![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Morse’s reconnection with his faith has helped him navigate his impressive acting career, including parts in blockbuster movies like THE GREEN MILE, CONTACT and THE ROCK. His sudden experiences of longing, what he called joy, were something I recognized in my own life.” ‘Surprised by Joy’ is his account of moving from being an atheist to someone who believes. “I had read Lewis’ Narnia books and loved his writing. “I read around the same time I read ‘Crime and Punishment,” Morse continued. “His story about his own struggles with faith helped me through a particularly turbulent time. Lewis’s ‘Surprised by Joy,’” the actor said. So, what brought the HURT LOCKER actor back to his faith? “My consciousness was changing and I had a fury at institutions.” But when I first came to New York, in 1977, I was very much at odds with faith and the church,” the actor shared. “I was confirmed in the Episcopal church in my teens. Lewis story changed his life and brought him back to his faith during a “turbulent time” in his life. ![]() Lewis Story That Helped Him Through a ‘Turbulent Time’Īctor David Morse recently revealed which C.S. ![]()
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![]() As a boy, Waltari witnessed the Finnish Civil War, during which his White-sided family fled to the home of his mother's aunt at Laukkoski in Pornainen, near Porvoo, which was relatively peaceful and where the Whites were predominant. At the age of five Mika Waltari suddenly lost his father to illness on 5 July 1914, and the 25-year old Olga Waltari was left, with crucial help from Toimi's brother Toivo, to support her three children: Samuli (7 years), Mika (5 years) and Erkki (6 months). A scandal caused by their relationship had forced them to move to Tampere and the two married on 18 November 1906. His parents were Toimi Waltari and Olga Johansson Toimi was a Lutheran pastor once, teaching religion in Porvoo, and Olga one of his pupils. ![]() ![]() Waltari was born in Helsinki on 19 September 1908. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho. ![]() Mika Toimi Waltari ( pronounced ( listen) 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian ( Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen). ![]() ![]() ![]() Highly-rational fiction could include one or more of the following features:įocus on intelligent characters solving problems through creative applications of their knowledge and resources.Įxamination of goals and motives: the story makes reasons behind characters' decisions clear. In highly-rational fiction, realistic intellectual agency is put above established literary tropes, and all other aspects of the narrative. It describes the extent to which the work explores thoughtful behaviour of people in honest pursuit of their goals, as well as consequences of their behaviour on the fictional world or the story's plot. "Rationality" is a specific quality of any fictional work, independent of genres and settings. A general description of the genre and a listing of major works can be found on the TVTropes page or our excellent wiki. ![]() ![]() A subreddit dedicated to the discussion of works of rational and rationalist fiction. ![]() ![]() How exactly they managed such a revolution is not explained, as Pet is in setting more parable than futurefic. ![]() Lucille used to be like our world, with lots of suffering caused by not caring about each other, but Lucille had a revolution in the last generation and got rid of all that stuff. There’s a fundamental belief that everyone is trying their best and deserves the benefit of the doubt on that account.īut, okay! What’s the book about? Pet is set in a community called Lucille that has solved all of its problems. When I say that Pet is a kind read, I mean that its author is kind to its characters, and its characters are kind to each other. Admittedly it’s dealing with a really hard issue - child sexual abuse - but it does so with such hope and tenderness. Imagine my surprise when Pet is the gentlest of reads. Because Freshwater was like, a really hard read in places. But still, when I saw the announcement that Emezi would be releasing a YA novel, I was like, REALLY. ![]() Freshwater was one of my best reads of 2018 - the writing was brutal and gorgeous, and I felt elated to be reading the debut of an author of Emezi’s talent, and to know that they had a whole writing career ahead of them and I would get to read all those books. ![]() Hands up everyone who read Freshwater and thought “When will Emezi grace us with a YA novel? That is clearly their metier.” Because I freely admit that I was not among your number. ![]() ![]() And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize that the crime wave will become even deadlier unless they can catch the culprit soon. ![]() When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist's patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets-or motives for murder. Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. Who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions? Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage-magician-turned-part-time-sleuth Joseph Spector. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. ![]() A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() M圜omicShop is not responsible for these items in any way. Welcome to Neo-Gotham and the world of Beyond the White Knight! 32 pages, full color. ![]() Enter Jason Todd…the first Robin?! In this thrilling sequel to the blockbuster comic book hits Batman: White Knight and Batman: Curse of the White Knight, writer/artist Sean Murphy invites the audience to go beyond the Gotham they know to discover an engrossing new take on the city and its heroes. Its time to destroy the mantle for good, but hell need one of his forgotten sons help to do so. Crime is down, but at what cost? A new Batman has emerged in Powerss city, and only Bruce is fully aware of the dangers to come. ![]() Gotham Motors CEO Derek Powers has seized control of the Wayne familys assets and is using them to transform the GTO and the city theyve sworn to protect. ![]() Bruce Wayne, may be behind bars, but the real criminals are still out there. A lot can change in 10 years, especially in Gotham! Batman, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() For example, if we improved the fuel efficiency of our cars by just 3 mpg, which could be very easily done, we would not have to import any oil from the Persian Gulf. ![]() ![]() To use a popular phrase, Bateson taught us how to connect the dots, and this is critical today not only in science but also in politics and civic life, as most of our political and corporate leaders show a striking inability to connect the dots. As we replace the Newtonian metaphor of the world as a machine by the metaphor of the network, and as complexity becomes a principal focus in science, the kind of systemic thinking that Bateson advocated is becoming crucial. But perhaps even more important is the fact that he championed a new way of thinking, which is extremely relevant to our time - thinking in terms of relationships, connections, patterns, and context. He made significant contributions to several sciences - anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and, most important of all, to the new interdisciplinary field of cognitive science, which he pioneered. ![]() ![]() He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. ![]() In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow,and an ability to savor and reverse-engineer the good prose of others. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. ![]() " A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we all know how often adaptations of written science fiction go badly wrong, so it's almost literally a miracle that "Arrival" turned out so well. While it differs from my story in significant ways, it captures the emotional core of the story, which is all I wanted from an adaptation. : Can you talk about seeing "Story of Your Life," from your previous collection, brought to screen as the alien first-contact story "Arrival"? What did you think?Ĭhiang: I was very happy with "Arrival" I think it works well both as a film on its own terms, and as an adaptation of my story. Another new story in the collection, "Omphalos," was inspired in part by thinking about the Copernican principle of cosmology. ![]() : What elements of astronomy and space science have inspired you most in your stories?Ĭhiang: My story "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" was inspired by Kip Thorne's work on applying time dilation to wormholes, which I found absolutely fascinating. I also have a friend who's a professor and is looking forward to having "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" back in print so she can put it on her syllabus. ![]() In terms of reprints, I've been told by some readers that they're most excited about the renewed availability of "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," because copies of the limited edition of that story usually go for over $100 online. Ted Chiang: There are two stories appearing in the collection for the first time, and I'm excited about that. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just ask Lady Gaga-zing! My point is that poets have had a really hard time overcoming the poets who came before them. How do you compete? Do you do basketball and ditch school to differentiate yourself? My conclusion: poets have to get past the (sometimes overwhelming) influence of their poet ancestors and formulate an original vision or they just won't, er, make the team. ![]() It's like having a really smart big brother who's also on the football team. (Can we take a second to reflect on how cool that is?) Anxiety of Influence refers to the tough relationship poets have with the poets that poeted before them. So this is the name of my most famous book, but it was such a big deal that the title actually became a term used in literary studies. As readers, we must have faith in the sovereign soul. Literature cannot (and should not) be reduced to politics and ideology. Sure, Lear's daughters are brats, but does that mean we have to do a feminist reading of Goneril's bad attitude? I say nay. To me, aesthetics are the beauty of a literary work-forget about making a big deal about its moral or political message.Take King Lear, for example. ![]() Aestheticsįor a lot of literary critics, "aesthetics" is a nasty word. But in all fairness, there are a few expressions that come up pretty consistently in my work, so let's define them. Those kinds of clever little catch phrases like "diversity awareness" and "multiculturalism" actually make my ears bleed. Listen up, peeps: I'm not into buzzwords. ![]() |