Hunter Thomas Thomas itibaren North Boyanup WA 6237, Australien
نمی دونم چطور اسم چنین کتابی رو میشه گذاشت رمان. این کتاب بیشتر بیانیه چند آدم شاکی بود که کاراشون منطق خاصی نداشته. هم اون دکتر خل و چل که دچار مرگ عشقی شده بود (و مثلا می خواست نشون بده که عشق و ایمان ظرفیت می خواد) و هم اون محقق میمون که برای اینکه خودشو خالی کنه، اعتقادات زنشو مسخره می کنه و چه عرض کنم دیگه... راستی می دونستید کسانی که خدا رو از طریق مسئله شر زیر سوال می برند (و اصولا آدمهایی عصبانی هستند) معمولا عمیقا به خدا ایمان دارند، ولی فقط از دستش عصبانی اند و باهاش قهر کرده اند؟ و در عوض، ملحدان واقعی، اصلا مسئله شر براشون مطرح نیست و اصولا فراتر از خیر و شر فکر می کنند. تا زیاد از قضیه پرت نشدیم، باید بگم که من نفهمیدم اصلا قضیه دکتر پارسای دیوانه چه کاربردی در پیشبرد داستان داشت. (مثلا قرار بود مسئله رازگشایی رو هم به جذابیت کتاب اضافه کنه!) یا اون زن آمریکایی رفیق یونس. آخرش معلوم نشد چرا بهش اشاره شده. احتمالا تمام هدف نویسنده این بوده که به استحضار ما برسونه که آشنایی غریبی با فرهنگ ینگه دنیا داره و چه می دونم، چند تا جمله انگلیسی قشنگ را هم که در طی سالیان نوشته، یه جایی مورد استفاده قرار بده. هر کی آقای مستور رو دید، بهشون بگه از طرف من، روی ماه جولیا رو ببوسه
A proud young nation's blazing birth -- a high-spirited young woman's innocent desires! Cynthia Wright brought something unique and wonderful to Seventies historical romance. While Rosemary Rogers depicted savage, cynical heroes who often brutalized and humiliated the heroine, Cynthia Wright created fierce but protectively masculine heroes who were both teasing and tender. When I think of CAROLINE, I remember so many little scenes where Alec and Caroline simply enjoy each other in a playful way. Like the breakfast scene where she's running to tell him something important and he wisecracks, "were you just attacked by an egg?" And she responds by pushing at his bare chest to get his attention! Scenes like that underline how right they are as a couple even when the steaming hot passion is momentarily forgotten. Oh, but don't forget the hot scenes either! I remember one night in the garden where they quarrel, and Alec kisses her, and when Caroline reels away from him in outrage her furious gasps actually seem to echo off the stone walls of the garden! Those subtle details are what make the difference between a good romance writer and a very, very great one. Cynthia Wright is a great one -- one of the all time greats. It's so good to know her books are still out there to enjoy!
It's amazing how much you can learn from teaching a book.
"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers. To achieve this, it is at once too much and too little that the prisoner should be constantly observed by an inspector: too little, for what matters is that he knows himself to be observed; too much, because he has no need in fact of being so. In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so."