![]() ![]() ![]() The coat of arms is: Azure, in chief an open book proper bearing the motto "nunc id vides, nunc ne vides" and in base a wizard's hat gules with stars semy Or. The unofficial motto is "η β π", or "Eta Beta Pi" ("Eat a Bit of Pie" or "Eat a Better Pie" (according to the novel Hogfather)). The official motto of Unseen University is "Nunc Id Vides, Nunc Ne Vides", loosely translated as "Now you see it, now you don't". The exploits of the head wizards of the Unseen University are one of the main plot threads in the long-running fantasy series, and have played a central role in 13 novels to date, as well as the four supplementary Science of Discworld novels and the short story, A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices. The university's name is a pun on the Invisible College, and many aspects of the university are references to Oxford and Cambridge University. Located in the fictional city of Ankh-Morpork, the UU is staffed by a faculty composed of mostly indolent and inept old wizards. The Unseen University ( UU) is a school of wizardry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. Burgundy and midnight blue, with yellow and purple stripes ( octarine) ![]()
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![]() A big Buick that seems to have a mind of it’s own and can’t be stopped until it has crashed into at least one other car. Chase scene through the mall in purple heels. How much trouble a grandma cause at not just one but multiple viewings. Sure there is the Scooby doo type mystery afoot in them but I find I’m more drawn to the personal interactions of the characters and the kooky stuff that happens along the way such as: ![]() I definitely recommend this book to anyone needing a smile. ![]() ![]() Lula will appear in this book and let the games begin! This book is just the start of a wonderfully HILARIOUS team! Stephanie, still new at being a Bounty Hunter, second guesses her abilities. Playing Dirty Harry and being as sharp as a pistol, Mazur will bring a smile to your face. Skipping her feet to help her granddaughter pursue the deadly criminals threatening her life, she finds herself injured and pissed. Grandma Mazur really steps on stage with her need to pay her respects to the dead. ![]() The awkward moments to the pitter patter wonder moments. All of the wonderful little things in a relationship that bugs you, you’ll find in theirs. Two for the Dough changes everything! The relationship between Stephanie and Morelli will leave you smiling. One for the Money, as great as this series is, really didn’t show you the potential of laughter to come. ![]() ![]() Many of the Native Americans were friendly with the Pilgrims, and they were responsible for teaching the Pilgrims how to farm successfully so they would not starve through another winter. ![]() My only gripe is the history of Thanksgiving told to the young people towards the end of “Little Men”. If only people could still behave with such morality, and show love and kindness for their fellow man, the world would not be in the mess it is today. We experience the joys and grief of the family in both stories. The sorrow of the Civil War on soldiers’ families is definitely felt. Perhaps during that time period, without the outside influences of media and news, it was easier to focus on your little corner of the world and make the best of what you have. I still think that, but with a more worldly perspective, it is hard to believe that people could be that good all the time. When I first read the books I was totally enthralled and thought how wonderful a family the Marches are. ![]() The narrator does an excellent job at voicing the characters, male and female, young and older. I first read these books decades ago as a young teen. ![]() ![]() In the same vein, Ionesco also took major issue with Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he accused of supporting Communism and actively ignoring the atrocities committed by Communist governments, just as characters like Dudard support the rhinoceroses while ignoring the damage and the violence they carry out. The play, the Rhinoceros, was written mostly in the. Scholars have noted that the rhinos turning green can be read as a symbolic representation of the green Nazi uniforms, while the argument over whether the rhinoceroses are Asian or not reflects Nazi propaganda claiming that Jewish people were interlopers from Asia-while the rhinoceroses themselves function as commentary on the idea of an Aryan “master race” that, Ionesco suggests, is violent but powerfully appealing to people unwilling to interrogate what joining in actually means on a moral level. Eugene has written many plays, including The Bald Soprano, The Lesson, The Chairs, and The Rhinoceros. Ionesco was studying at a university in Romania when the Iron Guard was coming to power, and unlike some fascist movements, the Iron Guard’s main hold was in universities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rhinoceros was inspired primarily by Ionesco’s experience of World War II and specifically, the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany and the Iron Guard in Romania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary. This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Borrowing her Midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit America’s national parks.Īmerica the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generation’s funniest writers. But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who only decide to go to the desert to see what having problems feels like? Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. There are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before you too, are itching to take off. ![]() ![]() Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. ![]() She's barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to "lifestyle choices" after being caught at a gay club. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night. ![]() The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Maori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Calhoun's help, Sebastian begins to piece together the shattered life of the late Earl's ill-fated youngest son. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is drawn into the investigation by his valet, Jules Calhoun, an old friend of the dead man. Recently Hayes returned to London with a mysterious young boy in tow-a child who vanishes shortly after Nicholas's body is discovered. ![]() Even before his conviction, Hayes had been disowned by his father, and few in London were surprised when they heard the ne'er-do-well had died in disgrace in New South Wales. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead.Įighteen years before, Nicholas Hayes, the third son of the late Earl of Seaford, was accused of killing a beautiful young French émigré and transported to Botany Bay for life. It's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. ![]() The text begins: I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. During and after the war, he traveled in India and Southeast Asia all of these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels. Read Chapter I of The Moon and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham. The first run of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897), sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full-time.ĭuring the First World War, he served with the Red Cross and in the ambulance corps, before being recruited in 1916 into the British Secret Intelligence Service, for which he worked in Switzerland and Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a doctor. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.Īfter losing both his parents by the age of 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() We don't know anymore what the next ones will think. We see a glimpse of a future we don't understand we used to be with "it" but "it" changed. But as a societal consensus starts to shift, and we start seeing new priors appearing, things start to get uncomfortable. We know what they think, or at least we think we know what they think, filtered through the lens of what we think. At least we can grapple and argue with our contemporaries, and scorn our predecessors. They seem dumb because they don't come to the same obvious conclusions we do.Īnd it seems to motivate conservative behavior, by way of fear. They have the same human equipment for reasoning and synthesis, but a different set of priors from which this calculus manipulates and concludes. They may say the same words, but mean different things. It's why societies seem to tend to see their peers and predecessors as lesser as well they are all their own "us"es, in some ways inaccessible to our "us". ![]() It seems to boil down to the sort of societal consensus definition of "us" that serves as a foundation for the individual definitions of "me" that comprise a society. Fukuyama's (in)famous The End of History). Each seeing themselves as a logical peak of the progressive arrow history, especially post-enlightenment (cf. Riffing on this, I think an interesting and fundamental phenomenon of societies is exactly their frequent inability to imagine their successors, or even the possibility of a successor. ![]() |
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