![]() ![]() ago For those who don't want to click on Facebook Thank you kindly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ago For those who don't want to click on Facebook, here's a screenshot. 65 comments 79 Upvoted Sort by: best View discussions in 3 other communities level 1 Op 3 mo. Also an outcome is that people who travel between spheres a lot (as opposed to Spelljamming in a single one) tend to keep it simple, as there is no known sphere where hitting an enemy with a sword or crossbow won't work.Īnother example given is a weird, deadly sphere where air envelopes do not form, so everyone who goes into it dies a horrible choking death as they float weightlessly away from the ship (no gravity either) in a cold vacuum. WOTC did not consult Jeff Grubb when making the new Spelljammer books. The trend they seemed to want is that some spheres could have weird, crazy, out there stuff, but that wouldn't break the setting of other spheres. The explicit example given is that gunpowder does not work in Realmspace, and they also give a cheeky quote to Chronicles of Amber by mentioning that what may be a jewel polish dust in one sphere may be explosive in another one. It is more accurate to say that they are all run not according to physics and science, but according to a whole other set of (much more flexible) laws, the Laws of Arcane Space. Every sphere has different laws of "physics", yes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through his very rich history, Superman has commonly addressed political and social themes such as aiding in the destruction of the KKK’s key infrastructure, standing in solidarity with the Civil Rights Movement, addressing a post 9/11 America, and protecting immigrants from bigots. Created by the children of Jewish immigrants, Superman has always championed justice for all, regardless of background or creed. Over the last 80 years, the character of Superman has had an incredible, worldwide impact. Thus, the iconography of the comic book medium would never be the same from this point forward, and American pop-culture would forever be impacted by Superman- a character unlike any in its history. On the cover of Action Comics #1, Superman is seen hovering a car over his head with bystanders in awe and ever since the House of El symbol has become one of the most recognizable designs. His rise in popularity over the decades has evolved into a legacy that is truly remarkable, as Superman’s story has become widely known all over the world. ![]() It is time to take a look at the legacy of Superman and 80 years of the Man of Steel. Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, has had a profound impact on popular culture since his debut on April 18th, 1938, 80 years ago today. ![]() ![]() Doch je erleuchteter er wird, desto fassungsloser reagiert seine Familie bis sich schließlich die Ereignisse überstürzen, und buddhistische Gelassenheit für alle Beteiligten zum Gebot der Stunde wird. Er, der den derb-deftigen Genüssen des Lebens nie abweisend gegenüberstand, bricht plötzlich mit alten Gewohnheiten, besucht mit Eifer das lokale buddhistische Zentrum und nimmt an Meditationen teil, immer auf der Suche nach einem bedeutungsvolleren Leben. I had done a review of the book, before I rebooted the channel. Its set in Glasgow, and written in Scots. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Buddha Da was the debut novel from Anne Donovan. ![]() So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Center, no one takes him seriously. Nie hätte sich Jimmy ein einfacher Glasgower Handwerker träumen lassen, dass er einmal den Buddhismus für sich entdecken würde. Buddha Da Anne Donovan Anne Marie’s dad, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. ![]() Die Erleuchtung geht manchmal seltsame Wege. ![]() Witzig, liebenswert, kultverdächtig: Wie der Buddhismus nach Glasgow kam. "Ein bezaubernder Roman, in dem das Schicksal gewöhnlicher Menschen mit außerordentlichem Charme in warmes Licht getaucht wird." 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Black Friday is a shopping holiday that takes place on the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Jess’ experience of infatuation and betrayal, disappearance and loss gives way to a breathless search for the truth, she finds herself detective in a twisted crime of the heart. Starting out under the flat grey skies of an East Anglian University campus and ending up on an idyllic Mediterranean island, The Truants is about a group of clever and eccentric misfits who yearn to break the rules. One, Alec, a journalist in exile, the other, Lorna, a charismatic literature professor. In this seductive coming-of-age debut, Jess Walker, a young and uninitiated first year student, falls in love with two great story-tellers. ![]() Soon Jess is thrown up against the question she fears most: what is the true cost of an extraordinary life? But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour.ĭrawn into a tightly-knit group of rule breakers – led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay – Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. #TheTruants Walker, middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature and the concept of masculinity. Hemingway presents his notion that the " Lost Generation"-considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I-was in fact resilient and strong. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on people in Hemingway's circle and the action is based on events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. ![]() Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. ![]() The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel along the Camino de Santiago from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The Hellenistic jacket design "breathed sex yet also evoked classical Greece". First edition of The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926 by Scribner's, with dust jacket illustrated by Cleon ( Cleo Damianakes). ![]() ![]() ![]() The astonishing A Perfect Day for Bananafish, and the insight it gives into the character and demise of Seymour Glass throws everything that follows into stark relief. ![]() Looking at the books as a series (as Salinger clearly did), it makes sense to start with the earlier Glass stories. Franny, with its tight, tense narrative and satisfying resolution wouldn’t feel out of place alongside other Salinger stories like A Perfect Day for Bananafish and Just Before the War With the Eskimos. I’d be loth to let Zooey go, but I understand Deadgod’s logic. “I think the two pieces are put together poorly because, partly, of their unlike texture: Franny, to me, is coherent and tight – each piece following from and leading into the ones before and after … Zooey is the self-indulgently unrealistic thing many have complained of.”ĭeadgod also put forward the intriguing idea of quietly putting Zooey “on an open source footing” and adding Franny to the collection known in the US as Nine Stories (it’s For Esme With Love and Squalor in the UK), and making a new book: Ten Stories. ![]() ![]() Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians.Ĭontent note: This book contains racial slurs that listeners may find offensive or upsetting. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. The novel centers around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family and the French identity of his father. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War-era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other”. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Governor General’s Award for FictionĪ landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. ![]() ![]() Agent: Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, Foundry Literary. ![]() ![]() Alternating between the perspectives of Tress, Felicity, and a panther that escaped from the attraction, McGinnis succeeds in crafting an engaging tale, but the reasoning behind the girls’ taking things to extremes feels underestablished, and poetic interludes from the panther fail to cohere with the overall narrative. With significant nods to Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre work, everything comes to a head on Halloween night at the last party at the old Usher estate, which the town council plans to tear down. In the first book of a suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship. Tress has lived with her grandfather in a trailer at his dodgy animal attraction ever since, and Felicity, the last to see Tress’s folks, claims to remember nothing from that night and has distanced herself from Tress-except to buy drugs. Seven years ago in Amontillado, Ohio, Tress Montor’s parents disappeared and her former best friend, Felicity Turnado, was found shivering by the river. ![]() Two girls recall the major events that forced them apart in an intricate, duology-opening story of mystery and revenge by McGinnis ( Be Not Far from Here). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The results of the study suggested that Chi running may be an alternative for runners with a history of overuse injuries of the lower extremities or for runners seeking to reduce lower extremity forces which may potentially cause injury. 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