![]() ![]() BUT, as he is thinking of various ways to murder everyone in his biology class and eat Bella, he starts whining. Now, this I can understand to a degree because vamps, ya know, drink blood and all. ![]() He first starts off as an extremely condescending vamp, but as soon as he lays his eyes on Bella and gets a whiff of her sweet-smelling blood, he quickly becomes a murderous hunter. Like I mentioned earlier, Edward definitely suffers from manic depression. ![]() Manic Depressed, murderous vamp with feelings: OMG, did I really just type that? Project Hindsight is melting brain cells. However, I will touch on a few standout parts that really tickled my pickle. Well, that's a lie, I probably could, but it'd be an awful long review. I can't tell you how many times I snickered or LOL'ed. For the same reasons why some found Midnight Sun disturbing, I found it unintentionally comical. I was not entertained by the story or the writing. Right now, you may have your head cocked to the side with your eyes squinted, wondering if you read that last part correctly. And third, I was strangely and unashamedly entertained by it all. Second, there was part of him - and I didn't know how potent that part might be - that suffered from Manic Depression. First, Edward was a stalker and a creeper. About three things I was absolutely positive. ![]()
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s treatise on the art of Edvard Munch, “So Much Longing in So Little Space,” fails - as art criticism is prone to do - to adequately “read” or “translate” Munch’s paintings for us. “Nevertheless Munch painted an oak.” This seems about as profound a thing as one can say about painting, which is wordless and beyond words. ![]() “Many had painted oaks before,” wrote poet Olav H. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In contrast to Faust, Part One, the focus here is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics, in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. Goethe finished writing Faust, Part Two in 1831 it was published posthumously the following year. Its publication in 1808 was followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, the last to be edited by Goethe himself. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as Part One in 1806. The first appearance of the work in print was Faust, a Fragment, published in 1790. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886. Urfaust has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between 17 however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:28670350 Republisher_date 20120716063318 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120716014711 Scanner . 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