“Later”, King’s most recent release, follows a similar path to the one paved by its predecessors. While King has clearly mastered the art of creating terrifying villains, his ability to capture the fragility of childhood innocence is just as impressive. And in “The Institute”, an abducted team of supernatural outcasts comes to grips with a future in which the safety blanket of their parents’ guidance no longer exists. In “The Body”, a group of younglings trek through Maine looking for a dead body while discovering the challenges of growing older. In “It”, a band of misfits known as the 'Losers’ Club' fall victim to the malevolence of Pennywise, who robs the children of their sanity and, with it, their youth. Behind the murdering clowns, lost corpses, and sadistic scientists, many of Stephen King’s classics zero in on the universality of lost innocence: the transition we undergo from child to adult, when our protective bubble of blissful ignorance disappears and the harsh realities of the outside world come creeping in.
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (: Visual Editions, 2011, c2010). The publisher Visual Editions writes “Making Jonathan Safran Foer’s vision a reality four years ago, with the help of the incredibly talented Sara De Bondt, not to mention the only printers in the world who would do it, Die Keure in Belgium, and Jon Gray’s cover design, has been a big emotional part of Visual Editions: a benchmark for how far we, through the collective creative power of ambition and can-do-ness, can push the boundaries of how we read and what a book as an object can be.” In a few weeks, Tree of Codes comes to New York City. In 2015, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes (2010) inspired Wayne McGregor’s Tree of Codes, performed by fifteen soloists and dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and Company, with music-scapes by JamieXX and visual-scapes by Olafur Eliasson. 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Although not the most traditional of sex symbols, zombies are truly coming into their own, even landing on the silver screen in romantic roles, not to mention ambling and shambling across the pages of novels and television screens. Although not the most traditional of sex symbols, zombies are truly coming into their own. Let’s face it: zombies are hot, and baby, they’re getting hotter. Lets face it: zombies are hot, and baby, theyre getting hotter. While Rossetti promoted her “ power of designing (and) fecundity of invention” her patron John Ruskin ranked her amongst “ geniuses” like Turner. However, she was already acknowledged as “ a real artist” by peers during her lifetime. Indeed, she became the first Pre-Raphaelite “stunner” by crafting the iconic look of the fair medieval maiden: Remembered through visual and textual depictions, the conflation of her image as a tragic muse has overshadowed her creative output. Pictures of her evoke a certain type of beauty, characterised by pale complexion, heavy-lidded eyes and abundant red hair. Elizabeth Siddal’s brief but nonetheless spectacular biography reads likes sensation fiction. “ Art was the only thing for which she felt very seriously” wrote Dante Gabriel Rossetti to poet Algernon Swinburne about his deceased wife. Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm, Tate Britain, London Lady Affixing a Pennant to a Knight’s Spear, 1856 Of course, “There is no objective truth” is itself a truth-statement. After all, we now live in what Pope Benedict XVI famously dubbed the “dictatorship of relativism,” where objective, universal truth is said not to exist. Such an argument might have worked then, one might say, but the objection “To hell with your standard” is exactly what the average person on the street might say today. And the other man very seldom replies: “To hell with your standard.”Īt this point, a twenty-first-century reader might note that Mere Christianity was derived from a series of BBC radio talks that Lewis gave between 19. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which he expects the other man to know about. What interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man’s behavior does not happen to please him. Lewis begins with a seemingly off-topic statement: “Everyone has heard people quarreling.” He gives examples of things people say when they feel they have been mistreated: “How’d you like it if anyone did the same to you?” or “Come on, you promised.” Lewis notes: |