![]() ![]() Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother's position leading the divers in their village. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. ![]() As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility-but also danger.ĭespite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. ![]() When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. ![]()
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![]() The faceplate was hinged to the top of the lock and, when turned over, could reveal a keyhole, the key of which was sometimes also worn separately. Janus, god of moments of transition and passage, was a heavily represented subject. Usually produced were in bronze and reproduced the face of a deity. Nobody could have thought that there were padlocks dating back to the Roman Empire, but thanks to some collectors who have decided to dig, pieces have been found buried for more than 2000 years.Īll the padlocks found have distinct characters. If the Romans wanted not to send sums of money, do so by insuring the "shipment" with very special secret padlocks! ![]() We managed to track down some news of secret padlocks already in ancient Rome. To make what they were trying to protect safer, padlocks also became more and more complicated. ![]() They are one of the most enduring security tools in the world. ![]() Padlocks have a long history behind them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This ad hominem attack (“lump of dirt”, etc.) goes on to criticize a few other groups, before going on to suggest that only a few (“heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense”) serve the state with their consciences and/or resist it, but are commonly treated as enemies. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. ![]() ![]() “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellsion ( Galaxy, December 1965) 1 starts off with a quote by Thoreau for those who “need points sharply made” (e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow, through an intermediary, this inconsequential-seeming figure finagled an appointment. He had decided to present them to Zofia Nałkowska, an influential author and playwright, and to ask her to help him find a publisher. On Easter Sunday 1933, Schulz packed up copies of his postscripts in a suitcase and traveled to Warsaw. “Loneliness is the catalyst that makes reality ferment, precipitates its surface layer of figures and colors,” he wrote. He also wrote letters in which, apparently as an afterthought, he included lengthy postscripts describing, in phantasmagorical language, scenes and stories from his childhood. On his own time, using broad, thick lines of pencil or charcoal, he drew scenes of women and men engaged in sadomasochistic activities, and had them bound under the title “The Booke of Idolatry,” which he gave out to his friends. To get his students’ attention, he sometimes told fables in which a pencil, a water jug or a stove turned into an animate object. In the early 1930s, Bruno Schulz was a high-school teacher of art and handicrafts in Drohobycz, a modest town in what was then eastern Poland. ![]() ![]() In order to escape immediate death, Anna is miraculously saved by becoming Zhi-Gang’s wife, which basically gives him leeway to kill her whenever he finds it most convenient. Zhi-Gang knows the first time he sees Anna that she has the power to change his life and he wants her dead. She’s also one of the best in China, which is why she is hunted by Zhi-Gang, the Emperor’s Enforcer and a man given carte blanche to do anything needed to stamp out the opium trade within China. For that reason, I recommend it to anyone looking for an emotionally challenging love story.Īnna Marie Thompson is a drug running opium addict. It is a gritty story that does not gloss over the turbulent, depressing, and violent interactions between the Chinese government and the Western opium trade. Set during the Boxer movement at the very end of the Qing Dynasty, the story features the romance between a white drug runner and the Emperor’s Enforcer. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for something different in historical romance, Jade Lee’s Tempted Tigress is certainly that. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It is an ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one of thee." Coleridge's masterpiece about a sailor who offends nature by killing a seabird takes the listener on a macabre odyssey that includes brushes with monsters, a ship manned by zombies, and a game of dice with Death. Although other artists have illustrated various editions, Willy Pogany captures the surreal menace of this tale. Enchanting monochromatic designs throughout w/flourishing borders, accents, colors some chiaroscuro among other varied methods. Twenty deliciously, subtly, subdued plates in blending watercolor. Elaborate, profuse, symbolical and complexly illustrated edition by Willy Pogany. A rare near very good example in original wrapper. Original pictorial wrapper w/vessel to front panel spine material missing. Spine richly displays flourishing titles in gilt w/decorative albatross and stern of ship. ![]() Cover depicts large golden sailing vessel w/ornate gilt titles: "The Ancient Mariner". ![]() ![]() “Yet, even through the shivery pathos of Stevens’ recognition of his misguided idealism and barren life, the wry comedy remains. This pattern of simultaneous admission and denial, revelation and concealment, emerges as the defining feature of the butler’s personality.” Although he is too honest not to provide all the incriminating facts about Darlington, Stevens is still so caught up in his own dream of serving a gentleman of international renown that he keeps trying to paint away the blemishes in his Lordship’s portrait. “Much of what Stevens tells us in the middle sections of the novel is about the man he once thought was the epitome of moral worth. Underneath what Stevens says, something else is being said, and the something else eventually turns out to be a moving series of chilly revelations of the butler’s buried life-and, by implication, a powerful critique of the social machine in which he is a cog. ![]() Ishiguro’s command of Stevens’ corseted idiom is masterly, and nowhere more tellingly so than in the way he controls the progressive revelation of unintended ironic meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the number one thing you need when writing? Don’t quit.” I saw that line every day, and it reminded me of my goal.Ģ. My tag line on my blog is “A published author is an amateur who didn’t quit. I don’t really have any tips, per se, but all I can say is that you have to go in knowing rejection is part of it and just refuse to take no for an answer. So I revised and revised and eventually rewrote it. But I just felt too strongly about Prada & Prejudice to give up. There were definitely days (weeks, months) I questioned my sanity. I didn’t get discouraged? Who told you that? *grin*. How did you keep believing that the book would sell and not get discouraged? I think your experience is very inspiring for writers. On your blog, you discuss the numerous rejections you got for PRADA & PREJUDICE. To find out more about this busy gal, visit 1. Today’s Flux Friday is with writer AND agent Mandy Hubbard, author of PRADA & PREJUDICE (Razorbill/Penguin), DRIVEN (Harlequin, June 201), YOU WISH (Razorbill/Penguin, August 2010), and SHATTERED (Flux, 2011), and agent at D4EO Literary. ![]() ![]() These are not "living fossils" but rather a handful of tenacious creatures of days long gone. From a moonlit beach in Delaware, where the hardy horseshoe crab shuffles its way to a frenzy of mass mating just as it did 450 million years ago, to the dense rainforests of New Zealand, where the elusive, unprepossessing velvet worm has burrowed deep into rotting timber since before the breakup of the ancient supercontinent, to a stretch of Australian coastline with stromatolite formations that bear witness to the Precambrian dawn, the existence of these survivors offers us a tantalizing glimpse of pivotal points in evolutionary history. ![]() Scattered across the globe, these remarkable plants and animals continue to mark seminal events in geological time. ![]() ![]() Evolution, it seems, has not completely obliterated its tracks as more advanced organisms have evolved the history of life on earth is far older-and odder-than many of us realize. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life's history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms that have survived, almost unchanged, throughout time. From one of the world's leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. ![]() ![]() ![]() Works within the Honorverse fictional universe, derived from the Honor Harrington series Many of Weber's books are available online, either in their entirety as part of the Baen Free Library or, in the case of more recent books, in the form of sample chapters (typically the first 25–33% of the work). The CDs have been mirrored on various sites. The CD labels explicitly state that the contents are freely distributable. ![]() The first-edition hardcover releases by Baen Books of War of Honor, Wind Rider's Oath, At All Costs, Hell Hath No Fury, Torch of Freedom, and Mission of Honor each contain a CD, holding electronic copies of all the David Weber books published by Baen up to that moment. This is the complete list of works by military science fiction and space opera author David Weber. ![]() |