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Perhaps the ending of Candide summarizes Voltaire’s personal complacency. Because Voltaire never directly elucidated his own philosophy, O’Flaherty claims, “It is moreover full of contradictions because the philosophe often leaps from one point of view to another, perpetually governed by the impulse of the moment.” But while Voltaire was quick to find the holes in Leibniz’s philosophy, he never came close to developing a similarly semi-coherent system of thought. Rather he leaves the reader to infer his philosophy from his satire. While Voltaire derisively criticized Leibniz’s optimistic understanding of creation, God, and free will, he never proposed an alternative. The greater part of Voltaire’s thought is embedded within his works of satire, known as his Contes philosophiques, or ‘Fables of Reason.’ Specifically in Zadig and Candide, Voltaire used this fictional framework to satirize and poke fun at Leibniz’s theodicy. Except for his Dictionnaire philosophique, Voltaire’s hidden philosophy must be deduced from his polemical novellas, letters, and essays. He never theorized or presented a system to define human existence. Voltaire never wrote a philosophical critique. Spin, spotlight, & suicide | lenin’s legacy | voltaire’s rationale of reason | comparative linguistic study of john stewart & steven colbert The least appealing thing about it was also how realistically rendered the MCs were. The most appealing thing about it was how realistically rendered the MCs were. It can be read as a standalone.Ī low-key self-discovery story set in Australia with two high school boys who start out assuming they're straight, but can't resist pursuing their attraction to each other. The Straight Game is a slow burn M/M New Adult Romance with the strangers-to-friends-to-lovers trope. This thing we’re doing? It’s just a game. We’re just friends, and besides, I’m 100% straight. But there are a lot of things about Daniel that are impressive - he’s kind, thoughtful, and absolutely gorgeous. Honestly, I’m impressed Daniel’s brave enough to keep going, even when it means kissing and touching each other and taking our clothes off. Somehow our competitions somehow turn R-rated. But as we spend the summer holidays together and our games get increasingly sexual, I’m forced to face the terrifying truth: I might like Tate more than a friend. I can’t say no to a competition, no matter whether it’s a swimming race or an intense match of truth or dare, no matter how much Tate makes my heart flutter. Something about his toffee-brown eyes and fearless attitude immediately draws me in and I quickly learn we have a lot in common: When I’m stuck in an unfamiliar city, attending maths lectures for my final high school exams, I resign myself to two days of boredom. The Spanish Tragedy tells the story of a young soldier who comes home from war only to be brutally murdered while chatting his girlfriend up in an otherwise romantic setting. If most of the cast dies at the end of a play or movie you're watching, go ahead and thank Kyd. The Spanish Tragedy is Kyd's only surviving play, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more influential work. Some twenty years later, William Shakespeare would borrow heavily from Kyd's tragedy while writing a little play called Hamlet (you might've heard about it). Kyd penned this bloodbath sometime in the late 1580s (we're not exactly sure when), ushering in a popular genre that has yet to grow stale: the revenge drama. It's Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, and it's no overstatement to call Kyd "The Godfather of Hyper-Violence." No, this is not a Quentin Tarantino film. Murder conspiracies, a descriptive descent into a torturous hell, bloody revenge, and a protagonist who bites off his own tongue. He tells Bartholomew to summon them, but he objects at first, as the royal magicians frighten him, but reluctantly does so after the King commands it. One night, just as the King is preparing for bed, he gets an idea: to have the royal magicians make something new to come down from the sky. Bartholomew tries to tell him it won't happen, as kings can't rule the sky, but the King insists that he can, and spends several days trying to find a way. Then, in the winter, when the snow falls down, the King starts ranting about how sick he is of all those things, and wants something new to come down. Bartholomew, who by this time has been employed as the royal page boy, is used to old King Derwin's grumpiness by now, but doesn't know what to think when he starts growling at everything that falls from the sky, be it rain, sunshine or fog. The story begins with how everyone in the Kingdom of Didd still talks about the year the King got grumpy with the sky and how it would've been destroyed had it not for Bartholomew Cubbins. This book has an iOS and Android app by Oceanhouse Media. Seuss and is good reading material for all ages. Bartholomew and the Oobleck is a book written by Dr. One of a broken pride, in the search for heart's desire One at the hands of a brute in a brothel, The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?. Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith, One fell from a bridge toiling for children and wife-Īll, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The first poem serves as an introduction: Louis, Missouri, literary journal Reedy's Mirror, under the pseudonym Webster Ford. The poems originally were published in 1914 in the St. Many of the poems contain cross-references that create an unabashedly candid tapestry of the community. The collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town American life. Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters' home town of Lewistown, Illinois. As teens, Frankie and Zeke naively enacted lofty debates about art, which Wilson captures in pitch-perfect ways. Wilson’s witty depiction of a country obsessed with this bizarre contagion-and determined to cash in on it-doubles as a compelling portrait of anxiety. Now Is Not the Time to Panic is the heartfelt culmination of many years (and many pages) spent probing the tension between the urge to make a mark on the world and the costs of doing so-and the push-pull between art’s disorienting and generative powers. They are quirky, fleshed-out figures who seize on second chances to find purpose and connection-often through creative means. Wilson’s protagonists aren’t scratched records, doomed to replay past terrors for the rest of their lives. As if he’s never fully outgrown the hyper-self-consciousness and melodramatic aspirations of adolescence, Wilson’s fiction will have you laughing so much that you’re not prepared for the gut punch that follows. In story after story, he takes what would seem like key ingredients for claustrophobia -damaged characters prone to rumination, flashbacks, and inertia-and whips up something utterly inventive and outward-looking. Wilson’s mission turns out to be outwitting the trauma-plot trap, and doing that with antic energy. Puck made an announcement to the football team telling them to join, but the idea was quickly rejected by Azimio and Karofsky. Will told Puck that he needed to step up as one of the most well-known people in the school, and try to recruit more members, since they were one short after Kurt leaving. Rachel ends up storming out of the session. The rest of the New Directions look shocked while Rachel is very hurt by this and schedules a couples counseling session with Emma for the two of them. This does not sit well with Rachel, who loudly protests the decision, causing Santana to get fed up and tell Rachel that she slept with Finn last year. The week of Sectionals arrives, and when Emma guesses exactly what New Directions' setlist will be, Will realizes it's time to change things up to let other members of the club shine, so he gives Rachel and Finn's duet to Sam and Quinn and suggests that Brittany and Mike perform a dance number at sectionals as well. This fun story is the first of a trilogy, along with Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is perfect for independent reading or for shared reading at home or in a classroom. This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself. Whether dodging a rowdy terrier or keeping his nosy cousins away from his new wheels, Ralph has a lot going on! And with a pal like Keith always looking out for him, there's nothing this little mouse can't handle. But with all this freedom (and speed!) come a lot of obstacles. So when Keith leaves the bike unattended in his room one day, Ralph makes his move. When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride it. In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check in to the Mountain View Inn. The question, for Reese: Were married men just desperately attractive to her? Or was the pool of men who were available to her as a trans woman only those who had already locked down a cis wife and could now “explore” with her? The easy answer, the one that all her girls advocated, was to call men dogs. Join her on Twitter: your copy from | Waterstones | Amazon She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Can the three of them form an unconventional family – and raise the baby together? After being attacked, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and started an affair with his boss Katrina. When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese is intrigued. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode. Reese had scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of the only thing missing was a child. In support of #TransAwarenessWeek we are celebrating the extraordinary Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, coming in January. |