The Deliverator never pulled that gun in anger, or in fear. He pulled it once in Gila Highlands. Some punks in Gila Highlands, a fancy Burbclave, wanted themselves a delivery, and they didn't want to pay for it. Thought they would impress the Deliverator with a baseball bat. The Deliverator took out his gun, centered its laser doohickey on that poised Louisville Slugger, fired it. The recoil wa…
In her treatise on aesthetics, Feeling and Form, the twentieth-century philosopher Susanne K. Langer wrote that Wordsworth’s ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ conveys above all the joyous experience of having such a great idea as that which informs the poem—the ‘excitement of it’ (Langer 1963, p. 219). Wordsworth’s ‘Ode’ …
Every day the factory whistle bellowed forth its shrill, roaring, trembling noises into the smokebegrimed and greasy atmosphere of the workingmen’s suburb; and obedient to the summons of the power of steam, people poured out of little gray houses into the street. With somber faces they hastened forward like frightened roaches, their muscles stiff from insufficient sleep. In the chill morning …
Anthropogenic environmental change and the uneven global effects of mass mobil-ity,eachwiththeirownuniquehistoriesandlong-termeffectsonlifeontheplanet,are two of the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century. ContemporaryAmerican poetry can help us understand some of the complex ways in which thesetwo challenges are interrelated.When connecting environmental change and massmobility,bot…
There are two gazes of Orpheus.The first is well-known, almost to the point of being hackneyed. It is the gaze, full of impatience and therefore untimely, of the lover who managed to descend into the underworld, charm Charon, Cerberus and Hades himself with song, and deliver his beloved wife from eternal darkness and silence. The one condition the singer had to fulfill in order for this miracle…
Love as a feeling is universal. Since we all have a sense for what it means, this default understanding of love is as deeply rooted and unconsciously ingrained in us as our relationship to our own family. Consequently, we are too familiar with it to be able to step back and really observe its form and significance. To really see what love is would require us to step outside of ourse…
All eleven year old Alex Petroski wants is to launch his golden iPod into space. With a series of audio recordings, he'll show other life-forms what life on Earth-his earth is really like. But for a boy with a long-dead dad, a troubled mom, and a mostly not-around brother, Alex struggles with the big questions: where do i come from?, who's out there? and above all, how can i be brave? Determ…
he Age of Innocence (1920) adalah sebuah cerita yang mencakup cinta rahasia, perselingkuhan, dan kehidupan masyarakat aristokrat di Zaman Keemasan di New York. Novel ini ditulis oleh Edith Wharton (1862-1937) dan merupakan novelnya yang ke-12. --------------------------------- Edith Wharton's masterwork captures the opulence and deceit of a bygone era. It follows Newland Archer, a young lawye…
Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To…
I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ...Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella …