![]() ![]() I would like to finish seeing what no man has yet seen, even if I have to pay for this insatiable need to know with my life! What have I discovered to date? Nothing, or almost nothing, since we have covered only 6,000 leagues of the Pacific! He hopes to discover new sights and species while taking advantage of the resources that Nemo has. Throughout the novel, the Professor sees Nemo and his incredible submarine as a means to an end. He is using all the means he has at his disposal to convince the Professor that together, they will “embark on a new underwater tour of the world.” He knows exactly what to say to Aronnax to interest him in the scientific discoveries that might be possible on board the Nautilus. ![]() ![]() This quote is directed at Professor Aronnax and is spoken by Captain Nemo. I am going to embark on a new underwater tour of the world-who knows, perhaps the last?-and revisit everything I have studied on my many travels and you will be my study companion. You will not easily become blasé about the sights continually offered to your eyes. Astonishment and stupefaction will probably be your normal state of mind. You are going to travel through a wonderland. So let me tell you that you will not regret the time spent on board my vessel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape – created from her very own dreams.Īurora isn't alone – a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. It should be simple – a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. What if the Sleeping Beauty never woke up? And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. But soon, their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. ![]() When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Vagabond vizbig 1 12![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some seinen manga, I believe, take the meaning too far. Vagabond is the fictitious retelling of the life of one of Japan's most renowned swordsmen, the "Sword Saint" Musashi Miyamoto-his rise from a swordsman with no desire other than to become "Invincible Under the Heavens" to an enlightened warrior who slowly learns of the importance of close friends, self-reflection, and life itself. An itinerant monk, the distinguished Takuan Soho, takes pity on the "devil child," secretly freeing Shinmen and christening him with a new name to avoid pursuit by the authorities: Musashi Miyamoto. Upon being captured, he is strung up on a tree and left to die. He instead finds himself a wanted criminal, framed for his friend's supposed murder based on his history of violence. The pair enlist in the Toyotomi army, yearning for glory-but when the Toyotomi suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of the Tokugawa Clan at the Battle of Sekigahara, the friends barely make it out alive.Īfter the two are separated, Shinmen returns home on a self-appointed mission to notify the Hon'iden family of Matahachi's survival. His aggressive nature has won him the collective reproach and fear of his village, leading him and his best friend, Matahachi Honiden, to run away in search of something grander than provincial life. ![]() EditSynopsis In 16th-century Japan, Shinmen Takezou is a wild, rough young man, in both his appearance and his actions. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Mill on the floss novel![]() ![]() By her own account, Evans used a male pen name in order to be taken seriously by the literary establishment, which often associated women’s writing with “light” entertainment. Many of her best-known novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), center on the interior and private emotional lives of people in provincial communities. She became the assistant editor of The Westminster Review, a left-wing journal, in 1951, which was an uncommon role for a woman. ![]() After the age of sixteen, Evans continued her education independently, teaching herself from the wealth of books in the library of the estate where her father worked. Worried that their daughter would have little success finding a husband, Mary Evans’s parents provided her with an education, which was uncommon for young girls to receive. Like Maggie in The Mill on The Floss, Evans didn’t meet the conventional beauty standards of her day. ![]() Mary Anne Evans (pen name George Eliot) was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, to Robert and Christiana Evans. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Fires by Raymond Carver![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether talking about physical matter or the "material" of his stories, the real in both remains fissured rather than whole, discontinuous rather than homogeneous, pulverized into the quanta or particles of a relentless combinatory process rather than fixed or monolithic. ![]() Then it curled and straightened out." It is that infra-zone below the surface that solicits Carver's gaze as it simultaneously makes him steer clear of nineteenth-century realism-with its eye on reality as it appeared.ĢSuch shifting of narrative territory points to the very direct link between Carver's penetration into the hypo-mimetic forces in narrative and the physicist's "penetration into the world of atoms, hitherto closed to the eyes of man." (Bohr 24). The hypogean slugs which the narrator's neighbor digs up at night and which disfigure the lawn are no less metonymic of a sub-liminal life that "twists this way and that" before it is brought to the mimetic order of his stories: "The slug was twisting this way and that. She thus echoes a self-reflexive Carver who could fix his own "regard" on the sub-mimetic activity, the infiniment petit of the sub-conscious forces he glimpsed under the "smooth (but sometimes broken) surface of things" ( Fires 17). 1"I could see the smallest things," says the female narrator in the story of the same title, "the clothespins on the line, for instance" ( What We Talk About When We Talk About Love). ![]() |