6/28/2023 0 Comments Mozart by Robert W. Gutman![]() ![]() “Someone who is often praised is often someone who is deeply alone. Mackie’s wonderful evocation of the life and world that Mozart managed, but also an instructive example of a biographer who know less than he thinks, but thinks he knows more because of the voice and experience he brings to his subject and world: ![]() The strengths of this older tradition of pontifical biography are many, but they come with a certain presumption that startles the modern circumspect biographer. Mackie is a soloist who writes on a world stage with a sententiousness that made 18th-century biography seem not merely the story of another’s life, but a story that could only emanate from a singular voice that had something unique to tell us about the nature of the world that the biographical subject inhabited and shaped. Without even a bibliography, Maynard Solomon, Robert Gutman, Jan Swafford, and many other Mozart scholars and biographers are missing, though Otto Erich Deutsch’s monumental “Mozart: A Documentary Biography” is mentioned in the brief “Sources” section. This biographer/poet relies on his own voice more than is the habit of most biographers, and by relegating references to Mozart scholarship to just a few pages at the back of his book, he eschews the orchestral nature of modern biography as a sort of collective enterprise. Patrick Mackie’s vibrant biography has something of the 18th-century dash and panache that he evokes in Mozart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But his subject was not, as we might expect, war, love, myth or history it was atomic physics. He wrote in a register of Latin that was self-consciously poetic, with occasional use of archaic vocabulary, and in the metre that since Homer had been the rhythm of epic heroes. His only work is De Rerum Natura, a six-book poem of roughly 7,500 lines, the beauty and power of which inspired allusion (the most literary form of flattery) and outright tribute in his more famous Roman poetic successors, including Virgil and Ovid. He overlapped chronologically with the political titan Cicero (who had read and admired Lucretius's work), and wrote during the tumultuous times that led, in the period after his death, to the collapse of the Roman republic and the establishment of the Roman emperors. L ucretius (full name Titus Lucretius Carus) lived in the first half of the century BC, probably from 99 to 55 BC. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Garden of shadows by vc andrews![]() The mini-series sticks closely to the book for the most part, with many major characters getting considerably expanded screentime and additional backstory. In 2022, Garden of Shadows was adapted as a sprawling, four-part Lifetime mini-series under the title Flowers in the Attic: The Origin. After witnessing Malcolm's lust, violence, and incestuous passion destroy their family, Olivia grows to believe that the entire Foxworth bloodline is tainted, and that God has brought her into Foxworth Hall to purify the sin. But soon she realizes that her husband is a cold, ruthless, and cruel man unable to love anyone, even his own wife and children. Olivia enters Foxworth Hall as a young and hopeful bride newly wed to handsome millionaire Malcolm Foxworth. It acts as a Prequel to the events of Flowers in the Attic and tells the story of Olivia, the wicked grandmother in the first novel. ![]() Published in 1987, the novel was ghostwritten by Andrew Niederman through a collaboration of Andrews' estate and her publishers. Andrews (until Secrets of Foxworth happened). ![]() Garden of Shadows is the final book in the Dollanganger Saga by V. ![]() ![]() ![]() The long-term repo operations are not intended to replace OMOs. There is space for action, and MPC will act in time, perhaps act ahead of time, as it was done in 2019.Īs you have announced long-term repos in policy (1-year and 3-year), is it only Rs1 lakh crore or will it be done systematically? Does this mean it will replace OMOs? I said MPC will closely monitor the situation and act in a proactive manner. Inflation was full of surprises last year, especially food inflation. How should one read into that? Will there be policy action if inflation remains in the projected range of RBI? The policy statement mentions that the outlook on inflation remains uncertain. MPC has been proactive in 2019 and will continue to do so in 2020. The policy space is available for a rate cut, but it will depend on the evolving situation. So many other factors also play their role. ![]() On that basis, the monetary policy action will be taken by MPC at that time. So, once the downward slopes start, we have to see how quickly it plays out. We’re expecting headline inflation to fall. ![]() Is it enough for a rate cut action in next policy? Or are you looking at a CPI level of 5.5% or 5% to take action? Govt asks traders to expedite pulses imports from Myanmar ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Oedipus play![]() He orders the people of Thebes, under punishment of exile, to give any information they have about the death of Laius. Oedipus curses the unknown murderer and swears he will find and punish him. The oracle claims that the murderer is still living in Thebes. When Oedipus arrived in Thebes and saved the city, he was made king and married the widowed queen, Jocasta, sister of Creon.) Now Creon returns with the oracle's news: for the plague to be lifted from the city, the murderer of Laius must be discovered and punished. (A little background: before Oedipus arrived in Thebes, the previous king, Laius, was murdered under mysterious circumstances and the murderer was never found. ![]() Oedipus has already sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to the oracle of the god Apollo to find out what can be done. A group of priests comes to the royal palace to ask for help from Oedipus, their king who once saved them from the tyranny of the terrible Sphinx. ![]() Citizens are dying from plague, crops fail, women are dying in childbirth and their babies are stillborn. At the start of the play, the city of Thebes is suffering terribly. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Restoration London by Liza Picard![]() ![]() Liza Picard is looking at her period from a clear 20th-century perspective. I would not like to have crossed accounts with her when she was with the Inland Revenue.Īll this gives the book a contemporary freshness. You want laundry methods? You want hospital waiting lists? Mirror glass? Planning regulations? Juries? Public transport? Lavatory systems? Parks? Pornography? Making a will? Cooking a pike? Ms Picard passes on none. There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pages. She has never written a book before, but what she lacks in experience she certainly makes up for in enthusiasm and virtuoso knowledge. Ms Picard is a 69-year-old barrister who worked for years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue. Put the three together, and you may have some idea of Liza Picard's Restoration London. ![]() Imagine a civil servant, Grade 5, mugging up on the period after the Great Fire for Mastermind. Imagine P D James deciding to set a thriller in the time of Charles II and assembling her background materials. Imagine Samuel Pepys re-incarnated as a 20th-century woman lawyer, and looking back at 17th-century London not as a diarist but as a social analyst. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Lost in math![]() ![]() ![]() The politicians are going to run with this and use it as ammunition against science. I can't believe she just painted the LHC as a waste of money. The experiments didn't reveal anything new,” I started freaking out a little bit. 5: Ideal Theories:… In which… I fly to Austin, let Steven Weinberg talk at me, and realize just how much we do to avoid boredom,” and the first part of the preface, “They were so sure, they bet billions on it… But where physicists expected a breakthrough, the ground wouldn't give. After using my superior research skills to locate and read the blurb, “A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science,” the table of contents, e.g., “Chap. I was approached about this book review late last summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a sarcastic, strong-willed teenager. Katniss Everdeen: The protagonist of the trilogy.The main characters from the trilogy are: In the second book of the trilogy-Catching Fire-, once again we follow the story of Katniss Everdeen, now 17 years old, who must deal with the fallout from her act of defiance during the ending of the Hunger Games. The book is told from the perspective of the female Tribute from District 12, Katniss Everdeen. These are a televised annual event in which the Capitol randomly selects a boy and a girl-known as tributes-between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the twelve districts that comprise Panem, pitting them against each other in a contest to the death from which only one may emerge victorious. In the first novel, the eponymous Hunger Games occur. The Hunger Games trilogy is series of young-adult dystopian novels written by American novelist Suzanne Collins, the first book bears the name of the trilogy, followed in order by “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay”. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Someone to Love by Kasey Michaels![]() Sadie Grace Hamilton shows up at the home of Viscount Nailbourne with his new ward, her niece Marley. But when her family's past catches up with her, she'll have to trust in Darby…no matter the cost to her heart. Navigating the ton, with its endless ball gowns and parade of parties, is difficult enough, but hiding the truth about her niece while the sophisticated viscount watches her every move proves nearly impossible-particularly when his searing gaze tempts her to bare all. Sadie Grace faced many trials working in her brother's surgery, but none prepared her for the world she's thrust into with his passing. Darby is quite sure that behind her lovely facade, the woman is guarding a secret. Worse, she comes with the most overprotective, mistrustful, bothersome chaperone-the child's aunt, Sadie Grace Boxer. Yet here she is on his doorstep-his late comrade's young daughter, and Darby's new ward. Darby Travers, Viscount Nailbourne, never imagines he'll have to honor it. ![]() It's the kind of vow often made on the battlefield. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Hollywood babylon by kenneth anger![]() In a sequence adapted from a chapter on the arch-rivalry between Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, Finch supplements Anger’s prose with a montage of audio clips of both women reciting tabloid news every bit as tawdry as Babylon’s tales. ![]() ![]() Finch cherry picks Babylon chapters and juxtaposes them with straight-to-camera interviews with Anger - surprisingly, as polite as a folded napkin in his 60s - to spin several origin stories. Most of the film is composed of reenactments, presided over by passages from the books spoken by a narrator fancifully established as D.W. But in its appetite for flourish and it’s lackadaisical pre–(and pre–post) internet eschewal of facts, Nigel Finch’s Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon captures something ineffable about the eponymous books and their author.Īs a way of getting to know the Crowleyite and his dual career, Finch’s focus on Hollywood Babylon kills two birds with one stone. ![]() As a documentary in the traditional sense, BBC Arena’s 1991 profile of Kenneth Anger fails from the first frame, when it becomes clear that footage of a tuxedoed Anger riding around Los Angeles in a hearse will be used as B-roll. ![]() |