![]() ![]() while the sands of life shall run.Īnd fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare you well, my only love!Īnd fare thee weel a while! And fare you well, awhile!Īnd I will come again, my luve, And I will come again, my love, till all the seas run dry.Īnd the rocks melt wi' the sun and the rocks melt with the sun!Īnd I will luve thee still, my dear, And I will love you still, my dear, ![]() So deep in luve am I and so deep in love am I,Īnd I will luve thee still, my dear, that I will love you still, my dear, Oh my luve is like the melodie and my love is like the melody When asked to name the source of his greatest creative inspiration, Bob Dylan selected "A Red, Red Rose" (#7) There's Nought But Care (“Green grow the rashes, O”) Subjective, so if you disagree please feel free to create your own. ![]() My list of the ten best poems by Robert Burns is highly Robert Burns: Best Poems, Songs, Quotes and Epigrams The HyperTexts ![]()
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![]() ![]() In an attempt to lay the soul to rest, the villagers built a large building around the tomb, and to be doubly sure a huge slab was placed at the entrance so nothing – neither a devil nor a hound – could escape. If the pack were not out hunting, they could be found running around his grave howling and shrieking. From that night on, he could be found leading the phantom pack across the moor, usually on the anniversary of his death. On 5 July 1677, he died and the night of his interment people saw a phantom pack of hounds come baying across the moor to howl at his tomb. There was also a rumour that he had murdered his wife. That reputation was gained for, amongst other things, immorality and having sold his soul to the Devil (I do hope Devil paid him well). He lived mainly for hunting and was what in those days was described as a ‘monstrously evil man’. Richard Cabell could be called only a barbarian and a rogue. ![]() He told Doyle the legend of Richard Cabell which became the fundamental inspiration for the Baskerville tale of a hellish hound and a cursed country squire. ![]() Still what friends are for? Doyle was lucky to meet and befriend Bertram Fletcher Robinson, a 30-year-old journalist working for Daily Express and that man proved to be simply godsend. ![]() ![]() ![]() His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. ![]() With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.Īs an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. ![]() He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly a year later, his drunken promise returns to haunt him. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be the greatest asset to the West since perestroika began, and made a promise. John le Carré's first post-glasnost spy novel, The Russia House captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary people and on the shadowy puppet-masters who command them.īarley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest. ![]()
![]() It is the most comprehensive history of that time. With Embers of War, he has written an even more impressive book about the French conflict in Vietnam and the beginning of the American one. Eye-opening and compulsively readable, Embers of War is a gripping, heralded work that illuminates the hidden history of the French and American experiences in Vietnam. Fredrik Logevall’s excellent book Choosing War (1999) chronicled the American escalation of the Vietnam War in the early 1960s. An epic story of wasted opportunities and deadly miscalculations, Embers of War delves deep into the historical record to provide hard answers to the unanswered questions surrounding the demise of one Western power in Vietnam and the arrival of another. He brings to life the bloodiest battles of France’s final years in Indochina-and shows how, from an early point, a succession of American leaders made disastrous policy choices that put America on its own collision course with history. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall traces the path that led two Western nations to tragically lose their way in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam.
![]() ![]() ![]() In these spare, grubby environs (expertly arranged by production designer Ethan Tobman), every object, like Table and Toilet and Sink, is not just a functional item but a friend. They spend every waking minute together in the room - or Room, as they call it, Jack having no awareness that there might be others like it. Lensed in dingy, muted colors and tight, widescreen closeups that deliberately frustrate our sense of space, the film places us in extremely close quarters with Jack (Jacob Tremblay) and Ma (Larson), the only other person he’s ever seen or spoken to. The film, by contrast, has no recourse but to give us an immediate view of this enclosed space, though Abrahamson and his gifted cinematographer Danny Cohen do a fine job of keeping as much concealed as possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Lanza or a New Age/Alternative Medicine guru like Depak Chopra is not a particle physicist. I wish I had not written the review above, but I'll let it stand as mute warning to be careful of lay interpretations of science. That's what I said before reading extensively in physics and cosmology and before watching so many charlatans and the honest but misguided people duped by them try to sell Woo-Woo in place of solid science. "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science, but man needs both." The author's own words in the epilogue sum it up nicely. Rather, it is a fascinating mental adventure showing the ways the two schools of thought often developed in parallel and came to similar conclusions from very different beginning points. Nor is this book a deep exploration of Taoism or other Eastern Religious Philosophy. Don't look to Capra for a highly disciplined discourse on particle physics or the nature of cosmology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Director and screenwriter Kate Dolan (Catcalls) joins us for a conversation on updating the folkloric tale of the changeling and the connection to a more modern and scientific context of mental health, as well as the razor sharp examination of the mother / daughter relationship, while scaring the pants of viewers. When Halloween arrives, a night steeped in ancient myth and legend, Char realizes that she is the only one who can save her, even if it means potentially losing her forever. She might look and sound the same but Angela’s behavior has become increasingly frightening, as if she has been replaced by a malevolent force. When she returns home without explanation the following evening, it becomes clear to Char (Hazel Doupe) and her grandmother, Rita (Ingrid Craigie), that something is amiss. YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER picks up it’s harrowing tale the week before Halloween and Char’s mother, Angela (Carolyn Branken), has inexplicably disappeared. ![]() |