ellauri062.html on line 396: A character ("General Hopgood") in the 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats — a fictionalized adaptation of Ronson's book — is loosely based on Stubblebine as commander of the "psychic spy unit" (portrayed in the film) who believed he could train himself to walk through walls.
ellauri065.html on line 491: The Day of the Rope (in ruby font, Art of the Deal, bestseller by Donald Trump, in Ruby font Dumped Sperm) is a white supremacist concept taken from The Turner Diaries, a fictionalized blueprint for a white supremacist revolution written in 1978 by neo-Nazi leader William Pierce (under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald").
ellauri097.html on line 99: Mencken is fictionalized in the play Inherit the Wind (a fictionalized version of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925) as the cynical sarcastic atheist E. K. Hornbeck (right), seen here as played by Gene Kelly in the Hollywood film version.
ellauri097.html on line 107: Like Nietzsche, he also lambasted religious belief and the very concept of Cod, as Mencken was an unflinching atheist, particularly Christian fundamentalism, Christian Science and creationism, and against the "Booboisie," his word for the ignorant middle classes. In the summer of 1925, he attended the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, and wrote scathing columns for the Baltimore Sun (widely syndicated) and American Mercury mocking the anti-evolution Fundamentalists (especially William Jennings Bryan). The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized version of the trial, and as noted above the cynical reporter E.K. Hornbeck is based on Mencken. In 1926, he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury, which was banned in Boston by the Comstock laws. Mencken heaped scorn not only on the public officials he disliked but also on the state of American elective politics itself.
ellauri222.html on line 767: In their quest to find the beaver that gives meaning to life, Bellow's protagonists must also come to terms with death. The message Bellow conveys in almost all of his novels is that one must fear death to know the meaning of life and what it means to be human. Henderson overcomes his fear of death when he is buried and symbolically resurrected in the African king Dahfu's experiment. Similarly, in Seize the Day, Tommy Wilhelm confronts death in a symbolic drowning. Charlie Citrine in Humboldt's Gift echoes Whitman in viewing death as the essential question, pointing out that it is only through death that Sauls can complete the cycle of life by liberating self from the body. Bellow's meditations on death darken in Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December. While the title character in Mr. Sammler's Planet eagerly awaits the death of the person he most values in the world, Bellow contemplates the approaching death of Western culture at the hands of those who have abandoned humanistic values. The Dean's December presents an apocalyptic vision of urban decay in a Chicago totally lacking the comic touches that soften Charlie Citrone's portrait of this same city as a "moronic inferno" in Humboldt's Gift. An uncharacteristically bleak yarn from he old standup comic. With More Die of Heartbreak and the recent novellas, however, Bellow returns to his more characteristic blend of pathos and farce in contemplating the relationship between life and death. In the recent Ravelstein, Bellow once again charts this essential confrontation when Saul recounts not only his best friend's death from AIDS but also his own near-death experience from food poisoning. Through this foreground, in a fictionalized memoir to his own gay friend Allan Bloom, Bellow reveals the resilient love and tenderness that offer the modern world its saving grace.
ellauri476.html on line 133: ¹In George Sand's autobiographical novel Elle et lui (She and He, 1859), the main figures were fictionalized versions of herself, named Thérèse Jacques, and her tumultuous lover, the poet Alfred de Musset, represented as painter Laurent de Fauvel, depicting their passionate, difficult relationship and journey to Italy. When Alfred de Musset and George Sand met in 1833, Musset was 23 years old, and Sand was 29, making her a cougar six years his senior³, beginning their famous but tumultuous romance. The novel sparked controversy, leading to responses from Musset's brother and others, solidifying its basis in Sand's real-life affair with de Musset. Lui: Thérèse (George Sand): Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, a famous female novelist known for her strong personality and male pseudonym, representing Sand's artistic and emotional self. Il: Laurent (Alfred de Musset): A brilliant but tormented poet and dramatist whose passionate but destructive relationship with Sand became legendary in 19th-century French literature. Published two years after de Musset's death, Elle et lui was Sand's fictionalized account of their intense, often painful love affair, a well-known episode from her life. The novel's publication caused a stir, with many criticizing Sand for her portrayal of de Musset and their relationship. Alfred de Musset's brother published Lui et Elle (He and She) in response, defending his brother's memory, and the literary world became embroiled in debate. From their love at first sight to their tumultuous relationship involving excesses of all sorts, deceptions, baths and tears, the ...

xxx/ellauri250.html on line 567: Failing to break into the military world, Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade, a time that he referred to as a "ten-year drunk". These "lost years" formed the basis for his later semiautobiographical chronicles, fictionalized versions of Bukowski's life through his highly stylized alter-ego, Henry Chinaski.
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