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Human Search Engine with a Twist
CartographyThe Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon is the definitive overview of today's bravest, boldest creative cartography, featuring 360 colorful creations by well-known artists and emerging visual experimenteurs alike.
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination by Katharine Harmon is a beautiful and meditative compendium of maps and musings on maps that explore, in the broadest possible terms, the human condition.
Keyword: charactonym
Volpone by Ben JonsonThe main character of this play Volpone (The Fox) is a sly cad. Other characters include Voltore (The Vulture), Corbaccio (The Crow) and Corvino (The Raven), Mosca (The Fly), all having characteristics of the animals they're named after.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The main character of this play Willy Loman (“low man") is a disgraced family man
keyword pheromone
PheromoneJitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins wherein several characters are interested in the magical qualities of perfumes and pheromones.
Perfume by Patrick Suskind wherein the main character had no scent (and thus no pheromones), and was able to walk amongst crowds unnoticed.
Keyword: Intrusive Narrator
Wow, ang galing nyong dalawa ah. Buti na lang at work pa ngayon sina Angus & Monique, and malamang natutulog pa si Bennard, hehehehe
I'm really enjoying this verbal calisthenics, hihi.
Intrusive NarratorA Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz - has an intrusive narrator
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood - has an intrusive narrator
Next: planiverse
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton JusterA love story that exists between two-dimensional elements in a setting like planiverse.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
1884 satirical novella that spearheaded fiction existing in two-dimensional universes.
keyword viking
VikingHrolf Kraki's Saga by Poul Anderson retells the story of the Old Norse legendary king Hrólfr Kraki.
War of the Gods: The Epic Saga of Hadding , The Legendary Viking King and Warrior by Poul Anderson. Anderson based this novel on the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus. This is the story of the legendary King Hadding, heir to the throne of Denmark, yet raised by giants.
Keyword:
Higgs BosonThe Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World by Sean Carroll
A cosmologist and well-known blogger ruminates on the boson.
Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall
A leading particle theorist explores the ramifications of the Higgs boson in a short book written right after the discovery last July.
Keyword: gender reversal
She has a... Boner? by Gregor Daniels- After switching some bits and pieces around, he's about to see things from a whole new angle, and changing into a woman just might be more addicting than he first expected.
Egalia's Daughters: A Satire of the Sexes by Gerd Brantenberg, Louis MacKay
- gender roles are topsy-turvy as "wim" wield the power and "menwim" light the home fires.
KEYWORD: SAPIOSEXUAL
SapiosexualA Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Irene Adler earns Holmes' unbounded admiration for outwitting him. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne Shirley marries Gilbert Blythe who is keenly intelligent, has a strong wit and sense of humor.
Keyword: Cornucopia
Catching Fire by Suzanne CollinsContestants of the Quarter Quell are released into the storage facility for supplies and weapons called the the Cornucopia, where they must kill each other to get to the goods. The term is used in mockery of what the term meant for harvest seasons in the past.
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
Piper McLean offers the cornucopia as a sacrifice to her half-brothers: Phobos and Deimos.
keyword gaslighting
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. With Lehane's clever psychological manipulation, the ending of the novel is unclear as to which "reality" is true. It is unclear whether the MC has truly regressed, or if he wishes to "die" (at the very least, lose his ability for conscious thought, through lobotomy) in order to avoid living with the knowledge that his wife murdered their children and he is her murderer.The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. Mr. Curtain created the mind-control device called "the Whisperer” which has been controlling people all over the world with his subliminal messages.
Keyword: gargantuan
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel by Francois RabelaisThe pentalogy of novels. One of the main characters named Gargantua is the source of the adjective "gargantuan" adopted later on.
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama, Sheldon Drzka
Manga series that features human eating giants
keyword autodidact
Autodidact Martin Eden by Jack London - about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer
The Ignorant Schoolmaster by Jacques Rancière - the book is both a history and a contemporary intervention in the philosophy and politics of education, through the concept of autodidacticism
Keyword: nomadic
NomadicArabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger - A wayward, old-school English gentleman journeys by camel with the nomadic Bedouin across the Empty Quarter. Arduous travelling, keen anthropological observations and some of the finest writing about deserts I have ever read.
Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto - DeVoto's magisterial history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, told through the adventures of William Drummond Stewart, a restless Scottish nobleman who rode, hunted and fought alongside the white fur trappers and nomadic horse Indians who occupied the American north-west in the early 19th century.
Next: india ink
India inkA Companion to Sanskrit Literature by Sures Chandra Banerji - observed that Indian documents written in Kharosthi with this ink have been unearthed in as far as Xinjiang, China
The Painter's Handbook by Mark Gottsegen - stated that India ink was first invented in China, although the source of materials to make the carbon pigment in India ink was later often traded from India, thus the term India ink was coined
Keyword: mutagen
H. P. Lovecraft's horror tale "The Colour Out of Space" features the mutagen of the same name.Lois McMaster Bujold's The Vor Game features the mutagen Fetaine.
Keyword: antithesis
Phenomenology by Georg HegelBook where the philosopher formulated that discourse emerges from the equation "Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis" (this is of course oversimplified)
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct by Oswald Chambers
A theological examination of the Sermon on The Mount, also known as Matthew's Antitheses.
keyword man o' war
Man o' War Man o' War: A Legend Like Lightning by Dorothy Ours - about the horse Man o' War, who grew from a rebellious youngster into perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time.
Man o' War by Walter Farley - a fictionalized biography of the eponymous American race horse who won twenty of twenty-one races, told by a stable boy who grew up with the great horse.
(I think there's a kind of jellyfish called man o' war)
Next: mulberries
PAUSE MUNA, mga repapips. I will post the latest tally in a while.
Here's today's scores (not so much posts today ah, natakot ata sa biglang laki ng deductions, hahaha):Total accepted points for today's round
Each accepted posts is supposed to correspond to 5 points. Deductions not included pa.
Ycel: 12 accepted posts
Aaron: 3 accepted posts
Angus: 4 accepted posts
Mawi: 4 accepted posts
Kristel: 10 accepted posts
Elaine: 2 accepted posts
Deductions in today's round:
Ycel:
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Kristel:
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TALLY OF POINTS as of 7:41pm, August 26, 2015
Angus: 390+(4x5)= 410 points
Bennard: 380 points
Kristel: 300+((10x5)-5)= 345 points
Monique: 340 points
Ycel: 117.5+((12x5)-2.5)= 175 points
Beatrice: 127.5 points
Tin: 105 points
Aaron: 80+(3x5)= 95 points
Mawi: 37.5+(4x5)= 57.5 points
Ingrid: 40 points
Blue: 35 points
Meliza: 27.5 points
Elaine: 10+(2x5)= 20 points
Tina: 10 points
EDIT: Corrected the score tally.
EDITED: 3:26PM, 08/28/15, changed back to original deductions. :-)
That's all for now. Continue on! :-)
Metamorphoses by Ovid. Pyramus and Thisbe provides a story of the mulberry fruit's color. According to the tale, after the two lovers die tragically, the gods listen to Thisbe's lament and forever change the color of the mulberry fruits into their red stained color to honor the forbidden love.O Pioneers! by Willa Cather features a White Mulberry Tree, an allusion to the Ovidian legend.
Keyword: minstrel
Parang mali yung tally?TALLY OF POINTS as of 10:41pm, August 25, 2015
Bennard: 285+((18x5)-15)= 380 points
Monique: 290+((11x5)-5)= 340 points
Kristel: 192.5+((22x5)-2.5)= 300 points
Ycel: 110+((2x5)-2.5)= 117.5 points
Mawi: 5+((7x5)-2.5)= 37.5 points
Born to Exile by Phyllis EisensteinAlaric, a young minstrel with a talent for magic, roams the land in search of his fortune.
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
Includes characters that act as a traveling minstrel troupe.
keyword stream of consciousness
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers employs stream of consciousness.How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan employs stream of consciousness.
Keyword: primogeniture
^^ You're right, Angus. Teka lang ha, will correct. Thanks for the heads up!
Ycel: 110+((2x5)-2.5)= 117.5 points?I thought I got 12 accepted posts, not 2?
Persuasion by Jane AustenKellynch Hall, where Anne Elliott grew up, will not pass into her or her sister because the primogeniture laws will give it to the caddish Mr. Elliott
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Political treatise calling for the abolition of primogeniture.
keyword in flagrante delicto
^As of yesterday yun. Not reading ka na naman, haha!
AHAHAHAH! Multi-tasking nga ang mother, haller!
Sorry na. Nalito lang kasi ng konti, hahaha!
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. Montague Tigg / Tigg Montague starts a thriving, sleazy insurance business (which predates the classic Ponzi scheme) until Jonas murders him.Roots by Alex Haley won a Pulitzer Prize for its account of several generations of an African-American family living in America, a family which Haley said was his own. It was proven years later that passages of "Roots" were taken from Harold Courlander’s novel "The African."
Keyword: sigil
SigilPractical Sigil Magic: Creating Personal Symbols for Success by Frater UD
- Europe's best-known ceremonial magician and contemporary occult author, is widely regarded as the definitive guide to the topic. Unavailable for a number of years and long sought-after by ceremonial magicians, mages, and hermetic practitioners, this classic work is now available once again.
Basic Sigil Magic by Phillip Cooper
-The essential part of manifesting magical acts is communicating conscious intentions to the subconscious mind. The most effective way to do this is via symbols, specifically, sigils. This book offers the reader a grounding in magical basics, including preparation, design and performance.
Keyword: Provocateur
Two Treatises of Government by John LockeThese ideas about individual property rights were considered to be agitating against monarchy, causing Locke to flee for the Netherlands.
Gore Vidal: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
Biography of a man considered to be a cultural provocateur in the 1960s-70s
keyword fraternal twins
Twelfth Night or, What You Will by William Shakespeare - twin sister pretends to be his twin brother
Age of Ultron by Brian Michael Bendis
- Features the magneto twins, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff
Keyword: traitor
TraitorQ by Luther Blissett - the protagonist is a radical Protestant pursued over decades by Qatafa, a spy for the Roman Catholic church. Qatafa betrays the Protestants at every opportunity and, in the end, betrays the Cartholics as well.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy - one of the high-ranking generals in the Soviet high command passed information to the Americans because he thought the Communist government was a threat to the Russian people
Keyword: lobotomy
My Lobotomy: A Memoir By Howard Dully and Charles Fleming- memoir of someone who had been lobotomized
Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most by Timothy Schriver
- talks about the lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy
Keyword: frenemies (view spoiler)
FrenemiesThe Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe - a strange friendship between the two character; Baldanders, the permanently exhausted giant who won't stop growing, and the wily, diminutive Dr Talos who beats, bullies and cajoles his larger companion
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith - two men intertwined in a twisted friendship that is more significant than any other in their lives. Guy may be disgusted by the drunken, vicious Bruno, but when Bruno falls overboard at sea, Guy instantly dives into the waves, unable to imagine life alone without his cruel friend.
Keyword: philophobia
As requested, hindi chick lit. Lol
MARIDON: Hoy grabe kaaaaa!!! Passive-aggressive ng keyword nito oh!
Philophobia: The Fear Of Being In Love And Falling In Love by Finch MoorePhilophobia is the fear of being in love and falling in love, a fear that anyone could have. Opening this book gives you a peephole into the struggles of a woman named Amelia Wood, who is one of those people. Her poems weave through the topics of love, family, alcoholism, sadness, abuse, and acceptance.
Philophobia by D A Tang
“What am I without her?” Losing her sister Sarah in a car crash has put Willow into a state of depression. She distances herself from her friends, ruins her relationship with her parents, and silently despises her classmate that ruined her life in seconds. Willow has most definitely already forgiven. But can she learn to forget?
Keyword: patisserie
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Romance novel plotted in reverse chronological order.
High Tide by Inga Ābele
Psychological thriller plotted in reverse chronological order.
keyword cartography