Researchers from around the world use these materials to document and analyze the history of the game, but I-a Clevelander for more than 30 years-have never visited this room until now. Much more, including the death mask of American chess queen Gisela Khan Gresser and a grumpy, hand-scrawled note from American-born Bobby Fischer, the 11th World Chess Champion. It's possibly the world's largest collection-tied only with the Hague-with well over 30,000 books about chess and checkers, newspaper columns, letters from chess masters, treatises on the game-including twelfth-century Arabic manuscripts and more than 50 Indian treatises-tournament records, handbooks, a wide range of literary works that have substantial mention of chess, thousands of chess pieces, and more. I've come to look at his chess collection-donated upon his death and still growing through his endowment. White was a progressive thinker who insisted that these collections be available to the public. A lawyer and scholar who died in 1928, White was one of the library's greatest benefactors and his prodigious collections fill this room. Designed to look like a Renaissance Library, the John Griswold White Reading Room offers sweeping views of Lake Erie and downtown Cleveland, as well as a dazzling abundance of venerable books and objects. I walk through an arched marble doorway and into one of the loveliest rooms I've seen anywhere.
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Chute claims Persepolis as a “feminist graphic narrative” (93) for dealing with the themes of trauma and remembrance, while Miller suggests that “ Persepolis offers a new perspective on familial legacies and feminist generations” (13). Alongside these themes is also that of feminism, which has been thoroughly explored by scholars such as Hillary Chute and Nancy K. Satrapi’s memoir-in-comic-strips details her coming of age and independence while recognising how closely intertwined her history is with that of her country’s – she bears witness on behalf of herself and others to stories of oppression and rebellion hope and revolution fear and despair. In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi chronicles her journey from adolescence to adulthood amidst the backdrop of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Why, even the law that controls us puts death highest on the list of crimes, and highest on the list of punishments. How can that ever be practised by mankind? There is such an instinctive and deep-seated abhorrence of death in all! Those who look on a death-bed can hardly bear the sight and those whom death approaches recoil from him all they can. With a heart still fermenting with my pain, I asked. She quoted the Apostle's words about the duty of not being "grieved for them that sleep" because only "men without hope" have such feelings. Well, she gave in to me for a little while, like a skilful driver, in the ungovernable violence of my grief and then she tried to check me by speaking, and to correct with the curb of her reasonings the disorder of my soul. But when we were in each other's presence the sight of the Teacher awakened all my pain for she too was lying in a state of prostration even unto death. My soul was right sorrow-stricken by this grievous blow, and I sought for one who could feel it equally, to mingle my tears with. But his sister the Teacher was still living and so I journeyed to her, yearning for an interchange of sympathy over the loss of her brother. Basil, great amongst the saints, had departed from this life to God and the impulse to mourn for him was shared by all the churches. It is worthwhile to note though that Flaubert’s early work is stereotypical romantic literature. She is only concerned with her image, as she openly admits that she continues “out of vanity” to appear the mourning heroine. She let herself meander along the Lamartine, listened to harps on lakes, to all the songs of dying swans…She soon grew tired but wouldn’t admit it, continued from habit first, then out of vanity, and at last was surprised to feel herself consoled, and with no more sadness at heart than wrinkles on her brow ( Bovary 34).Įmma is in fact pleased at herself for the quality of her mourning, emotions that run only as deep as her skin, as evidenced by the comment about the wrinkles on her brow. When her mother died she cried much the first few days…Emma was pleased that she had reached at a first attempt the rare ideal of delicate lives, never attained by mediocre hearts. Emma spends all of her childhood reading romantic novels and, from a young age has a very definite image of the way the world is supposed to work: It is at once playing up the romantic form but is also condescending and critical about those who read it. One point of conversion between Flaubert’s life and this novel is the attitude the novel takes towards Romanticism. Titans just killed off The Flash in a shock twist.The Boys season 4 is not coming to Amazon Prime Video in June 2023.After Dark.īrad Guigar was nice enough to sit down and discuss the changes to the webcomics landscape, how he has adjusted to the changes and the reality of creating webcomics in the age of social media.īam! Smack! Pow!: For those unlucky few who may have never heard of you, give us the secret origin of Brad Guigar and Evil Inc. and has cultivated a large following for his NSFW strip Evil Inc. He recently completely revamped and rebooted his comic Evil Inc. The buisiness of webcomics has seen massive changes in the last few years, with the advent of Kickstarter and Patreon, so of course Brad Guigar has been right at the forefront. He has helped write two books about them, gives lectures and has offered a boot camp about creating them. The Philadelphia-based cartoonist is considered a pioneer of webcomics, a mainstay of the medium for over a decade. It is safe to say that Brad Guigar has forgotten more about webcomics than most people are ever going to know. He sat down to talk about Evil Inc., the future of comics on the web and how being NSFW is paying off. Goodman 7 years ago If you are into webcomics, then you have probably heard of Brad Guigar. It fascinates me that this feminist writer has written so much horror, yet she’s most famous for her collaboration with George R. Review: Lisa Tuttle has intrigued me from the moment I read her entry in Monster, She Wrote. WARNING! The following review contains spoilers for some of the short stories included in the collection. The thirteen tales in this collection are highly original and extremely chilling, and they reveal Tuttle to be a master of contemporary horror fiction.Ĭontent Warnings: Rape, Mutilation, Body Horror, Gore, Child Death In ‘Flying to Byzantium’, a writer travelling to a science fiction convention finds herself caught in a strange and terrifying hell. The divorcing couple in ‘Community Property’ arrive at a macabre solution for how to divide ownership of a beloved pet. In ‘Bug House’, a woman who goes to visit her aunt is shocked to find she is dying – but even more shocking is what is killing her. Summary: In Lisa Tuttle’s stories, the everyday domestic world of her female protagonists is invaded by the bizarre, the uncanny, the horrific. Gus Lloyd, an Antimatter physicist, engineer and video game designer who has created a live-action game in his spare time to exert his indignant feelings about his recent divorce and all the people in his life who have all made his life hell on Earth (his father, his ex-wife's mother, his ex-wife's divorce lawyer, his ex-girlfriend, his former employer, a high school football-Quarterback bully, his old camp counselor, etc.) the villains of the game are modeled after all these people. The first episode introduces the protagonist, Dr. Much was made that Leonard Nimoy was executive producer, creative consultant and directed the pilot. The series was produced by Viacom Productions. The basic plot of the show is about video game characters that come to life, re-enacting their deadly plans for wanton destruction and world domination in the real world. Deadly Games is an American action science fiction television series that aired on UPN from September 5, 1995, to January 9, 1996. In 2022 the TV series Dough, for which Elfgren was one of the head writers, was awarded the most prestigious Swedish TV award Kristallen for Best Drama Series. Her graphic novels Vei 1 and 2, which she co-created with illustrator Karl Johnsson, made Mike Carey exclaim: "Wonderful stuff!" and Lev Grossman said: "You cannot miss it." When The Circle was made into a movie Elfgren co-wrote the screenplay with the film's director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced, AMC's Interview with the Vampire). She has even written a VR Game, the award-winning, heart-warming and heartbreaking Ghost Giant (2019). Her plays have been performed on some of Sweden's most prestgious stages. Since her debut, Elfgren has written critically acclaimed novels, children's books, graphic novels, audio dramas, screenplays and TV scripts. The Circle was the first part in the Engelsfors trilogy, and it has been translated into twenty-five languages. She made her debut with the YA novel The Circle (2011), which she co-wrote with Mats Strandberg. Elfgren is an award-winning Swedish writer, screenwriter and playwright. However, these events were sporadic and independently orchestrated, and they never received the official endorsement of the church.Īugustine may have been the first Christian to advocate the use of violence to enforce Christian beliefs. Once Constantine became the emperor of Rome, rogue groups of Christians began to sack pagan temples. A key feature of their partnership was Charlemagne’s use of state coercion to convert pagans to Christianity.Ĭhristians had employed violence before Charlemagne. Known as the grandfather of modern Europe, Charlemagne codified the partnership between the emperor and the papacy, making the papacy Christian Europe’s most powerful authority. So is his legacy of military conquest performed in the name of Christ. To this end, Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, is one crucial figure to consider. It might serve Christians today, therefore, to be at least somewhat aware of the history of how the church has used state violence for its purposes, particularly as conversations about theonomy, magisterial Protestantism, and Christian nationalism have grown in urgency of late. Like the good ole days of Christendom, maybe we should return to a sword-and-shield world where state and church combine efforts. With moral chaos abounding in the world today, many evangelicals wonder if the nation would be better if the church were in charge. Murdo tempts and provokes David in equal measure, distracting him from his promise to find the agent provocateur responsible for the weavers' fate, and forcing him to acknowledge his physical desires.īut is Murdo more than a mere distraction? But as appalled as David is by Murdo's unrepentant self-interest, he cannot resist the man's sway. Whilst David refuses to entertain the prospect of entering into a loveless marriage for propriety's sake, Murdo is determined to wed one day - and has no intention of giving up the company of other men when he does so. Tormented by his forbidden desires for other men, and the painful memories of the childhood friend he once loved, David tries his hardest to live a celibate existence, castigating himself whenever his resolve slips.īut then into David's repressed and orderly world bursts Lord Murdo Balfour.Ĭynical, hedonistic, and utterly unapologetic, Murdo could not be less like David. The last thing he should be doing is agreeing to help the brother of one of the convicted weavers find the government agent who caused his brother's downfall.ĭavid's personal life is no more successful. His humble origins are enough of a hurdle, never mind his recent decision to defend a group of weavers accused of treason, prompting speculation that he may harbour radical sympathies. David Lauriston is struggling to build his reputation in Edinburgh's privileged legal world. |