![]() ![]() ![]() Arty is a monsterpower hungry, evil, malicious, consumed by ``dark, bitter meanness and. Eventually their family consists of Arty, aka Arturo the Aqua Boy, born with flippers instead of limbs, who performs swimming inside a tank and soon learns how to manipulate his audience Electra and Iphigenia, Siamese twins and pianists the narrator, Oly and Fortunato, also called the Chick, who seems normal at birth, but whose telekinetic powers become apparent just as his brokenhearted parents are about to abandon him. ``What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?'' muses Lily. Art and Lily, owners of Binewski's Fabulon, a traveling carnival, decide to breed their own freak show by creating genetically altered children through the use of experimental drugs. Dunn's vivid, energetic prose, her soaring imagination and assured narrative skill fuse to produce an unforgettable tale. ![]() ![]() A National Book Award nominee.Publishers WeeklyThis audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: ``Reader Beware.'' Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature. A carnival family saves its traveling "Carnival Fabulon" from bankruptcy by giving birth to freaks— in a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Madge’s growing realization of her family’s connection to Neverland answers questions from her past but opens new wounds. Her thought processes and reactions do not realistically match a young adolescent girl’s, but they are appropriate to the horror she encounters. Madge recoils from the violent games they pursue and vainly attempts to control Peter’s sadistic, authoritarian personality. Once they arrive in a degraded, depopulated Neverland, Peter forces Madge to be “mother” to the feral and cruel Lost Boys. During her latest attempt to run away, she meets a strange boy who promises to take her to her long-lost mother. Madge Darling just wants to be free from her overprotective and abusive grandmother, Wendy. Monroe ( A Tale Du Mort) turns Neverland into a frightening, violent place in this tense extension of J.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() not inaccurate or false)Ĭome only from those with relevant knowledge of the question (i.e. not one-liners or otherwise uninformative)Īccurately portray the state of research and literature (i.e. arguments in philosophy, philosophers' positions, the state of the field (not questions about commenters' opinions) not extremely broad to the point of unanswerability) ![]() Specific enough to reasonably be answered (i.e. not merely tangentially related to philosophy) Questions on /r/askphilosophy should be:ĭistinctly philosophical (i.e. Also check the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ![]() r/askphilosophy is not a debate or discussion subreddit.Ĭheck our FAQs for a list of frequently asked questions to see if your question has already been answered. Please have a look at our rules and guidelines. r/askphilosophy is thus a place to ask and answer philosophical questions. We envision this subreddit as the philosophical counterpart to /r/AskHistorians, which is well-known for its high quality answers to historical questions. r/askphilosophy aims to provide serious, well-researched answers to philosophical questions. ![]() ![]() Solanas was never in society, which is probably why she was such a good social satirist, whether or not she intended to be. I think a dozen horrible thoughts just getting to the office, but when I step off the streetcar, I’m back in society. Solanas, as you probably know, seems to have lacked the capacity to distinguish between feelings and reasonable beliefs: she lived in that moment where the guy next to you on the bus sneezes without covering his mouth and you hope he gets bisected by a falling window. ![]() The manifesto is both a screed against men and a screed against everything wrong with the world, which, for Solanas, men happened to represent. When I say “most of us,” I don’t only mean women (SCUM stands for Society for Cutting Up Men). ![]() ![]() It’s too bad that Valerie Solanas-who died of bronchopneumonia 25 years ago today-shot Andy Warhol, because her SCUM Manifesto is a great piece of literature: a very funny, very lucid expression of feelings that most of us have but know better than to accept as beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because you are thirsty you are not too proud to extract the dirt and be nourished by the water. Think of the work as water that contains some dirt. ![]() ![]() To have work that promotes one’s liberation is such a powerful gift that it does not matter so much if the gift is flawed. I came to Freire thirsty, dying of thirst (in that way that the colonized, marginalized subject who is still unsure of how to break the hold of the status quo, who longs for change, is needy, is thirsty), and I found in his work (and the work of Malcolm X, Fanon, etc.) a way to quench that thirst. In talking with academic feminists (usually white women) who feel they must either dismiss or devalue the work of Freire because of sexism, I see clearly how our different responses are shaped by the standpoint that we bring to the work. ![]() “It is feminist thinking that empowers me to engage in a constructive critique of Freire’s work (which I needed so that as a young reader of his work I did not passively absorb the worldview presented) and yet there are many other standpoints from which I approach his work that enable me to experience its value, that make it possible for that work to touch me at the very core of my being. ![]() ![]() This was later (1982-83) expanded to a larger document of some 49 webpages of “Incomplete Impolite Words”. The offensive words are: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. In 1972 based a monologue on "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". ![]() I decided to slip right out of my comfort zone and give it a try. I find it to be hard core dirty filthy literary porn. MoJo himself has a #manifesto with a more colorful lexicon, “Its romance but fucks sentimentality up the ass”. Smutpunk has been defined by Callie Press as “literary smut with an attitude…using direct language. He is the author and founder of a new genre in writing called Smutpunk. ![]() He is always bold and brash to the point of being rude, unless you know his reputation. ![]() I have been a follower of Moctezuma Johnson for several months. Some appear more poignant than others, but when I heard the term “smutpunk” I had to check it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The interior is in the case of historic Palestine and for Israeli-Palestinians, a place of exclusion, danger, and violence. 1The creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion in 1967, to include the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights, and in 1982 South Lebanon, meant that it superimposed itself onto the already-existing country of Palestine and de facto appropriated its territory, destroyed Palestinian villages, erased their names, and redrew its borders.ĢIn the photography essay Under the Last Sky, Edward Said highlights specific points regarding the Palestinian border – that its mapping is not in the hands of the Palestinians themselves but of Israel that the borders are not stable but under threat and shifting with the on-going settlement policy in the West Bank and Jerusalem and finally, that the imposition of the Israeli/Palestinian border has created further divisions of Palestinian territory and society between those Said called the Palestinians of the Interior (or Palestinian Israelis) and of the Exterior, namely the Palestinians who live outside the state of Israel, in exile as Palestinians of the diaspora or as refugees, who fled Israeli invasions and settled in neighbouring Arab states and in the Gaza Strip, and as Palestinians living in zones A and B of the West Bank (Said, After the Last Sky 51-3).ģIn 1999, when the book was published, Said described the Palestinians remaining within the newly formed borders of Israel as living “on the edge, under the gun, inside the barriers and kasbahs” (51). ![]() ![]() ![]() Heather O’Neill has written for This American Life and the New York Times. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes – after years of searching and desperate poverty – the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they’ll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. ![]() Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city’s underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. ![]() ![]() ![]() We laugh with Sandy and we cry with her too. Jane Turley has shown us life as it really is, warts and all, and the way her characters deal with their problems resonate with the reader because the same things happen to millions every day. And yet when you think back on what actually happens, much of it is tragic. Buy it, believe me, you won't be disappointed." Natural talent combined with a great story makes this a must read. "You know how women like to waffle on a bit? Well, every once in a million, one of them comes along that is so funny, you don't want them to stop. Ha! There were just so many! This was a hilarious, sad, compassionate and fist pumping book that I thoroughly enjoyed. I think the Mister Poopy scene was pretty much the best. I especially liked the way she treated revenge. The jobs this woman had and the way she did them were hilarious. ![]() There were a few more times after that, but it began to get a little more serious after that, which was fine with me. I was laughing out loud many times during the first part of this book. This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. A selection from Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes and Noble ![]() ![]() ![]() As the world gets bigger and more intimidating we are seeing value in the small things that make us feel good and matter to us in the UK. With Brexit looming, A.I developing, social media draining and a sense of community dissipating, the public are looking for permission to hunker down with those closest to them in a warm, safe and cosy environment. ![]() The language of cosy is part of the English lexicon - 'cosy up', 'cosy down', 'tea cosy', 'cosy toes' cosy is a concept intrinsically connected to British culture think cups of warm tea, crunchy toast, a great book, open fires, cosy clothes, wet and windy wrapped up walks, rain trickling on the window - it speaks to people who value comfort and tucking in, and never globally, have we been looking to feel more reassured. THE BOOK OF COSY is a celebratory guide to living your cosiest life in true British style, what it stands for and why it is more important than ever. ![]() |