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![]() It is followed by two sections that also use this technique from the perspective of Benjy's brothers Quentin and Jason, and a fourth section written in the third-person omniscient style. Revised, Benjy's narrative became the first section of the novel. Of his choice to begin with Benjy Compson, Faulkner said that "the idea struck me to see how much more I could out of the idea of the blind, selfcenteredness of innocence, typified by children, if one of those children had been truly innocent, that is, an idiot.” The technique Faulkner uses is called "stream-of-consciousness" or "interior monologue," and his use of it draws from such influences as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and especially James Joyce. Another of these stories, titled "Twilight," depicted the family from within the consciousness of a 33-year-old severely retarded and childlike man. One of them, "That Evening Sun," was separately published in 1931. As he later said about this period, "I said to myself, now I can write." While his friend Ben Wasson made the changes the publishers demanded in the first novel, published in 1929 as well, Faulkner himself furiously penned a series of short stories about a fictional family named Compson. ![]() Its composition marked a turning point in his career: after publishers had initially blocked Flags in the Dust and demanded extreme cuts in the manuscript, Faulkner took the setback as an opportunity. Faulkner's second Yoknapatawpha novel, The Sound the the Fury, was published on October 7, 1929. ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, the metallicity (the amount of heavy elements relative to lighter elements) gives an indication of how stars are assembled within galaxies, how stars enrich their surroundings, and, in turn, how the surrounding environment impacts star formation. These properties can be used to unravel the history of star formation across the Universe. ![]() When studying galaxies, some of the key properties that help astronomers understand the inner workings of these cosmic giants include their temperature, density, and metallicity. ![]() Title: Accurate oxygen abundance of interstellar gas in Mrk 71 from optical and infrared spectraĪuthors: Yuguang Chen, Tucker Jones, Ryan Sanders, Dario Fadda, Jessica Sutter, Robert Minchin, Erin Huntzinger, Peter Senchyna, Daniel Stark, Justin Spilker, Benjamin Weiner and Guido Roberts-Borsaniįirst Author’s Institution: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California ![]() ![]() The spaces she creates for her characters. Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by The New York Times, Real Simple, Electric Literature, and more. Kristin Rasmussen, pages: a bookstore, Manhattan Beach, CAĪ New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. ![]() I was gutted by this novel and will return to it again and again.” On a deeper level, Pufahl has created a powerful depiction of the American West after WWII and explores the ways in which men and women existed in the margins of society. “At its most basic, On Swift Horses is the story of two people, Julius and Muriel, connected by time and circumstance only to orbit each other throughout most of the book. Karen Brissette, Shakespeare & Co., New York, NY Winter 2020 Reading Group Indie Next List Both are trying to make their own opportunities to find love and happiness-a gamble that one will unexpectedly win and one will just as unexpectedly lose. Muriel and Julius are restless outsiders, siblings-in-law who share a passion for gambling as well as their more furtive passion. ![]() ![]() “This densely atmospheric debut sinks its hooks deep into post-war America’s tender underbelly, exposing the homophobia and bigotry beneath a nation’s renewed spirit of hope and opportunity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the wake of the latest NBA draft, Vaccaro hunts for affordable rookies to endorse the company’s merchandise, which is strong on running equipment but perilously weak on basketball. Screenwriter Alex Convery covers three chaotic months in 1984. This is a story of middle- and upper-management gut feelings. In sports movie terms “Air” is the opposite of director Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball.” That film, a terrific one, told of how Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane scraped together a Basic Economy roster of promising nobodies through the use of sabermetric analysis. “Air” is also about spending money to make money, which would make it a period piece in much of corporate America today even if it weren’t, in fact, set 39 years ago. He’s the guy in the room everyone’s talking about, a wondrous, never-fully-revealed figure. We do not see Michael Jordan in “Air,” aside from a few shots of an essentially nonverbal actor’s back, or the back of his head. It’s a docudrama - really more of a docucomedy-drama, with workplace banter and zingers for fuel - about how Nike marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, played by Matt Damon, convinced his boss Phil Knight, played by co-star and director Ben Affleck, to cough up the funds to make the pitch to get the basketball star for the ages to sell their shoes. “Air” is a good time, as well as a triumph of sports marketing in every conceivable way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Atkinson’s respect and affection for supreme Allied commander Dwight D. Mostly, though, he wants to illuminate the actual battles and the behind-the-scenes strategies, rather than issue judgments. ![]() Soon, if not already, Atkinson will show up on the list of giants, as later historians stand on his shoulders.Ītkinson has formed opinions, naturally, about capable generals and less-capable generals, about the fitness factors of entire national military forces. Atkinson knows that to some extent he is standing on the shoulders of giants I have read an interview with him during which he mentions Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler and Antony Beevor as among the WWII historians he admires. Volume two, The Day of Battle, covers the war in Italy and Sicily, 1943-1944. Volume one of the trilogy, An Army at Dawn, covers the war in North Africa, 1942-1943. His book about the West Point class of 1966 ( The Long Gray Line) is a classic of long-form narrative journalism. troops in the Persian Gulf War are strong. Atkinson honed his skills writing about the military by starting with war/peace conundrums more current than World War II. ![]() He holds a master's degree in English literature, not history, and he learned to write for the masses in newspaper newsrooms - in Pittsburg, Kan. Army officer and grew up on military bases. Born after World War II, Atkinson is the son of a U.S. The uniqueness of Atkinson's trilogy is grounded in his personal and professional backgrounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okada's journey is, in part, a quest to break free from this mentality and find his own path in life. One of the central themes of the novel is the idea of the "sheep" – a metaphor for those who blindly follow the herd and conform to societal expectations. However, as he is drawn deeper into the strange events unfolding around him, he begins to question his own identity and what it means to be truly alive. Okada is a passive and aimless individual at the beginning of the novel, content to let his life drift along without any real direction or purpose. Along the way, he encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including a man with psychic powers and a woman who can shape-shift into a sheep.Īt its heart, "The Wild Sheep Chase" is a tale about identity and the search for meaning in a confusing and often nonsensical world. Haruki Murakami's "The Wild Sheep Chase" tells the story of a young man named Toru Okada who is drawn into a mysterious and surreal world after the disappearance of his friend's wife. ![]() ![]() He also presented Nietzsche as a pioneer of modern psychology and argued that a key to understanding his overall philosophy is to see it as a reaction against Christianity. More positively, he presented Nietzsche's ideas about power as one of the great accomplishments of modern philosophy, arguing that his conception of the "will to power" was not a crude apology for ruthless self-assertion but must be linked to Nietzsche's equally profound ideas about sublimation. Without ignoring or downplaying the ugliness of many of Nietzsche's proclamations, he set them in the context of his work as a whole and of the counterexamples yielded by a responsible reading of his books. ![]() Responding to the powerful myths and countermyths that had sprung up around Nietzsche, Kaufmann offered a patient, evenhanded account of his life and works, and of the uses and abuses to which subsequent generations had put his ideas. Kaufmann rehabilitated Nietzsche nearly single-handedly, presenting his works as one of the great achievements of Western philosophy. ![]() When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. ![]() This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trump, disqualified yourself from the presidency on January the 6th, 2021, when you incited a mob to march on Congress and fight like hell," he continued. "Number two, many would argue that you, Mr. So you have disqualified yourself from the presidency, have you not?" Trump, just a few months ago calling for the termination of parts of the Constitution. "Number one, the president of the United States has to swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," he said. ![]() ![]() "Here are 10 questions I would ask Donald Trump if I had to do an interview with him, and that CNN should consider posing to the indicted former president next week," the MSNBC host said. "But if you are going to interview him, you need to have some very tough and very specific questions." "I wouldn't normalize him in that way," he continued. ![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Here, the genetically engineered cyborg rat in Abacus is programmed with Anishinaabe cultural teachings in Story for a Bottle, a teenage girl outwits a lonely, sentient ship and in The Ark of the Turtle’s Back, a mass exodus of Indigenous survivors flee to a terraformed planet, where transplanted buffalo roam. The collection, edited by Joshua Whitehead, features the work of queer, nonbinary and Two-Spirit Indigenous writers, who centre their Indigiqueer identities in rich and imaginative narratives that upend familiar sci-fi and fantasy tropes. ![]() But from the wreckage, hope emerges tentatively and joyfully, like a flower growing up through concrete. ![]() Without suggesting we can avert disaster, these stories reckon with the inevitability of war, global warming, famine and other apocalyptic events. If you’re feeling grim about the future - and who could blame you, after the year we’ve had - then Love after the End is here to give you hope. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. ![]() If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. |