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Summary of The Ear the Eye and the arm by Nancy Farmer
Certainly! "The Ear, the Eye, and The Arm" by Nancy Farmer is a captivating science fiction novel set in the year 2194 in Zimbabwe. Let me provide you with a detailed summary: 1. Setting and Characters: The story unfolds in Harare, the dense and crime-ridden capital of Zimbabwe. Three siblings—Rita, Kuda, and Tendai—are the protagonists. They are held captive by the ruthless General Matsika, who seeks to eradicate crime from the country. 2. Escape and Mutant Detectives: The childr...
Parts of the Body in Non-Protagonist-Centered Fiction
This essay was first published last month in our subscriber-only newsletter. To receive the monthly newsletter and to support Full Stop’s original literary criticism, please consider joining us on Patreon. Three forearms and one hand. Engraving after C. Le Brun. It’s hard to underestimate how thoroughly human experience is now dominated by individual psychology. The way each of us thinks and feels ab...
New study reveals that Europe Bog Bodies stretched into the Middle Ages
An international team of archaeologists have analysed hundreds of ancient human remains found in Europe’s wetlands, revealing these "bog bodies" were part of a tradition that spanned millennia. People were buried in bogs from the prehistoric period until early modern times. The team also found that, when a cause of death could be determined, most met a violent end. Several bog bodies are famous for being extremely well-preserved, such as Lindow Man from the United Kingdom, Tollund Man fr...
Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation - Broadway World
Film at Lincoln Center announces The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice, from January 5-14. Widely hailed as one of this century's great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele's era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif and home-invasio...
Bodies Bodies Bodies review – winning Gen Z satirical slasher movie
At first, the highly neurotic, smartphone-dependent Gen Z rich kids assembled for a mansion party in this frenzied American horror-comedy made me want the killing to start quickly. Happily that’s how director Halina Reijn wants you to feel. Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) are a new girl couple whose arrival is begrudged by their host, David (Pete Davidson), his pretentious girlfriend, Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), Sophie’s ambitious ex, Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), and podcast que...
Terrors of the Flesh - The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film
In Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, David Huckvale traces body horror in cinema back to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, who states that a human takes pleasure and suffers pain only by means of the senses or the organs of the body (p. 1). Such a corporeal philosophy, Huckvale continues, strongly anticipates Friedrich Nietzsche, who was eager to have a positive attitude towards life despite its horrors. This book, then, aims to explore the profound anxieties we ...
Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS
[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...
Language and the Sensing Body - How Sensoriality Permeates Syntax in Interaction | Communication
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Peculiar Shocks
My cover design for Body Shocks, the body-horror story collection edited by Ellen Datlow, appeared here back in March. Now that the book is out from Tachyon I can show some of the interior design. In the earlier post I mentioned cover drafts that featured anatomical illustrations, none of which worked as well as the eyeball collage that became the final cover. The rejected pieces were better suited to the interior which combines engraved illustrations with the kind of sans-serif typography yo...
Structural Play: 8 Books That Challenge Genre and Style
My novel Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, out now from Feminist Press, is a coming-of-age novel in which the styles and modes seem to grow up (or refuse to) with its protagonist. The former head detective of a juvenile friend-group series modeled after The Baby-Sitters Club (crossed with Nancy Drew and Goosebumps), Margaret has aged out of this genre and "graduated" to a young adult problem novel. Her path includes adventures in queer body horror and an escape to the realm of aut...
The Secret Life of words and The Piano - brief film analyses
[link ] The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) and The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, 2005) are bookended by a peculiar voice-over, a childlike voice that surrounds the stories of the two protagonists, Ada and Hanna respectively. In The Piano, this narration is presented as the "voice of the mind" of Ada, who stopped speaking when she was six years old for reasons unknown even to herself. In The Secret Life of Words, the voice belongs to Hanna's dead daughter, an omniscient narration about...
Frontiers | Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in Talk | Communication
Suspending Syntax: Bodily Strain and Progressivity in TalkDepartment of Culture and Society, Linköping University, Linköping, SwedenPeople speak not only under relaxed conditions but also during strenuous activities, and grammatical resources can be used to achieve displays of strain. This study looks at the relationship between progressivity of talk and bodily strain, focusing on the practice of temporarily suspending syntax while the speaker is accomplishing a physically challenging task. B...
Body language of liars Part 2 – The Mast Online - themastonline.com
[By Humphrey M Kapau] When it comes to baking lies in the kitchen of manipulation using the oven of deception, humans are always the defending champions. The trophy always comes home. In fact, some lies that humans produce are as compacted as Zambian traditional bread made from sorghum or millet flour. Other lies are made puffy, airy, spongy and attractive like fried cakes (fritters). Professional liars even bake lies like some wedding cakes by layering, compacting and hardening t...
Soiled, Torn, Dead
Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...
Body Heat - script text analysis
Page One: ‘Body Heat’ (1981) https://scottdistillery.medium.com/?source=post_page-----3892cc787e6a-------------------------------- Scott Myers Feb 15 · 1 min read Written by Lawrence Kasdan The movie version of the opening: I still remember that opening line in the script from when I first read it back in the early 90s: Flames in the night sky. First image. Sentence fragment. A visual reference to heat and passion, right from the very beginning of the screenplay. Atmosphere. Tone. Visual. ...
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OUR EARLY FOREBEARS Continue to be very good at getting in the news. In 2003, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, a team of archaeologists invest igating the movement of humans from Asia to Australia tound a nearly intact small skeleton of what turned out to be an entire ly new kind of human being: Homo fiores iensis. The fact that its body was diminutive caused it to be immediately given the idiot ic nickname 'hobbit' - because nothing re sembles Tolkien's stolidly Anglo agrarians so much ...
