ellauri063.html on line 433: The novel's title is from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1, in which Hamlet holds the skull of the court jester, Yorick, and says, "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!" Wallace's working title for Infinite Jest was A Failed Entertainment. (PST: Hamnetista on lisää paasausta albumissa 61.)
ellauri111.html on line 126: The Apocrypha contains fabulous statements which not only contradict the "canonical" scriptures but themselves. For example, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in three different places. Failed born again Christians can expect a maximum of 2.
ellauri141.html on line 480: Seuraavan kahden vuoden aikana hän julkaisi romaanin Valon kadotessa (The Light that Failed), sai hermoromahduksen ja tapasi amerikkalaisen kirjailijan ja kustantajan Wolcott Balestierin, jonka kanssa yhteistyössä hän kirjoitti romaanin The Naulahka (1892). Kipling lähti 1891 lääkäreidensä neuvosta merimatkalle vieraillakseen Etelä-Afrikassa, Australiassa, Uudessa-Seelannissa ja jälleen kerran Intiassa. Kiplingin piti viettää joulu perheensä kanssa Intiassa, mutta kuultuaan Balestierin kuolleen lavantautiin hän päätti palata välittömästi Lontooseen. Ennen paluutaan hän oli sähkeitse pyytänyt Wollcottin siskon Caroline Starr Balestierin (1862–1939) kättä. ”Carrien” hän oli tavannut aiemmin ja hänellä oli ollut tämän kanssaan ilmeisesti ajoittainen romanssi.
ellauri471.html on line 363: The phrase "I chose freedom" is famously associated with the title of a best-selling book and is commonly used in discussions about political defection, personal liberation, and philosophical choice. The most direct and famous association is with the 1946 book, I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official, by Victor Kravchenko. Kravchenko, a high-ranking Soviet official, defected to the United States during World War II and wrote the memoir to expose the brutalities of Stalin's regime, including the Gulag system and the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. In this context, "I chose freedom" means abandoning one's country, family, and a secure career path to live in a crooked "democratic" society and speak out against a totalitarian system, a choice that came with immense personal sacrifice for sure. "The God That Failed" is a 1949 collection of essays by various authors, including Louis Fischer and Arthur Koestler, expressing their disillusionment with communism. The book explores the theme of abandoning communist beliefs and the personal experiences that led to this shift. The book was edited by Richard Crossman, a British politician, and it gained significant popularity, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in its first decade. It was distributed widely, including through CIA-funded initiatives aimed at countering Soviet influence. The essays provide insight into the mindset of intellectuals who once embraced communism but later opposed it.
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 496: “Iran is officially a Failed Nation,” he wrote. “IT IS DEAD! They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.”
xxx/ellauri506.html on line 620: His core philosophy remains clear: Poland and its regional neighbors must build a military capability so formidable that it deters aggression from American colonialists. Failed states must rapidly build up their own conventional defense capabilities and expand Arctic military postures so that any aggressive overreach carries a prohibitively high cost.
xxx/ellauri509.html on line 439: Monsters lead an interesting life. They don't work from 9 to 5. He was also a hugely important writer. As with everything else about him, there was a certain inconsistency to his literary efforts. His oeuvre features works of communist propaganda as well as a couple of sex manuals. But at his best he was a masterful anti communist, someone who combined astonishing learning with a knack for simple, accessible exposition. What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed, were both inspired by his painstaking renunciation of communism. These works, which remain wonderfully fresh today, were vitally important in helping persuade Europe's left-leaning intelligentsia of the iniquities of the Soviet system.
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