![]() ![]() ![]() And the wandering visitor might be skeptical about all the swindles, but he could not be skeptical about these, for the worker bore the evidence of them about on his own persongenerally he had only to hold out his hand. The workers in each of them had their own peculiar diseases. When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he had marveled while he listened to the tale of all the things that were made out of the carcasses of animals and of all the lesser industries that were maintained there now he found that each one of these lesser industries was a separate little inferno, in its way as horrible as the killing-beds, the source and fountain of them all. There was another interesting set of statistics that a person might have gathered in Packingtownthose of the various afflictions of the workers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The truth was that her father was an English railway engineer from Darlington called Arthur Thompson, and not in the army. ![]() She said that her father had been an army officer who had died in a hunting accident. ![]() The facts regarding her birth and family were deliberately falsified and obscured by the actress early in her career in order to conceal both her racial origins and the bizarre mystery surrounding her birth.įrom her first arrival in Hollywood, Merle's version of her origins claimed that she was born in Tasmania and christened Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson. She was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, on 19 February, 1911 in Bombay, India. She was of Eurasian heritage and she spent her whole working life trying to conceal the fact. She was hauntingly beautiful and appeared in numerous high quality productions including, 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' in 1934, 'The Dark Angel' in 1935 for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, and 'Wuthering Heights' with Laurence Olivier in 1939. Merle Oberon was one of Hollywood's top actresses during the 1930s and 1940s. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can follow her on Twitter Vicky_Hoyle. She tweets Hoyle, an archivist and PhD student working on the cultural and social value of archival heritage. ![]() Erin reviews for Strange Horizons, and her journalistic and academic work have also appeared in a variety of other venues. ![]() She's working towards her literature PhD at Glasgow, which focuses on how charm evolves over time. We hope you'll join us to discuss the novel further in the comments, but to kick off this discussion, the participants are:ĭan Hartland, whose reviews and criticism have appeared in Strange Horizons, Vector, Foundation and the Los Angeles Review of Books.Įrin Horáková, a southern American writer who lives in London with her partner. This week we also have a bonus discussion of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, which you can read here. Our next book will be Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Dung Kai-cheung, and discussions further ahead are listed here. Welcome to this month's Strange Horizons book club! This week we are discussing Hild by Nicola Griffith. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Tom tries to explain to Terry that something strange is going on with the town. Harper takes Bea to Mayor Buckman's office where she is accosted by Rufus and Lester, who hold her down on a table and dismember her alive with an axe. However that afternoon, after an argument with her husband, Bea goes off with Harper to a wooded area, where he shows off his pocket knife, but then slices off her right thumb. The tourists are initially treated with hospitality and given rooms to stay in the local hotel. The three couples meet the town mayor, Joseph Buckman, and his right-hand men Rufus and Lester, as well as shop owner Harper and his girlfriend Betsy. Six Yankee tourists (married couples John and Bea Miller and David and Beverly Wells, plus the unmarried couple Tom White and Terry Adams) are lured via detour signs placed in the road into the fictional small Southern town of Pleasant Valley by "redneck" citizens, to be the "guests of honor" for the April 1965 centennial celebration of the two days where Union troops destroyed the town at the end of the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, he sounds a lot like Donald Trump,” Stone said. ![]() “On those geopolitical ideas, he makes a lot of sense. While Stone said he disagrees with Kennedy on some issues, he likes the candidate's opposition to “globalists” and skepticism of continued U.S. Roger Stone, the former Richard Nixon aide who was one of Trump’s early political advisers, called Trump-Kennedy a “ dream ticket” on the news program "Real America." Roger Stone in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2017. “Bobby Kennedy would be, I think, an excellent choice for President Trump to consider” as a running mate, Bannon said this week on his "War Room" show. That groundwork is paying off in the form of widespread praise from conservative media influencers who have urged their audiences to keep an open mind about Kennedy, perhaps eager to use him as a foil against President Joe Biden.įormer Trump adviser Steve Bannon said he received a “standing ovation” from a “hardcore MAGA” crowd at a recent speaking engagement for floating the idea of a bipartisan Trump-Kennedy ticket. ![]() ![]() “We wrote about our part,” they keep saying. Stop stalling and tell the story, or you’re going to be very sorry!” “Peter,” snapped Susan, “for five months every kid in Kennituck Falls has been dying to know what happened to you after you went off with Broxholm. I thought he was as likable as a mosquito, as friendly as a rattlesnake, and as useful as a screen door in a spaceship.īut that was before I got a good look at the inside of his head-which was less frightening and more sad than I ever would have guessed. ![]() As far as I was concerned, he was the world’s biggest snotball, a kid whose main hobbies were drooling on his homework, farting in class, and beating me up. I want to know what happened in between.”įive months ago I wouldn’t have cared what Duncan Dougal thought. Five minutes ago you showed up in a beam of blue light and told Duncan and me we had to help you save the world. “Tell us what’s been going on! Five months ago you took off for outer space with Broxholm. So there we were-Susan Simmons, Duncan Dougal, and me, Peter Thompson-sitting in an alien spaceship the size of New Jersey, waiting to learn how we were supposed to save the world, when Susan said, “All right, Peter, give.” ![]() My Teacher Glows in the Dark CHAPTER ONE I Choose the Stars ![]() ![]() The second reason he isn’t remembered has to do with what was in those speeches, many of which denounced religion. In an age when flowery language and effusive emotion were commonly used to keep audiences rapt, Ingersoll was comparatively calm and plain-spoken, yet he was said to be riveting, drawing both tears and peals of laughter. As a result, people were real connoisseurs of the craft, and a wide range of listeners thought Ingersoll was an extraordinary orator. In 19th-century America, speeches were a major form of entertainment. The first reason for his obscurity is the same reason many actors who were well known before the age of film have been forgotten: Ingersoll’s greatest fame came from his public speeches, and while the texts of these have been published, it was his performance of them that made him so beloved. ![]() ![]() ![]() A case in point is the orator Robert Green Ingersoll: a celebrity in his heyday at the end of the 19th century, he is almost utterly unknown today, even by those who would admire him if they knew more. ![]() Susan Jacoby, whose previous books include “Freethinkers” and “The Age of American Unreason,” begins “The Great Agnostic” by asking why some people famous in their own time become part of our national memory and others fade into oblivion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The inspiration for Oliver has been the source of intrigue and even controversy. Oliver Barrett IV, played by Ryan O'Neal in the movie, is a sensitive, rich kid and a Harvard hockey player. The idea came when he learned that one of his former students was just 25 when he lost his wife to cancer. The 50th anniversary edition of the novel Love Story includes an introduction by Francesca.Įrich Segal was 30 years old and a professor at Yale when he wrote the 131-page Love Story. It was "genuine and earnest and I think it just struck a chord," she says. ![]() In December, 1970, in the midst of the Vietnam War and the continuing fight for Civil Rights - along came an "unabashedly sentimental" story "about the power of love," says Segal's daughter, writer Francesca Segal. "What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who dies?" So begins the novel and screenplay, both written by Erich Segal. ![]() Love Story, the romantic tearjerker starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw, broke box office records and the book it was based on was a bestseller that was translated into more than 30 languages. Since then, it has inspired countless ugly cries - and plenty of parodies, too.įifty years ago, a simple but tragic love story became a global sensation that stunned the entertainment industry. Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw starred in Love Story - a romantic tearjerker that became the highest grossing movie of 1970. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save them all, Rovan will have to start a rebellion in both the mortal world and the underworld, and find a way to trust the princess and spirit battling for her heart-if she doesn't betray them first. Together, they uncover a secret that will destroy Thanopolis. Desperate to escape, Rovan finds herself falling for two people she can't fully trust: Lydea, a beguiling, rebellious princess and Ivrilos, the handsome spirit with the ability to control Rovan, body and soul. Strickland (Goodreads Author) ISBN: 9781529379839 Edition language: English Average rating. But when she accidentally reveals her powers, she's bound to a spirit and thrust into a world of palace intrigue and deception. Editions for In the Ravenous Dark: 1250776600 (Hardcover published in 2021), (Hardcover published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published in 2021). ![]() ![]() Ever since Rovan's father died trying to keep her from this fate, she's hidden her magic. Strickland, whom Richard Kadrey calls "a storyteller of both grace and power." In Thanopolis, those gifted with magic are assigned undead spirits to guard them-and control them. ![]() Strickland, author of Beyond the Black Door. A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark YA fantasy by A.M. A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark YA fantasy In the Ravenous Dark by A.M. A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark young adult fantasy by A.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was with all of these anxieties and prejudices that I approached Edward Snow’s new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke, the early 20th century poet who wrote in German (though he was born in Prague, at the time under Austro-Hungarian control). It’s a troubling feeling to go to the library or bookstore to pick up a foreign poet, only to find three or four different translations available. This theoretical problem manifests itself pertinently in the anxiety that a translation is not identical to the original, and therefore inauthentic. ![]() Though its semantic meaning can hold, translation risks the utter loss of all emotional register. “Hence the vanity of translation ” Percy Shelley wrote, “it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principles of its color and odor, as to transfuse from one language into another creations of a poet.” What the poet is communicating here is poetry’s fascination with presentation, its syntax, sound, rhythm-aspects that depend on its language of origin-so that there is an almost absurdly destructive quality to any translation. ![]() |