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Travis, Nora, and Einstein are soon on the run not only from the Outsider, but from federal agents, determined to track down the laboratory escapees, and Vince Nasco, a ruthless professional assassin, hired by Soviets to kill several human targets who carried knowledge of how to stop the Outsider, in order to further the destruction of the ...
The Other is a 1972 American horror [4] psychological thriller film, much in the vein of Stephen King and The Twilight Zone, directed by Robert Mulligan, adapted for film by Thomas Tryon from his 1971 novel of the same name.
The young and old versions of Borges disagree on their approaches to fiction and poetry, as well as their attitude toward communism. The story is based on Giovanni Papini 's Two Reflections in a Pond , and also parallels Fyodor Dostoevsky 's The Double: A Petersburg Poem , which is referenced in the story itself.
The two warring sides each have an Einstein on a leash which they force to press the button, releasing clouds of disease-causing gases toward each other. The story then advances to a time 100 years after the catastrophic events of World War III , which characters in the book refer to as "the Thing", when nuclear and chemical weapons eventually ...
"Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend the German poet and mystic George Sylvester Viereck. It made fun of the scientific establishment of the day. [1] While listening on my cosmic phone I caught words from the Olympus blown. A newcomer was shown around;
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
The Bronze Horseman: A Petersburg Tale (Russian: Медный всадник: Петербургская повесть, romanized: Mednyy vsadnik: Peterburgskaya povest) is a narrative poem written by Alexander Pushkin in 1833 about the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824.