#william weaver

[garadinervi]

Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130, Interviewed by William Weaver & Damien Pettigrew, The «Paris Review», Issue 124, Fall 1992

Images: Annie Boige, bookbinding, [Italo Calvino, (1972), Les villes invisibles, Engravings by Gérard Trignac, Translation by Jean Thibaudeau, Les Amis du Livre Contemporain, Versailles, 1993, Edition of 200] [Boekbanden van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Den Haag]

#graphic design #art #binding #interview #book #cover #book cover #back cover #annie boige #william weaver #damien pettigrew #paris review #italo calvino #jean thibaudeau #les amis du livre contemporain #koninklijke bibliotheek #1970s #1990s

[literarymeals]

Then the monks brought us wine, cheese, olives, bread, and excellent raisins, and left us to our refreshment. We ate and drank heartily. My master did not share the austere habits of the Benedictines and did not like to eat in silence. For that matter, he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose tr. William Weaver

#umberto eco #the name of the rose #william weaver #il nome della rosa #literature #quotes

[kaggsy59]

"To hear the classics as a distant echo..." #italocalvino #calvinocentenary

Today is the centenary of the birth of Italo Calvino; you might have noticed him making many appearances on the Ramblings this year, and as I’ve made quite clear, he’s one of my favourite ever authors. I’ve enjoyed taking part in the monthly #CalvinoBookClub reads, and these have been focused on fiction. So to celebrate Calvino’s 100th birthday I though I would spend some time dipping into his…

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#italo calvino #martin mclaughlin #william weaver

[elizabethkiem]

Via Merulana

Too many tourists visit Rome with just three visions in their head: Ben Hur doing laps at the Circus Maximus, Helena Bonham Carter picnicking on the Palatine and Audrey Hepburn on a joyride under the Spanish steps. Cinema has lavished the eternal city, but Rome’s literary legacy seems abandoned to the hands of the Ancients and the Edwardians. In a city where the ruins of empire greet a visitor’s every step, it is a true delight to wade in the undercurrents of modernity. The Via Merulana is a fine place to start.

#william weaver #gadda #pasticciaccio brutto

[canticleofcanticlesforleibowitz]

"Dictionaries were very hard to come by. I didn’t have an Italian-English dictionary. I had an Italian-German dictionary, the problem being that I didn’t know German. But then I had a German-English dictionary. So I would translate by way of German. Also, my friends knew some English and some French and, being Neapolitans, they were very good mimes. It was a form of charade really. They would act out Ungaretti poems; I have vivid memories of somebody trying to illustrate for me “M’illumino d’immenso,” by opening his arms, mouth, and eyes wide to be illuminated by immensity! When I finally learned Italian, I stopped translating poetry immediately because I realized what I was doing to it. I started translating prose a few years later simply because my friend asked me to translate his novel and I found that I enjoyed doing it."-- William Weaver

Ha. This is delightful.

#writing exercises #William Weaver

[20th-century-man]

Sigourney Weaver / William Friedkin’s Deal of the Century (1983)

#Sigourney Weaver #Deal of the Century #William Friedkin #1983 #film #1980s #gif #my gif #20th-century-man gif

[antiqueanimals]

Wildlife in North Carolina. June 1987. Illustration by David Williams.

Internet Archive

#bugs #arachnids #spiders #orb-weavers #David Williams

[pro-royalty]

Rihanna x Golden Globes (2023)

#rihanna #golden globes 2023 #black girl magic #beauty #jahleel weaver #style #yusef williams #hair #custom #schiaparelli #giuseppe zanotti #fashion #black beauty #golden globes #pro-royalty

[texaschainsawmascara]

The Cabin in the Woods promo bong

#this vs the Dune popcorn bucket #the cabin in the woods #horror #cinema #film #movie #chris hemsworth #jesse williams #bradley whitford #sigourney weaver #fran kranz #richard jenkins #comedy #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi horror #science fiction horror #scifi #scifi horror #comedy horror

[otakusparkle]

Identity V Chinese 6th Anniversary Character Congratulations Messages (Part 1)

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Gardener : So happy to see you again! Emma is very happy to attend the sixth anniversary party at Oletus Manor with everyone, and share happiness and touching moments together. Every day with everyone by my side, Emma is very, very happy, and I hope this happiness can be passed on forever. If you have any lovely manor stories, come and share them with Emma!

Lucky Guy : I always wonder what I can give on a day like this. Um... luck... or blessing? Well, luck. But, it's nice to have luck, right? Is there any lucky thing you can tell me?

Hell Ember : You guys! Don't set off fireworks or revelry indoors! The chairs are blocking the way, move them, and remember to put the opened treasure chests back in place... Hey, that one over there! Eat slowly, there are still many delicious foods at the banquet. Don't rush!

Doctor : It's spring again. Time flies. We have known each other for six years... It's an amazing number. It's also a long time in my life. So, have you found your "home" here?

Lawyer : I am Freddy Riley. It's been a long time since we last met. How are you doing in your work and life? I sincerely hope that you can spend a long and happy time here.

Thief : I remember that there would be occasional laughter and joy there during festivals, just like here today. It would be better if more sponsors came. Ah, look, there are big shots here! Excuse me, I'll go say hello!

Smiley Face : It's too quiet. Let me light some rockets to liven up the birthday party! Let's make some noise and laugh louder!

Coordinator : Long-term companionship is glorious and great. I am honored to have known you for six years. I wish our friendship a happy one and look forward to carrying out missions with you in the future. Happy 6th anniversary!

Gamekeeper : Happy 6th anniversary. The cake here smells so good. The animals in the forest are also restless. You are not allowed to go into the forest.

Explorer : Hi! Long time no see! Do you still remember the travel gift from last year? Do you still like it? From the fifth anniversary to the sixth anniversary, I have a lot more travel experiences to share with you this year. Please take some time to get together. No, I invite you to come and play!

Mercenary : The moments when you give it your all are well worth to be remembered. Yes, I remember you, in the middle of that lively battle. I look forward to meeting you again.

Magician : I like such lively and unique occasions. Countless artists gather in this manor, which always gives me endless inspiration! Let me see what new things these new friends of this year have created!

The Ripper : Greetings, it has been an honor to spend another One year. Here, take this rose, Let’s celebrate the 6th anniversary together.

Forward : Happy 6th anniversary! Thank you all for your kind invitation! The weather is great, the atmosphere is great, everyone is so nice, do you want to go out and have a game?

Soul Weaver : Thank you for inviting me to this birthday party again. You said you would let me participate in a wonderful performance... Thank you so much for remembering that I am an actress... I look forward to it every day.

Mechanic : Happy 6th anniversary! This year is really a very happy year. I have received a lot of love and praise, met many new friends, and learned new knowledge! In the days to come, we will always be together! I have prepared gifts for everyone who came to the anniversary party. They are still in various corners of Oletus Manor. Look for them!

The Mind's Eye : Thank you for your company this year. And for your learning and growth in the field of literature. —Ah, it was really a fulfilling year! In the future, please work hard with me!

Geisha : Happy 6th anniversary. It's been a long time since I've seen such a warm, lively and kind birthday party. I will enjoy it. Thank you for inviting me.

Priestess : In order to be together longer, and to pursue the blessings we expect, is this also out of our admiration for divinity? I like this kind of faith and sincerity. “God” will respond to every faithful believer.

The Feaster : Your prayers have been fulfilled. Wish Oletus Manor a happy 6th anniversary.

Perfumer : You have the scent of bravery, hard work and innocence. Let me think, what is the combination of... Oh? Are you asking for my perfume formula? Take a guess.

Cowboy : Thank you for inviting me to this birthday party. The sumptuous feast, the blazing bonfire, and the happy friends. All these are really nostalgic. Come on, come on, my bad, let's not say those depressing words. Cheers!

Wuchang : On a good day, I wish you happiness, health and peace.

Female Dancer : We should celebrate this day with joyful and free dance steps. Please be more confident! Come and follow my steps.

Photographer : Happy 6th anniversary, It’s an honor to be able to participate in such a grand meeting. Are you ready? This is a precious group photo from me for you all.

Seer : Blessings on the 6th anniversary. I’m grateful for your invitation, it’s still as crowded here, filled with sincerity. Prophecy can’t be according to one’s wishes, I deeply apologize, but believe my blessing is sincere.

Mad Eye : My God, what have you decorated the manor into? Balloons, flowers... these fancy things can be called decorations? Hahahaha, let me teach you how to arrange a grand banquet.

Embalmer : Thank you for your invitation. Turns out we have known each other for so long…….Thank you, I will put in effort to enjoy today’s festivity.

Dream Witch : My dear people, every year we celebrate the single-digit growth... Why don't you follow me into eternity?

Prospector : Congratulations on the 6th anniversary. There seems to be a lot more people here this year... Don't bother entertaining, I can do it myself. Thank you.

Enchantress : Happy 6th anniversary. God has blessed us and we have celebrated another year together. Every year at the banquet, there are always people who get sick from eating. I brought some herbs with me. If you need them, you can come to me.

#idv #identity v #idv seer #eli clark #idv mercenary #naib subedar #idv prospector #norton campbell #idv embalmer #aesop carl #idv photographer #joseph desaulnier #idv the ripper #idv jack #idv lucky guy #idv forward #william ellis #idv soul weaver #idv violetta #idv wu chang #idv priestess #fiona gilman #idv gardener #emma woods #idv perfumer #vera nair #idv mad eyes #burke lapadura #idv lawyer #freddy riley

[esqueletosgays]

ALIENS (1986)

Director: James Cameron Cinematography: Adrian Biddle

#aliens #alien #james cameron #sigourney weaver #ellen ripley #tenent ripley #michael biehn #paul reiser #lance henriksen #bill paxton #carrie henn #william hope #jenette goldstein #80s #80s movies #sci fi #sci fi horror #horror #horror movies #cinematography #movie screencaps #movie screenshots #movie frames #film screencaps #film screenshots #film frames #screencaps #screenshots

[garadinervi]

Italo Calvino, Introduction (Roma, March 6, 1984), in Carlo Emilio Gadda, (1957), That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Translated from the Italian by William Weaver, Quartet Encounter, Quartet Books, London, 1985, pp. v-xiv

#graphic design #book #cover #book cover #italo calvino #carlo emilio gadda #william weaver #quartet encounter #quartet books #1950s #1980s

[camyfilms]

GHOSTBUSTERS 1984

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

#ghostbusters #1984 #bill murray #dan aykroyd #sigourney weaver #harold ramis #rick moranis #annie potts #william atherton #ernie hudson #david margulies #michael ensign

[benevolentlibraryghost]

I wish this were a movie

Dear reader, welcome to my TED Talk on why this book is in many ways better than the movie. And also that I can understand why it wasn't turned into a movie. Warning: I will be discussing spoilers. You have been warned.

The story begins a few years after the events of Aliens, the second movie in the spectacular Alien™ franchise. Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks and a badly damaged Bisschop have escaped LV-426 on the ship the Sulaco. They are all in cryo-sleep, well, except for Bisschop of course. Because he is an android.

Something goes wrong with the ship's navigation system, and the ship enters UPP borders: Union of Progressive Peoples. Well, so much for being progressive; they are socialists/communists who refuse to upgrade their technology because of their strong hatred towards capitalism. When the Sulaco floats by, they enter the ship, looking for something to steal from the capitalists. They find a sleeping pod with half an android and an alien egg growing from its abdomen.

Yes. You read that right. In this book, Xenomorph DNA can mix with android DNA. Mind = blown.

Anyways; where there is an egg, there is an idiot human who is going to hang directly above it to inspect it. A facehugger attacks and clings to one of the communists. Who is called Boris. Irony. He is shot by his crewmates, who flee with the android. They take it back to their space station "Rodina", where they start extracting information from the androids database in order to grow their own Ovomorph.

Meanwhile, the Sulaco floats further into space, until it reaches Anchorpoint, a huge space station. A few marines and a scientist board the ship. They are attacked by drones (the young adult form of Aliens). Which left me wondering where the chestbursting took place, because the people in the cryotubes are still okay. Apparantly, the aliens are evolving. A fight takes place. Luckily, our characters in the cryotubes survive, though Ripley is in a coma.

Newt is sent back to earth, to try and live a normal life with her family. And get some therapy, maybe. Ripley is also sent somewhere safe. Hicks is left alone. He picks up a job and tries to process what happened back on LV-426. Bisschop is fixed with some cheap materials and sent to Anchorpoint. All is well.

Or so we thought...

Both Rodina and Anchorpoint manage to create Ovomorphs, though they are different from the ones we know from the first two movies. A bunch of capitalist pricks try to make sure that the process goes smoothly, while Hicks and Bisschop try to sabotage the mission. Though they don't succeed, the pricks regret their decision quickly when everything goes wrong. During a meeting, a capitalist Barbie starts convulsing. A hybrid Xenomorph emerges from beneath her skin. No chestbursting. She rips away her skin, and BOOM: alien. She was not impregnated by a facehugger, but infected in a different way.

Hicks is forced to go on another bug-hunt (yay.) with some other marines, who quickly die since they don't have as much experience with the aliens as our precious husba- HICKS does. Eventually, they decide to nuke the space station. They evacuate as much people as possible, but most die on the way to the lifeboats because a large group of aliens is following them.

In the end, Hicks survives with Bisschop and a very cute female scientist. I was under the impression that Hicks was in some sort of a relationship with Ripley, but I must have been mistaken since he forms a very close bond with the scientist. Anyway, the three are saved by the only surviving communist (everything went to shit at Rodina space station, too). Hicks wonders if he is ever going to get some peace. And Bisschop tells him that he is not. Happy end :)

I love the movies and the video game, Alien: Isolation. So when I saw this book in the book store, there was simply no choice for me but to buy it. And the other alien books that were underneath it...

The first few chapters had a heavy focus on the socialists and Anchorpoint racing each other to see who can use the Xenomorph as a weapon, first. In the end, neither succeeds, but this mirrored the Cold War in many ways. I thought that was a pretty cool aspect.

After a while, this focus shifts to Anchorpoint and we don't hear much from Rodina anymore. At first I thought this to be strange, but I didn't mind anymore when shit went down and there was so much action I couldn't put the book down. At some point we went back to Rodina and everyone was dead. It felt weird to not read about them for so long and then have their story end, but I think having updates on them would've made the book too boring.

I loved how the author took the time to let the characters reflect on what was happening. For example, in the final scene, where they fly away from the nuked station; normally, you hear some orchestra playing and you see tired characters wrapped in blankets, battered with bruises, half-sleeping and ready to go home. And as viewers, you would have to imagine what they were thinking, what this scene meant. I didn't have to do any of that with this book, because this final scene was an entire chapter of the characters reflecting on what had happened to them and what their future would look like. This reflection was a perfect ending to the book and left room for future books or movies.

Now, I will quickly reflect on my problem with the third movie. It is the fact they spent the entire movie Aliens saving Newt, even going so far as to enter the nest for her, but they kill her off-screen during the opening credits. WTjklfjdlfjd. Newt might not have a big role in this book, but her story was ended properly, with a little girl going home to her family, finally save from all the horror. Don't get me wrong, I do like the third movie. It's just that her death doesn't sit right with me and makes me annoyed every time I watch the movie.

Despite all the great points of this book, I have one major issue. The authors have tried to introduce so many new types of aliens: hybrid aliens, aliens bursting from your leg instead of your chest, multiple aliens bursting and aliens from lemurs (who would actually look very cute imo). There is nothing wrong with these types of aliens, it's just that so many are introduced in one story that it's hard to keep up. Especially when it is turned into a two-hour movie.

Well, to answer that one question; is the book better than the movie? Signs point to yes. It is hard to compare such different stories, but I am happy that both exist. I would have liked to see this book turned into a movie. It would treat us to a lot of action and badassery.

Rating: 4/5 Lemur Xenos

#books #reading #review #alien #aliens #xenomorph #facehugger #alien franchise #alien 3 #sigourney weaver #william gibson #pat cadigan

[elizabethkiem]

the poor pikes, dark, with pointed snouts like the desire of the poor, and grim, which had swum and swum through green poverty toward the silvery glint of the Druendal; or tench, great yellow fish from the lakes, of a greasy and stupid viscidity, which even among carrots and celery still tasted of mud

#theartistathome #gadda #william weaver

[filmjunky-99]

c o p y c a t, 1995 🎬 dir. jon amiel

#film #crime #thriller #copycat #copycat 1995 #Jon Amiel #sigourney weaver #holly hunter #Harry Connick Jr. #William McNamara #Dr. Helen Hudson #Inspector Mary Jane Monahan #Daryll Lee Cullum #Peter Foley