Waywords StudioApr 2

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: "𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔: 𝑶𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 & 𝑰𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓" -

Why some of those shocking stories just . . . stay with us.

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#plottwist #shockending #surpriseending #turnaround #irony #phenomenology #reading #books #poems #thelottery #thestar #giftofthemagi #coffeebreak #thestoryofanhour #archaictorsoofapollo

MindTGapDec 15
"Shirley Jackson and Daemonic Patriarchy"
#BooksNCats
#ShirleyJackson
#TheDemonLover #TheLottery
#Misogyny #Witchcraft
#BooksAndCats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXqrs_z6XYY&list=TLPQMTUxMjIwMjRcBmmSOa0Ylg&index=4&ab_channel=Books%27n%27Cats
Shirley Jackson and Daemonic Patriarchy

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Andrew ShieldsNov 13
The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments. #111Words #TheTrolleyProblem #PhilippaFoot #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ThoughtExperiments #Allegory #AlbertEinstein #ErwinSchrödinger #TheGoodPlace #Literature #Philosophy #Physics #Television https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-trolley-problem-shirley-jacksons.html
The trolley problem, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, the television series “The Good Place”, and allegory and literature as thought experiments

This morning, on my way to teaching a session on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948), I passed a classroom where I spotted a slide from a...

Andrew ShieldsJun 28, 2024

I forgot to repost this yesterday on the day that Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place.

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ShortStory #Literature

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-day-when-shirley-jacksons-lottery.html

The day when Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place

Today is the day when Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" (1948) takes place, with its bucolic opening sentence: "The morning of Jun...

Mother Suspiria Jun 26, 2024

Today, in 1948, The New Yorker published a short story:

#ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #horror @bookstodon @horrorbooks

TootsThroughTheAgesJun 26, 2024

"Just published my latest short story in The New Yorker... can't believe the reactions it's getting! 😱 #TheLottery #Controversy" - Shirley Jackson

Jun 26, 1948 - Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson

Shirley Jackson - Wikipedia

Simon and/or GarfunkelMar 26, 2024

Current consumption of media…

#Audiobook : Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

#Book: 100 years of the best American short stories - Kindle

I was reading 1984 : The graphic novel and The Lottery & other stories by Shirley Jackson but I had to return them to the library.

#Podcast: OffMenu - always

#Album: Fleetwood Mac’s Kiln House on vinyl.

#media #thelottery #julesverne #shortstories #offmenu #fleetwoodmac #vinyl

I Voted for McGovernFeb 17, 2024
What if the core, essential, actual cause of global warming and climate change was our crossing the 2 billion population mark some years back? Cuz that's it I'm pretty sure
#ThomasMalthus
#theLottery
Andrew ShieldsDec 4, 2023
“To take the world back into caves”: A metaphor from a fossil-fuel executive and from Old Man Warner in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. #111Words #SultanAlJaber #COP28 #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #LivingInCaves https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/12/to-take-world-back-into-caves-metaphor.html
“To take the world back into caves”: A metaphor from a fossil-fuel executive and from Old Man Warner in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery"

Sultan Al Jaber, the President of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, challenged former Irish President Mar...

Andrew ShieldsNov 25, 2023
The “first people” in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948). #111Words #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #ShortStories #FirstPeople #Settlers #Violence https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-first-people-in-shirley-jacksons.html
The “first people” in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948)

In Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" (1948), the box for the lottery is not the original: "There was a story that the present box had been mad...