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”At first, when she pushed open the door and stepped in, she saw nothing at all. The only light was from a single green-glass desk lamp which illuminated little more than the tooled leather surface on which it stood. When she took another few steps she saw them, dark shapes in the furthest corner. “
”The welcome of the land to the men from the sea was warm and generous, but a still and dripping shape was carried slowly up the beach, and the land’s welcome for it could only be the different and sinister hospitality of the grave.”
The short film Bendito Machine III consists of a primitive tribe/culture worshiping a higher form of technology that falls from the heavens.
A guide for writers based on the work of Joseph Campbell and the years of research and contribution to storytelling Vogler spent in Hollywood.
One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”
Much of the book is loosely based on experiences of racism in Monroeville, Alabama.
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
If you want to find out what REALLY happened to Rambo, then you’ll just have to read the book.
“Your generalization is beautifully epigrammatic.”
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a strange boy who was staring in at the window.”
A Poem
Quotes
Earth has been invaded twice by an alien species called Formics.
