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![]() The hitching post, like the stage, is all black and all metal. And instead of pulling out a brand, Yancey pulls a pair of silver handcuffs from his leather jacket, which he uses to bind the prospect to a hitching post. ![]() ![]() And my father is waiting for the young wolf prospect with a sawed-off shotgun, not a patch. Painful, yes, but well worth it in any young wolf’s mind since after getting burned, he’d be an official member of the Dark Wolf MC, the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of our Detroit state pack.īut in this case, the pack’s hooting and hollering is a call for blood. Patches would be bestowed or a brand pushed into the prospect’s naked back. Normally this would be an honor for a young wolf. ![]() Two days before Christmas, I watch Yancey, my dad’s Beta/Sargent of Arms/Future Danny Trejo Impersonator If He’s Ever Hard Up For Money, haul a prospect up on stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an interview on, del Toro says that one of his favorite authors is Roald Dahl, who mixed "the grotesque and the magical." Explaining that he chose vampires as his villains because he loves "the rephrasing of an old myth," del Toro goes on to say that he was also heavily influenced by Richard Matheson and Jeff Rice's 1972 TV movie, The Nightstalker, which pits "a common worker, a man used to dealing with things in a procedural way" against a powerful vampire. Chuck Hogan is the author of novels that include The Standoff and Prince of Thieves. Justin Cronin's The Passage (also the first of a trilogy) tells a similar story.ĭel Toro has achieved fame as the director of movies such as The Devil's Backbone, Blade II, Hellboy I, Hellboy II, and the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth. If you enjoyed reading David Wellington 's MONSTER/ZOMBIES series or his LAURA CAXTON series or watching The Walking Dead TV series, you'll probably like this one. Even though this series falls outside my definition for paranormal fiction, I'm including it because it has some read-alikes in the paranormal fiction genre. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Gathering blue novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Down the hall lives Thomas the Carver, a young boy who works on the intricate symbols carved on the Singer's staff, and a tiny girl who is being trained as the next Singer. ![]() There she is given the task of restoring the historical pictures sewn on the robe worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering, a solemn day-long performance of the story of their world's past. Kira, newly orphaned and lame from birth, is taken from the turmoil of the village to live in the grand Council Edifice because of her skill at embroidery. And at the center of both stories there is a young person who is given the responsibility of preserving the memory of the culture-and who finds the vision to transform it. This society, like the one portrayed in The Giver, is controlled by merciless authorities with their own complex agendas and secrets. This eagerly awaited companion volume, by contrast, takes place in a village with only the most rudimentary technology, where anger, greed, envy, and casual cruelty make ordinary people's lives short and brutish. “ ReviewLois Lowry's magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Johnny rotten image![]() ![]() When I wrote songs for the Sex Pistols, I wasn’t talking about chaos for the love of chaos. ![]() ![]() Punk is a state of mind open to new ideas, with a desire to constantly evolve, to find the next step, not only in music but also in the world around us. What were the most common misinterpretations about punk? It was neither a manifesto nor a fashion. After all, I’m supposed to be the king of punk. If not, I’ll have to have a quick word with him. ![]() I don’t know the organizer or the content of the exhibition, but I hope elements of truth will come out of it. Punk has been misinterpreted so many times, especially in Britain, under the influence of Rupert Murdoch’s rags. What do you think about the punk movement being turned into a museum piece? JOHNNY ROTTEN: I’m aware of what’s at stake and the problems it can represent. 23 concert in the French capital with Public Image Limited, the band with which he invented post-punk in 1978, the man who wrote “God Save the Queen” and “Anarchy in the UK” and who now lives serenely in Los Angeles, rekindles a few memories. It was only natural for the “Euro Punk” exhibition in Paris to hope that John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, would pay a visit. His provocative texts and venemous singing with the Sex Pistols helped spark the punk explosion. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments William goldings![]() ![]() Always private, even shy, about his writing, he nurtured a lifelong fear of rejection. But Golding, the former school teacher and author of Lord of the Flies, a surprise bestseller, was a much less worldly and more vulnerable character. Kingsley Amis, Golding's contemporary, always said that you could "let a bad review ruin your breakfast, but not your lunch". "She spoke like a navvy in a way I'd never seen before," says Judy, "a lot of words I'd never heard and didn't understand". The moment Lucie-Smith began his critique, Golding himself rushed out of the room, while his wife Ann unleashed a torrent of abuse at the radiogram. At home in Salisbury, the Golding family was first aghast, and then distraught. In the studio, the atmosphere was becoming mountingly toxic. The panel fell into a bitter wrangle about what was, or was not, the appropriate tone to adopt towards such a highly original English writer as Golding. Having launched this intemperate attack, Lucie-Smith then misquoted an American critic's verdict that the novel touched "the Wuthering depths" (a gibe actually directed against David Storey's Radcliffe). The distinguished literary editor Karl Miller found himself defending The Spire against a vitriolic assault from fellow critic Edward Lucie-Smith, who declared it to be "a very, very, very bad book". The programme began and rapidly turned sour. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The emerald city of oz 1910![]() Please look into other communities for these services as we are for lost media only. We are not here to help you find something ( r/helpmefind), to name something ( r/tipofmytounge), or help you pirate something. ![]() For more info on what is lost media, see our wiki This subreddit is for lost media ONLY All posts should be relevant to discussions of known lost media. This is a place we would like EVERYONE to feel welcome, as such violation of this will result in a warning followed by a ban. Sexism, racism, LGBT-phobia, personal attacks, doxing, harassment, hate speech, etc are not tolerated. ![]() ![]() We aim to have a welcoming and fun community, so please remain respectful of each other. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Winners take all giridharadas![]() ![]() And as the fallout from the crash spread, many of those cut loose had been drafted into joining a new American servant class. An epic meltdown of the world financial system had cost millions of people their homes, jobs, and health insurance. It was no accident, Scholz believed, that these services had taken off at the historical moment that they had. Here were a handful of companies thriving by serving as middlemen between people who wanted rides and people who offered them, people who wanted their Ikea furniture assembled and people who came over to install it, people who defrayed their costs by renting out a room and people who stayed there. “As he surveyed the world being remade by Silicon Valley, and especially what was once called the sharing economy, he began to see through the fantasy-speak. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Britain Begins by Barry Cunliffe![]() ![]() ![]() But before the development of the discipline of archaeology, people used what scraps there were, gleaned from Biblical and classical texts, to create a largely mythological origin for the British. The story told by the archaeological evidence, in later periods augmented by historical texts, satisfies our need to know who we are and where we come from. Underlying this narrative throughout is the story of the sea, which allowed the islanders and their continental neighbours to be in constant contact. Using the most up to date archaeological evidence together with new work on DNA and other scientific techniques which help us to trace the origins and movements of these early settlers, Barry Cunliffe offers a rich narrative account of the first islanders - who they were, where they came from, and how they interacted one with another. Britain Begins is nothing less than the story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest. From that time onwards Britain and Ireland have been continuously inhabited and the resident population has increased from a few hundreds to more than 60 million. The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly northwards, re-colonizing the land that had been laid waste. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Maitreyi devi and mircea eliade![]() ![]() Maitreyi (Noaptea Bengaleza) este un roman al filosofului Mircea Eliade aparut in 1933. "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf" This cache will bring you close to the comemorative oak tree seeded in 1961 to celebrate 100 years from the birth of the great indian poet. ![]() In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi (that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes) an English translation of Mayitreyi, Bengal Nights did not appear until 1993. Its most famous translation is the one in French, published as La Nuit Bengali in 1950. The novel was translated into Italian in 1945, German in 1948, Spanish in 1952, Esperanto in 2007. It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting India at the time, and the young Maitreyi Devi (protegée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who became a famous writer herself). ![]() Maitreyi (La Nuit Bengali, French Bengal Nights, English) is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade. ![]() |