6/30/2023 0 Comments Chouette claire oshetsky![]() ![]() Even in those times when Chouette’s behaviors grow violent and strange, Tiny’s loving commitment to her daughter is unwavering. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic self. “This baby is an owl-baby.”When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, Tiny works around the clock to meet her daughter’s needs. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she warns him. "Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." -Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Shell game by ridley pearson![]() ![]() ![]() As one of them states, they are like a group of rulers which are all either 12 or 13 inches long, so they have no basis for comparison. After much internal dispute, and sometimes violent conflict, at the end of the story the survivors of the infighting are still unsure whether they are paranoid or victims of a plot. Even when they discover this evidence of the truth and attempt to verify or disprove the information on the ship's tapes, they construct sophisticated explanations of why the attacks are real despite contrary evidence. They discover the damaged ship in a bog, and from recorded tapes they learn of their condition and the circumstances of the shipwreck. ![]() ![]() It was published in Galaxy Science Fiction in September 1954 Plot summary Ī group of paranoid mental patients, long stranded on an alien planet by the shipwreck of the robot-controlled hospital spaceship transporting them to a mental hospital, believe themselves to be constantly under attack by aliens or other humans. It was submitted to the Scott Meredith Literary Agency and received by SMLA on December 12, 1953. " Shell Game" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. "Shell Game" was originally published in the September 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was only concerned that they may have brought danger to him and the family. He didn’t care necessarily that they acted rashly and without mercy. In Genesis 34:30-31, we see Jacob is only concerned with how his sons' actions would affect him. Jacob played no part in this until after his sons committed this crime. They killed all the men, took back Dinah, and took the wealth, women, and children of the city. ![]() And then while all the men were recovering, Simeon and Levi attacked the city brutally. They convinced their sister’s rapist that all the men of the city should be circumcised as part of the deal. Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, were the ones who negotiated. Dinah’s brothers, specifically Simeon and Levi, were not happy about this request.Įven during this conversation, Jacob had nothing to say. They also tried to sweeten the deal by saying that the two clans could intermarry and share their wealth. This may be a custom that is hard for us to understand now. Whereas in Genesis 34:7, Dinah’s brothers’ immediate reaction was rage.ĭinah’s rapist and his father came to Jacob asking for Dinah’s hand in marriage. In Genesis 34:5, when Jacob first found out about his daughter’s rape, he did nothing. He also failed to guide and control his sons. Jacob failed to protect and defend his daughter. God had commanded Jacob to live in his native land, not camp outside of a city. He was not living where he was supposed to, or per God’s commands. Jacob and his family were living outside of the city of Shechem. ![]() ![]() The contributors present a wide range of Black-German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of "race" were far more differentiated. ![]() ![]() This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. ![]() The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature-not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. ![]() |