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![]() ![]() McLuhan says "Indeed, it is only too typical that the 'content' of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium". The content of the medium is a message that can be easily grasped and the character of the medium is another message which can be easily overlooked. McLuhan uses the term 'message' to signify content and character. ![]() He showed that artifacts such as media affect any society by their characteristics, or content. McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. " The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. The phrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan ![]() ![]() ![]() How could Alex do this to me? Yes, I knew what the circumstances were, and I knew what I was-a girl who had gotten stuck harboring a world-saving star’s energy inside her. The ache hurt so bad that I thought my heart was going to actually stop beating. The only problem with my “I was dead theory” was that if I was dead, then why could I feel pain blazing in my leg-the exact leg Stephan had stabbed me in? Was feeling pain possible after you died? But if I wasn’t dead, and instead my memory had been erased, along with my emotions, then why did my heart ache from Alex’s betrayal? But how could I tell for sure if I’d died, or if I was still thriving? I mean was there really a difference between death and losing every ounce of who you are? That the memoria extracto-or whatever the heck that memory removing rock Stephan had used on me was called-had taken my life, instead of wiping away my mind. Time felt nonexistent.Īfter awhile, I started to convince myself that I must be dead. I might have been here for years, month, days, or even just a few seconds. ![]() Where this dark place was, or how long I’d been here, I didn’t know. No, this darkness was heavy and thick, and it wove into my body making my skin damp, and my limbs heavy. I wasn’t sure of anything.īlackness swallowed me whole, and not the kind of blackness that comes from being in a dark room. Perhaps alive in the sense that I was still breathing, but was I even breathing? I wasn’t sure. I wasn’t sure whether I was dead or alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Murakami wastes no time explaining the first part: Tsukuru means “to make” or “to create” (depending on which Chinese character one uses to write it). But I compare Murakami to Irving above because I think the two are similar in that they practise the art of character-driven stories almost lacking in plot. ![]() Like any categories, these are generalizations, and there are always exceptions and shades of grey and fine lines. We talk about character- versus plot-driven fiction a lot. It’s the kind of novel I can sit down and read for hours without a break, if I have the time, and despite almost nothing ever happening in the modern sense we spoiled readers are accustomed to … I wanted to keep reading, to find out what would not happen next. Whereas Irving seems determined to wrap his characters in layers of the complex darkness of the human soul, Murakami instead proffers to his characters hope for a more optimistic resolution.Ĭolorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is not difficult to follow, and it is very moving and very reassuring. Both authors produce profoundly character-driven novels, often centred on young men trying to find their way through a life clouded by attachments to a deep past. Are you familiar with the works of John Irving? Then you’ll be familiar with the works of Haruki Murakami-because this is perhaps the antithesis of Irving in many ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() In late 1774, he was initiated a freemason of the Premier Grand Lodge of England. He succeeded Oliver Goldsmith at the Royal Academy as 'professor in ancient history' (honorary but prestigious). Johnson's Literary Club, and looked in from time to time on his friend Holroyd in Sussex. ![]() He took to London society quite easily, and joined the better social clubs, including Dr. By February 1773, he was writing in earnest, but not without the occasional self-imposed distraction. His father died in 1770, and after tending to the estate, which was by no means in good condition, there remained quite enough for Gibbon to settle fashionably in London at 7 Bentinck Street, independent of financial concerns. ![]() The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 17. ![]() Edward Gibbon ( – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. ![]() ![]() All these clothes and items that we own but never use creates a clutter that generates stress and thereby becomes an energy thief in our everyday lives.Ĭourtney Carver’s Project 333 is a fashion challenge that anyone can join – and it’s a perfect opportunity for someone who’s been wanting to cut down on their consumption and become more aware of their consumption patterns. The initiative is based upon the idea that we all own and buy too much – while only using a small fraction of it all. Project 333 is an initiative founded by author, blogger and minimalist Courtney Carver on IG). But what is project 333 and what’s the buzz all about? ![]() Right now there’s a lot of buzz online surrounding the Project 333 challenge which starts today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read, and eventually wrote, for small, smart, special publications: Bitch Magazine, the Hairpin, Jezebel, the Toast. As a teenager in 2010, and a college student in the following years, the feminist blogosphere kept me company and lit fires in my belly. It felt good to be a little girlboss in training, and it felt good to be a feminist. I believed in the other boats, other faceless, nameless women, I’d raise with my tide. Excitingly, this wouldn’t only be a win for me, someone destined to become yet another white girl with a bachelor’s degree, but, because I was determined to shatter a glass ceiling or two, a win for all of feminism! I believed in work: in its ability to set me free. I went to excellent public K–12 public schools, where most kids’ families had more money than mine and the clearest route to overcoming my modest circumstances was being a star student, getting into a great college, and landing a prestigious and high-paying job. I was a precocious, lonely kid who loved to read and write - somebody already prone to think she’s the main character - and I dreamed of winning a Pulitzer Prize and escaping my parents, whichever came first. ![]() ![]() “When I wrote Rubyfruit Jungle in 1971 (the year I wrote it was not the year it was published), the only way to begin to understand your situation was to take the label given to you by others, a label devised centuries if not millennia before, and to understand how this became hardened oppression. Some of her words are so perfect that I can only repeat them here word for word: The particular version I own has a wonderful introduction by Rita Mae Brown herself, written in 2015. ![]() Rubyfruit Jungle was written in 1976, a breakthrough lesbian novel (though Brown herself would argue that this is a story about people in general, not a subsection of society) that has no doubt helped to shape modern queer literature. The only LGBT section I remember seeing in our island library were medical textbooks (and this was in the 90’s/00’s!) ![]() ![]() My god, how I could have done with this book when I was younger – but how out of the question it was at the time to get hold of queer literature (or anything on the periphery). I wanted to start this review with the words ‘Growing up gay is hard.’ And while every part of that is true, it’s not in the spirit of Rubyfruit Jungle, which celebrates a shrugging off of oppression, the adventure of self-discovery, and the shredding of labels and limits. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With all this going on, it’s just a matter of time before Carbonel’s old nemesis Grisana-accompanied by her slyboots daughter Melissa-hatches a plan to take control of Carbonel’s kingdom once and for all. Even worse, Calidor has apprenticed himself to the witch-in-training Mrs. It seems that his son Calidor has rejected his princely status for the love of a streetwise cat named Wellingtonia (also known as Dumpsie). And it’s a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and John’s help. Sure enough, Carbonel’s human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. “There are many kinds of magic.and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic,” says the royal cat in Carboel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of what happens is told here by one of the few people lucky enough to escape the disaster:- (original cost 2'6). But when a sudden universal disaster turns those conditions upside down, then the triffids, seizing their opportunity, become an active and dreadful menace. So long as conditions give the mastery to their human directors, they are a valuable asset to mankind. The triffids are grotesque and dangerous plants, over seven feet tall, originally cultivated for their yield of high-grade oil. Not only does he make his story seem scientifically possible, but the characters he creates are living people shaken out of the civilization they know into the horror of a world dominated by triffids. It is fantastic, frightening, but entirely plausible for John Wyndham combines an extraordinarily inventive imagination with the technical skill of a first-class writer. ![]() Penguin Books #993:- Synopsis: 'The Day Of The Triffids' is one of the very few books of its kind that can stand comparison with 'The War Of The Worlds', 'The Time Machine', and the other astonishing science-novels of H G Wells. The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham - Penguin Books Australia Play sample Published: 14 November 2016 ISBN: 9780241284674 Imprint: Penguin Classics Format: Hardback Pages: 256 RRP: 35. It was not until after the war that he began to focus on the themes of disaster, invasion, and evolution under the name of John Wyndham and created two of the most well-known stories of our time-The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos. © 1951: A stand-alone novel by John Wyndham. John Wyndham wrote several short stories before World War II under various names, including Lucas Parkes, John Harris, and Lucas Beynon. ![]() |