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Edward Trimnell discusses James Clavell's 1962 debut novel, "King Rat".
King Rat is set in a Japanese POW camp in 1945. This video introdu...
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Edward Trimnell discusses James Clavell's 1962 debut novel, "King Rat".
King Rat is set in a Japanese POW camp in 1945. This video introduces the two major characters of King Rat, as well as the themes explored in the book. From EdwardTrimnell.com.
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Edward Trimnell discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams." This story was originally published in December 1922 in Metropolitan Mag...
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Edward Trimnell discusses F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams." This story was originally published in December 1922 in Metropolitan Magazine. "Winter Dreams" was later collected in "All the Sad Young Men."
This video discusses the plot structure of "Winter Dreams" and some of the major themes involved.
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Physical manifestations of the undead appear in literature in two basic forms: vampires and zombies. These two beasts are fundamentally different, ...
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Physical manifestations of the undead appear in literature in two basic forms: vampires and zombies. These two beasts are fundamentally different, and evoke different feelings in readers.
The vampire was extremely relevant during the Victorian era. If you read between the lines in Bram Stokers Dracula, you find a great deal of repressed sexuality.
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This past week The Great One announced that in addition to running General Motors, the government is also going to have a say in executive compensa...
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This past week The Great One announced that in addition to running General Motors, the government is also going to have a say in executive compensation. ...It is easy (and reasonable) to make the following argument:
Once large amounts of taxpayer dollars have been given to a private institution, the government should be able to cap executive pay. ...The key question is: Why are we giving private institutions taxpayer dollars in the first place? You have heard the old chestnut: If you tell one lie, you will have to tell another one to cover your tracks. The same is true of government meddling in the economy....From EdwardTrimnell.com
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Description: The politics of Americas future can be deadly. A conservative senator of the twenty-second century finds himself sentenced to death---...
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Description: The politics of Americas future can be deadly. A conservative senator of the twenty-second century finds himself sentenced to death---by a court convened in 1793.
"Citizens"
The guard peered through the rusty iron bars of their cell. He was pointing a bayonet-tipped musket in their direction.
Citoyen! he barked. This was followed by a spate of curse words in the gutter French of the late 1700s. Robert Craig could only catch a word here and there. His wife, who spoke modern French, was able to understand considerably more. But even she missed much of it. This fellow was obviously uneducated. He spoke the rough and improvised French of the provinces, not the cultured dialect of Paris.
What did he say? Robert Craig asked his wife.
He said that were nothing but bourgeoisie exploiters of the people, and that well get what is coming to us soon enough.
Anglais! the guard spat. He leveled his musket at Mrs. Craig. She sat on the floor beside her husband. The floor was bare except for some straw that smelled of old urine and mildew.
Anglais means English, Mrs. Craig said.
I understand that much French, Robert replied. Numerous times they had tried to tell the guard that they were American—not English. They had finally given up the effort.
The guard made a little explosive sound by expelling air between his lips. Mrs. Craig barely flinched as she stared directly into the muzzle of the musket. The guard had been playing this game with them for hours. It was now obvious that he did not intend to shoot them in their cell. He was not authorized to do so. The Craigs would meet their fate on the guillotine, having been sentenced to death by a representative of the Committee of Public Safety.
Their trial had been a brief, pro-forma affair. The Craigs were not afforded the benefit of a counselor or an interpreter. The prosecutor had hastily read the charges leveled against them. Then the judge had fixed his gaze on Robert and Susan Craig. He had rapped his knuckles on the surface of the little oak table at which he sat, and uttered a single word: mort—death.
The guard lowered his musket and turned his back to them; but the Craigs knew that he would continue the game later. Their jailer seemed to take special delight in harassing this particular set of captives.
He was a big, burly man with a heavy mustache and a head of long, unkempt black hair. Robert would have guessed that the guard was in his mid-thirties. His clothes and manner strongly suggested a lifetime of poverty. No doubt he had a bone to pick with the Ancien Régime. But neither Robert nor Susan had any part in his troubles. Besides, Louis XVI had been guillotined in January 1793—just six months ago. The hated king was dead.
You never should have crossed Barry Olsen, Mrs. Craig said. Hes the one who put us here. Im sure of it.
We cant be certain of that, Robert said. However, he privately speculated that his wife Susan was correct. Barry Olsen and Robert Craig were both U.S. senators. Olsen was the Senate Majority Leader, while Craig was a member of the struggling opposition. As one of the most powerful individuals in the country, Barry Olsen wielded undeniable power; but was his influence the cause of their current predicament?
Robert removed the Wang Time Travel Ltd. receipt and ticket stub from his pants pocket. The ticket was dated August 12, 2109. The Wang company was based in Beijing, of course; but there were a handful of Wang Time Travel branch offices in the United States. Few Americans could afford to indulge in the luxury of recreational time travel. For those who could, however, travel to the past was the ultimate adventure. In 2109, time travel was still a relatively new phenomenon. The first time travel experiments had been conducted in China during the 2090s. Time travel had been commercially available since 2101.
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