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Hace 5 días · 2. Slaughterhouse Five. Slaughterhouse Five, like virtually all of Vonnegut’s novels, concerns itself with one of the oldest — and most perplexingly commonplace — human dilemmas: man’s inhumanity to man.But how does one discuss war, violence, insanity, and injustice (for starters) without either preaching or unintentionally trivializing?
Hace 5 días · Guild member Ursula Jeakins is a bookbinder and the only person in the UK making Commonplace Books. We asked her about the origin of these delightful books and her association with them. The word commonplace comes from the Greek koinos topos, meaning ‘general theme’.
Hace 2 días · Her novels are highly experimental: a narrative, frequently uneventful and commonplace, is refracted—and sometimes almost dissolved—in the characters' receptive consciousness. Intense lyricism and stylistic virtuosity fuse to create a world overabundant with auditory and visual impressions."
Hace 4 días · The Forgotten Muses of Poetry. An dissident perspective on the poetic art. Jack Laurel. Jul 04, 2024. One of the most promising aspects of the current dissident scene is the concerted effort to create an ‘art-right’. This seems to have originated from a 2020 essay by Curtis Yarvin, subsequently acted upon by Lomez of Passage Publishing ...
Hace 1 día · By. Tony D. Vick , T ruthout. July 7, 2024. Inmates sing as Helen Sinclair, a 98-year-old volunteer prison chaplain known as Queen Mother, helps lead in a church service on February 10, 2019, at the Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images.
Hace 5 días · Most of all, the story of Bligh was immediately adapted for the stage, a play called The Pirates: Or, the Calamities of Capt. Bligh being a hit for the Royalty Theatre in Wells Street before Bligh’s book was even out. It is a commonplace that the story of the mutiny on the Bounty is custom-built for film, with three major Hollywood ...
Hace 15 horas · Online and telephone rackets have become so commonplace that law enforcement agencies and adult protective services don’t have the resources to keep up. “It’s a little bit like drinking from a fire hose,” said Brady Finta, a former FBI agent who supervised elder fraud investigations.
