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Disneys Version Of Classic Books

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:03:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Not many people like to read anymore, so Walt Disney found a very lucrative way and made some classics into best-sellers. On this site are some hilarious examples of how a classic would look Disney-style.

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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Inferno by Dante Aligheri

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Misanthrope's Alphabet

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:55:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Literature, hunger, dark and sarcastic. I found this link via Ulysses on google books.

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Seventy-one years ago, in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes defense attorney Clarence Darrow put prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan on the stand and proceeded to thoroughly discredit creationism as the preserve of flat-worlders, the Catholic Church, and idiots generally.

Of course, Scopes (and Darrow) lost the case, and so sanity is doomed. Recently, Creationism has risen again amongst the fundamentalist Right, demonstrating that these Bible -thumping mongoloids, the predictably degenerated grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the members of the Dayton School Board, shouldn't be allowed near science, let alone politics (or for that matter, heavy machinery and sharp objects).

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History of Writing

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:12:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A detailed history of writing.

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The Evolution of Writing

Although its origins are more distant and obscure, our writing may be said to start with the Greek alphabet from which the Roman letters that make up the alphabet used in the west today derive. The Greek scripts read from right to left and left to right alternately.

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The development of written letters begins with Roman square capitals. The early scripts were written on vellum with an edged reed or quill nib held nearly parallel to the base line; they tried to copy the characteristics of letters incised in stone.

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In the Roman square capitals of the 4th century, the characters were somewhat simplified. The desire to write faster made itself felt.

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The quickly written letters of the minuscule-cursive took regular and proportioned shape as Half-Uncials. They were written, as the Uncials, with a reed or quill pen held with a nib parallel to the base line. The style is mainly known to us from the ecclesiastical works of the early Christian scribes.

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Bizarre Literary Deaths

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:37:46 GMT

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Cut wrists, wrote a final poem in own blood (called "Do svidania drug moi" or "Goodbye my friend") and hanged self in a hotel room in Leningrad.
"Don't waken the dream that is dying/Don't stir the aim that has failed./Life brought me too early to trial;/The loss, the defeat—what availed?"

Jumped from a bridge over the Mississippi River; reputedly waved at passersby on way down.
"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Committed seppuku (hara-kiri) and was beheaded during failed attempt to overtake a Japanese garrison.
"If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile."

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