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my wife had silver hands .
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bajandar suffered from a rare condition that caused his hands to sprout tree - like warts. he lived with it for years before beginning surgery to remove the growths last february .
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she answered ,
our merciful god has caused my natural hands to grow back .
the miller thought ,
that is my apple tree ,
agreed, and signed it over to the man .
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“we operated on him at least 16 times to remove the warts. the hands and feet are now almost fine. he will be discharged within the next 30 days after a couple of minor surgeries to perfect the shape of his hands, ” sen said .
a bangladeshi father dubbed the “tree man” because of the bark - like warts that once covered his body will soon be able to leave hospital after groundbreaking treatment for one of the world’s rarest diseases .
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the gardener answered ,
last night a spirit came here. it had no hands and ate one of the pears with its mouth .
she stayed in this house for seven years, and was well taken care of. and through the grace of god and her own piety her chopped - off hands grew back .
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after the success of the tv series the monoclad mutineer and the 1987 feature withnail and i, paul mcgann is hot. by comparison, british thrillers of recent years have had rather less fire in their bellies, and in tree of hands, mcgann finds himself trudging through another such offering from a ruth rendell novel - which is all plot and no pace .
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what can that be but my apple tree ?
thought the miller, said yes, and signed it over to the strange man .
there are those books that you read and enjoy and then forget. tree of hands has stayed with me for years. like all of rendell' s books, it is uncomfortably dark and cynical. she never hesitates to lure readers to sympathize with miscreants and then punish the characters. her books are like tense drives on a dangerous mountain road .
bajandar initially thought the warts were harmless, but they eventually covered his hands and feet, forcing him to stop working .
so here i am, with 1, 000 ships ,
euron grins ,
and two good hands .
during a party, everyone shook hands with everyone else. there were 66 handshakes. how many people were at the party ?
abul bajandar has undergone at least 16 operations to remove 5kg (11 pounds) of growths from his hands and feet since his condition came to doctors’ attention a year ago .
after it was dark the king entered the garden, bringing a priest with him who was to talk to the spirit. all three sat down under the tree and kept watch. at midnight the girl came creeping out of the brush, stepped up to the tree, and again ate off a pear with her mouth. an angel dressed in white was standing next to her .
since then he has had 16 procedures to restore his hands, and will undergo a few more before he is released from the hospital .
father ,
she said ,
do with me what you will ,
stretched forth her hands, and let him chop them off .
just beyond your dreams lives a secret world. where every tree is a home. every sound is a song. and humans exist only in fairy tales. until now ...
the miller was horrified and answered ,
how could i chop off my dear child' s hands? no, i will not do it .
thus he still could not approach her, and he spoke angrily to the miller ,
chop off her hands. otherwise i cannot get to her .
the king who owned this garden came the next morning. he counted the fruit and saw that one of the pears was missing. he asked the gardener what had happened to it. it was not lying under the tree, but had somehow disappeared .
the 27 - year - old former rickshaw driver is one of only four people in the world to be diagnosed with epidermodysplasia verruciformis, an extremely rare genetic condition dubbed “tree - man disease” that left him unable to hold his three - year - old daughter .
as you enter the theater, actors clad in neutral grey courteously greet you, lead you to a basin, and solemnly help you wash your hands. the splashing water provides the only sound in the hushed, neutral - colored space dominated by pale bluish greys — the better to contrast with the blood that will flow in shaking the tree theatre’s annual halloweenish horror show .
as i have stated elsewhere, i am a fan of rendell' s books although i have to tread warily with them as they are often extremely unsettling in a way different from most psychological thrillers. i had read this book many years ago and another goodreads friend (have forgotten who) was mentioning rendell so i pulled this one off my shelf for a reread. at the moment, i think that tree of hands is one of her best. it has all the twists and turns one expects from her: multiple plotlines and disparate c
lal sen told cnn last february that bajandar first noticed the lesions when he was 10. over time, the growths completely encompassed his hands, stealing his livelihood as a rickshaw driver and making him the subject of international news .
the miller was frightened and did what he was told. the next morning the devil returned, but she had wept into her hands, and they were entirely clean .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
because the devil still could not approach her, he was very angry, and ordered the miller ,
chop off her hands, so i can get to her .
these are tentative figures, friel stressed, but they do give a sense of the scale of ecological disaster building 1, 000 wooden ships in a short space of time would cause .
like many of o. henry' s short stories, a surprise ending awaits readers of' hearts and hands.' the story is set on a train to denver. an elegantly attired woman named miss fairchild is seated on the train when two men arrive and take the seat facing her. it quickly becomes apparent that the woman knows one of the men .
the tireless threesome crosses the divide into the tree house village with a sheet - rope, a barrel, and some serious climbing skillz from the travster (who still almost gets chomped to death by the zombie horde) .
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( cnn) the
tree man
is no longer. thanks to some groundbreaking surgeries, he can go back to being abul bajandar, a 27 - year - old father and husband from a small town in bangladesh .
the grimms' primary source for the version of 1812 was marie hassenpflug (1788 - 1856). the version of 1819 shows the influence of dorothea viehmann (1755 - 1815) and others .
oh, husband !
said the woman, terrified .
that was the devil. he didn' t mean the apple tree, but our daughter, who was just then standing behind the mill sweeping the yard .
she answered ,
dear father, do with me what you will. i am your child ,
and with that she stretched forth both hands and let her father chop them off .
both of these are valid points that i can' t really counter. there' s no way of telling exactly how much time passes in the game of thrones world, and the acquisition of euron' s 1, 000 - strong fleet happens off - screen .
the miller was frightened and did what he was told. the next day the devil returned, but she had wept into her hands and washed herself with her tears, and was entirely clean .
even this doesn’t account for all the timber used, because hundreds of other pieces of wood were also used for the work, plus boards and other items bought readymade ,
he continued .
however, the 3, 900 number gives a rough rule - of - thumb figure of just under three trees felled per ton of ship .
the magical inhabitants of a rainforest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called hexxus .
] our world was much larger then. the forest went on forever. we tree spirits nurtured the harmony of all living things, but our closest friends were humans. then, as sometimes happens, the balance of nature shifted. hexxus, the very spirit of destruction rose up from the bowels of the earth, and rained down his poison. the forest was nearly destroyed, many lives were lost and the humans fled in fear, never to return. most believe they did not survive. it was only ...
nevertheless, as with any production involving the portland theater power trio of imaginative director samantha van der merwe, and irresistible actors beth thompson and matthew kerrigan, you should see head. hands. feet. — though not to be terrified, but to have your terrors cleansed .
speaking from his bed at the hospital, which has been treating him free of charge, bajandar said the pain of his condition had been unbearable .
he answered ,
it comes from an strange man whom i met in the woods and who promised me great treasures if i would but sign over to him that which stands behind the mill. we can give up the large apple tree for all this .
instead of showing her actual process of regaining her sense of self, though, this version portrays the maiden (poignantly played by nikki weaver) as entirely subject to the whims of the (male) devil and her father, only to be rescued first by some tree people and then the king, whom she immediately trusts despite having been misled by old nick that the king wants her mutilated or worse. here’s an instance where a tale (whether in the original or in this recasting) that strives to be pro - female winds up disempowering its title character. it’s hard to feel much satisfaction in the salvation of a passive protagonist .
he took her home with him to his royal castle, and because she was so beautiful and pure he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her as his wife .
the man did that, after which he said to her ,
go to that thick tree over there and wrap your maimed arms around it three times !
and when she had done this, her hands grew back on. then he showed her a house .
you can live there ,
he said ,
but do not go outside, and do not open the door for anyone unless he asks three times to come in, for god' s sake .
the gang wanders down the path for a while before stumbling upon another village. mary knows it was gabrielle' s village, though it' s also been overrun by zombies. while the rest of the gang escapes into the tree house part of the village (zombies aside, shmoop wants to go there), mary and travis end up stuck in a big ol' house together. alone. ah, shucks .
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actually, the gore isn’t portrayed realistically but symbolically; head. hands. feet. is by no means a fright fest. in fact, the first half consists of fairy tales, although anyone’s who’s read non - victorian - sanitized ancient tales knows how really, ah, grim and gory they can be .
and by cutting — dismembering — so many of iphigenia’s lines, the adaptation robs her of agency in her own fate, turning her into just one of a giggly gaggle of teenagers, a figure as passive as the handless maiden — another victim of paternal betrayal, another title character who’s less protagonist than subject, in another story ostensibly about a woman’s triumph that winds up being more about a man’s choices .
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jones explained that during this period there were some examples of big fleets being gathered .
this frightened the father, and he promised to obey him. then he went to the girl and said ,
my child, if i do not chop off both of your hands, then the devil will take me away, and in my fear i have promised him to do this. help me in my need, and forgive me of the evil that i am going to do to you .
i did not come here to become queen ,
she said .
i have no luck, and i demand none. just tie my child and my hands onto my back, and i will set forth into the world .
she entered the garden, and the angel went with her. she saw a fruit tree with beautiful pears, but they had all been counted. she stepped up to the tree and ate from it with her mouth, enough to satisfy her hunger, but no more. the gardener saw it happen, but because the angel was standing by her he was afraid and thought that the girl was a spirit. he said nothing and did not dare to call out nor to speak to the spirit. after she had eaten the pear she was full, and she went and lay down in the brush .
for a tv movie, this one was very good. a woman' s son dies and due to some awful circumstances, she ends up taking care of a little boy who looks alot like her dead son. i won' t spoil the ending here, but the plot moves along at a nice pace and the film has a really nice ending. if you like drama, this is a nice one. i wish i could find the film on tape. lifetime cable channel has been known to rerun it from time to time, but the film has been renamed innocent victim for some unknown reason. i like the original title better. this film was based on the novel
tree of hands
by ruth rendell .
mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. benet, stricken by the most grievous loss any woman can bear. carol, trapped in a life of crushing drabness no lover can change. three mothers joined by a single thread of terror, whirled into a spiral of kidnapping, murder, and a final, reckless affirmation of love .
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ever since the end of season 6, though, it' s been bugging me .
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she had the chopped - off hands tied to her back, and she set forth with the rising sun, walking the entire day until evening, when she came to the king' s garden. there was a gap in the garden hedge. she went inside, found a fruit tree, shook it with her body until the apples fell to the ground, bent over and picked them up with her teeth, and ate them. thus she lived for two days, but on the third day the garden watchmen saw her, captured her, and threw her into prison .
fast forward to the morning of the wedding (ps: travis never came for mary). instead of waking up to church bells, the village wakes up to the screaming of the sirens. turns out super - zombie gabby and the zombie horde are attacking the village .
the plight of bajandar, who comes from a village in the southern coastal district of khulna, was brought to wider attention after his condition was widely covered in local and international media .
dr. samanta lal sen, chief plastic surgeon at dhaka medical college hospital, told cnn bajandar is in
very good shape
now, and can eat and write using his own hands. the further procedures, he said, are more for
beautification .
at the palace the chorus is exultant and sings the praise of dionysus. agaue returns home with pentheus' s head in her hands. she is still deluded and boasts to all about the young lion she hunted and beheaded. old cadmus, who knows what has happened, sadly approaches his daughter and draws her mind back to the palace, her family and finally what she is holding in her hands. agaue begins to weep. cadmus remarks that the god has punished the family rightly but excessively. in the end, dionysus finally appears in his true form to the city. he banishes agaue from thebes and ordains that cadmus and his wife will turn into snakes, destined to invade greek lands with a horde of barbarians .
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the miller, because he had become so wealthy through her, promised to take the best care of her for the rest of her life, but she did not want to remain there .
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he is one of the more persuasive roles in this uneven london - based psychological thriller which finds benet (helen shaver) coming to terms with the unexpected death of her child, and the ministrations of her manic - depressive mother (lauren bacall in fine twitchy form). after the funeral, bacall impulsively snatches a toddler of the street and brings him back to benet as a palliative .
o. henry' s' hearts and hands' is a story of mistaken identity involving miss fairchild, mr. easton, and the marshal who is escorting easton on a train to leavenworth for the crime of counterfeiting. the marshal misleads miss fairchild into believing that easton is the marshal, apparently in an effort to allay easton' s embarrassment at meeting an old acquaintance while he is in shackles. one astute passenger realizes that easton is actually the prisoner, and the other man is the marshal. like many of o. henry' s works, this touch of irony, or when writers portray an event or character in a surprising and unexpected way, completes the story .
“i never thought i would ever be able to hold my kid with my hands, ” he said, showing a bandaged hand. “now i feel so much better. i can hold my daughter in my lap and play with her. i can’t wait to go back home. ”
there will be blood in portland theater’s “tales of dismemberment” but not all the body parts add up .
he didn' t, though. he specifically says
build me a thousand ships
at the end of season 6, and then he repeats that exact number at the start of season 7 .
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the second devised tale, the brothers grimm’s “the handless maiden, ” also allows its repressed female victim to live happily ever after. a wandering parable about the devil’s deceit in a faustian bargain, it’s a metaphor for a child so abused by her father that she loses both her freedom (hands) and ability to trust. the story wants to show her finding a safe place where she can learn to trust again, and take her fate into her own hands. for his part, her king charming must sacrifice years and his kingly pleasures to find the “real” maiden .
'' hearts and hands'' by o. henry is a story about two acquaintances who meet on a train. when mr. easton encounters miss fairchild, he is handcuffed to another man. one passenger on the train, however, realizes that things are not as they seem .
really well done! two parallel plot lines, involving two separate sets of characters, that eventually intersect. also, rendell does that unsettling thing she' s a master of - - making an everyday person, whom we might very well rub shoulders with, into a bit of a' crazy.'
surprised and confused the first part of the story is rather a shocker. what follows is quite a jumble of characters and their odd deceitful behavior. i made it through to the end and was glad it was over. there are lots of great authors and books to be found. this one was a disappointment .
1) we don' t know exactly how much time has passed between euron' s speech at the end of season 6 and his impressive arrival in king' s landing at the start of season 7 .
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the angel went into the other room, brought back the silver hands, and showed them to him. now he saw for sure that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed them, and rejoiced, and said ,
a heavy stone has fallen from my heart .
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but the servant begged so much and complained so about his weariness that out of compassion, the king gave in. when they came to the house, the moon was shining, and they saw the queen standing by the window .
that must be our queen; she looks just like her ,
said the servant ,
but i see now that she is not the one, for this one has hands .
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well, flash - forward to the start of season 7, and it looks like euron got his wish .
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another fantastic and engrossing tale from the pen of ruth rendell / barbara vine. usually i think the vine titles are more satisfying, but this one was up there with them! as usual from this author we get a collection of well drawn characters who are mostly quite strange, an unlikely but theoretically possible plot, lots of tension, and some ambiguities. i was gripped throughout. still don' t understand who shot a couple of the characters though... .
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sen believes bajandar could become the first person to be cured of the disease, provided the warts do not grow back .
game of thrones is obviously a fantasy show, but that doesn' t mean it' s totally unanchored from reality .
henry v' s harfleur campaign of 1415 required 1, 500 ships to carry his invasion army from england to france ,
he explained .
however, the vast majority of these ships were hired from the existing merchant marine .
that frightened the miller terribly, and driven by fear he promised to do what the devil had ordered. he went to his daughter and said ,
my child, the devil will take me if i don' t chop off both your hands, and i have promised him that i will do it. i beg for your forgiveness .
2) we don' t know that he actually built his fleet of 1, 000 ships. theon and yara apparently only stole his
best ships
, after all, so he probably had a decent few left over. and being the ruthless, cut - throat type of guy that he is there' s a chance some of his fleet may be stolen .
a miller, who was so poor that he had nothing more than his mill and a large apple tree which stood behind it, went into the forest to gather wood. there he was approached by an old man, who said ,
why do you torment yourself so? i will make you rich if you will sign over to me that which is standing behind your mill. i will come and claim it in three years .
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here' s the new - look hipster king of the iron islands, standing before cersei and waffling on about how he' s the
greatest captain of the 14 seas
and his boats are basically the best thing ever, etc. etc .
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the white virgin answered ,
i am an angel, sent by god to take care of you and your child .
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the thing is, he' s not just boasting: we can see he does indeed have a ton of shiny new boats from the shot of them all sailing into king' s landing. he even goes one step further and confirms the number itself .
yet in the same sense it was a little confusing, with a few seemingly unrelated plotlines coming together only at the end. at least one of these plotlines still seems out of place to me, like written in as an afterthought to bulk up the book .
the total size of the project team would probably be 50 +, though not all would be working at the same time .
for a man with little besides
rocks and bird shit
at his disposal, it' s one hell of a stretch .
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a miller fell slowly but surely into poverty, until finally he had nothing more than his mill and a large apple tree which stood behind it. one day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said ,
why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? i will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill .
i did a bit of digging and spoke to some historians and ship - building experts to find out if it' s actually possible .
okay, so that' s the first figure to keep in mind: 15 months to build one of euron' s biggest ships .
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presence of multiples fine lines, maybe around four or five doesn’t mean that you will be married that many times. so, relax !
if van der merwe had added a couple more such folk tales and skipped the intermission, head. hands. feet. might have made a more cohesive production. instead, after we returned from the scrumptious cake and wine at intermission, everything changes: the tone, storytelling style, even the kind of source material. the shift from airy fairy tale atmosphere to weightier, conventionally staged greek drama, with dialogue replacing narration, makes for a longer, heavier night than you might expect from the first half or stt’s previous halloween shows .
historians don' t know the total number of trees felled to build the 500 - ton trinity royal, friel explained, but they do know it took 3, 900 trees to build the 1, 400 - ton grace dieu — the largest of henry v' s fleet .
the third and most powerful segment, by contrast, shows how to effectively update an ancient tale with modern values by transforming the classic version of h. c. anderson’s “the red shoes” from a warning about a girl’s vanity, addiction and compulsion into a critique of social repression. the sight of the girl’s gaudy footwear causes a conservative, judgmental fundamentalist southern congregation to confront their own hidden, socially disapproved desires, with predictable consequences .
after a year the king had to go out into the battlefield, and he left the young queen in the care of his mother, saying ,
if she has a child, support her and take good care of her, and immediately send me the news in a letter .
this is unquestionably one of rendell' s most disturbing novels... it took years before i could bring myself to re - read it .
“bajandar’s cure was a remarkable milestone in the history of medical science, ” said samanta lal sen, plastic surgery coordinator at dhaka medical college hospital .
my sense is that game of thrones is set in a quasi medieval world with technology and a social structure that' s roughly what you' d find in 13th / 14th century europe ,
dr evan jones, a specialist in maritime history at the university of bristol, told mashable .
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i got over 100 pages into the book, but i just couldn' t finish it - - the only two characters i had feeling for were both in a mess of trouble, there wasn' t even a murder yet (
just
a kidnapping - - not really a spoiler alert since it' s on the back cover - - for which one of those two characters either was being blamed or was going to be blamed), and the tension of worrying about the unjust suspicions, the element of mental illness, and worrying whether one of the two characters i liked was either going to murder or going to be murdered, was too much for me. this is by no means to say that the book was ill - written; i have enjoyed reading rendell' s books before. it is merely that this type of suspense provokes sick anxiety in me, rather than anticipation. i hope whomever i pass it along to gets more out of it. but at least i was able to provide a cover image for this edition !
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i listened to this over a couple of evenings and it certainly kept me up and awake. this is almost perfect rendell, bearing the trademark of her best tales - a braided plot that pulls together disparate characters and classes, clever misdirection, and deep and violent emotions. constantly surprising and psychologically acute, this was both very easy to be gripped by, but also full of interesting observations made on raw life as lived in gritty, realistic london. marvellous .
on this basis, a total of 250, 000 hectares of forest would be needed to build the 1, 000 - ship fleet, or 2, 500 sq km. that’s equivalent to 139 epping forests or a wood that is one - and - a - half times bigger than greater london .
that certainly rings true of today’s endless wars, maybe all wars. and plenty of modern day adaptations of classics purposely present a more enlightened, or at least more contemporary twist on old stories. but if you’re going to update an ancient tale to make a more modern point, you still have to do it in a way that’s emotionally truthful. and this interpretation so contradicts the events of the ancient tale that it rings false. its portrayal of clytemnestra as devoted and loving wife, shocked that her husband would consider killing his daughter, runs completely counter to the feelings a woman would have for the brute who had earlier murdered her mate, ripped her just - born child from her breast, dashed its brains out on the ground, and forced her into a non consensual marriage .
excellent, as ruth always is! the strange and tortured psychology of ordinary people, told in an extraordinary way. i wish i could write like her .
the miller spoke to her ,
i have gained great wealth through you. i shall take care of you in splendor as long as you live .
harry and mary escape by the skin of their teeth onto one of the fenced paths into the forest. they' re joined by travis and cass, jed and beth, a little boy named jacob, and mary' s new pooch, argos. see ya, village, wouldn' t wanna be ya .
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the thing is, not every ship in the fleet is going to be 500 tons. there are variety of sizes needed to perform different tasks — fighting, reconnaissance, storage, patrolling, etc. — and friel explained the average weight of a ship in henry v' s fleet was probably more like 250 tons .
white knights are superior to black knights. 2 white knights can handle 3 black knights. how many knights do we need for an army of 981 black knights ?
the action of the play begins with dionysus' s return to thebes years later. he arrives in town disguised as the stranger, accompanied by a band of bacchants, to punish the family for their treatment of his mother and their refusal to offer him sacrifices. during dionysus' s absence, semele' s father, cadmus, had handed the kingdom over to his proud grandson pentheus. it was pentheus' s decision to not allow the worship of dionysus in thebes. dionysus tells the audience that when he arrived in thebes he drove semele' s sisters mad, and they fled to mt. cithaeron to worship him and perform his rites on the mountainside .
i love books that have multiple plot lines that throw you for a loop until they are all nicely tied together. this is one of those books. it is dark and disturbing and definitely shows the not so nice side of people. it doesn' t have the happy ending, so if you are looking for that look elsewhere .
every time i finish a ruth rendell book, i swear i' m not going to read another. her villains really get under my skin and take up residence in my mind. then one of my subscription services offered a few of her titles at a low price, and i found myself seduced into buying them. i' m glad i did because i found out that that they aren' t all straightforward murder mysteries, but they all show her wonderful ability to craft unforgettable characters. chief among them is a woman whose young son dies in hospital. her mad mother kidnaps a replacement child, and the woman cannot force herself to return him. the second character is the boyfriend of the missing child' s mother, who is suspected of killing him. third is a former boyfriend of the child' s mother, who is planning his greatest theft and getaway. by the end of the book, rendell has wrapped up all three of the stories in this most intricately plotted ending that is still satisfying. now that i realize that ms rendell can write a book without unbalanced killers, i am more willing to take a chance on her. especially at $ 1. 99 each .
but still. given the figures above, euron' s
build me a thousand ships
speech starts to look more and more ridiculous. at a push it might be believable to say a couple of years have passed between seasons 6 and 7 (enough time to allow for the 15 - month ship building period + time for euron to stock up and sail to king' s landing), and i guess it' s feasible that he could have forced tens of thousands of people to build for him .
this a strange rendell book. it also is perhaps, the most emotionally driven in terms of plot. while rendell, especially when she writes under the barbara vine tend to be mysteries of the psyche, this book is more about psyche and emotion. it is also in some ways, the one where you root for what in other cases would be a villain simply because that character really isn’t bad. at the very least, rendell makes you consider the meaning of the terms bad and good. crossposted at booklikes .
edna o’brien’s adaptation, written during yet another war in the middle east, turns turns a play about noble self sacrifice into an anti war tragedy about patriarchal society valorizing dreams of martial glory above the true love of wife and family. agamemnon prioritizes his brother’s pride and family’s wounded honor over his own daughter’s life. her sacrifice is the wrong choice .
then she had her mutilated arms tied to her back, and at sunrise she set forth, walking the entire day until it was night. she came to a royal garden, and by the light of the moon she saw that inside there were trees full of beautiful fruit. but she could not get inside, for there it was surrounded by water .
the ship that you cite [ the one seen leading euron' s procession in season 7, episode 1 ] looks to combine aspects of vessels dating between the 1300s and 1500s, with some elements that are purely imaginary ,
friel explained .
at a very rough guess, in medieval english terms it would be a vessel of about 500 tons .
dionysus, the god of wine, prophecy, religious ecstasy, and fertility, returns to his birthplace in thebes in order to clear his mother' s name and to punish the insolent city state for refusing to allow people to worship him. the background to his return is presented in the prologue, in which dionysus tells the story of his mother, semele, once a princess in the royal theban house of cadmus. she had an affair with zeus, the king of the gods, and became pregnant. as revenge, zeus' s jealous wife hera tricked semele into asking zeus to appear in his divine form. zeus, too powerful for a mortal to behold, emerged from the sky as a bolt of lightning and burnt semele to a cinder. he managed, however, to rescue his unborn son dionysus and stitched the baby into his thigh. semele' s family claimed that she had been struck by lightning for lying about zeus and that her child, the product of an illicit human affair, had died with her, maligning her name and rejecting the young god dionysus .
apart from the regular questions related to our future like, what our future prospect looks like, or how long we shall live, another deep - grown desire is to know about our love life and marriage. after a certain period of time, parents start getting worried of their children’s marriage prospects; then begins the routine run - ins with astrologers and priests .
i was really looking forward to reading this, as flipping through the first few pages i was happy to see skillful, unique writing. but ultimately it was far too stressful for me. i cannot conceive of benet not going to the police after discovering jason was kidnapped. (and honestly, what is jason going to do about adulthood when he doesn' t even have a birth certificate)? it was too much for me. i' ll read more of ruth rendell, however, as she seems to be on top of her game .
in case if you have more than four lines between the base of little finger and heart line, it means the person has a romantic character and is prone to many love affairs .
a childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. soon, a child is born, though timothy green is not all that he appears .
the first book of hers i have read - not as scary as i expected, but a really good investigation into how events can link together to cause people to act in very strange ways .
first, let' s have a very quick recap of what euron was up to the last time we saw him, prior to his sassy appearance in last sunday' s season 7 premiere .
if it is nearer to heart line, then it means an early marriage. if it is farther from heart line and closer to the base of your little finger, it means late marriage .
at first it feels like heaven on earth, but then mary stumbles onto some old photos and dresses and becomes super obsessed with escaping the village. luckily for her, some zombies finally break down the house door, forcing her and the travster to get outta there. thanks to argos and his furry jaws of death, mary shoves travis into the attic and swims through a sea of zombies unscathed .
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after mary' s mom joins the ranks of the moany - groanies, mary' s brother jed kicks her out of their house (as a guardian, he' s not keen on having to chop off his mom' s head if he sees her in the forest). so mary joins the sisterhood, led by the power - hungry sister tabitha. sister t can see that mary isn' t super happy about becoming a god - fearing nun for life, so she threatens to sic the forest of zombies on her if she refuses to toe the line and act like she likes it.
tree of hands ( also known as innocent victim ) is a 1989 british psychological drama film directed by giles foster and starring helen shaver , lauren bacall , malcolm stoddard and peter firth . it is based on the novel the tree of hands by ruth rendell . 
tree of hands (also known as innocent victim) is a 1989 british psychological drama film directed by giles foster and starring helen shaver, lauren bacall, malcolm stoddard and peter firth. it is based on the novel the tree of hands by ruth rendell.
tree of hands (also known as innocent victim) is a 1989 british psychological drama film directed by giles foster and starring helen shaver, lauren bacall, malcolm stoddard and peter firth. it is based on the novel the tree of hands by ruth rendell.