The advice given to people "go and see Momo!" has become a household phrase and Momo makes many friends, especially an honest, silent street-cleaner, Beppo, and a poetic, extroverted tour guide, Gigi (Guido in some translations). By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games. When asked, she replies, "As far as I remember, I've always been around." She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen-really listen. She is illiterate and cannot count, and she doesn't know how old she is. She came to the ruin, parentless and wearing a long, used coat. In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. The book won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1974. The full title in German ( Momo oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte) translates to Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people. It is about the concept of time and how it is used by humans in modern societies. Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973.
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It was a boastful wager, a bold flirtation meant to win a proposal from the most eligible officer in His Majesty's Royal Dragoons. They were torn between pride and passion. Title: The Pride of Lions (#1 of the Scotland Trilogy) His notorious reputation has earned him the name Fallen Angel.Īngelstone was anything but angelic in either appearance or temperament. Sebastian Fleetwood, the Earl of Angelstone.He's a man who's accustomed to living in the shadows.after all everyone knew the devil preferred the cover of night. So, the ton is amused by her, fascinated by her.and she's invited to tons of parties and balls and dinners.Īnd it's in one of those balls where she meets him. My hobby involves examining that evidence and attempting to find a logical explanation for it.” They often think they have evidence of spectral phenomena. “I myself am extremely skeptical on the subject,” Prudence admitted. "Do you believe in ghosts, Miss Merryweather?" She's witty, innocent, intelligent and has an unusual hobby.she is a "ghost investigator"! And the ton has given her the title of Original. A country-bred 25 year old, innocent miss, she has come to Town(old London or should I say the 19th century London) with her younger 20 year old brother. So, she walks into his den.his home and finds him.the man everyone called Fallen Angel.the last and only person who could help her. Sorry, that's just his (the man called Fallen Angel's) black cat, Lucifer!! :P She had no other choice if she wanted to save her brother's neck.so she walks into his den and finds. She was going to pay a call to the man known as Fallen Angel. McDonagh is a character we only come to learn about through the audio logs dotted around Rapture in the games, so this is a pleasing element to the story. Surprisingly, and aside from Ryan and Fontaine, the character with the most coverage is Bill McDonagh – the plumber turned chief engineer. We see as the city gradually attracts Doctor Suchong, Augustus Sinclair, Sofia Lamb and Brigid Tenenbaum – and, of course, Frank Fontaine. Slowly, surely, he starts to put together the plans for his city and starts to recruit people who think the way he does. Several decades later, the arch-capitalist Andrew Ryan is appalled at the “Socialist” New Deal and sets about devising a project where people like him can live and work in the capitalist utopia that the USA failed to become. It follows Ryan’s early life as a young boy escaping the Russian Revolution with his parents and going to America. (The third game is set in an equally impossible city, one in the sky and fifty years previously). It is the story of Andrew Ryan and the founding of Rapture – the city beneath the sea where the first two incredible games are set. This one has some very good reviews so I took the plunge. I’ve generally been mistrusting of this type of book, feeling they often lack the depth of other books. Having recently replayed all of the Bioshock games (including the DLCs I never played before), Amazon recommended me this – an official novelisation of the early years of the city where the first two games (and both DLCs) are based. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1836, Quakerism Examined: In a Reply to the Letter of Samuel Tuke by John Wilkinson, Chapter 4: Is the Sacrifice of Christ Held in Proper Estimation by the Society of Friends?, Quote and … Continue reading Interesting precursors occurred even earlier for example, the 1836 book “Quakerism Examined” by John Wilkinson contained the following. The precise citation is given further below. Quote Investigator: Charles Baudelaire did write a story that appeared in the Paris newspaper “Le Figaro” in 1864 that included a comparable statement. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.Īpparently, the prominent French literary figure Charles Baudelaire said something similar. Christopher McQuarrie? Charles Baudelaire? Kevin Spacey? Verbal Kint? Keyser Söze? John Wilkinson? William Ramsey? John Fletcher Hurst? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: The 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects” contains a memorable line spoken by a guileful character about the existence or non-existence of the Devil. She spends her days discovering new things with an ensemble cast that includes her neighbors, relatives, and a few of her father's friends. Yotsuba is excessively curious, energetic and creative. Yotsuba&! follows the eponymous Yotsuba Koiwai, a green-haired five-year-old who lives with her adopted father in an unnamed town. Having finished Azumanga in 2002, Azuma reworked Try! Try! Try! into Yotsuba&!, which has been his sole major work since. Azumanga Daioh received a 26-episode anime, and is still loved by anime fans the world over. In the meantime, he found success with his first major hit, Azumanga Daioh, a 4-koma manga about a group of girls attending high school. 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Many people were surprised to see the inclusion of a trans character, but that quickly turned to anger when they learned her name. Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard," Sirona tells the player. Which is more than I can say for some of my own classmates. "Hadn't seen him in years when he came in a few months ago. Sirona tells the player that Lodgok was the only one "to realize I was actually a witch," meaning he had recognized she transitioned even though he had not seen her in a long time. Sirona Ryan is the first trans character to appear in the 'Harry Potter' universe of storytelling. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is subtitled ‘A 21st Century Bestiary’ and that’s what it is not a natural history book, not an encyclopedia of animals, a bestiary – an odd fusion of science and navel-gazing. 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