#Roberto Oswald

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we love girls w no self preservation in this house

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Co w jazzie piszczy [sezon 2 odcinek 29]

premierowa emisja 14 sierpnia 2024 – 18:00 Graliśmy: Carlos Bica “Roots” z albumu “11:11” – Clean Feed Records Luís Vicente Trio “Hope II” z albumu “Come Down Here” – Clean Feed Records Gonçalo Almeida “Restraint, Pt.2” z albumu “States Of Restraint” – Clean Feed Records Luísa Gonçalves “Piano Distance” z albumu “Under Your Breath I Solo Piano Works II” – Trem Azul Records Margaux Oswald…

[bendyandboristhehorrorcircus]

Welcome, Ladies and Gents and all of Inkwell- To the one and only INKWELL CIRCUS!!

You read it! This blog is a big mix of lots of my hyperfixations! Founded by @ez-zylubsraccoons /my main blog.

RULES: No NSFW/transphobe/homophobe/sexist/racist/all of that asks. You will be blocked.

In this, fandoms/specific characters include:

Wings of Fire (Peril, Winter, Qibli)

Bendy and Boris quest for the ink machine (Bendy, Boris, Felix, Cuphead, Mugman, Mickey, Oswald, Fanny, Donald, Goofy, Blackhat)

Bendy and the ink machine (Bendy, Alice)

Cars (Mater, Ms. Fritter)

My Hero Academia (Katsuki Bakugou, Izuku Midoriya)

And my OCs! (Petunia Sugar, Roberto Sugar, Constance "Connie" Sugar, Teacup Miller, SandDollar "Sandy" Miller, Circurettes, Gwimble/Owned by: @kavemantheimmortal, Clutzy, Ragala, Charbee, Kewsey, Bosk, Boboo.)

The Cuphead Show (Cuphead, Mugman)

Undertale/Sans AUs (Undertale!Sans, Horrortale!Sans, Underfell!Sans, Underswap!Sans)

Lore and such will be learned throughout the blog!

Official List of Characters

Qftim!Bendy

Qftim!Boris

Qftim!Felix

Qftim!Cuphead

Qftim!Mugman

Qftim!Mickey

Qftim!Oswald

Qftim!Fanny

Teacup Miller

SandDollar "Sandy" Miller

Constance "Connie" Sugar

Petunia Sugar

Roberto Sugar

Circurettes

Blackhat

Ms.Fritter

Peril

Qibli

Winter

Mater

Batim!Bendy

Tcs!Cuphead

Tcs!Mugman

Batim!Alice

Katsuki Bakugou

Izuku Midoriya

Donald

Gwimble

Goofy

UT!Sans

UF!Sans

HT!Sans

US!Sans

Clutzy

Ragala

Charbee

Kewsey

Bosk

Boboo

(EDIT: P.S, there are an actual horror circus version of every one of these characters, so if you wanna ask the HORROR version of a character, just ask H!that character)

!!IMPORTANT!!

I'm gonna go ahead and let y'all know. All of these characters are gonna be toons. (Meaning the mha beans, cars beans, Undertale beans, and wof beans are gonna be toons! They will still have some qualities of their own self.

LASTLY, YALL HAVE FUN!

[lesser-known-composers]

Henrique Oswald (1852-1931) - Elegia para Orquestra

Orquestra da Escola de Música da UFRJ

Maestro: Roberto Duarte

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Atlantis Attacks

Ant Ant

Arkham Asylum

Agent A (Alfred)

Amity Arkham

Amadeus Arkham

All-American comics

Baxter Building

Bombastic-Bag man

robert Bruce Banner

james Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes

Black Blot/Blackagar Boltagon

elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock

Brian Braddock

william “Billy” Braddock

Billy Batson

Beast Boy

Blue Beetle

Boston Brand

BlueBird

Bouncing Boy

Carl “Crusher” Creel

Captain Carter

nathan Christopher Charles summers/Cable

Curtis "Curt" Connors

Caped Crusader

oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot

Captain Cold

Captain Carrot

Catherine Cobert

Cressida Clarke

Crocky the Crodile

Doctor Darrk

Doctor Destiny

Dorthy Duncan

Ding-Dong Daddy

yankee Doodle Dandy

Dinah Drake

Darla Dudley

Damien Darhk

(new) Fantastic Four

Four Freedoms plaza

Fin Fang Foom

Freedom Fighters

Freddy Freeman

Felix Faust

Guardian of the Galaxy

Green Goblin

Guy Gardener

Gorilla Grodd

Gotham Gazette

Gotham Globe

Gotham General

Green Guardsman

Golden Glider

Glorious Gordon Godfrey

Happy Hogan

Hank Hensley

Hank Hall (Hawk)

Henry “Hank” Henshaw

Hank Hall

Hippolyta "lyta" Hall

Hank Haywood

Jessica Jones

John Jonah Jameson

Katherine “Kate” Kane

Kristen Kringle

Kip Kettering

Lacie Lorraine

Loki Laufeyson

Lunella Lafayette

Lonnie Lincoln

Lois Lane

Lex Luther

Lighting Lad

Linda Lee

Luma Lynai

Lana Lang

Laura Lang

Louise Lincoln

dinah Laurel Lance

Linda Lang

Lena Luther

MasterMind

May Melinda

Miles Morales (og 42)

Meows Morales

Michael Morbius

Multiverse of Madness

MilkMan Man

Mateo Maximoff

Marya Maximoff

Mole Man

Mister Mxyptlk “Mxy”

M’gann M’orzz/Megan Morse/Miss Martian

Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi

Mary Marvel

Miguel Montez

Music Master

Mr. Miracle

Mirror Master

Mad Mod

Malcolm Merlyn

Maria Mercedes Mooney

Matches Malone

Monsieur Mallah

Nia Nal

Olivia Octavius (doctor Octopus/doc Ock)

Pepper Potts

Peter Parker(s)

Pabitr Prabhakav

Peni Parker

Peter Porker

Pedro Peña

Penny Plunderer

Quasar’s Quantum bands

Quentin Quale

Reed Richards

Rocket Raccoon

Richard Rider

Roberto “Robbie” Reyes (og 69)

Rachel Roth (Raven)

Ronald Raymond

SlapStick

Sun Spider

Scarlet Spider

Serpent Society

Super Skrull

Silver Sable/Silvija Sablinova

Sinister Syndicate

Sinister Six

Steven Strange (dr Strange)

Sybil Silverlock

Susan “Sue” Storm

Spider-Society

Samuel Sterns

Sebastian Shaw

Suicide Squad

Star Sapphire

Silver St. Cloud

Secret Six

Pter Ptarker (TT)

Taneleer Tivan

Tyros The Terrible (Terrax)

Teen Titans

Titans Tomorrow

Tom Turbine

Traci Thirteen

Unus the Untouchable

Vicki Vale

Valerie Vale

Web Warriors

Wade Winston Wilson

Wallace “Wally” West

Wallace “ace” West II

Wonder Woman

Warlock the Wizard

Wizards & Warlocks

Zatanna Zatara

Zachary Zatara

Zilius Zox

Duela Dent Napier Nigma

Cooper Coen/Web Weaver

Matthew Michael “Matt” Murdock/DareDevil

Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel

Otto Octavius (doctor Octopus/doc Ock)/Superior Spider-man

Victor Von doom/Doctor Doom

Warren Worthington III/ArchAngel

Cassandra “Cass” Cain/Black Bat

J’onn J’onnz/John Jones/Hank Henshaw/Martian Manhunter

Kei Kawade/Kaiju Kid(/Kid Kaiju)

Mitchell Mayo/Condiment King

Max Mercury/Windrunner Whip WhirlWind

Red Robin/Joker Junior

Cletus Cortland Kassidy (Carnage)

Clark Kent

Conner “Kon” Kent

Chemical King

Carrie Kelley

Killer Croc

Karen Crane

Seaboard City

Total alliteration: 207

[galaxystar17]

FAVORITE PLAY CHARACTERS - CHIKAGE, ROUND 1 RESULTS

Side A

-> Poll #1 [Gawain vs Card Soldier]

Gawain (100%) / Card Soldier (0%)

All votes: 20

Poor Card Soldier got completely destroyed by Gawain😭🤚 You will be missed my guy, but ig there's no competition against Gawain at this point (similarly to Lancelot).

-> Poll #2 [Tojo vs Takasugi]

Tojo (63,2%) / Takasugi (36,8%)

All votes: 19

-> Poll #3 [Roberto vs Uryu]

Roberto (81,8%) / Uryu (18,2%)

All votes: 22

Side B

-> Poll #4 [Oswald vs Peten Uso]

Oswald (39,1%) / Peten Uso (60,9%)

All votes: 23

Honestly I had put them against each other because both were liars lmao It was honestly interesting to see which one wins the 'liar battle' and that it's Uso Peten like the guy's living up to his name now, isn't he? As he should. They really be taking advantage of Chikage's lying abilities for those roles lol

-> Poll #5 [Lord vs Soldier]

Lord (79,2%) / Soldier (20,8%)

All votes: 24

[bealbrt]

Diário de Bordo de Linguagem: Análise do Discurso - Professor Roberto Abdelnur Camargo

AULA 1 - 24/08

Análise do Discurso é a primeira aula que tenho verdadeiramente de sábado. Como a primeira aula de apresentação foi presencial, então fiquei meio triste de ter que acordar cedo em um sábado, mas a aula em geral foi bem legal. Eu gostei bastante da matéria e estou ansiosa pelos temas abordados. Eu sempre vi pessoas na internet falando sobre filósofos como Foucault e Lacan, e eu sempre tive muito interesse neles e vi alguns vídeos sobre também, então ter uma aula sobre eles pela primeira vez me deixou bem contente.

A análise do discurso é o que se pode captar por um texto. O Gill abordou vários tópicos que vem de alguns desses filósofos como ideologia, sujeito, inconsciente, micropoderes, discurso, linguística, etc. Esses foram só dois dos filósofos que falamos sobre, pois teve também Freud e Bakhtin. Ah, e também falou sobre a evolução da análise do discurso com o passar dos anos. Em geral, eu diria que é possivelmente o que será a minha matéria favorita do curso, uma pena que é só de sábado. Como a aula é majoritariamente EAD, então o Gill deixará alguns exercícios para fazermos depois de cada aula.

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AULA 2 - 31/08

Com a menção, novamente, de filósofos na matéria, eu lembrei que comprei um livro de filosofia de Sartre, 'O existencialismo é um humanismo". Não necessariamente os temas são relacionados, mas é de um outro filósofo, então acho interessante comentar. Na aula desse dia, foi retomado um pouco mais sobre a polissemia e sobre a mudança de certos discursos, que antes eram vistos como pejorativos, como a palavra "greve", e percebemos que uma única palavra pode revelar um discurso e ideologia. Após essa leitura, pensei também no exemplo da homossexualidade, que, antes vista de modo pejorativo, hoje em dia é bem mais aceita, apesar de ainda haver visões conservadoras que ainda a consideram "ruim", assim como a própria "greve", que é de um movimento democrático, ou seja, de esquerda. Além dessa reflexão que tive, também vimos sobre outros filósofos desse campo, como Pêcheux e Althusser, que retoma ideias de Karl Marx, e Pêcheux comenta sobre a preservação de identidades através de paráfrases, retomando ideias de Foucault, que também teve destaque nessa aula, novamente sobre a dispersão de texto e os micropoderes. Também foi falado sobre as visões americanas e europeias da Análise do Discurso. Após pegar anotações da aula, fui logo fazer a tarefa 2, igual a primeira.

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AULA 3 - 07/09

Nessa aula, vimos sobre a Ética do Discurso, algo que foi estudado por filósofos antigos, mas pela Análise do Discurso, apenas no final dos anos 80. Para isso, o que importa não são os adjetivos que se fala de si mesmo, mas sim o jeito como a pessoa age, é um subentendido, assim como nos Gêneros do Discurso. Remete a muitas pessoas que tecem elogios a si mesmas mas não agem como tal, é um tópico muito atual. Também há um tom subentendido no texto, e é esse ethos que se preocupa com ele. Os filósofos que mencionam isso são Patrick Charadeau, Dominique Maingueneau, Oswald Ducrot, que foram tratados nessa aula. Uma coisa muito interessante da aula é a Teoria das Faces. Temos a positiva e a negativa, a positiva é a imagem de nós que tentamos passar aos outros, e a negativa é o que deixamos no privado. Há varios exemplos e casos dessas faces nos slides. Ética e Proxêmica - A proxêmica é sobre as distâncias físicas que mantemos de cada pessoa que estamos conversando, dependendo de qual for nossa relação com elas. Alguns ambientes públicos acabam na quebra dessas distâncias, como ambientes lotados, por exemplo, e quanto mais a população cresce, menos essas distâncias tem lugar para serem respeitadas em certos ambientes.

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AULA 4 - 14/09

Aula sobre discurso e naturalização, Norman Fairclough é o criador desse conceito, o texto visto em três etapas - como texto, prática discursiva e prática social. O slide analisa uma tirinha do Garfield baseado nessas três etapas. Primeiro como texto, depois, como prática discursiva, vemos a naturalização, ou seja, a naturalização das crenças implícitas no texto, tudo é visto como verdade. E como prática social, onde há tensão entre vários discursos. É como analisar uma mídia de forma cada vez mais aprofundada, explorando suas camadas. Vimos isso também numa matéria do semestre passado, mas foi bem brevemente. Depois disso, há vários exemplos com cartoons, nos quais há diversos tipos de tensões discursivas. Na música também. Na música Bohieman Rhapsody, do Queen, por exemplo, no trecho "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me" há discurso religioso. Nessa mesma música, entretanto, há muitos outros discursos. Roger Fowler analisa as marcas ideológicas presentes na mídia. Nisso, trabalha-se a gramática contextualizada, já que a voz passiva é melhor nesses casos, pois minimiza o agente da ação. Isso é algo muito comum em jornalismo, algo que também foi falado em uma das aulas do Gill. O uso de nominalização para ocultar o autor, que muitas vezes é usado para implicitar que a "culpa" é do governo. Isso mostra que a imprensa usa a língua para amenizar diversas situações graves. Sobre o que é dito em A coming out story, o preconceito, sim, diminuiu bastante hoje em dia. Mas isso não quer dizer que ainda não haja preconceito tão pesado quanto os de tal época, e eu consegui me ver muito nessa autobiografia, afinal, se assumir pros pais realmente é um tabu e muito difícil.

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AULA 5 - 21/09

Aula sobre atratores da linguagem. Definição solta de "atratores" - motivação em direção à qual um sistema dinâmico evolui. O principal sendo o sentido, uma das principais características dos textos. A economia, é como economizar na hora de falar uma palavra. Lembra as abreviações que usamos para conversar por mensagem. Companhia - > cia. O gênero, que é a mesma coisa que os gêneros vistos em gêneros do discurso. Você leu a carta? O gênero é carta. Modalização, as palavras que usamos para deixar frases mais educadas. É parecido com indirect questions, matéria vista com o professor Paulo Edson, uma maneira mais educada de fazer uma pergunta. Parentesco, bem simples, chamar alguém pelo grau de familiaridade, como mãe, pai, irmão, etc. Profissão, para falar sobre a profissão de alguém, exemplo: "Peça ao professor." Provérbio, usado em diversas situações para querer passar alguma mensagem ao ouvinte. Contexto, com uma simples mensagem, podemos entender o contexto de algo. Exemplo: Cuidado, chão molhado! Fica subentendido que o chão acabou de ser lavado. Frequentemente vemos essa mensagem em shoppings. Expressões idiomáticas, cada língua tem suas expressões idiomáticas. Uma expressão que as palavras não são literais. Em inglês, por exemplo, temos "hold your horses", que em português seria algo como "calma aí", ou alguma expressão parecida. A tradução, nesse caso, não é literal. Por fim, a metáfora, muito usada no cotidiano, mas também usada frequentemente em livros de ficção, por vezes de modo mais implícito, algo que o leitor tem que se esforçar para entender.

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Referências: Letra de músicas, G1

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Oristano: concerto di canti mariani in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea.

Oristano: concerto di canti mariani in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea. Il concerto in memoria di Eleonora d'Arborea che si terrà il 28 aprile alle 19 è idea dell’ISTAR Istituto Storico Arborense, dell’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Oristano, dell’Arcidiocesi di Oristano e dell’Assessorato alla Pubblica istruzione, Beni Culturali, Informazione, Spettacolo e Sport della Regione Sarda. Il concerto è del Complesso Vocale di Nuoro Diretto dal Maestro Franca Floris, proposto a 620 anni dalla morte di Eleonora, e offrirà al pubblico una ricca selezione di canti mariani. Non si ha certezza sulla data della morte di Eleonora d’Arborea: “Di recente era in auge il 1402 – spiega Giampaolo Mele, Direttore scientifico dell’ISTAR -. Alcuni documenti barcellonesi parlano chiaro: fine maggio/23 giugno 1403. Le fonti citano, tra gli altri, Giorgio Curculeu abitante di Stampace che si recava ad Aristanis per consegnare alcune lettere del governatore «a la jutgessa d’Arborea e a son fill». Ma dal 23 giugno 1403 il nome della Juighissa non ricorre più nei documenti della Corona d’Aragona. Eleonora nella Carta de Logu invoca Dio e la Madonna: gloriosa Virgini Madonna santa Maria mama sua. E ordina che i bestemmiatori di Dio o Santa Maria pagassero 50 lire di multa, altrimenti: «sarà conficcato un uncino nella lingua e questa sarà tagliata in modo che la perda». A 620 anni dalla morte di Eleonora l’ISTAR offre un concerto di canti mariani. Tra i brani: Ave virgo sanctissima e Gaudeamus, da codici trecenteschi della Cattedrale. Di certo, Sa Juighissa nella festa dell’Assunta seguiva la messa solenne celebrata dall’arcivescovo, con l’introito Gaudeamus. Una chicca: Stella cæli, cantata dalle clarisse portoghesi contro la peste, nel Trecento. Oltre a fulgidi brani polifonici, anche due perle sarde: il Rosario di Ghilarza e di Orgosolo”. “L’ISTAR – ricorda il Direttore Mele - unisce ricerca scientifica e divulgazione. Sono in programmazione l’edizione critica dei Procesos contra los Arborea (gli ultimi due volumi su Eleonora e Brancaleone), un concorso internazionale di poesia Eleonora in sarda rima e l’inaugurazione dell’anno scolastico 2023-2024 presso la statua della Giudicessa”. Il programma è strutturato come di seguito: Saluti di Mons. Roberto Carboni - Arcivescovo Metropolita d’Arborea, Massimiliano Sanna - Sindaco di Oristano, Luca Faedda - Assessore alla Cultura del Comune di Oristano e Erika Vivian - Presidente ISTAR. Introduce e coordina Giampaolo Mele - Direttore Scientifico ISTAR AVE VIRGO SANCTISSIMA 1. Salve Regina antiph. B. Mariae Virginis 2. Gaudeamus antiph. ad introitum 3. Ave Maris stella inno 4. Ave Maris stella (Edward Hagerup Grieg · 1843-1907) mottetto 5. Salve Mater (Oswald Jaeggi · 1913-1963) mottetto 6. Stella coeli antiph. Francescana 7. Stella coeli (Mauro Zuccante · 1962) mottetto 8. Ave Virgo Sanctissima antiph. dal Salterio-Innario P. XIII di Aristanis secolo XIV 9. Deus ti salvet, Maria popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 10. Rosario di Ghilarza popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 11. Rosario di Orgosolo popolare (Antonio Sanna elab. · 1932-2016) 12. Ave Maria algherese popolare Nicola Manca elab. (1985) 13. Genuit puerpera coro spazializzato Giovanni Bonato (1961) 14. Salve Regina antiph. tono solemnis... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[stateofsport211]

Munich D R1: Robin Haase/Philipp Oswald def. Matthias Bachinger/Dominic Thiem [WC] 6-4, 6-2 mid-match stats (2nd set)

📸 Munich live feed

Haase/Oswald took control of the second set thanks to going after Bachinger/Thiem's shots. Often, they had great hands at the net, where the former executed better than the latter pair.

One interesting moment in this match was when both pairs won more of their points from their second serves. However, things altered toward the end of the match: Haase/Oswald won 6% more of their points from their second serves than first, but their second serves winning percentage stood out with 75%. Furthermore, even if Bachinger/Thiem won 6% more of their points from their first serves, it was insufficient to counter Haase/Oswald's serves, as they scored 2 aces as well to strengthen their position.

Bachinger/Thiem converted only 33% of their break chances thanks to Thiem's middle ball carriage to break back 3-3 in the first set. However, Haase/Oswald's incredible offenses to Bachinger/Thiem's shots often opened the opportunities to break (10), which was a result of either Haase/Oswald's winners (also produced as a conversion), or Bachinger/Thiem's balance was off. Consequently, Haase/Oswald converted 40% of their break point chances.

This match was all about Bachinger's last dance, which could have been thought about after he lost in ITF M25 Trimbach. Had a distinct career, for sure, after having one of his notable main Tour run as a Metz runner-up in 2018. A Challenger legend, Bachinger had a record of 15 Challenger finals, with 4 titles and 11 runner-up finishes. A career to remember.

On the other hand, Haase/Oswald will face the winner between Marcelo Melo/John Peers and an alternate, as Roberto Carballes Baena/Thiago Monteiro just withdrew. Could be a fun one, but it is definitely worth seeing what the rest of the draw has in store.

[blues-sevenfold]

World Building: Jimmy Replay Universe

This is one of the more realistic universes where magic doesn’t really exist and humans are the only sapient species. This universe contains time travel, and covers the time period from September 6th of 1925 to December 30th of 2009.

When Jimmy Reed dies on August 29th of 1976, he is reborn on September 6th of 1925 - and, at the age of 20, he gains his past life memories from his original timeline. His life before then is mostly the same as in the original timeline, other than sensing an occasional déjà vu and making minor changes.

When The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold (Jimmy Sullivan) dies on December 30th of 2009, he is also reborn on February 9th of 1981. On his 20th birthday, he remembers his past life in the old timeline.

Jimmy Sullivan’s experience is different than that of Jimmy Reed. He recalls that, in the original timeline, Jimmy Reed died in 1976 and was reincarnated as his identical grandson (albeit with green eyes) on September 6th of 1977.

Jimmy Reed recalls the death of John F Kennedy on November 22nd of 1963, and he sets up Lee Harvey Oswald to be arrested a week before the would-be assassination of the then president. As such, politics take a slightly different turn. The US government keep JFK under protection, until they can set up a Secret Services agency to protect the sitting president.

John F Kennedy serves until 1968. The 1968 elections are between Lyndon B Johnson and Richard Nixon. Jimmy Reed, vowing not to make the same mistake he made last time, votes for Lyndon B Johnson, who wins. Lyndon B Johnson serves until 1976.

There is an intense Republican race during the primaries between Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan in 1976. Ultimately, Ronald Reagan wins - and he is up against Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan wins the election, putting an end to the 16-year Democratic reign as POTUS.

Ronald Reagan serves from 1976 to 1984. George H W Bush serves from 1984 to 1992. Bill Clinton serves from 1992 to 2000. Al Gore runs from 2000 to 2008. For 2008, it’s Bernie Sanders against John McCain. The events leading up the election will be quite intense.

On Zacky’s 25th birthday on December 11th of 2006, he starts having dreams of the original timeline. The first dream is his combined birthday with his mother (who shares his birthday). In the new timeline, Zacky is dating a woman named Hannah McKern. In his dream, he is dating a Gena Paulhus - and is also close friends with a Canadian woman named Meaghan Doe. Zacky does not know of either Gena or Meaghan - who, in the new timeline, make up the personality of Hannah McKern. Also, Jimmy Reed exists in the form of his identical grandson and is the twin brother of Jillian (born three days later in the new timeline).

When Zacky wakes up, he opts to write the details of his dream in a dream journal. He thereafter has recurring dreams of the original timeline, frequently of his childhood in that timeline. Soon after, he decides to share his dreams with Jimmy Reed.

It turns out that The Rev had shared his experiences with Jimmy Reed, shortly after he turned 20. He felt a bit awkward about it, as he felt that Jimmy Reed was closer to Zacky than to him. From Jimmy Reed’s perspective, the original timeline ended with his death in 1976 - so he has no memories of being his identical grandson in the original timeline. Jimmy Reed, The Rev, and Zacky soon share their experiences with each other - and Zacky shares his dream journal with them.

In both timelines... Jimmy Reed was close friends with Roberto Giaccio (Zacky’s maternal grandfather), Marina Smith Giaccio (Zacky’s maternal grandmother), and Angelo Smith (Marina’s brother).

In the new timeline, M Shadows is politically conflicted in 2007 - whereas, in the original timeline, he was a red-hot Republican. Ultimately, he joins the rest of Avenged Sevenfold and Jimmy Reed in voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2008 elections - which Bernie wins!

The final dream for Zacky occurs moments after The Rev died in the original timeline, and Zacky hears the news. Zacky goes into shock, and he wakes up. He immediately calls The Rev, and learns that The Rev is still alive! By then, Zacky closes his dream journal - and he deliberates with Jimmy Reed and The Rev over whether or not they should publish it. The final decision is... wait.

[rhetoricandlogic]

A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar review – a noir novel about the Holocaust

Adam RobertsA Holocaust novel like no other, Lavie Tidhar's A Man Lies Dreaming comes crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand. This is a shocking book as well as a rather brilliant one, and it treats the topic of genocide with a kind of energetic unseriousness.That hasn't, of course, been the general approach. Personal testimonies by the likes of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel harrow their readers, and are supposed to. Howard Jacobson may be famous as a comic writer, but when he writes about an imaginary Holocaust in his latest novel, J, the comic sparkle goes out the window and he assumes the dour demeanour of a man writing about Serious Stuff.

Latterly, though, there's been evidence of a shift in tone. Timur Vermes's Look Who's Back, translated into English earlier this year, uses Hitler to score darkly satirical points at the expense of the YouTube generation. Martin Amis's The Zone of Interest finds a grim kind of comedy in the death camps. We can trace this approach back to Roberto Benigni's 1997 Oscar-winning movie, Life Is Beautiful, a film that dared to tell a lighthearted Holocaust story. For many, of course, laughter is simply out of place in Holocaust fiction. But humour is at least ironic, and irony has a better purchase on an enormity so extreme that it defies reason and humanity. Theodor W Adorno famously claimed that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric, and when dealing with the moral abyss of such a subject, "seriousness" can look like po-faced impertinence.

Tidhar's novel treats its grim theme not as a comedy, although there is plenty of caustic humour, but instead as a pulp-noir tale of seamy city streets, gumshoes and lowlifes. It is an alternate history in which Hitler's rise to power is thwarted in the early 1930s. Germany is now a communist state and former Nazis have fled abroad, many of them to London. "Wolf" (the meaning of the name "Adolf") is now working as a private detective. Hired by a beautiful Jewish woman to track down her sister, he goes to work: spouting savage antisemitic and otherwise hateful opinions at anyone who'll listen; getting beaten up by the police; visiting brothels and S&M clubs; and lifting the lid on white slavery and plots by the CIA to overthrow the Red German government. He rubs shoulders with Oswald Mosley, the Mitford sisters and even a young Ian Fleming. All the while, a sinister new Jack the Ripper is murdering East End prostitutes and carving swastikas into their dead bodies.

Tidhar gets the outre tone just right: outrageous sex and violence related in a briskly workmanlike style. And Tidhar's Hitler is a striking reimagination of that endlessly reimagined individual: twisted with hatred, doing good almost by accident. Discovering a group of Jewish women being trafficked for sex, for instance, he beats up their pimp and frees them, even as he rants about how despicable they are. Just when you think Tidhar has gone too far – Hitler with a rubber-ball in his mouth being whipped by a dominatrix dressed in leather SS gear – he goes further. At one point, Wolf is forcibly circumcised by a knife-wielding Jewish gangster. Though introduced into the story as a piece of casual torture and humiliation, by the book's end this mutilation has taken on a more profound resonance.

This, though, is only half the novel. The other half is the titular dreaming man: one Shomer Aleichem, based on the Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem. Before the war, Shomer had been the writer of lurid pulp adventures. Now in Auschwitz, he is, it seems, dreaming his revisionist fantasy of Hitler the detective to escape the horrors of his waking life – scenes that are written with expert, chilling precision by Tidhar. These sections interleave the pulp mystery, and save the novel from becoming simply ludicrous by anchoring it in the reality of suffering. It is a risk, yoking together two such tonally disparate elements, but it comes off. The book manages to provide both the guilty pleasures of a fast-paced violent pulp and the more thoughtful moral depth of a genuine engagement with what the camps meant.

Tidhar, who cut his teeth in the world of genre SF, understands how eloquent pulp can be. His Osama was also an alternate history: a world where 9/11 didn't happen, in which a private detective called Joe is hired by a mysterious woman to locate the reclusive author of pulp-fiction novels featuring one "Osama bin Laden, Vigilante". It won the World Fantasy award. I wouldn't be surprised to see A Man Lies Dreaming repeat that achievement.

Or perhaps turning so hallowed a site of human suffering into pulp fiction will scare admirers off. It is an approach more common in movies: treating weighty subjects such as nazism and slavery through the medium of schlock is, after all, exactly what Quentin Tarantino does. Like Tarantino, Tidhar may find that some people don't take him seriously. But the joke's on them. Seriousness is the least of it: A Man Lies Dreaming is a twisted masterpiece.

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Teatro Colon: Roberto Oswald’s production of the famous Puccini´s opera “Turandot”. Amazing production, cast, conduction and chorous. With María Guleghina, Verónica Cangemi, Kristian Benedikt, James Morris, Raúl Giménez, Alfonso Mujica, Carlos Ullán, Santiago Martínez and Alejandro Meerapfel. Conducted by Christian Badea and directed by Matías Cambiasso.

Pictures by Máximo Parpagnoli

And here you have the recording of the production OwO

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Scaling Back on Brassy Pomp, OpCarolina Brings Us a More Classic and Elegant Aïda

Scaling Back on Brassy Pomp, OpCarolina Brings Us a More Classic and Elegant Aïda

Review: Opera Carolina Presents Aïda By Perry Tannenbaum April 7, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Premiered in Egypt in late 1871 and brought home to Milan less than two months later, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda has become synonymous with all that’s grandiose and spectacular in grand opera. Opera Carolina has now produced this signature work nine times since its founding in 1948, only once allowing more than a…