Author: Michael Cisco Publisher: ISBN: 9781614981664 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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"Reading "The Wretch of the Sun" is akin to a ghost looking at its reflection in a mirror in a haunted house and finding nothing there, or too much there. An out-of-control freight train going from this world to the other and back whiteout / without knowing where it will stop, if ever."--Harry O. Morris A haunted house is a house with its own story. A ghost is someone about whom stories are told, who is unable to tell his or her own story. Death can be understood as the inability to tell one's own story; whether that death is literal is another question. Ghosts exist in imagination, which is real. A story, to be a told story, needs a listener or reader. Ghosts, as I have been saying, appear to need someone to whom to appear. So we discover the story of the suicides, and we solve the riddle alongside the narrating busy body of the story, and bury the bones together in one grave; the disturbances cease. But a house once haunted will always be haunted; it isn't the disturbance but the story that haunts it. The haunted house draws attention to the secret it keeps like a master who teases his pupils with unanswerable riddles. Or like secret police, who can't be entirely effective if they are entirely secret. These aren't questions that contain their own answers, like math problems. I do not have the answer any more than you do, because the answer isn't in the question, the answer is to leave behind the idea that a question is a door that an answer pulls finally shut. Once we've dutifully recited to the last syllable every thing we know, we are chastened or even taken aback by the paltry incommensurability of what we've just said with the haunted wealth that extends within and without us in all directions. At that moment, the suggestive ambivalence of a story will have to seem truer than the abbreviation of a hollow answer. "Michael Cisco's works are indispensable to contemporary fantastic literature. They not only elevate this genre, they hover above it."--Thomas Ligotti "Michael Cisco is of a different kind and league from almost anyone writing today."--China Mieville
Author: Tanith Lee Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0575120444 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 158
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It's jang to be wild and sexy and reckless and teen-age. It's jang to do daredevil tricks and even get killed a few times...you could always come alive again. It's jang to change your body, to switch your sex, to do anything you want to keep up with the crowd. But there comes a time when you begin to think about serious things, to want to do something valid. And that's when you find out there are rules beyond the rules and that the world is something else than all they'd taught you.
Author: Frantz Fanon Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802198856 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Author: Jules Witcover Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801882470 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 386
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"Wherever politics has been happening in the past half-century, Jules Witcover has been on the scene -- watching, interviewing, reporting." -- David S. Broder, The Washington Post
Author: Satya Narayana Sarma Rupenaguntla Publisher: Panchawati Spiritual Foundation ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 74
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Maha Souram is one of the best hymns of Rig Veda. Sixty five select mantras from sixteen hymns scattered across Rig Veda are known as Maha Souram. These mantras were the visions of thirteen Vedic seers. Millions of Indians have been reciting these hymn since times immemorial, deriving immense benefits of body, mind and soul. There are many commentaries on this hymn by the learned. With my limited experience, I have made a humble attempt in explaining the esoteric meanings of this celebrated hymn. Proving that Sun worship is nothing but worshiping the One God, I have explained in this book the esoteric meanings of these mantras, focusing on Vendanta, Yoga and Tantra
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