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Tafsir Talk 1: The Nature Of The Quran and Its Levels of Tafsir | Perspectives Of A Fellow Traveler

October 16th, 2021

Tafsir Talk 1: The Nature Of The Quran and Its Levels of Tafsir 1 Reply It is said that if you want to talk to God, then you should pray, but if you want God to talk to you then you should read the Quran. As Muslims we believe that the Quran is the verbatim speech of God. With that being the case, it only makes sense that if we want a message from God, that one should turn to the Quran. If the Quran is God’s speech then how should we interpret what He is say...

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (thing) by Tem42 - Everything2.com

June 16th, 2021

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (thing) See all of Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by Tem42 Sun Sep 27 2020 at 0:06:29 Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had a wife but couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he kept her very well. Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, Had another and didn't love her. Peter learned to read and spell, And then he loved her very well. Peter, Peter, Pumpk...

The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Blond Thor: Stan Lee Wasn't Wrong

May 12th, 2021

The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org Articles & Interviews by Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried | Best Religion Weblog 2012 • 2013 • 2014 ▼ Friday, September 30, 2011 Blond Thor: Stan Lee Wasn't Wrong Students and scholars of Norse mythology often roll their eyes at the Marvel Comics version of Thor, with his clean-shaven chin, blond hair, winged helmet and self-questioning insecuri...

Comic mimesis as txt

April 28th, 2021

The Comic Mimesis Mladen Dolar Let me start with a story, which is supposedly a true story, quite apart from its truth‑value as a legend. There is nothing comical about it, quite the opposite, although it strangely verges on the comic. It will hopefully lead us straight to the core of the problem of mimesis and its comical penchant. Against all odds, there is in Christianity a patron saint of actors, despite the ways in which Christianity has largely regarded acting, and th...

On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

April 27th, 2021

In what form should philosophical ideas be expressed? When I was writing my book Infinitely Full of Hope, this question pressed quite deeply on me. I was writing a philosophical study of the concept of hope—but my writing it had been prompted by my partner’s pregnancy, with our first child. The ideas I was exploring did not, therefore, at all lend themselves to the sort of dry, faux-objective treatment typical of peer-reviewed journal articles, where the point is to expand some "area of the l...

Language Complexity in Historical Perspective: The Enduring Tropes of Natural Growth and Abnormal Contact

April 27th, 2021

1 Introduction Linguistics as an academic discipline was born in the nineteenth century. Since that time, linguistics has expanded in empirical scope and undergone repeated conceptual renewals. Despite these developments, however, there is a widespread tendency among linguists to return to premises and prejudices first acquired in the formative years of their field. One area in which this atavistic impulse is particularly visible is recent discussions of "language complexity." The rankin...

Five Tips for Using an Arbitrary Magic System

April 27th, 2021

Image by Tithi Luadthong on Shutterstock Rational magic systems powered by consistent metaphysical laws are cool and useful, but they aren’t the right choice for every project. Whether you want spells to feel hilariously random or your magic is too complex and variable to explain, sometimes it’s more practical to invent individual spells on a case-by-case basis. However, these arbitrary magic systems have some liabilities. Keep them from catching you unaware with these five tip...

Review: Looking for Horses - Visions du Réel 2021 - Burning Lights Competition

April 27th, 2021

26/04/2021 - In his experimental documentary, which triumphed in Visions du Réel's Burning Lights Competition, Stefan Pavlović tells an intimate story of an unlikely friendship The winning film of Visions du Réel's Burning Lights Competition is an unexpectedly fresh experimental documentary. The first feature-length film by Bosnian-Dutch director Stefan Pavlović, Looking for Horses, tells the intimate story of an unlikely friendship that also deals with identity, communication and langua...

Why George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is necessary reading for the 21st century.

April 26th, 2021

George Orwell probably hasn’t stopped spinning in his grave since that Apple Macintosh commercial came out in 1984. You know, the one with the lady in red gym shorts who throws a big old hammer at Big Brother, at which point we are told that 1984 won’t be like "1984" if we buy a certain brand of computer? Since then Orwell has been one of the least *actually* read, most referenced writers of our time, co-opted by political operators of all stripes to provide moral-ideological substance to ...

The Mythos Of The Enigmatic Prester John

April 26th, 2021

Around 1165 AD a mysterious letter addressed to Manuel Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium, began circulating around Europe. It was from a Prester John who claimed to " exceed in riches, virtue and power of all creatures who dwell under heaven. Seventy-two kings pay tribute to me. I am a devout Christian and everywhere protect the Christians of our empire… Our magnificence dominates the Three Indias, and extends to Farther India, where the body of St. Thomas the Apostle rests. It reaches through t...

Shadow and Bone (2021): The Perfect Book-To-Screen Adaptation

April 25th, 2021

When author Leigh Bardugo started writing the Shadow and Bone trilogy, she had no idea what was in store for her. Nine years later, Netflix has adapted the trilogy into a TV series and fans from all over the world are in love with it! Shadow and Bone was released on Netflix on April 23, 2021. Check out the trailer of the show here. The series has eight episodes in the first season. The fans of the Grishaverse expressed their excitement for the show on Instagram, Goodreads, and Twitter. ...

18 Best Independent Bookstores to Visit Across the United States - My Modern Met

April 25th, 2021

Photo: Stock Photos from DON PABLO/ShutterstockThis post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more info. In the classic 1990s movie You've Got Mail, the small children's bookstore "Shop Around the Corner" fights to stay afloat when a large bargain bookstore chain opens nearby. The proprietor Kathleen Kelly, played by Meg Ryan, tells the owner of the chain, Joe Fox (aka Tom Hanks), exactl...

Amos Vogel Eulogy

April 25th, 2021

by Loring Vogel Mein Poppa Maker These words, thoughts This naming and knowing This organization Your light, alive in me. Your gift, now manifest through me, This Standing and speaking This order, understanding, This awe at the mystery This appreciation of the opportunity This sense of responsibility To live To enjoy To take and give pleasure To love To look at things squarely without shying away, without blinders Book dedication by Loring Vogel to his father This...

NUMB3RS

April 24th, 2021

In the Season 4 opening episode "Trust Metric" (2007) of the television crime drama NUMB3RS, math genius Charlie Eppes mentions that he used Gröbner bases in an attempt to derive an equation describing friendship.

When the Writing Takes Over the Writer

April 23rd, 2021

Louise Fitzhugh—author of Harriet the Spy—and James Merrill—the poet—were joined by friendship, craft, and graphomania: the compulsion to write. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh’s iconic 1964 novel, appears to be a book with an aspiring writer as its protagonist, but the writer is the vehicle for the actual main character: her notebook. Harriet’s notebook acts like the broom in "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice," Goethe’s fable (made famous by Mickey Mouse in Walt Disney’s Fantasia). The appre...

What Is the Meaning of a Slow-Burn Movie or TV Show?

April 23rd, 2021

Some movies and TV shows like to take their time with their stories... Have you ever gone to the theater and just been so encapsulated with what you're watching that you forget about runtime? You know in the back of your head it's taking longer than usual for the story to feel like it's beginning, but you also like just hanging out in this world. We call this kind of storytelling a "slow burn." And much like the Kacey Musgraves song, it's quite enjoyable. ...

Booker International shortlist spans not just globe but outer space - The Irish Times

April 23rd, 2021

As one might expect from a prize with a global reach, the six-strong shortlist for this year’s Booker International Prize for fiction contains multitudes and dazzles with its variety, translated into English from Danish, French, Spanish and Russian. Two are short story collections, one terrifying tales of magic realism set in contemporary Argentina, the other accounts of defining moments from the history of science. The novels tell of two Senegalese soldiers fighting for France during t...

Sisters with Transistors

April 22nd, 2021

Sisters with TransistorsSourceURL: https://lwlies.com/reviews/sisters-with-transistors/ American composer Laurie Spiegel steps out onto a fire escape and leans her head over the iron railings, listening. There is birdsong lilting on the wind, the rhythmic flap of pigeon wings and deep rumble of a plane overhead; an orchestral arrangement of the quotidien echoes around her. The music she and the other pioneers of the electronic genre depicted in Sisters with Transistors ma...

The Deepest Dive to Find the Secrets of the Whales

April 22nd, 2021

<Whale sounds: Humpback whales singing> Whales. The ocean’s top predator, a massive marine animal, one of the world’s most mysterious and magnificent. <fade in music> There are many species of whales: Orca, Beluga, Narwhal, Humpback, Sperm whale … scattered across the vastness of the world’s oceans … They have different languages, tribes, hunting techniques ... diverse cultures, behaviors and feeding rituals — some more elusive to document than others. ...

The Pros and Cons of Integrating AI into Filmmaking

April 22nd, 2021

We made an AI listen to 1,000 hours of our podcast... Just kidding. However, this week on the No Film School Podcast: can an AI do a decent job writing additional scenes for Lady Bird? In our final segment, the creators of the new app Dynascore join us to explain how AI can help create music that fits your video. Also: some hot takes on why adding product placement to classic films may not be the craziest or worst idea ever. Please email us any questions at ask@nofilmschool...

Dogs & Their Collars in the Age of Enlightenment

April 21st, 2021

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, dogs were considered little more than 'machines' which performed certain tasks, such as guarding a home or tracking game, but this view changed significantly during the Age of Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Reason) of the 17th and 18th centuries. The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual movement among the upper-class intelligentsia, which encouraged a re-evaluation and reinterpretation of widely held beliefs concerning the human condition. Prio...

Luc Moullet A-Z

April 20th, 2021

A for American Cinema Perhaps more than any of his Nouvelle Vague comrades, Moullet retained a fascination with classical American cinema all through his writing and filmmaking life. Some count with numbers, some others with John Ford’s filmography. B for Backpacking Moullet has stated more than once that his real profession is trekking (which explains his love for movies with people on the move). That cinema is just a hobby. A hobbyist’s cinema then, free of the need to make stateme...

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

April 20th, 2021

A pre-code sex comedy is just as outrageous as it sounds. But Lubitsch’s sense of suggestion is so subtle and delicate that it suffuses the whole film, colouring ordinary lines and sequences with sexual charge. In another musical, the morning-after breakfast song, "Magic in the Muffin", might pass largely without a guffaw. Every object becomes a sexual symbol, its value predicated on the fact that the connection isn’t made concrete. The whole movie talks about only one thing—the perils of tes...

Gary Cooper: Immortality of the Sphinx

April 20th, 2021

[From Luc Moullet’s Politique des acteurs (1993, Cahiers du cinéma). See Table of Contents] The saga of the left profile: Cooper has to always have the most marked face possible… (Sergeant York, 1941) Gary Cooper became famous, most of all, in uniform: thirty of his eighty-two films present him in attire, starting from Opus 5, Wings (1927), till the penultimate one, The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959), and we must perhaps also include For Whom the Bell Tolls, where he is in pl...

A Rifle and a Bag (2020)

April 20th, 2021

"Somi wears a broad smile. She’s in her late twenties—or early thirties, she doesn’t know—and pregnant with her second child. "I think it’s a girl", she tells her husband Sukhram, five years her junior. Somi cooks, washes their clothes and takes care of their first child, while Sukhram is about the house doing nondescript work. They have a pet parrot and raise poultry in their plot of land. It might be the picture of a modest but ordinary family, except for the fact that both Somi and Sukhram...