When Chris tells Kathryn about his attraction to Emily, a friendly young woman he sees often at the laundromat, Kathryn encourages him to ask her out on a date, tumbling them headfirst into an open relationship. But as content as they are, an enduring loneliness continues to haunt them. Next Year, For SureĪfter nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy: warm and loving and deeply intertwined. Peterson is the recipient of the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction and the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Walrus, The Malahat Review, Grain and The New Quarterly, and has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories, and Best Canadian Stories. Zoey Leigh Peterson was born in England, grew up all over the United States and has spent most of her adulthood in Canada.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The second foundationThis is the story of the Second Foundation. What 'actually' happened is that the First Foundation concluded that the Second Foundation was located on Terminus. The Mule and the remnants of the First Foundation will do anything to discover it. So far the second Foundation's location, its most closely guarded secret of all, has been kept hidden. Because the Second Foundation guards the laws of psychohistory, which are valid only so long as they remain secret. But the Second, "at the other end of the galaxy", took shape behind a veil of total silence. The First was established on Terminus in the full daylight of publicity. To restore civilization in the shortest possible time, Seldon set up two Foundations. The mathematics of psychohistory enabled Seldon to predict the collapse of the Empire and the onset of an era of chaos and war. This was Hari Seldon, the last great scientist of the First Empire. One man understood the shifting patterns of the inhabited cosmos. When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen – the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule – the second Foundation was forced to reveal its existence and, infinitely worse, a portion of its power. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Graphic novel by marjane satrapiSatrapi’s parents are educated and progressive, and they tell her that her grandfather was once an Iranian prince. When Satrapi overhears that 400 civilians are killed in a movie theater, she pleads with her parents to let her join the protests, but they tell her it is too dangerous. She becomes fascinated by socialist revolutionary icons like Che Guevara and Karl Marx and wishes to join her parents, who go to daily demonstrations. Satrapi reveals she believed herself to be a prophet at the age of six, but she no longer believed this once the revolution began. She and her family are disoriented by the rapid changes and rise in Islamic extremism in Iran and are struggling to adjust. Her coed bilingual school closed and reopened because it was initially seen as a symbol of capitalism. The story opens in Tehran in 1980, a year after the revolution, as Satrapi and her female peers are forced to wear a veil. Iran as a nation and cultural entity persists despite centuries of outside influence and invasion this sets up Satrapi's book as a means to help preserve Iranian culture as she knows it in spite of the oppressive fundamentalist regime. Satrapi begins her story with an Introduction including brief historical context about Iran and the events leading up to the revolution. Persepolis is both an autobiography as well as a bildungsroman or coming-of-age tale. |