![]() ![]() Her short story “Messages,” published near the end of her life, is composed of snippets of letters she received: The work of being a public figure was neatly summed up, for her, in the never-ending burdens of correspondence. I’m feeling pretty cocky but also trying to maintain my image: gentle, cultivated, enraptured child of nature.” ![]() I’ve still got masses to sort out with family and cousins and children’s culture reps and translators and art galleries. . . . In 1963, she wrote home, from the midst of professional obligations in Stockholm, “I was woken by another TV crew wanting a comment on the cultural situation. . . . Jansson travelled frequently to conduct her duties as the ambassador of Moominvalley, mingling at parties where businessmen wore Moomin ties. ![]() But most of Jansson’s fans arrived by way of the Moomins, a friendly species of her invention-rotund white creatures that look a little like upright hippos, and were the subject of nine best-selling books and a daily comic strip that ran for twenty years. ![]() Before her death, in 2001, at the age of eighty-six, Jansson produced paintings, novels, children’s books, magazine covers, political cartoons, greeting cards, librettos, and much more. Tove Jansson had the status of a beloved cultural icon-adored by children, celebrated by adults. In the nineteen-fifties and sixties, one of the most famous cartoonists in the world was a lesbian artist who lived on a remote island off the coast of Finland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Radical* feminism is a coherent tradition of thought and practice, which Robin Morgan identified with.Not surprisingly, since "gender feminism" is a name invented by Christina Hoff Sommers in order to criticize many different feminists who do not clearly have anything in common at all. "Gender feminist" is not, as far as I know, a term that Robin Morgan has ever applied to herself. GeekSquad geeksquad 15:33, 5 December 2005 (UTC) I'm removing that sentence from the introductory paragraph. ![]() She may, in the early 70's, have expressed solidarity with the burgeoning lesbian feminist movement, but to my knowledge (backed up by her memoir), she did not come out as a lesbian in the 60's. ![]() I'm not sure that she ever "came out" as a lesbian in the traditional sense, though she did divorce Pitchford in the early 80's and has openly discussed her relationships with women in the intervening 25 years or so. For most of the decade she was married to a man, Kenneth Pitchford, and had a son in 1968 or 1969. As far as I know, Morgan did not come out as a lesbian in the 60's. ![]() ![]() ![]() I needed that for my own psyche, but I also wanted to offer my story up to whoever might find something useful in it. I’d never felt so much pressure on myself to get a story right. I wanted to make sense of that overwhelming tangled mess, and I turned to my art to shape my experience into a graphic novel. Desperate, I succumbed, and set out into the dark, tangled forest of meds, blood draws, side effects, and big learning curves.Īfter a years-long arc of frustrations and triumphs, recorded in stacks of sketchbooks and journals, I found a tentative stability that became increasingly reliable. When I fell into a crushing depression a few months later, I realized that no matter what happened to my art (my passion, my livelihood, my identity), my survival depended on stability. Acutely manic, powerfully overconfident, and terrified that medication or even stability would kill my creativity, I refused to take meds. ![]() I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder shortly before my 30th birthday. ![]() ![]() The code for these programs is relatively simple and fills just a few screens. Such networks have a structure modeled loosely after the connected neurons of the human brain. The models rely on a machine-learning system called a neural network. “Everything we want to do with them in order to make them better or safer or anything like that seems to me like a ridiculous thing to ask ourselves to do if we don’t understand how they work,” says Ellie Pavlick of Brown University, one of the researchers working to fill that explanatory void.Īt one level, she and her colleagues understand GPT (short for generative pretrained transformer) and other large language models, or LLMs, perfectly well. A growing number of tests suggest these AI systems develop internal models of the real world, much as our own brain does, though the machines’ technique is different. ![]() ![]() Some of these systems’ abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do-and even their inventors are baffled as to why. No one yet knows how ChatGPT and its artificial intelligence cousins will transform the world, and one reason is that no one really knows what goes on inside them. ![]() ![]() ![]() He gives all of his human prey food, clothing, a knife, and a three-hour head start he himself uses only a small-caliber pistol. Man, for him, is the most dangerous game because Man can reason – making the hunt more interesting. He explains that having grown bored with killing animals, after becoming so skilled that even the most dangerous animals are no match for him, he has turned to trapping men on his island and hunting them for sport. ![]() Zaroff is a big game hunter himself and, having heard of Rainsford’s hunting prowess, looks forward to hunting with him. Zaroff is initially very hospitable to Rainsford, welcoming him to his château, which is surrounded by the thick jungle that covers the rest of the island. Connell’s original story is about big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford who, after accidentally falling overboard his ship, washes up on an island owned by an eccentric Russian aristocrat named General Zaroff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mansfield’s short stories read like impressionist paintings. My favorites were “The Garden Party,” “The Daughters of the Late Colonel,” and “The Singing Lesson.” Some stories fell flat for me, but I thought this was a very well-rounded collection. I am trying to be better at reading short stories, and I saw a blurb about Katherine Mansfield’s short stories on Alice’s blog, so I checked it out and thought I’d be interested too! I enjoyed all of the stories. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Title: The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are having trouble finding the link to add a new thread, try this. Apparently, he now also writes books, including his first novel Legends & Lattes. ![]() Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate. Please avoid all-caps, especially in thread topics, as it is considered SHOUTING. Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. ![]() They are able to edit and improve the Goodreads catalog, and have made it one of the better catalogs online.Īctivities include combining editions, fixing book and author typos, adding book covers and discussing policies. Travis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who have applied for and received librarian status on Goodreads. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Legends & Lattes A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree 22.99 USD Get for 14. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly a fight erupts that ends in Meursault killing one of the attackers. However, in the course of their beach vacation, Meursault and his companions are accosted by two Arab men. He romps with his new girlfriend, becomes friends with a pimp, and even goes on a beach holiday with both of them. In the course of the next two weeks, Meursault continues with life as if the unfortunate incident never occurred. At his mother’s funeral, he leaves other mourners and well-wishers rather amused with his bizarre calmness and detachment. The story commences with Meursault getting a telegram with the message about his mother’s demise. He is a young, ordinary man who seems detached. Meursault is a shipping clerk dwelling in the 1940s French Algiers. However, Camus himself declined the latter categorization. Its outlook and theme are usually cited as anecdotes of the author’s philosophy of the absurd and existentialism. “The Stranger” is a novel composed by Albert Camus, a French author, in the year 1942. ![]() ![]() The Dionne Quintuplets became a more popular attraction than Niagara Falls, ogled through one-way screens by sightseers as they splashed in their wading pool at the center of a tourist hotspot known as Quintland. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the five identical babies, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family-and then, in a stunning act of hypocrisy, proceeded to exploit them for the next nine years. Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, milie, and Marie Dionne mesmerized the globe, defying medical history with every breath they took. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. In this riveting, beyond-belief true story from the author of The Borden Murders, meet the five children who captivated the entire world. When the Dionne Quintuplets were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one exp. ![]() ![]() In Oliver’s part, the once-headstrong academic is presented as bumbling, somewhat creepily inviting two of his crushes (one man, one woman) to his going-away party, where his wife is also present. ![]() Perlman’s chance meeting with a much younger woman on a subway car, in which he intrusively asks her, “Why so glum?” Instead of being turned off, she eventually invites him to her dad’s house for a meal and they end up settling down together. ![]() But while the central romance in Call Me By Your Name is gradually built up over the course of a couple hundred pages, the quasi-short story format of Find Me makes these narratives seem rushed, in a way that is almost prurient.įind Me begins with Mr. Aciman is still primarily interested in the unpredictability of love. Each takes place in a different time period and tells an individual story about that given character. Perlman, then Elio himself, then from Oliver, and finally Elio again. ![]() Unlike Call Me By Your Name, which is told entirely from Elio’s perspective, Find Me, which is split into four parts, is told from the perspective of three different characters: first from Mr. ![]() |