Download or read book Bit Rot written by Douglas Coupland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking, binge-worthy new collection of essays, stories, and musings from Douglas Coupland, Bit Rot explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and it is a literary gem of the digital age. "Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Douglas Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones." Bit Rot the book is a fascinating meditation on the ways in which humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's established fanbase hungry for his observations about our world, and a revelation to new readers of his work. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, his phrase-making, and his visual art. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise, and delight. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix... you can't stop with just one.

Download or read book Poetry Review written by Stephen Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Winds of Dawn written by John Ransom Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Perspectives on the Bird s Head of Irian Jaya Indonesia written by Jelle Miedema and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main headings: Social sciences and humanities, natural sciences. - Anthropology, demography, ethnohistory: from inland to coast. - Bird's Head anthropology and related areas: inland, coast, and beyond. - History. - Linguistics: Bird's Head, and beyond. - Geology, botany, archaeology.

Download or read book Reapers Master of Souls written by TSUBAME and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After barely escaping from captivity to find a cure for her illness, she, Vincent, and rest of the other Reapers team up to defeat the ancient dark creature Legion, whose sole mission is to destroy the earth. But in the midst of the ongoing chaos, the brothers unearth a dark prophecy that may lead to the apocalypse. What's worse for Aramis is that it involves the man whom she realizes she still has feelings for: Vincent. While suffering from an illness that may cost her her life, Aramis must do everything to end the madness once and for all. Now she must choose: Save the world, or save the man she loves.

Download or read book LIBERAL CHAOS ROT written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a funny thing but those that are full of themselves are actually empty, it's compensatory see. Sin puts us in a dark place. Sudden jealous triangles and enemies seeking to destroy the ace. Some were complicitous--going along to get along--and some were bystanders who didn't oppose at all. The sisters spread rumors and ruin the reputation of their sibling, spilling the beans to anybody. This is not what's wrong with you, it's about what happened to you from liberal abuse. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inside art by Fox Design and Blaze Goldburst

Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book RAW Poetry Beneath the Skin written by Carolyne McNabb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "RAW" is a collection of poetry written to, for the most part, relate to a general audience. A realistic audience. Has not every person been broken or hurt in one way or another? I feel your pain and I want you to know you are not alone. Just like there are happy poems and sad poems in this book, life is full of happy moments and sad moments. We will all smile and we will all cry before our time on earth is over. My desire for you is that you will cherish every moment. Life is for living. Live in the joyful moments. Smile, laugh, and love with all you have. Live in the despairing moments. Weep, shake, and survive to see the happy times again. Just like there will always be sadness in life, there will also always be happiness. They are unavoidable and one cannot exist without the other.

Download or read book Homer and the Poetics of Hades written by George Alexander Gazis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer and the Poetics of Hades offers a new and unique approach to the Iliad and, more particularly, the Odyssey through an exploration of the role and function of the Underworld as a poetic resource permitting an alternative perspective on the epic past. By portraying Hades as a realm where vision is not possible, Homer creates a unique poetic environment in which social constraints and divine prohibitions do not apply, resulting in a narrative which emulates that of the Muses but which at the same time is markedly distinct from it. In Hades experimentation with, and alteration of, important epic forms and values can be pursued with greater freedom, giving rise to a different kind of poetics: the 'poetics of Hades'. In the Iliad, Homer offers us a glimpse of how this alternative poetics works through the visit of Patroclus' shade in Achilles' dream. The recollection offered by the shade reveals an approach to its past in which regret, self-pity, and a lingering memory of intimate and emotional moments displace an objective tone and traditional exposition of heroic values. However, the potential of Hades for providing alternative means of commemorating the past is more fully explored in the 'Nekyia' of Odyssey 11: there, Odysseus' extraordinary ability to see the dead in Hades allows him to meet and interview the shades of heroines and heroes of the epic past, while the absolute confinement of Hades allows the shades to recount their stories from their own personal points of view. The poetic implications are significant, since by visiting Hades and listening to the stories of the shades Odysseus, and Homer with him, gain access to a tradition in which epic values associated with gender roles and even divine law are suspended in favour of a more immediate and personally inflected approach to the epic past. As readers, this alternative poetics offers us more than just a revised framework within which to navigate the Iliad and the Odyssey, inviting as it does a more nuanced understanding of the Greeks' anxieties around mortality and posthumous fame.

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Download or read book HEATH READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND written by TOM PEETE CROSS, PH D. and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Win the Culture War written by Peter Kreeft and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle lines have been drawn. Many Christians have fallen into the trap of proclaiming "Peace! Peace!" when there is no peace. Hiding their eyes from the pressing issues of the day, they believe that resistance to the prevailing culture is useless. At the same time, other Christians have been too quick to declare war, mistaking battlefield casualties as enemies rather than victims. In How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft issues a rousing call to arms. Christians must understand the true nature of the culture war--a war between the culture of life and the culture of death. Kreeft identifies the real enemies facing the church today and maps out key battlefields. He then issues a strategy for engagement and equips Christians with the weapons needed for a successful campaign. Above all, Kreeft assures us that the war can be won--in fact, it will be won. For those who hope in Christ, victory is assured, because good triumphs over evil and life conquers death. Love never gives up. Neither must we.

Download or read book The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida written by Shehan Karunatilaka and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2023 Now with added author content - a Map of Colombo as viewed from the afterlife + Dramatis Personae A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's foremost author delivers a rip-roaring epic, full of mordant wit and disturbing truths. 'Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Gogol and Bulgakov.' Guardian 'Outstanding... the most significant work of Sri Lankan fiction in a decade.' New European

Download or read book In the Splendor of His Holiness written by Daniel F. Owsley and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Christians pursuit the holiness of the Lord they need to listen to the following words with their heart: For they are just as holy and powerful as any that are wrotten in the word of God. After all, the following is the word of God that has never been included in the document that the church hugs so tightly. For it is written that if someone becomes a lover of pleasure they will be all these things: a bold, cunning, audacious, unsociable, uncourteous, inhuman, lawless, savage, illtempered, unrestrainable, worthless man; deaf to advice, foolish, full of evil acts, unteachable, unjust, unfair, one who has no participation with others, one who cannot be trusted in his agreements, one with whom there is no peace, covetous, most lawless, unfriendly, homeless, cityless, seditious, faithless, disorderly, impious, unholy, unsettled, unstable, uninitiated, profane, polluted, indecent, destructive, murderous, illiberal, abrupt, brutal, slavish, cowardly, intemperate, irregular, disgraceful, shameful, doing and suffering all infamy, colourless, immoderate, unsatiable, insolent, conceited, self-willed, mean, envious, quarrelsome, slanderous, greedy, deceitful, cheating, rash, ignorant, stupid, inharmonious, dishonest, disobedient, obstinate, tricky, swindling, insincere, suspicious, hated, absurd, difficult to detect, difficult to avoid, destructive, evil-minded, disproportionate, an unreasonable chatterer, a proser, a gossip, a vain babbler, a flatterer, a fool, full of heavy sorrow, weak in bearing grief, trembling at every sound, inclined to delay, inconsiderate, improvident, impudent, neglectful of good, unprepared, ignorant of virtue, always in the wrong, erring, stumbling, ill-managed, ill-governed, a glutton, a captive, a spendthrift, easily yielding, most crafty, double-minded, double-tongued, perfidious, treacherous, unscrupulous, always unsuccessful, always in want, infirm of purpose, fickle, a wanderer, a follower of others, yielding to impulses, open to the attacks of enemies, mad, easily satisfied, fond of life, fond of vain glory, passionate, ill-tempered, lazy, a procrastinator, suspected, incurable, full of evil jealousies, despairing, full of tears, rejoicing in evil, frantic, beside yourself, without any steady character, contriving evil, eager for disgraceful gain, selfish, a willing slave, an eager enemy, a demagogue, a bad steward, stiffnecked, effeminate, outcast, confused, discarded, mocking, injurious, vain, and full of unmitigated unalloyed misery."

Download or read book Rotting in a Stranger s World written by Ben Brykczynski and published by Ben Brykczynski. This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world comes to an end, a new society rises from its ashes. A Stranger gathers survivors into a new sanctuary hidden away in the mountains. Built on a foundation of community and collaboration, the Stranger stokes the fire of paranoia as he turns the new society ever more towards the worship of an ancient deity.

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Download or read book The Wave written by Evelyn Scott and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When published in 1929, Evelyn Scott's The Wave was lauded as "magnificent", "monumental", and "masterly" in its experimental, almost cinematic, narrative technique and its modernist view of war and history. For those same reasons, less visionary reviewers labeled it "a failure". Without sentimentality, nostalgia, or a hint of southern apology, Scott takes as her subject the Civil War and shapes it into a kaleidoscopic design. She tells the story not of a single family or person, but of countless characters - northern, southern, black, white, male, and female - from nearly every conceivable background in many different predicaments. Like drops of water in a wave, they are all caught up in the overwhelming force of war, of history. The Wave set a standard against which all subsequent war novels have been compared. It was partly responsible for inspiring a trend in sprawling books on the Civil War that culminated in Margaret Mitchell's romanticized version in 1936, but it remains unique as a literary mosaic of the human condition, a novel of international consequence and boldly innovative method.