![]() ![]() I can add so many descriptive adjectives here to convince you that I enjoyed and loved reading Chris’ story and thoughts - but honestly I have no words.įor some people, they may think it could be mundane, however as Virginia Woolf famously argued, within the mundane is the beautiful. ![]() I absolutely love this ‘self portrait’ as Chris calls it and there are so many reasons why I love it. I knew that when this story had first came out I would love it - and I saved it so that all of the books could come out at the same time to binge read them. I stopped at book four last year but I’m going to re-read books 1-3 and read them all to the the finish line this time!įirst book of the year I finished, and immediately it is one of my favourites. There’s something about Chris’ writing which you can’t help but want to keep reading and reading and reading. So, to my mind, no one would want to do those things to me, either. If anyone interacted with me, I viewed it through the lens of my default position: I never wanted to harm anyone, I never wanted to seduce anyone, I never wanted to be noticed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To assist the alumni team in the development of a historical university concert listing, I have delved into my memories of music and gigs at Exeter during my time there aided by my wife, friends, faded memories, and sometimes diaries! I then started a PGCE at Exeter through to 1980 but abandoned this early after deciding teaching wasn’t for me, subsequently having a career in I.T. "My name is Alan Cottee, I studied Geography at Exeter between September 1976 and July 1979. Here's a little from Alan about why he started the list. We'd also love to add any of your concert memories to this page. ![]() If you have anything to add or comments to make, then please contact us on and we will update the list. Thanks to their memories and diaries from the late seventies and early eighties we have begun a list. Now, thanks to alumni Alan Cottee (Geography, 1979) and Paul O'Carroll (English, History and Sociology, 1983), we are starting to build one. While people reminisce about the gigs they attended and bands they saw, we've never had a concert list before. Over the years we have been lucky enough to hosts bands such as The Who, Pink Floyd, U2, Radiohead and Bob Marley. Home Alumni and supporters Memories Exeter Gigs Gigs at Exeter Exeter Gigsįor many Exeter alumni, the bands they saw in the Great Hall, The Pit or the Lemmy provide some of the greatest university memories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not too many Indian readers were familiar with the work of the queer feminist until Zubaan did us a favour and published The Fabulous Feminist: A Suniti Namjoshi Reader (2012), which curates her work from the 1980s, spanning erotica and poetry, fables and speculative fiction. “I would be very unhappy with a fable that made an extremely good point, but which was not beautiful,” she says. Namjoshi’s fables have the zing of rage that has metamorphosed into delight. But the poor, delicate woman catches a cold and dies. ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet that princess too, who is so much the real deal that she can feel a small green pea while lying on top of seven thick mattresses. A woman prays to Lord Vishnu and asks for a boon: “I want human status.” “The god hedged and appointed a commission,” Namjoshi writes. Her first book, Feminist Fables (1981), prised apart old fables and myths and turned them into sharp, jewel-like stories, which glinted with a wicked wit and mocked the absurdities of an unequal world. Namjoshi is a fabulist with a difference her brilliant, playful and subversive work is impossible to stuff inside a box of didacticism. 3 The law must take its course but the Forest Department’s reaction to a friendship between a man and a crane in Amethi seems overwrought.2 Sunday Long Reads: Mukul Shivputra on his father Kumar Gandharva’s ingenuity, Director Homi Adajania on the making of Saas Bahu Aur Flamingo and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So Greek art is about portraying nature, but as Arnold emphasizes, it should be the best nature, so also about finding out what this best nature is. This impulse is behind all the creative activity of man, even in natural sciences and technology, in which we are obviously more advanced. Sweetness and light are for Arnold strongly associated with Hellenism and Greek culture, because he believes ancient Greeks had the instinct to see and portray things the way they really are. This excerpt continues the idea introduced by Arnold earlier about the dichotomy between “Hebraism” (Puritan focus on religiousness and hard work) and “Hellenism” (which values art, philosophy and all the finer things in life). The Latin title of this excerpt comes from the Gospel and means “one thing needful”. James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “The… James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “Ulysses” (“Lest… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.). ![]() ![]() Amongst the animals is one still seemingly holding on to a sense of freedom – the jaguar. The animals are so still they look as though they may be “ on a nursery wall” (Hughes). Hughes’ poem begins by describing animals, usually found in the jungle, now caged in what seems to be a zoo. ![]() In Ted Hughes’ poem “The Jaguar,” the author uses the jaguar character as a symbol of animal imprisonment to convey a sense of animal suffering to the reader. Pride of Baghdad and “The Jaguar” use extended animal metaphors to force the reader to reflect on the concept of freedom and how it is interpreted across different cultures and species. Vaughan and illustrated by Niko Henrichon. The concept of freedom is explored in Ted Hughes’ poem “The Jaguar” and Pride of Baghdad written by Brian K. For some, freedom is an internalized power that results from no restraints or restrictions but for others’ freedom is merely the concept of not being imprisoned or enslaved. ![]() In reality, the concept of freedom ranges across cultures and species. ![]() Freedom is a seemingly universal concept – the idea that one has the ability to speak and act without restraint. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the needs of women sentenced to death were accounted for. The building would have it's own kitchen, it's own hospital- and an execution & coroner's room far away from the living quarters of the condemned. A building condemned prisoners would never ever have to leave. ![]() ![]() This new building envisioned a virtual assembly of death. By 1905, blueprints for a new Death House had been drawn. Rest assured, no one cheated death at Sing Sing! The condemned in the next room could hear all of these details, some as they waited to be next in line. They had to saw open the cranium of the deceased, to discover the official cause of death. God forbid the condemned be still be alive at this point! A mortician's saw whirled in the next room immediately after the condemned was declared dead. If that didn't break'em, the cycle was just repeated. Another 1500 jolt, and the body usually could no longer cope. The body relaxed at 500 volts, trying to cope, even as it broke down. It was a regimen designed to break down the body's ability to deal with shock. Fellow death row inmate could hear executions taking place, as the electric chair cycled from 1500 volts to 500 and back to 1500 again. The original Death House at Sing Sing was a woefully inadequate building. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Photographs are arranged into two series, Subject and Alphabetical. Record staff photographers or by other agencies and published by permission. This collection consists of tens of thousands of black and white photographs published by the Record’s association as a Democratic party-aligned publication were all instrumental in leading to its final closure in 1947. The economic climate of the Great Depression, an ongoing and increasingly antagonistic competition with the Over the next decade, however, various factors arose which lead to the David Stern again raised readership to 315,000 by the early 1930s. Record had begun to decline, but its purchase by J. By the time of Rodman Wanamaker’s death in 1928 the readership of the Philadelphia Record as “one of the best and most widely circulated newspapers in the United States.” William Singerley died in 1898, and the paper then went into the hands of the Wanamaker family of Philadelphia. The paper proved so successful under Singerly that, in 1894, the Record in 1877, and then did so again in 1879, calling it the Singerly, who acquired the paper from Swain in 1877, first renamed it the Philadelphia Record newspaper was established as the Philadelphia Record Photograph Morgue (Collection V07), Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ![]() ![]() ![]() White Trash is nothing if not ambitious, both in its topical range and in the huge array of primary sources it draws on. Although the scope of this sweeping history at times detracts from its thematic clarity, it nonetheless makes valuable contributions to our understanding of the continuous intersection of race, class, and power in America’s past and present. ![]() She argues effectively that the ongoing concern about the “stagnant, expendable bottom layers of society” (xv) reveals that the nation has been defined far more by social class stasis and inequality than by economic opportunity and upward mobility. In her extensively researched and provocatively titled monograph White Trash: A 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg makes clear that fear of landless people of white racial lineage is central to the fabric of American history and identity. ![]() ![]() They’ve enrolled in college, and taken on new challenges. Avery and her best friend are trying to move on and leave their horrible past behind. Avery was supposed to die too, but she narrowly escaped, killing the Harvester in the process. ![]() The small town changed forever when Jeremy Kane, known as the Harvester, slaughtered Avery Blair’s classmates, her friends, and Jason, the love of her life. Last October, corpses piled up in Woodsview, Massachusetts faster than autumn leaves in the dead of fall. Perfect timing for an eerie, atmospheric, exciting read, so get on it! This is HAUNTED, a YA horror coming out on October 11 from Horror Twins Press. ![]() ![]() I have the extreme pleasure of showing you the second book in Jolene Haley’s and Brian LeTendre’s Woodsview Murders series. TODAY’S BREW: Cozy Sweater Pumpkin Apple Picking Fireplace Crisp Air, medium roast Get HAUNTED, YA Horror by Jolene Haley and Brian LeTendre! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mordicai Gerstein (is the author and/or illustrator of numerous books for children, including The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, which was awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2004. The Horn Book Booklist Top Ten Books on the Environment for Youth California Library Association Beatty Award Illinois Monarch Award List Marylands Black-Eyed Susan Award List South Carolina Picture Book Award List About the Author Barb Rosenstock (lives with her husband and their children in Vernon Hills, Illinois. starred review, School Library Journal Wonderfully simple, sweet and engaging. Review Quotes Now a Bank Street 2013 Best Book of the Year and a Parents Choice Silver Medalist! History accessible for young readers. ![]() ![]() Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men saw sights and held discussions that would ultimately lead to the establishment of our National Parks. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. Book Synopsis Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein captures the majestic redwoods of Yosemite in this little-known but important story from our nations history. Camping by themselves in the uncharted woods, the two men saw sights and held discussions that would ultimately lead to the establishment of Americas National Parks. About the Book In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt joined naturalist John Muir on a trip to Yosemite. ![]() |