![]() Here, at last, Aristotle's lost second book is found again. Finally, more than two millennia after it was first written, and after five hundred years of scrutiny, Aristotle's Poetics is more complete than ever before. ![]() Watson renders lucid and complete explanations of Aristotle's ideas about catharsis, comedy, and a summary account of the different types of poetry, ideas that influenced not only Cicero's theory of the ridiculous, but also Freud's theory of jokes, humor, and the comic. Based on Richard Janko's philological reconstruction of the epitome, a summary first recovered in 1839 and hotly contested thereafter, Watson mounts a compelling philosophical argument that places the statements of this summary of the Aristotelian text in their true context. Here, Walter Watson offers a new interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics. But he does not actually address any of those ideas. Aristotle writes also that he will address catharsis and an analysis of what is funny. ![]() In the Poetics, Aristotle writes that he will speak of comedy-but there is no further mention of comedy. Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics-ancient, medieval, or modern-the most important is indisputably Aristotle's Poetics, the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Herbert keeps the reader guessing as to the killer’s identity. Jori’s snooping reveals family secrets best left unspoken, and also draws the attention of a killer. Jori has a form of synesthesia that allows her to “hear” colors, and it becomes her secret weapon in discovering what happened the night the Cormiers went missing. ![]() Ray’s drunken mumblings (“folks have a way of disappearing ’round here, gator feed”) start Jori on a relentless crusade to solve the unsolved disappearance of her high school sweetheart, Deacon Cormier, and his family 13 years earlier in 2006. Soon after Mobile, Ala., event coordinator Jori Trahan, the resourceful narrator of this unsettling psychological thriller from Herbert ( Cold Waters), returns home to Bayou Enigma in Alabama swamp country to care for her cognitively impaired grandmother and autistic brother, Zach, she runs into Ray Strickland, recently released from prison after serving some 20 years for murder, in a bar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which, in Mim’s mind, all add up to a life filled to the brim with nothing but topics of substance and despair. ![]() Her step-mother is overbearing (and pregnant). Her name is Mary Iris Malone, and she is not okay. Filled to the brim with “topics of substance and despair.” The thing is, I’m incapable of fluff, so here goes. ![]() Dad agrees but says I should avoid “topics of substance and despair.” When I asked how he proposes I do this, seeing as our family is prone to substantial desperation, he rolled his eyes and flared his nostrils, like he does. But when her thousand-mile journey takes a few turns she could never see coming, Mim must confront her own demons, redefining her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane.Īs a member of the family, you have a right to know what’s going on. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland.
![]() ![]() By the time Suzane was eighteen, she was already studying law, and could speak three languages.įor the Von Richthofens, education would always trump entertainment. Suzane and her younger brother Andreas were given the best of the best when it came to education. The family was related, distantly, to the German pilot Manfred von Richthofen, who flew in World War I as the Red Baron. Her father was German, a successful engineer named Manfred, and her mother, Marísia, was a distinguished Brazilian psychiatrist. In 1983, that girl, Suzanne Von Richthofen, was born into the privileged world of upper-middle-class Brazilian society. She knows exactly what’s about to happen in her parents’ room. In her mind, the romantic teen movie part will start once this part is all over. Turns out this is no romantic teen movie. The girl has gone into the library, to wait. ![]() ![]() He’s got another man with him-a much bigger man, his older brother, who’s also carrying an iron bar. He’s wearing gloves, and he has a nylon stocking over his hair so that he doesn’t leave a speck of DNA. They have no idea what’s about to happen. He sneaks inside, and he creeps up the stairs, and he pushes open the door…to her parents’ bedroom. She unlocks the door, and he sneaks inside. On Halloween, they go to a café, and drive around for a bit, and eventually they head to her house. So the two make plans to meet up in secret. The boy is from the other side of the tracks. This could have been a scene from a romantic teen movie. ![]() A teenage girl is trying to sneak her boyfriend into her parent’s mansion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally posted on Tales to Tide You Over Skykeep is the second book in the Free-Wrench saga and continues to chronicle the adventures of Nita and her new crew as they continue to clash with the twisted figures who control the destiny of a continent. ![]() Plans are swiftly derailed when the fug folk hatch a plan of their own, splitting the crew and locking Nita away in the floating prison known as Skykeep. Captain Mack, mindful of his advancing age and the risks he's had to request of his crew time and time again, has begun to plan for his retirement. Most of the townspeople have already been shunned by the Fug Folk, and as such have little to lose in aiding and abetting the crew. Only one town, a place called Lock, is willing to welcome the Wind Breaker into port. Agents of the fug folk and those working on their behalf hide in every cloud and skulk in every shadow. Word of her adventures with Captain Mack, Gunner, Lil, Cooper, and Wink has made the whole crew into living legends among the residents of the mountain towns of Rim, but in doing so it has also made finding safe harbor virtually impossible. ![]() Under her skillful care it has become one of the only airships to stay aloft without the continuous repair and oversight of the vile and manipulative fug folk. It has taken some adjustment, but Nita Graus has made quite a home for herself among the crew of the Wind Breaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s that good!”Įveryone is entitled to an opinion, however ludicrous. This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. “When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. ![]() I despair, not because this tasteless twaddle has sold millions of copies and made shedloads of money, nor because one Eugene H Peterson has said of it: Of those, a handful have changed my life, many have enthralled me, some have rendered me nearly catatonic, while others have entertained, informed and appalled me in equal measure. I did a rough calculation the other day and worked out that in my reading lifetime I must have worked my way through in excess of 2,000 books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Great Seal is the signature of this exalted body -unseen and for the most part unknown - and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the United States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception. ![]() Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. Continuously in print since 1928, The Secret Teachings of All Ages is a codex to the ancient occult and esoteric traditions of the world. … the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix. Great read for anyone who likes Joseph Campbell and wishes to follow up on the Power of Myth and get into the right-hand occult. The book is pure conceptual truth without bogging ourselves down with the details. Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle. Manly Palmer Hall wrote this book at age twenty-one and self-published it later in his mid twenties. The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America. Kontext: European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. ![]() Quelle: The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), p. ![]() ![]() And many have accused it of glorifying peer pressure. This book was banned in China as promoting Marxism, but the ban was lifted in 1991 after Dr. I have always been a fan of the book and I enjoyed the animated special as well. It has been translated into many different languages (my favorite is the Latin title, Virent ova! Viret perna!) and was part of the animated TV special Dr. I imagine that he felt fairly compensated, though, considering that this was his best-selling book and became the 4 th best-selling hardcover picture book of all time. ![]() He wrote this book and won the bet, although the story goes that he never collected his winnings. ![]() ![]() Seuss was challenged by a bet from publisher Bennett Cerf to write an engaging picture book with just 50 simple ‘easy reader’ words. Green Eggs and Ham got its start when author/illustrator Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings (which will also have a prequel on Prime Video), Martin has a swath of information about the history of Westeros, meaning there’s more than enough material for multiple spin-offs and prequels of Game of Thrones. With so many details and so much history involved, Martin has a gargantuan amount of world-building to do, most of which doesn’t make it into the main series of novels. And much like other famous fantasy and sci-fi series (ahem, Dune), Martin’s books are long and complex, with an impressive number of characters and storylines and covering themes of political intrigue, romance, and more. Game of Thrones is based on A Song of Ice and Fire, the (as of now, unfinished) series of novels by Martin. What both shows do have in common though, is that both are based on a books written by George R. Starring Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, and more, the ambitious show will span decades, rather than the shorter time frame of HBO’s flagship series. Set 200 years before Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon follows the Targaryens and their fleet of dragons as they internally attempt to choose a successor to the throne. House of the Dragon, a prequel to HBO’s ridiculously popular Game of Thrones, introduces a whole new slate of characters fighting for the chance to rule Westeros. ![]() ![]() Janet exhaled ghosts of blue smoke and took another drag on her cigarette. Her glitter makeup sparkled under the street lamps. She stepped over the overflowing, leaf-choked gutter, wobbling slightly on fat-heeled platform shoes. She spun again, dizzily, not caring that her skirt was flying up over the tops of her black thigh-high stockings. She loved the serene brutality of the ocean, loved the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. It was so good to be able to breathe, Kaye thought. The moon was high and pale in the sky, but the sun was just going down. Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea. ![]() The air was heavy and stank of drying mussels and the crust of salt on the jetties. ![]() Kaye spun down the worn, gray planks of the boardwalk. MINA LOY, “MOREOVER, THE MOON,” THE LOST LUNAR BAEDEKER ![]() |