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  2. Peter Lamborn Wilson - Wikipedia

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    The fact that this is one of the things people are not allowed to think about was not something to deter Peter. Having encountered the subject, he wasn't not going to go there. And if one is so overwhelmed by the Jungian shadow of the topic, then you cannot make use of his work. Because the whole purpose of the work was to throw light on the ...

  3. Poetry in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien may have taken the method of embedding poems in a text from William Morris's 1895 Life and Death of Jason (frontispiece shown). [6] Michael Drout, a Tolkien scholar and encyclopedist, wrote that most of his students admitted to skipping the poems when reading The Lord of the Rings, something that Tolkien was aware of. [6]

  4. The Blue Light (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Light is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a soldier who finds a magical object that provides him a supernatural helper. Many of the features from Hans Christian Andersen 's later work The Tinderbox and from the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp originate with this version.

  5. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics", initially delivered as the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture at the British Academy in 1936, and first published as a paper in the Proceedings of the British Academy that same year, is regarded as a formative work in modern Beowulf studies.

  6. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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    Use of the term "message in a bottle" has expanded to include metaphorical uses or uses beyond its traditional meaning as bottled messages released into oceans. The term has been applied to plaques on craft launched into outer space , interstellar radio messages , stationary time capsules , balloon mail , and containers storing medical ...

  7. Gaslighting - Wikipedia

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    Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten in the 1944 American film version of Gaslight. The term originates in the 1938 British play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.The play was adapted into a 1940 film in the UK, Gaslight, which was remade as in the US as the 1944 film Gaslight.

  8. Ted Hughes - Wikipedia

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    The book also contained a section of notes throwing light on the context and genesis of each poem. [62] In 1998, his Tales from Ovid won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. In Birthday Letters, his last collection, Hughes broke his silence on Plath, detailing aspects of their life together and his own behaviour at the time.

  9. D. V. Gundappa - Wikipedia

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    Translated twice into English, this work also has its renderings in Hindi and Sanskrit. Throwing light on life in its various aspects, this inspiring literature sends out a positive message to all: live, learn, grow and be a blessing to your surroundings. [5] DVG was a titan among Kannada writers, says Ranganatha Sharma.