— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper Read full book for free! ... mother had caused to be instructed in dancing, and other arts of pleasing, with the sole idea of bringing her to Machaerus and presenting her to the tetrarch, so that he should fall in love with her ...
In silent communion, I invite a word to come from this living beauty at my feet, expecting the message will be some version of the advice I often hear, to be self-giving, to pour myself out for others…. Yet that is not what rises in me. Instead, I hear one clear word. If it ...
In some instances, the process of pejoration rebrands a feminine word as an insult—not for women, but for men. Take the words “buddy” and “sissy”: Today, we might use sissy to describe a weak or overly effeminate man, while buddy is a synonym for a close pal. We don’t think...
For many, the words “three-piece suit” instantly conjures the image of John Travolta, mid-disco finger on the Saturday Night Fever poster. But it seems that, after an appearance at the London Film Festival, Angelina Jolie is challenging Travolta for the suiting title. Jolie hit the red ...
The Slits’ associate Don Letts has described 70s Britain as ‘the dark ages’ for women, a judgement which is brought home hard in Albertine’s recollections of her teens and twenties. In the debate around Savile and Harris and other still redacted names, we’re used to hearing the excuse...
I suggest that she constructed at least an implicit female version of the clerical soul of the Body Politic described by John of Salisbury, whose earlier work on the Body Politic strongly influenced Christine's conception of the same. Since some, such as Brian Tierney and others, have argued ...
of the correspondence. Depending on the sender's own character, the delivery of the sentence is either gently scolding or harshly critical. But the intent is always the same: to tell me I have let them down because I did not fit whatever version of me they had hoped to find. I am ...
a约翰说要和他的父亲去伦敦 John said must go to London with his father[translate] a你會在中國呆多少時間? How much time can you stay in China?[translate] athis period is sometimes called the"honeymoon"stage 这个期间有时称"蜜月"阶段[translate] ...
Starting with the paternal imposition of a fetish on women, clothes and jewellery that have the function of protecting them from other men, Gérard Pommier suggests that this move is implicated in Lacan’s term ‘père-version’. He asks then whether there is a form of père-version for a ...