Amy H. Sturgis's Blog, page 31
December 30, 2021
I’m delighted to talk Star Trek at an event by Licking Co...
I’m delighted to talk Star Trek at an event by Licking County Library on Jan. 18, 2022 at 7pm Eastern. This event is live, online, and free to everyone.
My presentation: “Empowered Minds: How Star Trek Changed the World and Why It Still Matters”
December 7, 2021
Mythgard Movie Club: Dune - Mythgard Institute
I’ll be a part of this conversation on Friday. Everyone is invited, and registration is free.
December 5, 2021
November 11, 2021
dramyhsturgis:
Happy birthday to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (11 N...
Happy birthday to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (11 November, 1922 – 11 April, 2007)!
October 31, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 31: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818)
Quote 1:
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
Quote 2:
But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
October 30, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 30: The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky (2021)
Quote 1:
And when you’re truly scared, there’s nowhere to hide - no private school, no popularity, no trust fund. It’s just you and your most base emotion. Fear is where the truth lies.
Quote 2:
But there was something wrong with me. It clawed at my insides, desperate to get out.
Quote 3:
If you want this to be over, just make sure she screams.
October 29, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 29: Genesis by Bernard Beckett (2006)
Quote:
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface.
October 28, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 28: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy (2003-2007) by Libba Bray
Quote from A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003):
What frightens you?
What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?
Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire?
Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you’ve glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?
October 27, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 27: The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino (2021)
Quote:
Demons. Dark magic. The devil. These were the things he searched, muttering under his breath and dead to the world around him as dawn broke; as something grappled at the door of his office and found itself forbidden.
October 26, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 26: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)
Quote:
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.
