![]() ![]() Where have I read a sentence of 31 lines (p. But an experience still, and surprisingly, an enjoyable one. ![]() I have to read through ambiguity, discard the expectations of clarity and congruity, accept incomprehension and press on. These first 264 pages of Proust’s seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time for me is a learning experience. I don’t pretend to understand everything I read. Swann’s park, and the waterlilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and its surroundings, taking shape and solidity, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea. … in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Above all, he relays how the very act of eating these madeleines has evoked long-buried childhood memories of Combray: ![]() ![]() Why, from pages 60 to 64 the narrator details his experience of eating four morsels of the little cakes ‘petites madeleines’, the uplifting sensation, the taste, the action of dipping them into tea before eating, and the diminishing enjoyment after each mouthful. What elicited only single words or phrases from us, Proust could have written pages. We were to describe this particular act of ‘Eating chocolate cake in class’. He brought into class a chocolate cake, cut it and gave each of us a piece. A fellow student was doing a presentation on phenomenology. Reading these first 264 pages of Proust conjures up some of my own memories… ![]()
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![]() ![]() In their notes to the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (London, 1959), editors A. In most traditional versions, including the sixteenth century Scottish version entitled Alan-a-Maut, the plant's ill-treatment by humans and its re-emergence as beer to take its revenge are key themes. The song survived into the twentieth century in the oral folk tradition, primarily in England, and many popular folk revival artists have recorded versions of the song. ![]() In 1782, the Scottish poet Robert Burns published his own version of the song, which influenced subsequent versions. The oldest versions are Scottish and include the Scots poem " Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be". The song may have its origins in ancient English or Scottish folklore, with written evidence of the song dating it at least as far back as the Elizabethan era. In the song, he suffers indignities, attacks, and death that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting. John Barleycorn, the song's protagonist, is a personification of barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it: beer and whisky. " John Barleycorn" is an English and Scottish folk song listed as number 164 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Broadside ballad entitled "A Huy and Cry After Sir John Barlycorn" by Alexander Pennecuik, 1725 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Almond Tree traces Ichmad’s life from the squalor of Palestinian refugee camps to the ivory halls of American universities, as he and his new friend make advances in science, and, at the same time, develop as individuals. But, both men learn to respect each other as individuals, and in their growing collaboration, despair slowly turns to hope. ![]() When Ichmad, a brilliant mathematician, wins a scholarship to a university where Arab students are in the minority, he encounters a Jewish professor, a man filled with hate because of his own family’s persecution by the Nazis. Despair builds on despair as his father Abbas is jailed as a suspected terrorist supporter, another sister is killed, and his brother, Abbas is crippled in a vicious attack. The Almond Tree, a first novel by Michelle Cohen Corasanti, starts with young Palestinian Ichmad Hamid watching his baby sister Amal blown apart by an Israeli mine planted near his family’s farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am glad Saint chose to tell this story from multiple POVs-the scope and interplay between the three central characters is crucial-but as the book becomes more thematically complex, she struggles to make it cohere.Ĭlytemnestra’s story is the most straightforward and the most engaging: her husband, Logan Roy Agamemnon, sacrifices their daughter, Iphigenia, to curry favor with the gods prior to sailing for Troy, and so she waits for him to come home so she can kill him. Jennifer Saint’s follow-up to Ariadne is called Elektra, but that is somewhat misleading-the titular character shares this story, which encompasses events prior to and during Homer’s Iliad and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, with Clytemnestra (her mother) and Cassandra of Troy ( The Trojan Women, or something similar, might have been a better name for this book even though Elektra and Clytemnestra are not from Troy, it still shapes their story, and I don’t think Euripides, who is currently very deceased, would mind the title of his play revitalized). ![]() I received an ARC of Elektra from Flatiron Books in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The recipient of numerous awards, his works are shown in galleries and museums in the USA, Europe as well as around Asia. His art and fashion photography unites his experiences from a wide variety of different fi elds. Photographer Ohm Phanphiroj, originally from Thailand, spends time travelling between Atlanta, New York, Australia and Bangkok. Nothing is hidden here, which is exactly what the photographers fan love the captivating honesty of his images. NIGHTHAWKS Phanphiroj, Ohm 4.25 avg rating (4 ratings by Goodreads) Hardcover ISBN 10: 3861874709ISBN 13: 9783861874706 Publisher: BRUNO GMUNDER VERLAG, 2007 This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Sexually charged scenes are interspersed with melancholy moments. With NIGHTHAWKS Phanphiroj presents himself anew as a sensitive and impartial artist, a portraitist of young self-discovery in a world moving at a tearing pace. With NIGHTHAWKS Phanphiroj presents himself anew as a sensitive and impartial artist, a portraitist of young self-discovery in a world moving at a tearing pace. His follow-up work, RARE VIEWS (2006) also took a similar approach and was even more successful. With NIGHTHAWKS Phanphiroj presents himself anew as a sensitive and impartial artist, a portraitist of young self-discovery in a world moving at a. The mixture of voyeurism, provocation and sensual intimacy between him and his models had a huge and lasting impact on gay photographic identity. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: His first book ROUGH STUFF (2004) earned Ohm Phanphiroj international acclaim. ![]() |