![]() ![]() Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the set up for the story is for arjun to find a healer and pippa to find celine, but they never actually actively do this (i understand that RA is trying to get the reader to know arjun and pippa better, and i enjoyed seeing them in the land of fae, but it felt weird to ignore the plot that was introduced in the beginning) taking the two old main characters and making them feel completely different (celine and bastian get major downgrades personality-wise in this, for the whole two pages they make an appearance lol) Things that caught me off guard and how i feel about them: - making two side characters now be the main characters (but i ended up loving arjun and pippa, so honestly, not the biggest deal) This wasnt the book i was expecting, there are a lot of decisions RA made that im not quite sure i understand, but i still enjoyed this overall. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both had elder brothers who were also distinguished authors (William James, Heinrich Mann) with whom they had complex, competitive relationships. Both spent much of their lives away from their homelands. Both men wrote obliquely about homosexual desire without publicly acknowledging it in themselves. In 2004’s The Master he took his readers inside Henry James. This is the second time Tóibín has used fiction to imagine his way into the mind of a past novelist. ![]() Flummoxed by the apparent futility of the project, the customs man waved him through. This was an imaginary table plan, an aid to his fabrication of an imaginary conversation, which would, he hoped, tell the reader something real about another writer who had died a century earlier. Among his papers was a sketched plan of a dining room, with scribbled names around the table: just the sort of thing, thought the customs officer, a spy might be carrying. Mann was working on Lotte in Weimar, his novel about Goethe. Tóibín has Mann reflecting that his literary tone identifies him as precisely what the newly ascendant Nazis most detest As they flew low through German airspace, Thomas – persona emphatically non grata in his native land since he had fled six years earlier – was trembling. Last-minute rescue when places were found for them on a plane chartered by the Swedish authorities to evacuate foreign nationals. ![]() ![]() ![]() We walked slowly round between the massive menhirs, while he told me about the place. ![]() Above us the sky arched, enormous, wisps of cloud breaking and forming and flowing through the blue like the creaming of a quiet sea. ![]() Late though the year was, an occasional bird-call echoed above the Plain. The breeze in the long autumn grasses sounded like the ripple of a slow river. This was certainly not the stone circle of my dream. There were harebells in the grass, and the lichens on the tall stones were beautiful in the sunlight, green and amber and furry grey as chinchilla. ![]() In those days it stood unfenced, deserted, small in the middle of the great Plain, but as one left the road and walked to it across the grass the stones reared themselves to their awesome height, and the circle closed round with its own old magic. Stonehenge features in Thornyhold when the narrator, Geillis Ramsey, visits there – it is a quietly pivotal scene in the book. Thornyhold is set in 1948, before the UNESCO World Heritage Site was fenced off due to erosion in 1977. In the meantime, I thought I’d share some photos and a quote about Stonehenge. 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Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-siècle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the year 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bartholomew, who already knows the oobleck's sticky nature, tries to tell the Royal Trumpeter not to touch it when some flies into his horn.The only thing holding it back is the presence of An Aesop about saying sorry, and even then the closing lines about the current weather being the only things that ever should be is subtly sinister. A greedy person bored with ordinary life orders his magicians to summon new weather, which results in the arrival of an ambiguous, borderline-unstoppable phenomenon of potentially apocalyptic proportions. Cosmic Horror Story: If you think about it.The king wished for different weather, but soon found out that it was wrong of him to change things for his own pleasure. 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