![]() ![]() ![]() Tenía en su casa una ama que pasaba de los cuarenta, y una sobrina que no llegaba a los veinte, y un mozo de campo y plaza, que así ensillaba el rocín como tomaba la podadera. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas con sus pantuflos de lo mismo, los días de entre semana se honraba con su vellori de lo más fino. ![]() Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lentejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda. Quijote de la Mancha En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Que trata de la condición y ejercicio del famoso hidalgo D. ![]()
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![]() The most recent one contains 75 reasonably logical answers to the question, clustered into three major categories. ![]() So where is everybody? That’s actually the title of a book that today’s guest has written and released in two major editions thus far. Or at least it was surprising to the ingenious physicist Enrico Fermi, who first drew attention to the matter. And when you think of it, this is rather surprising. No obviously artificial electromagnetic waves, and so forth. No signatures of relativistic space travel. This is the question of why can’t we detect any signs of intelligent alien life when we look to the skies. Webb has probably spent more time than anyone on this planet-with the possible exception of Frank Drake-pondering a fascinating subject known as Fermi’s Paradox. This week, my guest is British astronomer Stephen Webb. ![]() You can access the excerpts on Ars via an embedded audio player, or by reading accompanying transcripts (both of which are below). The broader series is built around deep-dive interviews with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists, and it tends to be very tech- and science-heavy. This week we’re serializing yet another episode from the After On Podcast here on Ars. Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO reader comments 198 with ![]() ![]() ![]() The Thumb Mark of St Peter – Poisons and widows can sometimes go together. The Bloodstained Pavement – Three people return from bathing but one is dead? This reminds very much of Evil under the Sun. Ingots of Gold – Shipwrecks and Smugglers Thirteen stories make up The Tuesday Night Club or The Thirteen Problems. Many of these stories could be fleshed out into actual books. Of course some of the six think Miss Jane Marple is of no consequence but it is her brilliant brain that helps put the pieces of many of the puzzles back together again.Īs they each tell their own story, Christie takes us on little journeys of her mind and the skill and plot of her work. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge and to which of course they know the answer”. Six people who meet each week and each of the six in turn has to “gets very queer little glimpses of life sometimes, and can’t help speculating about them”. ![]() Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple short stories are a perfect introduction to the character if you have never read any of her works featuring Miss Marple who ![]() ![]() ![]() In also covers the war Theranos waged as the walls slowly started closing in on their fraud. While a number of articles have profiled the big issues - they were lying, duh - Bad Blood does a deep dive into the company’s culture and the thousand small decisions that preceded Theranos’ downfall. ![]() It’s a saga that ensnared a range of tech, legal, political and other industry leaders such as Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and our current Secretary of Defense John Mattis. Over the course of a decade, it ballooned to a valuation of almost $10 billion, but within a few short years was defunct once it became clear their technology was not what they claimed. ![]() It claimed to offer faster, cheaper blood tests from just a pinprick of blood ( see their demonstration on YouTube), as opposed to traditional methods which require needles, lab equipment and technicians. For the Detailed Chapter-By-Chapter Summary, click here or scroll all the way down.īad Blood covers the fall of Theranos, a startup that was founded by Stanford drop-out Elizabeth Holmes when she was nineteen. ![]() ![]() In the days before the Internet, she didn’t let the Atlantic get in the way of finding the books she wanted. This area of London is renowned for its secondhand and antiquarian bookshops (though no.84 is now, I am sad to say, a Pizza Hut) and Hanff found their advert in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1949. It is the non-fiction letters between Hanff and Frank Doel, who worked in Marks & Co bookshop on Charing Cross Road. There can’t be many bibliophiles who aren’t already aware of this gem, but for the sake of this review I will assume there are some. ![]() ![]() And, of course, 84 Charing Cross Road appears in the latter category. Either they are an introduction to brilliant memoirs that were undiscoverable and unknown, or they give the opportunity to have much-loved classics in that inimitably lovely series. ![]() Slightly Foxed Editions – and I never tire of saying how beautiful they are – offer two different, wonderful things to the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the beginning Grace was the distraction Logan needed in order to keep his mind away from Hannah. ![]() Their meeting was totally coincidence but soon they discover they have a lot of fun together. And somehow Grace and Logan make sense and they are my favorite couple in the series. Our heroine, Grace, is a virgin freshman, who is socially awkward and tends to start blabbing when she is around hot guys. So in order to avoid all the hurt and pain, Logan uses booze and sex as a coping mechanism. Plus like this isn’t enough, he also has a huge crash on his best friends girlfriend Hannah. His father is an alcoholic and he depends on Logan and his brother, and Logan is not looking forward to graduate and go back home to take care of his father. From outside his life seems all rainbows and sunshine but in reality not so much. He is a guy, who will sacrifice anything for the people he loves and cares. Logan is a junior and star player of Briar’s hockey team. The second book of the ‘Off-Campus’ series is about Logan aka ‘The Abbreviation King’ and Grace. ![]() ![]() Persuasively argued, and rooted in close readings – particularly of Keegan’s Small Things Like These – this is an edited version of the 2022 New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture, delivered at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on 22 October. ![]() It is also about eschewing big themes or strongly-held opinions, and instead “striving towards an actionless state of being”. Knausgaard considers how best to achieve this – through the emotional realism of Lawrence, or the more experiential modernism of Joyce and Woolf? For the latter two, “it was about getting near to the moment – and in the moment there is no story, only actions and thoughts”. The form’s power lies in its openness, he writes, its capacity to defy the absolutes of politics, philosophy or science: “It pulls any abstract conception about life… into the human sphere, where it no longer stands alone but collides with myriad impressions, thoughts, emotions and actions.” ![]() Why do we read? In this essay, the Norwegian author explores meaning and purpose in the novel, from the work of Claire Keegan to Dostoevsky and DH Lawrence. ![]() ![]() In this case, partly because I hadn’t been able to do the research I usually put into my historical novels, I was stuck on Chain of Gold and I turned to writing Queen of Air and Darkness, partly to free up my writer’s block. And sometimes what that means is that in order to rediscover joy in the writing process I have to put aside something I’m stuck on and work on something else. ![]() Writing is both my job and what I love to do most. During the last year, I’ve had to deal with all three - several bouts of pneumonia, the death of my stepfather, and some pretty bad writer’s block. Writer’s block, illness, family tragedies - these are all things we can’t schedule for, and that delay or reschedule us. ![]() One of the things about being an artist, though, is that try as we might, life always gets in the way of our schedules. You can see a pretty accurate interpretation of the schedule here on tumblr. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() That’s when the sparks fizzle out thanks to the cold water of professional conflict. ![]() Sparks do occasionally fly with Maggie, and the two get saved by the bell on more than one occasion until the end of the series. They were driven apart by his drug use and the general demands of his career, and with Mickey clean and sober, he seems to have eyes on getting his family back and being a full-time father to his daughter. ![]() Throughout the first season, it seems as though she and Mickey are angling towards a reunion. Of course, Lorna won’t be working for Mickey for long once she goes back to law school, but there seems to be no real reason for Mickey to stand in the way of her dreams and help her get past legal aid status.Īs for first wife Maggie “McFierce” McPherson, things aren’t so cut and dry. There’s no real drama there Lorna works for Mickey, she’s engaged to Cisco, and everyone seems happy with this arrangement. When it comes to second wife Lorna, it seems as though both she and Mickey realize that their relationship, and their marriage, was a big mistake. Anyone with two ex-partners is going to run into complications, particularly when you share a child with one and share a business with another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What ties the various parts together is Mather’s millenarian theme of Christ’s imminence, of which Satan’s plot is the best evidence. While exposing Satan’s plot to overthrow New England’s churches, Mather also recommends his father’s caveat Cases of Conscience (1693), thus effectively rejecting the use of “spectral evidence” as grounds for conviction and condemning confessions extracted under torture. Mather’s Wonders, however, does not end without a due note of caution. Governor William Stoughton, with a disquisition on the devil’s machinations described by the best authorities that the subject affords, with a previously delivered sermon at Andover, and with his own experimentations. Before Mather excerpts the six most notorious cases of Salem witchcraft, he buttresses his account with the official endorsement of Lt. On the one hand, Wonders is New England’s official defense of the court’s verdict and testimony to the power of Satan and his minions on the other, it is Mather’s contribution to pneumatology, with John Gaul, Matthew Hale, John Dee, William Perkins, Joseph Glanville, and Richard Baxter in the lead. Cotton Mather’s mythic image rests largely on his involvement in the Salem witchcraft debacle (1692–93) and on his Wonders of the Invisible World (1693). ![]() |