Rejected Princesses | Julie d'Aubigny: Princess of the Opera (1670-1707) This week we turn our attention to La Maupin, Julie d’Aubigny: sword-slinger, opera singer, and larger-than-life bisexual celebrity of 17th century France. Her life was a whirlwind of duels, seduction, graverobbing, and convent-burning so intense that she had to be pardoned by the king of France TWICE. Read on for more. La Maupin (her opera name, which I’ll use, since nobody’s 100% sure her real name was Julie) had a real piece of work for a dad.
As the man in charge of training Louis XIV’s pages, her father would fence nonstop during the day, and hit up gambling dens, bars, and brothels in the evenings. Given the seedy circles in which he ran, it should be little surprise that his main ideas for daddy-daughter bonding time were a) teaching her how to use deadly weapons, and b) using said weapons to drive off any potential suitors. This paternal embargo on genital contact backfired when our heroine found a loophole: shtupping her dad’s boss, the one guy he couldn’t challenge to a duel. Shade's Children by Garth Nix. Effort Is Not the Enemy of Compassion - Leslie Jamison. My job title is medical actor, which means I play sick. I get paid by the hour.
Medical students guess my maladies. I'm called a standardized patient, which means I act toward the norms set for my disorders. I'm standardized-lingo SP for short. Medical acting works like this: You get a script and a paper gown. My specialty case is Stephanie Phillips, a 23-year-old who suffers from something called conversion disorder. STEPHANIE PHILLIPS Psychiatry SP Training Materials CASE SUMMARY: You are a 23-year-old female patient experiencing seizures with no identifiable neurological origin. We test second- and third-year medical students in topical rotations: pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry. A student might have to sit across from a delusional young lawyer and tell him that when he feels a writhing mass of worms in his small intestine, the feeling is probably coming from somewhere else. Some med students get nervous during our encounters. Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges.
ZY8dKpA.gif (800×600) How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar. When the Ajax made its second voyage in March 1866, Mark Twain was on board. He had persuaded the editors of the prestigious Sacramento Union to pay him to write correspondence from the islands. The trip came at an opportune time: Twain had been getting sick of California and the indigent, itinerant life he led there. Despite the success of his jumping frog story, he remained a poor freelancer.
“I am tired being a beggar,” he wrote his brother, “tired being chained to this accursed homeless desert.” In Hawaii he hoped to find a new world to explore, and the chance to capitalize on his recent triumph. In his four months in Hawaii he wrote twenty-five letters for the Union, watched a volcano erupt, saw native girls skinny-dip in the sea, ate horrifying amounts of tropical fruit, and tried and failed to surf. In the midst of this came Twain’s first big scoop: a journalistic coup that amply repaid the Union’s investment in him. He was on fire, and he knew it. Happily, Twain obeyed. Mikekozar_work comments on What makes Eldritch Abominations like The Old Ones so incomprehensible.
MethylOrange42 comments on /pol/ Putin droppin rhymes. My Russian wife was trying to say "tape measure" : funny. Flannery O'Connor. Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist . An important voice in American literature , O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S.
National Book Award for Fiction [ 1 ] and was named the "Best of the National Book Awards" by internet visitors in 2009. [ a ] Biography [ edit source | edit beta ] Flannery O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia , the only child of Edward F. O'Connor attended the Peabody Laboratory School, from which she graduated in 1942. O'Connor completed more than two dozen short stories and two novels while battling lupus. Career [ edit source | edit beta ] Why psychopathic film villains are rarely realistic — and why it matters. Norman Bates: not the typical psychopath Many of film’s most memorable villains, from Tony Camonte in “Scarface” (1932) to Norman Bates in “Psycho” (1960) to Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men” (2007), have been portrayed as psychopaths.
But just how clinically realistic are those portrayals? Not very — with a handful of exceptions, according to a paper published recently in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. This finding is of interest to more than just film buffs. Other research has shown that films exert a strong influence on people’s perceptions of mental illness. And those perceptions are often wrong. A study published earlier this year found that almost half of respondents to two surveys taken last January believed that people with a serious mental illness are more dangerous than members of the general population. A century of films For the study, two Belgian psychiatrists, Dr. Examples of realistic portrayals ‘Unlikely companions’ TIL that in 1861 a slave took over a confederate ship and delivered it to the Union. He was then given the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war, he bought the very house he was a slave in and became a U.S. congressman. : todayilearned.
Some of my favourite Word Porn. She Thinks Too Much [Such Girls Are Dangerous] OOA8QzF.jpg (2977×2105) For all the imgurian writers out there, The wheel of emotions. Thought disorder. In psychiatry, thought disorder (TD) or formal thought disorder (FTD) refers to disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech.[1] Specific thought disorders include derailment, poverty of speech, tangentiality, illogicality, perseveration, neologism, and thought blocking.[1] Psychiatrists consider formal thought disorder as being one of two types of disordered thinking, with the other type being delusions. The latter involves "content" while the former involves "form".
Although the term "thought disorder" can refer to either type, in common parlance it refers most often to a disorder of thought "form" also known as formal thought disorder. [citation needed] Eugen Bleuler, who named schizophrenia, held that thought disorder was its defining characteristic.[2] However, formal thought disorder is not unique to schizophrenia or psychosis. However, there is a clinical difference between these two groups. Possible signs and symptoms of thought disorder[edit] Diagnosis[edit] Peter J. 10 Writing "Rules" We Wish More Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Would Break.
Kinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service. I give a hearty Here Here for #4! There is nothing wrong with telling a story that fits within the covers of a single book. Honestly, I respect a well crafted short story more than a shelf load of volumes that purports to tell a single story. Remember, the whole Trilogy+ got started when the publisher got fed up with the fact Tolkien wouldn't finish. The moment I see something like "Book One of the (insert name of place or magic item and latin number)ogy", I want to put the book down.
Flagged. Harry Potter Plot Twist [Pic. Lobotomatic comments on “God’s Not Dead,” But this Trope Is. Why the evangelical student embarrassing the arrogant atheist professor trope is not helpful. Carpe diem. Translation[edit] Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō, "pick or pluck," used by Ovid to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of".[1] Diem is the accusative case of the noun "dies", that means "day".
A more literal translation of "Carpe diem" would thus be "enjoy the day" or "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—i.e. to enjoy the moment; however, in its modern-day usage, the "diem" usually gets abstracted as "opportunity. " History[edit] Source[edit] Carpe diem concept[edit] Perhaps the first written expression of the concept is the advice given by Siduri to Gilgamesh, telling him to forgo his mourning and embrace life although some scholars see it as simply urging Gilgamesh to abandon his mourning, "reversing the liminal rituals of mourning and returning to the normal and normative behaviors of Mesopotamian society Meaning[edit] Related expressions[edit] Hebrew[edit] The phrase ?
Other Latin[edit] "Collige, virgo, rosas [...] " See also[edit] References[edit] Aphorism. An aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic (concise) and memorable form.[1] Aphorism literally means a "distinction" or "definition". The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The oft-cited first sentence of this work (see Ars longa, vita brevis) is: Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult. The term was later applied to maxims of physical science, then statements of all kinds of philosophical, moral, or literary principles. In modern usage an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.
Definition[edit] 1. a concise statement of a principle 2. a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment Literature[edit] Two influential collections of aphorisms published in the twentieth century were The Uncombed Thoughts by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (in Polish), and Itch of Wisdom by Mikhail Turovsky (in Russian and English).[2] Society[edit] 13 Passages from Children's Literature that are More Dreadful and Shocking Than They May First Appear | Lemony Snicket. From time to time people say to me, "Lemony Snicket, you write dreadful and shocking books. What sort of writing do you find dreadful and shocking yourself? " My reply to them is always the same: "Please be quiet, I'm trying to read.
" Nevertheless, I occasionally stumble upon a dreadful and/or shocking passage of children's literature that may have passed unnoticed by other readers with less investigative or hysterical temperaments. I am grateful to the Huffington Post for allowing me to point out these disturbing passages so that the general public can be as flushed and sputtering as I am. 1. "Where's Papa going with that ax? " "What happens in the barnyard haunts the bedroom and the grave," said Freud, or maybe it was Old Macdonald. 2. Just when Ms. 3. A stern governess quits and the family descends into chaos. 4. 5. 6. 7. Just as a kidnapping automatically makes a book more interesting [editor's note: Mr. 8. What, pray tell, is Mr. 9. 10. 11. No, it certainly does not, your highness.
Stumbled across a disturbing message by my SO : sex. History of the Salton Sea. A disaster created the inland sea, Mother Nature brought her to her knees. CAN WE SAVE THE SALTON SEA? The Salton Sea region was part of the Gulf of California until about 4.4 million years ago. The Colorado River silt eventually blocked off the gulf and separated the region from the Pacific Ocean.
Over the centuries at least 5 lakes occupied the basin where the current Salton Sea lies. The Salton Sea was created between 1905 and 1907 when the Colorado River broke through diversion canals in the irrigation system in Imperial County. Ancient Lake Cahuilla (pictured above) was much larger than the current sea. The water line of ancient Lake Cahuilla is still visible on the western shores of the Salton Sea near Travertine Point and in La Quinta. The New Liverpool Salt Works began operation in 1885, near the present day town of North Shore. Native Cahuilla Indians and local settlers worked the 1,000 acre mine. All buildings were underwater by 1906 as the basin flooded. Eilers Date Palm Beach. 6 Sexist Video Game Problems Even Bigger Than the Breasts. Some video games are more obviously focused on women's genitals than a gynecologist exam. In games like TERA, a woman's armor is a map of her erogenous zones, defending her from only the most technical definition of nudity.
Dead or Alive uses more computer power to model Kasumi's breasts than NASA had for the moon landings. That's actually not a joke. TecmoAnd the results deal with similar levels of gravitational attraction. But there are even more sexist structures in video games than the armor. Even though that armor often looks like someone trying to lasso twin zeppelins. Namco Bandai GamesOne self-exam and she'll explode. The physical character design can obviously be sexist -- in fact, that's usually its entire job -- but often it's the narrative structures that wrap the player in a matrix of sexism, and these are six of the most common. #6. Naughty Dog Naughty Dog"There there ... it's OK, Y chromosome is here. " Naughty Dog"I love you, dad ex machina. " #5. Nintendo Figurative end zone. #4. Sarcasm. Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt. "[1][2] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence,[3] although sarcasm is not necessarily ironic.[4] "The distinctive quality of sarcasm is present in the spoken word and manifested chiefly by vocal inflections".[5] The sarcastic content of a statement will be dependent upon the context in which it appears.[6] Origin of the term The word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmos) which is taken from the word σαρκάζειν meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer".[1] It is first recorded in English in 1579, in an annotation to The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser: Tom piper, an ironicall Sarcasmus, spoken in derision of these rude wits, whych ...[1] However, the word sarcastic, meaning "Characterized by or involving sarcasm; given to the use of sarcasm; bitterly cutting or caustic", doesn't appear until 1695.[1] Usage In its entry on irony, Dictionary.com describes sarcasm thus: Understanding Vocal indication.
Tangier, Virginia. Neil Hilborn - "OCD" (Rustbelt 2013) 5 People From History Who Were Absurdly Hard to Kill. We like to celebrate extraordinary people, even if their most notable accomplishment is an ability to absorb a ridiculous number of bullets without dying.
Hey, as talents go, it's not a bad one to have. Just consider the fact that ... #5. Jim Bowie Was Immune to Blades James Bowie is a 19th century American pioneer and frontier legend. Hmaag"That's why I always wear my business tie. " For instance, one day Bowie was serving as an aide to one of two opposing duelers. Panicked at the frontier hellbeast charging at him, the shooter emptied his gun at Bowie, hitting him three times. Just long enough for him to remember that he was a T-1000. Seeing Bowie down, the nearby Major Norris Wright (an old rival of Bowie's, who once got into a fistfight with him after denying Bowie a bank loan) saw his chance to rid the planet of Bowie once and for all.
Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters & Fighting TechniquesJim Bowie, in happier days, fighting a bandit while nailed to a log. G.T. . #4. . #3. Just kidding. Explain the various interpretations of Quantum Mechanics like you are a writer for Cracked.com : explainlikeIAmA. Media/library/English Literature/K/King, Stephen/Stephen King - The Jaunt.pdf. What is one lie you must keep up, that you hate, but it covers up a much bigger fuck up? : AskReddit. Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Louis-Sébastien Mercier (6 June 1740 – 25 April 1814) was a French dramatist and writer. Early life and education[edit] He was born in Paris to a humble family: his father was a skilled artisan who polished swords and metal arms. Mercier nevertheless received a decent education. Literary career[edit] Mercier began his literary career by writing heroic epistles.
He wrote plays, pamphlets, and novels, and published prodigiously. The most important of his miscellaneous works are L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (1770); L'Essai sur l'art dramatique (1773); Néologie ou Vocabulaire (1801); Le Tableau de Paris (1781–1788); Le nouveau Paris (1799); Histoire de France (1802) and Satire contre Racine et Boileau (1808). He decried French tragedy as a caricature of antique and foreign customs in bombastic verse, and advocated the drame as understood by Diderot.
L'An 2440 (The Year 2440)[edit] Mercier's hero notes everything that catches his fancy in this futuristic Paris. Political views[edit] How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC: Paul Edwards, Kool G Rap: 9781556528163: Amazon.com. Cult of personality. Is 'Adventure Time' One Big Allegory For Discovering Sex? John Gottman. What technology exists that most people probably don't know about & would totally blow their minds? : AskReddit. Transcranial direct-current stimulation. Transhumanism. Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse. Guts. Time Cube. IAMA functioning, semi-successful, well-liked, and content IV heroin user, AMA. : IAmA.
Dark romanticism. The Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut « Aerogramme Writers' Studio. Japanese-bloodtyping-infographic.jpg (758×4836) I-CVpGd92-X3.jpg (896×1200) Prince Charming. How to Start a Revolution: 10 steps. Do androids dream of electric sheep? Classic Story Types. 7 Basic Types of Stories: Which One Is Your Brand Telling? Five Lessons From a Temporary Phone-Sex Operator. Personality type. Enneagram of Personality. Christmas pudding. Stephen Fry on American vs British Comedy. Why I Never Play Hard To Get ‹ Feminspire. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. 5 Famous Monsters That Are Way Scarier in Other Countries. 5 Gaping Plot Holes Hollywood Knows You Won't Notice. Fourth wall. The 6 Raunchiest, Most Depraved Sex Acts (From the Bible) Joseph Campbell. Ray Bradbury. Facebook.
657/large/ How to Act Sane Even if You're Not: 22 steps (with pictures) Dan Browned. No Guy Wants An Amazon. Humorism. Better Than It Sounds. Four Temperaments. Retroactive continuity. Plot twist.