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The SFFaudio Podcast #318 – READALONG: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
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The SFFaudio Podcast #318 – Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, Bryan Alexander, and Fred Himebaugh talk about The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Talked about on today's show:
1915, Blackwood's Magazine, a propaganda novel, the propaganda ministry, pro-empire, Buchan's later job, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, the Orson Welles adaptation, Mercury Theater, Welles' propaganda pieces, Nazis invading Canada (Nazi Eyes On Canada), ultima thule, if Operation Sea Lion had worked…, Nazis in Antarctica, Kerguelen Islands, Isle de Crozet, the coolest island ever, Jules Verne, why does our hero go to Scotland?, veldcraft, Greenmantle, Richard Hannay, the comic, Brian thought it was a riot, a brisk read, elegant prose, the BBC Radio documentary on John Buchan, judging everything, "subjective", coincidences, sooo convienient, the human civilization, The Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers, another sneaky German plot, the Patrick O'Brian books, the invasion novel genre, mining British harbours, u-boats, a shocking incident, Scapa Flow, Winston Churchill, Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household is the WWII version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Constantine Karolides, war was inevitable, popular in the trenches?, Hannay eats well on the run, cliffhangers, Adrian Praetzelis, a semi-bald archaeologist, Jesse's dream theory, tired of London …. not enough exercise … lo and behold a murder plot… sleep and dream and wake, a Freudian sense of everything being really nearby, the climax became surreal, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?'s fake police station, how to deal with those in between, The Prisoner Of Zenda, "honestly this is impossible", boys own adventure, James Bond, Dracula, how do these things work in detail, I'm pretty good with disguise, a sign of good writing, villain to do lists, don't lock the hero in a room filled with explosives, act like you belong there, the roadman scenes, the milkman was a precedent, disguise as psychology, ridiculous of imposture, the speaker at the liberal candidates meetings scene, Australia or free-trade, Asquith, Liberals, free-trade within the empire, as satisfying as a mortician, the eloquence of an emigration agent, a ripping speech Twizden, Hammond, something that always changes is the meaning of the title, the Black Stone (Schwartz Stein), when you're Lord Tweedsmuir…, Jonathan Harker, ordinance survey maps, the corridors of power, having the power of the British Empire at your back, the reward, doubt about British command, yesterday 100 years ago, the Gallipoli campaign, unilateral disarmament, the secret pact, the French are hyper-competent, playing along, just go over the top, your reward is to go to the Western Front, Greenmantle is the direct sequel, the supremely confident at veldcraft, the Germans had found a Muslim prophet, Islam as a powder-keg, the Mesopotamian campaign, a very personal battle while armies clash, a secret history, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Duelists by Joseph Conrad, His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, The Red Panda Adventures by Gregg Taylor, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Captain Canuck, Declare by Tim Powers, Kim Philby, Brian's WWI kick, the Eastern front (Turkey vs. Russia), Duel For Kilimanjaro: Africa 1914-1918, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the opening antisemitism (an international banking conspiracy) is just a smokescreen, crazy conspiracy theories, you only believe the unbelievable tale, a wink to the audience, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The United States Of Paranoia by Jesse Walker, the "stab in the back theory", conspiracies, the Black Hand, seeing the novel in its context, period magazines, stepping into a time machine, having perspective, don't have secret treaties with France, a landward in Asia, The DaVinci Code, The Grove of Ashtaroth, the Canaanite goddess, Rhodesia, clearing of the land, a weird fiction version of colonialism, Buchan wrote 101 books, Witch Wood (BBC Radio drama), big in to Buchan, Huntingtower, Mr Standfast, The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot, Lovecraft's parody "Wastepaper", a pre-modern guy, unthinking ideas, a moral victory over the enemy, panache or élan, Memory Hold-the-Door by John Buchan, Canada's current Governor General (David Johnston), Hillary Clinton's autobiography, "chloroform in print", Mark Twain, Fred's novel is in beta (The Devil's Dictum), wait fifty years and read the Wikipedia entry, our assessment of things, Shakespeare was too sad or too gory, why teach Julius Caesar? because it has no sex, the Hugos blew up, Ancillary Justice, changing the markets, Bowdlerizing the past, The Tempest, classic science fiction info dump, Miranda is falling asleep, Mr Jim Moon's take on The Thirty-Nine Steps, the mystery run-around, the Jason Bourne films, stalking on-the-run travelogue format, Ian Fleming, Dennis Wheatley, a British form of pulp, adaptations, North By Northwest, the 2008 TV adaptation the u-boat in a loch, Alfred Hitchock, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ring, the lack of women, adding women, shoveling women into adaptations, it's all for Fred's mom, there's a gun in the pram, Hannay has an afro in the 1978 adaptation, the ministry of espionage, Mr Memory, the comics adaptation, a bridge to far, The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes, with access to itching powder…, expansive imagination, in the Twilight books the heroine is a complete cipher, WWI books, WWII books, Armed Forces Editions, the post war interest in H.P. Lovecraft, Jack Vance in the South Pacific.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #303 – READALONG: The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
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The SFFaudio Podcast #303 – Jesse and Paul Weimer talk about The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
Talked about on today's show:
1838, Poe's only completed novel, Paul's Poe years, The Tell-Tale Heart, a macabre sort of phase, Deus Irae by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, fix-ups, Premature Burial, Ms. Found In A Bottle, The Oblong Box, The Gold Bug, secret codes, Poe is old and public domain and not particularly racist, The Pit And The Pendulum, the Poe theme, the death of a beautiful woman is conspicuous by her absence, the meta-commentary, Tristram Shandy, The Cask Of Amontillado, a dog named Tyger (burning bright?), William Blake, Jules Verne, An Antarctic Mystery, Ms. Found In A Copper Cylinder, Antarctica, "Ms. Found In A…", "it was begun to have been serialized", fake stories as true stories, Captain Cook's Antarctic expeditions, "a labyrinth of lumber", how to load a ship, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Washington Irving, SF as a generally American phenomenon, a slow creep of fantastic elements, full-blown surrealism, the drinking, on the Grampus, dressing like a ghost, another phantom in white, "Mr. Pym is not available", a genuine narrative, missing islands, a metaphor for alcoholism, sailing in a storm, half-sunk/drunk, echoes, the plague ship, the Penguin, echoes, all these lies, a note from the Wikipedia entry, fictional analogues for real events, autobiographical drinking, The Lighthouse by Edgar Allan Poe (a fragment), "I expected to inherit some money", money problems, "he's pouring his troubles into this manuscript", this is Poe's version of Dude, Where's My Car?, an unreliable narrator, an excellent story, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, albatrosses, thematic similarities, they eat many birds, "an unmentionable thought", subsequent cannibalism, the same ghost ship as in Rime?, Antarctic spirits, H.P. Lovecraft, the subtitle:
Comprising the Details of Mutiny and Atrocious Butchery on Board the American Brig Grampus, on Her Way to the South Seas, in the Month of June, 1827. With an Account of the Recapture of the Vessel by the Survivers; Their Shipwreck and Subsequent Horrible Sufferings from Famine; Their Deliverance by Means of the British Schooner Jane Guy; the Brief Cruise of this Latter Vessel in the Atlantic Ocean; Her Capture, and the Massacre of Her Crew Among a Group of Islands in the Eighty-Fourth Parallel of Southern Latitude; Together with the Incredible Adventures and Discoveries Still Farther South to Which That Distressing Calamity Gave Rise.
who wrote the subtitle?, they didn't have the concept of spoilers, the opposite of a spoiler, The Savage Land (Marvel Universe), Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, a hollow earth theory, this is a Science Fiction book in a strange sense, what's with the multi-layered coloured water?, the strange creatures, the creature's corpse in the white waters, is Australia a place?, At The Mountains Of Madness, why Poe is not in outer space, basically these Antarctic people are aliens, this is very Stanley G. Weinbaum (A Martian Odyssey), Michael Moorcock's Seas Of Fate, H. Rider Haggard, duplicitous natives in the black land, what will be in the white lands?, a heavily read book (in the 19th century), The House Of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, when Lovecraft describes it…, haunted by the architecture of homes, Lovecraft's description of Pym:
"In the Narrative of A. Gordon Pym the voyagers reach first a strange south polar land of murderous savages where nothing is white and where vast rocky ravines have the form of titanic Egyptian letters spelling terrible primal arcana of earth; and thereafter a still more mysterious realm where everything is white, and where shrouded giants and snowy-plumed birds guard a cryptic cataract of mist which empties from immeasurable celestial heights into a torrid milky sea."
pouring into the hollow Earth?, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, At The Earth's Core, Kublah Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, leaving the ending open to the reader, how will he get back to Nantucket?, the names A. Gordon Pym and E. Allan Poe, framing devices, The Turn Of The Screw, a framing device gives the reader an extra distance, The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, Robert Silverberg's The Secret Sharer, the southern polar bear, "Tekeli-li, tekeli-li." the face of an open book, downy feathers, what does it mean?, whiteness, philological scrutiny, "white-phobic", the audiobook narration, copyright, a total Poe thing to do, Poe loved cryptography, Poe would be writing in Elvish, a font nerd, hanging out with Charles Stross and Alan Moore, can you imagine Poe at a Worldcon?, a drunkard's story, shoplifting at The Innsmouth Bookshop, Fungi From Yuggoth XV: Antarktos:
Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly
Of the black cone amid the polar waste;
Pushing above the ice-sheet lone and drearly,
By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced.
Hither no living earth-shapes take their courses,
And only pale auroras and faint suns
Glow on that pitted rock, whose primal sources
Are guessed at dimly by the Elder Ones.
If men should glimpse it, they would merely wonder
What tricky mound of Nature's build they spied;
But the bird told of vaster parts, that under
The mile-deep ice-shroud crouch and brood and bide.
God help the dreamer whose mad visions shew
Those dead eyes set in crystal gulfs below!
the black cone, the primal sources, Lovecraft quoting himself, that shrouded white figure, "Tekeli-li don't kill the albatross", Lemuria, Thule, the novel as a journey, how do you return from the surreal?, what happened to Tyger?, they ate him!, Dirk Peters (so manly he has two penises), Tyger's collar, someone was going to drown the dog, poor Tyger, a horrendously awful horrifying experience, when Paul Theroux visited Jorge Luis Borges he read him The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket, Borges thought Pym was Poe's greatest work, the interest in the meta, strange runes, Lovecraft was a teetotaler, deep into madness (not drunken madness), genetic disease or confronting reality, The Call of Cthulhu, dreams, a fever dream?, forgetting, a change in tenses, the missing two or three final chapters, Xeno's paradox, a Mercator map, and Greenland, is that all racism?, "a nautical negro", Toni Morrison, the black cook, don't go into a tiny box-canyon with natives of any colour, scrupulously honest, earlier bushwhacked voyagers, going piratical?, going whaling?, the mutiny, Mr. Starbuck, why is Pym stowing away in the first place?, the captain that ran them down was drunk, boating skills, Treasure Island, Augustus' father, the inexplicable weevils, "taking liberally from the spirits", this narrative is full of holes, a free sea voyage, Pym is a teenager, everybody has a boat on Nantucket, an adventure of a lifetime, Pym is "not available", Jeremiah N. Reynolds, Poe's last word was "Reynolds", a possibly apocryphal story, Mocha Dick, the long conversation of conversation of Science Fiction, Moby Dick is in dialogue with Pym and Mocha Dick, bibliographic archaeology, The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells, in a dinghy, considering cannibalism, drawing straws, "and dropped like stones", did their bones dropped likes stones?, the narrator becomes more and more unreliable, dis-masted, a teetotaler who drinks only coffee.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #292 – John Betancourt of Wildside Press
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The SFFaudio Podcast #292 –Jesse talks with John Betancourt, the publisher of Wildside Press, about copyright, the public domain, pulp magazines, author estates, comics, audiobooks, and ebooks.
Talked about on today's show:
the Pulpscans Yahoo! Group, how to do copyright renewal searches properly, the tools, The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin, Astounding Science Fiction, two ways stories can be protected by copyright, before 1963, publisher renewals, author renewals, renewals after 1950 are on copyright.gov, 1923-1950, a text file for magazine renewals, and a text file for author renewals, Weird Tales, 1920s to the 1950s, OCR failures, looking for something to not be there, a very heavy burden, pseudonyms, false renewals, erroneous renewals, the pre-internet days, the Philip K. Dick estate's copyright "pattern of abuse", revisions, the 36 public domain Philip K. Dick stories, "they never got it wrong the other way", a statistician could do something very interesting there, The Adjustment Bureau / Adjustment Team, the H.P. Lovecraft estate (if there is such a thing), the S.T. Joshi corrected texts, Home Brew (magazine) with Clark Ashton Smith, ebooks, paperbooks, and audiobooks, the Science Fiction Megapack, trademarking, licensing stories, horror, fantasy, golden age of science fiction, Lester del Rey, Westerns, length is not an issue in, Eando Binder, short stories in comics, Jack Binder, Captain Marvel, Whiz Comics, Captain Video, Tom Corbett, the Adam Link stories, Otto Binder, banned from Amazing Stories, "E" and "O", unattributed short stories in comics, Fawcett Comics, Westbrook Wilson, Richard Lupoff, the space patrol stories, Joseph J. Mallard, a Nazi saboteur lost in the north woods, a dodge for a cheaper rate, silver age comics drop text stories, early DC Comics, Night Of The Living Dead, Zulu, fanzines in the public domain, Ray Bradbury in the public domain, copyright notification is no longer required, USA copyright lifetime + 70 years, 1984 by George Orwell is public domain in Canada but not yet in the USA, Donald A. Wollheim, a quasi-legal loophole, The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien was briefly public domain in the USA, the scarcity of the Ace paperbacks of The Lord Of The Rings, the state of Ace doubles etc., unless it's work made for hire, children's books, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, copyright compilation renewals, Analog renews a magazine…, how would we know if an author asks for his or her rights back?, the Guy de Maupassant Megapack, a victim of availability, Jules Verne, translations, a recent obsession, a gold mine [metaphor], an estimated 85% of books and stories published before 1964 are in the public domain, reading the letters pages of Weird Tales, Robert Bloch, spotty renewals, Ray Bradbury changed the name of stories a lot, pulp magazine editors, editorial meddling, respecting the text but keeping your job, annotated text links, nothing new can enter the public domain in the USA, corporate copyright to 95 years, the puppet Sonny Bono, life +70 years for authors is, 1922 and before is without question in the public domain in the USA, Mack Reynolds, buying author estates, Lester del Rey, H.B. Fyfe, unpublished manuscripts, John W. Campbell, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, archaeology for writers, 37 unpublished Mack Reynolds novels were thrown away, what is an author's estate worth?, thousands of $$, R.A. Lafferty estate sold for $70,000.00, a major SF author's estate was worth 1/4 million $$, the trend in ebooks, 14,000 different paperbooks and 1,100 ebooks and the ebooks earn 4 times as much as the paperbooks, the audiobook trend, Audible.com, Lois McMaster Bujold audiobooks, 200 audiobooks, a value added for authors, because Amazon owns everything…, a benign dictator forever?, when all competition is gone…, Amazon vs. Hachette, Amazon is demanding a higher and higher cut of ebook sales, 85% of ebook sales are through Amazon, a giant anti-trust situation, it's like Highlander … there can be only one, when everything goes seamlessly into the Kindle…
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The SFFaudio Podcast #290 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
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The SFFaudio Podcast #290 – The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving; read by Chip (for LibriVox). This is an unabridged reading of the novelette (1 hour 23 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Mr Jim Moon, and John Feaster.
Talked about on today's show:
1820 (1819), the idea behind the story, Celtic folklore, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, the Wild Hunt, Geoffrey Crayon, Popular Tales Of The Germans, Volksmärchen der Deutschenby Karl Musäus, racing to a bridged, a shattered gourd, Sir Walter Scott, "the wizard of the north", Tam O' Shanter by Robert Burns, headless ghosts, Anne Boleyn, headless horses!, jack-o'-lantern, is this a Halloween story or a Thanksgiving story?, 1834, the word "coconut" (head and soul), the South Pacific, breadfruit, The Red One by Jack London, the shattered pumpkin becomes carved into a Jack-O-Lantern, Brom Bones, meta-textual inference, Washington Irving is buried in Sleepy Hollow, NY, a Hessian artilleryman, a sleepy forgotten area, Rip Van Winkle, the Dutch of New York are like the Irish of the British empire, a Connecticut Yankee teacher, sleep, bustling New York City, Tarrytown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving's loving description of the landscape is like Lovecraft's loving description of architecture, the jokey Washington Irving, Guests From Gibbet Island by Washington Irving, pirates, Pluto, "nod, wink, and giggle", a comedy with a great sense of mood, the many birds, Crane, pudding in their bellies, the Van Tassel larder, a low yield version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, an excellent ragù, an exquisitely painted portrait, Jeff Goldblum playing Ichabod Crane, the dilating abilities of an anaconda, the full orchards, the rooster with his wives, The House Of The Seven Gables, "the world's first Scooby Doo ending", Brom Bones is a colossal prick, anti-intellectual, having read several books all the way through, Cotton Mather, the labour of headwork, headlessness, a practical joke, the post-script, the moral (if it has one or if it needs one), The Cask Of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, a deathbed confession, family portraits or a mirror, "in pace requiescat", alternate endings, the 1999 movie adaptation with Johnny Depp, "Rip van Kolchak", beheading an embryo, the imagery, Christopher Lee, Marvel Comics adaptations, Ghost Rider, a goblin, J.R.R. Tolkien, distinguishing between goblins and orcs, interchangeable terms, Scrooge, FOLKLORE ON FRIDAY – Headless Horsemen, a whip made of a human spine, the Comics Code Authority, Morbius: The LIVING Vampire, the gaffers at von Tassel's quilting frolic, an old brower, the Wild Hunt (again), rivers marking town boundaries, "liminal areas", "a marvelously gruesome book", Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber, vampires can't cross running water, a Dukes of Hazzard crossover, the Disney/Bing Crosby cartoon, The Wind in the Willows, The Partially Examined Life (talking the American philosophers), walking while reading a book vs. walking while reading a phone, van Ripper, Gunpowder (the horse), anti-intellectual vs. hyper-competence, Sleepy Hollow as a vision of America (as opposed to Europe), William James, Henry James, young and different, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, the American Revolutionary War, NYC vs. NY State, Irving regretting the American revolution, Lovecraft's nostalgia, a very American story, "the world's turned upside down!", Ivanhoe, enbosomed in the mountains, a debunking, Frank L. Baum's new creations for an American fantasy, Kansas, the tin woodsman's chopping, a cyborg version of the Ship of Theseus, written for little children, the heart is more important than the brains, Brom Bones as the hero, Ichabod mucks-in, haunted tulip tree, Major Andre, an unselfconscious hero, corporal punishment, Wackford Squeers from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, a wise-schoolmaster, spare the rod and spoil the child, "six of the best when they were ten", dancing around the issue, squishing, Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, "if this were the middle ages and he were a viking…", Sons Of Anarchy vs. Vikings, bearded vengeance, ichthyology, von Ripper, von Brunt, von Tassel, von Brunt Colonel Ichabod Crane, The Castle Of Indolence by James Thomson, Gothic credentials, autumn, the sleepy hollow boys, Twin Peaks and the Bookhouse boys, the good old boys, more references to NASCAR, Brom Bones as an archetype, the Sleepy Hollow TV show, we can't CGI our way out of bad writing, "Alan Moore-esque", "nice, self-contained, and pretty much done", Katrina as a master manipulator, singing lessons, it's been haunted forever (maybe 30 years), belief in hauntings vs. belief in ghosts, a haunted green shag carpet, the stain, something was dragging itself on the ground, "The Stone Tape" hypothesis, "creeped by some creepy creepness", a bad place, Salem's Lot by Stephen King, poltergeist activity, Brom Bonesey, the 1790 setting, a haunted beach?, Center Lake, a hat sodden with blood, a headless borrower, a local Jimmy Hoffa, folklore becomes enmeshed, why does she settle for Brom Bones?, "a man of great parts", Shakespeare: "Ale promoteth the desire but taketh away all performance", Diogenes: "If only I could alleviate my hunger by rubbing my belly"
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The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
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The SFFaudio Podcast #289 – Jesse, Jenny, Tamahome, and Paul Weimer talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show:
A $10 bounty on The House by Fredric Brown, a $10 bounty on The Last Druid by Joseph E. Kelleam, Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow finally in audio, compare Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren, William Gibson's The Peripheral, we bet Fred Kiesche has read it, The Fire Seekers by Richard Farr, Time's Edge by Rysa Walker, reminds Paul of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes books, Tad Williams's Otherland series (a favorite of Paul's), compare to Vernor Vinge's True Names, Second Life, Otherland has some disabled characters — Special Needs In Strange Worlds, Nnedi Okorafor's Goodreads Otherland review, Jesse's not a series guy, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, the spoiler horn, Willful Child by Steven Erikson, not Paul's favorite, The Enemy of an Enemy by Vincent Trigili, the description is missing the "but", Horatio Hornblower type series, The Night Terrace (Audio Drama) Nightterrace.com, Spark by John Twelve Hawks, Cotard's syndrome makes you a good assassin, origin of his pen name, Hawks's nonfiction Against Authority, Chimpanzee by Darin Bradley, possible mashup?, China Miéville's New Crobuzon series, The Slow Regard Of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss, is his prose like dark chocolate like a fan said on The Geek's Guide To The Galaxy podcast?, Heraclix and Pomp by Forrest Aguirre, combining two reviews, Dead But Not Forgotten by Charlaine Harris (Editor), the True Blood tv show, "small town fantasy", Shadow of the Ancients by Pierre Grimbert (translated from French), genre books from other languages are cool, Tam likes French comics (Moebius), Visitors by Orson Scott Card, not a Pathfinder tie-in, Pathfinder vs. Dungeons and Dragons explained by Paul, Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans, Shaman, Healer, Heretic by M. Terry Green, Scalped comic was a bit grim, The Snowden Files by Luke Harding, Snowden's politics, Collapse by Jared Diamond, societies ending, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft, The Statement Of Randolph Carter Sffaudio readalong, The Vines by Christopher Rice, Rice's photo gallery, Anne Rice's son, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Jesse's not that into it, The Island Of Doctor Moreau audiodrama, Robert Sheckley audiobook releases, The Story of English In 100 Words by David Crystal, G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel No Normal is in Jersey City
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The SFFaudio Podcast #248 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Goliah by Jack London
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The SFFaudio Podcast #248 – Goliah by Jack London; read by Gregg Margarite. This is a complete and unabridged reading of the short story (57 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Bryan Alexander, Seth, and Maissa Bessada
Talked about on today's show:
Colossus: The Forbin Project; title's reference to biblical Goliath; story's title a reference to the famous Pacific steam ship; colonial capitalism; the story's Gilded Age context; child labor; Eugene Debs and American socialism; Karl Marx; Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan; the story's fictional energon evocative of Transformers energon; Nikola Tesla; Goliah has a palantir; Goliah as Santa Claus; the story's invented island Palgrave in the South Sea; parallels to London's other speculative fiction including The Iron Heel; the story's unreliable narrator; Asgard; origin stories and foundation myths; nineteenth-century racism rears its ugly head again; Übermenschen; contempt for military and militarism; The Unparalleled Invasion; Seth works too hard; the theoretical increase of productivity through automation; 1984; Twilight casting a sparkly shadow over modern culture; Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward as a possible influence; Karl Marx's German Ideology; the importance of laughter; Herland; the story as a response to nihilism; similarities between Guy de Maupassant and Friedrich Nietzsche; The Scarlet Plague; Canticle for Leibowitz; the medieval investiture controversy; animal metaphors in Goliah; accurate predictions of World War I; structural similarity to the Book of Job; "you don't get a lot of laughter in the Old Testament"; Arslan by M.J. Engh; The Bookman literary magazine; It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby; steampunk by tag cloud; we make a dismal attempt at discussing the Stock Market; the dark underbelly of Goliah's utopia; the unrealistic perpetuation of a utopia; Autofac and Pay for the Printer by Philip K. Dick; With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Lenin's dying wish; Jules Verne; Goliah relinquishing power; Hot Fuzz; more on the palantir and the NSA; "grumblers grumble"; attitudes toward the criminally insane; "Goliah has spoken"; nukes not MOOCs; Cuban Missile Crisis; Douglas MacArthur biography American Caesar by William Manchester; Doctor Who episode "The Happiness Patrol"; Japanese Manga Death Note; the "bread and roses" U.S. labor strike contemporary with Jack London; the Pax Romana; The Better Angels of Our Nature by Stephen Pinker, a discourse on lethal violence; the Franco-Prussian War; Earle Labor's Jack London: An American Life available in audio.
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I know I haven't been posting as much as I should. Instagram has practically become my blog and that's really where all of the action is at. I have tried redesigning my blog to give me a little boost but after several failed attempts this weekend I realized my blog is fine the way it is. I was going to give it a clean white simple look but I am not simple, I am colorful, creative, artistic, and funky. I realize that it's not my blog that's the problem, I've just been doing this for so long that I am ready for the next step. What that is, well I don't really know but I plan to find out.
Before I left to New York for a few weeks I told you guys something very personal. I was having non-stop anxiety attacks. They were completely paralyzing and affecting me terribly. Lots of people had no idea this was going on. I thought it may have been some kind of PTSD from past traumas but really… Read More
Patrick Nagel is one of my favorite artists of all time and was/is famous for his beautiful and colorful Art Deco stylized illustrations of women. Growing up in the 80's I saw his works of art all over NYC in nearly every single nail salon in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and even Queens. Not a place I would like to see my art at but it became such a phenomenon for women who paid attention. You might also recognize his work if you are a Duran Duran fan as he designed their album cover for Rio. He also did work for Playboy Magazine. As an artist myself, his work always spoke to me, it was simple but so striking. I loved the contrasts of his colors and how edgy his characters looked. They remind me so much of my mother at the time. I think that's one of the main reasons I love his work so much. My mother was a very edgy woman in the 80s. She had short hair, half of her head shaved, and had such a versatile style. Every time I see his characters I can't help but think of her. I currently have a few Patrick Nagel portraits on my wall, one that is a print and another that is one of his original pieces with his signature. I have come across a few large portraits in random thrift stores across the country that I wish I would have bought but these things happen haha. To my surprise, Joyrich recently released a collaboration collection with Nagel and I am itching to get my hands on a few of these pieces. I have selected some of my favorite pieces that really stood out to me from the collection below. The rest was just eh. Anyway, they just launched on the site so go blow a hole through your wallets! Read More
The Mind.
"There are times when you simply must stop thinking — but how do you do that? The first rule is don't try to, because if you do, you will be like someone trying to make rough water smooth with a flat iron, and all that will do is stir it up. You have to know how to leave your mind alone; it will quiet itself."
I always thought anxiety wasn't that big of a deal until I started experiencing what anxiety really is. For the past two years its made my life a living hell. I can't get my mind to be quiet, I have trouble sleeping, I lose my appetite, and I have trouble knowing how to deal with it. Now when people say they have anxiety, I have a better understanding of what its like when your chest closes up, your walls start feeling like they are caving in, you worry about things that may or may not be real, and you can't shut your mind off. I often have to shut myself out from the world completely just to think straight and its caused me, my friends, and my family grief having to deal with this on going problem. I've never really spoken about it in public but I thought it might help to be honest about this issue just incase any of you are going through the same thing. That constant worry and dealing with triggers that remind you of past traumas is sometimes debilitating. Lately, I haven't been able to keep my anxiety under control. Its even worse when you feel no one really understands. I am going to see a therapist which is not very easy to say but if any of you have any tips, I would greatly appreciate it.
I listen to Alan Watts a lot. He is an incredible philosopher who sometimes gets me through my day. This video helped me today and I though I would share it with all of you. If any of you are going through the same thing, I wish you a fast and wonderful recovery and hope that I, too, can learn to let go of worry.
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The Enlightenment of Loss.
A few days ago I lost a very close and dear friend to me who was practically my family. It was the first time I had ever lost someone close to me as an adult. It hit me and my best friend Santiago really hard and we have been grieving ever since.
Today was the first day where I felt a little better and my anxiety and sadness wasn't getting the best of me, but somehow I still feel so tired and drained from it all. I have spent the last 3 days feeling so sick I couldn't really eat or keep food in my mouth without letting it out. It's a grueling experience but seeing my beloved friend in his hospital bed fighting for his life just moments before he passed made me really think about life.
I am 28 years old and a few months shy of 29. Like everyone else, for the duration of my life I have spent most of my time trying to find happiness. In my pursuit I have failed over and over with only glimpses of that sunshine. Maybe I didn't have enough gratitude, maybe I surrounded myself around the wrong people, maybe I put myself last way too often, maybe I didn't try hard enough, maybe I didn't search heard enough; I mean, there could be so many reasons. The only thing I do know is that I was happiest when I loved, felt loved, and was appreciated. I was my happiest when I was creative and productive. I was my happiest when I was surrounded by nature and good company. I was happiest when I traveled and was exposed to new places. I was my happiest when I did nice things for people. Dealing with this death made me remember.
Now I'm a tough cookie, emotional at times, but I have always become my best after being at my worst. I am driven by my pain…I've spent most of my life being driven by that or by love and both are completely exhausting. As a genuinely good person, I suffer the most. Sometimes I am too loving, too giving, and too nurturing and I completely forget about myself and how to set boundaries. This is why, when I feel something, I say something, even if it may rub someone the wrong way, even if I have to put my pride aside, even if I am at risk of being judged, even if it means bearing my heart and soul to someone who may or may not care. Some call that weak. I call it BRAVE. I don't want to leave this world with words unsaid. I don't want to leave this world as a result of holding in my emotions. You can and will get sick by doing this.
My friend held a lot inside. He never dealt with his pain and it may have been the reason he passed. It makes me sad just typing that because I wish there was something we all could have done to make it better. When I realized this, I realized this could be my fate one day too. I really believe that our thoughts and our pain affects our overall health. Lately, my health hasn't been too good and its been a growing concern that my pain may just be the very core of the problem. I want/need to live my life to the fullest. I need to find my peace.
Tomorrow is never promised and if it isn't guaranteed..do I want to waste today being sad or angry about things beyond my control? Do I want to spend it doing things I don't want to do? Do I want to keep giving my love and affection to people who don't love and appreciate me? Do I want to keep hanging out with people who don't bring out the best in me? Do I want to keep working for other people and not following my passions? Do I want to keep living in a place that doesn't help me grow? Do I want to keep carrying my pain like a dead horse for the rest of my life?
These are just general problems all people go through. I mean, do any of us want to leave this world without living the best life we can, today?
This was a huge wake up call. I have many things to be grateful for; my family, being alive, my job, my friends, and etc. But there are many things that I am not happy with, things I need to change, certain traumas I can't seem to shake off, things I shouldn't settle for, not in this life or the next. And here's the thing..You have got to be RUTHLESS about the time and energy you put into people, places, and things. Cut out toxic people, If they give you 50 give them 0, don't burn yourself out to keep people warm when those people have no problem leaving you in the cold, don't settle for shitty jobs, shitty boyfriends, shitty friends, and etc.
I don't know if I am just having a rough week or have just reached my end point when it comes to the mediocre things I tolerate in my life. I just feel exhausted. I miss my friend. I miss when I was a kid and was completely oblivious to how hard life would be. I miss being genuinely happy. But like Elizabeth Taylor says "Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."
I'm going to be ok but I wanted to share with you all that life is short, don't waste it hiding who you are, tell people how much they mean to you, cut out people who only love you in halves, travel the world, meet new people, find a new job if you hate the one you are at now, find a new home if you hate where you live, don't harbor your emotions, better yourself, follow your passions, and use your infinite potential because this is the only real way to find happiness. NOTHING in your life should be MEDIOCRE. You want to be able to say, "if I was gone tomorrow, I'd say I lived a pretty good life".
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Poulsbo officers might return to work after Les Schwab shooting
POULSBO - The two Poulsbo police officers on paid administrative leave since the deadly shooting February outside a tire store might return to work as early as next week.
That's the hope of the department, which has shuffled shifts to cover their absence. The nearly three months is a long time for a department the size of Poulsbo's to be without two of its 16 officers, said Poulsbo Deputy Chief Wendy Davis.
The shooting took place just before 6 p.m. Feb. 8 outside the Les Schwab store off Viking Way. Officers opened fire on Joseph M. Henninger, 24, following reports of gunfire at the store.
A third officer who was initially placed on leave returned to work March 1 after it was determined he was not involved in the shooting, but instead was a witness, Davis said.
Normally, a report from Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney Russ Hauge, who is reviewing the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office investigation into the shooting, would have been issued by now but February was a busy month for law enforcement in Kitsap, Davis said.
The city recently sent a request to Hauge to see if he would offer a preliminary opinion before the release of his review about whether the two officers could return to work outside of administrative duties, Davis said.
The investigation is still open but Hauge advised the city there was "no reason why they can't go back to work," he said.
The city was waiting for his response in writing, which Davis expected by Wednesday afternoon. Once received, there is additional work that needs to be done by the department before the officers can return to work, Davis said.
"We're eager to get them back, and they're eager to get back to work," she said.
Hauge hopes to release his report in two weeks. He reviewed the sheriff's office investigation into the shooting death to determine if it were justified and if any criminal charges are necessary.
The three officers, Sgt. Robert Wright and Officers Ricki Sabado and John Halsted, were the first to respond to the store. That's when they encountered Henninger, who was armed with a gun. Sabado is the officer that returned to work March 1.
Initial information from the sheriff's office painted a picture of a tense scene where Henninger had reportedly fired a gun inside the tire store. Police wouldn't say whether Henninger or the responding officers fired first.
An autopsy showed that Henninger died of gunshot wounds to the neck, torso and right arm.
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My wife and I reserved a double room in this guesthouse via booking.com as we thought it is a proof that we placed an order with serious people. Of course, we got a confirmation for our reservation and after few days we went for a trip to Sibenik. When we came there the staff apologised to us and said they...
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Located outside of Sibenik but well signed from the main road, this complex adjoins the eponymous restaurant. A nicely set up room with air conditioning, en-suite bathroom, balcony and fridge (mini-bar), our room had a sea view. A good breakfast was included in the price and the restaurant was very nice indeed. Ample free parking available. The location is excellent...
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NLDS: Defending World Series champions St Louis Cardinals produced late recovery to stun Washington Nationals in game five decider
St Louis Cardinals produced a late comeback to beat Washington Nationals in the deciding game of their NLDS.
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The Cardinals overturned a six-run deficit, including scoring four in the ninth inning, to claim a 9-7 success on the night and a 3-2 series victory.
Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma each had two-out, two-run singles in the ninth as the Cardinals silenced the record Nationals Park crowd of 45,966.
Washington, in the play-offs for the second time in the franchise's 44-year history after compiling the best regular-season record in baseball, cruised to a 6-0 lead after three innings but could not close the door on the Cardinals. On five separate pitches, the Cardinals were down to their last strike but managed to come through.
Bryce Harper, Ryan Zimmerman and Michael Morse each had home runs and two RBI by the third inning for the Nationals.
The Cardinals - who were down to their last strike in the World Series last year against the Texas Rangers but managed to come back and win the title - pulled to within 6-5 on a Descalso homer to right in the eighth inning.
An RBI single by Kurt Suzuki in the bottom half of the inning gave the Nationals what seemed like a comfortable 7-5 lead for closer Drew Storen.
But Storen gave up three hits and two walks in the ninth and when Kozma lined a two-run single to right to score Descalso and David Freese and give St. Louis a 9-7 advantage, the once-raucous crowd turned silent.
Jason Motte shut down the Nationals in order in the ninth and when Zimmerman popped out to Descalso at second to end the game, the Cardinals met at the mound to get the celebrations under way.
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There have been four breaking-and-entering/theft incidents in Novi since Jan. 30.
The first incident occurred on Jan. 30 in the Chase Farms neighborhood on Dukesbury Court. A window was pried open, and it appeared the suspect later exited through the front door. Some watches and money were stolen.
The next occurred on Feb. 5 in the 26000 block of Taft Road. Although there were no signs of a forced entry, the homeowner reported jewelry, including a $1,400 ring, missing from the home.
The next two also happened on the same day. On Lannys Road, the front door locks were found damaged, and $40 in change was taken. The last happened at a residence on Grand River Avenue (the exact location given on the police report). Again, entry may have been made through the front door and jewelry along with some money was taken.
Test drive theft from Marty Feldman
A Chevy Volt was borrowed from a local automobile dealer, but never returned.
Novi Police received a call from Marty Feldman Chevorlet on Feb. 9 about a missing vehicle. The dealership told the police that a man came into the dealership and filled out the paperwork to test drive the vehicle for two days. The man was scheduled to return it on Feb. 7.
But the man never did and on Feb. 9 Novi Police, through the help of On Star's GPS system, located the vehicle in a garage at a Novi residence. The dealership said it tried to contact the man, but never heard back from him. The man told police he was having medical issues (double vision) and could not get the vehicle back in time.
The police arrested the man for vehicle theft. The police report stated the man did not offer a good explanation as to why he didn't try to make more of an effort to contact the dealership or return the vehicle.
Dented hood at Tilted Kilt
On Feb. 8, a woman's car was dented while parked at the Tilted Kilt eatery in the Twelve Mile Crossing at Fountain Walk shopping center. A witness told police a man told her he had tried out his new brass knuckles. The report stated the dent appeared to be made by someone hitting the hood with brass knuckles. The case remains open.
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On Feb. 9, a driver was pulled over by Novi Police for erratic driving and for having the license plate covered in snow. Upon making contact with the driver, the police reported smelling marijuana inside the vehicle. The man eventually admitted to having some in the center console and had smoked one or two hours prior to the stop. He was arrested for possession and OUID.
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I was going off the VIDEO. You walk back & forth, and your horse shifts to keep facing you. Please remember I do not know you or your horses. All I know is what you have posted on this thread before I make a response. In post #6, my total knowledge was based on post #2.
"If horse does what you ask for, it doesn't deserve getting it's butt kicked." I was not threatening YOUR horse. I said if my horse responded the way the horse did in the video, I'd be unhappy with her and would correct her. Horses are not born with knowledge of specific cues. Mine are not trained to behave that way, and would not.
You can train your horse how you like. If you are happy with the results, fine. But the OP's description does not sound like a disrespectful horse...just a horse who hasn't been trained to respond to the cue the OP wishes to use.
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Wow, I feel you! I don't know what to tell you... He has a commitment phobia which is pretty common, the best thing to do is to keep going with the flow, untill he realizes what he really wants to do...
You can't pressure him into committing to you, I guess it will happen when he can, but what I do not understand is how long has been this going? If it has been going for 4 years it means you gave him all the time that he needs... You need to move forward in the relationship and it doesn't have to have a ring.
The best thing to do is to have a talk with him and see what happens, then you could reverse it and push yourself away and see what he does... If he flips out once you start seeing other men, tell him what is your deal when I have been here for 4 years and you still won't decide whether you want to stay or go...make a choice and stick to it.
Thats what I would do I guess but see what others have to say about this, as I haven't been successful in my relationships and dealing with a commitment phobe at this moment as well.
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Ofc I have searched for this before posting. But nothing written out there are helping me.
I know about the taskdef thing but ant cannot find "com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport".
I am not using jax-ws, not glassfish, not EE, nothing...... But JSE6.0 (jdk1.6.0_04).
So I can't refer to jax-ws lib or glassfish or ee. I try to find it in the JSE6 lib but cannot find it there (java.home/lib).
tools.jar doesn't include "...ant.wsimport". (Windows dist.)
Ofc I could download one of this to get it to work but I don't wanna.
I want to show my coleagues how good and easy WS are running on java with the normal java se..... And everything _are_ running very good except the ant problem. And to my, not having a working ant meaning not having a alternative for large scale development and production.
If this isn't working with any easy thing. Is there anyone who knows when ant are releasing a ant version with jax-ws support?
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Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Sweden's minister of culture, started a spate of online arguments about her participation in a recent event when she was asked to cut into a cake at World Art Day at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm on Sunday. This was no typical square reception cake with butter cream frosting. Instead, the cake depicted the torso and head of a black woman lying on her back.
The actual cake that served as the center of the piece of artwork was made out of red sponge cake and made up the torso of the woman. The cake was covered with black fondant. The artist, Makode Aj Linde, placed his head at the top of the cake's body to serve as the face of the woman. His face bore ornate makeup. The cake was designed to act as a piece of performance art geared towards creating awareness of racial discrimination and female suffering.
A video has gone viral of the minister, among other participants, cutting into the cake near the genital region of the woman's body. This performance art was specifically designed to reflect issues of female genital mutilation in Africa, according to the artist. The minister was instructed to begin cutting into the cake in the groin area. The artist, whose head sat at the top of the torso, screamed as the minister cut into the flesh of the cake. Linde then continues to scream after each successive slice of cake is taken out of the genital region. According to Color Lines Liljeroth stated (at the artist's request), "Your life will be better like this" before cutting into the cake for the first time.
This intense and startling video has set alight debates about the inherent messages of such a ceremony, and the value of highlighting female circumcision in such a provocative fashion. Critics of Liljeroth's cutting of the cake argue that she was participating in the continuation of racism in Sweden. In fact, the African-Swedish Association has asked Liljeroth to step down from her post as the minister of culture because of her participation in the event.
Admittedly, the act of cutting the cake is surprisingly grotesque, even realistic. What makes the video so startling and surprising is the response to the art installation. People stand around laughing, chatting, and eating cake as you hear the disturbing screams coming from the artist over and over again. The atrocities visited upon the female body are trivialized in this reception atmosphere. Linde, an African-Swedish artist, designed the exhibit to ensure that people would cut around the genital region of the cake first in order to make for an uncomfortable and unsettling experience and also to highlight the pain of circumcision.
Linde argues that the piece was misunderstood and that it was meant to serve as one of the few pieces of African-Swedish art available in the country. According to The Guardian, Liljeroth stands by her decision to participate, stating that art should be provocative. The lack of attention paid to the mutilation of the black woman's body during the event perhaps suggests the discomfort many people feel with discussing issues of racism, violence, and circumcision. Kitimbwe Sabuni, spokesperson for the African-Swedish Association, stands by the assertion that the art was a racist caricature of real issues going on in Sweden in the present moment.
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I think what we all SHOULD be seeing is the actual mutilation of these women. I think that video should be allowed and on every social outlet. It is time to take our heads out of the sand and see what is going on. This is so much more than a war on women; this is a war on equality, on decency.
Some of these people were laughing as they cut the cake and listened to the screams, how sad. Technology has advanced at a rapid pace, maybe too rapid but not so our morality or ethics, these things are still in caves.
Let me clarify a few things. The African-Swedish Association has made their mark in history by attacking Herge's TinTin in Congo. They wanted it banned. Probably also burned, but that is just my interpretation at the time of the debate. They also demanded and got their reward when it came to a certain Swedish delicassy: A cake. It's a cake in the shape of a ball made from baking powder, water or cold coffee, oatmeal, cocoa, vanilla powder and butter. Since befor I was born it has always been called negro balls. I know, it's not a nice name like Devils Food Cake, but everyone knows what you mean and there's no disrespect intended in the name. Anyhow, the ASA got their demand met and the cake is now known as Chocolate balls. Problem is, there are already another Swedish delicassy named that. Confusion occurs. Mistakes are made. But WTH... Also, the ASA, only apperas in the media when it has some sort of grievance with traditions they don't like. Like the habit of the Parlament of making laws that prohibit traditions that cause physical harm to others, but are practiced by the people AHA represent.
As for the event in the article. The minister is a typical politician and have very little power in the Government and she's like most politicians unaware how ordinary people live. The artist mentioned has done other questionable installations that gives you a little more information about his real purposes in his artistic career. Google his name.
I get it, but I was appalled, and just not sure what to think. Except that they jusy should not have been laughing. THAT is what disturbs me most.
Performance art is often confusing to us uninitiated.
People have got this wrong. It was a protest by the artist re: FGM. Those standing round chatting and laughing as the cake is cut should be the ones getting flack, not the artist.
Thanks for the share.
The fact that the Minister is laughing suggests to me that she did not understand the meaning of the installation, i.e., to bring home to people that girls in parts of Africa and in other countries to which people from those parts have emigrated (it has happened in England) are subjected to clitorectomies and sewing up of most of the vaginal opening, and all this without anaesthetic. It is indeed a very real piece of work. On a more symbolic level, it may remind some of what the Republicans are trying to do to women.
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