dante’s Inferno. The Baudelaire’s poem and Inferno are both about a beautiful woman, as Beatrice Baudelaire was.

This is not exactly a reference but Lemony’s dedications to Beatrice reminds me of Shakespeare’s dedication to the ‘’Dark Lady’’ in the ‘’Sonnets’’

The name Poe is a reference to the poet Edgar Allan Poe. Also Mr.Poe’s son names are Edgar and Albert.

Edgar and Albert could be a reference to Edgar Alber Guest

Eleanora Poe is also a reference to Poe’s short story ‘’Eleanora’’.

Violet Klaus and Sunny is a reference to a real crime (i’m not sure about that) but i dont remember a lot for that.

Briny Beach takes its name from the poem The Walrus and the Carpente by Lewis Carroll.

One of Monty’s snakes is called Virginian Wolfsnake is an obvious allusion to writer Virginia Wolf.

‘‘Prospero’‘ and ‘‘Stephano’‘ are taken from Shakespeare’s ‘‘The Tempest’‘

Also ‘’The Tempest’’ as it name says, it has a lot to do with sea and that’s why the boat to Peru is named after this specific play.

Sunny after Monty’s murder in TRR says ‘’Ackroyd!’’, a reference to Agatha Cristie’s mystery novel ‘’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’’

Somewhere in TRR Lemony mentions the Cafe Kafka, named after Franz Kafka.

The ‘’Damocles Dock’’ is a reference to Greek Mythology and the story of Damocles (Δαμοκλής in greek) is a story about Dionysus who offered to Damocles to live a day as an King. But the whole day a sword was tied with horse’s hair above his head. Yes im Greek so i know a lot about greek mythology. But also ‘’Damocles’’ today symbolises the great danger. The kids in the first illustration of the book are sitting in the dock with a sword above their heads. Brilliant! Isn’t it?

A lot of things in TWW are allusions to Franz Kafka like the name Josephine (Josephine is also a Hurricane) and the whistling thing. I dont have read a lot of Kafka so i cant explain further.

Shirley, the name Olaf used when he was disguised as a receptionist, is a reference to Edward Hopper’s painting ‘’office at the night’’. There’s a receptionist in the painting, Hopper’s wife (Jo) named ‘’Shirley’’.

Dr. Georgina Orwell is one of the references i found when i was still 12. So if my 12 years old found it, im sure you did. Is obvious. Is an allusion to the writer of ‘’1984′’ George Orwell. ‘’1984′’ is actually the ‘’grand-father’’ of The Hunger Games. A dystopian society with tyrant, who sees and knows everything and everyone is (not literally) hypnotized by him. Georgina seems to know everything that happens in Patryville and she also hyptonotizes people. Also the ‘’symbol’’ of 1984 is an eye. And Georgina is an optometrist and her damn whole office is an eye.

The eye sign with the glasses is a reference to the Great Gatsby.

Olaf’s disguise is Coach Ghengis. A nod to Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire. Olaf wears a turban; there is a tale in which Ghenghis had a dream that involved him wrapping a turban around his head. (from @carmelitaspats)

Principal Nero is named after Emperor Nero. A Roman tyrrant. Emperor Nero also did a lot of awful concerts tho.

Isadora and Duncan are named after Isadora Duncan. One of the most important dancers of all time.

When Isadora introduced herself Sunny said ‘’Sapho.’’ The name of the lesbian icon poet Sapho who lived in ancient Greece. I have visit the cliff she jumped off, it was actually 40 mins away from my house. Told you, i know a lot about ancient greece.

Mrs. Bass Mr.Remora and Mrs.Tench are named after... fishes. I think that is the first hint for the Red Fish Statue. It was hinted a lot.

‘‘Prufpock Prep’‘ the poem by T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The last illustration is a hint for the theme of the next book but also the second hint for the Red Fish Statue.

667 Dark Avenue. So 667 is a number after the 666, related with evil. The whole book mentions the number six a lot. There are 66 floors in the 667 building. So now you know why his name is Handler.

Esme Squalor’s name is a reference to the ‘’For Esme with love and Squalor’’ by J.D. Salinger.

The Vern Museum Violet wants to visit is a reference to the author Jules Vern.

The Akhmatova Bookstore is named after Anna Akhmatova a Russian poet.

Pincus Hospital is one of the most funny references. The hospital is named after the doctor who invited contraceptive pills. I think is funny because Sunny was born in this hospital. (so it’s obvious that Berdrand and Beatrice didnt use those pills. Ah you lovebirds)

This is one of the easy references too. When the kids are hearing behind the apartment doors they hear someone saying ‘’Let them eat cake’’ something Marie Antoinnete said in the French Revolution when the angry mob of poor people was outside of her palace. The people were living in harsh conditions and someone of the palace said to Marie that they dont dont even have bread to eat. So Marie responded with the legendary quote ‘’Let them eat cake’’. Marie gurl THEY DONT EVEN HAVE BREAD.

Sunny said Armani when they were messing around with Jerome’s tie. Armani is a fashion house.

Also another one greek mythology reference! When they were trapped in the elevator Klaus said that the situation reminded him Scylla and Charybdis. Two sea monsters. So they were metaphorically ‘’trapped in the sea’’. Then Sunny said ‘’Glaucus’’ a sea god who was warning and saving sailors. Sunny also saved them from this metaphorically ‘’trapped in sea’’ situation.

The whole Seventh Book is a reference to Poe. In principle ‘’Nevermore tree’’ is a reference to ‘’The Raven’’ a poem in which a raven repeats the word ‘’Nevermore’’. Ravens are sitting in the Nevermore tree.

The name Detective Dupin is a reference to Poe's character C. Auguste Dupin.

When Hector sayin ‘’Curiousier and curiousier’‘ he is quoting Alice in Wonderland. One of Baudelaire’s favorite books as we learned.

Heimlich Hospital is a reference to Henry Heimlich, a pshychologist.

There are two patients named Haruki Murakami and Mikhail Bulkagov. The first one is one of today’s most important writers and the second one is a Russian Novelist.

When Sunny is saying Orlando to describe the persong who looks neither man nor woman, is a reference to Virginia Woolf’s novel ‘’Orlando’’ in which the character (a man) becomes a woman.

In an illustration, one of the Volunteers Fighting Disease plays a guitar with the inscription "This Volunteer fights disease." Probably a reference to Woody Guthrie, who inscribed "This machine kills fascists" on his guitar. Realised that after i read Paper Towns.

Hugo’s name is a reference to Victor Hugo. Hugo is also a hunchback a reference to Victor Hugo’s book The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

"Elliot" and "Beverly", the aliases Violet and Klaus use when disguised as a two-headed freak are those of twin brothers in the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers.

The Mortmain Mountains is a reference to the Statutes of Mortmain.

VFD's "the world is quiet here" is a reference to the first line of The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swineburne: "Here where the world is quiet." (from @antique-symbolism-main)

An excerpt of this poem also appears later in this book: "That no life lives forever / That dead men rise up never / That even the weariest river / Winds somewhere safe to sea."

Violet names her knot ‘’Sumac Knot’’ after a singer she likes. That’s probably the singer Yma Sumac.

Sunny says "Matahari" to refer to her spying on Count Olaf and his troupe. Mata Hari was a female spy during the first world war.

When the Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire are trying to find a way to escape from the top of Mount Fraught, Sunny says Rosebud, prompting them to use the toboggan. This is a reference to the movie Citizen Kane. "Rosebud’‘ is the first and the last word of the movie . Also Olaf mentioned Citizen Kane at the netflix show in the third episode.

Queequeg is a reference to a character from Moby Dick. Also the members of Queequeg boat are wearing a unifor with Herman Melville’s face on it. Melville is the writer of Moby Dick.

Whidershin’s monologue is a reference to Plato.

Gorgonian Grotto is another one reference to greek mythology. Gorgon (Γοργώ in greek) was a sea monster. A woman with snakes in her head.

Sunny says the word ‘’Hewenkella’’ when they are trying to figure out how they will find their way in the grotto. This word is a reference to Hellen Keller a blind and deaf writer. Handler probably used that word because the kids cant saw or hear anything while they were in the grotto.

Dewey’s name is a reference to Dewey Decimal System. Also the hotel is working with this system

The name Denouement, is a reference to the literary term denouement, which refers to action that takes place between the falling action and the resolution of a plot. That happens a lot in that book.

Sunny says the word "efcharisto" to Dewey. This translates to "thank you" ‘’ευχαριστώ’’ in Greek. I realised that when i read the english version. Because in the greek version Sunny is already saying ‘‘efcharisto’‘/’‘ευχαριστώ but in greek. Told you, a lot of things are lost in the translation.

The name Ishmael is another one reference to Moby Dick, and his insistence of "Call me Ish" is a variation of the first line of Moby Dick: "Call me Ishmael."

All of island citizens are names after famous castaways or people associated with the sea.

The castaways, who dress in white and whose consumption of the coconut cordial keeps them docile, are an allusion to the Lotus Eaters encountered in The Odyssey.

The sheep strapped together are also an allusion to The Odyssey. Odysseus escapes the cylops's cave by hiding his men under sheep that are strapped together.

When Lemony says "...the heroine of a book much more suitable to read than this one who spends an entire afternoon eating the first bite of a bushel of apples..." he means the girl from Beezus and Ramona. Also in this book, Beezus’s real name is Beatrice.

The scene where Ink gives the apple at Sunny is probably inspired by Bible’s scene when the snake gave the apple to Eve. But Ink saved Sunny (and the Baudelaires) and the Snake destroyed Eve.

So that’s it. Tell me if i missed any (i probably missed a lot) so i can add it! Hope you liked it and you learned new things about the references in Asoue :)

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Reto de Lectura Rory Gilmore

Sé que llego tarde a este reto de lectura pero nunca me había animado a tomarlo, lo descubrí hace años no recuerdo donde y ahora que me topé con el de nuevo en BlackWhite Read Books y queria intentarlo.

Gilmore Girls fue una gran parte de mi adolescencia vi todos los capítulos más de una vez y me identificaba con Rory, su amor por la lectura y su vida cotidiana, es una serie que siempre vivirá en mi corazón y es más que una serie para mí, me enseño muchas cosas y me ayudo con muchas más.

El reto de lectura consiste en leer todos los libros que Rory leyó a lo largo de la serie, los cuales son muchos, entre ellos existen muchos clásicos como Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y El Diario de Anna Frank, la mayoría de libros en esta lista no están siquiera en mi lista TBR la cual es otra de las razones por las que quiero intentarlo, la lista consiste de 339 libros por lo que no me pondré propósitos irreales como leerlos todos durante este año (2016), en dos años o en cinco, simplemente me propondré terminar esta lista algún día y divertirme con ella.

Marcare mi progreso en este post y quizá haga una reseña de ellos, los mencione en mis libros del mes o en GoodReads pero primordialmente será aquí.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Inferno by Dante

The Divine Comedy by Dante

1984 by George Orwell

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Adventures of Huckleberry by Mark Twain

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

Candide by Voltaire

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Christine by Stephen King

Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cujo by Stephen King

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Deenie by Judy Blume

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

Emma by Jane Austen

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics by Spinoza

Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Marathon Man by William Goldman

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Night by Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Old School by Tobias Wolff

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Property by Valerie Martin

Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quattrocento by James Mckean

Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Selected Hotels of Europe

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

Sexus by Henry Miller

Shane by Jack Shaefer

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

Songbook by Nick Hornby

Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Time and Again by Jack Finney

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bhagava Gita

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

The Graduate by Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Group by Mary McCarthy

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Iliad by Homer

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Love Story by Erich Segal

The Manticore by Robertson Davies

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition

The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Shining by Stephen King

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Year of Magical Thinkinf by Joan Didion

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless by Carol Shields

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

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