Trying to Say Goodbye This is the long anticipated third collection of poems by Adil Jussawalla, who continues to be a seminal figure in post-independence Indian poetry. Jussawalla?s is an intimate but still sharp voice, fearless but melancholic, marked by a darting, wily syntax, bristling rhymes, and an original prosody. Here, he moves across time to address an array of histories, both personal and public. Of Jussawalla? About the Author Adil Jussawalla was born in Bombay in 1940. "Come closer to me, come closer, I promise you, it will be beautiful." Sometimes I wonder if the element that makes a good love story is the very kind of intrinsic impossibility that slits its own throat, the painful don’t or won’t or can’t. Does the sunshine need the shadow? Or does the shadow make up the sunshine? As a lover of old correspondence and a romantic of any time and age before the 80s—I’ve only officially existed since 1983, says Irony—I ran across this bit of love exchange between Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, protagonists of a beautiful mess in the early twentieth century. And how we wants it, how we needs it, how we loves the treasure of writing letters. But oh, how we miss it and mistake it for yet another “precious” we must have. Maybe we’ve hit the wrong mark when it comes to love once again. 80 years (if we’re lucky) gives us plenty of time for many shades of love. If there’s a love-worn cynical in you tell him, tell her, to sit still for a few minutes and realize that maybe we do live, after all, in a world of Yes. Dear Henry, You are right.
From the Summits of Empire IN THE EARLY HOURS OF 15 JANUARY 1934, an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 rocked Nepal and Bihar. Fissures as much as five kilometres deep opened in the earth, exhaling a choking dust and swallowing hillsides and villages. Ten thousand people died without leaving their beds. Although Kathmandu was relatively unscathed, nearby Patan was upheaved; large portions of the prime minister’s private palace were razed, and the town’s Durbar Square filled up with rubble. In distant Calcutta, the bell tower and steeple of St Paul’s Cathedral collapsed, the crash accompanied by a tremendous clang. Since the Gurkha War of 1814, the Kingdom of Nepal had been off limits to foreigners, especially the English; available maps had been entirely the work of Indian surveyors unsupervised by British colonial officials. Despite thick spectacles, Auden had a mountaineer’s eye for what he called “the great Himalayan tide”. For the 1933 Everest expedition, hopes were high. The frantic washing of the grimy fact.
lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016. Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger But in 1966, Udall and his staff had an idea. 1 of 20 Aaron Vincent Elkaim / Boreal Collective
National Geographic Adventure Mag.: 100 Greatest Adventure Books (1-19) A list we had hoped our readers would enjoy turned out to be one of the most popular features in Adventure's five-year history. You asked for it—repeatedly—now you got it: the 100 Greatest in all their glory. 1.The Worst Journey in the World,by Apsley Cherry-Garrard(1922) As War and Peace is to novels, so is The Worst Journey in the World to the literature of polar travel: the one to beat. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
New Tab Paris and literature go together like black polo necks and Gitanes Brunes. Along with its 900 bookshops, 240 secondhand booksellers and 69 public libraries, the city has a string of celebrated café littéraires. The famous ones - Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore and other Left Bank landmarks haunted by the ghosts of Sartre, Hemingway and Stein - may have been hijacked by tourists. La Maison Poesie La Maison, close to the Pompidou Centre, is rapidly shattering the poetry-is-boring mindset. • Passage Molière, 157 rue Saint Martin (0033 1 44 54 53 00, maisondelapoesieparis.com). L'Autre Café This cosmopolitan movie-inspired cafe and restaurant has a colourful history which inspired several Parisian writers. • 62 rue Jean Pierre Thimbaud (+1 40 21 03 07, lautrecafe.com). La Bellevilloise A prototype of creative community spirit this cavernous venue on three floors was built in 1877 to bring political education and culture to the poor inhabitants of eastern Paris. Manga Café Tea and Tattered Pages
List of unusual deaths This is a list of unusual deaths. This list includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers. Some other articles also cover deaths that might be considered unusual or ironic, including List of entertainers who died during a performance, List of inventors killed by their own inventions, List of association footballers who died while playing, List of professional cyclists who died during a race and the List of political self-immolations. Antiquity[edit] Middle Ages[edit] Renaissance[edit] 18th century[edit] 19th century[edit] 20th century[edit] 1920s[edit] Isadora Duncan, ballerina, died when her long scarf caught on the wheel of a car, breaking her neck. 1926: Phillip McClean, 16, from Queensland, Australia, became the only person documented to have been killed by a cassowary. 1950s[edit] 1960s[edit] 1961: U.S.
11 Books You Should Read If You’re A Woman In Your 20s According to Love Twenty, women in their twenties are supposed to read diet books and novels about shopping. I disagree. Here are my suggestions for novels you should read if you’re a woman in your twenties. 1. by Kate Chopin (1899) This classic novel about female sexuality and personal exploration during the turn of the century is one of the first novels to explore casual sex on the part of a woman — a married woman. 2. by Sarah Hall (2007) You should read at least one dystopian novel in your twenties, if only for the reminder that everything could go to shit in a matter of years. 3. by Gillian Flynn (2012) This book is a journey into the musings of a female psychopath. 4. by Jill Grimes (2008) As the only practical book on my list, Seductive Delusions exposes common misconceptions and fallacies about STDs. 5. by Margaret Mitchell (1936) Written about the Civil War from a Southerner’s point of view, Gone with the Wind is a beautiful love story. 6. by Toni Morrison (1970) 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Ann VanderMeer: The 13 Of The Weirdest Short Stories Ever Written The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories [Tor, $29.99] contains 110 tales from the past 100 years of weird fiction collected in a single volume of over 750,000 words. Over 20 nationalities are represented and seven new translations were commissioned for the book. This is the largest collection of weird fiction ever housed between the covers of one volume. A compendium is neither as complete as an encyclopedia nor as baggy as a treasury. Of course, "weird" covers a gamut from the subtle weird to the more outré--and we encountered lots of the weirder material in compiling the anthology. "White Rabbits" by Leonora Carrington (1941) 3 of 14 Carrington was a famous English-born surrealist painter who lived in Mexico for most of her life. Akutagawa was often called the "father of the Japanese short story."
Character Chart for Fiction Writers - EpiGuide.com If you're a fiction writer -- whether you're working on a novel, short story, screenplay, television series, play, web series, webserial, or blog-based fiction -- your characters should come alive for your reader or audience. The highly detailed chart below will help writers develop fictional characters who are believable, captivating, and unique. Print this page to complete the form for each main character you create. IMPORTANT: Note that all fields are optional and should be used simply as a guide; character charts should inspire you to think about your character in new ways, rather than constrain your writing. Fill in only as much info as you choose. Have fun getting to know your character! If this character chart is helpful, please let us know! Looking for more character questionnaires / charts?
12 bizarre real-life places that are stranger than science fiction Science fiction is home to some fantastic societies, from Cloud City to Bartertown. But you doesn't have to leave reality for this—our own world has places so abnormal, they make alien societies seem ordinary. Here are 12 remarkable locations in which people once lived (and some still do). 1. Izu Islands Off the coast of Japan lies a series of volcanic islands. 2. Neft Daslari is a functional city built 34 miles from the nearest shore. 3. One of the creepiest places on Earth, Sedlec Ossuary is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Czech Republic. 4. Temperatures in this Australian mining town reach well into broiling, so the opal miners who live there have built most of their town underground. 5. In 1962, a huge underground coal deposit ignited beneath the town of Centralia, Pa. 6. It's funny how something as boring as zoning regulations could lead to one of the most exciting office buildings on the planet. 7. Inside a spectacular Spanish church sits an enormous glass box. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
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