![]() ![]() ![]() He can enjoy each of the five senses - tasting, hearing, smelling, touching, and seeing-and even more - the process of breathing, the beating of his heart, and "the feeling of health." He invites the reader to "stop this day and night" with him in order to discover "the origin of all poems." He is enthralled by the ecstasy of his physical sensations. The poet expresses the joy he feels through his senses. The poet is tempted to let himself be submerged by other individual selves, but he is determined to maintain his individuality. "Perfumes" are symbols of other individual selves but outdoors, the earth's atmosphere denotes the universal self. "Houses and rooms are full of perfume," Whitman says. In section 2, the self, asserting its identity, declares its separateness from civilization and its closeness to nature. He will let nature speak without check with original energy." He is thirtyseven years old and "in perfect health." He hopes to continue his celebration of self until his death. He relates that he was "form'd from this soil," for he was born here, as were his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The poet will "sing myself," but "what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." The poet loafs on the grass and invites his soul to appear. This poem celebrates the poet's self, but, while the "I" is the poet himself, it is, at the same time, universalized. Whitman: The Quintessential American Poet.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() A retired Special Forces, is summoned to capture Ji Dong-cheol but there is some old history between them. Of course, Secret Service blames Ji Dong-cheol for the assassination and and start chasing him all over Seoul unsuccessfully. Ji Dong-cheol is able to fight the killers, so before dying, his boss gives him a pair of lenses with some secret information (the Mc Guffin). A dissident North Korean highly trained spy called Ji Dong-cheol working as a chauffeur for an important industrial and political person, witness his boss assassination by a people of the South Korean Secret Service. The first half of the movie is so fast that it is almost impossible to follow (specially with subtitles). ![]() The Suspect is the type of espionage thriller that starts very good but as usually happens with Asian movies, loses a lot of time with personal dramas and love / hate relations among enemies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Loner is an opposites-attract romance about a movie star rethinking his career and a bar owner/podcast host who isn’t fond of most people. But to call him mine, I’ll need to leave the past behind and finally allow myself to move forward with him. I don’t know how to be someone’s boyfriend, let alone be in the public eye. The more we hang out, the more I realize I’ll never get enough of him.Ī loner dating a celebrity doesn’t make much sense. When he starts taking me places, it feels suspiciously like dates…and surprisingly, I like it.ĭespite our differences, Sebastian’s lonely like me. We’ve known each other intimately for years, and yet, we’ve never spent much time together with our clothes on. He needs a friend, and for whatever reason, he decides that should be me. Now, Sebastian is back in California, taking a break from acting. A boyfriend he later found in bed with another man. Who knew my favorite one would become such a popular movie star? But Sebastian Cole and I made it work, meeting up whenever he was in Santa Monica and in the mood-until he called it off when he got a serious boyfriend. ![]() Infrequent no-strings-attached hookups have always worked for me. Most of them just let you down anyway, or maybe it’s just that something about me chases people away. ![]() As a founding member of The Vers, a queer podcast I host with my three best friends, I’m “The Loner”-quieter than the others, and except for them, I don’t let myself get too close to people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1978 Diane married her high school sweetheart Greg Whetstone. ![]() Shortly after Diane graduated from college, her mother died of esophageal cancer after a two-year battle. “It was reading that was the most instructive. “I didn ’t write any fiction at Penn, ” she told Penn Arts & Sciences. Diane attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in English. They also excelled at writing, with three of them -Diane included -eventually opting for careers in communications. The McKinney sisters would have reading contests to see which of them could finish a book before the others. ![]() “My father especially was a great storyteller, ” McKinney-Whetstone remembered in Penn Arts & Sciences. The second of five daughters born to Pennsylvania State Senator Paul McKinney and his wife Bessie, Diane grew up in a home that valued the word, both written and oral. After her debut novel, Tumbling, received good reviews and she was well into writing her next novel, McKinney-Whetstone eventually gave up her day job to focus on writing what she found most rewarding -novels featuring vividly drawn characters set in her hometown of Philadelphia. Although she had been a public affairs officer for the USDA Forest Service for a number of years, it took the approaching milestone of her fortieth birthday to steer her toward a more rewarding writing career. 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When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. ![]() ![]() Return to New York Times best seller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.įor years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organisation the Set - with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders - since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. ![]() ![]() Sandals, shades and swimsuits! 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The narrator explains how he instigated a secret investigation of the decrepit town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts-a former seaport isolated from other nearby towns by vast salt marshes-by the U.S. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. ![]() He travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime. Its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight (2nd Edition) (by Langley, Travis) Amazon Review: ![]() Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with "bad girls" he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown? Combining psychological theory with the latest in psychological research, Batman and Psychology takes you on an unprecedented journey behind the mask and into the dark mind of your favorite Caped Crusader and his never-ending war on crime. 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Scarygirl is a psychedelic, dream-like composition of heartfelt stories and reinterpreted folklore based around a cute but slightly odd little girl and her giant octopus guardian, living in a world with bright colours, dream-like compositions and folkloric stories. He is best known for creating Scarygirl, a character and brand that has developed an international following through its online comic, toys, designer products and shows. Since 1994 Australian artist Nathan Jurevicius has worked as a freelance illustrator and artist with many international companies and galleries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job. ![]() ("Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso-who mistakes him for a vagrant-and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. ![]() |