To recollect your memory is to exhume your cold corpse from a marble mausoleum and recite Vespers over the echo of your once beating heart. Oh‚ your beating heart. On evenings that were too cold or too windy for comfort‚ I would rest my head on the nape of your neck and embrace your body with my trembling arms. My palm would find your chest and the seismic resonance of your heart would give me that relieving reminder that you were indeed real. There was never a day where you could not satisfy my
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The roles the villains/ nemesis play within the Bond novels isn’t unique per say‚ but without them‚ there would definitely be no Bond novels. Each villain Bond faces shapes who Bond is as a character. They test Bond’s limits and they provide him with the tools to make himself look good within the novel and films. Every good guy has a bad guy to fight type situation is what we see in the Bond novels. Though Bond is tortured and put to the test by these villains‚ he always comes out on top. The villain
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Advent The liturgical year begins with Evening Prayer I (traditionally called First Vespers) of the First Sunday of Advent. The season of Advent continues through the four Sundays of Advent and ends at Christmas Eve. Advent is a time of preparation‚ through fasting and prayer‚ for Christmas. Even though Christ was actually born over 2000 years ago‚ during Advent we prepare our hearts to “receive” Jesus into the world each year as a light to the nations‚ at a time when our calendar is reaching
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Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer‚ gambist‚ singer and Roman Catholic priest. Monteverdi’s work‚ often regarded as revolutionary‚ marked the change from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two styles of composition – the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest operas‚ L’Orfeo‚ a novel work that is the earliest
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Most of what we consider to be today’s modern myths are timeless superheroes that have been preserved and elevated to this status by comic books‚ television shows‚ and movies. One modern character who has achieved this title‚ partly due to this same timelessness and seeming immortality‚ is Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Fleming created the character of Bond in 1953‚ when he released his first novel entitled Casino Royale. Critical acclaim for the novels led Fleming to partner with EON productions to film
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Post colonialism and Orientalism Post = After Colonialism = the process of one country inhabiting another usually instilling their norms and values into that society Media Edward said – American-Palestinian Western media representations often contain a legacy of colonialism Colonial ideology - Superiority - Racial prejudice - Civilized Edward Said On Orientalism: ‘Orientalism has some perspectives of Marxism‚ because Marxism argues that we have a small minority of power
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each side‚ the tidy appearance of the small‚ unpainted frame house entices us to enter. Up the steps and onto the porch‚ we can’t help but notice a high-backed rocker on one side and a bench worn smooth by age on the other. Both remind us of the many vesper hours spent here in the absence of modern-day entertainment. Turning the door knob and entering the parlor is like taking a step back in time. There is no lock on the door and no curtains on the windows‚ only shades yellowed with age‚ to be pulled
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Skarbek was a heroine of World War 2. Using a false name she risked death on multiple occasions in support of Britain’s military intelligence and campaign. Ian Fleming openly stated that in his first James Bond book‚ (Casino Royale) the character Vesper Lynd‚ who was the iconic and original Bond girl‚ was inspired by Skarbek. Before her famous exploits she tried a role in politics but was turned down‚ and after tensions rose between nations and World War 2 was on the approach she registered for the
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The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert - N... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/arts/music/fall-arts-previe... http://nyti.ms/1pL6z8F MUSIC Aural Journey Into the Spiritual The White Light Festival Seeks the Cosmic in the Concert By ANTHONY TOMMASINI SEPT. 3‚ 2014 Jane Moss‚ the artistic director of Lincoln Center‚ took a lot of kidding‚ even some carping‚ from concertgoers and critics when she inaugurated the White Light Festival in 2010. The lofty goal of
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THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1775-1825) The Baroque period culminated in the masterpieces of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. In the middle of the eighteenth century‚ contemporaneous with the mature years of Bach and Handel‚ a new musical style developed that is known as Rococo or preclassical style. This style is most evident in keyboard and orchestral music‚ but it is mentioned here because it represented a transition from the Baroque to the Classical era‚ occurring between 1725 and 1770. In the world of painting
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