![]() ![]() The study of these two little-known pieces as original forms of life writing highlights Barney's pivotal role at the centre of a forward-looking cosmopolitan artistic circle. ![]() Her life as a salon hostess became the object of two innovative forms of life writing, both dating from the late 1920s: André Rouveyre's sketch map of the guest list of the international figureheads of modernism who frequented Barney's salon, and Djuna Barnes's satirical portrait of the salon written and illustrated under the title The Ladies Almanack. Her unconventional salon not only openly supported homosexuality but also served as a forum fostering exchange between prominent politicians, writers, musicians and artists from all over the world. ![]() That transnationalism granted her both sexual freedom as a promiscuous lesbian and freedom of speech as an active feminist. This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle époque Paris. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of womens. It explores how Barney embodied transnationalism, adopting the French language in her writing and creating an international friendship circle around herself. This paper focuses on the expatriate American poet Natalie Clifford Barney and her life as salon hostess in Paris which spanned the sixty-year period from 1908 to 1968. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Phoenix Reborn by J.D. Tyler![]() Primal Law, the first book in her Alpha Pack series, is the winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award in Paranormal. Tyler has written and published more than 30 books and is best known for her dark, sexy paranormal Alpha Pack series, and the Firefighters of Station Five and Sugarland Blue series as National Bestselling Author Jo Davis. And he turned to Parker, regret tearing at his soul. But he grabbed the whip and let the coils unfurl. One by one.”īile burned Micah’s throat, and black rage consumed his heart. She cried out piteously as the guard slapped her hand onto a wooden block and grabbed an ax. ![]() ![]() The female shifter was barely more than a girl, perhaps not even twenty years old. 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Historically, New York City beaches have been popular public social gathering places for the LGBT community where they claimed certain sections as their own. ![]() Located on a mile-long section of Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, Jacob Riis Park was named after the turn-of-the-20th-century social reformer and photojournalist. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Deep learning francois chollet![]() ![]() Is how we will get to reasoning and abstraction, the fundamental weakness of current models. Models closer to general-purpose computer programs, built on top of far richer primitives than our current differentiable layers-this. ![]() I am sharing these predictions not because I expect them to be provenĬompletely right in the future, but because they are interesting and actionable in the present.Īt a high-level, the main directions in which I see promise are: So a lot of what I anticipate might fail to become reality. 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There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. So when Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis-and will she fly out to Greece and help?-Liv jumps at the opportunity.īut when she arrives to gorgeous Santorini, things are a little…awkward. What Liv does remember, though, is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. Liv Varanakis doesn’t have a lot of fond memories of her father, which makes sense-he fled to Greece when she was only eight. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato comes a Mamma Mia! –inspired tale about a teen girl finding romance while trying to connect with her absent father in beautiful Santorini, Greece. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Judge dredd complete case files 39![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond 2000 AD, Adlard has illustrated, Astronauts in Trouble, Codeflesh, DC/Wildstorm’s The Establishment, Shadowman, The X-Files, The Walking Dead and the graphic novels White Death and Rock Bottom. His most recent work for the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic is the official sequel to Invasion!, the hard-hitting Savage. Charlie Adlard made his debut pencilling Judge Dredd in the eponymous Megazine since then, he’s also illustrated Armitage and Judge Hershey in the Meg, and Judge Dredd, Nikolai Dante, Pulp Sci-Fi and Rogue Trooper in 2000 AD. ![]() Smith’s work beyond the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic includes the long-running New Statesmen series in Crisis, DC/Vertigo’s Hellblazer and Scarab, and Harris Comics’ Vampirella. Smith has also written Future Shocks, Judge Dredd, Judge Karyn, Pulp Sci-Fi, Robo-Hunter, Rogue Trooper, Tales from Beyond Science, Vector 13 and Tales from the Black Museum. John Smith is unquestionably a 2000 AD hero, with a host of creative credits to his name, including A Love Like Blood, Devlin Waugh, Firekind, Holocaust 12, Indigo Prime, Pussyfoot 5, Revere, Slaughterbowl, Tyranny Rex, Leatherjack, Dead Eyes and Cradlegrave. Outside of 2000 AD his credits include Star Wars, Lobo, The Punisher and the critically acclaimed A History of Violence. 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First Light describes Laurie arriving with his mother and the rest of the family at a cottage in the Cotswolds village of Slad, Gloucestershire.Rather than follow strict chronological order, Lee divided the book into thematic chapters, as follows: The identity of Rosie was revealed years later to be Lee's distant cousin Rosalind Buckland. It chronicles the traditional village life which disappeared with the advent of new developments, such as the coming of the motor car, and relates the experiences of childhood seen from many years later. The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, in the period soon after the First World War. It has sold over six million copies worldwide. 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AJ’s life Fikry is not at all what he imagined. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The Irrational Atheist by Vox Day![]() ![]() More than 93 percent of all the wars in human history had no relation to religion The arguments of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michel Onfray are all methodically exposed and discredited as Day provides extensive evidence proving, among other things, that: Presenting a compelling argument (but not for the side one might expect), Day strips away the pseudo-scientific pretentions of New Atheism with his intelligent application of logic, history, military science, political economy, and well-documented research. ![]() On the other is Irrational Atheist author Vox Day, armed with nothing more than historical and statistical facts. On one side of the argument is a collection of godless academics with doctorates from the finest universities in England, France, and the United States. ![]() |