Zahir jorge luis borges6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Daneri becomes enraged, explaining to the narrator that he must keep the house in order to finish his poem, because the cellar contains an Aleph which he is using to write the poem. Later in the story, a business on the same street attempts to tear down Daneri's house in the course of its expansion. Over time, he comes to know her first cousin, Carlos Argentino Daneri, a mediocre poet with a vastly exaggerated view of his own talent who has made it his lifelong quest to write an epic poem that describes every single location on the planet in excruciatingly fine detail. At the beginning of the story, he is mourning the recent death of a woman whom he loved, named Beatriz Viterbo, and resolves to stop by the house of her family to pay his respects. As in many of Borges' short stories, the protagonist is a fictionalized version of the author. The story traces the theme of infinity found in several of Borges' other works, such as "The Book of Sand". Anyone who gazes into it can see everything in the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping, or confusion. In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The love of the commoners will not be enough, however, if the royal couple is not able to conceive an heir, and as Nefertiti turns her attention to producing a son, she fails to see that the powerful priests, along with the military, are plotting against her husband's rule. Her charisma is matched only by her husband's perceived generosity: Amunhotep showers his subjects with lofty promises. ![]() It is hoped by all that her strong personality will temper the young Amunhotep's heretical desire to forsake Egypt's ancient gods, overthrow the priests of Amun, and introduce a new sun god for all to worship.įrom the moment of her arrival in Thebes, Nefertiti is beloved by the people. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. ![]() Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. ![]() 19 days manga old xian6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Mo Guan Shan is a trouble maker, an outcast who comes from a lower class background. He loves to flirt and play around with Mo Guan Shan. He is a top student and good at basketball. ![]() He Tian is the most popular boy in school. He is especially loyal to friendship and as Jian Yi’s best friend, he would defend Jian Yi first when he needs him. Zhan Zheng Xi is a good-looking senior gamer. His mother is often absent and he hides how he truly feels in order to keep going. He has complicated feelings towards his best friend and struggles with his emotions. ![]() The pale eyebrows and soft looking ash hair are his trademark. 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Reynolds’ original book, published in 2017, is about Will, who gets in a lift with a gun to exact revenge after his brother is shot in a gang crime. “I think it’s important to open up the conversation around gun violence and the fact that it’s people of colour who are most impacted by it, and that the US really fails to address a lot of the root causes of the violence that victimises Black and brown people”, she said.Īfter 20 years of making graphic novels, Novgorodoff added that it was “validating to win this award, and to understand that readers have connected with this book in particular and graphic novels in general”. The illustrator said that while it deals with the “heavy” subject of gun violence, she hopes her win will mean that more people are able to connect with the book. ![]() Novgorodoff, a writer, graphic designer and horse wrangler from Kentucky, has created a number of graphic novels, but Long Way Down was her first children’s book published in the UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “My Sunshine,” he whispered back just as reverently. “It’s just the two of us now from here on out, and it’s a damn good thing because there will never be a man who loves you the way that I do.”Īmazing book 4 in the Curl Up and Dye Mysteries series. It should be the happiest time in their lives, yet neither man can shake the feeling that something sinister waits around the next corner.īuckle your seatbelts and hang on for the ride because Josh and Gabe are committed to saying “I do” or die trying. Josh and Gabe refuse to take a detour because everything they’ve dreamed of is within reach, not even when professional and personal revelations threaten to wreck their plans. However, life in Blissville is never what it seems and all signs point to dangerous curves ahead. Newly engaged Josh Roman and Gabe Wyatt know the road to happily ever after won’t be easy, but the two men are certain their biggest challenges are in the rearview mirror. ![]() Lessig code is law6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Combined, these work together to regulate our Internet behavior. To begin, Lessig describes four methods of regulation that apply to both cyberspace and the natural world: 1) regulation through network architecture (code) 2) societal regulations (what is considered appropriate social behavior) 3) The market costs associated with maintaining parts of the Internet 4) The law. ![]() ![]() To maintain these values and to save the Internet from over-regulation, Lessig proposes - counter intuitively - increased regulation. He criticizes the belief that the Internet is a sovereign entity without ties to the traditional legal system and warns that this fallacy could lead to the demise of core values such as free speech, privacy and anonymity, to name a few. Lessig believes that we should not sit idle and hope that the Internet will fix itself. The action he upholds is educated, government intervention rather than libertarian market faith. He writes that, in order to protect freedom on the Net, we need to take actions to safeguard the values we cherish. In his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University, argues that the future shape of the Internet depends on the actions we take to define it. ![]() How to do nothing jenny6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She comes to the subject of time from a very different perspective than our guest on Monday, Ashley Whillans. In her work, she is challenging what for many of us, myself included, is a deep-seated and sometimes subconscious reflex: to constantly optimize and constantly be “productive.” She is a Lecturer in the Stanford Department of Art and Art History and author of the bestseller How to Do Nothing, which just came out in paperback. Enter Jenny Odell, who makes a very compelling case for truly… doing… nothing. In which case, sitting on the cushion can be very far from truly doing nothing. But, speaking from personal experience, it is very possible, especially for Type A people, to approach meditation with an agenda. For an audience of meditators (or aspiring meditators), the idea of doing nothing shouldn’t be foreign. ![]() Safe haven nicholas sparks book summary6/29/2023 ![]() If you think this is like any other of Sparks’ novels, flowery descriptions, all the usual ingredients of forlorn, the meeting of soul mates, sappy romanticism, and a happy ever after, you’d be… Well, right! Only partly, though. But like our slogan goes : The book is always better than the movie ! ![]() Safe Haven has also been adapted into a movie, and has almost fully adhered to the book, a pleasant surprise, since it isn’t often you see the movie completely following the storyline of the book. ![]() I’ve also watched the movie A Walk to Remember, which is based on a book of the same name. The only other Sparks novel I’ve read before is The Notebook. Many of them have been adapted into movies, Safe Haven also being one of them. Universally beloved and renowned, all of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, among them some very popular ones being The Notebook, A Walk to Remember and Dear John. Bookxpert Rating : 2.5/5 Genre : Romantic ThrillerĪbout the author : Everyone knows Nicholas Sparks. ![]() John burdett bangkok tattoo6/29/2023 ![]() Jitpleecheep does his master’s bidding, but he’s increasingly drawn to the charms of Chanya, and the case exerts a strange fascination that tugs at both sides of his genetic inheritance (from his American father and Thai mother). Vikorn also has another agenda to stir into the mix a long running battle with General Zinna, a corrupt army officer. Once it becomes clear that Turner is a CIA agent in the Muslim south of the country he invents a cover-up pointing at Al Qaeda, planting forensic evidence that can link the scene directly to the terrorist group. ![]() Vikorn’s initial strategy is to make out that Chanya had killed in self-defence. He’d been taken there by Chanya, the star prostitute at the The Old Man's Club, a venue run by Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep’s mother and his boss, Colonel Vikorn. Mitch Turner, a CIA agent, is found dead and dismembered in a Bangkok hotel room. ![]() |