5/30/2023 0 Comments Carl sagan earth quote![]() ![]() Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. ![]() The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ![]() The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. There is also a beautiful poster of this quote at, and a nicely done cartoon version at. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At last they tried a new tune whose tune carried across the gray field. The dusty mechanism of her arms rose and fell. The sound faded across the rows of plants. So in the land of the dead the men sang to her. “Years later, she remembered her zombie days. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Frolicking: Down there, Ball realized, the Carolinians’ play, the time when they were most fully themselves, was evidently when they were arguing, negotiating, dealing, and intimidating the enslaved.” The blacksmith came out, and he asked what “the two gentlemen were making such a frolick about,” Ball later said. The new man stated for everyone’s benefit that he had worked African men to death in iron collars. They stopped at a forge, and they kept arguing. One thousand dollars for the two, plus blacksmith fees. Maybe the deal could be sweetened, allowed the Georgia-man, if the South Carolinian paid to have the chains knocked off the men. The new man stared at the women and told them what he thought he’d do with them. The two men negotiated, argued, and insulted each other a little. “Niggers for sale?” He wanted to buy two women. “The next day, as they walked, a stranger rode up, matching the Georgia-man’s pace. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The arrival shaun tan full book![]() ![]() ![]() He relied on others to help him, others who had likewise arrived as immigrants a short time ago. ![]() The story of The Arrival was “tender.” The man left his wife and daughter and arrived in the new land, confused and lost. This was a clever technique because Tan demonstrated the confusion an immigrant might feel upon arrival in a new country where even the language is unknown. Tan further illustrated foreignness by never using letters: even in a sample newspaper, the characters are odd letter-like symbols, not our familiar ABCs. I believe Tan intended to illustrate the foreignness of the new land. Such fantastic elements were odd to me and confused me. Tan’s illustrations in The Arrival are gorgeous and realistic, although as the immigrant man enters the new world, fantastic elements enter the pictures. I was not completely convinced that the immigrant story can be properly told via illustration, but The Arrival was intriguing nonetheless. By relying solely on pencil illustrations, Shaun Tan attempts to capture the emotions and the story of not just one man leaving his family to enter a new world but the story of all immigrants entering a new life. ![]() The Arrival by Shaun Tan is the story of all immigrants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A genuinely burning question lay at the heart of the book: How did Hitler succeed in imposing himself ? More specifically, how could a people of seventy million cultivated, hardworking individuals let themselves be seduced by a manifest psychopath? Even beyond the period when it was formulated, which culminated in horror, this question is surely still fundamental to any serious political thinking.Īs a militant well versed in Marxism and the author of "Dialektischer Materialismus und Psychoanalyse" (Dialectical materialism and psychoanalysis 1970a), Reich set out to analyze "the economic and ideological structure of German society between 19." He wanted to illuminate the state of mind of the middle classes and the petite bourgeoisie. It was written in 1933 the first editionĪppeared in September of 1933 and the second edition in April of 1934, in Denmark" (1970b, p. As Wilhelm Reich notes, his The Mass Psychology of Fascism "was thought out during the German crisis years, 1930-33. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The rainbow 1915![]() ![]() Lawrence entered Nottingham University College in 1906 with the intention of becoming a teacher. His mother fought with his father, rejecting his limited way of life so that the children might escape it or, as Lawrence once put it, “rise in the world.” Their quarrels and estrangement, and the consequent damage to the children, would become the subject of perhaps his most famous novel, Sons and Lovers (1913). Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮstrangement and Inspiration Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885, Lawrence was the son of a little-educated coal miner and a mother of middle-class origins. His novels, especially The Rainbow (1915) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), have provided test cases in the battle over literary censorship. Yet he has had a profound influence on the course of literature. His marriage to a German woman, and their movements were restricted until well after the war. ![]() During World War I he was suspected of being an enemy spy, partly because of Lawrence, is one of the most controversial English writers of the twentieth century: His works were praised and condemned, his novels censored and banned, and his paintings seized by the authorities. David Herbert Lawrence, most widely known as D. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Love lucy book april lindner![]() Although I was glad when she would stick up for herself it was almost like she would take the wrong route to do it. ![]() Lucy kind of allows herself to be pushed around and while she is spending time with Jesse she finds a little more of a voice. She ends up spending lots of time with Jesse in the final days of her trip but at the end they part ways being that he has no intention of going to the states and she is going to college. That’s where Lucy encounters Jesse, who she originally thinks of as a rude boy but it turns out she had him pegged wrong. We pick up with them when they reach Florence and decide to splurge on a hotel room. Lucy and Charlene are backpacking across Europe. It makes me think romantic summer in Europe, which is how the first part of the book goes. ![]() I’ve actually had my eye on Love, Lucy for a while because I love the cover. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Carnage read online sarah bailey![]() ![]() “It feels like it was yesterday, like we’re still going through all of it,” Workman, 25, said. Workman suffers from toxicity symptoms, including body pains, fatigue, depression - and has been told by doctors that she probably can’t have a baby. Multitudes of purple freckles dot Morgan Workman’s legs, arms, chest and cheekbone - tiny shards of metal from bullets and shrapnel that struck her as she worshiped in her church more than five years ago. ![]() ![]() For this reason, we refer to the rifle broadly as the AR-15 in this series. While Colt still holds the trademark, “AR-15” has become a ubiquitous term for a popular style of gas-operated, magazine-fed semiautomatic rifles. The patent expired, leaving many companies to produce their own weapons, commonly called AR-style rifles. Colt acquired the AR-15 patent and trademark from Armalite in 1959. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Nutcracker book eta hoffmann![]() ![]() Each chapter of the adventure ― from the Christmas Eve party to the fierce battle between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King to the visit to Toyland and beyond ― features complete instructions for crocheting charming representations of the story's personalities and props. I would highly recommend adding this to your collection." - Fit2BTiedLife Experience the enduring charms of the holiday classic in an entirely different way! This version of the beloved tale is illustrated with full-color images of crocheted characters. The Nutcracker story is told with each vignette, introducing a different character or accessory to craft. Book excerpt: "This is a beautifully well done crochet book. ![]() This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker written by Lindsay Smith and published by Courier Dover Publications. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker by : Lindsay Smithĭownload or read book Crochet Stories: E. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments La montaña mágica by Thomas Mann![]() ![]() Thomas Mann is one of the best-known exponents of the so-called Exilliteratur. Gustav Aschenbach, arroyo de cenizas en alemn, es un escritor maduro que goza de reconocimiento. El propio Thomas Mann advierte que esta novela trata sobre la pasin como desequilibrio y degradacin. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. About La montaa mgica / The Magic Mountain. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland. Esta es la historia de Hans Castorp, un joven y modesto ingeniero que llega a un sanatorio ubicado en los Alpes suizos para visitar a su primo. His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers. Sinopsis de LA MONTAA MAGICA El libro ms importante de Thomas Mann y una obra cumbre de la literatura universal. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer. Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate in 1929, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Penpal by dathan auerbach![]() ![]() There were absolutely freaky moments and times where I had to stop and go “oh my god” or “woah, that’s weird”. This book was recommended to me, and I wasn’t disappointed. And that hindered my ability to give it a higher rating. However, there were somethings in this book I just couldn’t get into. There were times where I would get goosebumps when reading the words Dathan Auerbach had written on these pages. This one for sure had a creepy, creepy vibe. If you’ve ever stayed in the woods just a little too long after dark, if you’ve ever had the feeling that someone or something was trying to hurt you, if you remember the first friend you ever made and how strong that bond was, then Penpal is a story that you won’t soon forget, despite how you might try.” Beginning with only fragments of his earliest years, you’ll follow the narrator as he discovers that these strange and horrible events are actually part of a single terrifying story that has shaped the entirety of his life and the lives of those around him. ![]() In Penpal, a man investigates the seemingly unrelated bizarre, tragic, and horrific occurrences of his childhood in an attempt to finally understand them. How much do you remember about your childhood? Before long, it was adapted into illustrations, audio recordings, and short films and that was before it was revised and expanded into a novel! “ Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. ![]() |