Shadowmoon
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Shadowmoon
It sounds almost like science fiction but for half a century we all stared down the barrel of an electron gun for hours at a time.
Making Software: How does a screen work?
Fiction is a record of what has never happened and yet absolutely happened, and those of us who read it regularly have been changed and challenged and broken down a thousand times over by those nothings, changed by people who never existed doing things that no one quite did, changed by characters that don’t entirely exist and the feelings and thoug... See more
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From Catherine Lacey’s ‘The Mobius Book’
As guards were hired and prisons expanded, they had to be filled. The people sent to them came mostly from one layer of society, the poorest—suggesting that it is fate of origin, even more than character, that informs destiny. It simply can’t be a coincidence that very few middle-class people end up in prison. Calls like Kakutani’s to leave the pri... See more
Aeschylus
Featured in ancient Greek literature, from poems to plays, the Erinyes form the Chorus and play a major role in the conclusion of Aeschylus's dramatic trilogy the Oresteia. In the first play, Agamemnon, King Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan War, where he is slain by his wife, Clytemnestra, who wants vengeance for her daughter Iphigen
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“Beauty is like war, it opens doors.”
‘Parthenope’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Drives Himself Crazy Trying to Imagine What Life Would Be Like for the World’s Most Beautiful Woman
Just a really bad line from ‘Parthenope’ delivered by Gary Oldman playing a closeted John Cheever
But really, “Parthenope” is just a long movie made by a middle-aged man who almost drives himself insane trying to imagine what life would be like as an unbelievably hot woman.
A ★★½ review of Parthenope (2024)
“To read – and announce oneself as having read – literature in translation is to be tasteful and intelligent, a latter-day cosmopolitan in an age of blighted provincialism,” Perelmuter writes, determined to get credit for reviewing a 512-page book from Hungary while sneering at anyone else who tries.