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[martisa]

jogando alguém na fogueira: conto 2

Era noite no pátio, e não havia lua, havia pontos de luz aqui ou ali, mas não eram o suficiente, além do silêncio sepulcral que se fazia, quebrado ocasionalmente pelo rugido do verme.

Timothée e Castela estavam bem no centro, Timmy com metros e metros de corda na mão, mas tremendo muito

-- Ele se move muito rápido, é tão difícil de focar -- Comentou Castela, Timmy reparou que suas íris em forma de cruz, o que a dava um aspecto bem assombroso, mas ela já havia explicado que tinha o poder de enxergar tudo e em todo o lugar -- Ele está indo para os jardins da reitoria, é por causa do solo, eu vou fazer um círculo de contenção aqui e você vai trazer ele para cá

-- Como? -- Timmy perguntou quase chorando, mas tentando ser o mais corajoso possível

-- Olha, não precisa ter medo, só o distraia e ele vai vim correndo atrás de você -- Ela falava como se parecesse muito simples, ele respirou fundo se perguntando internamente o que aconteceria se ele morresse ali e se tudo ainda era um sonho, ele tinha medo de perguntar e descobrir

-- Ok, vamos lá -- Castela começou a fazer um um círculo imenso no pátio com um tipo de sal escuro enquanto Timmy caminhou a passos largos para o jardim.

Quando ele chegou perto do quintal da reitoria, se escondeu atrás de alguns arbustos e avistou o monstro, era do tamanho de uma caminhonete, comprido como uma carreta, e estava parado e parecia respirar, ele não conseguia sentir nenhuma empatia pelo bicho, ele era horrível, grotesco e assustador, sua boca aberta cheia de dentes se mexia e o deixava arrepiado

-- Eu prefiro os de computação gráfica -- Ele comentou para si mesmo, mas lembrou que aquele verme alguém de quem aquelas pessoas gostavam e queriam livrá-lo daquela maldição, então ele iria ajudá-lo porque eram pessoas querendo ajudar um amigo -- Ele não pode me ver -- Ele sussurrou enquanto o verme não parecia ter notado a sua presença ali, então ele respirou fundo e saiu dos arbustos e começou a fazer barulho, surdo ele também não deveria ser, o verme virou sua boa em direção a ele e ficou parado por tempo o suficiente para Timmy entender que deveria começar a correr muito rápido. Saiu correndo e gritando, os gritos serviam para manter o verme no seu encalço, mas ele gritava de pavor e não de forma proposital, correu o mais rápido que suas pernas alcançaram, estava com tanto medo que não conseguiu seguir direto para o pátio e acabou se metendo em um lugar em que a única saída para se salvar foi se jogar num vão para o verme passar direto por ele, então se moveu lentamente para espiar a criatura e ela estava se movendo para lá e para cá logo a frente

-- Ele corre muito -- Ele sussurrou desesperado pensando que era arriscado se usar de isca e que poderia ser devorado, devia haver outro jeito, então ele se sentou e viu a sua frente duas foices de jardinagem, olhou novamente para o verme que agora estava estático e temia estar lhe procurando -- Eu espero estar no mesmo universo onde isso funcione -- Então ele pegou as foices e saiu silenciosamente do vão, o verme não era liso, tinha um corpo anelado, então talvez não precisasse fincar as lâminas na carne da criatura

Castela já estava com tudo pronto para conter o verme, mas Timmy ainda não o tinha trazido

-- O que ele está fazendo? -- Ela se perguntou -- Isso é...--

-- Ei Maria, onde está Timmy e nosso amigo Ruskin ? -- Perguntou Lewis Carroll chegando a pé com Duckworth do cemitério, logo a pergunta foi respondida pelos gritos do jovem -- Está atraindo ele aqui como isca, esperto, é um clássico

-- Não, ele não está correndo -- Respondeu Castela

-- Olha aquilo! -- Apontou Dukworth e viram o verme zanzando por todos os lados a uma alta velocidade e Timothée preso acima dele segurando duas foices presas no bicho

-- Caramba, que ideia! -- Se admirou Carroll -- Alguém tinha que mostrar isso para os caçadores de sombras

-- PARA CÁ! O TRAGA PARA CÁ! SE ELE ENTRAR NO CÍRCULO NÃO PODERÁ IR A LUGAR NENHUM -- Gritou Castela o máximo que pode, Timmy sabia o que tinha que fazer, então se levantou e controlou os cabos o máximo que pode para fazer o verme ir até o pátio. Deu certo, o verme foi diretamente para o círculo, mas parou de forma tão abruta que Timmy foi lançado para frente e ia se espatifar contra uma parede se ele não parasse a centímetros flutuasse a uns quatro metros do chão, mas não estava mais gritando, estava tão espantado com a experiência que estava quase chorando. Carroll apareceu logo abaixo dele e o fez descer, fora ele quem usara magia para fazê-lo flutuar no ar

-- Caramba, você foi genial! -- Comentou o escritor -- Eu já cavalguei muitas criaturas, mas nunca imaginei cavalgar um verme -- quando as pernas de Timmy tocaram o chão elas estavam tão trêmulas que ele mal conseguia se manter em pé

-- Bem, a ideia não foi minha, mas é uma longa história

-- Agora precisamos amarrá-lo! -- Disse Castela -- Aqui está a corda, mas precisa ser muitos nós diferentes -- O verme estava dentro do círculo, mas se mexia muito

-- Eu acho que sei uns quatro -- Disse Charles

-- Eu sei alguns -- Disse Duckworth dando de ombros -- dois

-- Ta de brincadeira!

-- Eu só sei um, amarração nunca foi comigo -- Disse Castela

-- Vamos lá, mas é a última coisa que eu vou fazer por esse verme -- Suspirou Timothée se recuperando do susto

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(Older) woman fighting the supernatural with a mundane weapon is such an amazing audio drama character type <3 <3 <3 I love all of them so much

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Book 406

Heath Robinson Contraptions

Geoffrey Beare, ed.

Duckworth Overlook 2007

Honestly, until this book, I had no idea that in the UK a Rube Goldberg Machine is called a Heath Robinson Contraption. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator, and artist, who is best known for his cartoons of whimsically elaborate machines, so much so that he was known as The Gadget King by his contemporaries. By 1912, the term “Heath Robinson contraption” had gained dictionary recognition in the UK, predating a similar recognition for Rube Goldberg in the US by more than 10 years. This book presents a range of Robinson’s wonderful work, from WWI propaganda to his final sketches made during WWII.

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NAME: Rabbit or Hare, when the mystic or divine aspect of an animal is the subject that animal’s name is used, only it is capitalized, so there are rabbits and hares, and there is Rabbit and Hare, depending on the word used in the culture in question.

Some hare or rabbit gods & goddesses are

- Hittavainen the Finnish god of Hares,

- Kaltes, the Siberian goddess of the moon who often took the form of a hare,

- Jade Rabbit, who pounds out medicine on the moon for the Chinese the moon goddess Chang'e

- Ometotchtli (Two Rabbits,) Aztec god of fertility, parties & drunkeness who led 400 other Rabbit gods known as the Centzon Totochtin,

- Kalulu, (Central African) Trickster god.

- Nanabozho (Great Rabbit,) an Ojibwe deity who took part in the creation of the world.

We might also add Frith, the god of the rabbits, in the novel Watership Down.

(Note how many double sounds we have in the Hare & Rabbit god/desses above)

SYMBOLS: Depends on the culture; some are such things as colored eggs, several different glyphs and icons, and the “lucky” rabbit’s foot, which, if done right, should only come from a rabbit caught and killed in a graveyard on the night of the Full Moon on a Friday (New Moon according to some, and some say it has to be raining!) and only the left hind foot is to be taken.

One very prominent one that stretches from China, through the Middle East, to Europe is the three hares or the three rabbits in China.

The image is so old that its exact meaning is lost and consists of a circular motif that features three hares or rabbits, either chasing each other or running around in a circle. Each of the ears is shared by two animals so that only three ears are shown, forming a triangle.

While common. Its origin and meaning are uncertain; it is also unknown if this image spontaneously sprang up in the places where it appearers or moved from the East to the West or West to the East.

However, the earliest occurrences seem to have occurred in cave temples in China, dating to the sixth to seventh centuries. One of the latest ones is a coin from Iran dated around 1300.

In England, the three racing hares are almost always found next to the Green Man, a symbol known for its links to paganism.

Whatever the case, whether they are rabbits or hares, for critters running around in a circle, they have been able to travel a very long way!

USUAL IMAGE: Depends on the culture, but pretty much all of them focus on the long ears. Though the Aztecs also give Rabbit fangs!

HOLY DAYS:

- First Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox; this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon), and the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21.

- July 4th, date in 1862 on which the story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” arose with the appearance of the White Rabbit as told by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, during a boat trip on the river Isis (the local name for the stretch of the Thames that flows through Oxford) from Oxford to Godstow with his friend Robinson Duckworth, and the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell

- July 27, Bugs Bunny’s Birthday

- The first day of each month; see below.

FORM OF WORSHIP: Originally Welsh, the custom has spread and varies from place to place; the essential folk tradition is the saying of either Rabbit or Rabbits, or White Rabbits once or three times on the first day of the month; variations are saying Bunny, or Black Rabbit the last day of the month before going to bed, and White Rabbit on waking up on the first.

This is supposed to bring good luck; however, if you say Rabbit a second time that first day or hear someone else say it before you, it brings bad luck.

This peculiar folk belief, in its many other permutations in the method to be performed, survives to this day.

GODS & GODDESSES ASSOCIATED WITH RABBITS OR HARES: Eostre or Ostara (Anglo-Saxon) / Chang, ‘e (Chinese) / Ixchel (Mayan) / Hecate (Greek) / Okuninushi (Japan) / Venus (Roman) / Freyja, who had hare attendants (Norse) / Cerridwen (Celtic) / Andraste (Britain) / Holda, who had a whole troop of hares that carried torches for her. (Teutonic.) / Orion, whose hounds chase the constellation Lepus / Windmaker (Sioux) / The Buddha, who, as he was dying, called for all of the animal kingdoms, one the 12 that showed up was Rabbit, earning Rabbit a place in the Chinese Zodiac.

RABBITS & HARES FROM FOLK & POP CULTURE WHO HAVE FOUND A PLACE IN THE PUBLIC’S MIND:

Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris were all based not on African but Cherokee tales of Rabbit.

Bunnicula carrot-sucking vampire bunny (Deborah & James Howe)

Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)

Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, the Flopsy Bunnies, the Fierce Bad Rabbit, and others (Beatrix Potter)

St. Peter Cottontail, the first and true pope (South Park)

Rabbit, one of Winnie the Pooh’s posse (A. A. Milne)

Uncle Wiggily's subject of stories and an old board game (Howard R. Garis)

The Velveteen Rabbit

Hazel-rah, Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry, Dandelion, Pipkin, Silver, Speedwell, Hawkbit, Buckthorn, Acorn, and all the rest from Watership Down and El-Ahrairah & the Black Rabbit of Inie (Richard Adams)

The White Rabbit & the March Hare (Lewis Carroll)

One unlucky bunny in Of Mice and Men

Bugs Bunny, the American Trickster god

Frank, the 7-foot-tall apocalyptic rabbit in Donnie Darko

Harvey (actually a pooka) in Harvey

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney’s main hero before Mickey Mouse

The Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Roger Rabbit, originally a cynical disillusioned Toon actor (a separate species from humans) who committed suicide in the 1983 novel, Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf (no spoiler warning needed, this all happens in the first chapter!). Turned into the very type of stereotypical cartoon rabbit that the Roger of the novel despised in a much more famous film set in 1947 that was totally unlike the novel.

Thumper, Disney’s Bambi

Bunny Rabbit, Mister Moose’s pal from Captain Kangaroo

Crusader Rabbit is the favorite cartoon of Elvis.

The Duracell Bunny Energizer Bunny

Mr. Herriman from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

The Trix rabbit

Binky Binkenstein from Life in Hell

Bun Rab in Pogo

Captain Carrot, leader of the “funny-animal” superhero group the Zoo Crew

Cutey Bunny from Army Surplus Komikz

Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, a member of the Marvel Family

Max from Sam & Max, “ground level” black and white comic book.

Snowball from The Secret Life of Pets.

Officer Judy Hopps from Zootopia

Alice and Thistle from Alice's Farm: A Rabbit's Tale by Maryrose Wood

And many, many others.

DETAILS: Most animals are regarded as sacred or manifestations of the divine to some degree or other in the past among some people.

It's easy to figure out the bear or horse for its ferocity or strength, the dog because of its loyalty, the cat because of its mysterious nature, eagles, hawks, and other birds for flight, and even the lowly spider because of its ability to spin webs.

Therefore it stands to reason that rabbits and hares would show up somewhere on the sacred radar screen as well.

The question, I think, is why have these creatures, who are one of the few to serve as pets, pests, and food simultaneously, gained such a prominent place in world myth, legend, and religion while other animals we are closer to show up less, or have less esteem?

Why have they found a place beside so many gods and goddesses that a dog, cat, or horse would more logically fill?

Is it their fertility? Their seeming ability to survive in a world where almost everything else seems to want to eat them? Their speed? Their agility? Perhaps it’s that they remind us of ourselves.

Small creatures in a larger hostile world with no allies and the companion of nothing, yet able to survive and multiply.

It’s a thought, and if that is the case, it seems that our ancestors might have been on the money; a recent study has shown that rabbits and hares are not as closely related to rodents as was thought but are, in fact, closer to primates.

Perhaps it’s just those ears.

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Rimini: Piazza Malatesta si riempie di meraviglia con "Wonderland, la versione di Alice".

Rimini: Piazza Malatesta si riempie di meraviglia con "Wonderland, la versione di Alice". Il debutto venerdì 28 luglio alle ore 21.30, il primo dei dodici show in programma Da piazza dei sogni a paese delle meraviglie, dove 'tutto si immagina'. Una wonderland dove spalancando gli occhi e lasciandosi andare alle emozioni è possibile seguire i passi del Bianconiglio, incontrare il Brucaliffo, lasciarsi affascinare dallo Stregatto e prendere per mano una Alice in versione acrobata, accompagnandola nel suo viaggio. Potere delle luci, delle immagini, delle acrobazie, delle suggestioni che promette "Wonderland". La versione di Alice", il nuovo spettacolo internazionale scritto da Monica Maimone e prodotto appositamente per la città di Rimini da Festi Group che da venerdì 28 luglio porterà nuovamente fiaba e magia in piazza Malatesta, negli spazi outdoor del Fellini Museum. Un appuntamento che rappresenta una delle eccellenze della programmazione culturale estiva riminese, offrendo insieme poesia, alta creatività ed eccellenza artistica e tecnica, pienamente aderente al percorso di candidatura che la città ha intrapreso verso il riconoscimento di Capitale italiana della cultura per il 2026. Dopo il successo dello scorso anno con lo show "Peter Pan nei giardini di Kensington", che ha raccolto in piazza complessivamente circa 55.000 spettatori nelle diverse repliche tra fine luglio e metà agosto, per l'estate 2023 Maimone presenta la rilettura di un altro capolavoro, "Alice nel paese delle meraviglie" di Lewis Carrol, romanzo amato tanto dai bambini quanto dagli adulti più sognatori. Attraverso proiezioni, coreografie volanti, giochi illuminotecnici, il pubblico potrà immaginare di essere in una straordinaria wonderland, che prenderà forma avendo in una quinta di per sé spettacolare come quella rappresentata da piazza Malatesta, con le facciate di Castel Sismondo e del teatro Galli che diventeranno grandi 'tele' per le videoproiezioni e sfondo delle coreografie e delle acrobazie. Lo spettacolo sarà proposto ogni venerdì e sabato dal 28 luglio al 12 agosto, con doppia replica alle 21.30 e alle 22.30, con ingresso libero. "Credo che non ci possa essere spazio migliore che la 'piazza dei sogni' per dare forma a questa magica 'wonderland': uno spettacolo unico, site specific, cucito su misura per la nostra città, che si arricchisce della bellezza e dell'architettura dello scenario in cui prende forma - commenta il sindaco di Rimini, Jamil Sadegholvaad.  Questa proposta è espressione degli elementi qualificanti con cui ci candidiamo a capitale italiana della cultura: la dimensione e il valore della nostra storia e dei nostri motori culturali, che in questo caso diventano una spettacolare 'quinta', il talento e l'eccellenza della creatività, la capacità di parlare ad un pubblico trasversale, ampio e non da ultimo quell'invito all'immaginazione, alla fantasia, ad 'andare oltre'". Lo spettacolo: Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle meraviglie fu pubblicato nel 1865, tre anni dopo che Charles Lutwidge Dodgson e il reverendo Robinson Duckworth remarono su una barca, il 4 luglio 1862, sull'Isis con le tre giovani figlie di Henry Liddell (il vicecancelliere dell'Università di Oxford e il decano di Christ Church): Lorina Charlotte Liddell; Alice Pleasance Liddell, Edith Mary Liddell. Durante il viaggio Charles Dodgson raccontò alle ragazze una storia che presentava una bambina annoiata di nome Alice che va alla ricerca di un'avventura. Le ragazze la adorarono e Alice Liddell chiese a Dodgson di scrivere la storia per lei. Iniziò a scrivere un manoscritto della storia il giorno successivo, anche se quella prima versione non esiste più. Le ragazze e Dodgson fecero un'altra gita in barca un mese dopo, nel corso della quale elaborò la trama della storia di Alice. Il 26 novembre 1864 consegnò ad Alice il manoscritto di Le avventure di Alice sottoterra (Alice's Adventures Underground), con illustrazioni dello stesso Dodgson, dedicandolo come "Un regalo di Natale a un caro bambino in ricordo di un giorno d'estate". La creazione di Festi Group parte dallo scritto di Dodgson, per rovesciarne l'assunto. Non è una storia raccontata da un grande per dei bambini/ragazzi, ma una storia raccontata da Alice in prima persona, che fa diventare normale e quotidiano quello che, in Dogson è assurdo e pieno di sottintesi criptici. Alice quindi si divide in tre, cammina sulle funi, si arrampica sulle corde, vola sulla luna. Il cappellaio matto è un ragazzo come lei, e gli animali che incontra sono solo un frutto di illusioni fantastiche, ricreate dagli amici a cui destina il tuo racconto. Alla fine, Alice vola via, per tornare alla sua casa, abbandonando Wonderland, dopo aver portato la pace tra le due regine nemiche. Ma si capisce benissimo che, come noi tutti, può tornare quando vuole. Perché Wonderland non è lontano dalla mente di chi sa immaginare. Monica Maimone e Festi Group: Monica Maimone e Valerio Festi sono le due anime di Festi Group, progetto artistico che crea e porta in tutto il mondo spettacoli ed installazioni unici, che ha inventato e poi trasformato la pratica della festa pubblica e della scena teatrale a cielo aperto. Oltre 3.400 gli spettacoli realizzati in quarant'anni di esperienza, toccando oltre quattrocento città in tutto il mondo, con l'obiettivo di "dare consistenza ai sogni, trasformarli in immagini e performance e portarli a tutti". Macchine, coreografie volanti, azioni teatrali, corpi, parole, musica, immagini e apparati in un intreccio d'invenzioni ed emozioni. Tra le opere originali firmate, il segmento "Dal Rinascimento al Barocco" della Cerimonia di apertura dei XX Giochi olimpici invernali a Torino, la Cerimonia di apertura dei 13th FINA World Championships, i mondiali di nuoto organizzati a Roma nel 2009 e lo spettacolo per l'apertura della 49esima Edizione dei Campionati mondiali di sci nordico a Trento. Il gruppo ha ideato e realizzato le cerimonie per la inaugurazione del LAC (Lugano Arte Cultura), per gli 850 anni della fondazione della città di Bogotà, lo spettacolo per la apertura del Fellini Museum a Rimini nel 2021, sempre in piazza Malatesta. Tra i lavori anche la realizzazione a Palermo dal 1995 al 1997 del ciclo triennale della Festa di Santa Rosalia, e la messa in scena a Bologna nel 1991 e nel 1992 dello spettacolo Antigone delle città in commemorazione della strage del 1980. Giorni e orari: Venerdì 28 e sabato 29 luglio ore 21.30 e in replica alle ore 22.30 Venerdì 4, sabato 5, venerdì 11 e sabato 12 agosto, ore 21.30 e in replica alle ore 22.30.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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The hidden movie little girl

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL MOVIE

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL TRIAL

Most of the story was based on situations and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church. Two years later he did just that, and on 26 November 1864 he gave Alice the handwritten manuscript of what he then called "Alice's Adventures Under Ground," illustrated by his own drawings. The three girls loved it, and Alice Liddell asked Dodgson to write it down for her. As they rowed, Dodgson made up and told the girls a story about a bored little girl named Alice who goes looking for an adventure. The journey started at Folly Bridge near Oxford and ended five miles away in the village of Godstow. In 1862, Dodgson, together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth, rowed in a boat up the River Thames with three young girls, Lorina Charlotte Liddell, aged 13,Īlice Pleasance Liddell, aged 10, and Edith Mary Liddell, aged 8, the daughters of Henry George Liddell, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church College, as well as headmaster of the nearby, private, Westminster School. She described her findings (well, since we are in the realm of literary interpretation here, I'd better say "her theory") in an article titledĪlice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved, published in New Scientist, 16 December 2009.īefore I relate what Bayley has to say, let me summarize the history of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Now Melanie Bayley, of the University of Oxford in England, has taken the analysis a lot further.

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL TRIAL

Though others had looked for political and social allusions in the Alice books, most notably Martin Gardner, whose The Annotated Alice was published in 1960, followed by a sequel More Annotated Alice in 1990, perhaps the first scholar to look in depth for possible mathematical inspirations for Alice was Helena Pycior of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who in 1984 linked the trial of the Knave of Hearts with a Victorian book on algebra. (Or was it the Red Queen? Carroll's two books had different queens that over the years tend to merge in our memories.) In the film, an adult Alice, now a disturbed young woman mourning the death of her parents, returns to the land we are familiar with from Carroll's original tale, a strange place where animals talk, the Cheshire Cat has a grin, and the Queen of Hearts is wicked. (Actually, the memories of the Alice story we all have from our childhood are based on two books, Alice in Wonderland and the later Alice Through the Looking Glass.) Rather, Burton takes as his inspiration a computer game called American McGee's Alice.

THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL MOVIE

(At least, that is the entirely reasonable assumption everyone makes Dodgson himself provided no commentary to that effect.)īefore I go any further, I should note that the new Alice movie is not based on Lewis Carroll's original book. For, as readers of MAA Online will doubtless know, Lewis Carroll was the pen name of the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician at Christ Church College, Oxford, and most mathematicians are probably aware that elements of the Alice story were inspired by mathematics. As for Alice? Well, I'll let you make up your own mind.įor mathematicians, the real story is not so much whether Burton's movie will be a hit, rather it's not often that a mathematical allegory makes it to Hollywood blockbuster status in the first place! So I can't let the release of Alice go unnoticed in the mathematical literature - to whit Devlin's Angle. Millions loved Cameron's tale, but personally I (and apparently many others) thought that, although it had all the plot ingredients to have been good, it ended up annoyingly adolescent and cloyingly banal. Also like Avatar, I suspect audiences will be uniformly thrilled with the visual spectacle, yet be divided when it comes to the story. Like James Cameron's recent blockbuster movie Avatar, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, released this month, is in 3D. The Hidden Math Behind Alice in Wonderland The hidden math behind Alice in Wonderland Devlin's

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It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating a new era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults and children. The titular character Alice shares her given name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knew.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was inspired when, on 4 July 1862, Lewis Carroll and Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed up The Isis in a boat with three young girls named Henry Liddell, Charlotte Liddell, Alice Pleasance Liddell and Edith Mary Liddell. During the trip, Carroll told the girls a story he described in his diary as "Alice's Adventures Under Ground", and his journal says he "undertook to write out for Alice".Alice Liddell recalled that she asked Carroll to write it down: unlike other stories he had told her, she wanted to preserve this one. She finally got the manuscript more than two years later

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Belle Vue “Aces” - 1960

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[martisa]

jogando alguém na fogueira: conto 1

Noite densa e sem estrelas, e sem lua também, porque era na noites sem lua que o espelho abria portas para outros mundos e pessoas inocentes atravessarem o espelho achando que não teriam problemas realmente sério com a realidade.

Dois homens caminhavam pelo cemitério, ninguém além deles, ou era o que eles achavam

-- Será que não dá para escavar aqui? -- Perguntou Robinson Duckworth apontando para o chão, mas olhando para todos os lados

-- A melhor terra para rituais são as que ficam perto das pessoas que morreram sem extrema unção, vai por mim -- Respondeu Charles Dodgson, nosso Carroll, enquanto tentava enxergar no escuro onde tinha sido enterrada um jovem que morrera em um assalto

-- Meu Deus, que horror, porque o mundo da magia precisa ser assim?

-- E a necromancia, meu caro, eu não queria ter que fazer isso, mas é pelo nosso amigo Ruskin... -- Ele olhava de um lado para o outro, muitas tumbas, algumas inclusive abertas -- Vamos ali -- Ele caminhou e Robinson foi atrás muito contrariado.

Quando estavam chegando perto, ambos caíram para dentro de um buraco bem profundo, mas não caíram por muito tempo, não era uma armadilha ou algo do tipo, mas uma vala comum para vítimas da varíola e Duckworth gritou muito, o tempo todo e mais ainda quando se viu no meio de corpos em decomposição

-- DODGSON EU TE MATO!!!

-- Me desculpe -- Charles disse rindo de nervoso o ajudando a se levantar -- Por um instante achei que... eca! -- Ele tirou de si um braço podre agarrado ao casaco -- achei que era artimanha do Coelho... Ah, espere -- Recolheu um dedo do cabelo de Robinson

-- Nunca mais entro em cemitério com você -- Ambos saíram da vala para achar um homem de pé, com o pescoço cortado de orelha e orelha olhando para eles, Duckwroth mais uma vez gritou e cairia de costas na vala se Charles não tivesse segurado ele

-- Olá, Frederick -- Cumprimentou Dodgson

-- O que querem no meu local de sofrimento?

-- Um tantico de terra, para ajudar um amigo

-- Mais terra? -- Perguntou Frederick -- Se é só isso peguem... Mas peguem o bastante para não precisar vir aqui o tempo todo!

-- Pode deixar, trouxemos um saco bem grande -- Frederic se recolheu emburrado para a sua tumba -- Eu não sei porque você se assusta tanto, nem parece que é meu amigo

-- Não é por ser seu amigo que eu tenho que aturar me afundar em cadáveres e conversar com... Aaah! -- Duckworth resmungava enquanto Charles ria. Pegar as velas de sebo na casa dele depois foi tarefa mais fácil, ou deveria já que eles teriam que passar pelo verme.

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I Am Not Okay With This

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It

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Mike Hanlon*

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Stanley Uris*

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Zu Kimura*

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Artists in Wonderland - Number 2

Welcome to Artists in Wonderland! Running till the 4th of July, I’vebeen counting down My Top 10 Favorite Illustrators for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland!” We’ve reached the penultimate choice. The Lewis Carroll stories of Alice are as immortal as they are odd, and many great artists have handled them in different ways. This countdown will pay homage to just a few of them. Our 2nd Place illustrator scarcely requires introduction. Today’s artist is the one who it could be argued started it all, Sir John Tenniel!

As I said in an earlier entry of the countdown, Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) initially created his own sketched illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Underground,” when he wrote the manuscript as a gift for young Alice Liddell. The girl shared it with her parents, her parents shared it with their friends, and soon various people were urging Dodgson to publish the book. So, the mathematics instructor caved into the pressure. He made some changes to the story - altering a few scenes, rewriting a couple of poems, and adding a few new characters and concepts - and, after going through several different options, settled on the title “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Evidently, he felt that the original title he had presented sounded “too much like a textbook on mining.” Now, there was the matter of the illustrations to contend with: who would bring Wonderland to visual life? At first, Carroll considered just using his own art again, but after discussing it with his friends and peers, decided it would be better to hire a professional artist. Robinson Duckworth - a friend of Carroll’s, who actually cameos in the story as The Duck - suggested he speak to Sir John Tenniel, as he felt Tenniel had the right sense of imagination his friend’s fantastic tale required. At the time of the story’s conception, Sir John Tenniel was something of an artistic celebrity. He was most well-known as a political cartoonist, and had gained particular notoriety for his work in the satire magazine “Punch.” It turned out that Carroll had another friend who also worked for “Punch,” and - using this friend as a sort of go-between - he was able to convince Tenniel to take up illustrating the book as a commissioned work. At first, the plan was for Carroll to order between 12 and 24 separate illustrations for the book…by the end of the endeavor, however, Tenniel had created a total of 42 pictures. Later, Carroll re-commissioned Tenniel (who had to sort of squeeze the illustrations in on his own time, due to other commitments) for the illustrations in “Through the Looking-Glass.” This ended up adding another 50 images to the pile. Even THIS was not the end of their collaboration: Carroll eventually called on Tenniel one last time to create “The Nursery Alice,” an abridged copy of the book intended for readers of a much younger age. For the purposes of this story, Tenniel personally hand-colored approximately half of his original illustrations for inclusion in the story, giving them colored life for the first time. In total, Tenniel created 92 separate pieces of artwork - even more, if you count the colored doubles for “Nursery Alice” - to create the Wonderland we know and love today. There are differing accounts of how the artist and the author got along with each other. According to some accounts, their business relationship was little more than that: just business, cordial and concise. According to other accounts, their relationship was more volatile, as Tenniel apparently warned other illustrators not to work with Dodgson, describing him as “impossible” and “conceited.” Still other accounts indicate the two might have been on pretty good terms, and it is worth stating that, for as much as Carroll dictated things he wanted to see in the illustrations, Tenniel was always allowed to put his own spin on things and provide concepts of his own. In fact, one chapter of “Through the Looking-Glass” - entitled “The Wasp in the Wig” - was omitted specifically because Tenniel had no idea HOW to draw what Dodgson had imagined and make it work the way they both wanted. Carroll conceded, and cut out the offending part of the story, then reworked the book accordingly. However the two got along, one thing cannot be denied: while Carroll was the mastermind behind Wonderland and its denizens, it was Tenniel who came to define them for the world over. As I said at the start of this event, Carroll’s descriptions of the characters were purposefully vague (sometimes even nonexistent), and there are parts of both books where he specifically refers readers to the images to see what a character looks like. As a result, the art and writing had a more symbiotic relationship: Carroll gave the characters minds and voices, but it was Tenniel who gave them bodies and faces. While numerous artists have handled the stories since then, all of them inevitably refer to Tenniel or try to go against his grain. And, generally speaking, I think the ones who stick to what Tenniel had in mind - while of course putting their own spin on it - are the ones who feel the best. Carroll never says the Mad Hatter wears a top hat, specifically, for example; that was all Tenniel’s doing. Yet it’s so hard to read the character AS the Mad Hatter if he’s NOT wearing a top hat. Similarly, Carroll never describes Alice having blonde hair - in fact, in his original manuscript, she was a brunette - but that is what Tenniel gave her, and that is what has been the most common and iconic choice for the girl’s do ever since. Even to this day, Tenniel’s artwork and the Wonderland characters are utterly inseparable. This is evident from the simple fact that, out of all the artists that have handled Wonderland over the years, Tenniel has been the one to have the biggest impact and popularity well into the modern day. Unlike virtually every other artist who has handled Alice, Tenniel’s original illustrations have been printed and reprinted in NUMEROUS editions over the decades. If you find a random copy of the “Alice” stories in your library or bookstore, the chances are very high that the illustrator is Tenniel. Even if the cover art is different, his black-and-white engravings are very easy to track down. The edition I’m providing for the cover reference is just one singular example. There are literally hundreds of editions JUST for Tenniel that you can pick up. It is far, FAR from the only one. If you haven’t seen Tenniel’s work already, then you’ve probably been living under a mushroom. “The Nursery Alice” is a little harder to track down, but it’s worth it just to see the colored versions of the pictures. (Did you know that Alice originally had a yellow dress?) Either way, Tenniel’s work remains immortal and beyond influential…yet he’s only second place on my countdown. What diabolical travesties am I hatching, one wonders…?

Come back down the rabbit hole tomorrow as I showcase my Number One pick! Don’t be late! ;)

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The Real Alice in Wonderland

Alice Liddell, age 7,The real Alice in Wonderland - photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860

On July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, boarded a boat with a small group, setting out from Oxford to the nearby town of Godstow, where the group was to have tea on the river bank. The party consisted of Carroll, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little sisters of Carroll’s good friend Harry Liddell — Edith , Alice (age 10), and Lorina (age 13). Entrusted with entertaining the young ladies, Dodgson fancied a story about a whimsical world full of fantastical characters, and named his protagonist Alice. So taken was Alice Liddell with the story that she asked Dodgson to write it down for her, which he did when he soon sent her a manuscript under the title of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.

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On July 4, 1862, in a rowing boat travelling on the River Thames from Oxford to Godstow for a picnic outing, 10-year-old Alice Liddell asked Charles Dodgson to entertain her and her sisters, Edith and Lorina, with a story. As Rev. Robinson Duckworth rowed the boat, Dodgson regaled the girls with fantastic stories of a girl, named Alice, and her adventures after she fell through a rabbit- hole. On this same day in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published under Dodgson's pen name, Lewis Carroll. [O'Blivion]

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Witches Executed at Lancaster

Against Elizabeth Device the testimony of her own daughter Jennet, a child nine years of age, was received; and the way in which her evidence was given, instead of filling the court with horror, seems to have excited their applause and admiration.

Her familiar had the form of a dog and was called 'Ball', and by his agency she bewitched to death John and James Robinson and James Mitton; the first having called her a strumpet, and the last having refused to give Old Demdike a penny when she asked him for charity.

To render her daughter proficient in the art, the prisoner taught her two prayers, by one of which she cured the bewitched, and by the other procured drink.

James Device was convicted principally on the evidence of his child sister Jennet, of bewitching and killing Mrs. Anne Towneley, the wife of Mr. Henry Towneley, by means of a picture of clay; and both he and his sister were witnesses against their mother.

This wizard (James Device), whose spirit was called 'Dandy', is described as a poor, decrepit boy, apparently of weak intellect, and so infirm, that it was found necessary to hold him up in court on his trial.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

Killing by Witchcraft

The said Elizabeth Southerns (alias Demdike) confesseth and sayth:

"The speediest way to take a mans life away by witchcraft, is to make a picture of clay, like unto the shape of the person whom they mean to kill, and dry it thoroughly. And when they would have them to be ill in any one place more then an other; then take a thorn or pin, and prick it in that part of the picture you would so have to be ill. And when you would have any part of the body to consume away, then take that part of the picture, and burn it."

"And when they would have the whole body to consume away, then take the remnant of the said picture, and burn it: and so there-upon by that means, the body shall die."

Discovery of Witches, 1613 Thomas Potts (clerk of the court).

Witches Executed at Lancaster

Upon evidence of this kind no fewer than ten of these unfortunate people were found guilty at Lancaster, and sentenced to suffer death.

Eight others were acquitted; why, it is not easy to see, for the evidence appears to have been equally strong, or rather equally weak and absurd, against all.

The ten persons sentenced were:

Anne Whittle alias Chattox

Anne Redferne daughter of Chattox

Elizabeth Device daughter of Demdike

James Device son of Elizabeth Device

Alison Device daughter of Elizabeth Device

Alice Nutter

Jane Bulcock

John Bulcock son of Jane Bulcock

Katherine Hewitt alias Mould-heels

Isabel Robey

They were executed at Lancaster on the 20th of August, 16I2, for having bewitched to death 'by devilish practices and hellish means' no fewer than sixteen inhabitants of the Forest of Pendle.

These were:

Robert Nutter of Greenhead

Richard Assheton of Downham

A child of Richard Baldwin

John Device of Pendle

Ann Nutter of Pendle

A child of John Moor

Hugh Moor of Pendle

John Robinson alias Swyer

James Robinson

Henry Mytton of Rough Lee

Ann Towneley wife of Henry Towneley

John Duckworth

John Hargreaves of Goldshaw Booth

Blaize Hargreaves of Higham

Christopher Nutter

Ann Folds near Colne

John Law, a Pedlar, was also bewitched, so as to lose the use of his limbs, by Alison Device, because he refused to give her some pins without money, when requested to do so by her on his way from Colne.

Alison Device herself was a beggar by profession, and the evidence sufficiently proved that Law's affliction was nothing more than what would now be termed paralysis of the lower extremities.

In his introduction to Pott's Discovery of Witches, Mr James Crossley observes:

"the main interest in reviewing this miserable band of victims will be felt to centre in Alice Nutter. Wealthy, well conducted, well connected, and placed probably on an equality with most of the neighbouring families and the magistrate before whom she was brought and committed, she deserves to be distinguished from the companions with whom she suffered."

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

Description of Elizabeth Device

This odious Witch was branded with a preposterous mark in Nature, even from her birth, which was her left eye, standing lower then the other; the one looking down, the other looking up, so strangely deformed, as the best that were present in that Honourable assembly, did affirm, they had not often seen the like.

From Discovery of Witches, 1613 Thomas Potts (clerk of the court).

The Witches of Salmesbury

The trials of these persons took place at the same assizes, and before the same judge.

Against Jane and Ellen Bierley and Jane Southworth, all of Samlesbury, charged with having bewitched Grace Sowerbutts, the only material evidence was that of Grace Sowerbutts herself, a girl of licentious and vagrant habits, who swore that these women (one of them being her grandmother), did draw her by the hair of the head and lay her upon the top of a hay-mow, and did take her senses and memory from her that they appeared to her sometimes in their own likeness and sometimes like a black dog.

She declared that they by their arts had induced her to join their sisterhood; and that they were met from time to time by 'four black things going upright and yet not like men in the face', who conveyed them across the river Ribble, where they danced with them etc.

The prisoners were also charged with bewitching and slaying a child of Thomas Walshams by placing a nail in its navel; and after its burial, they took up the corpse, when they ate part of the flesh, and made an 'uncious ointment' by boiling the bones.

This was more than even the capacious credulity of the judge and jury could digest.

The Samlesbury Witches were therefore, acquitted, and a seminary priest named Thompson alias Southworth, was suspected by two of the county magistrates (the Rev. William Leigh and Edward Chisnall) to whom the affair was afterwards referred, of having instigated Sowerbutts to make the charge, but this imputation was not supported by any satisfactory evidence.

From Lancashire Folklore, 1882 John Harland and T.T. Wilkinson.

http://www.pendlewitches.co.uk/witch-trial/