#4 The Nantucket whaling industry was the first to use sperm whales for oil, which was much better than the right whale oil. They had good reason to be superstitious, as the sea was an unpredictable force that could destroy their lives at any moment. #3 Nantucket was a small island that was home to many superstitious people, who were afraid of the sea. In July 1819, a comet appeared in the night sky, and islanders speculated that it was a sign of something unusual about to happen. #2 The Essex was a ship that had a reputation for being lucky. With whale-oil prices steadily climbing, the village of Nantucket was on its way to becoming one of the richest towns in America. #1 The Essex was one of a fleet of more than seventy Nantucket whaleships in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in 1819. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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Walter Anderson (1903-1965) was a shamanic artist who painted the life and landscapes of the Gulf Coast Islands, often camping there for days at a time. At a recent visit to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS, I happened upon an interactive board full of sticky notes. I too, can’t help but read how visitors feel about exhibits. She calls this “the sticky-note effect” ( Exploring the Sticky Note Effect, available online at ). Sara Devine, Director of Visitor Experience and Engagement at the Brooklyn Art Museum ( great job title btw), went even further in her observation that visitors were more interested in the hand-written notes that other visitors wrote than the expensive labels placed within their exhibit. I’ve noticed in my travels to art museums that they are including more ways for visitors to contribute their thoughts, or drawings, or expressions of how a certain topic or art piece may make them feel. Larry Beck and Ted Cable wrote in their excellent book Interpretation for the 21 stCentury (2002) that “research has shown that interactive exhibits of any sort are more effective at attracting and holding attention, and enhancing learning, than passive exhibits” (p.87). No documents ever get lost, the court forgets nothing. No-one familiar with the court would believe it. Seen from outside it can sometimes seem that everything has been long since forgotten, the documents have been lost and the acquittal is complete. It's impossible to know exactly what's happening while this is going on. Apart from that, proceedings go on as before, the court offices continue their business and the case gets passed to higher courts, gets passed back down to the lower courts and so on, backwards and forwards, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, to and fro. When that happens, nothing has changed except that the case for your innocence, for your acquittal and the grounds for the acquittal have been made stronger. With an apparent acquittal it's different. If there's an absolute acquittal all proceedings should stop, everything disappears from the process, not just the indictment but the trial and even the acquittal disappears, everything just disappears. The Victorian society was struggling with the morality that had been imposed upon them by the previous generation. The timing was perfect for releasing such a tale. The American first edition is the true first edition because it preceded the London edition by three days This book was released in 1886 and at first none of the bookshop wanted to carry the book because of the subject matter, but a positive review had people flocking to the stores to read this sinister tale of hubris overcoming reason. He has unleashed a power from within that is turning out to be too formidable to be properly contained. Henry Jekyll is a brilliant man who in the course of trying to understand the human psyche has turned himself, with tragic results, into a guinea pig for his experiments. The stage adaptation opened in London in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance rather of a leap of welcome. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. ”It came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll. The novel is presented as a historical true-crime, in the form of a diary from 1863 kept by a young man, Richard Shenstone, who finds himself "rusticated" – expelled from Cambridge for an offence whose seriousness is only gradually revealed. It shares a number of similarities with its predecessor, The Unburied, including its setting: a Victorian murder mystery, complete with hidden scandals, desolate mist-wreathed marshes, lost documents and a contested inheritance. His output since then has been sporadic – Rustication is his first novel in more than 10 years and only the second published in the UK since The Quincunx. C harles Palliser's debut novel, The Quincunx, was a vast and complex homage to the Victorian novel, full of interlinked puzzles and a Dickensian cast of characters, that became an international bestseller in 1989. Nevertheless, while outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery. Today’s planetary ecological crisis is a direct result of this plundering and pollution of the earth. The world has become a sink in which to pour industrial wastes using the cheapest form of disposal. The Industrial Revolution, as Karl Marx indicated in the nineteenth century, was made possible by means of the brutal enclosure of the commons in England together with the even more barbaric colonization abroad carried out by the European powers, encompassing “the discovery of gold and silver in the Americas, the extirpation, enslavement, and entombment in mines of the indigenous population of those continents, the beginnings of the conquest and plunder of India, and the conversion of Africa into a preserve for the commercial hunting of blackskins.” Taken together, these forms of “original expropriation” formed the historical basis for the “genesis of the industrial capitalist.” 2įrom the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the present day, capitalism has plundered natural as well as human resources with abandon, squandering fresh water, soil, forests, fisheries, and mineral deposits. Capitalism has always been based on the expropriation of land, resources, and human lives in order to create the conditions for the exploitation of labor. The book is written from the perspective of Marlee and from the very first chapter she explains that she likes to use hashtags when describing her life. Something to be warned(?) about going into this book is that there is an overwhelming use of hashtags. Admittedly I’m on my period and my hormones are all over the place so interpret that as you will. While the book was full of sex, laughter, and genuinely happy moments, the low moments still found a way to tug at all of my heart strings and leave me a mess on my living room couch. I figured nothing could go wrong with a punny book. I felt like Intercepted would be a good choice because…well…the title is a pun. With everything happening in the world, I decided that I needed to take care of my mental health and read (what I thought would be) a feel-good Black romance novel. When it becomes clear that both of them have lingering feelings for each other, Marlee must decide if dating Gavin is worth breaking her vow and worth the drama. Keeping this promise shouldn’t be too hard except old-flame and star quarterback Gavin Pope has just transferred to Chris’ team. But when a minor computer mix-up results in Marlee discovering that Chris has been cheating on her with several other women, she leaves and vows to never date another athlete again. Marlee Harper has been the girlfriend of NFL-star Chris Alexander for the last ten years of her life and still has no ring to show for it. The book is told between present day and the past, as Evelyn tells the story of the marriages to her seven husbands and who her true love was. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo follows Evelyn Hugo, a Hollywood actress who, at the age 79 years old, gives her last interview to an unknown journalist named Monique Grant. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which was published in 2017, is a historical fiction novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, who has also written best-selling titles like One True Loves, Daisy Jones & The Six and Malibu Rising, which features a character from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. If you’ve been on BookTok recently, you may be Googling any information there is about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo cast and who will play Evelyn Hugo, Celia St. He remains close to Obama, and rarely ventures the slightest criticism of his boss, mention of whom tends to be cringeworthily hagiographical.Īfter the Fall, Rhodes’s new auto-ethnographic memoir, is at once a chronicle of his post–White House travels and a deeply personal reckoning with the end of the American century. These days, Rhodes lives in Southern California, and cohosts the tellingly titled podcast Pod Save the World, part of a successful media company founded in 2017 by a trio of fellow Obama speechwriters and “strategic communications” cadres. Though he was formally a strategic communications adviser, Rhodes enjoyed a much wider political brief in practice, which included leading the administration’s negotiations with Cuba. Rhodes then spent eight years in the White House as Obama’s deputy national security advisor, a period chronicled in his 2018 memoir, The World as It Is (memorably nominated by Perry Anderson as an archetypal “spin-doctorate of the equerry”). Soon after, he became speechwriter for the vice chair of the 9/11 commission, and later found his way onto Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Review of After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, by Ben Rhodes (Penguin Random House, 2021).īen Rhodes graduated from New York University in 2002 with a master’s degree in creative writing, before moving to Washington, DC, “to be part of the nation’s response” to 9/11. Past and present mingle in this spine-tingling ghost story by award-winning author India Hill Brown. Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does she want? Things at the old house only get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different. And Celete's cousins start accusing her of pranking them when she's been no where near them! But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation at public pools.Īnd soon strange things start happening-the sound of footsteps overhead late at night. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it's terrifying. Nomber_key:000487ĭescriptionįor fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a truly chilling (and historically inspired) ghost story from the award-winning author of The Forgotten Girl.Ĭeleste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not.īugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake. |