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1 Sermon #1375 Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit 1 NOW THEN, DO IT NO DELIVERED ON LORD S-DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1877, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. You sought for David in times past to be king over you: now then, do it: for the Lord has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of My servant David I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. 2 Samuel 3:17, 18. You know the circumstances under which these words were spoken. God had cast off Saul because he had not been faithful and He had appointed David to be his successor, anointing him by the hand of Samuel. Yet when Saul was slain in battle, Israel seemed determined to choose her own king by selecting one of Saul s family and under the leadership of Abner, the majority of the tribes set up Ishbosheth, son of Jonathan, to be king. Then commenced a civil war between the two parties and we read that the house of David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker. In process of time Abner, the commander-in-chief and prime minister who was at the head of Saul s party, because it served his own purposes, changed his mind and resolved that David should become king over the whole land. Having so resolved, he began to persuade the tribes and argue with them on David s behalf. And the words of my text are a part of a very powerful argument which he used in order to induce them to give up the king of their own choosing and offer the crown to the king whom God had appointed, even David. I need say but very little, however, about the circumstances of the case, for I am about to accommodate the words to quite another people and another king. I desire, in all sincerity of heart, to approach those of you whose minds are ruled by evil desires and motives, all of which are alien sovereigns, hostile to the true King whom God has anointed and to remind you, this morning, that you have, in times past, sought to have Jesus to be King over you. Perhaps you have some desires towards Him lingering in your heart even now and, therefore, I have hope of you that you will go further, and in all sincerity, submit yourselves to His dominion. It is time that you should go beyond mere desires and attain to something practical. In the words of Abner I would say to you, Now then, do it. If worth desiring, it is worth performing. Now then, do it. There are the best of reasons why you should do it, for Jesus is God s appointed King, anointed by the Holy Spirit, by whom alone He will save you from your spiritual enemies. May God grant that His Word be successful, through His Divine Spirit, in establishing the Kingdom of Christ in many undecided hearts, this morning, and He shall have the praise! The text gives me the following run of thought. First, I would remind you of former impulses You sought for David in times past to be king over you. Secondly, I would recommend decided action Now then, do it. And thirdly, I would reason with a forcible argument for, only changing names, I may read my text in this fashion, The Lord has spoken of Jesus, saying, By the hand of My only begotten Son I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the powers of darkness, and out of the hand of all their enemies. I. First, then, my business this morning is to REMIND UNDECIDED PERSONS OF FORMER IMPULSES. I would personally address each hesitating hearer and call up the memories of His life. You are not a Christian, but many times you have been upon the verge of it, for you have even gone the length of seeking, after a fashion, to have Jesus for your King. Of course the character and frequency of those impulses have varied greatly in different individuals. Each man has had his own amount of drawings and inclinings towards God. I cannot so speak as to describe all at once and, therefore, I must go into particulars. Many of you have been tutored in the ways and manners of the godly from your youth up. The very first song you heard your mother sing, as she hushed you to sleep, was sweetened with the name of Jesus. Probably you cannot recollect a time when there were not some holy agencies at work upon your heart. And you remember the effect they had upon Volume
2 2 Now Then, Do It Sermon #1375 you, even at the very beginning, when as a child your little prayers at night grew fervent and you sobbed yourself to sleep with grief for having done wrong. Often did your childish heart sigh after, gentle Jesus, and long for His love. I think I see those tears upon your little cheeks even now, when you had lately heard the story of Jesus, or had been earnestly addressed concerning death and judgment to come. When the sweetness and beauty of Christ and the happiness of Believers were set before you in your youth, you often felt drawn to the Cross of Christ. Nor was it in childhood, alone, for as you grew older there were agencies adapted for your growth prepared by infinite love. Some of you fell into the hands of sincere Christian men and women who did not cease to instruct you and to warn you. And sometimes, as you must remember if you will but try to do so, you were like Agrippa of old, almost persuaded to be a Christian. You promised, you resolved, you began even to pray, but, alas, your goodness was as the morning cloud, as the early dew and soon passed away. But you do remember, don t you, that it was there? Since then, though you have been immersed in business cares, you have not been altogether without some thoughts towards Jesus the Savior. An earnest sermon has driven you home to your knees. Affliction has frequently compelled you solemnly to consider. The death of others has made you pause and forced you to hopeful resolves. Can you count up the many times in which you have come to a dead halt and have raised the question, Shall I go further or shall I turn? Your soul has been half constrained to say within herself, Things shall be altered. I will no longer be an ungrateful child to my good God, but I will arise and go to my Father. Why, there are some of you to whom continuance in rebellion must have been very difficult, for you have had to stifle and almost to strangle conscience! If you do not see, it is because you have laid your fingers heavily upon your eyelids to keep out the light if you have not heard, it has been because you have stopped your ears till they have become dull of hearing. The knock at your door by your Lord s pierced hand has been kept up year after year, almost incessantly, and even in the night watches you have been startled with it. He whose head is wet with dew and His locks with the drops of the night, has stood there these many weary months knocking, knocking, knocking! In boundless patience of love He still lingers and again lifts that scarred hand to knock again in tender earnestness. You have been almost persuaded to rise from the couch of your sloth to admit Him to your heart, but as yet you have not done so. You sought for David to be king over you in times past, some of you, but, alas, you have not crowned him yet. There are others among you who have not been so highly favored with religious advantages. Some of you, perhaps, come of an ungodly household and your bringing up has been apart from the things of God. I grieve to say that this is getting more frequent daily, especially in our great cities. Children, nowadays, are not trained to the observance of the Sabbath as they were! Multitudes in this great city seldom tread the floor of God s House at all. Still, I can scarcely imagine that there is one present but who has, at times, enjoyed holy impulses, right convictions and pure desires. Conscience, though not enlightened as we could have wished, has not been quite quit with you you have felt uneasy in your unconverted state and you are uneasy now. You have been forced, sometimes, to think, and when a man who is without God and without Christ begins to think, his thoughts must trouble him and, being troubled, he is likely to desire the way of peace. I cannot but believe that you who are thoughtful have sometimes had intense desires to be Christians. You have longed to be pardoned, renewed and sanctified. Would you not give all that you have for a sure hope of Heaven? You know that occasionally, at least, pure aspirations have come over you and I wish that I could, by any means, so revive your memories that you would all confess that you sought for Jesus in times past to be King over you! If you remember these things, I beg you, also, to consider that your responsibilities have been increased in proportion to those impulses, for every time you have checked conscience, or have held yourself back when you were moved towards right, you have not only incurred a present sin, but you have rendered all your future life the more censurable! The more difficult it is to persevere in an evil course, the more intensely sinful that perseverance becomes! So that I must charge upon some here present that every day in which they live without repentance and without faith is a day of aggravated iniquity, seeing that they resist the Holy Spirit as did, also, their fathers! You love darkness rather than light because your deeds are evil. None are so blamable for ignorance as those who refuse to learn and none so guilty in their sins as those who resist better impulses and do violence to themselves in order to indulge their iniquities. The case varies, however, as we have already seen. These impulses have been usual in you at 2 Volume 23
3 Sermon #1375 Now Then, Do It certain times and these find a parallel in the case of Israel. The tribes desired David for king on certain occasions. For instance, whenever Saul was more than ordinarily oppressive, they sighed for the son of Jesse who was of a gentler mold. Whenever sin begins to be oppressive to a man, he has, for the present, some wish to escape from its tyranny. Sin is a very hard taskmaster, especially some forms of it. Let a man pursue the sin of drunkenness and, who has woe? Who has redness of eyes like he does? Let a man follow the lusts of the flesh and his very body soon begins to smart beneath the lash of his despotic vices. Even now the earnest of sin s wage is something dreadful for a man to receive! Have you ever seen a spendthrift brought to beggary and rags? Do you wonder that when his hungry belly accuses him, he promises better things and, in a measure, is sincere in his good resolves? Selfishness, itself, calls upon men to quit their evil ways which are ruining them body and soul! It is not at all amazing that so loud and near a voice should, for a time, be heard! Some of you know well when it has been so, when your sin has lost its pleasurableness, when the beaded bubbles of frothy joy have disappeared from the cup of sin and it has become stale and flat then you have seen the hollowness of the world and cried, I would gladly be a Christian! These Israelites, perhaps, in their hearts sought for David to be king when they saw the joy upon the face of David s men. His troops often had spoil to share and they always spoke well of their captain. And whenever one of David s men was seen anywhere about Judah or Israel, the people said, Those warriors have a goodly heritage in being under such a noble leader and they wished they had such a king, themselves! I do not doubt but sometimes when you hear Christ preached in all His sweetness, your mouths begin to water after Him! Is He so good, is He so pleasant? Oh, that we knew Him! And when you see Christians so happy and especially when you see them in times of trouble so cheerful and joyous under all their trials, I know you have had an inward wish that you knew their secret and could share their peace. Has not it been so? When you saw your mother die, did you not wish you had her Savior to soften your pillow as He softened hers? When that dear little child of yours who loved the Savior sang of Jesus as she departed, you almost wished that you could die with her if you might as cheerfully meet the Lord! Well, those were times when you sought David to be king over you in days past. I want, if I can, to bring them all up afresh. Perhaps if they would all revive at once and come again, God might bless them and make the united impulse strong enough, by His good Spirit, to carry you over the frontier into the Kingdom of Christ. The Israelites, no doubt, often wished that David had been king when they saw their enemies gradually encroaching upon their territory and threatening to subdue them. They sighed and said, Oh, for an hour of David with his sling and his stone. In the name of the Lord he brought down the haughty Philistine. O that he were to the front again! Saul has fallen on the mountains and Jonathan is slain upon his high places, and we, the people of the Lord, are trod down by the uncircumcised! Oh for the son of Jesse, once again, to lead our armies forth to successful war! Have you not, also, when you have seen the strength of your growing sins and contemplated the ruin which they will bring upon you, longed for a Deliverer? When you have perceived what sin will surely bring upon you, by-and-by, in another world and how, even now, it holds you in bondage, have you not wished for a Savior, yes, wished for the Christ of God to come and destroy your sins and overthrow Satan and set you free? I am sure you must have had such wishes when sickness has made death appear to be approaching, when judgment has begun to be realized and the terrors of wrath to come! You thought of Jesus in times past to be King over you. And have you not, also, like Israel, often longed for your true King that you might, at last, find rest? The civil war must have inflicted much misery upon the nation and, therefore, the people wished the strife to be ended through David s being made king. So, too, you wish that your heart were peaceful and quiet, for now you are ill at ease. You love your pleasurable sins, but you are not easy in them. The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself upon and you know it! You wish that you enjoyed the solid peace, the confidence and satisfaction which Believers possess! But you know that you cannot have it apart from Christ and this reflection has sometimes made you seek Christ, after your fashion, though, alas, it has not lasted long enough to produce real allegiance to Him! I think it right to remind you of these past feelings. How I wish they would come back and rise to practical results. May the Holy Spirit renew them in a deeper form than in the past, that you may, at once, with eagerness, go forth and salute your King the King who wore a crown of thorns for your sake! These seekings after David were sometimes vivid and strong with the Israelites and so, too, impulses with undecided people are occasionally very powerful. Though they do not actually lay hold on Eternal Life, they have strong desires to 3 Volume
4 4 Now Then, Do It Sermon #1375 do so. They go beyond empty wishes and seriously sigh for an interest in Jesus and yet they pause there and go no further. The bud becomes a tiny fruit and then withers from the tree. I have known unconverted people to feel great terror at the thought of remaining unsaved. Under this influence they have gone to their knees and begun to pray. They have gone to their Bibles and begun to read. They have attended the House of God with great regularity and listened with very solemn attention and they have even gone the length of mending their ways in many points! They have begun to frequent Prayer Meetings and, for a while, it did seem as if Jesus would be King over them! Indeed, we hoped that they were already the servants of the Lord, but, alas, our hopes were disappointed they turned back and walked no more with us. Oftentimes the impulses which are put aside and stamped out by half-awakened men are exceedingly difficult to overcome. Some of you have had to exert yourselves fearfully to remain as you are. You have needed help of the world, the flesh and the devil to overpower the force which held you, for a while, in its grasp. Some men battle for damnation with a greater force than others strive after Eternal Life! The way of transgressors is sometimes hard, in this sense, that they find it difficult to continue as they are they are so persecuted by the persuasions, warnings and entreaties of good men and their conscience is so alarmed as to give them little or no rest. Alas, their neck is as an iron sinew and they are set on mischief! And despite the inward calls which bid them seek Jesus for their King, they turn a deaf ear to the most tender wooing and continue as they were but not without an awful increase of guilt. Listen to me, you who are described in the language I have used! Listen and learn wisdom! Nothing has come of all the seekings of your youth and your later days. You sought for David in times past to be king over you, but nothing has come of it! Nothing has come of it even to this day. You saw that religion was right you did not argue to the contrary! You admitted all its reasons! You yielded your understanding so far that you would even defend the Truth of God against opponents! But what of all that? To admit a thing to be right is but a small part of the matter, if you practically deny it by your indifference. You have wished that you were a Christian you have wished it hundreds of times, but this, also, is vanity, if carried no further. If wishes were horses beggars would ride and so, if wishes were Graces the careless would be saved. You know, too, that you went beyond wishing you regretted that you were not already decided you felt very much ashamed of yourself for having resisted so long. If anybody had told you that you would be hesitating, now, you would not have believed it. Ten years ago, if anyone had said, In ten years time you will be sitting in the Tabernacle just as undecided as you used to be, you would have replied with indignation, Is your servant a dog? I shall never be so foolish. But it is even worse, for now you do not feel half so much as you once did. You were more impressible years ago than you are now and, speaking after the manner of men, you are now far less likely to be saved. You know it is so and yet you did at that time, after a fashion, pray and, after a sort, you were in earnest. But what of all that? Nothing has come of it! Will anything ever come of it? The Israelites might talk about making David king, but that would not crown him. They might meet together and say they wished it were so, but that would not do it. It might be generally admitted that he ought to be monarch and it might even be earnestly hoped that one day he would be but that would not do it something more decided must be done. And oh, am I not, indeed, hitting the very center of the target when I say of some of you that you have, scores of times, given up the whole question as a matter of argument? Yes, and your heart has submitted that it was wrong of you to continue as you are! And you have been moved with strong resolutions towards repentance and faith and yet you are the same as ever and not one inch closer to salvation! You are still in darkness, still under the dominion of Satan, still the slave of sin and so, I fear, you will be in 10 more years! And so you will be to the end of life and so forever and forever! May God grant that my words may not be prophetic concerning any one of you, but that you may, this very day, be moved by the Eternal Spirit to take decided action through His Grace. Now then, do it. II. I therefore pass on to the second part, to RECOMMEND DECIDED ACTION. You sought for David in times past to be king over you, now then, do it. No longer stand thinking, questioning, hesitating, halting but now then, do it! Do one thing or the other! If God is God, serve Him! If Baal is God or the devil is God, serve him. Do not sit down forever in this absurd condition of believing a thing to be right and yet neglecting it of feeling yourself to be in danger and not seeking to escape by the way which you admit to be safe and fitting! Come, now, to something like honest dealing with yourself and with your Lord. 4 Volume 23
5 Sermon #1375 Volume 23 Now Then, Do It Note the business on hand it is that Jesus should be King over you. It was necessary that David should become king, or else he could not rescue Israel from the Philistines and, in your case, Jesus must be King or He cannot be your Savior. Thousands of people are quite willing to be saved by Christ, but when it comes to the first step, namely, that Jesus must be accepted as Ruler, Lawgiver, Master, King and Lord, then they start back and reject Eternal Life Yet know (nor of the terms complain), Where Jesus comes, He comes to reign! To reign, and with no partial sway Thoughts must be slain that disobey. The whole question of your being saved or lost will turn on this if Jesus is not your King, then the devil will remain enthroned in your heart and you will remain a lost soul! But if your heart will yield itself up to the supreme authority of King Jesus, then the work of salvation has already commenced and Jesus will take care to purge your nature of all His enemies until you shall be an empire in which He, alone, shall reign in holiness and peace! Jesus must be king! What do you say, Sir, Madame shall it be so? Do you hesitate about it? He must be your Lord and Master. His will must be your will. His commands must be law to you and His example must, from now on, be the model of your life. Do you disagree, or will you yield at once? Next, notice that if Christ is to be your King, it must be by your own act and deed. So says the text concerning King David Now then, do it. David would not be king over Israel unless Israel was willing that he should be king. And our Lord Jesus Christ is no forced monarch over one single human heart the promise is, Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power. The Kingdom of Christ over men s hearts is a kingdom of love, not a kingdom of force! There must be the full assent and consent of the will to the reigning power of Christ in the soul or else He does not reign at all! What do you say yes, or no? Are you willing that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, should, from now on, rule and reign over your entire nature as your heart s supreme Lord? That is the question! Let it be settled once and for all! You have sometimes sought to have it so, now then, do it. And here is the point, if Jesus is to reign, the old king must go down! It is of no use trying to have Ishbosheth and David on the throne at the same time. It is impossible to serve sin and to serve Christ! Favorite and constitutional sins must be relinquished. I know many persons who say that they are under concern of soul whose sincerity I more than question, because they continue in known sin and yet they complain that they cannot find peace! How can they? If you meet with a person who drinks, on the sly, and is frequently half intoxicated. If you hear him say that he cannot find rest in Christ, do you wonder? Do you not think that he is a hypocrite? How can men and women continually fuddle themselves with drink and yet hope to be children of God? Give up your abominable tippling! Do you think Christ is going to save sots and let them continue to make beasts of themselves? To prate about being saved and in secret worship the bottle is clear lying and next door to blasphemy! Talk about having a Savior and continue to get drunk? I marvel that you do not perish like Ananias and Sapphira! Another man is carrying on his trade in a way which is dishonest and yet he whines and cants about not finding peace with God. Do not his own words condemn him? What has he to do with peace? How can he continue in sin and yet be saved from sin? Oh, Sirs, be not deceived! Your sins and you must part or Jesus will have nothing to do with you! Do you think so badly of my Lord as to dream that He will pander to your passions by giving you liberty to live in sin and yet go to Heaven? For shame! Has Christ come to play the lackey to your lusts and let you do the work of Satan and then receive the wages of the godly? Oh no! There must be a clean sweep of the false to make room for the true! We must have no Ishbosheth if David is to be king! Though you may not attain perfection, yet in your desires you must be perfect you must, from your heart, put away every single sin no matter of what shape it may be or however pleasurable or painful it may appear. Off must come the right arms and out must go the right eyes! It were better for you to enter into life maimed and blind than that you should perish in your transgressions. The main point, however, is to do it really and at once make Christ Jesus your King! And to this end we must believe in Him or trust Him. It is this trusting Jesus Christ which is the essential point, for out of it grows the repentance which renounces every false way. When a man fully and honestly trusts Christ with his soul, he is enabled, from that time forward, to hate the sin which he once loved and so he wins the mastery over it. He finds a joy in submitting to the holy reign of Jesus because he has already trusted Him and believes that he is saved. But, alas, many of you do not believe! Indeed you would not be 5 5
6 6 Now Then, Do It Sermon #1375 persuaded to believe though one rose from the dead! How many times have I spoken from this platform to some of you about this matter? How many times have you wished and resolved and all that? We have had enough of this trifling! This morning I would push you on to a decision and address you in these words Now then, do it! NOW THEN, DO IT! You reply that you wish you could. Away with your wishes Now then, do it! But, you say out with your buts! DO IT! But, Sir I say again, no more of your, but, Sirs! DO IT! DO IT, and DO IT NOW! The blessed and eternal Spirit who has brought you to this point, this morning, and who urges me to press this question upon you waits to help you. When your whole soul wills to do it, He will be with you and you will do it and Christ shall be enthroned in your hearts to reign there forever! I fear that many do not mean to do it, at any rate not just now. They will not say, No, but they hesitate and that is much the same thing. O, my Friend, the day will come when God will take your hesitation for a final negative! I believe it often happens to men that though they have not deliberately said, No, yet having no heart for the Gospel and only trifling with God by pretences, they mean to obey Him by-and-by. But He has, at last, taken the meaning of their delay and regarded it as final rejection and left them to themselves so that they have perished in their sin. I beseech you, delay no more, but, now then, do it. The sooner it is done the better. Until the deed is done, remember, you are undone! Till Christ is accepted by you as King. Till sin is hated and Jesus is trusted, you are under another king. Whatever you may think of it, the devil is your master! You say you do not like him, but he is your master and lord, for all that, since he leads you captive at his will. Till Jesus reigns in your heart, you are, also, in the utmost danger in danger of death and eternal punishment! Let your breath go the wrong way, or let your heart cease beating just for a little and you will be in Hell! My Friends, you will be in HELL! You who sought for Jesus in times past, you who felt those good desires, you, the beloved child of Christian parents, you the earnest hearer at the House of God, you who are fond of sermons, but are, I fear, sermon-hardened you, even you will sink down to Hell with all those privileges like millstones about your neck! Well, Sir, I will think about it. Under cover of that promise there lurks delay and that is exactly what I am afraid of. Do not so much think, as ACT. Now then, do it. I beseech you to make serious and immediate business of it! Perhaps if it is not done at this moment, it never will be done. For all these long years nothing has been actually done though so much has been proposed and this mainly because of your perpetual delays. What has come of all your fine resolutions? What is the good of a mere resolve? A man resolves that he will be industrious, but if he continues to lie on the bed of the sluggard, is he any more thrifty? A man is sick and resolves to take medicine, but leaves it untasted is he benefited by his intention? A man resolves to go on a journey, but does not take the trouble to get into the public conveyance, or to use his limbs what progress does he make? Does he not abide just where he was? All this bears upon your case! You know it does! All this, while Jesus is being rejected! We do not sufficiently think of the dishonor done to Jesus by base delays. All the while that Israel did not accept David as king, David was being badly treated. He who fought the Philistines for them. He whose valor was Israel s right arm, whose band of men was the sword and shield of the nation against the Philistines was being kept away from his rightful throne, his merits forgotten, his claims ignored. Soul, by refusing Him His Throne, you are treating Jesus badly! Your wavering between two opinions is setting Him in rivalry with foul sin and a base world and upon you daily guilt is coming a guilt which grows thicker and blacker as time rolls on. Think of your previous impulses and as you consider them, answer me this question were they wrong? When, in your childhood, you felt such strong desires after Christ, were they not commendable desires? Why, then, do you not carry them out? If you were wrong in stopping them, then why should you continue to act so unwisely? If they are returning now, why not heartily entertain them? Remember, moreover, that though you had these holy impulses, they passed away. Have you any reason to hope that they will continue with you now? Will they not, again, melt into thin air? Unless God, the almighty Spirit, at this time shall lead you to take decided steps, you will resolve again today, and reresolve, but continue, still, the same! Of all things, the most pitiable sight, to my mind, is a man who has light enough to know he is wrong but not Grace enough to forsake the evil! It is terrible to see a soul under impulses which urge it towards the right and yet remaining a captive to that accursed free will which enslaves it to the last degree. Alas, how many put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and, therefore, will not come to Christ that they might have life? Such is the state of man! Such is the state of some of you! May God have 6 Volume 23
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UTech to open Shared Facilities Building
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The University of Technology (UTech) will on December 14 officially open its Shared Facilities Building.
The Shared Facilities Building comprises 20 SMART classrooms, three state-of-the-art lecture theatres, sanitary conveniences, computer laboratories, and an amphitheatre.
The new building is one of the major infrastructural outcomes of the UTech Jamaica Enhancement Project facilitated through a loan agreement between the Government of Jamaica and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), with counterpart funding by UTech.
The scope of the project had two main components — institutional strengthening and civil works development.
Senator Ruel Reid, Minister of Education, Youth and Information will deliver the keynote address and declare the Shared Facilities Building officially opened at a special ceremony commencing at 3:00pm.
Other speakers at the opening ceremony will be Professor Stephen Vasciannie, president, UTech, Stephen Lawrence, operations officer, CDB, and Dr Wayne Henry, director general, Planning Institute of Jamaica.
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Well, this writer's day, he said ungrammatically, but authentically.
10:26 a.m.
A reasonably successful day so far. I went to sleep just after 1 a.m. and woke around 8. I groaned and rolled over trying to return to my dream. It wasn't a particularly happy dream, but even my less than joy filled dreams are preferable these days to waking reality. I did get up at about a quarter after eight and went downstairs. My wife was still sleeping in her hospital bed in our former living room. Hmmm, it is now, in fact, a living room - the room where she lives and commands all those within her range. Anyway, I tidied the kitchen, made a pot of coffee, reheated the one mug's worth remaining from yesterday, made my usual breakfast of multigrain toast and sliced cheese-like substance. Then I made a large pot of chili con carne, fed the dogs and PC our cat. I found time to check and see if our pension payments were in the bank [hers for disability, mine - I started collecting my government invested pension as I know I will never retire] - they were. I let the dogs out, and went outside myself, still in my pjs. There is still one rose in full bloom, despite the very cold night time temperatures, and a few buds that may or may not survive to bloom. I uprooted the radish plants. The soil here is hard clay - I have added a few loads of good, black topsoil over the years but it is still not enough for root crops. No radishes, in short. It is nice to breathe the clear, free air if only for a few moments.
Back indoors, I made a shopping list of odds and ends to pick up as I have to go out and get an oil change in the car at 1....I put Classic FM on my iPad [a London England classical music station I prefer brought in by a lovely little app called tunein radio]. My old iPad version 1 is not much use anymore as fewer and fewer things work properly on it, but it serves for music or for reading eBooks still. Oh, and it works nicely for a new writing app called tactilize.com - I have put a few poems up on that neat little program. They promise a multi-page format soon... I look forward to that!
What else have I done in these past two hours or so? Oh, yes, my day job! I am a part-time instructor at the University of Guelph's History department, and in the Electives area at the University of Guelph-Humber. I spent a good half hour grading essay proposals - which reminded me of an amusing little 'card' I shared on Facebook yesterday: "100 years ago we were teaching Latin and Greek in High School, today we teach remedial English in college' - amusing, but not terribly good for the future of writing! And not terribly good for my mental health while marking assignments.
My wife woke up just around 10, and I made her breakfast - coffee from the pot, cheerios as she was so late she didn't want too much to ruin lunch at noon.... and I checked and stirred the chill... oh, yes, and I put the laundry in for a second rinse, then into the dryer. I hear that the dryer has stopped now...
Time to finish my morning routine .....
Ciao for now


text: In February 2008, Polaroid announced that it was ceasing production of instant film. 'Time Zero' is a documentary that tells the story of the last year of Polaroid film in three acts. Act I introduces the 'magic' of Polaroid through the perspective of Polaroid artists and former employees of the corporation. Act II begins with the discontinuation of instant film and covers the grass-roots movement to keep it alive. Act III centers on 'The Impossible Project' and follows their against-the-odds effort to reinvent instant film.


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'The Friends of Letocetum'
A group of volunteers, 'The Friends of Letocetum,' was formed in 2008, primarily to facilitate the re-opening of the Museum at Wall.
Wall (Letocetum) is quite unique in the fact that it is one of only a small number of sites in the UK which are under the guardianship of both National Trust and English Heritage. National Trust own the land on which the site (Mansio and Bath House) is located, and English Heritage is the custodian, providing upkeep of the ruins and surrounding land as well as the maintenance of the Museum.
The site is open all year round, but the group of National Trust Volunteers, 'The Friends of Letocetum,' enable the Museum to be open at specific times during the year. These Museum open days, between 11.00 am and 4.00 pm, are during the last weekend of every month between March and October as well as all Bank Holiday weekends in that period.
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Wall Roman Site, Watling Street, Wall, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 0AW.


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It was a long time since i updated my blog.
I have been online lately. but let me get this straight. I've watched a tons of movies for the past 6 months and the list of these movies are very much similar in genre. slow but yet intriguing.
After all, these movies are really worth the watch!
When a young American (Amanda Seyfried) travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author (Vanessa Redgrave) to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
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My Rating: 4/5
Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Tybee Island, Georgia. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer on Tybee Island with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts ...and heal them
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My Rating: 3/5 (Well, Miley's lips annoyed me) Sorry.. But the Storyline was terrific..:D
Charlie St. Cloud is a young man overcome by grief at the death of his younger brother. So much so that he takes a job as caretaker of the cemetery in which his brother is buried. Charlie has a special lasting bond with his brother though, as he can see him. Charlie meets up with his brother (Sam) each night to play catch and talk. Then, a girl comes into Charlie's life and he must choose between keeping a promise he made to Sam, or going after the girl he loves
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January 27th is...
International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
- On January 27 each year, the United Nations (UN) remembers the Holocaust that affected many people of Jewish origin during World War II. This day is called the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The day also commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1945. It is hoped that through remembering these events, people will remember the Holocaust and prevent genocide.
National Chocolate Cake Day
- a chocolate lovers delight, and a day to eat cake. Why this a day to "bake your chocolate cake....and eat it, too!" On this day, a white or yellow cake will not do. Nor, will part chocolate, part white suffice. It must be chocolate, all chocolate. You can make milk chocolate, dark chocolate, fudge, or any other type of chocolate cake.
Punch the Clock Day
- celebrates the system of calculating employee work hours through the Punch Clock system and it's invention. On this holiday you are encouraged to share a day of celebration at your work place. Management needs to have plenty of coffee, tea and doughnuts in the break room so you and all your work mates can get together on your coffee break and celebrate the punch clock.
Holocaust Memorial Day
- is a national event in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of The Holocaust. It was first held in January 2001, and has been on 27 January every year since. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union in 1945.
Mozart's Birthday
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He began to study music with his father at a very young age and began composing when he was five. He spent his entire childhood travelling around Germany, Austria, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Italy, giving concerts on the organ, harpsichord, piano and violin and being rewarded with gold rings and watches.
National Activity Professionals Day
- to honor the activity professionals at nursing homes, hospice or hospitals for their efforts in improving the daily lives of all of the patients and residents.
Auschwitz Liberation Day
- Auschwitz was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Vietnam Peace Day
- A ceasefire to take effect at midnight was announced as the Paris Peace Accords were signed by the United States and North Vietnam in 1973, officially ending American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Clashing Clothes Day
- a day to come to work or school in your most clashing outfits. Wear lots of layers, which when worn incorrectly tend to look heinous. Like a skirt over jeans with mismatched shoes, then put a t-shirt on with a button up over that and a vest and two belts and too many necklaces. It really depends on how far you want to go!
Mad Tea Party Day
- "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" ~ Alice, from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's Birthday
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
National Toilet Day / Thomas Crapper Day
- a holiday devoted to the man who invented the flush toilet. And we all should celebrate the toilet! Can you imagine life without it? It would be like camping in the woods your whole life.
Thomas Crapper's plumbing company built flush toilets of Giblin's design in the 1880's. After the company received a royal warrant, Crapper's name became synonymous with flush toilets.
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Reval, a global provider of cloud-based solutions for treasury and risk management, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ION Investment Group. Andrea Pignataro, ION's CEO and Founder, said, "The acquisition of Reval substantially increases our footprint in treasury cloud services and enriches our product portfolio with leading functionality in risk and hedge accounting. We will also be able to leverage Reval's strong Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams across the product portfolio under Jiro's leadership."
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This is my first time seeing this trogon and able to photograph it. This looks like a juvenile.
Orange-breasted trogons generally have an olive-yellow head with feathers that are bristled and upright, chestnut upperparts, orange breast that changes to bright yellow on upper and lower portions, white bars on wing sections, and a blue bill. Males have a dull olive-yellowish head with a blue ring; rufous (reddish brown) upperparts and upper tail with paler rump (lower part of back); broad white bars on wing sections; and yellow (grey-based) upper breast with some white along the mid-line. Females have additional grey-brown on head and upperparts; pale buffy-brown rump, grey breast; and yellow lower underparts. Juveniles are similar to females, with young males having warmer brown upperparts.


text: Twin Branch Model School welcomed its students back to the classroom with an open house for parents and families on Thursday. Children went back to school Aug. 15. Principal Mickey Roelandts said the open house attracted several hundred people, including the newest of students in the kindergarten classes. "Coming to the open house certainly shows their interest and support of the schools," said Roelandts, taking a break in the school office after addressing families in the gym. "It's also an informational evening (with) an opportunity to visit classrooms," she added. "Teachers will be giving short presentations." In one classroom, 7-year-old Morgan Corban checked out the scene with her mother, Stephanie. Morgan wanted to see her friends -- as well as eat cookies, she confided with a charming giggle. "I wanted to see the classroom, meet her teacher and see how this class goes," said her mother, whose 9-year-old son, Austin, is also a Twin Branch student. "Maybe science," he said, when asked what his favorite subject was. "And maybe when we read." That would be welcome news to Roelandts, who stressed the importance of reading with parents. "I do tell them I wanted them to continue modeling the importance of reading," she said, a tad wistful about the influence of technology. "The biggest disadvantage is it has the power, and the bells and whistles, to make books look ordinary," Roelandts explained. So she asks parents to remember that although computers are wonderful, so is quiet reading. "We're looking forward to having an academic night that highlights our science program," she said, describing some of the goals for the coming year. "We have a variety show that brings a lot of student participation," she added. "It's kind of like a talent show." But in these first days of school, it was the excitement of the moment for students like 7-year-old Kaitlynn. "We wanted to come even though we were here last year," said Alison Kendall of Mishawaka as her daughter visited in Sandu Harrell's classroom. "We wanted to see all the parents again, and get to know the new teachers," Kendall said. "She'll be challenged," she added. "And Mrs. Harrell always makes it fun." Staff writer Laureen Fagan: email@example.com (574) 235-6344


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The iconic Gibson Explorer was so far ahead of its time when it was first introduced in 1958. Gibson produced only about 100 of the famed instruments—many of which are now highly prized collectibles selling for upwards of half a million dollars. Today, the same far-out, futuristic Gibson Explorer—reintroduced in the mid-1970s—is one of the most coveted powerhouses of screaming rock and roll.
One of the best-known guitarists to make frequent use of the Gibson Explorer is Metallica's James Hetfield. James started playing the Explorer after the neck on his Flying V copy snapped. The sharp edges of the Explorer's design nicely complement Hetfield's guitar playing style, which is built around heavy and fast, very precise riffs. Hetfield explained to GuitarPlayer how he came to be an Explorer fan: "My backup was a Gibson Explorer, but I didn't play it much until the neck broke on my V. That's what got me into the Explorer."
The first Explorer James Hetfield would use frequently with Metallica was a 1984 model, nick named the "More Beer" Explorer because of a sticker on its body. Around the time of Metallica's 'Black Album,' James switched to playing Explorer-lookalikes, because of a sponsor deal. But when it was time for Metallica to record their 2008 album Death Magnetic, Hetfield brought out his old Explorers and Flying Vs once more. The reason was a photo session that Hetfield did, as he explained to GuitarPlayer: "I was inspired by this photographer who wanted to get an iconic picture of me with a somewhat iconic guitar. When I pulled out my early guitars—my old Kill 'em All white Flying V copy and some of the Explorers—I rediscovered how well they played." It's the ultimate testament that no matter how great a brand new instrument is, there is no comparing it to a guitar that's been broken in on the road for the past 20 years.
Another Explorer that has seen a lot of use from Hetfield throughout the years is his '76 reissue from the early nineties. The guitar has been nicknamed "Rusty," from the rusty pickguard that Hetfield himself installed on the instrument.
On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Metallica's heavy riffs is U2, but no matter how unlikely, the two bands share a crucial piece of equipment: They both use Gibson Explorers. U2 guitarist The Edge created U2's classic sound using a 1976 Gibson Explorer, an Electro Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe delay, and a VOX AC-30. In fact, The Edge and his Explorer was a major part of U2's image in the band's early years. The Edge talked about how he acquired the guitar on the BBC series The Story of the Guitar: "I just picked it up in the store and it felt so great, this is it. I actually went in to buy, I think I was going to buy a Les Paul, but I just fell in love with this guitar. I brought it back and I was slightly like...it's a little strange looking...are the guys in the band gonna look at it and go 'what?'...there's a few strange looks for the first day, but everyone just loved the sound of it. I think it became like a signature look, no one else was playing Explorers at that point, and so quite soon it became the thing we were famous for. Apart from a few other things obviously."
The Edge has since retired the original Explorer from touring, but it is still very much used in the studio when U2 is recording new music. Even though its head broke off when The Edge threw it on stage in the mid-eighties they were able to repair it without losing its characteristics. U2 is a great example of a band that thinks outside the box, and are able to take a guitar that most associate with heavy metal, and have it represent something completely different. As The Edge said, the guitar simply spoke to him, its futuristic design something that fit perfectly with U2's aspirations to create something new. The excellent sustain of the Explorer was crucial in creating the riffs that The Edge would come up with. A lot of his music is built around what's not being played, letting the notes breathe and not simply playing a million notes a minute.
Check out the video below of U2 performing their first single "Out of Control" at the classic Red Rocks concert to hear The Edge's Explorer in action:


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"No help here.... the rooms are old and basic... easy parking especially if you are towing a vehicle."


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Monday, February 11, 2008
The Millionaire Mind
"The harder you work, the luckier you become" - This has been the mantra of many millionaires surveyed by Thomas Stanley. The author has harped on millionaires' lifestyle, their habits, their attitude and some of their secrets for success. Of course, he corroborates them. I was surprised to know that millionaires were not created by trading stocks or playing lotto :) The content overall could have been condensed. Anyways, it was not very boring. I'm now more tempted to read "The Millionaire Next Door". I would recommend this book to people who wants to know some secrets behind millionaires' success.
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Grant Fund
Actively supporting archaeology in the Wessex region
Funds are raised by subscriptions from our members and through some of our activities: lectures; field visits; guided walks; study days and conferences.
In recent years CBA Wessex has enjoyed a surplus of funds over its day-to-day funding and reserve requirements.
The trustees of CBA Wessex have agreed that the current surplus and any surplus in future years should be spent as grants within the Wessex Region. The amount will be determined by the Trustees on a year-by-year basis following the financial year end and announced at the AGM.
The objectives of CBA Wessex as detailed in its constitution are
(1) to advance the study and practice of archaeology;
(2) to promote the education of the public in such archaeology;
(3) to conduct and / or communicate the results of relevant research;
(4) to advance public understanding and care of the historic environment.
CBA Wessex grant aids conservation of a collared urn from Petersfield
A welcome grant from CBA Wessex has enabled Petersfield Museum to go ahead with a conservation project.
Excavations of Barrow 8 during 2016 on Petersfield Heath, for the People of the Heath Project, led by Stuart Needham, uncovered a Bronze Age collared urn. The urn has been expertly excavated in the laboratory by volunteer archaeologist Jane King, but funding was needed for the follow-up professional-led conservation. The grant from CBA Wessex enabled senior conservator Claire Woodhead of the Hampshire Cultural Trust to commence conservation and stabilisation. The outcome has been a fine looking vessel to go on display in Petersfield Museum.
Those excavating with The People of the Heath project included local community volunteers as well as amateur and professional archaeologists who are delighted that the collared urn, now conserved, will in effect return to the local community.
CBA Wessex grant boosts WARG
Another welcome grant from CBA Wessex enabled Winchester-based archaeology and local history group WARG to undertake their 2016 excavation at Warnford on the River Meon in Hampshire. Normally the group would remove topsoil and overburden by hand, but geophysics performed by Winchester University showed the archaeology to be just too deep to enable this to be done in the timescales of the dig.
The grant enabled the hiring of a mechanical digger and driver who made short work of the topsoil and overburden removal and backfilling task. As a result WARG members were able to excavate for a full 15 days and achieved their objective of finding a Stuart building and courtyards below later Regency and World War II remains.
Many of those digging have been doing amateur archaeology since their involvement with Martin Biddle's excavations in the 1970's when WARG was formed as an archaeological rescue resource. WARG chairman, Chris Sellen, was happy to receive the grant at CBA Wessex's annual conference in November 2016.
Who is Eligible?
Any individual, local group, private or third sector organisation working within the Wessex Region.
We consider applications for matched funding as part of a larger project.
- Applications must demonstrate that they meet one or more of our aims as stated above
- Applications must be for projects undertaken within the Wessex Region
- Applications must have a regional value
- Applications should, where relevant, make reference to available research frameworks
We can help with hire of equipment, support of excavation costs, specialist artefact analysis, conservation costs, radio carbon dating, illustrations, etc.
Although applicants are welcome to apply for grants up to the value of £750, the upper limit is not set in stone and each application is decided on a case-by-case basis.
Projects should be completed within one year of the award being made (that is the project is finished and an evaluation report submitted).
The Group does not fund
- Individual general study costs or associated costs
- Projects that we deem to be political
- Part projects where future funds are essential for the project to continue, unless demonstrated that those funds will be available
How to Apply
Everything you need to know is in the grant terms and guidance notes and if you are considering applying for a grant you should read these and download and retain a copy for your own records (see below). Once you have read the notes and are ready to proceed, download the application form and submit it, together with the required information by email to email@example.com.
The Evaluation Process
Applications are judged by a sub-committee of the Trustees of CBA Wessex on how well they fulfil the aims of CBA Wessex and that they have met the criteria on the application form. If a committee member has links with an applicant or project that is under consideration, then they shall not participate in the decision making process. CBA Wessex reserves the right to ask for additional information in support of any application.
The committee will endeavour to make a decision within eight weeks of receiving the application. Once all funds for each year have been allocated any submissions after that date will be returned.
The decision of the committee is final.
CBA Wessex makes funding available at its discretion dependent upon the individual application. This could be
- Interim payments
- Payment upon sight of a receipt(s) (i.e. for equipment)
- Sight of pro-forma invoice(s) (i.e. for publications, deposits, etc.)
Successful Applicants
Successful applicants are required
- To ensure the project is completed within one year of receiving the award
- To submit an evaluation report within one year of receiving the award
- To provide a short abstract (with photographs if applicable) of the project for inclusion in the CBA Wessex newsletter and subsequently on the CBA Wessex website.
CBA Wessex reserves the right to reclaim any award or part of an award where these conditions are not met.


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The AUD/USD traded mostly lower on Friday after the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed its expectations for future price rises, saying that both inflation and wages are expected "to increase only gradually over time".
Australian Dollar traders didn't seem to care about the weaker U.S. Dollar which fell again due to disappointment that the U.S. tax overhaul may be delayed until 2019. Volume was also below average because of the U.S. bank holiday.
Daily Swing Chart Analysis
The main trend is down according to the daily swing chart. A trade through .7729 will change the main trend to up.
The Aussie has been building a support base since hitting a near-term bottom at .7624 on October 27. The recent price action suggests buyers are trying to form a secondary higher bottom. The last potential bottom is the November 7 low at .7627. A trade through .7624 will signal a resumption of the downtrend. This could generate enough downside momentum to challenge the July 5 bottom at .7571.
Daily Retracement Level Analysis
The short-term range is .7624 to .7729. Its 50% level or pivot is .7676. This price is controlling the short-term direction of the market. Trading below this level is helping the AUD/USD to maintain its downward bias.
The main range is .7897 to .7624. If the trend changes to up then look for the rally to extend into its retracement zone at .7760 to .7793. Inside this zone is a major Fibonacci level at .7782.
As long as the AUD/USD holds inside .7624 to .7729, the direction of the Forex pair will be controlled by trader reaction to .7676.
This article was originally posted on FX Empire
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Leonid Soybelman
Leonid Soybelman
|20 July 1966
|Bălţi, Moldova
|Experimental music, alternative rock, free jazz, electronic music,
|Musician, composer
|Guitar, vocals
|Years active
|1986 – present
|NoMansLand, Tzadik
|Associated acts
|Ne Zhdali, Kletka Red, Poza
Leonid Soybelman (born 20 July 1966 in Bălţi, USSR (now Moldova)) is a Berlin-based musician and film composer of Jewish origin, leader of the band Ne Zhdali.[1] The guitarist and singer, he also collaborated with Alec Kopyt in the "Poza" project, with bands Auktyon, The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet and many others. His musical style has roots from eastern European traditional Yiddish folk music, yet is played in more modern arrangements on the electric guitar, often accompanied by a band. His work, especially with Ne Zhdali, is well known in Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union.
Originally from Moldavia, he grew up in Tallinn, USSR (now Estonia), where he founded in the late 1980s the band Ne Zhdali together with his classmate Ilya Komarov.[1] Later Soybelman moved to Berlin, Germany and Komarov to Zürich, Switzerland.[2] In the 1990s they reunited with Ne Zhdali in Western Europe, continuing touring and producing new albums.
As frontman of "Kletka Red" he performed together with Tony Buck, Andy Ex and Joe Williamson. Their album Hijacking was produced by John Zorn at his label Tzadik Records in the "Radical Jewish Culture" series.
Soybelman composed the music for the Czech film Something like happiness (Czech: Štěstí) 2005, portraying the melancholy lives of four friends who grew up together in the same block of flats in a former industrial town in northern Bohemia. The somewhat bleak backdrop of the film fits snugly with Soybelman's sombre and heartfelt music.[citation needed]
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- Leonid Soybelman on IMDb
- Štěstí official website
- Estonias Unexpected Rock Artists, article by Artemy Troitskii from 1990
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Robin Sloan's Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Review
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Tell me, reader, are you a self-professed bibliophile? A lover of literature? A fan of fiction? If so, this book is for you.
Or are you a techie, trending the most up-to-date applications on the internet? This book is for you too.
Maybe you're the quintessential thinker, Saint-Exupéry or Jostein Gaarder style? Then this book is for you.
This first novel by Robin Sloan is a quaint gem, blending story, technology and philosophy into a heartwarming page-turner. Old meets new meets the universal in this memorable triptych, which is a mystery, romance and fantasy rolled into one.
Sounds confusing already? It might. But Robin Sloan never lets you feel it, even as the characters fly from West to East (San Francisco to New York, to be precise), fall in and out of love, discovering and losing great secrets before rediscovering them. At its simplest and deepest, his message is a tribute to the power of friendship and the importance of faith in those whom you love. Which is not really a new lesson for anyone, is it?
Twenty-something-almost-thirty year-old Clay Jannon is a San Francisan IT savant recently retrenched from his job as web designer and social media manager of a tiny bagel outfit, which went under in the recent fast-food industry slump. To Clay, it was a "great food-chain contraction" that left "bankrupt burger chains and shuttered sushi empires in its wake", which gives you an idea of Sloan's flair for the imaginative and dramatic right from the start.
Clay is demoralised by his mediocre accomplishments, especially when compared to those of his peers. Walking around his city, Clay stumbles upon the titular bookshop which eventually becomes his new place of employment. The eccentric owner, Mr. Penumbra (which owner of a dusty little bookshop would not be eccentric?), hires Clay on the spot after he successfully answers some questions, chiefly: "What do you seek in these shelves?"; "Tell me about a book you love"; and "Can you climb a ladder?"
As he serves as book clerk, Clay soon learns that there is a deeper meaning to at least one of these questions, playing host to a slew of puzzling patrons who seem less interested in the bookshop's main fare than the mysterious volumes tucked deep inside the shadowy shelves he dubs the "Waybacklist". Together with his friends, Clay digs deeper into the secret of Mr Penumbra's bookstore and realises that the readers are really searching for the answer to Man's greatest question of all: "How do you live forever?"
Top-secret cults, baffling codex vitae (roughly translated "book of life") and sinister robed figures feature prominently in the story, and you might be forgiven for thinking this is not totally out of Da Vinci Code territory. Yet there are pleasant surprises via Sloan's injections of modernity; with a background involving a stint at Twitter and colloquialism. Ruby, a programming language, is "friendly, accessible poetry", while Hadoop (a large-scale data-processing software) and Mechanical Turk (a web service that can request for human assistance with various tasks) becomes "King Hadoop and ten thousand Estonian footmen". Even Google itself features in lots of code-cracking and impressive displays of technology. It doesn't hurt that Clay and more than a few of his friends happen to be really smart and/or good with computers–his buddies include a Google employee, a special effects artist, and a self-made CEO of a software company. Just how lucky can one get, really?
Sloan would argue that such characters are essential to the story, because each of them has a particular role to fill. Clay is the rogue who does the dirty and dangerous work; Kat, his love interest, is a wizard of data and code, while his childhood best friend Neel is the warrior with a horde of gold to boot (fun fact: he made his money inventing a software that allows computer game and movie companies to create really realistic-looking boobs). In searching for the answer on how to live forever, the characters and their journey attain a kind of immortality themselves — through the literary motif of the quest. That Clay's all-time favourite book was a fantasy tome is no coincidence; even the author returns from the grave to give help and reveal himself as a secret cult member. Yet the final treasure for these characters isn't gold or even mere heroism, but the wisdom that immortality can come in more than one way or one form.
Sloan's novel reveals nothing new, no lesson that was not already apparent. His gift is the combination of seemingly disparate ideas, transformed into alchemical perfection. For any book-lover who has bemoaned the death of brick-and-mortar bookshops while fervently clutching a Kindle in his hand, any technophile who still yearns for the good old schooldays of yore playing 'Dungeons and Dragons', this story will help them bring those threads together, with the assurance that eternal life is available to all and that "all the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight". It is a story will make you pause, wonder and understand, eventually, the truth of how to live.
This review was written by a guest writer for The Novelettes, Nicola Cheong. Thanks Nicola!
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