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A Study on Viktor Frankl's Theory of Logos in The Book Thief, a Novel by Markus Zusak

11 Feb 2025 37 minute read 0 comments TAS BROWN

Karaj Islamic Azad University Research Methodology (Ravesh Tahghigh) A Study on Viktor Frankl's Theory of Logos in The Book Thief, a Novel by Markus Zusak Amirhosein Mahdavi Professor Darzinejad 2025/1/30   Table of Contents Preliminary Sections...

No such thing as going home

3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney

 Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...

I felt like talking to you.

2 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Evtuoil

Hello! You know, I've been thinking for days whether to write to you or not. I want you to know that I am on this Planet, and so are YOU. I'm sorry to barge in on you like this, uninvited. Maybe I should have knocked first. Ask for permission to come...

Sailing to Seville

1 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Who are the real Pirates? “and so we overtook the sloop commanded by Captain Beer. We raided and stripped it to the bone. Most of their crew had been slaughtered by the time we managed to board but captain Bellamy wanted to keep the merchant vessel....

Oompa Loompas From The County Hell

26 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the tale of a woke Scrooge who is given a vision of his future.  Woke Scrooge is horrified by the neurotic, demonic depiction of his future self by Johnny Depp, and is relieved to wake up in the body of either...

Searchers for lice

2 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes

This is the title of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud, some twenty lines long, about two of his aunts, seated in chairs beside him, picking lice out of his seventeen year old, bushy hair as he is on a visit to them, half-way to Paris, to another poet, Paul...

Dream of a Ridiculous Man

30 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is an animated short film by Aleksandr Petrov.  It is based on a short story by Dostoevsky, and tells the tale of a suicidal nihilist who has a near death experience.  Whether he survives his own suicide attempt, or is m...

C S Lewis

28 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto-Knight

C. S. Lewis was a British author that most people remember for writing the book "Chronicles of Narnia" and for his other books Christianity including the classic "Mere Christianity". He is often praised for his literally skills and his profound insig...

What is the role of repetition in Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade'?

26 Jan 2024 2 minute read 1 comment VVoytila

Arguably Tennyson's most popular poem, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' had become so widely known and celebrated not only owing to the shocking subject matter of the poem, namely a breakdown in communications within the British Army's chain of comm...

Eatonton, Georgia: What Alice Walker, Br'er Rabbit, and a Poet You've Never Heard Of Have In Common

19 Dec 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor

When Theresa and I stumbled upon Eatonton, Georgia, we weren't looking for it. We had just navigated our way around Atlanta, Georgia and found Social Circle, another small town we loved. When we left Social Circle, we decided to explore some other pl...