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Love Lies Bleeding, Chapter Three
So Joe set off, step by shaky step, clutching his wound. Funny that the same road which had led to Nottingham through those sparkling pinewoods should then have taken him to the stars overhead, only to wind back upon itself and end at the very place he’d started. To think that all along, its final bends should have been these. So mundane a course as past the telephone and through the hall and up the stairs to the first floor landing of the house Joe had grown up in.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in Chapters
Love Lies Bleeding, Chapter Two
Stars. Huge swollen globes, far larger and more luminous than stars ought to be. The night that stretched between their fatted halos wasn’t the darkness of just now. It was like limpid ink. Wooded silver hills of pine rolled beneath, on the periphery of Joe’s vision.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in Chapters
- Top Story - October 2023
Love Lies Bleeding, Chapter OneTop Story - October 2023
Joe had returned home, to his attic amid the dockside dereliction of Boston one murky windswept night. Now the lone figure who had followed him there from another galaxy intended to make sure he never left. Our hero shoved Mini-Flash Pseudangelos to the sidelines and sprang to meet Schiss-Zazz head-on.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in Chapters
Shakespeare's Secret Love?
William Shakespeare didn’t only write plays. He also wrote a number of poems, including one collection that now ranks among his most celebrated works. His first however was Venus and Adonis, a long poem about an episode from Classical mythology which Shakespeare will have read in Ovid’s Metamorphoses when he was still at school. It was published in 1593.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in BookClub
English Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Eighteenth-Century English literature was by and large written according to a principle called neoclassicism. The main argument of this position was that the classics – that is, the writers of ancient Greece and Rome – had already perfected the art of self-expression. The duty of the modern author, therefore, was simply to imitate them as closely as possible. Individual imagination and personal insights were therefore not considered as important as skill and accuracy in the emulation of classical styles.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in BookClub
The Middle English Period
Above: The Nineteenth-Century painter Daniel Maclise imagines William Caxton around 1476, demonstrating the first English printing-press to King Edward the Fourth and his royal family. The girl directly in front of the Queen is Elizabeth of York, whose marriage to King Henry the Seventh would end the Wars of the Roses and usher in a long-overdue era of peace. A more tragic destiny awaits the King’s two sons, situated at the very centre of the tableau, who today are remembered as The Princes in The Tower.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in History
Geoffrey Chaucer
Although Geoffrey Chaucer was not born into the English aristocracy, he was personally known to many of the significant players in the conflicts and upheavals over the British crown that characterized the Middle English Period. Chaucer also lived just long enough to see the deposition of King Richard the Second by Henry the Fourth, which act would ultimately result in years of bloodshed during the Wars of the Roses.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in BookClub
William Shakespeare's Henry the Sixth, Part One
Written around 1592, The First Part of Henry the Sixth was one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, but probably not his very first. Despite the title, it’s widely believed that the plays now known as Henry the Sixth, Part Two and Part Three were written before it. These, under different titles, had been published in Shakespeare’s lifetime as a two-part sequence, and Part One was probably intended as a prequel, dealing with earlier historical events, to cash in on the popularity of the previous pair. The First Part did not appear in print until the folio edition of 1623, which collected all the history plays in chronological sequence rather than the order in which they were written.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in BookClub
You Know Where You Sent Her, Chapter Two
Joe hurried upstairs, only to discover questions and answers were going to have to wait. He’d known his alter-ego was perilously low on energy, but found that one barely conscious, Mini-Flash Splitsville tending to him at his bedside. Joe had had no idea things were so bad. Not wanting to trouble his student with an additional crisis, he confined himself to earnestly commending Splitsville for her efforts and then set off alone.
By Doc Sherwood7 months ago in Chapters