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queerographies · 26 days

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[Un vaso d'alabastro illuminato dall'interno][George G. Byron]

I Diari di Byron: Travolgenti Confessioni di un Genio Romantico Titolo: Un vaso d’alabastro illuminato dall’interno. DiariScritto da: George G. ByronA cura di: Ottavio FaticaEdito da: AdelphiAnno: 2018Pagine: 303ISBN: 9788845932519 La sinossi di Un vaso d’alabastro illuminato dall’interno di George G. Byron Un moto sussultorio accompagna il transito terreno di Byron: una furiosa galoppata che…

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#Adelphi #Diari #gay #George G. Byron #George Gordon Byron #LGBT #LGBTQ #libri gay #Lord Byron #nonfiction #Ottavio Fatica #UK #Un vaso d&039;alabastro illuminato dall&039;interno

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perfettamentechic · 2 years

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29 maggio … ricordiamo …

29 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Gavin MacLeod, Allan George See, attore e predicatore statunitense, noto soprattutto per aver preso parte alla serie TV Love Boat, in cui recitò dal 1977 al 1987, nel ruolo del comandante Merrill Stubing. Nel 1956 debuttò a Broadway nel dramma Un cappello pieno di pioggia e fu in questo periodo che scelse il suo nome d’arte. La popolarità di questo ruolo leggero costituì però un limite per…

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deer-motif · 1 year

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I'LL BE A NICE PUP IF THAT'S HOW YOU WANT ME

animals, alex g // 1.15 the benders, supernatural // controlling dog aggression by using a dog muzzle, k9aggression.com // 1.10 asylum, supernatural // dog's death, john updike // 1.20 dead man's blood, supernatural // epitaph of a dog, george gordon byron // 1.22 devil's trap, supernatural // 3.10 dream a little dream of me, supernatural // fighting dogs, pauwels van hillegaert // toddler loses arm after reaching into pen with two wolf-dog hybrids, corey williams // 4.16 on the head of a pin, supernatural // aggression in dogs, kenneth martin; lynn buzhardt // two adult pit bull terriers fighting, rspca // animal, sir chloe // nice pup, chloe moriondo

part 2

#dog motif? woof woof?#dean winchester #supernatural #spn web weaving #dean winchester edit #spn edit #dean edit #spn parallels #dean winchester derangement syndrome #my eorks #tw animal violence

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Discharge Petition for H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: General Records

This item, H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, faced strong opposition in the House Rules Committee. Howard Smith, Chairman of the committee, refused to schedule hearings for the bill. Emanuel Celler, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, attempted to use this discharge petition to move the bill out of committee without holding hearings. The petition failed to gain the required majority of Congress (218 signatures), but forced Chairman Smith to schedule hearings.

88th CONGRESS. House of Representatives No. 5 Motion to Discharge a Committee from the Consideration of a RESOLUTION (State whether bill, joint resolution, or resolution) December 9, 1963 To the Clerk of the House of Representatives: Pursuant to Clause 4 of Rule XXVII (see rule on page 7), I EMANUEL CELLER (Name of Member), move to discharge to the Commitee on RULES (Committee) from the consideration of the RESOLUTION; H. Res. 574 entitled, a RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H. R. 7152) which was referred to said committee November 27, 1963 in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures, to wit: 1. Emanuel Celler 2. John J. Rooney 3. Seymour Halpern 4. James G Fulton 5. Thomas W Pelly 6. Robt N. C. Nix 7. Jeffery Cohelan 8. W A Barrett 9. William S. Mailiard 10. 11. Augustus F. Hawkins 12. Otis G. Pike 13. Benjamin S Rosenthal 14. Spark M Matsunaga 15. Frank M. Clark 16. William L Dawson 17. Melvin Price 18. John C. Kluczynski 19. Barratt O'Hara 20. George E. Shipley 21. Dan Rostenkowski 22. Ralph J. Rivers[page] 2 23. Everett G. Burkhalter 24. Robert L. Leggett 25. William L St Onge 26. Edward P. Boland 27. Winfield K. Denton 28. David J. Flood 29. 30. Lucian N. Nedzi 31. James Roosevelt 32. Henry C Reuss 33. Charles S. Joelson 34. Samuel N. Friedel 35. George M. Rhodes 36. William F. Ryan 37. Clarence D. Long 38. Charles C. Diggs Jr 39. Morris K. Udall 40. Wm J. Randall 41. 42. Donald M. Fraser 43. Joseph G. Minish 44. Edith Green 45. Neil Staebler 46. 47. Ralph R. Harding 48. Frank M. Karsten 49. 50. John H. Dent 51. John Brademas 52. John E. Moss 53. Jacob H. Gilbert 54. Leonor K. Sullivan 55. John F. Shelley 56. 57. Lionel Van Deerlin 58. Carlton R. Sickles 59. 60. Edward R. Finnegan 61. Julia Butler Hansen 62. Richard Bolling 63. Ken Heckler 64. Herman Toll 65. Ray J Madden 66. J Edward Roush 67. James A. Burke 68. Frank C. Osmers Jr 69. Adam Powell 70. 71. Fred Schwengel 72. Philip J. Philiben 73. Byron G. Rogers 74. John F. Baldwin 75. Joseph Karth 76. 77. Roland V. Libonati 78. John V. Lindsay 79. Stanley R. Tupper 80. Joseph M. McDade 81. Wm Broomfield 82. 83. 84. Robert J Corbett 85. 86. Craig Hosmer87. Robert N. Giaimo 88. Claude Pepper 89. William T Murphy 90. George H. Fallon 91. Hugh L. Carey 92. Robert T. Secrest 93. Harley O. Staggers 94. Thor C. Tollefson 95. Edward J. Patten 96. 97. Al Ullman 98. Bernard F. Grabowski 99. John A. Blatnik 100. 101. Florence P. Dwyer 102. Thomas L. ? 103. 104. Peter W. Rodino 105. Milton W. Glenn 106. Harlan Hagen 107. James A. Byrne 108. John M. Murphy 109. Henry B. Gonzalez 110. Arnold Olson 111. Harold D Donahue 112. Kenneth J. Gray 113. James C. Healey 114. Michael A Feighan 115. Thomas R. O'Neill 116. Alphonzo Bell 117. George M. Wallhauser 118. Richard S. Schweiker 119. 120. Albert Thomas 121. 122. Graham Purcell 123. Homer Thornberry 124. 125. Leo W. O'Brien 126. Thomas E. Morgan 127. Joseph M. Montoya 128. Leonard Farbstein 129. John S. Monagan 130. Brad Morse 131. Neil Smith 132. Harry R. Sheppard 133. Don Edwards 134. James G. O'Hara 135. 136. Fred B. Rooney 137. George E. Brown Jr. 138. 139. Edward R. Roybal 140. Harris. B McDowell jr. 141. Torbert H. McDonall 142. Edward A. Garmatz 143. Richard E. Lankford 144. Richard Fulton 145. Elizabeth Kee 146. James J. Delaney 147. Frank Thompson Jr 148. 149. Lester R. Johnson 150. Charles A. Buckley4 151. Richard T. Hanna 152. James Corman 153. Paul A Fino 154. Harold M. Ryan 155. Martha W. Griffiths 156. Adam E. Konski 157. Chas W. Wilson 158. Michael J. Kewan 160. Alex Brooks 161. Clark W. Thompson 162. John D. Gringell [?] 163. Thomas P. Gill 164. Edna F. Kelly 165. Eugene J. Keogh 166 John. B. Duncan 167. Elmer J. Dolland 168. Joe Caul 169. Arnold Olsen 170. Monte B. Fascell [?] 171. [not deciphered] 172. J. Dulek 173. Joe W. [undeciphered] 174. J. J. Pickle [Numbers 175 through 214 are blank]

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laddersofsweetmisery · 8 months

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My former English professor is retiring and gave away a bunch of the books in her office. She's a gem. I giddily returned to campus just to sort through her collection. Super excited about the ones I brought home with me. I thought someone else might appreciate some of the books I found.

I've already began poring over the poetry collections, but what should I read first? Are there any that you guys have read that you highly recommend?

Books included in Photo 1:

● Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Alta Edition includin Persuasion)

● Robert Burns by David Daiches

● Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

● Leigh Hunt's What is Poetry? by Albert S. Cook

● Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

● Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell

● Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski

● Earnest Victorians by Robert A. Rosenbaum

● Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals by Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (Editor)

Books Included in Photo 2:

● Orlando by Virginia Woolf

● Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

● The Portable Irish Reader, (The Viking portable library) by Diarmuid Russell

● The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

● Becoming a Heroine by Rachel M. Brownstein

● To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

● East Lynne by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood

● Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope edited by Aubrey Williams

● In Memoriam; An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Tennyson

● Daughters and Fathers by Lynda E. Boose, Betty S. Flowers

Books Included in Photo 3:

● Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

● A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

● Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti (Dover Thrift Editions)

● Sound the Deep Waters: Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age includes works by Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Alice Meynell, and Edith Nesbit

● The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

● The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler

● Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering by James H. Averill

● Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers (Part of the The Virago Book Series) edited by Richard Dalby

● The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

● Victorian Poetry and Poetics by Walter E. Houghton G. Robert

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0owhatsamsays · 6 months

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Dark Horse - Good Omens

I am down the rabbit hole again.

Ever since I heard that phrase several times in s2, it bugs me. People keep saying "It's a common phrase". Yeah, I know. However, they repeat it several times, and there is an actual dark horse statuesque that Crowley leaves his glasses on.

I decided to look it up. Of course.

Besides the common meaning of the phrase - "someone who surprises you with some hidden quality", I didn't know exactly where this phrase derived from.

It comes from the book "The Young Duke" by Benjamin Disraeli.

The first thing that caught my eye here was the "Duke". So I searched the book. The second thing that caught my eye was that it was published by "Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley".

The subtitle of the book is "A moral tale, though gay".

I found out that the phrase is taken from Byron's Don Juan. But why?

There are several interpretations of the connotation the word gay had in the past. Quoting from an article that I read and to which I will add a link below if someone is interested in reading it, "(The world ‘gay’ did not carry its present connotation as relating to homosexuality, though an 1857 Punch cartoon reveals that two decades after The Young Duke it referred to prostitution). William Kuhn suggests, Disraeli associated ‘gaiety’ with cheerful disposition, although Kuhn finds ‘a hint of Byronic licentiousness in Disraeli’s quotation’ and speculates on his latent homoerotic fascinations with good-looking young men (104). In The Young Duke, Disraeli introduces not only episodes from his early adult life but also presents his passion for politics. He makes a satirical picture of the English aristocracy that indulges in a hedonistic lifestyle while avoiding its political responsibilities.")

Then I decided to check Disraeli, and forgive me, I am not from the UK and I didn't know, but it turns out he has been Prime Minister of the UK twice.

Also, he was the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, and Terry Pratchett is born in Beaconsfield.

Disraeli's sexual orientation has been questioned by others.

I read the article by William Kuhn that is cited above and this is what it says:

"Disraeli's previous biographers have noticed that there were some romantic irregularities in his past: he preferred old ladies to young women; he married late; he had a passion for male friendship. The standard explanation for this is that in those pre-Freudian days there was a Romantic cult of friendship and that love between men was sexually "innocent" (the underlying assumption being that sexual contact is "guilty"). Some of his earliest biographers (such as W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle) explained away Disraeli's odd history of affectionate relationships by saying it was due to the "oriental" part of his nature. By this they meant that he was Jewish and thus partly "foreign" and un-English. They were also hinting at a Victorian prejudice that sexual license, including same-sex contact, was more common in "the East" or what we would call the Middle East. Lord Blake, whose 1966 biography is still authoritative, hinted that Disraeli was a lot like Oscar Wilde, and left it there. Two more recent biographers (Sarah Bradford and Jane Ridley) have been more comfortable referring explicitly to the homoerotic element in Disraeli's personality, but neither has regarded it as important enough to give it more than a page or two."

Anyway, let's leave his sexual orientation aside and go back to the book.

The book plot: The protagonist of the novel, George Augustus Frederic, Duke of St James, is an orphan, who has inherited an enormous fortune. The young Duke becomes an unprincipled dandy who wastes much of his wealth on luxuries, debauchery, and gambling. He wears effeminate clothes and has adulterous affairs with women. Gradually, he becomes reformed by his honest guardian Mr Dacre, and his lovely daughter May, whom he eventually marries. May helps him realize that his privileged social position requires him an extraordinary sense of duty and commitment to society.

Basically, the story follows the Duke’s slow transformation, under the discreet influence of a beautiful and benevolent woman, from a self-indulgent, selfish dandy to a responsible aristocrat who takes part in the social and political life of his country.

So yeah, I don't think "dark horse" was just a used phrase. Nothing in GO is "JUST"

Link to article:

https://victorianweb.org/authors/disraeli/youngduke.html?fbclid=IwAR0fuLb1df0cow0xgwRoah5KegHArLf7-XCHsulME5q6oCWEoJBKWr7hNVw

#good omens rabbit hole #good omens 2 #good omens #hyperfixation #go2 #good omens analysis #good omens dark horses #good omens rabbits horses ducks the whole jungle analyzed

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poetlcs · 1 year

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2023 reading tracker

total: 75/52

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a sky beyond the storm - sabaa tahir

enclave - claire g. coleman

a criminal magic - lee kelly (dnf)

the shattered city - lisa maxwell

a feast for crows - george r.r martin

the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins

chain of iron - cassandra clare

hell bent - leigh bardugo

chain of thorns - cassandra clare

the bronzed beasts - roshani chokshi

the drowning faith - r.f kuang

how high we go in the dark - sequoia nagamatsu

the jasmine throne - tasha suri

the hunger games - suzanne collins

catching fire - suzanne collins

mockingjay - suzanne collins

a far wilder magic - allison saft

translated

the transmigration of bodies - yuri herrera

portrait of an unknown lady - maria gainza

love in the big city - sang young park

my brilliant friend - elena ferrante

frankenstein in baghdad - ahmed saadawi

la bastarda - trifonia melibea obono

bolla - pajtim statovci

contemporary

you are eating an orange. you are naked - sheung-king

seeing other people - diana reid

the henna wars - adiba jaigirdar

you and me on vacation - emily henry

now that i see you - emma batchelor

delilah green doesn’t care - ashley herring blake

becoming kirrali lewis - jane harrison

style - chelsea m. cameron

yellowface - rf kuang

the summer i turned pretty - jenny han

it’s not summer without you - jenny han

the charm offensive - alison cochrun

love & virtue - diana reid

the divines - ellie eaton

sincerely, carter - whitney g

crushing - genevieve novak

icebreaker - hannah grace

cleopatra & frankenstein - coco mellors

duck a l’orange for breakfast - karina may

happy place - emily henry

wildfire - hannah grace

i am not your perfect mexican daughter - erika l. sanchez

you don’t have a shot - racquel marie

mystery/thriller

final girls - riley sager

nine liars - maureen johnson

the box in the woods - maureen johnson

a good girls guide to murder - holly jackson

good girl, bad blood - holly jackson

queen of the tiles - hanna alkaf

as good as dead - holly jackson

kill joy - holly jackson

five survive - holly jackson

the dry - jane harper

non-fiction

mirror sydney - vanessa berry

in byrons wake: the turbulent lives of lord byron’s wife and daughter, annabella milbanke and ada lovelace - miranda seymour

the lavender scare: the cold war persecution of gays and lesbians in the federal government - david k. johnson

odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls - rachel simmons

dinosaurs rediscovered - michael j. benton

queer others in victorian gothic - ardel haefele-thomas

alone time: four cities, four seasons and the pleasures of solitude - stephanie rosenbloom

how to break up with fast fashion - lauren bravo

the white album - joan didion

the gene - siddhartha mukherjee

the new hite report: the revolutionary report on female sexuality - shere hite

my body - emily ratajkowski

historical fiction

the mountains sing - nguyen phan que mai

one for the master - dorothy johnson

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin

the christie affair (dnf) - nina de gramont

classics

things fall apart - chinua achebe

northanger abbey - jane austen

jamaica inn - daphne du maurier

#2023 reading #reading #booklr

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interview-with-the-vlfote · 2 years

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ok here are the pictures from the costume store

i met this polite lad

this mask was so pretty but it went over my budget :(

byron dollsofnewalbion would wear this i think

mr herbert george poeparty did you lose this somewhere

AJSJAHSJSB WOW OK SO.

polite lad <33333 is that mark??

omg thats such a pretty maskkkkkkkkkkkkkk

he WOULD i should draw him in that

omg i want that. i am herbert george poeparty atp i should own that

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valhallarealm · 2 years

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Il vampiro moderno è queer, manipolatore e deve la sua fama a Lord Byron: tutto quello che non sapete più qualche gossip

Foto copertina: Roberto G., giacca: PunkRave, location: Chiesa di Santa Maria della Rocca, Offida Lord Byron è l’indiretto responsabile dell’immagine del vampiro moderno Il vampiro letterario moderno nasce dall’antipatia tra due persone: John William Polidori e George Gordon Byron. Nella famosa notte in cui è nato parte del genere gotico moderno, il 15 giugno 1816, nel salotto di villa Diodati…

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whatdoesshedotothem · 2 years

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Tuesday 7 July 1835

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no kiss fine morning F60 ½° at 8 ¾ - out at 9 - Mark Hepworth here with a load of hay - softish and greenish but may do - breakfast at 9 ¼ - in about ¾ hour - then out - busy getting in the hay - helped till 12 to fork it into what used to be the cow house till I was in a great heat - 7 loads got in today - had George and John Clarke and Robert S- and his man Joseph Shape, and sent my uncle’s old cart and the great bay horse Tadcaster, and Ruthin as a 2nd cart to help Mark and his 2 horse cart - he thinks there is 10 tons of hay on the Mytholm holm =3D.W..3qrs.19p. and I have the little croft besides sure his 2 horses brought 2 tons at the 1st load - came in at 12 - John helped me with the newspaper commode into the drawing room (it came this morning from painting at Hoylands’ being made by Greenwood) and A- helped to put the volumes of bound newspapers into it - then came upstairs to receive my aunt who for the 1st time was brought thro’ the library into the blue room and after sitting a little while there sat a little in the tent room - and in my little dressing room much pleased with the alterations - at 1 5 left my aunt and A- Mr Harper being come - and his clerk of the works Mr Husband - went with them to the Lodge - not stuff enough taken away - wished Mr H- to give specifications of the Lodge and bridge to Booth and Brian Helm - as B- did not come Mr H- went away at 3 35 - I had consulted him about the model of Switzerland - he advised my not having it opened in London - good - said I would write to Mr Benshaw about it - Mr H-‘s advice about furniture for the drawing room also good - the glass (mirror) in the dark between the window should be set in the pannel and reach from the top of the room to the window seat - then a dark coloured marble slab for pier table with little book-case below if I liked - the 6 old oaks chairs (3 or 4 centuries old) to be done up with crimson backs and cushions and conches on each side of the fire-place filling up the whole of that side, and cushions on the window seats, would be enough- will consider about addition to the house - to stay till Friday - out with A- at 3 40 - we walked to our hayfield (Mytholm holm) then went into the house and saw the old oak chimney piece - home along Lower brea wood and my walk at 4 40 - A- went in, I staid out with the workmen - sometime at the Lodge - then had Booth who had seen Mr Harper at Northgate - to meet him there at 10 am tomorrow - said I had put all into Mr Harper’s hands - he would judge from the estimates delivered to him and choose his workmen I had merely mentioned 4 masons and as many joiners who were to have specifications - Brian Helm, Booth, and the people from Bradford who built St James’s church and Greenwood, Hainsworth Dean and Sawke and Joseph Hepworth joiners - Booth to take his chance with fewer competitors for the Lodge and bridge wished he might get the 2 latter - the dry bridge he is to finish, at any rate - dinner at 6 ½ -

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coffee - a little while with my father and Marian - tea at 9 - read the London papers Miss Byron to be married to Lord King today - the great Carlist Spanish general Zumalacarrgnuey [Zumalacàrregui] died on the 24th ultimo- tea at 9 - ¼ hour with my aunt till 10 5 then wrote the whole of today and the last 11 lines of yesterday - A- had Washington this morning - I saw him for a minute or 2 while I stood over the hay getting in - Mr Carr to pay his rent without being sent after - Mr G. Robinson wants 2 years insurance of the mill - very well - but he had laid out £15 on the Bywash and wants me to allow £5 of it - no! he was to pay a certain rent per annum for a certain sum to be laid out by me, and for all beyond that sum he was to pay a certain percentage - if he chose to pay the percentage, I would pay (on seeing the bills and being satisfied) the whole £15 but I would make no allowance - Dull, rain-threatening day a few drops now and then during the afternoon but nothing to signify - F61° now at 10 ¾ pm

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kanejw · 4 months

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What was read 2023

The Lottery & Other Stories - Shirley Jackson (1949~)

A Life Standing Up - Steve Martin (2007)

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Licks of Love -John Updike (2000)

Lovesickness Collection - Junji Ito (2011)

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (1966)

The Anarchy The relentless rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple (2019)

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan W.Watts (1951)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1869)

The Course of Love - Alain de Botton (2016)

Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)

Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson (1980)

Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1851)

A Faint Heart (1848)White Nights (1848) A Little Hero (1857)An Unpleasant Predicament (1862) The Crocodile (1865) Bobok (1873) A Gentle Spirit/The Meek One* (1876) T1877) Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1929)

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk (2005)

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (1980/3)

Diary - Chuck Palahniuk (2003)

Darkness Visible - William Styron (1990)

The Poorhouse Fair - John Updike (1958)

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner (1929)

The First Forty-Nine Stories - Ernest Hemingway (1939)

Mythos - Stephen Fry (2017)

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck (1931)

The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell (1936)

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)

Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1854)

The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

Normal People - Sally Rooney (2018)

Joy in the Morning - P. G. Wodehouse (1947)

After Dark - Haruki Murakami (2004)

The Lodger - Marie Belloc Lowndes (1913)

The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2009)

The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe (1979)

Family Happiness - Leo Tolstoy (1859)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (1866)

The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy (1889)

The Devil - Leo Tolstoy (1911)

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)

True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2000)

Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (1988/9)

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (~1308-1321)

Iliad - Homer (Samuel Butler translation 1898)

Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (1925)

The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy (2022)

Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward (2018)

Rubber Balls and Liquor - Gilbert Gottfried (2011)

kiss me like a stranger* - Gene Wilder (2005)

The Adventures of Auguie March - Saul Bellow (1953)

Rickles’ Book A memoir - Don Rickles (2007)

The ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ Trilogy. Sexus - Henry Miller (1949)

The Heart of a Dog - Milhaud Bulgakov (1925)

Dracula - Bram Stoker (1897)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)

Albert & the Whale - Philip Hoare (2021)

A Waiter in Paris - Edward Chisholm (2022)

The Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron (1937)

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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Intimate Reflections by Marie G. Fochios (SHE IS 98 YEARS OLD!)

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Intimate Reflections is an enticing glimpse into the long #life of Marie Fochios, now 98. These poems capture her passion for her #Greek #heritage, her zest for adventure, and her capacity to perceive the beauty and wisdom in the ordinary. They reflect a highly individualized, candid voice and an assertive spirit that cannot be ignored. #aging

Marie Georges Fochios was born in Pennsylvania in 1925 and moved to New York City with her Greek immigrant family during the Depression of 1929. With the advantage of free tuition, Marie graduated from Hunter College in 1946. Her love of learning continued to thrive for many semesters of graduate studies at Columbia University while she raised a family and worked as a fourth grade teacher at PS 24 in the Bronx for many decades. Engaged with and inspired by English Romantic poets, (Keats, Shelley, and Byron, among others), she would write poems for her own pleasure over the years. Recently, at the urging of mentors, she published a poem in Passagers, resurrected some of her older works, wrote and revised more recent works and is now presenting her first collection of reflections from her long and fruitful life.

PRAISE FOR Intimate Reflections by Marie G. Fochios

With a sharp eye for detail and unerring instinct for the right word, Marie Fochios crafts poems that surprise, delight, and instruct. Rooted in Greek mythology while reveling in popular culture, these concise poems continually unmask a vulnerable contemporary self. Intimate Reflections reveals a poet at the height of her powers.

–Rita D. Jacobs, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of English, Montclair State University; author of The Way In: Journal Writing for Self-Discovery and Tommy: The Musical; A Day in the Life of America.

Marie Fochios begins her gorgeous collection, Intimate Reflections, with “Memoir,” a searing haibun that includes this line: “The past belongs to me/alone.” But one of the extraordinary things about these poems is that Fochios allows us into her past with lyric nuggets of wisdom, grace, and beauty. With her economy of language, use of Greek mythology, and her full and deeply lived life, she gives voice to her joy and rage. The stunning “Paradise Theatre, 1936” will make you gulp for air by the end. Her poems span almost a century, and with that, we have a front-row seat to Joe DiMaggio and so much more in this dazzling book.

–Sarah Stern, author of We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune, But Today Is Different, and Another Word for Love.

A book full of gems that sparkle and pierce. You feel the poet’s presence and energy on every page. I kept thinking of people I want to send this book to. And I’ll never think the same way about Emily Dickinson, Edward Hopper, or Joe DiMaggio!

–Charlie Varon, award-winning playwright, performer, and director

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brookstonalmanac · 11 months

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Birthdays 6.8

Beer Birthdays

Pedro Rodenbach (1794)

Johann George Moerlein (1852)

Van Havig (1970)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Herb Adderly; Green Bay Packers CB (1939)

John Everett Millais; artist (1829)

Robert Schumann; composer (1810)

Nancy Sinatra; pop singer (1940)

Frank Lloyd Wright; architect (1867)

Famous Birthdays

Scott Adams; cartoonist (1957)

Tomaso Albinoni; composer (1671)

Kathy Baker; actor (1950)

Mark Belanger; Baltimore Orioles SS (1944)

Tim Berners-Lee; internet developer (1955)

Sonia Braga; actor (1950)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini; Italian astronomer (1552)

Francis Crick; molecular biologist (1916)

James Darren; singer (1936)

Lindsay Davenport; tennis player (1976)

Griffin Dunne; actor (1955)

Trish Goff; model (1976)

Annie Haslam; rock singer (1947)

Julianna Margulies; actor (1966)

Chuck Negron; rock singer (1942)

Leroy Neiman; artist (1927)

Robert Preston; actor (1918)

Charles Reade; English writer (1814)

Nick Rhodes; pop keyboardist (1962)

Tony Rice; acoustic guitarist (1951)

Joan Rivers; comedian (1933)

Boz Scaggs; rock musician (1944)

Alexis Smith; actor (1921)

Jerry Stiller; comedian, actor (1927)

Bonnie Tyler; rock singer (1951)

Alex Van Halen; rock drummer (1950)

Keenan Ivory Wayans; actor, writer (1958)

Byron White; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1917)

Kenneth G. Wilson; physicist (1936)

Dana Wynter; actor (1931)

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lamilanomagazine · 1 year

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Milano: Il Corsaro di Manuel Legris arriva alla Scala

Milano: Il Corsaro di Manuel Legris arriva alla Scala. Per la prima volta alla Scala arriva Le Corsaire, nella versione firmata nel 2016 da Manuel Legris. Il balletto è la sua prima opera di rilettura dei classici dell’Ottocento che evidenzia in pieno l’intento e l’innovazione del suo approccio coreografico, della sua ricerca musicale e drammaturgica. A partire dal 28 febbraio, i ballerini scaligeri avranno l'opportunità di esibirsi in uno dei balletti d'azione più avventurosi ed entusiasmanti del XIX secolo, il quale verrà rimodulato attraverso una trama più accessibile e chiara. La cura per la musicalità e per le relazioni tra i personaggi permetterà di trasmettere con maggiore intensità sia l'energia e i virtuosismi che il lirismo e il romanticismo tipici di questo genere. Saranno tre i cast che si alterneranno nei ruoli principali: Conrad sarà interpretato da Timofej Andrijashenko, Nicola Del Freo e Mattia Semperboni; Medora da Nicoletta Manni, Martina Arduino e Alice Mariani. Nel ruolo di Gulnare Maria Celeste Losa, Camilla Cerulli e Gaia Andreanò. Lankedem sarà Marco Agostino poi Federico Fresi e Christian Fagetti; nel ruolo di Birbanto Claudio Coviello, Rinaldo Venuti e Domenico Di Cristo e in quello di Zulmea Antonella Albano, Linda Giubelli e Alessandra Vassallo. Il ruolo del Pascià Seyd sarà interpretato da Gioacchino Starace, Edoardo Caporaletti e Gabriele Corrado; le tre Odalische da Linda Giubelli (poi Marta Gerani, Maria Celeste Losa e Giordana Granata), Gaia Andreanò (poi Alessia Auriemma e Benedetta Montefiore) e Camilla Cerulli (poi Greta Giacon e Caterina Bianchi). Accanto a loro i solisti e gli artisti del Corpo di Ballo impegnati al competo, e gli allievi della Scuola di Ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala. Sul podio torna Valery Ovsyanikov, che già aveva diretto la prima del balletto a Vienna. Il balletto "Le Corsaire" racconta le avventure del pirata Conrad che, tra tempeste, rapimenti, uccisioni e cospirazioni, cerca di salvare la sua amata Medora. La versione di Manuel Legris cerca di dare verità e convinzione ad ogni movimento, con una trama vicina allo spirito dei versi di Lord Byron, ma accessibile e chiara. L'allestimento di Luisa Spinatelli, che ha inaugurato la sua collaborazione con le coreografie di Legris, esalta le suggestioni orientaleggianti del sontuoso scenario. Il lavoro coreografico di Legris evidenzia le molte sezioni create dallo stesso per il Corpo di Ballo, come la Danza delle Odalische e la Danza delle Donne Corsare, affiancando perle originali di Petipa nella versione di San Pietroburgo. La profonda attenzione alla musicalità è catturata dalle partiture di Adolphe Adam e altri compositori, assemblati in collaborazione con Igor Zapravdin e arrangiati da Thomas Heinisch e Gábor Kerényi. In particolare, per il pas de deux di Medora e Conrad, Legris ha scelto la musica di Léo Delibes per il balletto "Sylvia". Questa versione di "Le Corsaire" sarà in scena dal 28 febbraio, rimodulando sull'energia e i virtuosismi ma anche il lirismo e il romanticismo di uno dei più entusiasmanti e avventurosi ballet d'action del XIX secolo sui ballerini scaligeri. Le Corsaire sarà il primo balletto ad essere trasmesso live su http://www.lascala.tv: in diretta streaming l'1 marzo dalle ore 1945. Drammaturgia e libretto di Manuel Legris e Jean-François Vazelle da Lord Byron, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges e Joseph Mazilier; coreografia Manuel Legris da Marius Petipa e altri; musica Adolphe Adam e altri; selezione Manuel Legris; arrangiamento Igor Zapravdin; orchestrazione Thomas Heinisch e Gábor Kerény; scene e costumi Luisa Spinatelli; assistente scene e costumi Monia Torchia; luci Andrea Giretti; direttore Valery Ovsyanikov; corpo di ballo e orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Date Martedì 28 febbraio 2023 - ore 20 - Prima rappresentazione – Turno Prime Balletto Mercoledì 1 marzo 2023 - ore 20 - Turno P Domenica 5 marzo 2023 - ore 20 - Turno O Giovedì 9 marzo 2023 - ore 20 - Turno R Venerdì 17 marzo 2023 - ore 14.30 - Invito alla Scala per Giovani e Anziani Venerdì 17 marzo 2023 - ore 20 - Fuori abbonamento Prezzi da € 10 a € 150 (inclusa prevendita) http://www.teatroallascala.org... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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jedivoodoochile · 1 year

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The War of the World, es una película de ciencia ficción estrenada en 1953, con Gene Barry y Ann Robinson como actores principales. Fue la primera representación en la pantalla del clásico de H. G. Wells del mismo nombre. Producida por George Pal y dirigida por Byron Haskin a partir de un guion de Barré Lyndon, es la primera de las cuatro adaptaciones del trabajo de Wells, y se la considera una de las grandes películas de ciencia ficción de la década de 1950. Ganó un Oscar por sus efectos especiales, que, en ese tiempo, fueron revolucionarios.

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quasar1967 · 2 years

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The War Of The Worlds (1953)

The War of the Worlds (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds) is a 1953 American science fiction film from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.

The film is an adaptation of the 1898 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells, the first of five feature film adaptations. It is a retelling of the 1898 novel, changing the setting from Victorian era-England to 1953 southern California. Earth is suddenly and unexpectedly invaded by Martians, and American scientist Clayton Forrester searches for any weakness that can stop them.

The War of the Worlds won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and went on to influence other science fiction films. In 2011, it was selected for the United States' National Film Registry in the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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