Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns
Heike Egner, Maren Schorch and Martin Voss
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It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies,...
Troll Face Quest Video Memes
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Fans of free escape games will just love the brained new levels of video memes filled with twisted...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Inception (2010) in Movies
Aug 17, 2020
Consider: the film is based around a whole series of concepts and rules created out of whole cloth, which have to be explained to the audience. Most movies would really struggle to do only this. But Christopher Nolan not only succeeds, he uses it simply as the basis for a story rich in other layers of metaphor and emotion, while also playing with the rules of cinematic grammar and genre - the dreamscapes are implicitly likened to film narratives, with the successive levels resembling increasingly outlandish thriller sub-genres (gritty urban action, Mission Impossible, Bond) the further removed from the real world they are. But what is cinema if not a chance for people to share a dream together? Dreams as good as this one are vanishingly rare, alas.
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Festival in Books
Oct 1, 2020
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The Festival
by H P Lovecraft
The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.
The story is set at Christmas time: "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind." An unnamed narrator is making his first visit to Kingsport, Massachusetts, an "ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten."
I am still quite new to reading Lovecrafts work the things that strike me so much about him is his imagination and the way he translates what’s in his head to paper and does it so well! I’m really enjoying these little novellas!
I know not a huge review but I find myself getting bored with long winded explanations of how you should
Or shouldn't feel! With a classical author like this the work tends to speak for itself!
Leo and Tig
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Embark on a new adventure and play as one of your favourite characters from the animated series: Leo...
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1943.Sleeper spy Will Starling has been drafted in to the SOE, joining forces with the French...
Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940 - 1944
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The real story of the Occupation uncovers a reality more complex, more human and ultimately more...
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With a case of amnesia, will Billy remember who he is and what is his mission, before more people...