Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Pickpocket (thing) See all of Pickpocket, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by ellF Fri Dec 06 2002 at 8:10:40 Title: Pickpocket Color: Black and white Country: France Director: Robert Bresson Release: 1959 Language: French, with English subtitles Runtime: 75 minutes Starring: Martin LaSalle as Michel, Marika Green as Jane Synopsis: Often viewed as Bresson's strongest film, Pickpocket is the story of a masterful Parisian thi...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Inception (review) See all of Inception, there are 4 more in this node. (review) by O-Swirl Mon Jul 26 2010 at 20:54:05 "Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange." ~Cobb This movie is 2 hours and 28 minutes long and was directed by Christopher Nolan. The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cill...
Time Cube Article Talk Language Watch Edit Time Cube was a pseudoscientific personal web page founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed "wisest man on earth," Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.[1] It was a self-published outlet for Ray's theory of everything, also called "Time Cube," which polemically claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide c...
Z prompts Wavelength.ai as follows, regarding the story of the Children of Lir, an Irish mythical story. Give an interpretation of that story based on literary symbolism, especially surrounding the birds (swans or otherwise) and their possible symbolic meaning in this story’s context. From wavelength.ai: In this story, the birds, specifically the swans, hold significant symbolic meaning. They represent transformation, endurance, and the longing for freedom and reunion. The swans' transforma...
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...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 coming alive (fiction) by secondchances Wed Apr 04 2007 at 6:55:15 Where the fuck have my balls gone. This is a statement, not a question. "Where the fuck have your balls gone," Eli says. When he says this, he doesn't really care where they've gone. He's saying that they're not there, that you may have never even had them. "How many times have you hit this in training? Don't act like this is hard. Come on, Nate." Hands sl...
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The Oracle of Delphi's Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece Search GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceThe Oracle of Delphi's Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece The Oracle of Delphi’s Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece By Philip Chrysopoulos September 28, 2023 Facebook The ancient Greek oracle of Delphi has given some accurate advice or "prophecies" that actually shaped Ancient Greece. Image: Eugène Delacroix – Lycurgus ...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dictionary of Classical Mythology (thing) See all of Dictionary of Classical Mythology, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by everyone Mon Mar 19 2001 at 4:38:42 The Dictionary of Classical Mythology is meant as a companion to the ancient Greek and Roman myths and legends. The story of every character, whether human or divine, major or minor, is retold here, detailing every version and variation. Naiads, dryads, hamadryads, ...
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This articlecontains plot recap and minor spoilers regarding Only Murders in the Building season 3.It wouldn’t feel like late summer transitioning into the crispness of fall if there wasn’t another season of the perennial comedic murder-mystery Only Murders in the Building. Co-creators Steve Martin and John Hoffman’s New York seems to hone in on the magic of the Big Apple, wrapping you in colorful cardigans, raining orange leaves upon you, and allowing you to curl up and enjoy witty one-liner...
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...
Aldous Huxley's Deep ReflectionHuxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness. The British author Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). With the publication of "The Doors of Perception" in 1954, Huxley became an early exponent of drug-induced alterations of conscious states, a position he maintained and expounded upon toward the end of his life, as he lost his own visual capacity and the psychedelic movement embraced him warmly.By: J. Allan Hobson Enhance rea...
Textiles and Words (stories) Using wavelength.aiMe: There are other linguistic connections between the two concepts of weaving and stories. For example, many of the phrases and words we use regarding storytelling make metaphorical reference to textiles and textile manufacturing. Here are a few examples, and I’d like you to come up with as many others as possible. My examples: 1. Weaving a tale 2. Spinning a yarn 3. Writing in an email thread 4. "That’s a whole different belt of cloth" 5. A ...
Search GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceHistory of Mermaids and Their Origins in Ancient Greek Sirens History of Mermaids and Their Origins in Ancient Greek Sirens By Anna Wichmann September 13, 2023 Facebook Odysseus and the Sirens, eponymous vase of the Siren Painter, c. 480–470 BC (British Museum). Credit: Jastrow / Public Domain Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and lower body of a fish, ap...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 anachronism (thing) See all of anachronism, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by ThatGuy Sun Feb 27 2005 at 3:15:06 Anachronism commonly occurs in films due to oversight by the director or by the writer. It manifests itself showing Scottish warriors wearing kilts before they were invented, cold-war era spies using GPS, and planes during the times of the American Civil War. Generally, bouts of anachronism are overlooked, howe...
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...
Court Comms - Invoking Perry Mason Skip to content Symbolism Communication Court Comms: Invoking Perry Mason 09/07/2023· symbolcomms· Invoking the Ultimate Lawyer, Perry Mason, Barr-Epstein, Epstein’s Zorro Mask Ranch, Ray Chandler/Chand Rayaan, Update: Ravens, Update: Mug Shot of the Century, Recent Court Game: Forspoken, Reader Decode You can also read the rough draft of this post on twitter! http...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Human Heroes in Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Faerie Queen (idea) See all of Human Heroes in Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Faerie Queen, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by Metacognizant Mon Dec 04 2000 at 10:38:06 Human Heroes in Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Faerie Queen IT IS 5:35 AM AND I HAVE JUST FINISHED THIS BEAUTIFUL WRITE UP...PLEASE DON'T PLAGARIZE! Be...
updated: Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am full name / name of organization: Theatre and Drama Network (TDN) contact email: theatredramanetwork@gmail.com categories (up to 5): ecocriticism and environmental studiesfilm and televisiontheatretheorytwentieth century and beyond deadline for submissions: September 30, 2023In her work, A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon describes the term "adaptation" as "[a]n acknowledged transposition of a recog...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Odysseus See also: Ulysses (novel) ("Odysseus" is also a: user.) cooled by Professor Pi (person) by Desk! Wed Mar 29 2000 at 20:48:45 Odysseus is also know in Roman times as Ulysses, and is most famous for his long voyage back from the sacking of Troy, (related in the Odyssey) and the adventures he had on his way back home. The story of his joining in the Trojan War is less than complimentary: Visited by Agamemnon and Menala...
Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...