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[harpocrate]

holy moly mother of god

[lacnunga]

DO NOT GET DISTRACTED

[kryptic-krab]

also like. 3 or 4 species named after greta thunberg

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

not to be optimistic on main but I'm pretty confident the new harry potter tv show will never finish adapting the entire series. it's gonna crash and burn, I can sense this with my feelers.

[trevlad]

2023-02-11

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[hellboundhimbo]

dear god someone help me im thinking about It again

[tercessketchfield]

MEN THINK ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE. WOMEN THINK ABOUT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

JUDITH OF BAVARIA (797-843) — Daughter of Count Welf I of Bavaria, Judith was a Carolingian Empress as the second wife of Louis I the Pious. Mother of Gisela and Charles the Bald, she foght for both her own influence at court and for the succession of her son over the claims of his elder half-brothers, the sons of Louis I from his first marriage. Charles became the Emperor in 875, after the death of Louis II, his nephew and a son of his half-brother Lothair / fancast: Annabel Scholey

MARIA OF AUSTRIA (1528-1603) — Daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal. She served as Regent of Spain both jointly with her husband, Maximilian (before their accession to the imperial throne), and in person, for her father, and brother, Philip II. Her children include two Holy Roman Emperors, Rudolf II and Matthias, over whom she held great influence, and queens consorts of Spain, and France / fancast: Olivia Cooke

EMPRESS MAUD (1102-1167) — Daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland. Her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, gave her the title under which she came down into history, and was a source of great pride to Maud. Rightful heiress of Henry I, she confronted her cousin, King Stephen, in the civil war, known as the Anarchy, fighting ferociously for her rights. She failed in this for herself but won for her son Henry, who became king and established the Plantagenet dynasty in England / cast: Alison Pill in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) — She succeded her father Charles VI as the ruler of Habsburg monarchy in 1740, and devoutedly defended it against its enemies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. Wife of the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, she was a forceful personality and a competent ruler herself, reigning first in her own right, and later, jointly with her son Empreror Joseph II. Her children include two Holy Romam Emperors (Joseph II and Leopold II), queens consorts of Naples ans Sicily, and France / cast: Marie-Luise Stockinger in Maria Theresia (2017)

[sag-dab-sar]

📚Resources for The Ancient Near East📚

With a focus on religion

Getting Started On Research

JSTOR Guide LINK

Lumenlearning Guide LINK

Center for Online Education Guide LINK

Layman's Guide to Online Research by @/sisterofiris LINK

How to Vet Sources by me LINK

Websites for ANE Study

ETCSL | The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature — http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/catalogue.htm

ePSD | The Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary — http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd-frame.html

ORACC | Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus — http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/

ORACC's Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses Project — http://oracc.iaas.upenn.edu/amgg/abouttheproject/index.html

ETANA | Electronic Tools & Ancient Near East Archive — http://etana.org/

CDLI | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative — https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/about

CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago — http://www.aina.org/cad.html

Livius' Babylonian Section — https://www.livius.org/category/babylonia/

Multi Source Websites

Internet Archive Library — https://archive.org/details/texts | How To Use LINK

JSTOR — https://www.jstor.org/ | How To Use LINK

Google Scholar — https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

Google Books — https://books.google.com/googlebooks/about/index.html

Academia — https://support.academia.edu/hc/en-us/categories/360003163373-Academia-Free-Features

DOAJ Index of Open Access Journals — https://www.doaj.org/

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook — https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/asbook.asp

Met Museum Publications — https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications

Holy Books — https://www.holybooks.com/about/

Internet Sacred Text Archive — https://sacred-texts.com/

Deepdyve is a website of academic journal articles that isn't free but it isn't outrageously expensive for what it offers if you are heavily invested in new research — https://www.deepdyve.com/

Please leave a comment if a link breaks I'll do my best to find a new one

I'm planning to probably break these down into their own post due to link limit!

Books

*When using older books be aware that there may be inaccuracies and out of date information. If at all possible cross-reference and synthesize with newer materials. I have added years for this reason.

Books Specifically on Religion

Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion by Tammi Schneider (2011) Google Books | Good overview, 130ish page easy read.

Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia by Jeremy Black and Anthony Greene (1992) Internet Archive

Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Gwendolyn Leick (1991) Internet Archive | This & Black's dictionary are good starting off points but I always use additional source's because some of Leick's info tends to be more out of date than other authors.

The Ancient Gods by E O James (1960) Internet Archive

The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East by Mark Cohen (1993) PDF

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri (2007) PDF

Mesopotamian Ritual-prayers of “Hand-lifting”(Akkadian Šuillas) by Christopher G Frechette Internet Archive

When Gods Were Men: The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature by Esther Hamon Internet Archive

Stories From Ancient Canaan by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith (1901) 1st Edition Internet Archive | 2nd Edition Google Books

A Handbook to Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East (2021) Google Books

The City of the Moon God by Tamara Green (1992) Google Books

The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin (2008) Google Books

Books on ANE History in General

Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Stephen Bertman (2005) Google Books | Highly recommended, easy read

Ancient Mesopotamia Portrait of Dead Civilization by A. Leo Oppenheim (1964) Internet Archive

A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000- 323BC by Marc Van de Mieroop (2016) Internet Archive

Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Jean Bottero (1992) Internet Archive

Women in the Ancient Near East by Marten Stol (2016) Open Access

Chapter 3 Elamite from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ancient World Languages edited by Roger Wooard (2004) PDF

Sumerian Art by Andre Parrot (1970) Digital Library

Dictionaries of Civilization Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians by Enrico Ascalone and Simona Schultz (2007) Publisher Website Entry

The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells edited by Hans Dieter Betz PDF (If that link breaks Google Books)

Babylon: Mesopotamia and The Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek (2012) Google Books

Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia by Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat (2002) Google Books

Mesopotamia to Iraq A Concise History by Hans Nissen (2009) Google Books

In the Land of A Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World by Christian Marek (2016) Google Books

Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City by Gwendolyn Leick (2002) Google Books

Palmyra by Paul Veyne (2017) Google Books

The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC Volume 1 by Amélie Kuhrt (1995) Google Books

The Ancient Near East c. 3000-330 BC Volume 2 by Amélie Kuhrt (1995) Google Books

The Image of the Netherworld in the Sumerian Sources by Diana Katz (2003) Google Books

Journal Articles

Mesopotamian Pandemonium by Frans Wiggermann LINK

Nergal A by Frans Wiggerman LINK

The Four Winds and the Origins of Pazuzu by Frans Wiggermann LINK

Sumerian Texts Involving The Netherworld and Funerary Offerings by Jeremiah Peterson LINK

The Sexual Union of Enlil and Ninlil: an uadi Composition of Ninlil by Jeremiah Peterson LINK

New Year Ceremonies in Ancient Babylon: 'Taking Bel by the Hand' and a Cultic Picnic Religion Jeremy A Black LINK

Phenomenon of God-nap in Ancient Mesopotamia A Short Introduction Erika D. Johnson LINK

Preforming Death Social Analysis of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Medditarian edited by Nicola Laneri LINK

Tablet of Destinies and the Transmission of Power in Enūma eliš by Karen Sonik LINK

Theology and Worship in Elam and Achaemenid Iran by Koch LINK

Evil against evil. The Demon Pazuzu by Nils P Heeßel LINK

New Readings in the Amarna Versions of Adapa and Nergal and Ereshkigal by Shlomo Izre'el LINK

The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture: Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System by Kazuo Muroi LINK

Athirat: As Found at Ras Shamra Justin Watkins LINK

Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals! by Andrew George, Manfred Krebernik. Unfortunately now I can only find a paywalled version.

From Beyond Ereškigal? Mesopotamian Magic Tradition in the Papyri Graecae Magicae by Daniel Schwemer LINK

The Phoenician Presence in the Aegean during the Early Iron Age : Trade, Settlement and Cultural Interaction by Edizioni Quasar LINK

Invoking the God: Interpreting Invocations in Mesopotamian Prayers and Biblical Laments of the Individual by Alan Lenzi LINK

The Two Steles of Sargon: Iconology and Visual Propaganda at the Beginning of Royal Akkadian Relief by Lorenzo Nigro LINK

Asherah, the West Semitic Goddess of Spinning and Weaving? Susan Ackerman LINK

Ancient Ethics by Gerald Larue LINK

Early Bronze Age Graves at Gre Virike (Period II B): An Extraordinary Cemetery on the Middle Euphrates by A. Tuba Ökse LINK

The Evil Eye in Mesopotamia by Marie-Louise Thomsen LINK

Web Articles

Living Deities: Ancient Mesopotamian Patron Gods & Their Statues by Iilias Luursema on The Collector LINK

Armana Letters by Elizabeth Knott on Met Museum. LINK

Translations

*ETCSL is all translations of Sumerian literature!

Ishtar's Decent Translation & Recited in Akkadian LINK

The Harps That Once by Thorkild Jacobsen Google Books

The Project Gutenberg Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon PDF

Project Gutenberg's Sumerian Hymns, by Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh LINK

Ancient Near East Anthology of Texts and Pictures edited by Pritchard 1st Edition Internet Archive

A Hymn to Tammuz (Cuneiform Texts from the British Museum, Tablet 15821, Plate 18) J. Dyneley Prince (1909) JSTOR

Ludlul Bel Nemegi by Alan Lenzi the Akkadian "Poem of the Righteous Sufferer" LINK

The Flood Myths LINK

Enūma Eliš Translations: L W King Translation 1902 LINK | ETANA Translation LINK | Composite Translation LINK

Code of Ur-Nammu LINK

Code of Liptin Ishtar LINK

The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE LINK

Other

Google Drive shared on Tumblr LINK

Dissertation: Personal Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia as shown in Akkadian Texts by Maurice Noil Leon Couve De Murville, University of London PDF

[nofreakinnameforyou]

JE PUB HONTEUSEMENT MON IDÉE.

Bajour. Basoir les plus beaux. (Non, je ne lance aucune fleur....) J'ai aucune idée comment commencer ça, alors....

VOUS AIMEZ L'UNIVERS DE STEPHEN KING ? VOUS AVEZ BINGEWATCHER LA SÉRIE FROM ? (do it c'est vraiment excellent... et on attend une saison 3 ahh).

Venez tremper votre gros orteil dans l'univers de FROM DERRY ! Un projet déjà bien actif. Aux annexes complètements incroyables. Les membres déjà présents sont HYPED. Ça va être le feu.

Il y a un petit serveur Discord qui regroupe les futurs personnages des membres. Des idées de liens. La FAQ et plein d'trucs coolos. Bah là-bas, y'a mon petit JAD qu'est présenté et qui attend quelqu'un de TRÈS important. Alors si vous avez envie de jouer un agent correctionnel ( 40 ans et + ) qui transportait un criminel (Jad, qu'il connaît depuis quasi vingt-ans) vers un autre trou; et que tous les deux terminent le cul à DERRY (un village dont personne ne sort).... Viennnnns. Je suis un peu malade mais promis j'vais pas te contaminer. Le FC est libre; sa vie pré-derry aussi. Et on se papotera ce lien de ouf dans le blanc des yeux pixelisés. nb : FROM DERRY ramène au Tumblr du forum. Discord ramène au billet qui offre le lien du Discord.

[scotianostra]

On August 22nd, 1138 The Battle of the Standard was fought.

David I King of Scots was famously the ‘ane Sair sanct for the croun’ which quite literally meant “one costly saint to the crown” his piety led to uniquely-generous royal donations to the monastic orders. Sanctity, however, did not prevent him carrying on that other Scots royal tradition - invading England.

Also known as the Battle of Northallerton, the Battle of the Standard was one of two major battles fought in the civil war between the English King Stephen and Empress Matilda in the troubled times down south, known as The Anarchy. The Scottish King David I had crossed the border into England at the head of an army some 16,000 strong, in order to support his niece Matilda’s claim to the throne against Stephen.

With Stephen busy fighting rebel barons in the south of the country, it was left to a mainly locally raised force to repel the invading Scots. Thanks in a large part to Archbishop Thurstan of York, who preached that to withstand the Scots was to do God’s work, an English army of around 10,000 men was recruited.

At the head of the English army was a mast mounted on a cart proudly flying the consecrated banners of the minsters of Beverley, Ripon and York, earning the battle its name.

The English took up their position across the Great North Road a few miles north of Northallerton, blocking the Scots advance southwards. Attempting a surprise early morning attack, King David found the English well prepared and waiting for him.

The battle began with a charge by the unarmoured ‘wild’ Galwegian spearmen, who fell in large numbers under the hail of English arrows. The Galwegians finally fled when two of their leaders were killed.

Although greatly outnumbered, the English resisted several sustained Scottish attacks. Fierce hand to hand fighting continued for around three hours until the Scottish lines broke and retreat turned into a rout. The victorious Yorkshiremen however, failed to take full advantage of the rout allowing many of the Scots to escape and regroup at Carlisle.

As a result of the battle, the Scots would control northern England for the next 20 years, so although they lost the battle they did gain a foothold for some time. On the death of David, his successor and grandson, Malcolm IV was soon forced to surrender David’s gains to King Henry II, the son of the Empress Matilda, who succeeded Stephen as King of England.

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[aurianneor]

Limiter la richesse individuelle

Les frères Gracchus, Gaius et Tibérius, étaient tribuns, l'équivalent de nos députés et ils ont voulu s'attaquer aux problèmes de l'époque. Les riches étaient peu nombreux mais possédaient presque toutes les terres. Comme ils produisaient toutes les céréales, ils se mettaient d'accord entre eux pour fixer un prix élevé et faisaient venir des étrangers pour travailler à des salaires très bas que les citoyens romains n'acceptaient pas. En 133 avant J-C, Rome était plongée dans une pauvreté généralisée qui tourmentait Rome. Les frères Gracchus ont fait voter une loi qui s'appelait propriété et elle affirmait que la propriété avait une limite en quantité au-delà de laquelle elle était toxique pour la société et une limite d'usage selon laquelle ce n'est pas parce que c'est à moi que je peux en faire ce que je veux. Les frères Gracchus ont été saisis par les riches et leurs hommes de main et jetés dans le Tribe. S'en est suivi 100 ans de guerre civile entre la plèbe et les riches avant que l'empereur Auguste n'instaure les lois des frères Gracchus profitant de l'émoi causé par la mort de Jules César. Quatre cent ans de paix et de prospérité ont suivi. 

En 1930, en France, des juges ont crée le service public de l'eau, nationalisant les sources. Cela a montré que la propriété privée n'est pas sacrée. Ils ont exproprié les propriétaires, et c'était normal. Léon Blum a été harcelé et a quitté sa fonction. 

La victoire du Labour en 1945 au Royaume-Uni a permis d'exproprier les propriétaires de mines. La propriété n'est pas absolue. Les propriétaires sont devenus moins riches et cela les a fait passer en-dessous de la limite de toxicité.

Le 24 novembre 2013, en Suisse, est votée une loi limitant les salaires à 250 fois le salaire minimum. Cela veut dire que pour que les salaires les plus hauts augmentent, il faut augmenter les salaires les plus bas. A titre de comparaison, en France en 2019, les patrons du CAQ40 gagnaient 1128 fois le salaire de leurs employés les plus modestes. Les riches sont très heureux en Suisse.

En 2022, en Ukraine, profitant de l'opportunité de pouvoirs exceptionnels liés à la guerre, le président Zelensky a nationalisé les banques, les chaînes de télévision et les industries possédées par les oligarques. Ceux-ci étaient tellement riches qu'ils décidaient de tout dans le pays, les caisses ukrainiennes étant vides.

Quand Elon Musk intervient dans la guerre en Ukraine, c'est trop. Quand Mark Zuckerberg favorise l'élection de Trump pour s'enrichir, c'est trop. Quand une personne est suffisamment riche pour avoir un propre programme spatial ou a plus d'argent qu'un pays, c'est trop. Quand tes décisions peuvent ruiner la vie de millions de gens alors que tu n'as pas été élu, c'est trop. Quand les 1% les plus riches de l'humanité émettent 100 fois plus de gaz à effet de serre que ceux qui émettent les 99% autres, c'est trop. 

Ces gens méritent d'être riches mais pas à ce point. Ils n'ont jamais rendu à la société ce que la société leur avait donné en premier lieu. La société a formé leurs employés avec des écoles et des universités; ceux-ci sont en bonne santé grâce aux hôpitaux, il y a des routes, des chemins de fer et des aéroports pour transporter leurs biens. Il y a une police et une armée pour les protéger et une justice pour faire valoir leurs droits. Il y a des ressources naturelles pour alimenter leurs industries, etc.

La Columbia University estime que 100 millions de dollars est une limite. C'est largement suffisant pour la personne et pas assez pour être toxique. (Putting a Limit On Wealth - Stephen H. Unger: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/wealthLimit.html)

What, if Anything, is Wrong with Extreme wealth: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/19452829.2019.1633734?needAccess=true&role=button

Having too Much - Ingrid Robeyns: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0338

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Les autorités illégitimes: https://www.aurianneor.org/les-autorites-illegitimes/

“The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed”: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-world-has-enough-for-everyones-need-but-not/

You can’t get enough… Enough!: https://www.aurianneor.org/you-cant-get-enough-enough-the-same-companies/

Qui se cache derrière le drapeau?: https://www.aurianneor.org/qui-se-cache-derriere-le-drapeau/

Riche: https://www.aurianneor.org/riche-cetait-une-belle-journee-et-le-paysage/

Liberté et vivre ensemble: https://www.aurianneor.org/liberte-et-vivre-ensemble/

Tomorrow – Chap 4: La démocratie: https://www.aurianneor.org/tomorrow-chap-4-la-democratie-the-panama/

Solidarité Hélvétique: https://www.aurianneor.org/solidarite-helvetique-democratie-semi-directe/

[quote-tournament]

Hi! I have to recite 6-8 lines of poetry for my drama class, but I don’t have any ideas. I know this blog has reblogged some poetry and people have sent asks with poetry, so could you or anyone who sees this suggest some good poetry? It has to be something you can say with full commitment and passion.

Ho for sure! Once I had to do a similar thing for a class, by giving a "gift" and my gift was Wendy Cope's The Orange, since it is one of my favourites.

Others of my favourites include Victor Hugo's Melancholia, Laura Gilpin's The Two Headed Calf, Stephen Crane's In The Desert, Meggie Royer's The Morning After I Killed Myself (poems under the cut)

If you want some more I recommend you check out @poetrysmackdown @apoemaday @havingapoemwithyou

The Orange by Wendy Cope

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange - The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave - They got quarters and I got a half. And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It's new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I'm glad I exist.

Melancholia by Victor Hugo (extract)

Où vont tous ces enfants dont pas un seul ne rit ? Ces doux êtres pensifs que la fièvre maigrit ? Ces filles de huit ans qu’on voit cheminer seules ? Ils s’en vont travailler quinze heures sous des meules ; Ils vont, de l’aube au soir, faire éternellement Dans la même prison le même mouvement. Accroupis sous les dents d’une machine sombre, Monstre hideux qui mâche on ne sait quoi dans l’ombre, Innocents dans un bagne, anges dans un enfer, Ils travaillent. Tout est d’airain, tout est de fer. Jamais on ne s’arrête et jamais on ne joue. Aussi quelle pâleur ! la cendre est sur leur joue. Il fait à peine jour, ils sont déjà bien las. Ils ne comprennent rien à leur destin, hélas ! Ils semblent dire à Dieu : « Petits comme nous sommes, Notre père, voyez ce que nous font les hommes ! » O servitude infâme imposée à l’enfant ! Rachitisme ! travail dont le souffle étouffant Défait ce qu’a fait Dieu ; qui tue, œuvre insensée, La beauté sur les fronts, dans les cœurs la pensée, Et qui ferait — c’est là son fruit le plus certain ! - D’Apollon un bossu, de Voltaire un crétin ! Travail mauvais qui prend l’âge tendre en sa serre, Qui produit la richesse en créant la misère, Qui se sert d’un enfant ainsi que d’un outil ! Progrès dont on demande : « Où va-t-il ? que veut-il ? » Qui brise la jeunesse en fleur ! qui donne, en somme, Une âme à la machine et la retire à l’homme ! Que ce travail, haï des mères, soit maudit ! Maudit comme le vice où l’on s’abâtardit, Maudit comme l’opprobre et comme le blasphème ! O Dieu ! qu’il soit maudit au nom du travail même, Au nom du vrai travail, sain, fécond, généreux, Qui fait le peuple libre et qui rend l’homme heureux !

English translation by Geoffrey Barto

[Where do these children go for whom nobody laughs?

These sweet, pensive beings wasted away by fever?

These eight-year-old girls you see walking alone?

They go to work — fifteen hours in the mill;

They go from dawn to dusk, eternally repeating

The same motions in the same prison.

Stooped beneath the teeth of a somber machine,

A hideous monster that chews who-knows-what in the shadows,

Innocents on the chain gang, angels in some hell,

They work. Everything is bronze, all is iron.

Never do they stop and never do they play.

And what paleness! Ash upon their cheeks.

Barely it is dawn, already they are tired.

They understand nothing of their fate, alas!

They seem to say to God: “Little as we are,

Our Father, look what the men do to us!”

O infamous servitude imposed upon the child!

Stunting! work whose stifling breath

Undoes what God has made; that kills, senseless work,

The beauty of their faces, the thought in their heads,

And which would make — here’s its most certain fruit! -

A hunchback of Apollo, a cretin of Voltaire!

Evil work that takes tender youth in its grasp,

That produces wealth by creating misery,

That uses a child like one more tool!

Progress of which we ask: “Where are you going? What do you want?”

That breaks youth in bloom! that gives, in sum,

A soul to a machine and yanks it from a man!

That this work, hated by mothers, be cursed!

Cursed as a degenerative vice!

Cursed as damnable, cursed as blasphemy!

O God! be it cursed even in the name of work,

In the name of true work, healthy, fecund, generous,

That makes the people free and makes man happy!]

The Two-headed Calf by Laura Gilpin

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

In The Desert by Stephen Crane

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”

The Morning After I Killed Myself by Meggie Royer

The morning after I killed myself, I woke up. I made myself breakfast in bed. I added salt and pepper to my eggs and used my toast for a cheese and bacon sandwich. I squeezed a grapefruit into a juice glass. I scraped the ashes from the frying pan and rinsed the butter off the counter. I washed the dishes and folded the towels. The morning after I killed myself, I fell in love. Not with the boy down the street or the middle school principal. Not with the everyday jogger or the grocer who always left the avocados out of the bag. I fell in love with my mother and the way she sat on the floor of my room holding each rock from my collection in her palms until they grew dark with sweat. I fell in love with my father down at the river as he placed my note into a bottle and sent it into the current. With my brother who once believed in unicorns but who now sat in his desk at school trying desperately to believe I still existed. The morning after I killed myself, I walked the dog. I watched the way her tail twitched when a bird flew by or how her pace quickened at the sight of a cat. I saw the empty space in her eyes when she reached a stick and turned around to greet me so we could play catch but saw nothing but sky in my place. I stood by as strangers stroked her muzzle and she wilted beneath their touch like she did once for mine. The morning after I killed myself, I went back to the neighbors’ yard where I left my footprints in concrete as a two year old and examined how they were already fading. I picked a few daylilies and pulled a few weeds and watched the elderly woman through her window as she read the paper with the news of my death. I saw her husband spit tobacco into the kitchen sink and bring her her daily medication. The morning after I killed myself, I watched the sun come up. Each orange tree opened like a hand and the kid down the street pointed out a single red cloud to his mother. The morning after I killed myself, I went back to that body in the morgue and tried to talk some sense into her. I told her about the avocados and the stepping stones, the river and her parents. I told her about the sunsets and the dog and the beach. The morning after I killed myself, I tried to unkill myself, but couldn’t finish what I started.

[odnagnisul]

100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):

1984, George Orwell ✅

A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman

Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅

Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅

Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon

Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï

A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola

Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster

Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell

Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray

Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅

Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅

Chéri, Colette

Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski

De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens

Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅

Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅

Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅

Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés

Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

Dune, Frank Herbert ✅

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅

Fondation, Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅

Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling

Home, Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami

L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅

L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde

L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅

L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅

L'écume des jours, Boris Vian

L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera

La condition humaine, André Malraux

La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils

La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins

La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol

La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅

La nuit des temps, René Barjavel

La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅

La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅

Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle

Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2

Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅

Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux

Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna

Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov

Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley

Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco

Le parfum, Patrick Süskind

Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅

Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅

Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅

Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel

Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅

Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅

Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton

Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅

Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis

Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë

Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅

Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅

Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de

Beauvoir

Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff

Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1

Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May

Alcott

Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary

Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅

Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅

Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅

Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell

Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen

Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth

Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie

Pilgrim, Timothy Findley

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅

Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin

Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅

Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy

Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard

Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono

Une prière pour Owen, John Irving

Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant

Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck

Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅

Total : 37/100

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October 1969 at The Stones’ mansion

Images of a naked young woman sitting on the ground under the gaze of five clothed, older men may seem unsettling. But in the Sixties, it simply made the Stones look even cooler. As for the 18-year-old girl, peering provocatively at the camera in some shots and with her back turned in others, she was identified only as ‘Angel’. Many explanations emerged as to who she was and why she was there. Her real name is Leslie ans she revealed what really happened that day with the Stones.

She had moved to California from New York state earlier in 1969 to work as a nanny. Finding herself on the street, she was offered a roof over her head at the Stones’ mansion, which was owned by legendary singer Stephen Stills.

On the morning of the photo-shoot, she recalls getting up early to prepare breakfast, then going for a swim. She jumped in naked, she says, not for any saucy reason but because ‘that’s what people did in those days’. As she flitted past, naked, Jagger suggested she might want to join them. She says Jagger told her: ‘It would be nice if you would be in this picture. We’re just gonna use it for our memories of our tour. It’s just personal.’ A week later the photos were published all over the world — from the music magazine Rolling Stone to the British Press. She says she didn’t even recognise the band when she first arrived at the house, adding mischievously: ‘If they’d been the Beatles, I might have known who they were.’

However, she got to know Jagger quickly and was soon having an affair with him. How did they used to put it in the olden days? We had a scene,’ she says. ‘We had a lot of fun. We both had a similar sense of humour.’

[adri-atique]

LES CONTES INTERDITS - Auteurs variés

Les contes urbains sont de retour! Un collectif d’auteur québécois mené par Simon Rousseau à commencer, en 2017, à récrire les contes et légendes de notre enfance en contes trash, violents et purement urbains. En plus, ils sont toujours situés dans notre belle province adorée!

J’ai commencé l’expérience durant la pandémie de 2020. J’ai toujours détesté l’incertitude, et le mois de mars 2020 nous en a donné à ras bord. J’avais besoin d’évacuer ces frustrations, mais je ne pouvais pas sortir! La musique de gros déchainés ne faisait plus l’affaire non plus. Je me suis donc retourné vers la bonne vielle littérature. À l’époque je n’avais de la collection que Peter Pan, écrit par Simon Rousseau lui-même. Les romans policiers n’étanchant pas ma soif de violence, je décidai de tenter ma chance avec ce conte non recommandé au moins de 18 ans. J’avais 16 ans et rien ne pouvait m’arrêter.

À noter que j’ai lui ce livre en deux heures top chrono. Je suis immédiatement tombé en amour avec le concept. J’ai immédiatement supplié ma mère de venir avec moi au magasin de livre ouvert le plus proche pour en acheter d’autres. Utile de mentionner que ma mère m’a initiée à la lecture d’horreur dès le jeune âge de 13 ans grâce à Ça de Stephen King, donc elle n’était aucunement surprise de me voir émerger du sous-sol avec un bouquin sanglant, même qu’elle l’a ajouté à sa PAL. Bref, elle accepta de venir avec moi au magasin pour m’acheter d’autres livres. « Au moins c’est pas de la drogue » qu’elle ne cessait de se répéter à chaque livre que je lui rajoutais dans les bras.

Je suis revenue chez moi heureuse de mes achats. Tout les contes écrit à l'époque ajoutés à ma bibliothèque, je me replongeai dans ces univers glauques et écœurants. Ma mère, pauvre elle, tentait en vain de me faire monter pour manger. J’étais en transe. Jamais je n’avais lu autant de violence non censurée de cette manière. J’en voulais plus, plus, toujours plus.

Ironiquement, je n’ai jamais fait de plus beau rêve depuis mon binge des contes interdits.

Les contes interdits ont accompagné mon entrée au cégep à l’hiver 2021. Je lisais Raiponce en attendant mon cours de formation auditive. Ce fut le premier livre que j’ai du physiquement fermer pour cause d’haut le cœur.

Les contes interdits furent également les livres qui m’ont initiée aux auteurs québécois. J’en lisais déjà quelques-uns (veut, veut pas, on est fort sur le genre policier au Québec), mais je ne m’étais jamais arrêter plus loin que cela. Depuis, j’ai fait les salons du livres, les caravanes littéraires et autres événements littéraires pour rencontrer ces auteurs de chez moi. Bien franchement, que du bon monde.

Depuis ma découverte, je lis ces contes urbains pour me défouler. Aussitôt que je ressens de fortes émotions, je sais que je peux compter sur ces livres pour m’aider à les traiter.