For it seemed to Huxley that people were well on their way to giving up their freedom and the sanctity of their individualism, in exchange for the illusions of comfort and sensory pleasure - just as they had in Brave New World. In the free world, however, the situation seemed even more to be one for despair. Looking behind the Iron Curtain, where people were not free but dominated by totalitarian power, Huxley could only bow to the grim prophecy of his friend (and, briefly, his student at Eton) George Orwell in the novel 1984. He was a far more serious man in 1958 - at the age of 64 - and the world was a very different place, transformed by the catastrophe of World War II, the advent of nuclear weapons and the grip of the Cold War. That he had been so prophetic in 1931 about the dystopian future gave Huxley no comfort. Taking a second look at specific aspects of the future Huxley imagined in Brave New World, Huxley meditated on how his fantasy seemed to be turning into reality, frighteningly and much more quickly than he had ever dreamed. Instead, he revisited that world in a set of 12 essays. In 1958, Aldous Huxley wrote what might be called a sequel to his novel Brave New World, published in 1932, but it was a sequel that did not revisit the story or the characters, or re-enter the world of the novel.
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To be a European is to be descended from the people whom they beat into submission or who helped kick them when they were eventually down. They are familiar because they haunt Europe's imagination they are our story of how absolute power corrodes the soul but gets to wear clean, white linen or golden armour along the way. The scary thing is how many of them look just as we expect – Caligula has calculating, brutal eyes Heliogabalus is so achingly pretty, and mildly deranged. You walk in from the heat of a Roman morning, and there they are, 40 pairs of marble eyes, sneering coolly across the ages. There is a room in the Capitoline Museum that is full of the heads of emperors. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives-as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. "A paean to unabashed, unbridled love." -Khaled Hosseini, New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. If the blurb doesn’t catch my eye, then I tend to skip the book unless a friend recommends it. Heck, I cribbed this summary from the back, and then I added my own twist! And not even much of one, since most of the books I read have kick butt descriptions ( aka blurbs). Obtained: I bought the audiobook with one Audible creditįirst, let me say that none of what I’ll say in this section couldn’t be found on the back copy of the novel. Title: Divided We Fall (Divided We Fall Bk1) Please be sure to share your thoughts on this change, and we can adjust fire going forward. In order to streamline the review process and make writing them less onerous, I have tried a more abbreviated format. Instead, here’s a look at what I’ve been reading on my daily walks. I wish I had a lot to tell you, update wise, but I’m busy diving into writing my next novel. Hey Space Cadets, here is the next installment in my series of book reviews. LAST CALL FOR THE MONSTER WITHIN ANTHOLOGY. Examples of the quality ingredients and traditional preparations would be: It takes those ingredients and prepares them properly, according to the traditions of healthy, un-industrialized peoples across the globe. Nourishing Traditions departs from modern industrialized food methods because it goes beyond just using whole, natural ingredients. …that modern food choices and preparation techniques constitute a radical change from the way man has nourished himself for thousands oF years and, from the perspective of history, represent a fad that not only has severely compromised his health and vitality but may well destroy him and that the culinary traditions of our ancestors, and the food choices and preparation techniques of healthy non-industrialized peoples, should serve as the model for contemporary eating habits, even and especially during this modern technological age. I am heading in the direction of traditional food preparation methods, such as you can find in Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell. If you’ve been reading here for awhile, you might have noticed that I’m cooking a little differently. Frederick Douglass called them “monuments of folly,” and when the enormous statue was unveiled to Robert E. In truth, these statues have raised the ire of African Americans for more than a century, ever since they were first installed decades after the Civil War. It would be a mistake, however, to see the events of last summer as a recent phenomenon, solely a reaction spawned by the nascent Black Lives Matter movement. Why had the death of a black man in Minnesota led to outrage hundreds of miles away in Virginia? Black southerners saw in Confederate monuments the same issues at the heart of Floyd’s death-systemic racism, white supremacy, and the police brutality that has been generated by those social ills. Many people across the South and the nation were perplexed. Protestors spray-painted the statues with their messages of frustration, ripped the Davis statue from its pedestal, and even set the headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy aflame. Lee, were vandalized, and arguably in the case of Lee, transformed into a symbol of resistance. All along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, the large hulking bronze and stone memorials to Confederate icons Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and the grand statue to Robert E. Four days after George Floyd was killed by a policeman in Minneapolis, protesters in Richmond, Virginia, responded to his death by targeting the city’s Confederate statues. Lewis’s portrayal of a marriage torn by disillusionment and a woman forced into compromises is at once devastating social satire and persuasive realism. But her efforts to reform the prairie village are met by a wall of gossip, greed, conventionality, pitifully unambitious cultural endeavors, and-worst of all-the pettiness and bigotry of small-town minds. Young college graduate Carol Milford moves from the city to tiny Gopher Prairie after marrying the local doctor, and tries to bring culture to the small town. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis’s sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Adopting Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, Dutsch approaches such testimonies with a mixture of suspicion and belief. What can we learn from this network of sayings, philosophical treatises, and letters about gender and knowledge in the Greek intellectual tradition? Can these writings represent the work of historical Pythagorean women? If so, can we find in them a critique of the dominant order or strategies of resistance? In search of answers to these questions, Pythagorean Women Philosophers examines Plato's dialogues, fragmentary historians, and little-known testimonies to women's contributions to Pythagorean thought. Far from being individual creations, these texts rework and revise a standard Pythagorean script. Pseudonymous philosophical texts by Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, his daughter Myia, and other female Pythagoreans, circulated in Greek and Syriac. Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. (Wikipedia seems very prim, with its continual mentions of Decimal Day. Of course the process of changing over was complex even though the new system was simpler. It's a humorous work and the quote is an ironic joke, not a factual claim. Making Money is a direct sequel, which carries over its protagonist – former confidence man Moist von Lipwig, who is blackmailed by self-described tyrant Lord Vetinari into accepting seemingly dull but actually dangerous public office – and plot threads about golems, stamps and avoided executions. The quote is from Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett (not Prattchett) and Neil Gaiman. In Going Postal, Pratchett approached the seemingly uncongenial subject of the founding of the post office in Discworld fashion, digging up historical truths that seem more absurd than the usual author's farcical inventions. The latest novel in the Discworld cycle is so on-the-nose and up-to-the-minute in its subject than you can't help speculating that Pratchett has been booking restaurant tables very near Mervyn King and passing notes saying: "Northern Rock in a bit of bother, eh?" before standing outside branches advising account-holders not to panic. Terry Pratchett, quote from Making Money Copy text They were indeed what was known as old money, which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Collected Stories (Stegner, Wallace) Wallace Stegner Snippet view - 2006. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. OL478197W Page_number_confidence 94.57 Pages 554 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0140147748 In a literary career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner created a remarkable record of the history and. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:45:08.882343 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1138320 Boxid_2 CH132603 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid S0022 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. |