In Chasing The Light he writes about his rarefied New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. a Hollywood movie in itself." - Spike Lee "Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies." - Mail on Sunday "A tremendous book - readable, funny and harrowing." - The Sunday Times In this powerful and evocative memoir, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter, Oliver Stone, takes us right to the heart of what it's like to make movies on the edge. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show "Riveting." - The New York Times ". An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read.
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A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not to grieve too much at the death of their two-year-old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. His family was long established in the town his father was named Autobulus and his grandfather was named Lamprias.His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, which speak of Timon in particular in the most affectionate terms. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in the small town of Chaeronea, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Delphi, in the Greek region of Boeotia. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was possibly named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος). He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Plutarch ( Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos Koine Greek: c. AD 46 – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. Brautigan hires Bobby to read the paper aloud, gives him Lord of the Flies-and also strange warnings about low men in yellow coats and posters about lost dogs. Elderly Ted Brautigan, who may seem a bit like Max von Sydow, moves into a house occupied by Bobby Garfield, age 11, and his hard-bitten mother, Liz, a secretary for real-estate agent Don Biderman, with whom she's having an unhappy affair. Whether his characters are stock or not, it's impossible not to enjoy King's gentle ways of fleshing them out, all the old bad habits and mannerisms gone as he draws you into the most richly serious work of his career. The umbrella title fits well, with King showing us the lost, time-sunken continent of the late Eisenhower era, as hearts from the deep sea of that Hopperesque time slowly rise to the tormented surface of the present-day. The five are: "Low Men in Yellow Coats," set in 1960 and at about 250 pages the longest "Hearts in Atlantis," set in 1966 "Blind Willie," set in 1983 "Why We're in Vietnam" and "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Failing," both set in 1999. Set in fictional Harwich and semifictional Bridgeport, the story weaves five Vietnam-haunted small-town New England stories into a deeply moving overall vision. King's fat new work impressively follows his general literary upgrading begun with Bag of Bones (1998) and settles readers onto the seabottom of one of his most satisfying ideas ever. John and Jamie fight when the details are revealed. The British evacuation of Philadelphia and the ensuing Battle of Monmouth are the major events from the book based on real history.Ĭlaire marries John Grey for protection after Jamie is presumed lost at sea. Gabaldon announced the novel's title in September 2011. Published on June 10, 2014, Written in My Own Heart's Blood continues the love story of Claire and Jamie as well as the story arcs of multiple characters from the previous novel, An Echo in the Bone. Centered on time travelling 20th century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and fantasy. Written in My Own Heart's Blood is the eighth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Harper’s stomach rolled and cold fingers scuttled down her spine. A vision that you and Harper would eventually have a baby… and that the baby would be whatever you are and it would destroy us all.” That he had a mission to complete.”ĭelia licked her lips. “I walked into the bedroom to find him packing a suitcase,” said Delia. Crow was a surgeon who loved his job, did charity runs, donated money to human causes, and helped the other demons within the lair who had come close to turning rogue. Knox had told Harper a little about him during the drive here. I didn’t realize until this morning that he hasn’t been taking his pills lately.”ĭelia looked at a framed picture on the wall of her and a lean, barrel-chested male with gentle blue eyes and hair the same salt-and-pepper shade as his wiry mustache. I just thought it was a side-effect of the medication. “It would have been a temporary arrangement.” “I would only have removed him from your home if there was a chance he was a danger to himself or others,” Knox told her. As is to be expected, each had strengths and weaknesses. I thought it might be interesting to briefly compare and contrast the four very different translations that I read. Antigone is thought to have been written around 441 BCE. I have just finished reading four different translations of Sophocles' classic tragedy Antigone, which was chronologically the first of his three great 'Theban Plays.' The other two, in the order written, include, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century BC, stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. The movie was actually shot in various locations in Majorca, Spain, with interior shooting done at the Lee International Studios in Wembley, London. The three previous films had been more-or-less faithful adaptations, but the setting for Evil Under the Sun was moved from the Devon coast of England (reportedly because the hotel that inspired the film was being renovated) to the Mediterranean. This was the fourth Agatha Christie film adaptation by EMI, who had also produced The Mirror Crack'd (1980). Co-starring with Ustinov were Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, who was also in another Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile (1978), Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, James Mason and Colin Blakely, who had appeared in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Share Evil Under the Sun (1982), based on Agatha Christie's 1941 novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Anthony Shaffer and Barry Sandler, marked the second time that Peter Ustinov played the role of Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot. The quirky winsĮventually, the quirkiness and lyricism of the narrator’s observations and their ironic and conversational tone won me over. It took a little while for me to get my head around this to stop fighting it. The only way it works is if that narrator, at some later point having heard of Arthur’s travel tales, is imagining observing him in those situations. It is clear this narrator is a person in Arthur’s life (and thus a character mentioned within the novel), but it is not plausible this person is observing him in the present tense. The pose of a young man.īut on occasion more like third-person. Look at him: seated primly on the hotel lobby’s plush sofa, blue suit and white shirt, legs knee-crossed so that one polished loafer hangs free of its heel. What immediately struck me about this novel was its unusual narrative structure predominantly first-person present tense (identity undisclosed) yet omnipresent.įrom where I sit, the story of Arthur Less is not so bad. But since this was already on my wishlist, its recent Pulitzer Prize firmed up my decision to purchase. The enjoyment of literature is notoriously subjective. Literary awards are rarely sufficient motivation for me to choose one book over another. don’t you just love the brevity yet gravitas of Andrew Sean Greer’s title. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. The authenticity of the artefact has since been questioned, because of its unique appearance and lack of recorded excavation context, leading to the figurine being regarded by many as a fake manufactured in the early 20th century. This chapter explores the collection history and life while in the museum of a chryselephantine figurine, bought as a genuine Minoan antiquity by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, in 1931. This type of narrative has been used to consider antiquities and what they can reveal about the ancient world, but it often stops short of exploring how antiquities are understood in the modern world. The account of the different stages of this process, and the identities which the objects assume, has sometimes been called the ‘object biography’. Tracing the manufacture and use of artefacts illuminates aspects of the society by which, and for which, they are made. In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ Teasdale uses a few interesting symbols. Spring will come whether humans are there or not. While this is, in part, a depressing message, Teasdale concludes the poem in such a way that the speaker can’t help but feel at peace with this image of nature, ever-lasting and independent. In fact, if humanity destroys itself, “Not one” kind of non-human life would care that it had occurred. The latter, conflict, is mentioned in the seventh line of the poem when the poet talks about “war.” It alludes to the fact that nature, from birds to trees, don’t know and don’t care about human conflict. In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ the poet engages with themes of nature and conflict. Additionally, they would not notice if every person on the planet disappeared, so little do humans fit into their world. It would not impact them in the slightest. The second half of the poem describes how nature and “Spring” would not notice if all of humankind was at war. The wind, trees, and creatures of the world are in alignment and are content with one another. There are birds circling, singing out their “shimmering sound,” as well as frogs croaking in pools of water at night. The poem begins with the speaker describing a number of scenes of peace. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale describes the Earth as if it would be without humankind and the lack of regard that Nature and Spring hold for human life. |