![]() ![]() One of the doctor’s patients, a young woman wearing dark glasses for an eye infection, works as a prostitute and goes blind while having sex with a man at a hotel. The only option, the doctor admits, is to “wait and see.”Īfter the blind man’s appointment, the car-thief also suddenly goes blind, as does the doctor later that night. The doctor is baffled: there’s seemingly nothing wrong with the blind man’s eyes, and his condition is unprecedented. It turns out that the person who drove the blind man home was a thief-he stole their car, so the blind man and his wife take a taxi to the eye doctor. After another driver helps the blind man back to his apartment, the blind man knocks over a vase and cuts himself trying to pick up the pieces, then passes out on the couch until the blind man’s wife comes home and helps him clean up. ![]() The man yells out that he has suddenly gone blind: his entire field of vision is a sea of whiteness. At an intersection in front of a traffic light, a driver remains stopped after the light turns green, which annoys the other drivers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “I think that would bother any parent in any neighbourhood,” said Rastin. Parent Gavin Rastin, whose nine-year-old daughter attends one of the three schools in the neighbourhood, said neighbours are keeping an eye out. She fled unharmed and called police, while the unknown man hopped the fence to the seniors’ centre. She tried to walk away, but he gave chase. Police said a young girl was reportedly walking on a path next to the seniors’ complex when she was approached by an unknown male. Strathroy Caradoc Police said officers were called to the area of 305 Oak Ave. “Couple of the other ladies, they’re really upset, they’re trying to chase him down,” she said. “It’s nerve-wracking for everybody,” said Penny Hignett, who was visiting her sister at a seniors’ complex on Oak Avenue, next to where the incident is alleged to have occurred. The incident has left residents shaken and on high alert. continue to look for a suspect involved in a possible attempted child abduction over the weekend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This past weekend, Carson reprised three lectures on aesthetics over two days at the Brooklyn Public Library, tickets for which had been sold out weeks prior. ![]() Despite her being a scholar of the esoteric herself (she was a professor of Classics at McGill University and the University of Michigan until recently), her work is considered a gateway drug for people attempting to get into ancient Greek literature, apart from its own laudable, unique merits. Chances are you’ve already read her without even knowing it: If you used Tumblr during the platform’s peak, Carson’s translation of Sappho’s fragments, If Not, Winter, was a recurring staple of the poetry and literature communities. Anne Carson’s poetry breathes life and renewed interest into the obscure and the forgettable. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trilogy traces certain unlikely events in the life of an English philologist, Ransom. While Lewis pulls this off with uneven success, overall the books are enjoyable both because they are classics in Christian literature and because they encourage us to think about Scripture and theology in ways that don’t entirely require us to don the mindset and culture of a group of people 2000 years or 4000 years removed from our own culture. ![]() ![]() Lewis’ Space Trilogy ( Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) is an exercise in theological thinking and reading in the guise of science fiction. In which case, you might prefer tackling something in the realm of fiction – even science fiction. Heck, most of us have trouble just reading the Bible, let alone reading theology books! As much as we love the Lord and are grateful for what He has done, is doing, and will do for all of creation, wading through theological writing can be tedious for some of us. If you find reading theology to be a good cure for insomnia, you aren’t alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). ![]() Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, "Shipwreck at the bottom of the world" by Jennifer Armstrong wrote, "Sørlle, turned his head away and wept" I guess Alfred Lansing's account also affected other authors. If there was anyone who would cry it should be Shackleton not Sørlle! ![]() ![]() they were not close and those Norwegian whalers were tough guys. Why did Sørlle weep instead of Shackleton? A. Some said that Sørlle turned away and wept. Stepped forward.“My name is Shackleton,” he replied in a quiet voice.Īgain there was silence. For a long moment he stood shocked and silent before he When he saw the three men he stepped back and a look of disbelief came I love every bit of it except for the very last sentence before the epilogue. I think it is safe to say " Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing is the best account of the trip. The news about scientists have found Endurance prompts me to ask this question otherwise I have always seen it as some minor details that few people will have interest in. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has lived in the midlands, in the UK her whole life and has wanted to write a book since she was a child. ![]() Gemma Weir is a half crazed stay at home mom to four kids, one man child and two hell hounds. It turns out Cody isn’t prepared to give me up, and no matter how hard I fight him, I’m not sure I can escape the love of a mountain man. Owned By The Mountain Man (Montana Mountain Men Book 2) eBook : Weir, Gemma: .uk. Away from my sister, away from her new family and away from the man who says I’m his.īut it doesn’t matter how fast I run, because fate will still catch me and right now it’s knocking on my door. He’s determined to offer me all the colors in the rainbow, but I’m not looking for a fling, and that’s all that we can be. ![]() When betrayal leaves me heartbroken and questioning everything, Cody stays at my side, ready to be my rock, my shoulder to cry on and so much more. Only the more time I spend with the Barnetts the more I see that their world is full of the type of love I thought only existed in films and seeing it is making me wonder if my happy ever after, is really as happy as I thought it is. I have a boyfriend, a job and a life, hours away from this tiny mountain town. I’m only in Rockhead Point to get to know my sister. The perfect guy for some lucky girl, just not me. Gorgeous, sweet and far too flirtatious, Cody Barnett is absolutely adorable. Loving the Mountain Man by Gemma Weir (ePUB) ![]() ![]() Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson of Law and Order: Criminal Intent), the film‘s protagonist, is a graduate student who conducts the interviews for her anthropological thesis. ![]() After being abruptly dumped by her boyfriend, a graduate student. It was Wallace‘s intention for readers to focus on learning about each subject‘s idiosyncrasies, exposing just how vulnerable, alienated, and weird men can be. John Krasinski makes his directorial debut. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Lyrics Intro: Unclean vocals, Clean vocals, Gang vocals All your marsupial annotations That you carry around May ring through their ears But to us make no. The stories themselves are a series of transcripts with questions deliberately omitted. These actors play the hideous men or “subjects” of Wallace‘s intellect. ![]() The film stars a varied group of actors including seasoned veterans of stage and screen - Bobby Cannavale ( Third Watch, Mauritius), Timothy Hutton ( Leverage, Ordinary People), Michael Cerveris ( The Who‘s Tommy, Assassins), and Death Cab for Cutie‘s Ben Gibbard. Plot Sara Quinn ( Julianne Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by interviewing men as part of her graduate studies. ![]() Based on a short story collection of the same name by David Foster Wallace. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace, is now a feature film directed by The Office‘s John Krasinski and opening September 25th in select theaters. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, in his directorial debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandwiched between tormented maternity and looming mortality, Kim’s protagonist must find a way to make peace with her debilitating guilt and shame. That lonely fate, the woman fears, might be her own. Although she’s “past seventy,” the woman must still work, currently as a caregiver to Jen, a once internationally renowned activist suffering from dementia who is now completely alone and discarded. ![]() The woman has been “a good person” all her life, but she can’t accept Green and Lane’s lesbian relationship, even though it’s already seven years strong. All she has left to offer is her home, and so daughter Green and her partner Lane move in. A mother is desperate to help her thirtysomething daughter, an itinerant college lecturer who can’t seem to make ends meet. Already a prestigious best-seller in Korea, Kim’s impassioned novel about the meaning of family-by blood, by choice-marks her English-language debut, seamlessly translated by National Book Award longlister Chang. ![]() ![]() The reed is the metaphor for the soul of the perfect man, and even before Rumi, other Sufies and theosophists have had the same symbolization. Here, Rumi asks the reader to listen to the reed and how it complains about separation and loneliness. ![]() The song starts with “From reed-flute hear what tale it tells what plaint it makes of absence' ills.” is the first verse of the poem too. This literary analysis is using the Redhouse translation from a credible source (dar-al-masnavi) that has collected the different English translations of Rumi poems. There have been many translation of this poem in English. Without proper interpretation it is difficult for the reader, who is not familiar with the theosophical terminologies, understand the real meaning of the poem. ![]() ![]() This literary analysis is trying to interpret some verses of this poem that have been used in this song. Nashnas (a famous Afghan singer) is one of the singers who composed some couplets of this poem in a song during 80s in Afghanistan. One of the greatest collections of Rumi’s poetry is the “Masnavi” that begins with the “Listen to the reed…” poem. One of these lyrics is the “Listen to the reed” poem by Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi, 1207-1273), the famous philosopher and the poet in Persian language. ![]() There are some lyrics that have been used by different singers in multiple music genres. An essay I wrote for one of my English classes in college ![]() |