At 17, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in law. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subseqent memoirs and fiction. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony. Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
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While working for Vertigo, Phillips also cooperated on more commercial titles, such as 'Batman' and its fellow titles 'Legends of the Dark Knight', 'Gotham Knights' and, most notably, 'Gotham Noir'. In 2001, he cooperated with fellow artist John Bolton on the miniseries 'User'. For the Vertigo imprint, Phillips has also illustrated some issues of Peter Milligan's 'Shade, the Changing Man', the regular 'Kid Eternity' series, as well as the graphic novels 'The Heart of the Beast' (co-written by Dean Motter) and the Peter Milligan scripted 'Vertigo Verité: Hell Eternal' and 'The Minx'. At the beginning of the 1990s, he went to work for the US market, where he started out working extensively on DC/Vertigo's 'Hellblazer' title. While still following art studies, Sean Philllips began working for the British Fleetway agency, illustrating stories with 'Judge Dredd' for 2000AD. 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Text-03a - “Mesmeric Revelation” - after Aug-Īnother presumed copy of Text-02b, with more extensive revisions than those in Text-02b, made in preparationįor TALES.The changes Poe made were presumably incorporated or superceded by the version Lowell, but now lost and not recorded - (In his letter, Poe makes it clear that he hoped Lowell would get a copy of theĬorrected tale printed in Brother Jonathan or the Boston Notion, but no such publication of the Text-02c - “Mesmeric Revelation” - AugaĬorrected copy of Text-02b, sent to J.August 1844 - Columbian Magazine - (Mabbott text A) This manuscript no longer survives, but this version is Text-02a - “Mesmeric Revelation” - 1844 - (Speculatedįaircopy manuscript Poe prepared for publication.Text-01 - “Mesmeric Revelation” - 1834 - (There are no knownĭraft manuscripts or scratch notes reflecting the original effort of composition.). On her graduation night, Dani seems to be in the clear, despite the surprises that unfold. Now that her marriage to an important politico’s son is fast approaching, she must keep the truth hidden or be sent back to the fringes of society, where famine and poverty rule supreme. Her parents sacrificed everything to obtain forged identification papers so Dani could rise above her station. Daniela Vargas is the school’s top student, but her bright future depends upon no one discovering her darkest secret-that her pedigree is a lie. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the lower class. At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. She visualised the unwelcome turn her life was about to take.Īfter graduating from college in 1992, Kerman had hung out with a hard-partying, alpha crowd, including her older girlfriend, Nora, who was a bit player in a drug cartel. She also read prison memoirs, noting that there were few written by women. It included her Amazon wish list and the visiting hours. By night, she'd sit at her home computer and create The Pipebomb – a website designed to prepare family and friends for her impending jail sentence, as well as provide updates – via her husband – once she was inside. By day she was working in TV, producing a documentary about an American football team. For someone whose youthful impulsivity was about to land her in jail, Piper Kerman was a meticulously prepared woman. “Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours that they meant to murder him.” The first line of Brighton Rock begins with: It is quite apt that in the month of promising to undertake this review, Graham Greene himself a member of the secret intelligence service whom worked under the infamous Kim Philby is also noted for aspiring John Le Carre, possibly even as his progeny, the author we are currently reading in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.įirst published in 1938, Brighton Rock, and Greene’s ninth novel, follows on from his eighth novel, A Gun for Sale, whereby a leading gang member in Brighton is murdered, with his throat slit by a switchblade, incidentally, pictured on the cover of Brighton Rock but also to play a part in the novel. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. My mind isn’t going-so far as I can tell-but it’s changing. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. “Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. |