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This continues to be a rare read and I wonder what it must take to concoct this text itself about such things, a text as ripe as the things it contains?
I recently discovered that almost every address of my living quarters and my studios over the years have had the number seven in them - not only that, but one, zero and seven: Make time for friends, lovers, family. Due to both my own circumstances of reading-time and this work finally grabbing me today without letting go, I have now finished it what I have just read today probably being longer than the first four readings put together. Could each of these seven women be representative of the seven stories? The Ancient One would remain the book's owner, despite a brief loss when the dark wizard Kaluu returned the Book to the Griffin, until he deemed his student, Doctor Strange, worthy of taking it.
Makes me also over-think the nature of the freehold author, let alone the leasehold narrator who imparts such matters. A body douched and prodded and picked over and blooded towards ghostliness or witchcraft? But what or who is the Thing that Lady M has imported? We are still steered clear of omniscience, it seems. And still no quote marks to differentiate speech. O oodles of doggy blood! I am not sure whether the hints as to the nature of Orgorp are as a result of Caroline being an unreliable narrator or Rebecca an unreliable author.
All I can say is that this work, so far, is scatologically entertaining and sexually-politically intriguing and gratuitously funny. I wonder whether the scatology is due to morph into eschatology? That would be the icing on my literary-critical cake. I suspect my quirky or glitchy Kindle version of this book is making the text even stranger or more stylistically eclectic than was intended!
Due to both my own circumstances of reading-time and this work finally grabbing me today without letting go, I have now finished it what I have just read today probably being longer than the first four readings put together. I have a feeling that the creeping omniscience that now ensues via the narration of Caroline is bordered with suspicions of madness, dream and deliberate self-seeking lies on her part, perhaps to protect her creator, the freehold author. Writing this within a Daniel Defoe scenario? A contemporary of Samuel Richardson, I recall. Factored into a Restoration Comedy ambiance, with patches and powders and other cosmetic devices of the era, and Comic opera scenarios of lovers not knowing with whom they canoodle in the darkness!
It is that accretion of such patches and rouge and layers of identity-blocker etc. A disturbing, literary, darkly slapstick game of words that enthralled me. Unique and unmissable, I suggest.
Seven Strange Years Real Letters. Strange Stories. Only the names have been changed to project the Guilty Waking up in the hospital to find wires snapped to. Tags: Rebecca Lloyd, seven strange stories, tartarus press novelette is not a million years away from that of Pamela's eponymous novel. Nor that Pamela also wrote letters home to her parents about Lord B and I never . a palimpsest of induced or real haunted horror between the s and s.
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Yes No Report this. Audible Download Audio Books. Jack Parsons 10 episodes, Susan Parsons 10 episodes, Richard Onsted 10 episodes, Alfred Miller 10 episodes, Ernest Donovan 10 episodes, Professor Filip Mesulam 8 episodes, Virgil Byrne 8 episodes, Samson Hunt 7 episodes, Gui Chang 7 episodes, Professor John Tillman 7 episodes, Joan 6 episodes, General Braxton 6 episodes, Marisol 5 episodes, Patty Byrne 5 episodes, Or that the thirst for adventure that took many to the Wild West was directed outward, to the skies, as cities grew.
Dig deep enough in the western United States, and you have a decent chance of finding a fossil. From ichthyosaurs in Nevada to an apatosaurus in Colorado , relics from earlier epochs dot the West. The creature two cowboys claimed to have bagged near Tombstone, Arizona in April was reportedly very much alive before they met it. After a chase, they shot the bird down, and reported that it was about 92 feet long and and feet from wingtip to wingtip. The head, as near as they could judge, was about eight feet long, the jaws being thickly set with strong, sharp teeth.
A photo of the supposed thunderbird, which resembled a prehistoric pterodactyl, was also taken.
The story was likely a hoax, and the photo was almost certainly fake. While there are claims the photo was printed with the original article, it was not; the first mention of it appears in If not for the Civil War and a Washington lobbying group, the Wild West might have been populated by camelboys instead of cowboys. When Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a Texan war veteran, saw how poorly horses fared in the deserts of the Southwest, he suggested importing camels.
It was in that the idea first took off, under then-Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Two years later, the U. But with the Civil War looming on the horizon, U. Congress was not inclined to pay for still more camels. Mule breeders fought the idea, too. And when the fighting broke out, Confederate forces captured the Texas herd and let most of the camels loose. The camels really were exceptionally suited to the desert. And most cowboys had never seen the beasts, meaning that as they roamed Arizona and New Mexico until the late s, they spawned a lot of strange tales.
Take, for example, the Red Ghost. Settlers described it as a terrifying beast with some terrifying rider strapped to its back. According to a Smithsonian article, legend said the ghost took down a bear and could disappear into thin air.
But when the Red Ghost was finally caught, it was not by a hardy cowhand who tracked it through the desert, but by a rancher who shot the beast in his tomato patch. All of the camels were eventually captured or killed, and the last feral camel, Topsy, died in a Los Angeles zoo in There are whole lists of these spots located throughout the United States, but especially in the Old West.
The most famous of these is probably the Lost Dutchman Mine. But he died before he could tell any of them the precise location. Since then, the mine has become legendary. People spend their vacations searching for the Lost Dutchman.