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Good morningGood morning, DVD
DVD - 2000 | JapaneseDVD, 2000. Language: Japanese
Added Jul 23, 2019
Sri LankaSri Lanka, Book
Book - 1987-Book, 1987-
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Added Jul 23, 2019
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Super informative and up to date guide! Useful for finding the best deals, accommodations, and a plethora of sights and sounds. Will travel soon!
An actor's revengeAn actor's revenge, DVD
DVD - 2018 | JapaneseDVD, 2018. Language: Japanese
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The first bull was Belmonte’s. Belmonte was very good. But because he got thirty thousand pesetas and people had stayed in line all night to buy tickets to see him, the crowd demanded that he should be more than very good. Belmonte’s great attraction is working close to the bull. In bull-fighting they speak of the terrain of the bull and the terrain of the bull-fighter. As long as a bull-fighter stays in his own terrain he is comparatively safe. Each time he enters into the terrain of the bull he is in great danger. Belmonte, in his best days, worked always in the terrain of the bull. This way he gave the sensation of coming tragedy. People went to the corrida to see Belmonte, to be given tragic sensations, and perhaps to see the death of Belmonte. Fifteen years ago they said if you wanted to see Belmonte you should go quickly, while he was still alive. Since then he has killed more than a thousand bulls. When he retired the legend grew up about how his bull-fighting had been, and when he came out of retirement the public were disappointed because no real man could work as close to the bulls as Belmonte was supposed to have done, not, of course, even Belmonte (217–218).
If you want to know, I mean really want to know, modern American literature arose in the 1920s. It was born in 1922, with T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” spent its “younger and more vulnerable years” with F. Scott Fitzgerald, that is, up until 1925 (The Great Gatsby), and then spent the rest of the decade hanging out with Ernest Hemingway.
Bullfights, fistfights, titles derived from the Bible, gritty sacrifices for a cause, and fishing ensued.
Ostensibly, a novel about the happenings among a circle of young American expats in post-WWI Paris, [The Sun Also Rises] is now known as the novel of the Lost Generation. From Jake Barnes’ emasculating war wound, to the aimless and unfaithful Brett Ashley, to the ostracized Robert Cohn… the survivors of the Great War may have escaped with their lives, but not much else.
It’s a great novel, a revelation, five-stars, and my favourite Hemingway novel, too… despite the strange, arguably anti-Semitic and indefensible Robert Cohn passages.
Q: Who is the hero of the novel?
A: The Lost Generation afforded no heroes. All were lost or were broken in the War.
Q: Who is the witness of the novel?
A: Jake Barnes, I guess.
Q: In a few words, compare Fitzgerald and Hemingway?
A: The layers in Hemingway’s novels were more accessible, that aids in re-readability. His writings were full of life, colour, action, travel, and visceral texture (see the quote above). His prose was cleaner and more precise. His novels were all consistently good, as opposed to Fitzgerald, whose first two novels were arguably meh. The former critiqued religiously and the latter with a measure of ambivalence.
Q: And style?
A: Some British literary historians mock Hemingway’s “Iceberg theory,” his clean and clear and honest prose, and his abuse of conjunctions and punctuation. Fine. Hemingway’s prose might not be perfect, he was probably a jerk, but what a world to read and to live and to re-read.
____________________The first bull was Belmonte’s. Belmonte was very good. But because he got thirty thousand pesetas and people had stayed in line all night to buy tickets to see him, the crowd demanded that he should be more than very good. Belmonte’s great…
Breaking BadBreaking Bad, DVDThe Complete Second Season
DVD - 2010DVD, 2010
Added Jul 08, 2019
Wind at My BackWind at My Back, DVDThe Completed First Season
DVD - 2009DVD, 2009
Added Jul 02, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVDSeason 2
DVD - 2012DVD, 2012
Added Jun 27, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVD
DVD - 2011DVD, 2011
Added Jun 27, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVDSeason 5
DVD - 2015DVD, 2015
Added Jun 27, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVDSeason 6
DVDDVD
Added Jun 27, 2019
Mary and the Witch's FlowerMary and the Witch's Flower, DVD
DVD - 2018DVD, 2018
Added Jun 23, 2019
KesKes, DVD
DVD - 2011DVD, 2011
Added Jun 17, 2019
Stephen Biesty's Ancient WorldStephen Biesty's Ancient World, BookEgypt, Rome, Greece in Spectacular Cross-section
by Ross, StewartBook - 2008Book, 2008
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Added Jun 16, 2019
Great Rulers of IndiaGreat Rulers of India, Comic Book
by Rao, SubbaComic Book - 2016Comic Book, 2016
Added Jun 16, 2019
VenomVenom, DVD
DVD - 2018DVD, 2018
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Added Jun 10, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVDSeason 4
DVD - 2014DVD, 2014
Added Jun 03, 2019
Downton AbbeyDownton Abbey, DVDSeason 3
DVD - 2013DVD, 2013
Added May 27, 2019
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Added May 26, 2019
AloftAloft, DVD
DVD - 2015DVD, 2015
Added May 23, 2019
The bitter tears of Petra von KantThe bitter tears of Petra von Kant, DVD
DVD - 2015 | GermanDVD, 2015. Language: German
Added May 23, 2019
機動戰士Z高達機動戰士Z高達, DVDJi dong zhan shi Z GaodaJi dong zhan shi Z GaodaIII, Xing zhi yue dong shi ai ZGIII. Love is the pulse of the stars
DVD - 2006 | ChineseDVD, 2006. Language: Chinese
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Added May 20, 2019
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