#NowWatching “Harlequin” (1980) on 4K UHD Blu-Ray from Indicator Films
Get it: https://amzn.to/49C0YMP
Directed by Simon Wincer
Starring Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan
An enigmatic faith healer - who appears to possess genuine magical powers - and a political fixer vie for influence over a senator and his family.
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Many of George MacDonald’s works are available for download via @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/127
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RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD
Contexts & Contemporaries
16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age—also online via Project MUSE
5/5
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/rethinking_george_macdonald/
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Beautiful Terrors
“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream.”
—David Melville on George MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work of fiction
4/5
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/beautiful-terrors-george-macdonald-and-lilith/
A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. –George MacDonald, ‘The Fantastic Imagination’1 In the 1871 children’s fantasy At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald’s boy hero Diamond is asked what he thinks of a story. He replies, without hesitation, that “any story […]
Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet
“Both SIR GIBBIE and HUCKLEBERRY FINN explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] and they have at least twenty plot elements in common.”
—Kathryn Lindskoog explores the connections between the works of George MacDonald & Mark Twain.
3/5
https://www.discovery.org/a/853/
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“If we think about how women are portrayed in [MacDonald’s] fiction, we can see that women are shown to, repeatedly, rescue men. Men are taught by women, challenged by women, and also challenged to think about women in different ways.”
—An interview with Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson on George MacDonald’s life & work.
2/5
https://www.radixmagazine.com/2021/11/09/interview-with-kirstin-jeffrey-johnson/
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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern fantasy literature, he was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others
🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)
🧵 1/5
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3082
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Tanya Huff (1957-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?797
L, Jody A. Lee, 1994; R, Richard Hescox, 1990
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Exploring Unrealistic Sex Toys: The Allure of Fantastical Pleasure https://maramenoci.com/exploring-unrealistic-sex-toys-the-allure-of-fantastical-pleasure/
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It is a popular thing to watch the local news reports for word of a truck losing a fight with some bridge or another, and having to be towed away.
Some more observant people will notice that such low-hanging structures are, to turn a phrase, uncommonly common. And that no matter what protections are put in place, vehicles will still get stuck.
What only a very few people notice is that almost every city will have at least one such structure. And if it is modified or removed, some other structure will be built to take its place.
The reason for this ties into the reason trucks will always get stuck there.
You see it is not trolls that live under bridges, but sirens. A siren's call cannot be denied, hence the accidents. And the new construction, for if a siren loses her home, she will enchant some architect into building a new one.
What do the sirens get out of the crashes? The sound. They are creatures of sound, and the sound of crashing metal feeds them.
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Mr. Woolf 🇺🇦
Assoc for Scottish Literature
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