![]() *he was the you*gest *f the *wo dau*hters *f a most *ffect*onate* indu*gent *ather* and *ad, i* cons*quence*of h*r si*ter'* mar*iage* bee* mis*ress*of h*s ho*se f*om a ver* ea*ly *eri*d. Here is an excerpt from Emma by Jane Austen, let us explore what I just talked about:Įmma Woodh*use, hands*me, clever* and rich,*with a comfortab*e home an* happy di*position,*seemed to*unite som* of the b*st blessings of e*istence *and had *ived nea*ly twenty-*ne year* in the*world w*th very*little *o distr*ss or vex*her. This imitation would lead his conception of entropy in communication or simply put the amount of average disorder in sequences of letters. Shannon, quite beautifully and too the point, explores in this dissertation how we might use markov models to imitate such dependencies. These collections of letters congregate together in different combinations to form words and those words form sentences. Letters in words are, obviously, in some way dependent upon the previous letters in their sequence. Human communication is a dichotomy between chaos and statistical dependencies. “It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.” ~Pierre-Simon Laplace Théorie Analytique des Probabilitiés (1812) ![]()
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![]() But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes - or be left without any future at all. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss. Rosalinda Fitzroy had been asleep for 62 years when she was w. 4.5 10 Ratings 7.99 7.99 Publisher Description. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. Read 1,200 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Now, her parents and her first love are long dead, and Rose - hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire - is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. ![]() Locked away in the chemically-induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten sub-basement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. A stunning love story, an ultimate betrayal, and a compelling new author - this is Sleeping Beauty for the 21st CenturyRosalinda Fitzroy had been asleep for 62 years when she was woken by a kiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thriller fans will eagerly await Finlay’s next. Finlay does a fine job weaving the tangled lives and crimes together in a suspenseful tale that’s marred only by a forced conclusion. Meanwhile, as an FBI agent and a Linden police officer investigate, small-town secrets from the past and the present start to emerge. When Jessica is charged with the ice cream store murders, her public defender has reason to conceal his own ties to Whitaker. Thrust back into her nightmare, Ella struggles to help Jessica, who’s fixated on the Blockbuster slayings. When the Linden high school principal asks Ella, now a therapist, to counsel student Jessica Duvall, the only survivor of a copycat crime at a local ice cream store, she reluctantly agrees to do so. Fifteen years later, the words the killer whispered as he stabbed Ella, “Goodnight, pretty girl,” still haunt her. The chief suspect, high school student Vince Whitaker, disappears. The pseudonymous Finlay’s strong sophomore effort (after 2021’s Every Last Fear) opens on New Year’s Eve 1999 at a Linden, N.J., Blockbuster Video store, where the manager and three teenage employees are murdered only a fourth employee, Ella Monroe, survives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is a revenge story to boot, if that was not clear from the title, so if you are expecting a happy ending turn back now. Best Served Cold is quintessentially Abercrombie, a dark and gritty tale in a fantasy world with the harsh bleakness of reality pumping through its veins. It certainly wasn’t a bad book, but it didn’t quite live up to the standard I expected of Joe. ![]() ![]() I read Red Country a while ago and found it… fine. There are three stand alones in the world of The First Law – Best Served Cold, The Heroes, and Red Country. Best Served Cold is a great book, but not one for someone looking for a light and happy tale. That being said, I highly recommend that if you find yourself at the end of The Last Argument of Kings, and clamouring to get your hands on another book in the First Law world, that you take a short hiatus before diving back in. I have a policy about not speaking of the First series, as I believe it is something everyone should discover for themselves to have the maximum impact while reading it. The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie is one of the most powerful and genre defining series I have ever read in my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly, MTV’s “The Real World Reunion” series now airs on Paramount+ - but MTV Entertainment Group prefers to tally its nominations as a conglomerate, not via individual outlets. Nat Geo does the same thing for Disney+, yet those shows are credited to Disney+, not Nat Geo. But that didn’t sit well with Netflix, which was close behind with 129 - and would have been considered the leader in a time when different platforms weren’t merged: Separate the two, and HBO received 94 nominations, and HBO Max picked up 36.įX produces shows for Hulu, but would rather those series be credited to FX - even if they never aired on the linear channel. The outlets are both operated under the same Casey Bloys umbrella, and the shows are all campaigned together by the same awards team, the argument went. ![]() Last year, that led to a bit of a messy situation where HBO and HBO Max were jointly crowned the year’s leader, with 130 nominations. ![]() ![]() paper) Contents Introduction vii Chapter One: The Problem of Internal Chronology Chapter Two: Two Cases of m esure 35 Chapter Three: "El nés pot mie tuz amer. (Glyn Sheridan) The Lais of Marie de France. Printed in the United States of America 91 90 89 88 87 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Burgess, Glyn S. McDaniel Set in 10 on 13 Trump Mediaeval The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. ![]() B U R G E S S The University of Georgia Press ATHENS rù 1987 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 All rights reserved Designed by Betty P. The Lais of Marie de France The Lais of arie de France M Text and Context G L Y N S. Table of contents : Introduction vii Chapter One: The Problem of Internal Chronology 1 Chapter Two: Two Cases of 'mesure' 35 Chapter Three: "El nés pot mie tuz amer." 50 Chapter Four: "Ceo fu la summe de l'escrit." 65 Chapter Five: Chivalry and Prowess 71 Chapter Six: Women in Love 101 Chapter Seven: The Vocabulary of Love 134 Conclusion 179 Notes 189 Bibliography 221 Index 235 Citation preview ![]() ![]() ![]() Feel free to share your responses below, as the story lends itself to many fascinating topics. Walter Mitty, the henpecked, daydreaming hero in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, is Thurber’s quintessential urban man. The complete story is available on The New Yorker website. Some of James Thurbers famous tales include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Tired of his drab, schedule-driven life, Walter escapes into five elaborate daydreams, and finally becomes the hero he always hoped to be. Like the protagonist of the story, Thurber reportedly had a rich imaginative life, starting in childhood. Many of Thurbers drawings and stories first appeared in The New Yorker. Walter Mitty, a mild-mannered forty-year-old man, drives into Connecticut with his wife for their weekly shopping trip. Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio, and made his name as a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker, where “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” first appeared in 1939. It is considered to be an American classic, and author James Thurbers masterpiece. ![]() 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was originally published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker. When discussing the story, program participants explored the role of fantasy in their own lives, realizing that Walter Mitty may not be as strange as he first appears. Tired of his drab, schedule-driven life, Walter escapes into five elaborate daydreams, and finally becomes the hero he always hoped to be. This story was recently part of a seminar at the Maple Heights City Schools in Maple Heights, OH. ![]() To add to your summer reading, we are offering James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” as our latest text at work, a tale of an “everyman” who escapes from his daily life through elaborate fantasies of bravado and adventure. ![]() A Text at Work: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” ![]() ![]() ![]() As the book goes on, a little crab comes into the story and starts to ask the shark what he is afraid of. The first couple of pages are very funny in the illustrations, which I will talk about later in this review. It is about a shark who claims everything is scared of him and he is awesome. Shark by Bob Shea is a very unique and interesting story. I am gnashing my teeth with how cute this book is.Īnd like the shark, i am fearless!! unless you are twins ![]() ![]() I feel silly adding a spoiler alert for a children's picture book, but you always want to be cautious when sharks are involved. which can be deduced by his adorable questions here. It is about a brave and boastful shark, who is not afraid of giant squids, scary movies, the dark, bears, dinosaurs, or getting shots. The artwork in this is typical bob shea-adorableĪnd, in what i believe is a bob shea first - mixed media: a shark's mouth is no place for a puppy to romp. and when you take children's books out of the library, sometimes children have already gotten their sticky little hands on them, so you end up with stuff like this I got this book out of the library for shark week 2015. I'm not afraid of the dark - the dark is afraid of me! Dark heard I was coming and ran! ![]() ![]() ![]() Later in life, Anna and Dexter’s paths cross again, and Anna is left wondering about the significance of this man her father once knew. Given that this visit takes place during the depression, Anna is bewildered by the opulence of the Styles’ family home. Specifically, Anna and her father visit the home of the notoriously wealthy Dexter Styles. The book begins with Anna as a young girl, accompanying her father on a business errand. ![]() The brave and ambitious Anna Kerrigan is the novel’s central character. The structure of the novel led to confusion at times, but as in Goon Squad, readers were rewarded with a cohesive and pleasantly unpredictable conclusion. While the focal point of the book does not shift from chapter to chapter (as in Egan’s Pulitzer-Prize winning A Visit from the Goon Squad), the novel is divided into parts that capture various characters at different points in their lives. As soon as I began reading Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach, I was immediately reminded of Egan’s talent for seamlessly changing storylines and interweaving characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the books just got plain silly as they went on, culminating in a bizarre saga involving an embittered brother, an embittered ex-fiancé and everyone kidnapping, drugging and shooting each other. ![]() I think the term “intersectional identity” is used by American academics? A black Jewish woman interviewed in a local newspaper recently made similar comments, and there was controversy at Manchester Pride last year over whether or not black and brown stripes should be added to the rainbow flag. BBC 3 recently interviewed some members of the Black Trans Lives Matter movement, who spoke about feeling that they had to “pick sides” and didn’t feel fully part of either the black community or the trans community. These aren’t particularly well-written books, but the second one, Mustard Seed, covers the important and often-neglected subject of double discrimination – in this case, a black American woman during the Reconstruction era feeling that the movement for rights for black people was only focusing on those of black men, and that she had to choose between that movement and the movement for women’s rights. Hopewellslibraryofli… on Ten Pound Poms – BBC… Hopewellslibraryofli… on Are You There God? It’s… ![]() ![]() The King and I – Palace Theatre, Manchester. ![]() |