No, I do not regret having left the circle. I would leave the circle any time again, if the observational data tell me to leave the circle. But this is truly easy to write with job security guaranteed, but in 1997 I did not have that and still moved against the main stream, not wa...
Such connec- tions to the real world should not be treated as an attempt to stifle freedom of expression and to break the "magic circle", but as a way of acknowledging that the two need to exist harmoniously. Castronova (2005, p.147) considers the boundary between the synthetic world and...
We did manage to catch a break when Anisimov was caught from the side while turning to circle up the boards again and managed to go into the boards head first, resulting in Ottawa getting hosed on a 5 minute boarding call (I'm a Ranger fan but that hit was legal). I was glad that...
7. And ultimately, I’m going to create a not-for-profit that unites the geek community to raise funds for awareness and treatment of emotional and mental wellness. Kind of like Patrick Rothfuss’sWorldbuilders, except for depression, anxiety, etc. I was thinking of calling it, or the pub...
Nietzsche’s madness was to understand this and became victorious only in the circle of immanent annihilation beyond self or despair. His was the death of spirit, the death of this self-relation which is and is not. Time and memory dissolve only in this self-forgetful gesture of despair anni...
n round face like a moon when seen as a complete circle 圆脸. moonlight n [U] light of the moon 月光 : a walk by moonlight/in the moonlight 月光下的漫步. v (pt, pp -lighted) [I] (infml 口) have a second job, esp at night, in addition to one's regular one during the day...
Bullied for being posh, she wasn’t invited in to the inner circle of iniquity; reviled by her contemporaries she eschewed the sickening trappings of her youth, in favour of cold hard cash. Men, to Maranda, were a means to an end; at least, rich men were. Only the one she had ...
It is full of music and dancing and color, and brings us full circle from the quiet and somber wedding procession of the foxes. A painting by Kurosawa —Janet Cupo has been commenting on this blog for about as long as it's existed, and has her own excellent blog at The Three Prayers...
“Life went on the same. When I wasn’t working at the Avon theaters, I was hanging out with my Irish friends like Jimmy C. We drank at a bar on Fifty-Second and Tenth Ave. I wasn’t in the inner circle of the Westies gang, but when they needed me for something, I was part...
By National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist forAn Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Mori...