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Q: What is the meaning of 'call out' in this sentence? What is the meaning of 'call out' in the following sentence?

[W]e must call out bad behavior, including that of the corrupt regime in Tehran.

from an article 'It's Official: North Korea is behind Wannacry' in WSJ.
Unfortunately, the dictionary I use, The New Oxford American Dictionary, does not give the usage of 'call (something) out' as in the above way though it has a section for 'call (someone) out'. To me, 'call out' seems an idiom.

A: The Free Dictionary provides this apt definition

*To confront one about one's misdeeds or unpleasant behavior. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is typically used between "call" and "out." If your intern keeps coming in late, you need to call her out on it.

So to publicize or draw attention to something, usually in negative sense.

A: The expression was not familiar to me, yet I thought it sounded logical. I struggled but eventually found it in OED (subscription required unless in UK).

b. orig. and chiefly U.S. To expose or identify (a person) as acting in a dishonest or otherwise unacceptable manner; to challenge or confront. Frequently with on. Cf. to call on —— 5 at Phrasal verbs 2.

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2013   G. Albin Altered iv. 38   I dislike how he speaks to Greta. But there's no time to call him out on it.

And the earliest :

1981   Akwesasne Notes (N.Y.) Autumn 12/3   The military had..tried to cover up the incident. This..Military commander..had been responsible during the case of the Elder Lester Athars and so the people now were openly calling him out as an assassin, a murderer.

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The renovation of this existing rural house, located in Vale Telheiro, in the countryside just outside of the southern Portuguese city of Loulé, was begun in early 2016 and completed in 2017. The region is characterized by rolling hills and valleys, with intermittent views of the sea. The design expands the area of the existing small bungalow, a typical countryside cottage originally constructed in the 60s, which has undergone several minor interventions, but of little architectural value. The new alteration by Vasco Lopes Arquitectos incorporates the existing covered porch as part of the new interior area. The floor area has been increased from 105 m2 to 150 m2.
The main eastward view towards the garden and a small valley beyond, have been framed by the new glass-enclosed porch. The original house which comprised two bedrooms, one three-piece bathroom, kitchen, living area with a double height ceiling, and a surrounding porch, was felt to be too small and enclosed by the clients. The designers recognized immediately the need to expand the interior floor area by opening up the existing exterior walls and using the porch as part of the new floor plan. Both bedrooms now each have a three-piece ensuite bathroom. A powder room has also been added to serve guests.
The new design has transformed an inward looking cellular house into a modern open concept home, interlacing interior and exterior spaces. The kitchen and living areas were combined, as was the porch, to create a visual continuity of these interior spaces which were then opened up towards the excellent exterior views. In effect, the exterior walls were "shifted" out, in order to bring in more natural light, as well as to create a sense of open space within the house itself; in contrast with the original house whose small celular spaces were dark and inward looking. A stylobate was created to perch the house onto an elevated plane in relation to the garden. This top plane acts as a common space, effectively connecting the interior with the patio and pool deck by extending the floor treatment from interior directing through to the exterior.


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Q: sshd: Won't let me cd into remote folder when connecting programmatically I am trying to use a Parallels VM as a build server. I have set up sshd on it and configured it to allow me to connect using secure keys. I can connect successfully using the node-ssh package. Parallels has nicely mounted my local Desktop folder on my Mac, so in my script, I am attempting to access it like this:
await ssh.execCommand('cd /home/parallels/Desktop');

However, for no given reason, the current working directory never changes.
let result = await ssh.execCommand('pwd');
console.log(result.stdout); // outputs: /home/parallels

I have also checked result.code and result.stderr and there is nothing to indicate anything has gone wrong -- the programmatic API flat out does not allow me to navigate to this folder. However, I can access it just fine using the VM or regular ssh on my Mac.

A: Executed commands on an ssh server (in general) are separate invocations of the user's shell, which means current working directories (among other things) are not persisted.
Your best bet will be to prepend any commands with your cd <path> && to change to the correct directory first. The only other option would be to use an interactive shell session instead, but that is much more difficult to use programmatically as it was designed to be used by a human.


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Project Ithaca
A group of strangers awaken aboard an alien spacecraft. Divided they will die. Together, they can find a way home.
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Director: Nicholas Humphries
Actors: Daniel Fathers, Deragh Campbell, James Gallanders
During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future copilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.
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Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
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As Scott Lang balances being both a Super Hero and a father, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside…
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Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy.
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true…
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, War
Gigantic monsters threaten to destroy everything in their path as mankind remains defenseless.
Genre: Science Fiction, TV Movie
T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
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A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a…
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Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
In a dystopicly polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Country: Germany,USA
Trailer: Project Ithaca

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Ranke, Leopold von
Ranke, Leopold von lā´ōpôlt fən räng´kə [key], 1795–1886, German historian, generally recognized as the father of the modern objective historical school. He applied and elaborated Barthold Niebuhr's scientific method of historical investigation. Ranke's aim was to reconstruct the unique periods of the past as they actually were and to avoid injecting the history of former times with the spirit of the present; this approach to historiography is known as historicism. To attain his goal, Ranke insisted that only contemporary accounts and related material be used as sources. His technique depended in large part on exhaustive archival research and on philological criticism of sources.
It is difficult to say whether Ranke was more influential through his writing or through his teaching. As professor at the Univ. of Berlin (1825–71), he inaugurated the seminar system of teaching history and formed an entire generation of historians, who in turn spread his methods throughout the world. Outside Germany, his ideas were particularly influential in England and in the United States. The accumulation of facts and details, serving the purposes of preparatory research and practical training, was a prominent feature of Ranke's method. In his seminars originated the Jahrbücher [yearbooks], which grew into a tremendous repository of information on medieval Germany.
It is implicit in Ranke's work that he regarded history as the result of the divine will. Since he saw power as the overt expression of that will, Ranke concentrated on political, and primarily on diplomatic, developments. He sought to apply his methods to the history of all European nations, and his investigations ranged over a wide field. One of his earliest works was Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber [critique of modern historical writing] (1824), which set forth his method; the culmination of his life work was his Weltgeschichte [universal history] (9 vol., 1881–88).
The great body of Ranke's writing is made up of particular histories of the 16th, 17th, and 18th cent. English translations include the enduring Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (3 vol., 1840), Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and History of Prussia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (3 vol., 1847–48), Civil Wars and Monarchy in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1852), and History of England (6 vol., 1875). Important among his other writings are extensive histories of Prussia and of the rise of the Prussian state. The quantity of his work is as impressive as the quality; the German edition (1867–90) of his complete works numbered 54 volumes without the universal history. Politically a conservative and a monarchist, Ranke did not share the liberalism of some of his Prussian contemporaries.
See G. P. Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century (2d ed. 1952, repr. 1965); T. H. Von Laue, Leopold Ranke, the Formative Years (1950, repr. 1970).


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Terror attacks now a major concern for UK holidaymakers
November 2, 2015 February 2, 2017
by WTM Team
In At event Reports, Industry Report, Reports, WTM London.
The fear of terrorism is of such concern for holidaymakers that four in 10 couldn't totally relax on holiday this year because they were worried about an attack, reveals the World Travel Market 2015 Industry Report, released today (Monday 2 November) at World Travel Market London.
Of the Brits who went abroad this year, 22% said they were 'very concerned' and 18% said they were 'quite concerned' about an attack while away.
The fear of terrorism is cited as a key reason for choosing a 'staycation' in 2015. Of those who holidayed in the UK during 2015, 61% of Brits said the terrorism threat was an important factor in their decision.
Only cost and forecasted good UK weather were seen as being more influential in the decision to holiday at home, with affordability cited by 91% and the weather cited by 82% as being important factors.
In addition to fears of terrorism in resorts, UK holidaymakers also worried about the influx of refugees or asylum seekers in their holiday destination, with 35% admitting this was a concern in the past year. Just less than a third (30%) said they were concerned about political instability and 25% were concerned about natural disasters when travelling abroad.
Surprisingly, despite admitting to worries, the vast majority of holidaymakers surveyed (77%) said they did not consult Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) guidance when choosing a destination. Ten per cent said they consulted the FCO advice but it didn't influence their decision. Only 12% said they consulted the Government department's guidance and acted on it.
In light of recent incidents, such as the June terror attack in Tunisia, when 38 British holidaymakers died, there have been calls for the tourism sector to be given more of an influence on Government advice for travellers. The World Travel Market 2015 Industry Report reveals 86% of senior managers in the industry hold that view.
The majority of decision makers in the industry (90%) also believe the tourism industry has a responsibility towards countries that face external pressures, be they terror-related (such as Tunisia) or economic (such as Greece).
The report reveals 68% of travel companies have evaluated or taken action on security and resilience within their business as a result of recent terrorist attacks.
Amid all the worry, there does seem to be some opportunity for the trade to claw back bookings lost to the do-it-yourself market. In the past year, 57% of customers booked a DIY holiday, while 43% booked online or with an agent. The World Travel Market 2015 Industry Report reveals 71% of industry respondents believe concerns over incidents abroad are likely to sway holidaymakers towards booking packages through the trade.
World Travel Market London, Senior Director, Simon Press said: "The travel industry is going through a testing time and, although terrorist attacks are rare, the fact is that fear, uncertainty and risk all play a part in holidaymakers' decisions nowadays.
"The challenge for travel companies and tourist destinations is to be able to reassure customers that they are as prepared as possible to deal with a terrorism attack, are able to react swiftly, with clients' safety the prime concern."
More than 1,000 UK holidaymakers were polled.
About World Travel Market London
WTM London, the leading global event for the travel industry, is the must-attend four-day business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry.
Almost 51,500 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, embark on ExCeL – London every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM.
WTM London, now in its 36th year, is the event where the travel industry conducts and concludes its deals. WTM 2014 will generate around £2.5 billion of travel industry contracts.
WTM London is part of Reed Travel Exhibition's World Travel Market events, which also includes Arabian Travel Market, World Travel Market Latin America and World Travel Market Africa. www.wtmworld.com
World Travel Market Events
World Travel Market is comprised of the leading leisure travel events in the world; World Travel Market London, WTM Latin America in Sao Paulo, WTM Africa in Cape Town and Arabian Travel Market in Dubai.
New events for 2016 are WTM connect Asia and WTM connect China, which join WTM connect Ski and International Golf Travel Market. These unique one-to-one events are targeted at leisure and niche travel markets, allowing exhibitors to exclusively meet with elite hosted buyers.
The World Travel Market events are attended by the global travel and tourism industry's senior executives to conduct business deals and discover the latest research, insight and opinion.
In 2014, the World Travel Market events facilitated around $7 billion in industry deals from negotiations between the more than 15,000 buyers, 9,500 exhibitors (1,500 main stand holders and 8,000 stand sharers) in attendance of its four events.
WTM is part of Reed travel Exhibitions, the leading events organizer in the travel industry, and is owned by the world's leading events organiser Reed Exhibitions.
Reed Travel Exhibitions
Reed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) is the world's leading provider of exhibitions in the travel and tourism industry. Its wide-ranging portfolio of events around the globe covers leisure travel, luxury travel, meetings, incentives and business travel, as well as golf, ski and spa travel.
RTE, which organises more than 22 events around the world, includes three divisions; World Travel Market, IBTM Events and International Luxury Travel Market.
RTE is a business unit of Reed Exhibitions.
About Reed Exhibitions
Reed Exhibitions is the world's leading events organiser, with over 500 events in 43 countries. In 2014 Reed brought together over seven million event participants from around the world generating billions of dollars in business. Today Reed events are held throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa and organised by 41 fully staffed offices. Reed Exhibitions serves 43 industry sectors with trade and consumer events. It is part of the RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information solutions for professional customers across industries.
WTM Team
World Travel Market brings the travel industry together through world leading events, content and digital tools, that make it easier for you to find personal and business opportunities and do more effective business.
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Located on Route 62 (W Van Buren) just 10 miles west of Berryville and 40 miles east of Fayetteville. Approximately two miles west of the intersection of Route 62 and State Hwy 23. Park is on the north side of the road.


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#include <aws/ce/model/RightsizingType.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/HashingUtils.h>
#include <aws/core/Globals.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/EnumParseOverflowContainer.h>

using namespace Aws::Utils;

namespace Aws
{
  namespace CostExplorer
  {
    namespace Model
    {
      namespace RightsizingTypeMapper
      {

        static const int TERMINATE_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("TERMINATE");
        static const int MODIFY_HASH = HashingUtils::HashString("MODIFY");

        RightsizingType GetRightsizingTypeForName(const Aws::String& name)
        {
          int hashCode = HashingUtils::HashString(name.c_str());
          if (hashCode == TERMINATE_HASH)
          {
            return RightsizingType::TERMINATE;
          }
          else if (hashCode == MODIFY_HASH)
          {
            return RightsizingType::MODIFY;
          }
          EnumParseOverflowContainer* overflowContainer = Aws::GetEnumOverflowContainer();
          if(overflowContainer)
          {
            overflowContainer->StoreOverflow(hashCode, name);
            return static_cast<RightsizingType>(hashCode);
          }

          return RightsizingType::NOT_SET;
        }

        Aws::String GetNameForRightsizingType(RightsizingType enumValue)
        {
          switch(enumValue)
          {
          case RightsizingType::TERMINATE:
            return "TERMINATE";
          case RightsizingType::MODIFY:
            return "MODIFY";
          default:
            EnumParseOverflowContainer* overflowContainer = Aws::GetEnumOverflowContainer();
            if(overflowContainer)
            {
              return overflowContainer->RetrieveOverflow(static_cast<int>(enumValue));
            }

            return {};
          }
        }

      } // namespace RightsizingTypeMapper
    } // namespace Model
  } // namespace CostExplorer
} // namespace Aws

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This treatment begins with a skin cleanse, and then your skin is prepped before we begin the Dermaplaning process on the face. The treatment is followed by enzyme cleanser and serum then completed with a moisturizer to suit your skin type and an SPF to protect your skin from UV damage.
(Extended version of the standard facial) – After the Dermaplaning treatment we will apply a peptide firming enzyme mask or soothing mask which will help to further your results. While this is working you can lie back and enjoy a hand and arm massage.


As the heroes of the wars get old die off one by one, our memory of their bravery and merit seems to be dying with them.
The Royal Sussex came smartly to salute as Lieutenant Vivian Maingot, acting as standard bearer, knelt before His Royal Highness, Edward, Prince of Wales, to receive on behalf of the 1st Battalion the King's colours and also on behalf of the 8th and 12th Battalions of the British West India Regiment. As the colours were presented, deafening cheers burst from the crown of close to 2000, who witnessed the spectacle. They cheered so loudly that they were answered by their own echo, rebounding from the St. Anns Hills. The flags were presented to the colony, furnishing the greatest number of men in any particular battalion.
This presentation of the King's colours was made in March of 1920, two years after the end of World War I. During this war 17 contingents of volunteers were sent to England to fight for Britain, and 22 military crosses were won by members of those contingents.
Over the years, it has become popular to believe that the "local forces" who served abroad during the two world wars saw no action and acted only as menials. As any military person could tell you, military crosses are not handed out to handymen! In the first world war, Trinidadians served with valour. 55 silver war badges were awarded. In one engagement in the Jordan Valley, one D.S.O., two M.C. and one D.C.M. were won by members of the 1st battalion. One member of the Trinidad Light Infantry Motorcycle Platoon was a "local boy" who became one of the highest ranking officers of the Royal Air Force, Air Vice Marshall Claude Vincent, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C, A.F.C, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., commanded the 4th army corps and the 7th Indian division in Burma. He received the surrender of General Seishiro Itagaki and his 100,000 man army. General Itagaki handed over his sword to Frank Messervy in Rangoon in 1945 as a symbol of surrender, and as Messervy remembered, Itagaki's pupils contracted to the point of vanishing as he gave up this 550 year old heirloom.
Frank Messervy was the son of an English bank manager and Myra de Boissière. Lt. Col. Arnold de Boissière was the most senior serving West Indian officer on the Western Front in World War I. Captain Arthur André Cipriani raised several contingents and served himself at the front in the first world war.
With the paint still fresh on the Memorial Park railing and the call for the remembering of those who served and fell, we publish the list of officers and men of the first Trinidad contingent of the British West Indies Regiment. Even though none of them is alive anymore, may their valour never be forgotten.


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China's Ties With Nigeria Are a Lot Better Than They Seem
Lagos State University political science lecturer Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi joins Eric & Cobus this week to discuss the current state of China-Nigeria relations. After a turbulent past few months following the events in Guangzhou back in April and now calls from the Nigerian House of Representatives to check the immigration status of every Chinese national and business in the country plus a separate effort to review every Chinese loan dating back 20 years, it'd be safe to assume that diplomatic ties are strained.
But Tobi Oshodi says beneath the surface, relations between these two countries are far more stable than they may seem.
The Conversation: Why maltreatment of Nigerians in China may not end soon by Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi
The China Africa Project: Q&A: Nigerian Representative Ben Igbakpa Explains Why He Wants to Investigate 20 Years of Chinese Loans by Ovigwe Eguegu
Nairametrics: A look at the secret behind Chinese companies' success in Nigeria by Emmanuel Abara Benson
Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi:
Abdul-Gafar holds a PhD in Social Sciences from KU Leuven and currently lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University (LASU). His research interests broadly revolve around international relations, comparative politics, and development studies – with a strong bias for China in Africa, the 'youth question' and nation-building in multi-ethnic countries, and qualitative methodologies. A former journalist at Vanguard newspaper, he was a fellow of the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC) Next Generation of Social Science in Africa program (2013-2014) and a University of Edinburgh's Centre for African Studies Catalyst Fellow and Non-Residential Catalyst Fellow (2019-2020). His PhD research – on the contemporary relevance of Ghana's national youth service program – at the multidisciplinary Centre for Research on Peace and Development in Leuven was fully sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the Leuven Special Fund. He has recently been offered the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Program (ACLS/AHP) postdoctoral fellowship (2020-2021) to conduct research for his first book entitled 'Imageries of Mao Zedong's China in Ghanaian newspapers, 1957-1976.' He is a co-founder of Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN – West Africa). Abdul-Gafar has published several articles and presented his research findings at major conferences in Africa, Europe, and North America.
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I already read Yangsze Choo's first novel, The Ghost Bride (my review here , so when I saw that a new book by the author is coming out I had to jump at the opportunity to read it. Unfortunately for The Night Tiger, I read it with the first one in my head and it was unavoidable to make comparisons. In my opinion, this second novel came out short. It was still an enjoyable read, easy to get through.
As the blurb states, the setting is 1930 Malaya. Ren, a 11 years old orphan is on a 49 days quest to find the missing finger of his newly deceased master so his soul can rest in peace. Ji Ji Lin, is officially an apprentice dressmaker and secretly also a dancehall girl in order to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. One night, one of her dance partners leaves her a severed finger by mistake. With the help of her step brother, just returned from Singapore for the Holidays, she tries to find the owner of the finger. As you can imagine, the path of the two characters will intersect.
Another thing that I loved about the first novel, was the beautiful description of old Malaya and its culture. Also, I remember even now how I salivated from the delicious food the author wrote about in the first book. I did not have the same sense of place when reading The Night Tiger and my taste buds felt nothing.
As I said, nonetheless, I enjoyed reading the story, the romance part was nice enough although a bit creepy and I plan to read more from the author. I just hope her editors will make a better job on those loose ends.
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How I Got It: 'Breakfast of Champions'
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Jacob Lambert January 9, 2017 | 2 books mentioned 6 4 min read
When I was a student at the University of Delaware in the late 1990s, there were a handful of options for buying books in town. One was a midsized shop called Rainbow Books and Records, located amid the downtown's Main Street bustle. I have few memories of actually buying anything there (though I did steal, for no good reason, a used Cypress Hill CD from the store; hopefully the crime's statute of limitations has run out). There was a mediocre campus bookstore from which I bought a copy of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland that I read eight or nine pages of. The best, by a wide margin, was the airy, endless Bookateria, where I spent afternoons searching for titles by Edward Abbey, Tom Robbins, Robert Pirsig, and whatever else might bolster my developing self-image as a chin-stroking bongside intellectual. Twenty years on, The Bookateria is still there — or so says the internet — and just thinking of it puts me there, my Birkenstocks (I was looking for Tom Robbins, remember) soft on its creaking hardwood floors.
There was also a fourth option, and I have no idea what it was called. In a wide alley off of Main Street, a miniscule bookstore existed for an equally miniscule length of time. Its lifespan, as I recall, was just a few months, but it might have been less than that. It was heavily curated, blue of carpet, and run by a prim white-haired woman with a courteous smile. Its metal shelves were home to midcentury cookbooks and color-plate nature guides, their prices written, almost apologetically, in the corners of their inside covers. The shop, so small and quiet — save for the waft of classical music — lent it the feeling of the quarters of a bibliophilic monk. Entering the store always reminded me that I was wearing dirty track pants and an old Phillies cap.
On one of my few trips there — I could feel the owner's eyes, as if my CD-lifting reputation had preceded me — I came across a row of hardbacked, dark-blue novels. Their jackets were gone, and they stood together, naked, as if huddling against danger. Each spine bore the stamped name of the books' author — Kurt Vonnegut— and, in smaller type, the title. I'd heard of Vonnegut, and vaguely knew that I should read him. I picked up Breakfast of Champions, read a few lines ("I think I am trying to make my head as empty as it was when I was born onto this damaged planet fifty years ago." "I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore."), and felt a surge in my chest. I paid the owner the lightly-penciled price of five dollars plus tax, waited for her pointlessly elaborate receipt, said thanks, and tore the fuck out of there. I had to read this book.
Breakfast of Champions felt, like a handful of other works — The Catcher in the Rye, of course, and later T.C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain and the stories of George Saunders — wholly new to me, modes of communication that kicked through my mind's thin walls. I'd never — and still have never — read anything like it. I suppose that any Vonnegut book would have had this effect, so distinctive is his style — that of a brilliant depressive, the vitality of his talent battling his downbeat vision — but Breakfast of Champions is Vonnegut's loosest book, full of drawings and nonsense lines ("Dwayne Hoover had oodles of charm. I can have oodles of charm when I want to. A lot of people have oodles of charm.") that gain menace as they mount. It seemed somehow right for this to be my first, the best route into his world.
Breakfast of Champions isn't my favorite Vonnegut novel, but it smacked me in the head with more force than any of his others — and possibly more than any other book I've read. I haven't read it since that day in 1998, and I have only a dim memory of what it was about — something about a used-car salesman; something about cows. But that initial excitement has stuck; when I picked it up before writing this piece, something tightened in my throat. It was an artifact that had shoved me towards the person I would become.
And it seems somehow insane to me that I could have gotten it — this rousing, angry work that shook me by my spine — at that cramped and nameless store, overseen by a woman who, I'm guessing, had gone into business to occupy her time. Maybe her husband had recently died, and the quiet of her home had become unbearable — so she opened a shop that was just as quiet as the place she had escaped. Maybe she'd wanted to bring a touch of politesse to downtown Newark, Delaware, where music blasted from low riders and fistfights proliferated when the bars let out. Maybe she was engaging in a quiet fight of her own, selling pleasant books to the few students who might appreciate the gesture. Obviously — judging by its swift closure — there weren't enough of us.
That I could have found a book that so enflamed me in such a serene, well-meaning place now seems to me a rude and minor marvel, like a tabernacle choir breaking into "Fuck tha Police." The store has been gone for nearly 20 years, and its owner, I assume, has passed on as well. But they slipped me something important in the time we had together — and for that, I can only offer thanks.
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Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in Havana
Tim Weed March 20, 2017 | 2 books mentioned 11 min read
1.In Havana, Ernest Hemingway's restless ghost lingers more palpably than in any of the other places in the world that can legitimately claim him: Paris, Madrid, Sun Valley, Key West. Havana was his principal home for more than three decades, and its physical aspect has changed very little since he left it, for the last time, in the spring of 1960.
I've been traveling to the city with some regularity since 1999, when I directed one of the first officially sanctioned programs for U.S. students in Cuba since the triumph of Fidel Castro's 1959 Revolution. As an aspiring novelist, I've long been interested in Hemingway's work, but I had no idea how prominently Havana figured in the author's life — nor how prominently the author figured in the city's defining iconography — until I began spending time there.
Well-preserved Hemingway locations abound in Havana. They include the Hotel Ambos Mundos, where the author lived throughout the '30s in a room that is now a small museum; the Floridita, which serves overpriced "Hemingway daiquiris," and contains a life-size bronze likeness of the writer with its elbow on the bar; the Bodeguita del Medio, which has Hemingway's signature on the wall and claims to have been his favorite place for a mojito; and La Terraza, the restaurant overlooking the small harbor that was the point of departure and return for Santiago's epic voyage in The Old Man and the Sea. These sites are not just tourist spots, though they certainly are that. They also serve as shrines and landmarks in the city's defining mythology. The essence of this mythology is captured in the black-and-white photos taken in the months following the 1959 Revolution, later made into postcards. These feature images of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos — and Ernest Hemingway.
To get a feel for the author's Cuba years, let us begin with a single one: 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. By the third week in July of that year, according to Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Carlos Baker's comprehensive 1969 biography of the author, Hemingway had notched his 100th day of fishing in the waters north of Havana. He'd caught more than 50 marlin, including a 750-pounder he'd brought to hand within casting distance of the Morro, the white stone fortress presiding over the entrance to Havana Bay. The yacht he'd rented had been rammed so many times by swordfish that it was starting to leak, so he decided to buy himself a new one, a diesel-powered, 38-foot cruiser from Wheeler Shipyards in Brooklyn. He named it the Pilar, which was also his secret nickname for his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer — whose family money, as it happened, was financing the couple's highly mobile lifestyle: a revolving calendar of stays in Havana, Madrid, Paris, New York, Key West, and the Serengeti.
Already a literary star on the strength of his first two novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), Hemingway chose Havana as his base that summer because of its proximity to one of the planet's best places to pursue big game fish. As he later wrote in Holiday magazine, he was drawn to the Gulfstream, that "great, deep blue river, three quarters of a mile to a mile deep and sixty to eighty miles across." He was especially captivated by the marlin, which, from the flying bridge of the Pilar, looked "more like a huge submarine bird than a fish."
The author had first visited Havana in April of 1928, for a brief stop on his steamer journey back from Europe at the end of those romantic Paris-based years he later portrayed so vividly in The Moveable Feast (1964). It proved to be a significant layover for Hemingway — and for Havana — because he discovered something about the place that made him want to return. The central ambition of Hemingway's life was, as he wrote in Esquire in 1934, to create novels and stories "truer than if they had really happened," and he was continually in search of gritty, colorful, and intense experience that would serve as fodder for this quest. Cuba, like Spain, was an ideal setting for this sort of experience, not only because of the excellent fishing, but also because it was a flashpoint for political upheaval. In April 1931, a general uprising in Spain had resulted in the fall of the Bourbon monarchy, marking the beginning of a new Republic, and in August 1933, a popular uprising in Havana overthrew the dictatorship of President Gerardo Machado. Hemingway, who had a lifelong distaste for authoritarian rule, joined in the celebration of both events, but the turmoil that followed in their wake would have enduring impacts on his creative life.
In the '30s, according to Carlos Baker, Hemingway was feeling increasing career pressure as an author. The New York critics had savaged his most recent books, Death in the Afternoon (1932) and Winner Take Nothing (1933). He'd written enough stories about sport and animal dismemberment, they complained. Why didn't he move on to something new? He wrote another novel, To Have and Have Not (1937), and it was a decent story — but decent wasn't enough. A young novelist from California, John Steinbeck, was garnering critical attention and threatening to usurp Hemingway's rightful place atop the pantheon of American writers. Hemingway needed a book as great as The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell to Arms — as great, more pressingly, as Of Mice and Men (1937) or The Grapes of Wrath (1939). He needed a masterpiece, and he was worried that he'd lost his ability to write one.
All these factors contributed to his decision, in 1936, to go cover the Spanish Civil War as a filmmaker and newspaper journalist. He joined a score of other international correspondents based in the Hotel Florida, in Madrid. He fell in love with a tall blonde writer and war correspondent named Martha Gellhorn, and naively allowed himself to become implicated in some unsavory intrigue with a ring of Soviet advisors to the Republican high command. It was an exhilarating time for Hemingway. He took every opportunity to observe the fighting, both at a distance and up close. The ground shook with daily barrages of Fascist artillery, reducing the Gran Vía to rubble, and he felt more alive than he had in years.
Eventually, the tragic war lurched toward its close. By the winter of 1939, with the triumph of Fascism looking inevitable, Hemingway decided it was time to get back to writing. He packed up his copious notes and booked his passage home to Havana, intending to work on a collection of three long stories or novellas. Instead, he was struck by a sudden inspiration for the story that would become his majestic novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). As the words began to pile up in his old fifth floor room at the Hotel Ambos Mundos, his excitement grew. He could feel it. This was the masterpiece he'd been hoping for.
In April of that year, he was joined by Martha Gellhorn, who was to become his third wife. Unwilling to live permanently in a hotel room, she located a down-at-the-mouth estate 15 miles from Old Havana called the Finca Vigía. Though the house was in need of work, it was favorably positioned on a hill washed by cool sea breezes, with distant views of the bone-white city and the glittering blue Straits of Florida beyond. In 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls was published to critical and popular acclaim. His authorial confidence restored, Hemingway resumed the life of a migratory sportsman, with Martha as his companion and the newly renovated Finca Vigía as his long-term base.
Once the accolades died down, however, he sank into another valley of malaise. As he'd long been predicting, hostilities broke out in Europe. The fighting spread rapidly, and as of December 7, 1941, America too became involved. He'd written his masterpiece, sure, but now the entire world was consumed by war. He'd been a first-hand witness in two of the century's defining military clashes. The idea of sitting this one out was unimaginable. Still, he wasn't quite ready to abandon Cuba, or the good fishing, or his comfortable life at the Finca Vigía.
He was on good terms with top officials at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. With their approval, he put together a counterintelligence operation to address the infiltration of Cuba by Nazi spies. It was believed that the spies had found accessories among the many Cubans who supported the new Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco. The situation was seen as particularly dangerous because of the "wolf-pack" of German U-boats preying on Allied shipping throughout the Caribbean. Operations began in the summer of 1942, with the Finca as headquarters and a collection of fishermen, bartenders, prostitutes, gunrunners, exiled noblemen, Basque jai-alai players, and long-time drinking buddies forming the personnel of Hemingway's counterspy ring.
But intelligence proved an unsatisfying pursuit. Yearning once again to experience the dangers of combat, he showed up at the embassy with an audacious proposal. He would staff the Pilar with a well-armed crew and patrol the island's north coast, posing as a team of scientists gathering data for the American Museum of Natural History. Inevitably, his reasoning went, they would be stopped by a U-Boat, at which point they would wait for the Nazi boarding party to emerge. His machine-gunners would mow down the boarding party, and his retired Basque jai-alai players would lob short-fuse bombs down the sub's conning tower. All he needed to make it work, he told the ambassador, was good radio equipment, arms and ammunition, and official permission.
Amazingly, the ambassador approved this far-fetched scheme. The Pilar was outfitted with a powerful radio, a set of .50-caliber Browning machine guns, grenades, bombs, and a variety of small arms. Martha suspected that it was all just a ruse to fill the Pilar's tank with strictly rationed wartime gasoline so Hemingway could resume his fishing trips, and in reality the detachment of faux scientists never did encounter a U-boat. But the author's experiences during that period gave him some terrific material for fiction. The novel that resulted, Islands in the Stream (1970) — unfinished in his lifetime and only published posthumously — contains portrayals of tropical seascapes that rank among the best passages of nature writing in fiction.
When Martha left to become a war correspondent in London, Hemingway remained in Havana, his drinking on the rise, and the Finca Vigía in a state of increasing disarray. The truth was, he was torn. A part of him felt strongly that he should be following Martha off to the war, but another part was deeply reluctant to leave the place that he'd come to consider home, his beloved cats, his friends, his record player, the long days out on the Pilar, and the mojitos and daiquiris at his Havana haunts. Still, when Collier's offered him a job covering the Allied invasion of Europe, he managed to pull himself together. He placed the cats in good homes and shuttered the Finca Vigía for a long absence.
Like many other episodes in his colorful life, Hemingway's experiences in World War II make for an interesting story, though that story is beyond the scope of this article. Suffice it to say that participating in yet another war seemed to give his spirit a fresh infusion, and he returned from Europe in May of 1945 with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh. Together they resumed the wandering life, alternating seasons in Havana and Sun Valley with frequent trips to Africa, Italy, and Spain. The Finca Vigía now had a staff of seven full-time servants and a well-stocked bar and kitchen. Houseguests included Hollywood luminaries such as Gary Cooper and Ava Gardner, whom he'd gotten to know in Sun Valley and from working on the movie versions of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) and To Have and Have Not (1944).
In December of 1950, he finally got around to writing a story he'd long had in mind, about an old fisherman from the Cuban town of Cojímar. He knew the town well; it was where he kept the Pilar, and he was a frequent patron of an eating and drinking establishment called La Terraza, which overlooked the small harbor featured in The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the last major work of fiction published in Hemingway's lifetime. It won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, providing a fitting capstone to a great career.
Throughout the 1950's, the author's health was declining. Worse, he was losing confidence in himself as a writer. In 1953, on safari in Africa, he and Mary were involved in a disastrous double plane crash, and he received a head injury from which he never fully recovered. It's also fair to assume that his health and mental acuity were adversely affected by long-term alcohol abuse. People who saw him in the latter part of the decade were shocked by how old and frail he looked compared to the image of the vigorous sportsman and war reporter that had taken root the popular imagination. Still, he was managing to live an intermittently happy life, taking special pleasure in the company of the latest generation of the 57 cats that lived at the Finca Vigía during his decades there. "A cat has absolute emotional honesty," he famously wrote. "Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
The emotions behind Hemingway's enduring legacy in Cuba click more clearly into focus when you talk to those who knew him when they were young. I spoke to an octogenarian fisherman in Cojímar who'd once been invited up to the Finca Vigía, along with several other young locals, to talk about his daily life and fishing practices, undoubtedly as background research for The Old Man and the Sea or Islands in the Stream. On the way back from his outings in the Pilar, Hemingway would throw towropes to local fishermen, saving them half a week's wages in valuable gas. Indeed, the author went out of his way to maintain good relations with many working men — taxi drivers, bartenders, fishermen — with whom he was more at ease than the awestruck international visitors who were constantly knocking on his door.
The Cuban government has honored the author's memory by preserving the Finca Vigía exactly as it was when he left it in the spring of 1960. It's a profoundly evocative place. Hemingway's well-stocked bookshelves are exactly as he kept them; the magazines strewn about the tables are all from 1959 and early 1960. His spectacles lie open on a side table; the typewriter where he worked rests on a shelf; several enormous pairs of shoes hang toe-down in a closet rack. The walls of the pleasantly airy and light-filled house display several of his big game trophies, including the actual physical remains of the animals that played starring roles in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (water buffalo), and The Green Hills of Africa (kudu). You can see the author's handwriting on the bathroom wall, where he periodically inked his fluctuating weight during those difficult waning years.
The onset of the Cuban Revolution worried Hemingway — the explosion of a nearby munitions depot broke windows in the Finca Vigía — but according to Carlos Baker's biography he was pleased in January of 1959, when Fulgencio Batista fled the country and Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries rolled in to Havana. Hemingway was disgusted by Batista's corrupt dictatorship, and he saw the Revolution as a positive change: "I wish Castro all the luck," he said. "The Cuban people now have a decent chance for the first time ever."
He did meet Fidel Castro, in November of 1959, at a fishing tournament west of Havana. The young Revolutionary leader won the tournament, and Hemingway presented the trophy. Castro said that he'd kept a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls in his backpack during the years of guerilla insurgency in the Sierra Maestra, which must have been thrilling for Hemingway to hear. "I always regretted the fact that I didn't…talk to him about everything under the sun," Castro later remarked. "We only talked about the fish."
At the Finca Vigía, downhill from the main house through shaded gardens, a walkway leads to the author's voluminous pool. Drained now, it's a dangerous-looking abyss, the slanting cement bottom painted blue, blown leaf litter piled in the deep end. Just below the pool, where the tennis court used to be, the Pilar rests in dry dock beneath a high tin roof. Bolted to the top of the boat is Hemingway's custom-designed flying bridge, where he could steer the yacht and stand lookout for marlin, or U-boats. This few square feet of decking, upon which the author spent so many avid hours, is perhaps the place in Cuba where Hemingway's troubled ghost bleeds through the thin tissue separating the living from the dead most unmistakably. It's impossible not to visualize him standing there, gazing out over the prow as he steered the Pilar among the azure channels and white-sand keys of the island's northern coast, as reflected in this passage from Islands in the Stream:
The water was clear and green over the sand and Thomas Hudson came in close to the center of the beach and anchored with his bow almost up against the shore. The sun was up and the Cuban flag was flying over the radio shack and the outbuildings. The signaling mast was bare in the wind. There was no one in sight and the Cuban flag, new and brightly clean, was snapping in the wind.
One of the chief traits of Havana that makes it irresistible to visitors is the city's elegant decay: the fact that its long isolation from the architecture-purging mainstream of the world economy has preserved a striking carapace of multi-layered history. Havana is a kind of massive time capsule in which, depending on the neighborhood, one barely has to squint to be transported back to the 17th century, the Art Deco 1930s, the 1950s gambling era dominated by the American mafia, and of course the forbidden Soviet Cuba of the Cold War.
It's ironic, and perhaps fitting, that Hemingway's single-minded pursuit of vivid real-life experience that he could immortalize in fiction is what led to him to Havana. Because despite his best efforts, the life could never quite match the intensity of the fiction, and that truth may have contributed to killing him. In Havana, the spirit of Hemingway endures, much like the architecture of the city itself, a fading reminder of what was and what might have been.
Tim Weed | 2 books mentioned 11 min read
Appearing Elsewhere: The Rooster Croweth
C. Max Magee February 19, 2009 | 2 books mentioned 1
I'm excited to announce that I'll be appearing as a judge in this year's Morning News Tournament of Books. (Click through to see the other, far more distinguished, judges, as well) It's exciting to be a part of what just might be my favorite ongoing series on the web. Stayed tuned for my second-round judgment once the Tournament kicks off in a few weeks.And by all means, get your bracket (pdf) now and start handicapping.
C. Max Magee | 2 books mentioned 1
The Millions Conversation: M.T. Anderson's Octavian Nothing (Part Three)
Editor March 5, 2009 | 2 books mentioned 6 6 min read
This winter, Millions contributors Emily Colette Wilkinson and Garth Risk Hallberg both happened to pick up the M.T. Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Via email, we conducted a bicoastal conversation about Octavian Nothing, Volume I: The Pox Party, which we're sharing with you this week in three installments. Part 1 focused on Form and Style. Part 2 focused on Historical and Geographic Setting. N.B.: Today's installment contains plot spoilers.Part 3: Audience, Character, and ConclusionGarth: What makes a kids' book a kids' book, in the popular sense of the phrase? After having thought about this a lot, the answer I've come up with is: kids' books often have a kind of "educational" component adult novels can get away with bypassing. This is a way of broaching the topic of audience. You mentioned earlier, Emily, that you wondered about the audience of this book, and I wanted to suggest that the question of audience may persist even if you ignore, for example, Anderson's debt to Adorno (as one can easily do.)Emily: Yes, I think I agree with your idea that didacticism is what makes this YA, but I still find myself wondering what I would have made of this book in my early teens – I wonder if I would have liked it, or even understood it. In my own teaching at the university level, I have seen students struggle with 18th-Century literature. Of course, there are a lot of children's books that abstract their plots and characters from philosophy and history that is more adult (Narnia's Christianity, Jane Langton's use of American transcendentalism in The Hall Family Chronicles, Jenny Davidson's use of an alternative history of Europe (if Napoleon had won at Waterloo) in The Explosionist, Matthew Skelton's use of Faust legends and the history of Gutenberg and his press in Endymion Spring). But I feel like Octavian is harder – the style is harder, the form is harder – even if the history itself will probably be more familiar. I like the idea of younger readers liking this book, but I am, nonetheless, a little surprised by it.Garth: This may be one of those things you're not supposed to ask for from books about American slavery, Sept. 11, Naziism, and so forth, but I thought that the subtlety of Anderson's moral sense lagged at times behind his technical gifts. Octavian offers an essentially monochromatic vision of the institution of slavery. He does a great job revealing the way it was bound up in the culture, extending the responsibility to most participants of that culture, but he leaves little room for gradations of evil. The ironies are often negations, rather than complications or paradoxes. Juxtaposed with his extraordinary formal achievements, this made me wonder, for whom was this book was written? Younger readers may find fusillades of prose flying by over their heads, while older readers may be disappointed by the lack of moral complexity. It may be argued that melodrama is one of the archaic conventions Anderson is playing with here, but Harriet Beecher Stowe got there in the 19th Century, and did it more convincingly. I should issue another spoiler alert here, by the way. I think we might have to give away some of the book's secrets to discuss our criticisms.Emily: I wouldn't say I have criticisms of Octavian as much as I have questions because it is a difficult book.Garth: Maybe this is a way of exposing myself as overly hungry for irony in the novels I read. But for me, the problem of moral certainty (and its potential solutions in Volume II of Octavian Nothing) is grounded in the characters themselves. After watching Anderson painstakingly reconstruct the cultural environment within which anyone found slavery sane, I was disappointed to see Mr. Gitney, the head of the Novanglian College of Lucidity collapse into simple villainy. I was more interested in him when he seemed merely compromised and self-deluding. Similarly, the virtuous Private Evidence Goring, who befriends Octavian, was a little too virtuous for me. He had this kind of Rousseauvian innocence – he seems genuinely colorblind, and naturally assumes his friend Octavian's equality. He's like a son of the soil. Could he really be uncontaminated by the pervasive ideology of slave-owning? I wanted at least to see him be really dismissive of a woman, or something. I guess I wanted him to be capable of change.Emily: I share your disappointment in Mr. Gitney. The one aspect of this book that I found kind of clunky was the way Gitney pursued his experiment on Octavian. He aims to discover if Africans have the same intellectual and moral capacities as Europeans, but that would necessitate having a European subject raised alongside Octavian in the exact same conditions. The betrayal of the rationalist empiricism that Gitney claims to defend is glaringly obvious – but not to him. Maybe a way around our dissatisfaction is to think of Gitney and Goring as allegorical figures? Goring as the bright, naive, fresh-faced idealism of a soon-to-be nation; Gitney as… well, maybe the inhumanity of which science and commerce are capable? Something like that? And Octavian – who I think will develop into a flesh and blood, three-dimensional character in future volumes – is trying to orient himself in the midst of all of these?Garth: Ah. This might explain my lack of feeling for Gitney and Goring. I don't have much of a taste for allegory.Emily: Though, in truth, I was not so bothered by Goring as a character, allegory aside. Perhaps because I am more at home with the idioms of the eighteenth century, his character did not seem false to me – kind of Tom Jones-y, though a bit more religious. I found his naive idealism appealing and believable. A matter of taste, I think. I can appreciate irony but do not require it in my reading. Indeed, I have been known – forgive me, Oscar Wilde – to cry uncontrollably when Dickens describes Tiny Tim's empty stool and crutch leaning against the wall in A Christmas Carol. My occasional problems with sensibility aside, though, I think allegory might be the key here.Garth: Dr. Trefusius, Octavian's tutor, was a much more interesting character to me, because his complicated relationship to "the peculiar institution" recalled the Jeffersonian one I sketched in Part 2 of our conversation. Trefusius is hopelessly compromised and complicit, but is not beyond redemption. Indeed, his is the kind of character who necessitates redemption. Likewise Bono, the slave you mentioned earlier, who almost forms a dyad with Dr. Trefusius. His clear-sightedness comes at the cost of his optimism. I suppose I think this kind of muddled moral position has more to teach us, because it's the one we're more likely to find ourselves in – beneficiaries of institutions that would bother our consciences, if we allow ourselves to see them for what they are. But here I'm starting to sound like I'm asking for more didacticism. Perhaps didacticism in literature is a paradox. For the bald didactic "moral" can only teach us so much. It precipitates a gestalt shift; we can only learn it once. Whereas putatively amoral irony and ambiguity constitute an ongoing lesson in what life is like. This is what's so remarkable about Edward P. Jones' The Known World, by the way. It has volumes to teach us about how one human being can tolerate owning another. Speaking of character, what did you think of Octavian himself?Emily: Octavian is hard to grasp, elusive, there is a lack of emotion about him, a lack of self-knowledge that makes him seem something like autistic at times (added to his encyclopedic knowledge of natural and classical history, there's a bit of a Rain Man effect). This might have bothered me more if it didn't remind me of some of Defoe's best heroes and heroines, particularly Robinson Crusoe, and also Coetzee's equally emotionally opaque Foe. With the exceptions of Evidence Goring and Dr. Trefusis, all of the characters in Volume I strike me as emotionally broken and joyless, either by slavery or by a deformed and deforming commitment to a perverse version of rationalism.Garth: With Octavian, Anderson clearly wants to do something with the idea of scientific observation (in which his protagonist is trained) versus engagement, but Octavian's tendency to become a transparent eyeball at key dramatic moments made it increasingly difficult for me to get a read on his character. I longed for a dawning complexity befitting the maturity of the language, but Octavian became less plausible to me the older he got. That is, I think I saw what Anderson was up to, but had some trouble suspending disbelief. I would have liked to have seen more of a moral duality in Octavian himself: struggling with his own urge to dominate others, to lash out in violence at weaker characters, to achieve Oedipal one-ness with his mother… you get the picture. Though perhaps the point is that observation versus engagement is itself a moral quandary. I wanted, finally, to see Octavian as a particular human personality, rather than as an Everyman shaped by forces beyond his control. I'm hoping this is what Part II is for…Emily: My question is whether Octavian can get beyond this broken, stunted, deadened quality in future volumes and if such an evolution can be convincing. Garth: So maybe this is a good point to leave off the discussion. This has been fun, Emily. Maybe we should do it again.Emily: Indeed!Bonus Link: A 2008 profile of M.T. Anderson from The Washington Post
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C. Max Magee December 16, 2003 | 2 books mentioned 2 min read
The screws are tightening as the holiday season draws near, and though all I want to do is post on this blog, there is just so much to get done before I head back home for the holidays. Luckily, head Millions correspondent, Brian, has supplied me with a wealth of material over the past couple of days, from which I will borrow liberally and/or quote verbatim.I was at the book store yesterday, and I saw that Brian had placed this book on display with a little card reading. "Has a book ever become so obsolete, so quickly," which, along with this news story about bearded Saddam dolls, is proof that the American news-based satire business is as fast-paced as the news itself… I'll just have to add those items to my cache of "most wanted" decks of cards (which come in original [Iraqis], retaliatory [Republicans], and counter-retaliatory [Democrats]), Enron spoofs, and hilarious um… other Enron humor. Seriously, though, there are literally hundreds of books like these: super-topical, amusing books that are rushed to market while the story is still hot in the hope that it will drag on long enough to bring in a nice profit before the books become obsolete, relics of the churning news cycle.Brian also sent me links to a couple of interesting book-related news stories: "This link is to Harold Bloom's review of the new Don Quixote – Bloom considers it the greatest novel ever written. Note: the review is an edited extract from Bloom's introduction, so those that have the book… skip it — Bloom does mention that he believes [Edith] Grossman's translation to be amongst the finest of the past 500 years." Another story from across the pond: "An interesting article using Vernon God Little (this year's Booker Prize winner) as the jumping off point to explain why the Booker Prize is irrelevant crap!"
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cmm says:
Breakfast of Champions was my second Vonnegut novel. My first was Cat's Cradle, and while I don't have a good story about how I got it (mall bookstore), I had to comment to say that your reaction to first reading Vonnegut was exactly mine. Like an addict on an endless search to recreate that first high, I subconsciously compare every reading experience to that one. I reread it last year for the first time since 1998(?), and it held it up. It's as great as I remembered it being.
steven augustine says:
BOC wasn't my first… I probably did SH5 first, then Cradle, then Sirens of Titan, but I bought BOC when it first came out. Its voice… a big-print version of the voice that had dialed my number as a ten-year-old sci fi zealot… flowed through me like a warm current. Like having a crazy favorite uncle pointing out how stupid the world was and laughing with you at it… that most necessary of adolescent conspiracies. When I got to the first major *asterisk* in BOC… well. Everything seemed possible… what could possibly go wrong with a decade that started like *that*… ?
PS Speaking of Pirsig: I used to hang out at the cafe that he or his wife owned (bought with some of the proceeds from Pirsig's big pop Zen hit?)… the cafe called The Blue Heron; there was the most beautiful waitress who worked there (dead wringer for Carol Kane) who suffered from Anosmia… but I digress. Robert's son, Chris, who featured in the Pirsig blockbuster, died of robbery near the Zen center, way back in San Francisco, the year I started hanging out at the cafe on Lake Street, at the very end of the '70s. So the decade wasn't that great after all.
ze says:
This really resonated with me. In my junior year of high school, a commie friend handed me a beat up paperback copy of Breakfast of Champions. He told me to read it and pass it on. The pages were foxed, somed dog eared, some torn, the cover disintegrating. It was my introduction to Vonnegut and it indeed "shoved me towards the person I would become." I repaired the torn pages and did my best to fix the fraying binding before passing it onto someone else, who I hope enjoyed it as much as I did.
beamish13 says:
I didn't really fall in love with Vonnegut until I read GALAPAGOS, which I still think is his most profound, funniest and prescient work. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE (both play and film) are really phenomenal, too. I distinctly remember enjoying "The No-Talent Kid" in 8th grade English, and that was a gateway to his entire oeuvre.
I read it after my high school English teacher told me it was about our home town. Vonnegut had been there to speak at the local Center for the Arts, sponsored by our local corporate titans, and staying at the Holiday Inn next to the highway.
Steven Myers says:
How interesting to see Boyle lumped in there with Vonnegut and Salinger.
I started with World's End and worked my way backwards. The chef and the reviewer short story in Greasy Lake has stuck with me. Budding Prospects is trying to be an Amazon Video series. The pilot is just so-so. Water Music really turned my head. Like John Barth mixed with Saul Bellow jammed inside Heart of Darkness, but bursting through its gossamer carapace like Neo from Agent Smith. On then to East is East, a compelling love/disaster story. The Tortilla Curtain was wholly different yet captivating. It's the best of all his books from that point on, in my opinion.
Vonnegut changed my life as well. I came to him through the back page of a paperback edition of Sometimes a Great Notion. An "Other Authors You May Enjoy" list. Pynchon, Barth, Bellows, McGuane, Vonnegut, Burroughs, Heller, etc.
I tried to gobble them all up, choked on Gravity's Rainbow, tried V, gave up on Pynchon, but the rest! Kesey's Notion and that single page (half page) of authors formed my literary taste and direction for years.
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Objects of Fear and Worship: The Evolution of Aliens in Literature
Ian Simpson October 20, 2017 | 2 books mentioned 2 6 min read
The sorns are slender and humanoid and are the scientists and thinkers; the hrossa resemble overstretched otters; they are poets and musicians; and the pfifltriggi are the builders, looking like insectile frogs.
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Honey, Would You Read My Book?
Henriette Lazaridis February 2, 2015 | 2 books mentioned 4 6 min read
The transaction is fraught with expectation and fear, hope and anxiety. If it goes badly, the simple offer of pages to read can shake relationships, unsettle marriages, and open wide rifts between partners, lovers, friends.
Henriette Lazaridis | 2 books mentioned 4 6 min read
Brevity Is the Soul of It: In Praise of Short Books
Kyle Chayka July 27, 2017 | 2 books mentioned 4 4 min read
Short books are not narratives, but devices: instead of the telescope of a long novel or history tome, they are a pair of sunglasses, allowing you to see the world, briefly and temporarily, in a different shade.
Kyle Chayka | 2 books mentioned 4 4 min read
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Q. What is a Mortgage?
A. A mortgage is a legal agreement where money can be loaned to you so that you can buy property or land. A mortgage usually runs for 25 years, but can be altered to a longer or shorter period of time.
The purpose of a mortgage is to secure the loan against the value of the property or land until it has been paid off.
The money you borrow from a lender is called the capital. The lender will charge interest on the capital until it has been repaid. The type of mortgage you apply for can be determined by whether you want to repay interest or interest and capital.
Q. What you can afford?
A. It is important to think realistically about what type of mortgage you can afford on top of your monthly bills and expenses.
A lender will want to see your proof of income, expenditure and any debts you may have. Your lender may also ask about your household bills, child maintenance and any personal expenses.
This will simply give your lender the proof they need to show that you can keep up with your repayments if interest rate rise. It can also help the lender to decide whether you are a suitable applicant to offer a mortgage. A lender can refuse to offer you a mortgage if they feel that you would not be able to keep up with repayment.
Q. Where to get a mortgage?
A. To compare different mortgages and mortgages that may not be directly offered to customers, you would need to contact a mortgage broker or an independent financial adviser. You could also directly apply for a mortgage from a bank or building society.
A broker will look at the entire mortgage market, whereas others may only look at products from certain lenders. The broker will explain the market and their own fees.
A. Your deposit goes towards the cost of the property that you are buying.
The higher the deposit you can make, the lower the interest rate could be. A loan to value (LTV) is the amount of your home that you own outright, compared to the amount that is secured against the mortgage. Therefore, the lower the LTV, the lower the interest rate could be. This is because the lender will be taking a smaller risk with a smaller loan.
Q. What is a Repayment Mortgage?
A. A repayment mortgage is when you pay the interest and part of the capital off every month. At the end of the term, the mortgage would be fully paid off and you will fully own your home.
The loan reduces slowly at first so that the interest element becomes smaller, while the capital repayments become a larger part. Providing the repayments have been made every month at the end of the term, you can be assured that the loan will be paid off without risk.
Q. What is an Interest Only Mortgage?
A. An interest only mortgage is when you only pay the interest and nothing off of the capital. This means that at the end of the mortgage the amount borrowed from the lender still needs to be paid in one large sum. This can lead to homeowners not being able to repay a huge debt owed to their lenders. However, repayment vehicles such as; savings, pensions, stocks and shares, investment bonds and other properties or assets, etc. can aid paying off an interest only mortgage.
The risk involved with this method is that if you do not have sufficient funds available to repay the loan at the end of the term could mean that you would have to sell your property.
A. Mortgages come with fixed or variable interest rates.
A fixed rate means that your repayments will stay the same for a certain amount of time, usually between two to five years. These terms remain fixed regardless of what interest rates are doing.
A variable rate mortgage can increase or decrease, depending on the Bank of England base rate.
Q. Applying for a Mortgage?
A. Firstly, the lender will ask you a series of questions to determine what kind of mortgage you want and for how long. This means that you will have to provide them with some personal financial information. This allows the lender to decide how much they are willing to lend you.
Next, the lender will carry out a fact find and an affordability assessment. This requires you to provide proof of income (i.e. payslips) and specific expenditure.
To assess your affordability, you will be asked about your finance and any future plans that may impact your income. The lender will also assess the impact that interest rates rising would have on any future repayments.
The lender will then provide you with a binding offer and a mortgage illustration explaining the terms of your mortgage.
Finally, you will be given a reflection period which lasts seven days. This time given will allow you to consider the lenders offer, make comparisons and gauge the implications of accepting the lenders offer. During the reflection period, the lender cannot change or withdraw their offer, except in limited circumstances (e.g. if any information provided proved to be false). The reflection period can be waived and the home purchase can be sped up.


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The presentation is a brief account of the Library's financial standing as of May 3, 2007.
The annual report of the Academic Assembly Steering Committee, summarizing activities of the group, in chronological order, during the 2013-2014 academic year.
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No need to add any service providers.
When you see that you have an endpoint from which you have to send back more than one type of response... Then this package is going to help you a lot.
1- User is already logged in, so redirect.
The fact that MVC frameworks force us to "return a response" from controllers prevents us from simplify controllers beyond a certain point. So we decide to break that jail and bring ourselves freedom.
The idea is : Any class in the application should be able to send back a response.
Controllers Are Controllers, They Are Not Responders !!!
Controllers, "control" the execution flow of your code, and send commands to other objects, telling them what to do. Their responsibility is not returning a "response" back to the client. And this is the philosophy of terminator package.
//These if blocks can not be extracted out. Can they ?
With the current approach, this is as much as we can refactor at best. Why? because the controllers are asking for response, they are not telling what to do.
We do not want many if conditions all within a single method, it makes the method hard to understand and reason about.
// No response, just commands, Nice ???
respondWith($response); // <-- look here "no return !!!"
respondWith($response);  // <-- look here  "no return !!!"
respondWith($response);  // <-- look here "no return !!!"
Do you see how "return" keyword is now turned into regular function calls ?!
In fact sendAndTerminate() ( or it's alias "respondWith" ) function can accept anything you normally return from a typical controller.
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William Tyrrell: Police find new item of interest buried in muddy creek bed as search continues
Police find a new interesting item buried in a muddy creek bed while they continue their search for William Tyrrell
Investigators looking for William Tyrrell have found a piece of faded red cloth
The toddler disappeared from his foster grandmother's home in Kendall, NSW in 2014
The three-year-old was last seen in a red, black, and blue Spiderman suit
The new article will be forensically examined to determine if it is the same material
By Tita Smith for Daily Mail Australia
Released: 5:36 PM EST, December 6, 2021 | Updated: 6:19 PM EST, December 6, 2021
Police have unearthed a piece of faded red material buried in a muddy creek bed while they continue their search for William Tyrrell.
Investigators searching the bushland near the house in Kendall the three-year-old disappeared from in September 2014 began digging a new section of the pumped creek on Monday.
When they were rummaging through the mud, detectives discovered a piece of red cloth near a tree trunk shortly after 3:30 p.m., the Daily Telegraph reports.
The item has been placed in an evidence bag and is being forensically examined to determine if it is the same material as the red and blue Spider-Man costume the toddler was last seen in.
Day 22 of the re-search for the little boy's remains on the central north coast of NSW this week began with a search for a new section of the creek east of Batar Creek Road on the outskirts.
Detectives made a new discovery while searching for evidence in Kendall (pictured) in the case of missing toddler William Tyrrelll
A piece of faded red cloth has been excavated at the bottom of a muddy stream – which is being forensically examined to determine if it's the same material as a Spiderman suit that William was photographed in the morning he went missing (pictured).
Rural fire department volunteers began clearing the waterway early Monday before investigators returned to search the dirt in hopes of finding clues as to what happened to the missing boy.
Meanwhile, riot police continued to comb the surrounding bushland while forensic investigators digitally mapped the area using laser technology.
The software will allow detectives to view the map on a laptop and mark key areas and their search progress through the rough terrain.
William and his family were visiting his foster grandmother's estate on Benaroon Drive, Kendall, from Sydney when he mysteriously disappeared seven years ago.
Last month NSW police announced that hundreds of officers would search three locations in the area where he disappeared after gaining new information and looking for a body.
The detectives of the Strike Force Rosann found several interesting objects during the renewed search, including other pieces of material in a Hessian bag, but the officers have yet to disclose whether they are forensically relevant to the case.
However, Detective Chief Superintendent of NSW Police, Darren Bennett, told reporters on Nov. 26 that investigators were "very pleased" with the results so far.
The search is expected to take several weeks as the efforts have been temporarily hampered by bad weather.
Police teams searched Kendall, NSW, bushland for the remains of William Tyrell on November 23
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You don't have enough to write about, and/or, you don't have the time to do it.
I say you do. I say you have plenty to write about, way more than you realize, and you have more than enough time to do it.
Set up a new notebook or file for this email/blog project, open a page and label it "ideas". If you have any that come to mind, write them down. If you have other files with blog post or content ideas you've collected, add them to your new file.
Go through your hard drive, reading list, saved article files, and do the same.
Next, write down the questions prospective clients and new clients typically ask you–about the law, procedure or process, about their legal rights and options, about what you can do to help them.
You should be able to quickly write down ten or twenty questions.
If you find yourself running short, visit some online forums where people post questions for attorneys to answer, and see what's being asked.
You can also visit article directories, other attorney's blogs, and websites that feature legal content and see what visitors are asking in the comments. You can search your keywords on social media and see what people are talking about.
Okay, that's enough for now. More than enough, actually. You should now have enough ideas to keep you busy for the next several years.
Will you have the time to use those ideas? Let's find out.
Go through your idea list and pick one. It doesn't matter what it is, just pick something you have an opinion on or experience with, or something that interests you that you think might interest others.
Now, write down three words or phrases related to that idea.
If you're a personal injury attorney and you've chosen to write a response to the question, "How much is my case worth?" your three words might be, "damages, liability, and insurance," for example.
Next, take your idea and your key words, set a timer for five minutes and start writing. You can type or use a pen or dictate but don't stop writing (or talking) until the five minutes is up.
Don't edit, don't worry about grammar or punctuation, don't slow down or stop. Just keep pushing your pen or pounding the keys.
I don't care how busy you are, you can write for five minutes.
At least that's what I found out the first time I did this exercise.
You now have the first draft of an email or blog post or article. Put it aside and re-write or edit it later. When you're done, you should have a few hundred words, enough for a blog post or email.
Then, tomorrow, or next week at this time, do it again. Pick another idea, write down three words, write for five minutes, edit later.
Continue doing this until you have at least ten posts or emails.
Now it's time to decide what to do with them.
You could start a blog. You'll have ten weeks (or days) worth of material to post.
You could start a newsletter. You'll have ten emails to load into your autoresponder.
Or you can gather up what you've written and turn them into an ebook or report.
The only remaining question is, "Should you?" Will it be worth it for you to write something once or twice a week and post or email it? Will it bring in business?


Now that is a beautiful sight. What is it, you might ask? BU is competing in the SCVNGR Beantown Challenge – a competition between these four schools for whose students can be the most active between 2/7 and 2/14. You can find the full details and prizes (including Celtics and Kylie Minogue tickets!) on Dean Elmore's new Facebook page. If you're new to SCVNGR check out my post on the basics of this awesome iPhone / Android application.
The competition runs until 2/14 and since we're doing so well our new goal is to hit 10,000 points by its end. Word on the street is there might be a huge get together for everyone involved when we get there!
So download the app, play the challenges, and keep up to date on Dean Elmore's Facebook page and on the Facebook event!


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Robert "Bob" Chope, 77, Cadiz, died at 4:08 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, at Saint Thomas Medical Center West in Nashville of natural causes.
A visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Goodwin Funeral Home Inc. in Cadiz. Masonic Rites will be at 6 p.m.
A native of Reading, Surrey, England, he was born Feb. 13, 1942, the son of the late Francis Samuel John Chope and Doris Ash Chope.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers, John Chope and Andrew Gilmartin; and his sister, Sheila Thomas.
He served 12 years in the Royal Navy before becoming an American citizen in 1977, along with his family. He worked for 40 years as a safety engineer for various insurance companies until his retirement. He served on the Board of Governors for St. Louis Shriners Hospital and was very active as a Shriner, serving as High Priest and Prophet of Rizpah Temple in Madisonville. He was also a member of Princeton Masonic Lodge No. 82.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Diane Mead Chope, Cadiz; his sons, Kevin Robert (Suzanne Kinsman) Chope, Chicago, Illinois, Andrew Julian Chope, Big Rock, Tennessee, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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