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The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format was stretched by Little, Brown and Company to fill 138 pages for a book publication. [1] A transcript of the speech circulated online as early as June 2005. [2] This is the only public speech Wallace ever gave outlining his outlook on life. [3]
[2] However, he found danger in using the style. If the audience was not sufficiently prepared for a major speech, he claimed that it would appear as if the speaker were inebriated. He believed it necessary for a speaker to fully appreciate the two other styles—plain and middle—used respectively for 'teaching' and for 'pleasing'.
The book was adapted into a Hong Kong movie in Cantonese by directors Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan called Lover's Discourse (戀人絮語, 2010). The film consisted of four interconnected stories about love and lovers. The ensemble cast of the film includes Eason Chan, Karena Lam, Kay Tse, Mavis Fan, Eddie Peng, Jacky Heung and Kit Chen. [2]
[1] [2] It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable Athenian men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and statesman Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The panegyrics are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and sex.
2.4: The poet describes his love for women of all sorts. 2.5: The poet addresses his lover, whom he has seen being unfaithful at a dinner party. 2.6: The poet mourns the death of Corinna's parrot. 2.7: The poet defends himself to his mistress, who is accusing him of sleeping with her handmaiden Cypassis. 2.8: The poet addresses Cypassis, asking ...
Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term "limerence" as an alteration of "amorance" without other etymologies [1] to describe a concept that had grown out of her work in the 1960s, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love. [2] [3] [4] In her book Love and Limerence, she writes that "to be in a state of limerence is to feel ...
In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [1] [2] speech marks, [3] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.
Love Lessons is a British novel intended for older readers by Jacqueline Wilson, first published by Doubleday in 2005. It is illustrated by Nick Sharratt , although the only illustrations in this book are the chapter-headings.