The reader, covered in goosebumps, has barely a minute to absorb the scene before, in a narrative full of brilliance and imaginative force which breaks through the pages like a tsunami, Quasimodo is off again, we follow him up to the roof of the cathedral, traversing the gallery of the ki...
“Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.” ...
“I, SNOW LEOPARD is both a lyric and an elegy. It is easy to imagine its lines being loudly hailed in whatever country the poem finds itself in. It’s publication comes at a time when people everywhere have begun to wonder what a voice like this, suppressed for centuries, wishes to s...
Probably in the Irish countryside, in a little cottage with climbing roses growing on the front. I like to imagine drinking tea in my garden while I scribble down notes for my next book. Sadly, it’s a less than idyllic scene if the roses are all dead, so I’d need to work on my...
In a way, this book is asking what does spirituality look like if Romans 12:1 about all of life, what Eugene Peterson calls “our everyday walking around life” being worship is really true.) Bennett’s approach assumes a view of the human person that is obviously embodied, cultural, ...
Probably in the Irish countryside, in a little cottage with climbing roses growing on the front. I like to imagine drinking tea in my garden while I scribble down notes for my next book. Sadly, it’s a less than idyllic scene if the roses are all dead, so I’d need to work on my...
A couple of heartbeats later I felt that skin-prickling sensation, my hair standing on end, and then the hollow pop! Silence filled the garage. One of the security guards groaned as he struggled to his feet. "What the hell?" I whispered, trying to control my pounding heart. I still ...
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One has a habit of making bad things happen to people he doesn’t like. The other has just vanished without a trace. As Tres looks into the dirty dealings surrounding Miranda, it becomes clear he’s stepped into a rattlesnakes’ nest of greed, double cross, and murder—and he may be ...
Turns out, it's surprisingly little. We already have a retry mechanism in the client. So using the load balancing pattern will work pretty well. This fits with ZeroMQ's philosophy that we can extend a peer-to-peer pattern like request-reply by plugging naive proxies in the middle[figure]...