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Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

Harry Mount

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Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama...

Alex Kapranos recommended Igor Stravinsky by Rites Of Spring in Music (curated)

"Maybe it’s a thing to do with ageing, but I listen to classical music more and more, and there’s just so much. I chose this because I saw it at the Royal Festival Hall, and it was probably the most powerful performance of a piece of music that I’ve ever been to. Its 100 years old now isn’t it? I was reading that the other day and of course there are all those stories about how shocking it was at the time. I wonder how much of it was down to Stravinsky's hype at the time, that this music was making people so upset. I mean, if they were going to the concert they must have known vaguely what to expect. I love the myth around it all. It also does two of my favourite things. Intellectually it’s untouchable theoretically in the way it’s composed and how unrelated it is to anything that went before it and how revolutionary it was, yet when you listen to the music you don’t consider that at all. The reaction to the music has nothing to do with your brain, it’s purely emotional, and if you’re trying to listen to it and analyse it you are missing the point, you've just got to totally open yourself up to it."

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K9 Schutzhund Training: A Manual for Ipo Training Through Positive Reinforcement

Ruud Haak and Resi Gerritsen

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A hands-on, practical approach to training your K9 for IPO levels 1, 2 and 3. Learn how to:...

Mu Tube--Music Video Player for Youtube & Playlist manager

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Mu Tube automatically finds music videos uploaded on YouTube. This feature allows users to listen...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Festival in Books

Oct 1, 2020

The Festival

H.P. Lovecraft | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

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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!