Pale Blue Eye Review

The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Barefoot Gen (thing) by e2reneta - Everything2.com

Barefoot Gen (thing) by e2reneta - Everything2.comSourceURL: https://everything2.com/user/e2reneta/writeups/Barefoot+Gen Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Barefoot Gen (thing) See all of Barefoot Gen, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Wed Sep 27 2000 at 21:22:43 Keiji Nakazawa's semi-autobiographical account of the bombing of Hiroshima, which depicts a second grader, Gen, surviving the bombing in 1945. Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen ...

Toes in The Big Lebowski

Tow vs Toe