![]() ![]() I hardly believe that they will dare to play it in the Scandinavian countries for some time to come.” How rightly he judged we shall see anon. … I consider it utterly impossible that any German theatre will accept the play at present. On December 22 he wrote to Ludwig Passarge, one of his German translators, “My new play has now appeared, and has occasioned a terrible uproar in the Scandinavian press every day I receive letters and newspaper articles decrying or praising it. ![]() It was published in December 1881, after he had returned to Rome. There, fourteen years earlier, he had written the last acts of _Peer Gynt_ there he now wrote, or at any rate completed, _Gengangere_. November 1880 saw him back in Rome, and he passed the summer of 1881 at Sorrento. The winter of 1879-80 Ibsen spent in Munich, and the greater part of the summer of 1880 at Berchtesgaden. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But not everyone is content to simply sit and wait and trust. They do their best to keep the stories of their ancestors alive, and to remember how they came to be in this inhospitable place, believing that one day help will come from Earth to rescue them. They are all descendants of two people, Angela Young and Tommy Schneider, survivors of a space mission almost two hundred years before. Beckett’s story takes place on Eden, a strange and exotic world where a small cluster of some five hundred people struggle to survive in the heart of an alien forest. It wasn’t love at first sight: I was initially put off by the mannered language, but its rhythms soon wormed their way into my mind and even into my dreams. I’ve recently found it hard to ‘click’ with books, but was thrilled to become deeply, voraciously engaged with Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden trilogy: a series which asks us to think about what it means to be human, about the stories that we tell one another, and about the way that civilisations develop. One good thing about travelling for work (as I have been for the past week) is that it gives me lots of time to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, though, / I think labels stop them from / thinking.” I am learning how it tastes- / sweet with promise / and bitter with responsibility.” I am learning how to say it / over and over again in English. Fatima and I were always in step, four feet pointed in the same direction. When I was little, it was easy to imagine that. ![]() I would squeeze my eyes shut at night and pretend that Fatima and I were dreaming the same dream. ![]() I know that is strange to say, childish maybe-it felt strange even then-but it also felt like the rest of the world saw me. This is always interesting for students to see and can open up a discussion as to how not everyone can read the same lines in the same way based on their own perspectives and personal experiences.Įxamples of Quotes from Other Words for Home ![]() Some students may end up choosing the same quote, but have different perspectives. Students can share their storyboards afterwards and have a short discussion about what the quotes mean to them. In this way, students are making a text-to-self connection that demonstrates their understanding of the characters and their development or the themes of the novel. Having students choose a favorite quote or scene from the book allows them to express which parts of the story resonated with them on a personal level. ![]() ![]() They are rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and readily excreted in urine. Ibotenic acid and muscimol are substances which mostly participate in psychotropic properties of Amanita pantherina and Amanita muscaria. While we identify a different third filter from Wasson, our findings support and further his overarching theory identifying Soma as the Amanita muscaria mushroom. ![]() Here, we examine the strengths and weaknesses of Wasson’s argument, and in turn propose an alternate filter, a filter of milk, and detail how mixing aqueous extractions of Amanita muscaria with unpasteurized milk might lead to significant pharmacological changes potentiating the final beverage. Based on the practice of urine-recycling among Amanita muscaria using groups in Siberia, and several vague references to urinating Soma in the Rig Veda, Wasson proposed that the third filter was the human body, and that the urine produced by bemushroomed individuals was considered the purest form of Soma. Wasson’s interpretation of the first two filters, a filter of sunlight (sun-drying or desiccation) and a woolen filter (to remove solids from aqueous preparations), are generally uncontested, but his proposal for the third filter has raised controversy and ire. ![]() Central to Wasson’s theory are the three filters of Soma, which correspond to different steps in the preparation of Soma, as outlined in the Rig Veda. ![]() ![]() Gordon Wasson first proposed his groundbreaking theory identifying Soma, the hallucinogenic sacrament of the Vedas, as the Amanita muscaria mushroom. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first prototypes leaked copious amounts of steam and weren’t very efficient. This expert working of metal is traced back to James Watt and his development of the steam engine. This extreme flatness could be achieved only because humans had mastered precise manufacturing and so, his fascination with the subject began. The only way to separate them was by sliding them. As Winchester explains, the blocks were so perfectly flat that their surfaces bonded at a molecular level. ![]() Then his father slid them apart with a flick of his wrist. ![]() Young Simon was challenged to separate two blocks placed one on top of the other. As a 10-year-old, he watched in awe as his father lifted them from their velvet case. These blocks, carefully ground to exact specifications, could be stacked in different ways to make accurate lengths for measuring. He tells us of the moment in his boyhood when his father brought a series of small metallic blocks - gauge blocks - to his London home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins a tale of emotional obsession and manipulation, of a young woman ripped from everything she knows and forced to lean on the one person who provides attention, affection and care: her captor. She becomes his obsession and the one true love of his life. She gets a new name, a new identity and a new life in the midst of the gang’s base on the edge of the Florida Everglades-a frightening, rough and violent world much like the swamps themselves, where everyone has an alias and loyalty is tantamount to survival.Īnd at the center of it all is the gang’s leader, Grizz: massive, ruggedly handsome, terrifying and somehow, when it comes to Ginny, tender. On May 15, 1975, fifteen-year-old Ginny Lemon is abducted from a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale by a member of one of the most notorious and brutal motorcycle gangs in South Florida.įrom that moment on, her life is forever changed. ![]() ![]() It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. ![]() A fter WW1 a world of opportunity was opening up for women … Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. Migrants and millionairesses, refugees and aristocrats all looking for a way to improve their lives. ![]() ‘In this riveting slice of social history, Siân Evans does a brilliant job of describing the unexpected textures of life at sea…By deep diving into the archives, Siân Evans has discovered a watery in-between world where the usual rules didn’t quite apply and a spirited woman could get further than she ever would on dry land. HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN’S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES – A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD THE ICONIC OCEAN LINERS FROM BELOW DECKS TO THE CAPTAIN’S TABLE. ![]() ![]() Her books frequently include elements of fantasy, suspense, and even science fiction, for example, in her popular ‘In Death’ series, which she writes under the pen name J.D Robb. Roberts’ main genre is romance, but she’s more than just a one-trick pony. She routinely releases multiple titles each year, some standalone, and many as part of a wider series. Today, she has more than 240 novels to her name, making her one of the most published authors of all time. Within the two years that followed her debut, she’d released a further five books, and that was just the beginning of her prolific career. ![]() ![]() American author Nora Roberts has been churning out popular romance fiction since her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published back in 1981.īut Roberts wasn’t always a writer it was only after being locked inside with her family during a 1979 snowstorm that she first decided to try her hand at fiction, and less than two years later, her first novel was published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Seuss paints a crazy world of singing Yings, boxing Goxes and seven-hump Wumps! With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. In this hilarious exploration of opposites, colours, numbers and nonsense, Dr. ![]() From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere in this hilarious exploration of simple concepts from the irrepressible Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'd shove my butts into their root systems. The more rampant, brutally spiked, poisonous, or cruel to insects a plant was, the more it appealed to me. I'd head straight for the vast heated greenhouses, where I'd pity my adolescent plight, chain-smoke, and glory in the insane vegetation that burgeoned there. ![]() However, with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants, the book is more relevant today than ever before.Īs a teenager, one of my favourite haunts was Oxford's Botanical Gardens. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day.The Day of the Triffids, published in 1951, expresses many of the political concerns of its time: the Cold War, the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. ![]() |