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| - | ''[[The Ninth Gate]]'' is a boring film. One does not expect boring films from [[Polanski]]. The music was boring. It reminded me of that other [[Barcelona]] tale of [[book collecting]], ''[[The Shadow of the Wind]]'', which I enjoyed more reading than seeing ''Gate''. I was also mentally comparing it with the [[supernatural thriller]] ''[[Viy (film)]]'' based on a story by [[Gogol]], of which I'd recently seen excerpts. Now that film had an excellent soundtrack. This one was [[awful]]. | ||
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| - | :''[[Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]'' | ||
| - | ''[[Lady Reading the Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]''[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jahsonic/3129030662/] (c.[[1780]]) is an [[oil painting]] measuring 81 x 65 cm . | ||
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| - | It was painted by French painter ''[[Auguste Bernard d'Agesci]]'' and its subject was a [[female reader]] [[swooning]] over the [[correspondence]] by [[Abelard]] and [[Heloise]] in the posthumously published ''[[Letters of Heloise and Abelard]]''. | ||
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| - | What is not generally known is that, in 1934, [[Montague Summers]]'s [[Fortune Press]] translations of [[Sinistrari]]'s ''[[Demoniality]]'' (1927) and ''[[The Confessions of Madeleine Bavent]]'' (see [[Louviers possessions]]) were the subject of a [[British obscenity]] trial. | ||
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| - | Recent scholarship by [[Sholem Stein]] has revealed that the protagonist [[reader]] in this painting by French artist [[Pierre Antoine Baudouin]] had been reading either [[Sinistrari d'Ameno]]'s ''[[Demoniality Or Incubi and Succubi]]'' or [[Claude Le Petit]]'s "[[Apologie de Chausson]]." The woman reader was previously believed to have fallen asleep of boredom by reading Kant's ''[[Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime]]'', professor Stein now confirms that she probably died of excessive [[lasciviousness]]. | ||
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| - | :"Katje, dans l'intimité, se montrait discrète et dé- concertante. Elle s'exprimait alors avec une grâce manié- rée sentant à la fois le latin du père [[Sinistrari d'Ameno]] et les [[fagot]]s de [[Claude Le Petit]]. Cette fille jeune et saine avait un cerveau étrange, peuplé comme une vieille librairie dont les rayons eussent été garnis de livres inquiétants, sans titre et sans nom d'auteur." --''[[Le Nègre Léonard et Maitre Jean Mullin]]'' by [[Pierre Mac Orlan]] | ||
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| - | :"Pour [[Sinistrari d'Ameno]], observa [[Durtal]], les incubes et les succubes ne sont pas précisément des démons, mais bien des esprits animaux, intermédiaires entre le démon et l'ange, des sortes de satyres, de faunes, tels qu'en révéra le paganisme; des espèces de farfadets et de lutins tels qu'en exorcisa le moyen age. Sinistrari ajoute qu'ils n'ont que faire de polluer l'homme endormi, attendu qu'ils possèdent des génitoires et sont doués de vertus prolifiques..." --''[[Là-Bas]]'' by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] | ||
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| - | [[Giacomo Puccini]] would have turned 150 had this [[Italian composer]]. A reason to explore the tropes of his best-known work ''[[La bohème]]''. | ||
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| - | ''[[La bohème]]'' was based on a serialized publication by [[Henri Murger]], first serialized in the [[mid 1800s]] | ||
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| - | *[[Max Bill]] @100, Swiss architect ([[1908]] [[1994]]) | ||
| + | # Oppressing with [[fear]] or [[horror]]; [[appalling]]; [[terrible]]; as, an awful scene. | ||
| + | # Inspiring [[awe]]; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and [[admiration]]; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly [[impressive]]; as, an awful scene. | ||
| + | # Struck or filled with awe; (obsolete: [[terror]]-[[stricken]]). | ||
| + | # [[worshipful|Worshipful]]; [[reverential]]; [[law-abiding]]. | ||
| + | # [[exceedingly]] [[great]]; exceedingly good or bad; applied intensively; as, ''an awful bonnet'', ''I have learnt an awful amount today''. | ||
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- Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
- Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive; as, an awful scene.
- Struck or filled with awe; (obsolete: terror-stricken).
- Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
- exceedingly great; exceedingly good or bad; applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet, I have learnt an awful amount today.
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