Monthly Archives: August 2017
Lucian: The Syrian Satirist Who Invented Science Fiction
Interesting Literature In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle looks at the work of the master of the comic dialogue, Lucian of Samosata It all started with a Syrian writer about whom he know virtually nothing. He was born in around AD 120 and died in 180, or thereabouts. His hometownContinue reading “Lucian: The Syrian Satirist Who Invented Science Fiction”
Antropólogos estudian el origen y la evolución de los cuentos populares
Originally posted on HUMANIDADES Y NTICS:
Un equipo de científicos busca trazar la génesis y la evolución de los cuentos populares para aportar una nueva luz a los movimientos de población humana Principio del cuento de Pulgarcito donde se muestra lo pequeño que era cuando nació. CORDON PRESS. “No erréis, que ni los fornicarios, ni los idólatras,…
Femme (Fashion) Fatalities
Originally posted on Longreads:
Tabitha Blankenbiller was in line for a ride at Disneyland when the woman in front of her decided to criticize her ’50s-style dress, telling Tabitha, “We fought for years so you didn’t have to dress like that.” She describes the incident and its aftermath in an essay in The Rumpus. It may…