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Dust of Dreams is the ninth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. It is the first book in the series to end on a cliffhanger, dealing with the fallout from Reaper's Gale , and forms the first half of the series finale.
Excelsior, or wood wool. Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards.
Wool is the first act of the series, and consists of books 1 through 5: Holston, Proper Gauge, Casting Off, The Unraveling, and The Stranded. Holston is the sheriff of the Silo. Three years ago, Holston's wife Allison became convinced that the outside world was livable and that the IT department, which runs the external sensors, had deceived ...
Boiled wool is a type of fabric primarily used in creating berets, scarves, vests, cardigans, coats, and jackets. To create this fabric, knit wool or wool-blend fabrics are agitated with hot water in a process called fulling. This process shrinks the fabric and results in a dense felted fabric that resists fraying and further shrinkage. [1]
Gabardine is a durable twill worsted wool. It is a tightly woven waterproof fabric and is used to make outerwear and various other garments, such as suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, and windbreakers. Thomas Burberry created the fabric in the late 1870s and patented it in 1888. [1]
The poem has been set to music by many composers and musical groups, including Thomas Dunhill (1904), John Tavener (1983), Z. Randall Stroope (1984), Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin (1991), Virginia Astley (1996), Claire Roche (1998), Richard B. Evans (1999), Howard Skempton (2004), North Sea Radio Orchestra (2006), Tosca (2009), Alan Bullard (2010), and Tiny Ruins and Hamish Kilgour (2015).
The Dream Cycle is a series of short stories and novellas by author H. P. Lovecraft [1] (1890–1937). Written between 1918 and 1932, they are about the "Dreamlands", a vast alternate dimension that can only be entered via dreams. The Dreamlands are described as lying deeper than space, matter and time, and are a "limitless vacua beyond all ...
The 'wise Penelope' explains how "the dreams are by nature perplexing and full of messages which are hard to interpret", and goes on to describe the two gates of the evanescent dreams; the truthful gate of polished horn and the deceitful gate of sawn ivory. [14] [7] For two are the gates of shadowy dreams, and one is fashioned of horn and one ...