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Puzzles

July 14th, 2024

Puzzles Episode 1Telemachus Buck Mulligan looks for a face cloth to clean his razor and not finding one in his pocket exclaims: Scutter!(See Gabler's corrected text Ulysses - Line 66, page 4) The explanations I've seen denote . The word is actually an expletive, and is a more polite expression for excrement.I'm melting, he said, as the candle remarked when ... (L333, page 10) seems to be an unfinished joke. It seems the joke remains unknown. Some references relate the comment to Icarus an...

Joseph in the Snow and The Clockmaker

June 20th, 2024

Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker by Berthold Auerbach JOSEPH IN THE SNOW, AND THE CLOCKMAKER. BY AUERBACH. TRANSLATED BY LADY WALLACE IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III. LONDON: SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO., 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1861. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER XXIII. The first Nail knocked in, Peace in the House, and the first Sunday Guest CHAPTER XXIV. Ancient Heirlooms are dismissed, and a new Tone pr...

Hit Man - All the Famous Killer Easter Eggs

June 18th, 2024

This article contains spoilers for Hit Man."People are disappointed when they learn that hit men don’t really exist," explains Gary Johnson. That might be a surprising statement given that it occurs early on in a movie called Hit Man. Throughout the film, Gary (Glen Powell) dons different disguises to meet with people who want to pay him money (or video games or boats) to kill people. But then again, it’s all a ruse, a police sting operation that mild-mannered teacher Gary does as a side gig....

Triangle Of Sadness film review

June 4th, 2024

Skip to main contentABC listen HomeRadioPodcastsNewsABC listen appProgram: Thomas Caldwell reviews Triangle of SadnessProgram:Victorian Afternoons Broadcast Tue 6 Dec 2022 at 8:30pmTuesday 6 Dec 2022 at 8:30pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Presented byJacinta ParsonsTriangle of Sadness reviewEarly in the film it is revealed that the ‘triangle of sadness’ is a term used in the beauty industry to describe the wrinkled pattern bet...

Marooned

May 13th, 2024

Regarding the film Marooned In "Marooned," there is a subplot involving the astronauts’ communication with their families from space. The astronauts are allowed to have brief communication sessions with their wives via a video link, which becomes a source of emotional support and comfort for both the astronauts and their loved ones during the crisis. However, there is some obfuscation surrounding the communication link due to the severity of the situation and the desire to minimize public pan...

Phoenix and Phoenices

April 1st, 2024

Phoenix and Phoenices Copilot answers zas inquiry about "Phoenix" in mythology The oldest referent of the name "Phoenix" in mythology is associated with the ancient Egyptian Bennu bird. The name "Bennu" relates to the verb "weben," meaning "to rise brilliantly" or "to shine"⁴. This bird is often linked to the sun, creation, and rebirth. The Greek word "phoenix" could have been derived from the Mycenaean Greek "po-ni-ke," which may have meant "griffin" or "palm tree" and is believed to be a...

A Jew Hiding Behind a Free-man - A Note on Bernard Malamud’s “The Lady of the Lake” (Part I)

March 7th, 2024

Menu Skip to primary content Search Schlemiel Theory The Place Where the Laugh Laughs at the Laugh A Jew Hiding Behind a Free-man: A Note on Bernard Malamud’s "The Lady of the Lake" (Part I) Several critics have discussed Bernard Malamud’s interest in Jewishness. My interest in his work, howe...

La Chimera - Jennie Kermode - 18918

March 3rd, 2024

There are parts of the world where the ancient past exists in tantalising proximity to the present, where it’s difficult to escape the sense of being a latecomer to the party, scraping a living in the ruins of something greater. From the earliest days of its empire, Britain sought to borrow older imperial glory by presenting itself as the keeper of antique knowledge, the proper heir – regardless of location – to the treasures of Ancient Greece, Rome, and adjacent older civilisations such as t...

Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse Books in Order

March 2nd, 2024

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The British author Colin Dexter (1930-2017) is responsible for creating one of the most iconic fictional detectives: Endeavour Morse, known to millions around the world as ‘Inspector Morse’ (although Morse was always, in fact, already a Chief Inspector). Dexter’s novels, and the ITV drama series that they inspired, helped to make Oxford ‘the murder capital of the world’. Morse’s penchant for cryptic crosswords, real ale, opera, and...

Outer Limits - IFFR 2024

February 16th, 2024

This article appeared in the February 9, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Under a Blue Sun (Daniel Mann, 2024)Now four years into its run under the leadership of director Vanja Kaludjercic, the International Film Festival Rotterdam has firmly established its new MO. Following a pair of quietly inspired online iterations during the pandemic and last year’s somewhat scattershot return ...

Adam Mars-Jones: Space Aria

February 1st, 2024

To capture the world in a day was one of literary modernism’s defining ventures, with Ulysses setting the standard for exhaustiveness. Restricting the action to a single day is a mild piece of formalism, certainly when compared with some self-imposed contortions, but it disrupts standard novelistic workings just the same. Plot can more or less evaporate, replaced by less strident patterns of significance. What happens in Ulysses? Even if you accept Hugh Kenner’s explanation for the unfamilia...

Lazarus Long

January 23rd, 2024

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Lazarus Long (person) See all of Lazarus Long, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Alixtii Wed Jan 22 2003 at 1:36:09 A fictional character by Robert A. Heinlein. Lazarus Long was born Woodrow Wilson Smith (after American President Woodrow Wilson) in 1912 to Maureen Johnson (then Maureen Smith) and Brian Smith. He was the fifth of many Smith children. "Woodie," as he was then affectionately called, was Maureen’s favorite, ...

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust (1975)

December 23rd, 2023

By Jeremy Carr. There has never been a self-referential Hollywood feature quite like 1975’s The Day of the Locust, a twisting and twisted tale of sullied lives, desperation, and, ultimately, sheer madness." Hollywood has always been rather good at building itself up, generating films that flaunt the glamour of Tinseltown, the glory of sun-kissed stardom, and the charm of movie magic. At the same time, and particularly in the hands of more iconoclastic filmmakers, Hollywood has a...

pure - Rebecca

December 2nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 pure (thing) See all of pure, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by CapSkippy Sun Jan 13 2002 at 23:39:35 "Pure" is a novel by Rebbecca Ray, and it was a huge success for young girls and women that remember what it’s like to be a young girl. In Britain, where it was originally published by Penguin Books in 1998, it went by the name "A Certain Age", but it was republished in America as "Pure". The new title is ironic, I guess...

Cruel Frederick

October 24th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Story of Cruel Frederick (thing) See all of The Story of Cruel Frederick, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Thu Aug 17 2000 at 0:56:09 The first story in Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. This Frederick! this Frederick! A naughty, wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten...

Saltburn

October 6th, 2023

LONDON 2023Review: Saltburnby David Katz06/10/2023 - Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to Promising Young Woman is a scabrous thriller about the British upper classes, and those who wish to infiltrate themBarry Keoghan in SaltburnSaltburn, the glossy new film by fast-rising British writer-director Emerald Fennell, screening at BFI London, has "remember whens" and "if onlys" on its mind: nostalgia for the prim and privileged Oxford education of her youth, with its sense of abundant possibility for t...

On Peter Pan

October 2nd, 2023

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Russian Woodpecker

September 22nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Russian Woodpecker (thing) See all of Russian Woodpecker, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by The Custodian Mon Apr 19 2004 at 21:37:21 The Russian Woodpecker Not an avian at all, the Russian Woodpecker was the vast, faceless and distant enemy of most of the users of shortwave radio in the Western World for eight or nine years, beginning in 1976. Folks were going about their electronic business in North America one day (Jul...

Ed Rocks - Everything2.com

September 22nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Ed Rocks (fiction) by sam512 Sun Mar 13 2005 at 1:07:10 "You reckon space is the final frontier?" "Erm... define 'frontier'," replies Ed. It is a typical Ed response. Spin out the question a bit further, buy time to think of a proper answer. "Well, there's nowhere else to explore, right?" "Sheesh. Don't put it like that. That's like saying, 'Right! After hundreds of years of diligent exploration, we microscopic bacteria have ...

Penelope etymology

September 11th, 2023

Penelope fem. proper name, name of the faithful wife in the "Odyssey," from Greek Pēnelopē, Pēnelopeia, which is perhaps related to pēne "thread on the bobbin," from pēnos "web," cognate with Latin pannus "cloth garment" (see pane (n.)). But Beekes suggests rather a connection with pēnelops "duck or wild goose with colored neck." Used in English as the type of the virtuous wife (1580) as it was in Latin.From etymonline.comrelatedly:pane (n.)mid-13c., "garment, cloak, mantle; a part of a ga...

Reservation Dogs recap - full Dazed And Confused

August 25th, 2023

Honestly, I’m surprised it took Reservation Dogs this long to make a 1970s-set flashback episode, but I will just be happy to savor the fact that we got it. Breaking away from the tone and style of the show (though playing with form has long been a hallmark of this FX gem), "House Made Of Bongs" goes full on Dazed And Confused to give us a stoner-comedy episode that illuminates the youthful indiscretions of many of the elders we’ve met through the course of the show’s three seasons—including ...

Welsh Fairytale - Owen Goes a-Wooing

August 15th, 2023

Welsh Fairy Book: Owen Goes a-Wooing The Llyn Cynnwch referred to in this story is Cynnwch (Cynwch) Lake which is located in what is now Snowdonia National Park in Wales. The Faery Folklorist blog reports several different versions of the story, and includes pictures of the lake. Explore: For other encounters with the "otherworld" of the fairies, see Why Deunant has the Front Door in the Back and Einion and the Fair Family. [notes by LKG] This story is part of the Welsh Fairy Tales unit....

Octopussy

June 13th, 2023

June 10, 1983 As I’ve demonstrated a few times in the past, I’m not a Bond guy. So believe it or not OCTOPUSSY is a first time viewing for me. I come to it with incomplete context, zero nostalgia, but also no preconceived notions of what a Bond movie or actor needs to be like. I can view it casually as-is and report that it’s pleasingly silly and mildly amusing. Some of its qualities that some would consider shortcomings barely need to be stated. Roger Moore (THE CANNONBALL RUN) as Jame...

H-Net Reviews

June 3rd, 2023

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Review - John Wick - Chapter 4

March 23rd, 2023

From Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns to Hong Kong action cinema, John Wick:Chapter 4 wears its influences on its bullet-proof sleeve. Yet one of the most instantly indelible moments in director Chad Stahelski’s fourth film doesn’t riff on classics full of shoot-outs and fights; instead, the Paris-set scene is most reminiscent of the slapstick antics of Laurel and Hardy’s "The Music Box." Even more impressively, it evokes almost as much utter glee as that essential comedy short. This franchi...