![]() ![]() There is a secret world within the world… Clandestine movers and shakers live among us but they abide in the invisible world of their own. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.” ![]() Now it’s the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. We’re not smart enough for him… Do you know what charisma means to me? It means he holds the secrets. He thinks he can make us a different kind of society. Secret services saw in John Kennedy a real threat to their holding sway over the entire state: There are tomcats and there are cat’s paws. There is the system and there are those who serve the system. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. ![]() We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. Dead president’s corpse in the driver’s car. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But the local hero and bully, Brom Bones, has other ideas. Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster, is more concerned with earning the hand of Katrina Von Tassel than worrying about ghosts. Linked forever to Halloween, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a famous story by Washington Irving that touches on the culture and many of the traditions of the Dutch who inhabited New York's. Sleepy Hollow is known for being home to ghosts and spirits, the most famous of which is the terrifying Headless Horseman, a specter searching for the head he lost to a stray cannonball during the Revolutionary War. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is one of the first examples of American fiction writing that has since become a celebrated folk tale. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Books & Activities Books, Audio Books, and Videos Please read my disclosure statement for more information. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of those classic books that can easily be read for either the fall season or for Halloween. As Ichabod becomes more and more obsessed. It is said that the ghostly Headless Horseman rides through the town at night, seeking his lost head and wreaking havoc on anyone who crosses his path. They have favorite Halloween Poetry books, Picture Books, and Favorite Fall Books. In the quiet town of Sleepy Hollow, a young schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane becomes the object of a terrifying legend. My kids love reading books that coincide with the seasons and holidays. ![]() ![]() When Margarets future and Granthams parliamentary reforms come into conflict, Grantham must use every ounce of charm he possesses-along with his stunning good looks and flawless physique, of course-to win Margaret over to his cause. Not as thrilling, however, is her decision to undertake an engineering commission from his political archnemesis. ![]() George Willis, the Earl Grantham, is thrilled that the woman he has loved since childhood has returned to London. But from the moment she sets foot in London her plans are threatened by greedy investors and-at literally every turn-the irritatingly attractive Earl Grantham, a man she can never forgive. Widowed and determined, Margaret Gault has returned to Athenas Retreat and the welcoming arms of her fellow secret scientists with an ambitious plan in mind: to establish Englands first woman-owned engineering firm. ![]() ![]() Unless, of course, you are Margaret Gault, who wants nothing to do with the man who broke her youthful heart. About the Book You couldnt design a better hero than the very eligible and extremely charming Earl Grantham. ![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite story might be "All My Darling Daughters," set in an extraterrestrial boarding school for the daughters of wealthy men who donate sperm to unknown surrogates in order to create heirs who they don't meet until they've grown up. The stories in this collection cover some familiar sci-fi tropes (time travel, other planets, apocalyptic futures) but with a focus on character and humanity that is missing in some science fiction. ![]() I'm so glad that I finally got this introduction to her! I am a little surprised I'd never read any Willis before - she is a prominent and prolific author of just the kind of Ray Bradburyish, feminist without beating you over the head with it, science fiction that I really love. I am pretty sure I got this copy of Fire Watch by Connie Willis (1985) from the lovely St. ![]() ![]() The Aeneid uses scanty details on issues of love, religion, and control, which are packaged in a way that draws strong emotions from the reader. As the paper reveals, The Aeneid is a political epic that was written with a political agenda to justify the founding of the nation of Rome. ![]() Some of the most common literature books that have used the propaganda approach to attain certain ends include Tales for Little Rebels by Maria Popova, The Future by Al Gore, and The Aeneid by Even Virgil. Various elements of propaganda such as repetition of certain concepts, simplicity of certain actions and decisions, imagery of results, and sentiments from people who have already taken the action and/or are willing to take the action are dominant in literature books. ![]() Propaganda is packaged in a strategic way that makes it difficult for people to distinguish the thin line between truth, half-truth, and falsehood. As a medium of communication, leaders have used literature works over the years to brainwash, deceive, persuade, and enhance certain euphoria on people. The misinformed approach in literature books seeks to persuade, influence, or manipulate readers using information that is specifically defined and disseminated for this purpose. Various literature books contain half-truths or blatant false stories that are meant to serve the interest of some nations, communities, emperors, kingdoms, and religious beliefs. Political propaganda has dominated most of literature works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The closing chapter on The Sacrifice, dictated in the last weeks of Tarkovsky's life, makes the book essential reading for those who already know or who are just discovering his magnificent work. He discusses their history and his methods of work, he explores the many problems of visual creativity, and he sets forth the deeply autobiographical content of part of his oeuvre-most fascinatingly in The Mirror and Nostalgia. In Sculpting in Time, Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films-Ivan's Childhood, Andrey Rublyov, Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, and The Sacrifice. Many critics have tried to interpret his intensely personal vision, but he himself always remained inaccessible. Since Ivan's Childhood won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1962, the visionary quality and totally original and haunting imagery of Tarkovsky's films have captivated serious movie audiences all over the world, who see in his work a continuation of the great literary traditions of nineteenth-century Russia. ![]() ![]() In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema-hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most important director of our time"-died an exile in Paris in December 1986. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now that we are older, wiser, and don’t give a damn what our professors or literary betters think, I believe you’ll discover a hell of a writer in Michener, well worth reading even if his memory does seem to be fading from the culture.īack when I was in college, Michener was at the top of the publishing mountain - and at the bottom of his reputation among the smart set. ![]() You, like me, may have been put off from reading Michener before by bad advice. It’s odd, but not having to either buy reprint editions or crack open dusty and crumbling paperbacks made reading Michener seem new to me, as if I were encountering contemporary books instead of novels that are thirty to forty years old. I spent many pleasurable hours listening to the audiobook versions of the books when I wasn’t reading words on a page. ![]() In the process, I discovered an American master I never suspected existed. I spent an entire year reading through the novels of James Michener, especially the “saga” novels of the 1970s and 80s. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the central characters is Olive Llewellyn, an author in the 23rd century who lives on the moon and has found herself abruptly famous after her book about a fictional pandemic is a big hit. Sea of Tranquility also exists to play, metatextually, with what it was like to be Emily St. ![]() The results are lovely, life-affirming, and occasionally but unmistakably clumsy. It exists to try to grapple with the world the Covid-19 pandemic made and what the pandemic taught us about reality. Mandel’s latest book, Sea of Tranquility, is a true pandemic novel. Station Eleven wasn’t really about its pandemic, though that was just the plot engine that got Mandel to her artsy post-apocalyptic world of traveling Shakespeare companies, beautifully rendered in the recent HBO Max TV adaptation. ![]() Which meant that in 2020, she acquired a peculiar sort of status as one of the ones who saw it coming, somehow what Vox’s Alissa Wilkinson called one of the plague prophets. John Mandel published Station Eleven, her bestselling novel about a pandemic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heyerdahl has an impressive list of television credits including recent Lovecraft"." Fluent in French, he also starred in Québecois films "Leĭernier Tunnel," "Cadavres" and "La Loi Du Cochon." All directed by Érik Canuel and many recurring roles in French language television. His previousĬredits include roles as H.P. ![]() Powerful performances in film, theatre and television. Born in British Columbia, Heyerdahl is known internationally for his He started 2021 shooting the feature "Corner Office" with director Joachim Back and has appeared in the feature films "Sicario: Day of The Soldado", "Adopt a Highway" and co-starring in Robert Budreau's "Stockholm". 'Swede." This post-Civil War drama debuted as the second highest rated ![]() ![]() An award-winning Canadian actor, Christopher HeyerdahlĬo-stars in one of Amazon's number 1 series of 2021 Little Marvin's anthology series: "Them", "Chapelwaite" for Epix, James Gunn's "The Peacemaker", WGNA's "Pure", USA's "Damnation" Sky Atlantic's "Tin Star", SyFy's "Van Helsing" andĪMC's hit series "Hell On Wheels," playing the enigmatic ![]() |