![]() Valerie Solanas’ writing is both funny and fearless ![]() She argues against reproducing future generations, writing: “Why should we care what happens when we're dead?”Ģ. What many people overlook is that later on, having outlined the ways in which capitalist society will be destroyed by her favoured, imaginary group of SCUM – witty, bitchy, contemptful women – Solanas takes it one step further. Her answer to this problem is that all men should die. ![]() Men are superior to women only in their PR skills: they've persuaded us to believe that gender is quite the opposite to what it actually is. So while people often believe that women are inferior, passive, and less intelligent, the reality is that these characteristics belong to men. Originally self-published in 1968, the SCUM Manifesto's central argument is that men have created a false reality in which everyone believes that women are men and men are women. In fact, the first sentence argues that “thrill-seeking females” should “destroy the male sex”.īut Solanas hates men in a way that at the same time minimizes their importance and de-centres them from her political vision. SCUM Manifestois a deeply offensive, violent book. Listen to Ray discuss the manifesto and its legacy with Juliet Jacques and Sophie Mayer on the Verso podcast. ![]() ![]() Ray Filar, journalist, editor and performance artist, gives us the rundown of the best and the worst of Valerie Solanas' controversial SCUM Manifesto. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Where there are so many ticking clocks and things at stake, Inkdeath‘s leisurely pace frustrated me as a reader. It’s far too long and feels like it ambles along sometimes. ![]() ![]() I have no idea if this was Funke’s intent or just my personal interpretation, but I really like it. Between besting cruel rulers and saving children and having a meeting with Death, there is so much going on in Inkdeath to appeal to any reader, but it’s Mo’s descent that shines most in this novel. Watching the way that character evolves to fill the role needed of him in the Inkworld is fascinating and a bit heartbreaking (which makes it that much easier to relate to Meggie and Reesa). I saw the Inkheart film long before I read any of the books, and Mo will forever be Brendan Fraser in my mind. Of particular interest to me is Mortimer’s transformation. There is not so much action in Inkdeath as there are high stakes. While the magic of Inkheart leads me to love the trilogy, it is Inkdeath that engrossed me the most. There are more villains than ever before in the Inkworld and allies are less stalwart. ![]() This third book and trilogy finale shifts its focus away from magic and adventure and into something more sinister. Inkdeath is a darker book than Inkheart and Inkspell. ![]() ![]() The narrator notices Dupin's superb analytic ability, which Dupin attributes to his understanding of people's thoughts. They quickly become friends and decide to live together in seclusion in a gloomy old mansion, for which the wealthy narrator pays the rent. Nevertheless, Dupin often splurges on books, and he meets the narrator in the Rue Montmartre because both of them are searching for a rare volume. Auguste Dupin, who is living parsimoniously in Paris. To explain his point, the narrator offers an account from his acquaintance with a Monsieur C. These two qualities are different in that the ingenious are fanciful whereas the analytical are imaginative. Furthermore, ingenuity does not always include analysis, although analysis is always ingenious. The analyst, claims the narrator, is one who can maneuver his opponent into error by identifying with his opponent and by viewing all possibilities. He compares the task of analysis to a game of draughts (checkers) rather than one of chess, arguing that a good chess player benefits from concentration whereas a draughts player benefits from intelligence because the number of possible moves are limited in draughts, a player will win by analyzing every possibility and by observing his opponent. ![]() The narrator opens with a short discussion of the analytical mind, whose conclusions seem to be the result of intuition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Doll’s Eye bears Marina Cohen’s trademark eerie style and beautiful writing. ![]() Holding it close one night, she makes a wish that just might change her world forever. ![]() Oh, how she wishes her family were more like those lovely dolls! Then one day, Hadley discovers a lone glass eye rolling around the floor of the attic. It’s full of secrets, just like appearance of a mysterious dollhouse and the family of perfect dolls she finds. As Hadley whiles away what’s left of her summer, exploring the nearby woods and splitting her time between her strange, bug-obsessed neighbor Gabe and the nice old lady that lives above the garage, she begins to notice the house isn’t just old and creaky. Back when she had a life in the city with her friends. Back when she wasn’t forced to live in a musty, decomposing house. A beautiful and haunting tale for independent readers from the author of The Inn Between All Hadley wants is for everything to go back to the way it used to be-back when she didn’t have to share her mother with her stepfather and stepbrother. ![]() ![]() ![]() The “3P’s”─Productivity, procrastination and perfectionism and how they are connected to your unique organizing style.How motivation and happiness can be directly affected by our space.The four different organizing styles and how they relate to each other.With self-awareness comes happiness, personal growth and lasting change. Let go of the preconceived and conventional notions of what organization looks like and finally discover what type Clutterbug you are. Individualized real life organizing. Organizing isn’t one size fits all. The Clutter Connection will help you get organized, be more productive and finally understand the why behind your clutter. Cassandra Aarssen smashes the stereo–type that some people are “naturally messy” and offers readers insight and real-life solutions based on their unique personal organizing style. The Clutter Connection examines and explains the correlation between brain types and how they directly relate to organization and clutter. The host of HGTV’s HOT MESS HOUSE helps you know your habits, declutter your space, and discover your unique organizing personality type and strategies for a more productive and clutter-free life.Īn organization book for diverse habits. “You’re not messy, you just organize differently”. ![]() #1 Best Seller in Time Management, Home Improvements, Cleaning, Caretaking & Relocating, and Small Homes & Cottages ![]() ![]() Get Organized, Be More Productive, and Finally Understand the Why Behind Your Clutter ![]() ![]() ![]() If you disagree with this, click on the post, and select "hide" to no longer see that post. Original Fan art or art you found online (please mention original poster or artist).REMINDER: Please flair your posts AFTER submission and mark spoilers accordingly. ![]()
![]() So, what is it about this fruit that makes people want to write books about it, or celebrate it with an annual festival? The reason may be that it is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill fruit. I love the fact that the story of the pawpaw tells us a lot about American history and culture.” “I didn't know anything about pawpaws,” he says, “so I researched the fruit and its history. He recently published his first book, "Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit." Moore, from Pittsburgh, was nominated for the 2016 James Beard Foundation Writing and Literature Award.Īfter attending a Pawpaw Festival in Ohio six years ago, Moore was fascinated with the tasty treat, and wanted to learn all about it. ![]() Many people have never heard of this silly sounding fruit, and author Andrew Moore is doing his best to change that fact. The pawpaw is a tropical fruit with a sweet, creamy texture that you might expect to find growing in a rainforest in Brazil, yet it can be found in 26 eastern states, including Pennsylvania. ![]() Tropical fruit growing right here along the shores of Lake Erie? Is that even possible? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS CITED Blundell, Mary Whitlock, and Kirk Ormand. Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. 'Chapmans Ironic Homer,' the author turns to the first complete English translations of Homer s Iliad and Odyssey and explores the various motives behind Chapmans eagerness to identify the 'ironic' and 'scoptic' qualities found in both poems. That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne ![]() Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. ![]() ![]() “As soon as the time limit has passed and I’m clear from the club’s stipulations.” You were going to sell it anyway, right?” “Your grandfather was a complicated man,” he said. “I don’t understand any of this.” I sighed, then stood and walked around my desk, escorting Steve to the door. Was this his way of punishing me after his death? His way of coercing me into doing what he damn well would have known I didn’t want to do? Whether by accident or age, my relationship with him had ended the day he’d betrayed me. But the only reason he would have added this level of detail to his last requests was he’d known that I would never have spoken to him again. In a way, it was like he’d known he would die sooner rather than later. Even in death, Grandpa was still pulling my strings. Because that was exactly what these requests were doing. when did he do all of this? When did he add in these demands? It had to have been recently.” If it had been done years ago, he wouldn’t have had to force me to the cabin. The bastard had probably known I’d avoid everything about that property. ![]() “Then I guess Gabriel assumed you wouldn’t.” ![]() “What if I had already trashed everything in the cabin by now?” “It is.” I steepled my hands in front of my chin, my mind not on the weather. He chuckled and stood from his chair, picking up the wool coat he’d draped over the back. “Thank God.” After this, there’d be no more of Grandpa’s requests from the grave. Then he was gone, striding toward the house. “Don’t thank me.” He nodded to the mountains. ![]() ![]() ![]() A wandering group of Aboriginal Australians finds him and allows him to join their group and live amongst them, though because of his light complexion they never fully accept him as one of their own. Frazer writes, believing that they hold some part of himself in them, but Frazer locks them away for safekeeping in the schoolhouse.ġ6 years earlier, 13-year-old Gemmy washes up on the Australian shore, nearly dead and unsure of where he is. ![]() Frazer, the town’s minister and botanist, spends an afternoon interviewing Gemmy and taking his story down as best he can. Though Gemmy is only slowly recovering his grasp of English, Mr. The settlers are mostly disturbed by the man, who calls himself Gemmy. They march him back to the settlement, Lachlan’s ego swelling with an image of himself as a powerful dominator, and show the other white settlers. ![]() However, after taking the man captive by pretending a long stick is actually a rifle, Lachlan and his cousins, Janet and Meg, discover that the man is in fact a European, though he speaks and acts like an indigenous person. Lachlan, the young boy, sees the man’s darkened skin and assumes he is one of the Aboriginal tribesmen who live in the Australian wilderness. In Queensland, Australia in the mid-1800s, three children of Commonwealth settlers are playing in a clearing when a strange man appears, sitting balanced upon a fence. ![]() |