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If I have not already done so in the pages of this newsletter, let me go on the record now to say: I hate prequels. I don’t find them narratively interesting. The most exciting thing about the most recent Game of Thrones prequel series was discovering the negroni sbagliato during the press tour. They’re uninteresting to me because you know what happens in the end–even if not to these particular characters, the end game has already happened.

This is the theme question I think might come up: What does Golding reveal about human nature in Lord of the Flies? This is a longer post, which shows you how I use ChatGPT. Read each part of the conversation. Some of it will be repetitive, but this is likely to make you remember more for the exam! And, you are going to end up with a grade 8/9 essay. I want to write an essay on what Golding reveals about human nature in Lord of the Flies.

Rothschild family biographer Niall Ferguson has called the recent death of Jacob, the 4th Baron Rothschild at age 87 “a melancholy turning point in the history of the Jewish people’s most illustrious family.” Ferguson described the late baron as “a bold visionary financier” who devoted “an equal amount of time and energy to philanthropy.”         What is less known about Jacob Rothschild is how he wore both of those important hats in his associations with the royal family.

“Among the three of them here, there is a long silence, as if it were suddenly the middle of the night.” Every writer is granted, or maybe cursed with, a period during which the act of writing becomes gloriously frictionless. The period may last only a day, or a couple of hours — long enough to write (transcribe might capture the experience more accurately) a single short story or a few pages of a novel.

Bands are discovered at SXSW, not put together. But Los Super Seven grew out of a guitar pull in the back patio at Las Manitas restaurant on Congress Avenue in March 1997, recorded an LP on RCA in ‘98, then won the best Mexican-American album Grammy in 1999. The original Seven were David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas from Los Lobos, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez from Texas Tornados, Tejano singer Ruben Ramos, country star Rick Trevino and token guero Joe Ely.

At St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn last mid-December, it was the sense of event that lifted every aspect of Lou Reed's first-time staging of his notorious 1973 album Berlin up to the ceiling—where Julian Schnabel had hung a huge, ugly green couch scored by a broad swath of white paint, presumably to signify the divided city Reed named the music for. It wasn't the conceit that the songs made up Reed's own sort of Threepenny Opera.

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It’s release day! Love Everlasting #2 is out today for our paid subscribers and we’re super excited! Love Everlasting #2 Joan wakes into another nightmare of love. It is 1920. She is the maid and Roger is the heir to the great manor, and though it is forbidden, they are inevitably drawn together. But soon clichés begin to crumble and blood begins to spill as Joan finds her own power in “The Hunt for Love”!

Thanks for sharing. I think that for most people, their "love song" is a song that played when they met or that has special memories connected to them. That can later be painful or bittersweet, after a spouse has passed away or has moved on. Are you genuinely finding these love songs "painful"? Could your response have something to do with what people tell you that you should be feeling right now, namely like a failure and ashamed or guilty for being such a failure?