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JONATHAN LIVINGSTONE SEAGULL book review

I've read that book many many times since I was little and every time that book amazes me and makes me feel so hopeful and beautiful. I think this book has many things to give each and every time you read it, just like the little prince. It is literally the first book that I decided to read after I was done with uni, and I finished it in one sitting. I highly recommend you read the book. I give it a solid 5/5 stars.

⚠️ Spoilers ahead ⚠️ (not so much but anyways)

This book is about a seagull who decides he wants more in life, other than fly just so he can eat; he was to truly learn how to fly. This whole book is about overcoming yourself and your boundaries, learning about yourself and what you can do, and embracing your differences. It is about never giving up and never fearing failure.

The way the seagull society is portrayed in the books, is the most beautiful allegory I've read in a while. It combines the society's 'norms' with what society deems as a god or a devil. The constant fight to show greatness to others while fearing for your life because you will either be idolised or be exiled.

This is not like my other reviews, it's a shorter one, mostly because I don't have many things to say about the book, because, as a book, it is so simple and yet so deep. This is why I love it so much.

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🫵 Jonathan Livingston Seagull ass theology

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The revolution isn’t a rocket but a river that flows and pours forth: Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh

The revolution isn’t a rocket but a river that flows and pours forth: Passage to the Plaza by Sahar Khalifeh, translated by Sawad Hussain

Each summer night in Nablus was just like the next: breezes pregnant with the scent of jasmine, dew and whiffs from the sewers. The municipality went to great pains: every morning the marketplace smelt like a freshly cut bouquet of the most fragrant flowers; however, by the time the afternoon rolled round—when the hustle and bustle had died down and the shops had closed and the rugs and carts had…

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“Wolff brings a compelling internal intensity to Kevin, and through Bradshaw’s modern lens we have more understanding and sympathy for the character’s emotional instability and mental health than in previous incarnations of the play.”

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Theatre Review: The Seagull/Woodstock, NY (Pershing Square Signature Center, Off-Broadway) ★★★★

Playwright Thomas Bradshaw retains the spirit of one of Chekhov’s most celebrated works while bringing it sharply into present day America with his adaptation, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, currently receiving its world premiere Off-Broadway produced by The New Group at Pershing Square Signature Center. As the title suggests, the action has been transposed from rural Russia to Woodstock in the…

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A Flock Of Seagulls - Some Dreams

Legendary synth-pop masters A Flock Of Seagulls return with a brand new release. Heavily promoted with “Some Dreams” and “Him,” two excellent singles you should immediately check out, “Some Dreams” is their first full-length album since 1995. Led by charismatic Mike Score, A Flock Of Seagulls continues to push the boundaries of synth music with ten outstanding compositions, fully stacked with…

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auuugh just reread All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury :’/

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Finished reading "The Jungle Book" to my daughter.

I love reading archaic English. All those 'thou's and 'thee's are just so delightful to me.

Next book is "Jonathan Livingston Seagull".

I really like this book. I've read it a few times before.

It always feels so portentous, like it's supposed to be a big new-age Jesus allegory or some such.

But I've never been able to figure out any deeper readings with this text, so I always just enjoy the surface-level fable of like, "what if Goku from Dragonball Z was a seagull wouldn't that be pretty neat??" and leave things at that. Still a fun book though, at whichever depths you can plumb.

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the day Caesar dies a pink seagull in baby-colored air (First published in The Pan Haiku Review.)

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reviews: The Seagull (three versions)

I’ve watched three versions of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, all found on YouTube;

1. 1975 Broadway Theatre Archive television adaptation: This film for television features stage actors acting on location at a summer house in New England masquerading as a Russian dacha. The acting is in the traditional theatrical style, which means it’s stylized and unsophisticated compared to film acting, which is naturalistic and nuanced. This is also a thoroughly American production in feeling and actors’ mannerisms, and they fail to capture the Russian spirit of the original play in any way. I don’t recommend it.

2. 2021 Fitzroy High & Collingwood College production: This is a filmed stageplay with high school and college students acting, of which there are a fair number on YouTube in recent years, and one shouldn’t expect very much from them given their green age. The acting is not good and the lack of stage props or backgrounds make it hard to visualize the setting. I can’t imagine anyone but the actors’ families enjoying this production. I definitely don’t recommend it.

3. 1970 Soviet film directed by Yuli Karasik: I’ve recently watched a lot of Soviet cinema, which has a history of insightful, intellectual filmmaking and naturalistic acting, including a couple fantastic adaptations of Chekhov works, so I had high hopes for this film and saved it for last, certain it would trounce the other versions on YouTube. The acting is indeed better, nuanced and intelligent, but the plays last two hours while the film is a peppy hour and a half, so the film excises a lot of extraneous dialogue that helped illuminate the characters’ various personalities and motivations. The film is good, though not as great as the other Chekhov films I’ve seen nor as great as it could have been had it been longer and more faithful to the text. On the whole, though, it is a good film, tightly paced and faithful to the action of the play at large, and I recommend it as the best among the options online for The Seagull.

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Haikyuu Chapter 358: Sea Gulls

REFLECTION:

Everyone regroups for the next set and then...holy shit, the next set starts within the chapter. I honestly cannot remember the last time that happened. The other teams end the chapter commenting on how it's anyone's match...

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Andrew Minyard mic’d up if aftg took place today and the Foxes did social media promo

Andrew absolutely refuses to be mic’d up for a long time

When he finally agrees to do it it’s during a game against the Jackals

Everyone is sure it’ll be a bust and they won’t get much of Andrew actually talking

But to everyone’s surprise, Andrew turns his inner monologue outwards and doesn’t shut up

He commentates the game from his perspective

‘And there’s the son of Exy Kevin Day running the ball up- and oh yeah no he’s down for the count’ *huffs a laugh through his nose*

‘The other fuckers have the ball now, if my brother dearest let’s them get it to my goal I’ll kill him’

And when the opposing teams striker trips Aaron up and gets past to Andrews goal he shuts them out of course

‘He’s dead. Find a new backliner coach’

When he gets bored of the game and the backliners are keeping the ball away from his goal he starts to sing

He does a full rendition of “Life is a Highway” because Neil and him watched Cars on the bus ride to the game

And he gets into it

He makes the guitar noises with his mouth and everything

He even sings it in the best low, country voice he can do

He interrupts himself in the middle of the song suddenly, feeling the need to give his full synopsis and review of Cars

‘If I was the stupid fucking car and I fell out of my sentient truck/trailers ass I would keep driving in the same fucking direction. Simple’

‘Josten would do the same thing as Lightning McQueen. He would fuck up an entire town, he’s already done it once actually, when he came here.’

‘Stupid junkie, I hate him’ he adds but there’s a fondness in his voice

‘How do the cars reproduce? Are there humans in this universe that build cars and then make them sentient? Do the cars bang?’

Halfway through his rant one of the strikers gets past Matt and Aaron and he doesn’t even stop talking when he smacks the ball halfway across the court

When the other teams strikers start breaking through the backliners more frequently Andrew doesn’t even seem to care

He just swats every attempted goal away, squawking a quite ‘mine’ like the seagulls from Finding Nemo after hitting each one

Mine *smacks* mine *swats* mine *swish*

He keeps his goal almost completely shut down the entire game, spare a few times when the other team can get the ball past him because he’s not paying attention

‘I wonder what coach is buying us for dinner after this. I hope it's good since we’re’ *his goal lights up red* ‘Oops, anyhow it better be good, I’m working my ass off out here,’

‘What if we all started moving in slow motion. Josten and Day would look stupid running up the court like that,’ *a ball flies past his helmet* ‘If we were in slowmo I would’ve stopped that’

He plays the entire game (Renee's out with an injury) and he shuffles through doing all this the entire game

He sings verses of whatever song pops into his head

He reviews the movies he’s watched recently

He commentates the game in his dry manner, listing off every stat he knows about the other team and then explains why they still suck

He makes fun of his Foxes and the other team

He talks about his random hypotheticals

All while keeping the goal almost perfectly defended against the other teams strikers

When the game ends and the Foxes are loaded back up on the bus they listen back to the recording of Andrews mic

And they’re shocked that he doesn’t stop talking once the entire game

They listen to his entire recording on the ride back to campus

All of the Foxes are laughing the entire time

Even Neil is smiling (even though he’s used to this version of Andrew that is weird and likes to ramble)

When they post his mic’d up highlights to their social media it goes viral

It’s their most viewed and liked mic’d up video

Their fans are begging for more of Andrew mic’d up but he refuses to do it again

He got the enjoyment out of doing it once and doesn’t feel a need to do it again

The foxes do start to pay a little more attention to what Andrew’s saying while in goal (and all the time)

Aaron Mic’d up

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Rain like this doesn’t wash away the filth: Hawa Hawa and Other Stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya

Rain like this doesn’t wash away the filth: Hawa Hawa and Other Stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya, translated by Subha Prasad Sanyal @seagullbooks

The gleaming wet road, the rusty tin roof of a motorcar repair garage, behind it an old paint-peeling stunned-still old house and a chimney precariously propped up with haphazard wires—the sky can see all this. And, not as clearly, the burnt-black tin-backed shops and buses and the in-between blocks of darkness that were Matador sheds and not the half-rotten bellies of fish but the shells of…