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The Gatheringby Anne Enright, Patrick Tull (Narrated by), Terry Donnelly (Narrated by)
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty/i>
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with himsomething that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
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In the taut latest from Enright (What Are You Like?), middle-aged Veronica Hegarty, the middle child in an Irish-Catholic family of nine, traces the aftermath of a tragedy that has claimed the life of rebellious elder brother Liam. As Veronica travels to London to bring Liam's body back to Dublin, her deep-seated resentment toward her overly passive mother and her dissatisfaction with her husband and children come to the fore. Tempers flare as the family assembles for Liam's wake, and a secret Veronica has concealed since childhood comes to light. Enright skillfully avoids sentimentality as she explores Veronica's past and her complicated relationship with Liam. She also bracingly imagines the life of Veronica's strong-willed grandmother, Ada. A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly. (Sept.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
It seems that large, extended families are brought together for two events, weddings and funerals, and such is the case in Enright's new novel (after The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch) when Veronica, her eight surviving siblings, and their mammy reconnect for her wayward brother Liam's funeral. As Veronica notes early on, "the seeds of my brother's death were sown many years ago," and it is those seeds, which are gradually unearthed as the book moves between past and present, describing the deconstruction of the family, that drove Liam to suicide. From a description of vodka with a "sweet and crotch-like" smell that includes a "waft of earth and adolescence" to souls that, if released, would "slop out over his teeth," Enright's writing is starkly descriptive, using the same coarse imagery that is part of her characters' daily lives. Much is raw in this novel, which is less about individuals than about people's "patience and ability to endure." While readers won't be drawn to the characters, anyone who perseveres will find a story of harsh redemption and of a future found in a child's blue eyes. An acquired taste; recommended for larger and more diverse collections.
Caroline M. Hallsworth
Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize
Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2007
"Fierce and clear-eyed . . . a witty, scatological, and moving splendor of a novel. Enright's language is percussive one moment, liquid the next, and always in the service of Veronica as we accompany her in her hobbled, painful steps toward self-reinvention." Julie Wittes Schlack, The Boston Globe
"There is something livid and much that is stunning about The Gathering. . . . Anger brushes off every page, a species of rage that aches to confront silence and speak truth at last. The book's narrative tone echoes Joan Didion's furious, cool grief, but the richest comparison may be with James Joyce's Dubliners." Peter Behrens, The Washington Post
"Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet darkbut how it glitters." New York Times Book Review
"Enright has written a wonderfully elegant and unsparing novel that takes the old Irish subjects of family dysfunction and the vagaries of memory into territory made fresh by an objectivity so precise it seems almost loving. . . . stunning control and flawless eye." The Los Angeles Times
"Entrancing, unflinching, and insightful. The Gathering is a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable." Entertainment Weekly
"Enright shows herself to be a clear-eyed investigator of the human condition, driven to pursue hard truths. . . . see if you find something startling, or heartbreaking, or perfectly true and wonderfully insightful, revealing itself on the next page." The San Francisco Chronicle
"A lyrical meditation on memory and connectedness involving three generations of an Irish family . . . dreamy . . . wise . . . like Ali Smith, Enright is an original." Kirkus (starred review)
"Such incredible sentences . . . it's unlikely you'll find a more precisely rendered depiction of the hypocrisy , minor hysterics, and comforting ritual of an Irish wake." The Globe and Mail
"Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro's; her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien's. The Gathering is her best book." Colm Toibin, author of The Master and Mothers and Sons
"In the supercharged beauty of her oddly brittle, spiky sentences, you hear the cadences of the incomparable Don DeLillo. . . . The penetrating exploration of domestic relationships, especially among women, calls to mind . . . Anne Tyler." Newsday
"Delivers with sharp wit and a huge heart." Elle
"Enright skillfully avoids sentimentality as she explores Veronica's past and her complicated relationship with Liam. She also bracingly imagines the life of Veronica's strong-willed grandmother, Ada. A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly." Publishers Weekly
"Anne Enright has all she needs in terms of imagination and technique and she's a tremendous phrase maker." Adam Mars-Jones, Observer
"It is clearly the product of a remarkable intelligence, combined with a gift for observation and deduction." A.L. Kennedy, Guardian
"[Anne Enright] is intelligent, curious . . . nothing Anne Enright picks up and examines can escape her hungry and insightful attention. And The Gathering is her best novel so far..the sudden heart-stopping moment when Enright describes something utterly familiar and quotidian and unremarkable, but does it in a way that makes you giggle or jump with the shock of recognition." Irish Sun Independent
"Despite some thematic similarities with Edna O'Brienboth perceptive of peculiarly Irish families and sexEnright is more interestingly placed among experimental, if otherwise diverse, Irish writers such as John Banville and Patrick McCabe this is an admirable novel." TLS (UK)
"A fresh, sophisticated take on the ever-popular dysfunctional family saga." The Irish Times
"Anne Enright turns a compassionate, unflinching gaze on the Hegarty family tree. She beautifully describes the way hurt can be inherited . . . Enright is a daring writerwitty, original and inventive . . . Utterly compelling." The Daily Mail
"Lyrical, unsettling and beautifully written." Gloss magazine (UK)
"An emotional journey." Eve magazine (UK)
"A welcome update of the genre." Telegraph (UK)
"Stunningly eloquent and powerful." Herald (UK)
"Abrasively honest and toweringly moving, it grabs and shakes you, rabitting on in a manic monologue, comical, tragic, lost and profound . . . compulsive, daring, concise and searing . . . Veronica Hegarty is Enright's most stunning creation, so fully realised that the words simply melt into pictures and moods." The Scotsman
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The Gathering
By Anne Enright
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Chapter OneI WOULD LIKE to write down what happened in my grandmother's house the summer I was eight or nine, but I am not sure if it really did happen. I need to bear witness to an uncertain event. I feel it roaring inside me - this thing that may not have taken place. I don't even know what name to put on it. I think you might call it a crime of the flesh, but the flesh is long fallen away and I am not sure what hurt may linger in the bones.
My brother Liam loved birds and, like all boys, he loved the bones of dead animals. I have no sons myself, so when I pass any small skull or skeleton I hesitate and think of him, how he admired their intricacies. A magpie's ancient arms coming through the mess of feathers; stubby and light and clean. That is the word we use about bones: Clean.
I tell my daughters to step back, obviously, from the mouse skull in the woodland or the dead finch that is weathering by the garden wall. I am not sure why. Though sometimes we find, on the beach, a cuttlefish bone so pure that I have to slip it in my pocket, and I comfort my hand with the secret white arc of it.
You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them.
So I offer Liam this picture: my two daughters running on the sandy rim of a stony beach, under a slow, turbulent sky, the shoulders of their coats shrugging behind them. Then I erase it. I close my eyes and roll with the sea's loud static. When I open them again, it is to call the girls back to the car.
Rebecca! Emily!
It does not matter. I do not know the truth, or I do not know how to tell the truth. All I have are stories, night thoughts, the sudden convictions that uncertainty spawns. All I have are ravings, more like. She loved him! I say. She must have loved him! I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept. I stay downstairs while the family breathes above me and I write it down, I lay them out in nice sentences, all my clean, white bones.
Chapter TwoSOME DAYS I don't remember my mother. I look at her photograph and she escapes me. Or I see her on a Sunday, after lunch, and we spend a pleasant afternoon, and when I leave I find she has run through me like water.
'Goodbye,' she says, already fading. 'Goodbye my darling girl,' and she reaches her soft old face up, for a kiss. It still puts me in such a rage. The way, when I turn away, she seems to disappear, and when I look, I see only the edges. I think I would pass her in the street, if she ever bought a different coat. If my mother committed a crime there would be no witnesses - she is forgetfulness itself.
'Where's my purse?' she used to say when we were children - or it might be her keys, or her glasses. 'Did anyone see my purse?' becoming, for those few seconds, nearly there, as she went from hall, to sitting room, to kitchen and back again. Even then we did not look at her but everywhere else: she was an agitation behind us, a kind of collective guilt, as we cast about the room, knowing that our eyes would slip over the purse, which was brown and fat, even if it was quite clearly there.
Then Bea would find it. There is always one child who is able, not just to look, but also to see. The quiet one.
'Thank you. Darling.'
To be fair, my mother is such a vague person, it is possible she can't even see herself. It is possible that she trails her fingertip over a line of girls in an old photograph and can not tell herself apart. And, of all her children, I am the one who looks most like her own mother, my grandmother Ada. It must be confusing.
'Oh hello,' she said as she opened the hall door, the day I heard about Liam.
'Hello. Darling.' She might say the same to the cat.
'Come in. Come in,' as she stands in the doorway, and does not move to let me pass.
Of course she knows who I am, it is just my name that escapes her. Her eyes flick from side to side as she wipes one after another off her list.
'Hello, Mammy,' I say, just to give her a hint. And I make my way past her into the hall.
The house knows me. Always smaller than it should be; the walls run closer and more complicated than the ones you remember. The place is always too small.
Behind me, my mother opens the sitting room door.
'Will you have something? A cup of tea?'
But I do not want to go into the sitting room. I am not a visitor. This is my house too. I was inside it, as it grew; as the dining room was knocked into the kitchen, as the kitchen swallowed the back garden. It is the place where my dreams still happen.
Not that I would ever live here again. The place is all extension and no house. Even the cubby-hole beside the kitchen door has another door at the back of it, so you have to battle your way through coats and hoovers to get into the downstairs loo. You could not sell the place, I sometimes think, except as a site. Level it and start again.
The kitchen still smells the same - it hits me in the base of the skull, very dim and disgusting, under the fresh, primrose yellow paint. Cupboards full of old sheets; something cooked and dusty about the lagging around the immersion heater; the chair my father used to sit in, the arms shiny and cold with the human waste of many years. It makes me gag a little, and then I can not smell it any more. It just is. It is the smell of us.
I walk to the far counter and pick up the kettle, but when I go to fill it, the cuff of my coat catches on the running tap and the sleeve fills with water. I shake out my hand, and then my arm, and when the kettle is filled and plugged in I take off my coat, pulling the wet sleeve inside out and slapping it in the air.
My mother looks at this strange scene, as if it reminds her of something. Then she starts forward to where her tablets are pooled in a saucer, on the near counter. She takes them, one after the other, with a flaccid absent-mindedness of the tongue. She lifts her chin and swallows them dry while I rub my wet arm with my hand, and then run my damp hand through my hair.
A last, green capsule enters her mouth and she goes still, working her throat. She looks out the window for a moment. Then she turns to me, remiss.
'How are you. Darling?'
'Veronica!' I feel like shouting it at her. 'You called me Veronica!'
If only she would become visible, I think. Then I could catch her and impress upon her the truth of the situation, the gravity of what she has done. But she remains hazy, unhittable, too much loved.
I have come to tell her that Liam has been found.
'Are you all right?'
'Oh, Mammy.'
The last time I cried in this kitchen I was seventeen years old, which is old for crying, though maybe not in our family, where everyone seemed to be every age, all at once. I sweep my wet forearm along the table of yellow pine, with its thick, plasticky sheen. I turn my face towards her and ready it to say the ritual thing (there is a kind of glee to it, too, I notice) but, 'Veronica!' she says, all of a sudden and she moves - almost rushes - to the kettle. She puts her hand on the bakelite handle as the bubbles thicken against the chrome, and she lifts it, still plugged in, splashing some water in to heat the pot.
He didn't even like her.
There is a nick in the wall, over by the door, where Liam threw a knife at our mother, and everyone laughed and shouted at him. It is there among the other anonymous dents and marks. Famous. The hole Liam made, after my mother ducked, and before everyone started to roar.
What could she have said to him? What possible provocation could she have afforded him - this sweet woman? And Ernest then, or Mossie, one of the enforcers, wrestling him out through the back door and on to the grass for a kicking. We laughed at that too. And my lost brother, Liam, laughed: the knife thrower, the one who was being kicked, he laughed too, and he grabbed his older brother's ankle to topple him into the grass. Also me - I was also laughing, as I recall. My mother clucking a little, at the sight of it, and going about her business again. My sister Midge picking up the knife and waggling it out the window at the fighting boys, before slinging it into the sink full of washing-up. If nothing else, our family had fun.
My mother puts the lid on the teapot and looks at me.
I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
It must have been over some boyfriend, the last time I cried here. Ordinary, family tears meant nothing in this kitchen; they were just part of the general noise. The only thing that mattered was, He rang or, He didn't ring. Some catastrophe. The kind of thing that would have you scrabbling at the walls after five bottles of cider. He left me. Doubling over, clutching your midriff; howling and gagging. He didn't even call to get his scarf back. The boy with the turquoise eyes.
Because we are also - at a guess - great lovers, the Hegartys. All eye-to-eye and sudden fucking and never, ever, letting go. Apart from the ones who couldn't love at all. Which is most of us, too, in a way.
Which is most of us.
'It's about Liam,' I say.
'Liam?' she says. 'Liam?'
My mother had twelve children and - as she told me one hard day - seven miscarriages. The holes in her head are not her fault. Even so, I have never forgiven her any of it. I just can't.
I have not forgiven her for my sister Margaret who we called Midge, until she died, aged forty-two, from pancreatic cancer. I do not forgive her my beautiful, drifting sister Bea. I do not forgive her my first brother Ernest, who was a priest in Peru, until he became a lapsed priest in Peru. I do not forgive her my brother Stevie, who is a little angel in heaven. I do not forgive her the whole tedious litany of Midge, Bea, Ernest, Stevie, Ita, Mossie, Liam, Veronica, Kitty, Alice and the twins, Ivor and Jem.
Such epic names she gave us - none of your Jimmy, Joe or Mick. The miscarriages might have got numbers, like 'i962' or 'i964', though perhaps she named them too, in her heart (Serena, Aifric, Mogue). I don't forgive her those dead children either. The way she didn't even keep a notebook, so you could tell who had what, when, and which jabs. Am I the only woman in Ireland still at risk from polio myelitis? No one knows. I don't forgive the endless hand-me-downs, and few toys, and Midge walloping us because my mother was too gentle, or busy, or absent, or pregnant to bother.
My sweetheart mother. My ageless girl.
No, when it comes down to it, I do not forgive her the sex. The stupidity of so much humping. Open and blind. Consequences, Mammy. Consequences.
'Liam,' I say, quite forcefully. And the riot in the kitchen quiets down as I do my duty, which is to tell one human being about another human being, the few and careful details of how they met their end.
'I am afraid he is dead, Mammy.'
'Oh,' she says. Which is just what I expected her to say. Which is exactly the sound I knew would come out of her mouth.
'Where?' she says.
'In England, Mammy. Where he was. They found him in Brighton.'
'What do you mean?' she says. 'What do you mean, "Brighton"?'
'Brighton in England, Mammy. It's a town in the south of England. It's near London.'
And then she hits me.
I don't think she has ever hit me before. I try to remember later, but I really think that she left the hitting to other people: Midge of course, who was always mopping something, and so would swipe the cloth at you, in passing, across your face, or neck, or the back of the legs, and the smell of the thing, I always thought, worse than the sting. Mossie, who was a psycho. Ernest, who was a thoughtful, flat-handed sort of man. As you went down the line, the hitting lost authority and petered out, though I had a bit of a phase, myself, with Alice and the twins, Ivor-and-Jem.
But my mother has one hand on the table, and she swings around with the other one to catch me on the side of the head. Not very hard. Not hard at all. Then she swings back, and grabs for the counter, and she suspends herself there, between the counter and the table; her head dipping below the spread of her arms. For a while she is silent, and then a terrible sound comes out of her. Quite soft. It seems to lift up off her back. She raises her head and turns to me, so that I can witness her face; the look on it, now, and the way it will never be the same again.
Don't tell Mammy. It was the mantra of our childhoods, or one of them. Don't tell Mammy. This from Midge, especially, but also from any one of the older ones. If something broke or was spilt, if Bea did not come home or Mossie went up to live in the attic, or Liam dropped acid, or Alice had sex, or Kitty bled buckets into her new school uniform, or any number of phone messages about delays, snarl-ups, problems with bus money and taxi money, and once, catastrophically, Liam's night in the cells. None of the messages relayed: the whispered conference in the hall, Don't tell Mammy, because 'Mammy' would - what? Expire? 'Mammy' would worry. Which seemed fine to me. It was, after all, of her own making, this family. It had all come - singly and painfully - out of her. And my father said it more than anyone; level, gallant, There's no need to tell your mother now, as if the reality of his bed was all the reality that this woman should be asked to bear.
After my mother reaches over and hits me, for the first time, at the age of seventy to my thirty-nine, my mind surges, almost bursts, with the unfairness of it all. I think I will die of unfairness; I think it will be written on my death certificate. That this duty should devolve to me, for a start - because I am the careful one, of course. I have a car, an accommodating phone bill. I have daughters who are not obliged to fight over who is wearing the other one's knickers in the morning before they go to school. So I am the one who has to drive over to Mammy's and ring the doorbell and put myself in a convenient hitting position on the other side of her kitchen table. It is not as if I got these things by accident - husband, car, phone bill, daughters. So I am in a rage with every single one of my brothers and sisters, including Stevie, long dead, and Midge, recently dead, and I am boiling mad with Liam for being dead too, just now, when I need him most. Quite literally, I am beyond myself. I am so angry I have a second view of the kitchen, a high view, looking down: me with one wet sleeve rolled up, my bare forearm lying flat on the table, and on the other side of the table, my mother, cruciform, her head drooping from the little white triangle of her bare neck.
This is where Liam is. Up here. I feel him like a shout in the room. This is what he sees; my bare arm, our mother playing aeroplane between the counter and the table. Flying low.
The sound keeps coming out of her. I lift my arm.
She has no idea of how much has been done for her in the six days since the first phone call from Britain. She was spared all that: Kitty running around London and me around Dublin for dental records; his height, and the colour of his hair, and the tattoo on his right shoulder. None of this was read back to her as it was to me, this morning, by the very nice bean garda who called to the door, because I am the one who loved him most. I feel sorry for policewomen - all they do is relatives, and prostitutes, and cups of tea.
There is saliva falling from my mother's bottom lip now, in gobs and strings. Her mouth keeps opening. She keeps trying to close it but her lips refuse to stay shut and, 'Gah. Gah,' she says.
I must go over and touch her. I must take her by the shoulders and lift her gently up and away. I will squeeze her arms back down by her sides as I push and guide her to a chair, and put sugar in her cup of tea, though she does not take sugar. I will do all this in deference to a grief that is biological, idiot, timeless.
She would cry the same for Ivor, less for Mossie, more for Ernest, and inconsolably, as we all would, for the lovely Jem. She would cry no matter what son he was. It occurs to me that we have got something wrong here, because I am the one who has lost something that can not be replaced. She has plenty more.
There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity. Sometimes I think we overlapped in there, he just left early, to wait outside.
'Are you all right, Mammy? Will you have a cup of tea?'
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just goes and goes and goes and it is PAINFUL, it has no redeeming value at all. So, it is good as an example of what you do not want to visit. I like a good story, and this would NOT BE IT.
I wish I had read the reviews before my book club picked this book. It is very disturbing, and not in a good way!!! There is so much description, it takes 5 pages to say someone may or may not have done something or nothing (confusing? just trying to give a bit of insight on what it is like to read this book). Perhaps for those who like very different writing, this would be a great find. I like to think I am pretty open about books and writing styles, but this leaves much to be desired. For the first time in my life, I dread my quiet reading time. I can't wait to be done so that I can start the books I have piled up while trying to get through this one. If it wasn't chosen by the club, I would probably have actually stopped reading this one...something I just don't do.
You would think that with eleven Irish brothers and sisters, the narrator would insert some lovely bits of humor to provide a touch of comic relief to this tale of a dysfunctional family, but the mood is unrelentingly morose (even Hamlet had the grave digger to make one laugh). After about fifty pages, as the narrator engages in endless self-pitying analysis, she ceases to be a sympathetic character and becomes quite tiresome. I miss the good old novels where characters reacted to difficulties with strength and selflessness rather than impotence and self-absorption.
I checked this out of our library because the jacket lured me into think I had found a treasure. I got so far as page 50 and could NOT see any plot nor any point. I had no idea what she was thinking other than some morbid conjecture, where I did not want to go. If you are looking for a great UK author try Lionel Shriver!
I bought the book based on what was written on the back cover and was very disappointed. It is rare that I do not finish a book that I purchase but could not get through it. The book seemed so dark and morbid. By the time I stopped reading it, I had my fill of hearing about all the people that had died, how Liam looked lying the mortuary on the table, selecting a coffin, etc., etc. I prefer something more uplifting.
I thought the book would be intriguing, and kept reading thinking there would be a climax. I was extremely disappointed, and wonder what I should have gotten out of the book. When I think of the books I will read in my life, I am sorry I wasted time on this one.
I will finish just about any book due to my curiosity regarding plot development. This book joins precious few that I've given up on. If there is a plot, it is so deeply hidden under all the anger and oddball character development that I missed it. The cover synopsis led me to expect more of a story, but what I found was a lot of introspection and reminiscing. Way too much navel-gazing for me.
The first few pages seemed interesting and caught my attention, but then ... the author loses me, the writing style is sloppy and drunk-feeling, there seems to be too many characters with too many issues, the point-of-view is unjustified and I'm halfway through and still not sure why I'm supposed to care (or who I'm supposed to care about) and I don't know if I'll even finish the book so I can figure out the reason for the plot.
Worst book read in a long time. Struggled to finish it.
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I kept waiting for this book to become something memorable. It moved so slowly and the characters were simply not ones I wanted to know more about. I finished it but what a struggle
Would not recommend
Talk about sexually repressed Irish Catholic! Who in their right mind wants to imagine their grandmother's sex life!? Writing was wordy and story line depressing and insane. This book makes one wonder about who decides book award winners. Will not waste time reading any other work by this author.
I wonder why this book got an award as the the plot went all over the place right from the beginning. If I had not read a review somewhere else I would have had no idea what this book was about Poor character development. The child abuse her dead brother suffered should have been revealed much earlier in the book.
Okay -- I finished it so that's something. I believe the author was trying for the technique of writing that Virginia Woolf perfected -- stream-of-conciousness; you feel like you're easedropping into someone's internal thoughts. It can be quite boring. Woolf's books can be that way, but Woolf was a much better writer than this woman. And guess what? Woolf killed herself by walking into a river with her pockets full of stones. I would not recommend this novel, but I give it at least 2 stars because I did finish it.
I read books really quickly, and usually average 1 per day. I started this book on October 20th. It's November 7th, and I'm still only at page 50. This book is soooooooooooooo boring that I haven't been able to finish it. I never do that! Eventually I will finish it, someday, and if there are any redeeming qualities, I'll come back here and let you know, but right now... ugh.
This book is pure genius for those that are confused or in a state of transition in their lives. I picked up this book expecting one perspective and was thrown a completely different one. Throughout the book, details are given in such a random and non-sensical fashion that towards the end, the reader realizes the sparcity of concrete facts is just what the author intended. I will admit that towards the middle the story doesn't seem to end, but when it does, the meaning is so profound you find yourself falling just like the narrator. I would not recommend this to any one faint of heart or looking for an easy read. Enright, however, has delivered a most complex yet satisfying glimpse into on the darkest episodes on one woman's life.
I tried 3 times to get into this book. The premise seemed interesting. very wordy and tedious.
I read about one book per week (a train commuter...) and very rarely ever put a book down prior to finishing it. Well, I put this one down before reaching the halfway point. I could not connect with the characters, and overall it was depressing. It gave me no reason to continue reading. Don't waste your time!
I was very disappointed. I kept reading thinking it would get better. I really must have missed the point of the book. would not recommend it.
What a waste of time. The author tried way too hard to include any idea, description, quip or word trick all on the same page. She has no respect for the reader and I'm so sorry I continued reading it to the end, thinking, hoping, that surely it would get better, or at least more comprehensible. Read something, anything else.
Skystar won't be able to come to the gathering, our clan was attacked by dogs.
If you are interested in this book, I would recommend listening to it on tape. The narrator does a wonderful job and you can skip ahead when you absolutely lose interest in a section.


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Blades Of Valor is all about a friendly community coming together to create memories. We first started back on the NA release of FFXI and have always stuck together through the many years of FFXI. We don't care about experience in previous MMO's or Linkshells, we are just looking for friendly mature people that just like to hang out and talk while taking in all content from the MMO World. We want to be a tight knit community where everyone knows each other and are willing to help each other out. We like to tackle all content, even organized endgame bosses but play more "casual active". What I mean by that is that we are very active players and organize endgame events but it will most likely be once a week. There is no penalty for not attending but acting as a social community linkshell, we hope that you would join in the event if online. We do not want to try to be the best linkshell; we will be want we want to be, a group of friends working together to achieve, progress and experience everything FFXIV has to offer.
Greed will not be tolerated. Don't expect to sign on and immediately have everyone stop to help you slay a NM or tackle a quest. We have events that can be scheduled by any member on the forums and we also will have a set night and time where the linkshell will meet together and anyone can request something they need help to be done.
We do have a ventrilo and it is in no way required. It will act more as a social tool since most PS3 players won't have the luxury to use it unless they have a laptop.
If you are interested in Blades Of Valor, please visit our website. History on the website will be up soon along with the rules. There is no application process, and will most likely remain that way. For now, you can meet up and introduce yourself with some of our members and discuss Final Fantasy XIV. The other members and I look forward to meeting you and sharing our enthusiasm over FFXIV with you.
NOTE: Our name may change to fit more into the FFXIV world.


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Audio and Photo archives: Our archive of 18 audio recordings is available here: it includes the well known "Rochford Past and Present" audio of Peter Whittingham). We also have photo archives available holding 258 photos from the Hewson Osborne collection and 46 from the Saxby-Hill glass plate collection. In future we will be adding some hundred or so photos from the recently acquired Echo archive.
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Game: Samantha Swift and the Mystery from Atlantis
Publisher: MumboJumbo
Platform: PC
Price: Free to try, $19.95 to buy
Breakdown: Following the first two Samantha Swift hidden-object adventures - Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena and Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch - MumboJumbo is back with the third game that stars the daring female archeologist as she once again traverses the globe to solve a epic mystery.
Samantha Swift and the Mystery from Atlantis doesn't quite live up to its predecessors, though. That's not because it's not as fun, but because the bar has been raised in the hidden-object game (HOG) space and this one feels and looks dated by comparison. But fans of the Samantha Swift series won't likely be disappointed.
Our intrepid archaeologist-adventurer begins her quest in Alaska to uncover missing pieces of an Atlantean treasure, but the villainous Colonel Tempesta steals the Totem of Lights out from under her. Swift regains her composure and continues to scour the globe for more treasure (to Australia next, followed by other continents), and prepares for a face-off against her thieving nemesis.
Mystery from Atlantis can be played with a timed mode (with scoring) or relaxed (no timer), but the core gameplay remains the same between the two: hunt for well-hidden objects in a busy scene. The items are listed at the bottom of the screen - such as fishing rod, snowballs and saber-toothed necklace - but while some are relevant to the level (such as a gas torch used to melt away snow) others are not (potatoes, referee whistle, soup ladle).
You'll be asked to solve adventure game-like puzzles with items placed in your inventory, such as a key to start a snowmobile or loud items that make noise in order to cause an avalanche. Some items are listed as riddles, so instead of telling you the actual name of the object ("penguin") it might say something like "Antarctic citizen." You might also be asked to click on pairs of items, such as two fish, two compasses, two canteens, and so on.
If you get stuck, click the scanner and you'll see a silhouette of what the item looks like. This is a good idea as this game has some odd objects at times, like a "Way Finder" and "Ice Drill Auger." If you're really clueless, you can use up a hint or two and it will show you where on the level the object is. If you don't use the scanner or hints, though, you'll get a 5,000-point bonus.
The game is on the easy side - mainly because the objects aren't too well hidden and there are few in the scene - so you probably don't need to use these aids to begin with.
The game features 40 hidden object levels in total, and you'll revisit most of them a couple of times. Each level has two hidden birds and if you click on 60 of them throughout the main game you can unlock a bonus Hidden Objects mode, available from the main menu. Hidden Objects mode allows you to replay any of the scenes you've visited earlier and search for an unlimited supply of hidden objects.
Also, at the end of each location you'll amass a number of special artifacts (not stolen by the femme fatale) and you can visit the multi-room Museum of Secrets Lost from the main menu to look at your handiwork.
While it takes about an hour before you'll find one, Samantha Swift and the Mystery from Atlantis also has some mini-games. Most of them are of the classic variety, be it spot the differences, color matching and other simple puzzles, but they're all nicely tied to the story and location.
Overall, this game is fun, but it doesn't compare to many of the other HOGs available today. Many others have integrated the story better with the items you're searching for (e.g. Murder, She Wrote's deeper characters and plotlines), have made the adventure game-like puzzles a more rewarding experience (Hidden Magic's challenging head-scratchers and awesome mini-games) or have upped the production values (Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove, Hidden Expedition: Devil's Triangle). Samantha Swift retains its cartoon-like look and lacks the same amount of detail and impressive animation.
Perhaps if you're a huge Samantha Swift fan you'd argue otherwise, but while Samantha Swift and the Mystery from Atlantis is still a well-designed HOG, it does little to push the series or genre forward.
By Marc Saltzman
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.


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Ernest Tubb; Red Foley; Loretta Lynn
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|Compact disc.
All tracks originally recorded between 1941 and 1966.
Program notes by Rich Kienzle in container insert.
|Ernest Tubb; with vocal and instrumental acc.
|1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mean mama blues --
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Filipino baby --
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Letters have no arms --
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Thanks a lot --
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A person doesn't make a conscious decision to become a drug addict and to accept all the negative things, like damaging relationships, failing at a career, or committing crimes, that often go along with it. Some have a genetic predisposition to addiction.
Other times, drug addiction starts with simple curiosity or a desire to experiment, especially with prescription drugs. Abuse of these medications has become a full blown epidemic here in America, with one in five Americans abusing prescription drugs at least once in their life.
There are several factors that experts believe are responsible for this growing trend. One factor that everyone can agree on is the availability of prescription drugs. It's possible to find prescription opioids in almost every medicine cabinet in the country, with more powerful versions of painkillers and tranquilizers being released every few years.
Doctors may be over prescribing these drugs to patients for pain, anxiety, insomnia, and other common conditions, which in turn creates prescription drug stashes in homes across the country. The most prescribed, and also the most abused, prescription drug is the painkiller Vicodin.
The drug is especially popular among teens who abuse prescription drugs, with one in ten high schoolers reporting that they've taken the drug recreationally in the last year. Drugs like Vicodin, along with the many others that are meant to treat pain and anxiety, are more readily available than ever before.
These prescription drugs work like other opioids by affecting the parts of the brain that produce feelings of pleasure. The resulting sense of euphoria and heightened well being is what gets so many people hooked the first time.
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When we eat, have sex, and perform other activities that contribute to our survival, small amounts of dopamine are released to encourage us to do more of that behavior. Because using drugs creates the same effect in an even more dramatic way, it's easy for someone to become addicted.
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Question about Mitsubishi VS-50705 50" Rear Projection Television
The problem is a unstable picture broken by several horizontal bars for half an hour or more and then the problem ceases and as long as the unit is left on, the picture remains steady.
A service man suggested the horizontal hold could be the problem wacked the tv a couple of times and left after estimating about $500 to fix it.
Is this something I can handle myself?
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While turning on television during initial start up, screen jumps horizontally for at least an 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours. Then returns to normal until next shut down start up, then repeats.
I have the same TV built in 99. My problem is similar but the vertical hold gives out when the tv warms up about 5 minutes. I will attempt to locate the vertical hold circuit and replace any parts I suspects may be the problem. I suspect a cap is leaking or transitor around IC700 is degrading when warm.
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Marli's Shortbread
Recipe by Marli
A friend recently told me the best shortbread she's ever tried were the ones I baked for her at Christmas - I was very flattered, so I thought I better share this recipe on zaar! I like to halve this recipe & add 1/2 cup pecan nuts to one half & 1/2 cup of butterscotch chips to the other.
Top Review by ReeLani
Fantastic! I've made two batches of this now, and I love it. It's a simple dough to mix up, it rolls out nicely and bakes perfectly. The first batch I fit into a fluted tart pan and scored into wedges before baking. I think that pan baked about 25 minutes (at 350 degrees F). The second batch I rolled into a rectangle and sliced into smaller rectangles. Thanks for a great recipe Marl1. Glad to read your latest updates on your page, too, swap buddy!!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons rice flour
- 1⁄3 cup icing sugar
- 250 g butter, cubed
Directions See How It's Made
- Sift flours& icing sugar together.
- Rub in butter using fingertips, until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Press together.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
- Knead gently.
- Roll out to 1cm thick.
- Either cut out shapes using cookie cutters or press into one round, decorate edges and cut into 8 equal portions, prick with a fork.
- Sprinkle with a little sugar if desired.
- Bake in a moderately slow oven for 15- 20 minutes or until golden.
- Stand for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.


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The Disease
The disease originated somewhere in central china in 2018. By January 2019 it had become noticeable, and people in large cities became infected. The disease was highly contagious, and probably airborne. The Chinese premier declared a nationwide state of martial law in March 2019, but it proved to be too little, too late. Thousands of people were dying every day, with the only symptoms a mild cough. China, that had become the greatest economic power in the world, was soon relegated to a third world country once again. Chinese workers in Somalia became infected when home on leave, and soon the entire dark continent became infected.
A vaccine was developed in a scientific lab in Bern, Switzerland, and was put into the water supply there. Within a matter of hours the vaccine had been put into the water supplies of every major city in every major country in Europe and North America. But China was forsaken, and by July 2019 only a few pockets of survivors remained. Africa was hit badly too, and the disease also spread across the pacific.
The UN agreed to draw a defensive line from Archangel to Volgograd, and to prevent any carriers of the disease from crossing it. Naval patrols off the coast of Africa were introduced to prevent survivors from making it to the Americas, but this failed, with the disease suddenly appearing in Argentina. Brazil was able to introduce the vaccine into Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, but much of the rest of the country fell to infection. In August 2019 the European union pushed for federalisation, to deal with the world wide crisis, all EU member states (except Britain) immediately joined to form the United States of Europe.
The united states navy organised an evacuation programme for non-infected areas in South America, with the Panamanian border with colombia being marked as another defensive line. The US coastguard ruthlessly patrolled American waters, but by the end of 2019 all of the USA, USE and Britain had been vaccinated. It took another years before the disease was finally wiped out, but Asia, Africa and South America were declared forsaken areas.
Post Disease
Following the eradication of the disease there were only four major political groupings in the entire world, the USA, the USE, Britain and Russia. Without China as the main manufacturer of the world the USA launched a nationwide campaign to develop more advanced robots to become the main labour force. Within 5 years the USA had been able to become industrially self sufficient once more. A policy of urbanisation began, creating incentives for people to move into cities and create more space for agricultural production. By 2040 over 90% of the us labor force were machines. This gave rise to a culture of wealth, beyond that ever seen before, America had become a country of millionaires.
The US annexed Mexico in 2046, and Canada the following year. Meanwhile, Europe followed suite, becoming a vast trade power with the US. The USE had annexed the remains of Russia in 2040, and Britain had joined in 2043. By 2060 politics had become irrelevant, as humans became wealthy and lived a life of leisure. The US and USE finally merged in 2093 to become the World Federation.


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The first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station took a 'long, long time' to thank Elton John for his good wishes, then paid tribute to the singer as he explained why.
The singer recorded the classic Wham! cover for her latest album, Emotion.
Pop stars, like the rest of us, had marriage equality on their minds in 2015.
The Seven Sisters Festival in Australia has sparked controversy with its announcement it will ban transgender women who are 'physically men.'
This is the music that rocked our worlds this year.


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Track Summary
Music Track Title: Break Out
Catalog ID: 540829 ISRC: US5UL1121526
Description: A bouncy rocker featuring live drums, funky bass, bluesy guitar, guitars riffs that sound similar to police sirens, a brief clavinet interlude over a frenzied rock beat. Great for in-store media, workout rock, chase scenes, car or truck commercials and much more.
Social Media Link: https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Pop/Tropical-Rock/Break-Out/540829
Artist or Group: Electric Chair 3000
Keywords: positive uplifting bright rocking roll automobile motorcycle Yamaha ATV outboards Kawasaki Polaris Harley Davidson cardio fitness exercise hog rocket blues gym
Music Genre > Sub-genre
Pop Music
Tropical Rock
Extended Properties
Duration: 2:34 Tempo: Med Slow BPM: 100
Arrangement: Synth Ensemble
Instruments: Computer, Drum Kit, Bass, Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar, Shaker, Clavinet
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Moods: Booming, Bouncy, Cheerful, Cool, Delighted, Freaky, Fun, Funky, Funny, Good, Grand, Gritty, Groovy, Hot, Jolly, Playful, Raw, Successful, Swinging, Uplifting
Styles: Club / Bar / Lounge, Corporate, Party / Beach Party, Party / Fraternity, Radio Production, Rock & Roll, Sports / Cardio, Sports / Extreme, Tropical, TV Instrumental
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The Leaflord, the Wild One, the Great Oak, the Many-Branched, the Many-Limbed
Intermediate Elven Deity
information from a number of different sources follows herein:
Symbol: Oak tree Home Plane: Arvandor Alignment: Chaotic good Portfolio: Woodlands, nature, wild elves, druids Worshipers: Druids, rangers, wild elves Cleric Alignments: CG, CN, NG Domains: Chaos, Elf, Good, Plant, Protection Favored Weapon: "The Oakstaff" (quarterstaff)
Rillifane Rallathil (Rill-ih-fane rall-uh-thihl) is quiet, reflective, and enduring over eons unchanged. He is the least flighty of all the Seldarine, the least likely to act on a whim, and often grave and self-absorbed. The Leaflord is protector of the woodlands and guardian of the harmony of nature. He is often likened by his clerics to a giant oak tree, so huge that its roots mingle with the roots of every other plant in the world, that stands at the heart of Arvandor. The great tree draws into itself all the ebb and flow of seasons and lives within the woodlands of the green elves. At the same time, it defends and sustains those lands against disease, predation, and assaults of all kinds. The Leaflord is the patron of wood elves (and to a much lesser extent wild elves).
The church of the Leaflord generally keeps to itself, extending itself only to help fellow elves and other sylvan beings." The church hierarchy is organized regionally and divided into branches, as each type of cleric serves a specific role. The druids who compose the bulk of Rillifane's clergy tend to the health of the forests and those who dwell within, fiercely contesting any attempt to further reduce those forests that remain. Many clerics serve as ambassadors of the faith, working outside the communities of wood elves to educate other races and even other elven subraces how to better dwell in harmony with nature. In times of war, however, the leaders of each region unite the branches of the faith and wood elf warriors into a single force. Rillifane's clerics are deadly enemies of those who hunt for sport or those who harm trees maliciously or unnecessarily. In particular, all clerics of Rillifane have a great hatred for the clerics of Malar, since the followers of the Beastlord often make elves the object of their hunts and their ethos is anathema to those who serve the Leaflord. Rillifane's clergy is charged with rooting out and destroying sentient plants whose nature has been twisted by external forces into a warped perversion of nature.
Clerics and druids of Rillifane pray for their spells at dawn, when the first rays of the life-giving sun spring over the horizon. Rillifane's faithful gather twice yearly at the equinoxes to hold fey dances in large groves of oak trees deep in the heart of great forests. The Budding is a joyful celebration of new life celebrated through dance and song and preceded by an extended period of fasting. A ritual hunt of an ancient and noble hart is undertaken on this day, from which the venison serves to break the fast of the Leaflord's faithful. This ritual honors Rillifane's bounty and reminds his followers of the natural cycle of life that plays out beneath the Leaflord's boughs. The Transformation marks the arrival of autumn and the vibrant hues that bedeck the canopies of the Leaflord around this time. Wood elves and elves of other subraces who seek a form of spiritual rebirth or a major change in their lives gather to celebrate Rillifane's eternal promise that the trees will bloom again and that life is a process of continual renewal. Many clerics and druids multiclass as rangers.
History/Relationships: Rillifane is a very old deity and is said by some to be older than even Labelas Enoreth, for the great tree would continue its life endlessly without the need for an eventual death. He is on good terms with all the Seldarine, as well as most sylvan and faerie deities. His foes include Malar, Talos, and the evil drow gods.
Dogma: The Great Oak draws energy from all the living creatures of the world and nourishes, sustains, and protects them from outside threats. Live in harmony with the natural world, allowing each living being the opportunity to serve out its natural purpose in life. As the Leaflord's countless branches, his faithful are to serve as his mortal agents in the natural world. Defend the great forests from those who would ravage their riches, leaving only destruction in their path. Contest both the quick and the slow death of Rillifane's bounty and hold strong like the great oaks in the face of those who can see only their own immediate needs.
Rillifane Rallathil:( Intermediate God, chaotic good)
God of Forests and the Environment. "The Leaflord". He is worshipped by most Elven Druids and Wood Elves. He is depicted as a giant oak tree whose roots mingle with every other plant in the world. This being is concerned that all creatures have the opportunity to act out their roles in nature without abusing them.
Rillifane's clerics are deadly enemies of those who would hunt for sport or harm trees maliciously or unnecessarily.
His symbol is an oak tree.
In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Rillifane Rallathil is the elf patron deity of wood elves. James M. Ward created the deity for the Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia (1980).
In many campaign settings, the elven pantheon of gods (also known as the Seldarine) consists of the leader Corellon Larethian, as well as Aerdrie Faenya, Deep Sashelas, Erevan Ilesere, Fenmarel Mestarine, Hanali Celanil, Labelas Enoreth, Rillifane Rallathil, Sehanine Moonbow, and Solonor Thelandira. Other elven gods may be present in different campaign settings.
Rillifane is also known as "The Leaflord." He appears as a green-skinned elf clad in bark armor and carrying a magic bow that slays any target hit by one of its arrows. Wood elves that do not worship Rillifane often worship Skerrit the Forester; as the two dieties are good friends, there is no conflict between their worshippers.
Rillifane's clerics wear dark green vestments, tree bark armor, and a laurel wreath on their head. His sacred animals are forest birds. His holy day is the equinox and he is worshipped on tree platforms. Carved items are sacrificed to him semiannually.
Rillifane Rallathil is the Chaotic Good elven god of woodlands and nature. He is also known as the Leaflord, the Wild One, and the Great Oak. He is appears as a huge oak tree. His followers believe that everyone should be free to spend their lives doing what nature has meant them to, and they protect the forests from those who would abuse them. Their preferred weapon is the quarterstaff. Rillifane Rallathil's symbol is an oak tree.
The Leaflord, the Wild One, the great Oak, the Many-Branched, the Many-Limbed, Old Man of the Yuirwood
Quoted from Demihuman Detities:
DD pron.: RILL-ih-fane RALL-uh-thihl Semberholme pron.: REEL-lee-FAHN-eh RAHL-lah-theel
Rillifane Rallathil is protector of the woodlands and guardian of the harmony of nature. He is often likened by his priests to a giant etherreal oak tree, so huge that its roots mingle with the roots of every other plant in the Realms, that stands at the heart of Arvandor, the High Forest of Olympus. The great tree draws into itself all the ebb and flow of seasons and lives within the woodlands of the green elves. At the same time, it defends and sustains those lands against disease, predation, and assaults of all kinds. The Leaflord is the patron of the Sy-Tel'Quessir and revered by many voadkyn. When the Sy-Tel'Quessir settled the Yuirwood, the Seldarine merged with the ancient gods of the Yuir, transforming them into aspects of the various powers of the elven pantheon. Both Magnar the Bear and Relkath of the Infinite Branches, also known as the Many-Limbed, Many-Branched, and the Old Man of the Yuirwood, became aspects of the Leaflord. relkath easily merged with and slowly reinvigorated a primative facet of the Leaflord's nature that had been slowly overshadowed over the ages by the increasingly tamed way of life of the Fair Folk, even among the Sy-Tel'Quessir. As a result of this subtle change of heart, in the centuries since absorbing Relkath, Rillifane's primordial spirit has returned to the fore to great effect. Concurrently, the Sy-Tel'Quessir and Cha-Tel'Quessir (half-elves of the Yuirwood) have rediscovered the ways of their most primative ancestors and reforged their tribal cultures, eschewing the formation of successors to the great green elven civilisations such as Illefarn, Thearnytaar, Eillûr, and Syòrpiir. In contrast to the obvious impact of the absorption of Relkath by the Leaflord, Magnar the Bear was almost totally subsumed after being absorbed, and this aspect of Rillifane is little remembered even among Cha-Tel'Quessir. The half-elves of the Yuirwood speak only of Magnar's Great Sleep, a centuries-long hibernation from which the Bear has yet to emerge. Much like Ubtao, Ulutia, and Uthgar, Rillifane is served by a host of great spirits including the primeval Bear (comingled with Magnar the Bear by the Cha-Tel'Quessir), Eagle, Raven, and Wolf, among others. These aspects of the Leaflord are recognised only by the Sy-Tel'Quessir and a few Cha-Tel'Quessir and not by the other elven or half-elven subraces. Unlike those other powers' worshipers, however, Rillifane's followers do not venerate any one great spirit exclusively, although they may have done so in the distant past. Instead, the Leaflord's faithful call upon one or more spirits assosiated with their god as appropriate for the situation at hand.
Rillifane is on good terms with all the Seldarine, as well as most sylvan and faerie powers. The Leaflord's primary concern is that all creatures have the oppertunity to act out their roles in nature without abusing them, a concern Rilifane shares with Corellon Larethian, the great creator and protector of the Fair Folk. Solonor Thelandira and Rillifane work together closely to preserve and protect the natural world, but they do differ fundamentally on the issue of hunting. In the spirit of the alliance that binds the Great Archer and the Leaflord, Solonor does not permit his priests and followers to hunt within the woods where Rillifane's brooding, forbidding presence cautions against this, unless their need is great. While Rillifane permits hunting for food by hungry folk, he detests hunting for hunting for sport. Rilifane is closely allied wth Emmantiensien the Treant-King and Silvanus the Oak Father. The trio's conversations are many and seemingly endless to others, as none of the three is given to hasty thought or expression. Rillifane is always a respected guest at the Seelie Court, and aside from Emmantiensien, he is friendliest with Skerrit the Forester and often romantically linked with Verenestra the Oak Princess. Rillifane is quiet, reflective, and enduring over eons unchanged. He is the least flighty of all the Seldarine, the least likely to act on a whim, and often grave and self-absorbed. The Leaflord rarely sends an avatar to the Prime, disliking direct action and preferring that his priests carry out his wishes. Rillifane's avatar appears only when major destruction of a Tel'Quessir (usually Sy-Tel'Quessir) habitat is threatened. The appearance of such an avatar is heralded by sudden gusts of wind shaking leaves from the trees, a sign unmistakable to his priests.
Gods of Faerûn and their Temples in the Realms : Rillifane Rallathil
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Hi guys,
I'm on Window 7 - 64 bit and I didn't install any new font/character.
When I typed in Blender 2.65 and Gimp 2.8, Alt+133 to get an à, it didn't work.
I'm also using Lightwave, Vue d'Esprit and Photoshop and when I do the same thing, they work...! Same with other software.
I think is something to do with Blender and Gimp not my character settings on my machine.
Could you please try with Blender and Gimp for me.
Do not use the numbers on top of your keyboard but on the right.
As you can see here it's working here à â é ê so why not in Blender and Gimp?
Warlock279 ( ) ( ) posted at 12:11AM Thu, 03 January 2013 · @4027016
Ya, it appears neither supports alt codes or special characters. I knew about GIMP not supporting them, its long frustrated me that I couldn't use "²" and "½" etc in GIMP. Blender not supporting them is new to me tho.
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Warlock279 ( ) ( ) posted at 12:35AM Thu, 03 January 2013 · edited on 12:39AM Thu, 03 January 2013 · @4027020
Double post here, thanks to an absurdly short time period for editing a post...
Decided to putter around with this a little more, on an interesting side note, when trying to import an object [in LWO format], which contains an "²" in the file name I receieve the error code...
"UnicodeDecoderError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 28: unexpected ed code byte"
...however if I remove the "²" from the file name, I can successfully import the LWO, which has a layer named using the "²" symbol, and it is correctly displayed in Blender's Outliner. So it appears while Blender may not support alt codes, it does at least support unicode characters.
Little more testing, and I've found you can copy and paste accented characters into Blender's Outliner without issue it appears. First I tried Windows "Special Character Map" function, and that worked, then I tried copying the accented characters from your post, and pasting them, that appears to work as well. So at the very least you should be able to copy and paste accented characters into Blender.
Just tested this with GIMP's text tool, and pasting already typed text using accented characters and my squared symbol works. Looks like we just need to type our text containing special characters in WordPad or something first, then copy and past into Blender/GIMP. Wow, wish I'd have figured this out about 5 years ago.
[NOTE] I did not try saving a .blend with those characters after pasting them so I don't know what affects it might have on your saving/loading. I'd test that carefully before risking mucking up a scene.
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Pol ( ) ( ) posted at 3:46AM Thu, 03 January 2013 · @4027038
unbroken-fighter ( ) ( ) posted at 4:48AM Thu, 03 January 2013 · @4027045
no current or past versions of blender have been made to accept anything other than standard english texts
the local accents are not applied in the file names for saves within the native programming languages
while blender does use metric measurements it uses standard english symbols as its basis
most softwares are the same mainly the free ones
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TWINSBURG -- The Board of Zoning Appeal's rejection of variances requested for the construction of a Residence Inn last month was narrowly upheld by City Council Feb. 14.
Four Councilmembers: Council President Gary Sorace, Jo-Ann McFearin (Ward 3), Maureen Stauffer (Ward 4) and Seth Rodin (Ward 5) voted to overturn the Board of Zoning Appeal's rejection of the variances, which would have allowed for a 5-story Residence Inn by Marriott off the Wilcox Drive cul-de-sac, zoned C-3 interchange business district.
Overturning the BZA's decision, however, required a supermajority, or five votes.
Three Councilmembers: Sam Scaffide (Ward 1), Brian Steele (Ward 2) and Bill Furey (At-large) voted to uphold the BZA's decision, and the 3-4 split vote stood.
City planners in 2016 approved preliminary plans for an 89-room, 68,400-square-foot Residence Inn by Marriott on Wilcox Drive, to be constructed just south of the 4-story Hilton Garden Inn of Cleveland/Twinsburg, where the building that housed the old Damon's Grill and Sports Bar still sits.
However, plans were put on hold due to a variance request from Residence Inn officials that would have allowed for 99 rooms in a 70,000-square-foot building.
Joe DeLuca, representing Residence Inn partner PDQ Hospitality, said the proposed Residence Inn would fill a need in the community as an extended-stay hotel.
"This met the niche that Twinsburg pretty much needed for the hotel market," DeLuca said. "We had a feasibility study done, which was handed to the BZA, [and] it was very positive."
However, Bob Voelker, president of the Twinsburg-based Gateway Hospitality Group, argued that not only was the hotel too big for that particular space, but there was little need for another hotel. Gateway Hospitality Group is the hospitality management company for the The Hilton Garden Inn of Cleveland/Twinsburg and developer of Wilcox Place and Blue Canyon.
"If there was a need for a hotel, I'd build it," Voelker said, adding that the current market in the area would not support something as large as a 99-room hotel.
"The occupancy has declined in this market," he said. "There's not enough business. This is a ridiculous request for variances."
Roger Green, general manager of The Hilton Garden Inn of Cleveland/Twinsburg, said the plans "would impact the visibility of the Hilton," adding that there are "other sites" in the city that would be a better fit.
DeLuca countered that having two hotels in proximity would benefit both hotels, since the Residence Inn would serve a different clientele. He said Marriott has an alternative building design, SpringHill Suites (that Residence officials say would fit within the zoning code parameters of that parcel), that is roughly 60,000 square feet and 96 rooms.
However, DeLuca said it would too closely resemble the Hilton and therefore compete for customers.
"The difference is the amenities," he said. "The Residence Inn has a bar area, a breakfast [area] that serves food, versus a normal hotel, the SpringHill, which would compete. This is an extended-stay product. The rooms [in the Residence Inn] are bigger, every room is a kitchenette. There is no product like this in Twinsburg."
DeLuca said he "could do either" a SpringHill or a Residence Inn.
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