New Playgrounds: an introduction to hacks in the arts
“This publication presents an introductory guide to hack events for the cultural sector. It examines some of the main types of culture hacks, what the benefits are for individuals and organisations taking part, the different approaches to engaging various communities and how to create the right environment. It details some of the essential ingredients that are required for success, and explains the rationale for common approaches.
The publication also presents a snapshot of the current culture hacking landscape in the UK through a series of case studies.
Hack events have been active in the cultural sector since 2007, and there is growing interest among cultural institutions and organisations in the benefits they offer. There are today a number of organisations who specialise in their delivery for the arts, several of which are profiled in this publication.
As a method, hack events have emerged from the world of digital culture, and for many in the cultural sector they remain an unfamiliar way of working. Ultimately, this publication aims to make hack events more accessible and to enable more people to benefit from what they have to offer.” (p.4)


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IDDRG 2017 New Mini Symposium
Within the IDDRG 2017 Conference a special session was organised with the title “Stamping of lightweight structural components“. This Mini Symposium was initiated by the Consortium of the H-2020 project entitled “Low Cost Materials Processing Technologies for Mass Production of Lightweight Vehicles – LoCoMaTech” but this session was open for all the participants of the IDDRG 2017 Conference in Munich. Altogether 16 relevant papers were presented in this topic.
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A Welcome Note
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I’m Antonio Erskine, Author of the Illusions of Life. Look around, read my blog and join my mailing list. There is a gift for all those who join the mailing list; I hope you will enjoy it.
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Antonio Jerome Erskine was born and still lives in Jamaica. Growing up in the small community of Salt Spring, St. James with his grandmother; a community known across Jamaica for crime and violence, Antonio was able to break free from the stereotypical view of young men from his community. Today he is the youngest ordained Bishop in the church that he serves – The House of God , headquartered in Lexington Kentucky. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Management studies and is currently pursuing his MBA.
Growing up in Salt Spring, Antonio encountered many experiences that, today, influences his perspectives and writings. His love for poetry and things creative is evidenced in his first book-The Illusions of Life. He began writing poems from as far back as 1998, in fact his first poem was dedicated to his then girlfriend and now wife; Shereen. While in college; he and his roommate would spend evenings writing poems and critiquing them. He also enjoys writing gospel songs.
Antonio is married and has two children; Khalecia and Kishaun. He is a mentor and motivational speaker; he was the guest speaker at the William Knibb High School Graduation and the Cornwall College High School welcoming service for new Students. Antonio has graced other platforms within Jamaica and the USA sharing his gift and talent.
A lover of Sports, he represented his high school playing cricket and also played for the St, James Parish Team. He still plays football on a weekly basis and participates in 5k runs as often as time permits.
He continues to give back to his community through volunteering and charity work. He was instrumental in raising funds for the construction of a library at the Salt spring Primary school and currently coaches their under- 13 football team.
A former Client Care Manager at the RBC Bank Jamaica Ltd, Antonio is currently the Branch Manager at the western offices of the Overseas Examinations Commission.
In December of 2017, I was staying with some friends in West Palm Beach, Florida. One night in particular we decided to have a poetry night. The game was to select a word and each person would write a poem using that word as the theme. Everyone was impressed with my poems, and so I continued to write on my return to Jamaica. I then wrote a poem titled Illusion and it was then that the title of the book came to me.
The pieces in the book capture the experiences of life. Some pieces speak to current socio-economic and issues of race that are consistently at play in our society. The book seeks to give a different perspective and voice to these issues as we journey through life. The topic of love is also captured and along with all the other topics, we see that based on our perspectives, things are drastically different, thus life is in many ways an illusion.
The book contains forty one poems aimed at motivating, inspiring and challenging the reader to look beyond the surface of words and various subjects. The reader is challenged to identify the deeper meaning and significance of the subjects at the core of each piece of poetry. In an attempt to avoid abstract language and topics; The Illusions of Life It is filled with simple language and written in a form that all of us can understand and relate to. It is my hope that after reading each poem, the imagery will be clearly painted in the reader’s mind.
The Truth of Emotions captures a journey filled with various experiences that gives rise to a euphoria of emotions. From hatred to love, pain to joy, captivity to freedom, the reader is taken on a journey never to be forgotten. Known for his ease of language, the author once again stays away from being too abstract so as to capture the raw emotions that we all experience in life. Filled with pieces such as I Hate you Death, Emotions of a Man, and Freedom, you will be captured by this book.


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President Trump’s approach to trade seems to be based on a false understanding of how the global economy works, one that also plagued American policy makers nearly a century ago. Essentially Trade War & Events 1900 – Present. In this report, we look at some of the key events that have promoted and stymying global trade from 1900 to the latest US China Trade War. From World Wars to 7 Contentious Trade Wars in US History. Despite Hard Times, People Lived Longer During the Great Depression. How the Great Depression Helped Spare Wild Turkeys From Extinction. A Short History of Trade Wars. Trade tensions between Beijing and Washington have been high lately. With the potential of a trade war looming, Sarah Pavlak takes a historical view of how these commercial spats usually pan out. The most prominent trade war of the 20th century was ignited by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act of 1930, which imposed steep tariffs on roughly 20,000 imported goods. Led by Canada, America’s Wars on trade are a common topic in world history – especially with news going around regarding trade wars under the Trump administration. In fact, President Donald Trump stated, “Trade wars are good and easy to win.” While there are pros and cons to economic conflicts, most would agree that they are damaging, potentially avoidable, and that “nobody ever wins.”
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Hi, I’m Shannon, freelance editor extraordinaire! From the time I was a toddler, my mother instilled in me a passion for reading. She read to me from the day I was born until I was old enough to read on my own at the tender age of four. Dr. Seuss, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street; these are the cultural icons that stoked my love of the written word throughout my adolescence.
As I grew older, I started to explore the world of storytelling. Hours upon hours in the local library, losing myself in so many different worlds, stoked and fueled my passion. I became curious about the behind-the-scenes process of what it takes to bring a story to life, and I realized something: Book editing is what I was put on this earth to do.
It’s why in July 2021, only a month after receiving my Certificate of Editing from the University of Washington-Seattle, I officially opened my doors as a professional freelance fiction developmental editor.
Developmental editing gives me the opportunity to collaborate with authors and bring their story vision to life by combining realistic plot pacing, well-rounded characters, emotional conflicts, and a truly satisfying ending that all fit together and accurately reflect the author’s intent.
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THE DEAD PATH COMMENTARY
The undead. Vampire fantasy at its best.
Any reader seeking thrilling sci fi adventure action, unique characters, and fantastical settings should know the Seaton name. A sci fi horror spectacle! One of the best science fiction fantasy books series. This is a vampire book series thats bound to have people talking. Through ages, classic fantasy novels have inspired us. A tale woven with horror, its a perfect cobination of genres in these futuristic science fiction fantasy books. These are dark vampire fantasy novels that will be remembered for decades to come. These are not aggressively violent vampire books that are gory, but a ferfect blend of action, romance, suspense, and intriguing plot that captures the imagination. What makes these different vampire tales is these are futuristic vampire novels. The series will be remembered as on of the best science fiction horror books. Richard A. Ericson’s latest book is an unforgettable tale that will exceed everyone’s expectations. One of the greatest sequels in the fantasy/horror genre of all time, Quantum Heights, Ericsons’s second instalment of the Dead Path Chronicles series, is a delight, makes you think, thrills and excites. It’s also compact at under 300 pages, delivering all the page-turning story in an economical format.
Vampire fiction is old literature. But gaining more in popularity. Futuristic vampire tales are very new to books. When I set out to write a book about vampires, I wanted something different. This fantasy adventure has it all. It is an epic battle fantasy. Futuristic vampire novels have not been written by the many. After you read the dead path chronicles series, you will understand why this is considered one of the top fantasy books in this genre. There are other vampire books, but if you want quality of vampire story telling that is not aggressively gory, then this is the best sci fi books series you can get your hands on. In Alamptria, good must temper the looming threat of evil for survival. The dark forces have awakened and returned to torment the people of Elysium, Koriston and the other cities of Alamptria. Fortunately the vim of Petoshine and its great wizard Grongone stand strong against the rising evil. To help conquer the dark forces, Grongone bestows three claymores of astonishing power upon the Seaton brothers who as knight masters set about defending the people of Elysium and Alamptria’s other great cities. Though the Seatons are only human, with each successive attack, their power grows, feeding off the energy of the vim of Petoshine.
For over a thousand years, Makoor and his undead minions have laid dormant, waiting for the opportunity to strike. They feared Grongone’s great power. Yet over time, the dark forces regrouped, gaining power exponentially as their forces grew. With every passing day, the dark lord Makoor and his undead plotted the day when they would unleash their torment and persecute the humans of Alamptria to take ultimate control over the land, and to feed on the blood of the people and make them accept Makoor as their master.
When the innocent meet the brutality and horror of the dark forces, they find the heroism of the unstoppable Seatons a beacon of light. Driven by strength, intelligence and brotherhood, the Seaton brothers stand tall to fight against the undead to ensure peace and harmony remain in Alamptria............. READ MORE
AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD A. ERICSON
What kind of experience has writing Dead Path Chronicles been for you?
R.E.: Writing the Dead Path Chronicles has been gratifying in many ways. I set out to write a sci fi horror that would be as popular as the vampire academy or twilight, but yet entirely different. These are classic fantasy novels. It’s my first novel, and having spent seven years writing it, I realize that with a lot of hard work and determination I can achieve whatever I set out to accomplish. In the beginning, I just had few vague thoughts. But as time went on, a story grew out of them. Months turned into years, and I found myself not just telling a simple story but creating an epic with numerous complicated story lines, something of cinematic scope proportion, that would thrust readers into an all-encompassing fantasy/horror world. Having the opportunity to create a world peopled with dynamic characters that come into conflict with one another and ultimately cause this world to erupt into chaos has been a great privilege for me. I enjoy having that sort of control, as if I get the chance to play God for a moment and decide others’ destinies. I wrote the best sci fi fantasy books I can ever imagine. All in all, the whole experience has been a giant roller coaster ride, and it has been a lot of fun... READ MORE
Richard A. Ericson releases chapters and excerpts from his classic fantasy books. A story well told that he's proud to call his science fiction fantasy books classics... a vampire book series.
RELEASED CHAPTER >>> Cold Hearted and Driven
The city of Jethro was sodden and heavy from the slushy rain that fell thickly over the streets. It was warm for a winter’s day, and the cobblestone shone from the wet. Upon nightfall, the citizens slowly made their way into their homes and bunkered themselves in for the dark. Night in Jethro was a fearsome time, and the people who lived here were scarred by their memories.
In a suite of a small apartment building, Cynthia Davenport was grieving for the loss of her brother, her best friend. It was one year ago on this night that the dreaded vampire had taken her brother’s life. For Cynthia it was a year of pain and desperation; she ached to find a way to destroy the entire vampire cult that continually persecuted their great land of Alamptria. The people of the kingdom had to spend their time and precious limited resources to defend their homes from these wretched creatures of the underworld who flew by night out from Mount Drone, which stood at the base of Plaphorius, and flooded the skies, turning them black. The dark lord and his vampire minions originated from the near by planet of Dragora. They were eager to annihilate the entire galaxy. It was the Dark Lord Salminar who was hell bent on using his minions to destroy all of humankind, and he would not rest until all of the mortals of the planet Alamptria were too part of his leagues of undead. There were many who chose to fight back against the scourge; the brave knights in the cities of Elysium and Koriston had joined forces in order to eradicate their land of these horrid creatures. . ...... READ MORE
RELEASED CHAPTER >>> First Knight
After claiming two horses at the stables, Caprius and Calista rode over the dirt and snow-covered trails out of the city of Galdington and all the way to the village of Jethro. Keeping his distance was Vernon Goncoul also on horseback. Vernon was furious over the death of his brother and felt not only stricken with guilt for not having been there to prevent it but blind with anger. He wanted the solace claymore and to see both Caprius and Calista dead. But he knew he couldn’t be hasty and had to bide his time, remain in the shadows until he could give them their due.
The early morning was thick with fog that was so dense, it was difficult to see more than a meter or so in front of the horses. Caprius and Calista went down a small hill and below they were able to make out the barest outlines of buildings in the village of Jethro. They continued on unaware of Vernon standing on the hilltop behind them obscured by the mist swirling around him and his steed. He made a dark silhouette against the gloomy background.
Calista and Caprius made their way through the gravel-covered main road and looked in the shops as they passed. It was a quaint town but the people seemed to be deeply affected by the fog as they were listless, no one speaking to anyone else. Caprius stopped one man, “I say, my good sir, can you tell me where the local pub is?” The man looked slowly at Caprius and said not a word. Calista nudged Caprius that they should move along. The man looked half-dead and very frail. They waited another moment to see if he’d answer, but he just stood there, his mouth dumbly open a bit. So Caprius and Calista rode on. “Not a very helpful chap, was he?” Caprius remarked. A moment later, Caprius called out to a woman on a porch rocker. “I say, old woman, is there a pub nearby?” he asked. The woman just rocked back and forth.
“This is very odd,” said Calista, shrugging. “I guess we’ll just have to find a pub ourselves. They kept on until they finally came upon an old rundown pub beside a church with several large bells in the belfry. The pub’s sign was broken. “The Greasy Spoon,” Caprius snickered. “That hardly sounds delicious.”
There was nothing else around,...... READ MORE
RELEASED CHAPTER >>> Of Absence and Malice - part 2
At Quantum Heights, Andromin Seaton stood on the balcony of his suite enjoying the view of the winter wonderland below. He took a deep puff of his cigar and let it out into the frigid air in a thin stream. He looked at the cigar. Cigars are fine to wind down with, he thought, but a lovely woman is much more my taste. He took a last puff of his cigar before crushing it into an ashtray already filled with spent cigar ends and walked back into his suite. He flopped into an easy chair and laid his head back. “Fetrona,” he muttered. “What has happened to us?” He sighed. “Women. It’s harder to live with them than without them.” Then he thought about Calista. How she didn’t look at him the same anymore. It made him feel like he’d lost something vital to his life. Hell, he thought. I don’t even know her. She’s full of secrets. And she seems to know so much about me, like she’s done research. It’s not natural.
Andromin tried to talk himself into feeling better, but when he spied the decanter on the sideboard, he grabbed it and poured a healthy drink. Once it hit his lips, he spat it out. “Water?” What kind of place is this? This is my holiday!” He set the glass down and pushed it away. “I need a drink,” he said, heading for the door.
He went downstairs into the concourse and ambled about, looking in all the shops. When he passed the wine shop, he saw a beautiful woman inside talking to a customer. He recognized her straight away: Mr. Willy B. Pinkles’ mistress. ........ READ MORE
RELEASED EXCERPT OF THE MONTH
>>> This excerpt was taken from the futuristic vampire novel 'Quantum Heights.' An exciting tale where the kights of Petoshine come in confict with the horror of the dark lord and his vampire undead minions. Check back on this website every month for more excerpts released on what is the next generation on epic vampie books since the twilight saga and vampire academy.
The following morning, Caprius and Calista walked into St. Basil’s church. A funeral was underway that was being attended by a small crowd. They made their way up the rows of pews and sat in the fourth row. The woman beside them was sobbing. The priest’s sermon was brief but it enlivened the mourners, and the woman wiped her eyes, crossed herself and looked more at peace from his words.
“I’m sorry to bother you, madam, but whose funeral is this?” Calista whispered to her.
She smiled sadly. “It is for my sister. Her life was taken away far too early. She was so young, so vibrant. She was a nun at this church.”
“What was her name?” asked Calista, suddenly growing cold.
“Laura Bently,” said the woman, a tear falling from her eye.
“Sister Laura? No, it can’t be,” Calista said. “We came here to talk with her today.” She leaned in toward Caprius. “This funeral is for Sister Laura Bently,” she said.
Caprius knew what had happened and felt dreadful. Calista laid her hand upon the grieving woman’s knee. “May I ask how she died?”
“A foul creature attacked her, a vampire,” said the woman beginning to weep again.
“Oh, no. I am so sorry,” said Calista. Calista caught Caprius’ eye and saw he knew. Around them, friends and family went up to the casket to pay their last respects. Caprius and Calista joined the end of the line. When they reached her, they looked upon the young woman’s face. “I’m so sorry you had to go through this,” Calista whispered to her.
After the funeral ended, the casket was taken out and the churchgoers followed. Caprius and Calista stayed seated.
“Now that our contact is dead, we may never find out what Lynin Chiles knew,” said Calista.
“The letter from Chiles stated that Sister Laura knew what was going on and she suspected the head nun,” said Caprius. “Finding the truth just got a lot harder. Come on. Let us follow the procession to the graveyard.”
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He is the hunter who preys upon humans in his lust for blood. He is the iniquitous beast with the strength of ten men. He is swift enough to dodge bullets; stealthy enough to fly into the night as a bat; capable of transformation into a wolf, into a heavy mist, or into nothing at all, and as suddenly can vanish in a moment. He is Dracula: the blood sucking vampire.
Probably the most famous vampire books written ever. These immortal creatures captivate audiences because they speak to the beast that lies inside us all. Our curiosity about these blood-sucking parasites is insatiable. Is it the horror and danger? The overwhelming desire for eternal life? A dark possibility for seduction? Or it is that they can assume human form yet possess superhuman dark powers? What makes this the most intriguing classic fantasy books?
It is certainly all of these. Vampires have captured the literary imagination now more than ever. Dracula is one of the most powerfully written fictional characters ever created, and the books and films in which he appears continue to intrigue audiences. No single character has managed to captivate us equally since Dracula was created over a hundred years ago. Bram Stoker created a sci fi horror that would stand the test of time. Vioent vampire books are loved by millions. And Bram Stokers 'Dracula' is a compelling vampire books classic. The characters of this dark vampire fantasy novel are unforgettable; legendary. Count Dracula’s intention to survive the ages has manifested; he who hungers for eternal life and embraces the darkness by which to draw human blood shall indeed live forever.... READ MORE
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R. L. LaFevers (Robin Lorraine when she's in really big trouble) grew up surrounded by shelves of old dusty books, a passel of brothers, and a wide variety of pets, including a goat, chickens, chipmunks, a baby anteater, and, for a few short weeks, two bear cubs, who were very wild and untamed. She has also spent a large portion of her life being told she was making up things that weren't there, which only proves she was destined to write fiction. She is the author of thirteen books for young readers.
In addition to the Nathaniel Fludd, Beatologist books, she is also author of Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos, (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) which received starred reviews and was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Booksense Summer Pick, and nominated for the Malice Domestic's Agatha Award. Her most recent books, Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist: The Unicorn's Tale, and Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh will be out in April, 2011. She lives in Southern California and, although she no longer has any exotic pets, she does have raccoons who visit her back porch, coyotes who howl at her window, and hawks that soar high overhead.
Kelly Murphy grew up surrounded by swamps and marshes, which she explored with her six other siblings in southern New England. While her experiences may not have been as interesting as the Fludds', she's seen her fair share of the strange and mystical.
An accomplished children's book author and illustrator, Kelly's books have been published by worldwide leading publishing houses, her twelfth picture book being released in early 2011. She has illustrated a number of chapter books, earning an E. B. White Read Aloud Award in 2009 for illustrating the New York Times Best Seller Masterpiece.
Kelly's work has been featured in international curated shows, gallery exhibitions and magazines and has been consistently selected in the field's most prestigious juried competitions, notably winning recognition from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators and 3x3 Magazine. In 2011 she was awarded a Silver Award in the 3x3 Magazine Children's Show for her editorial illustration work. In 2012, Kelly received a Gold Award and a Bronze Award from the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. In 2013, she received an additional 2 Gold Awards in the Illustration West 51 competition.


Monday, January 23, 2017
Guide to Poetic Devices
Greetings students (and anyone interested in creative writing),
I just wanted to deliver this quick blog post so that I can include a useful link I discovered today.
I was on the lookout for a handy guide to poetic terms and devices, and it turns out the Chaparral Poets have provide this concise, informative handout in PDF form.
Here's the link: http://www.chaparralpoets.org/devices.pdf
I suggest printing it up, studying it, try out some of the forms mentioned. If you feel good about something you create (whether it's poetry or prose), share it on your blog and tell the rest of the class about it.


If you are an avid book reader creating a cozy space to curl up while reading your favorite novel is necessary. Carving out an ideal space for a reading nook is an excellent investment. The selection of the right furniture and décor is the secret of building a remarkable and comfy space. Some of the reading nook ideas you can incorporate include:
Create a Space in your Bedroom
Create a warm reading space in your bedroom. Select an ideal armchair and table and strategically place them in one corner of your bedroom. Adding a blanket and comfy pillows ensure the reading nook is comfortable and warm.
Invest in a Hammock Chair
A hammock chair or swing chair ensures you have a correct sitting position while reading. The comfortable chair is soothing to the muscles; it will help relieve any back muscles or neck muscle pain. After hectic schedules, read the book on your list on the elegant, stylish, and comfortable hammock chair.
Create a Space in your Favorite Spot
Creating a reading nook on your favorite spot ensures you enjoy your favorite book in your fantasy world. If you love admiring nature, consider creating a reading space on the balcony or backyard. Other spots include the attic, window, or the staircase.
Construct Built-in Shelves
Constructing built-in shelves helps in the systematic organization of your books and creates modesty on the reading nook. Incorporating upscale finishing on the shelves and painting with bright colors enhances a more sophisticated look.
Add Built-in Lighting
One of the essential reading nook ideas is the addition of built-in lighting. The built-in lighting present can define the atmosphere of the reading nook. Position the light directly above the book to avoid glare. The light color will depend on your taste and preference, but the best reading is either yellow, or light with a warm tone.
The decoration process is diversified and is mostly dependant on your taste and preference. For the walls, you can add a subtle wallpaper of your liking. Spice up the area with a mix of colors; select the best shades that rhyme with the rest of your interior décor. The addition of veritable houseplants helps in the creation of a green atmosphere in the reading nook.
Looking for more ideas? Check out the Tylko’s reading nook how-to!


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Dr Jayce has written an imaginative and super fun book for kids. This is a great book for families to read together! The artwork is great too. Highly recommend.
-Brandy B. Editor & Author
This was a great book to read and fun for my kids and myself. It reads like a cross between Dr. Seuss & Fancy Nancy...it is wonderfully written and excellently illustrated, it is sure to enthral children of all ages. It will be fun to read again and again.
-Steven M. Literary Critic
As soon as we got Crazy Circus World we instantly sat down and read it, then turned around and read it another time. This book is beyond cute! I beyond LOVED it! Love the sweet message in the book, the crazy animals and the little boys imagination. It started my girls imagination running and they played Crazy Circus World the rest of the night before their bedtimes.
Jayce O’Neal is an amazing writer and human being. He is entertaining, amusing, as well as reflective and spiritually profound. I wish everyone could get to know him as their personal friend, and maybe through his writing they can.
-Tracie Peterson, best-selling author of The Heirs of Montana and Brides of Gallatin County series.
Order your Crazy Circus World here: http://www.jayceoneal.com/apps/webstore/products/show/431224


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We've learned so much from co-designing the Apart of Me platform with young people who have lost a parent. We've talked to parents who have understandably struggled to have these very difficult conversations with their children, and often feel isolated themselves, without anyone to talk to. And we've met with organisations who are keen to find new ways to reach and engage young people in need.
Now we need to bring our game into the world. We need to accelerate the development of the most requested Apart of Me features:
Tell us your stories
We're actively looking for people who are happy to share their stories of loss or bereavement, particularly if it relates to loss of a parent or sibling at a young age.
We are building a library of stories which will be available and searchable from within our app, share your story to find out more.
The Cave was one of our testers’ favourite areas in the game due to its immersive design and the sense of entering into a world within a world. In the Summer of 2017 we ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise the money we needed to enrich the cave. We are now working to use that money wisely, making the cave more immersive and giving our experienced users the ability to add their own audio stories.


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Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
New Issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
June 12, 2009
Dear Democracy Reader,
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the financial meltdown of 2008. It still doesn't take much imagination to transport oneself back to that frightening day and to remember the dire potential consequences of those events.
One year later, we're climbing our way back to solvency. But as we move from recovery toward a new sustainability, it's clear that we need a fully modernized economy to achieve broad and secure prosperity and growth. That means focusing attention on the obvious challenges like jobs and opportunity, but it also means looking for new ways to grow the economy in the years ahead. (And, by the way, new ideas: In his speech on Wall Street yesterday, the president again promoted his plan for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, an idea first proposed in our pages by Elizabeth Warren in Summer 2007.)
That's why we've devoted a big chunk of our Fall issue to a symposium we call "The Race to Innovate." We all know that innovation means growth and jobs. And, unfortunately, we all know that the United States, once the unquestioned king of the jungle along these lines, lags behind many other nations in the innovation sweepstakes.
It's not an accident. The national governments of Japan, Denmark, and other countries have developed policies-designed and funded programs-to help spur broad-scale innovation. The United States has not.
Our symposium, produced in coordination with the Aspen Institute, the PBS NewsHour, and the Intel Corporation, features six articles by leading experts describing the things we could do. Simon Johnson and James Kwak, co-authors of the popular blog The Baseline Scenario, lay out a future course for innovation in the financial sector. Stephen Ezell of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation lays out how other countries have done it. Cornell's Susan Christopherson shows how innovation is working to save the manufacturing sector. Kevin Huffman of Teach for America describes the successful but small-scale innovations taking place in education and suggests ways to bring them to scale. Howard Wial of the Brookings Institution details his proposal for a National Innovation Foundation. And ITIF's Rob Atkinson makes the broader case for why those inside the Beltway need to educate themselves about innovation economics.
It's a timely and forward-looking package of articles that focuses squarely on the question of what government can do to spur innovation.
If the symposium is worthy of national policy-makers' attention, then Edward Gresser's "GEO-Politics" deserves to be read across the globe as environmentalists prepare to convene in Copenhagen in December. Starting with a robust defense of the too-often-neglected triumphs of international organizations, Gresser goes on to argue that the world needs a new Global Environmental Organization to set environmental standards and settle global disputes.
Elsewhere in the issue, we cover lots of intellectual waterfront. E.J. Dionne, Jr., the chairman of our editorial committee among his other titles, considers Alan Wolfe's important book The Future of Liberalism. Johns Hopkins philosophy professor Hilary Bok analyzes the recently discovered undergraduate thesis (on religion, no less) of John Rawls. Cultural critic Scott McLemee reviews a book about four seminal books on the Cold War and explains why we're still arguing about these things.
Also, in a particularly timely book review, the noted congressional historian Julian E. Zelizer asks the simple question: How do you solve a problem like the Senate? The Europe-based writer Joshua Hammer reviews Christopher Caldwell's book on Europe and Islam, arguing that the assimilation problems may be more Europe's fault than Muslims'. And Dayo Olopade of theroot.com reviews Michelle Goldberg's book on the global culture war over reproductive freedom.
In this issue's Responses section, economist Robert Shapiro scrutinizes Michael Lind's argument from the previous issue on behalf of cartelism, and Michael Getler of PBS responds to Leslie H. Gelb and Jeanna-Paloma Zelmati's critique of Bush-era reporting with an original critique of Bush-era editing. Finally, our own Ethan Porter argues that the financial crisis is really a spiritual crisis-and suggests one solution that may surprise you.
Innovative (to borrow a word) policy solutions, and big ideas about history and the present. That's what we do, and in this issue, I think we do it pretty nicely. Thanks, and enjoy.
FALL 2009: TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Race to Innovate
America and the World: We're No. 40!, by Stephen Ezell
Finance: Before the Next Meltdown, by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Manufacturing: Up from the Ashes, by Susan Christopherson
Education: Bringing Innovation to Scale, by Kevin Huffman
Strategy: A National Innovation Foundation, by Howard Wial
Making Washington Focus: First, Re-Educate the Economists, by Robert Atkinson
GEO-Politics, by Edward Gresser
Dereliction of Duty, by Michael Getler
Big Isn't Beautiful, by Robert Shapiro
Liberalism Lost and Found, by E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Islam at the Gates, by Joshua Hammer
Our Bodies, Our World, by Dayo Olopade
Partisan Reviews, by Scott McLemee
When Rawls Met Jesus, by Hilary Bok
Filibusted, by Julian E. Zelizer
Get Religion, by Ethan Porter
About Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas is a quarterly journal of progressive thought founded by Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny that serves as a place where ideas can be developed and important debates can be spurred. Democracy is the progressive analogue of conservative journals such as Commentary, the Public Interest, and the National Interest, and it showcases breakthrough thinking on the major domestic and foreign policy issues of our time. Democracy is sold in bookstores nationwide, and its readers-in print and at www.democracyjournal.org-can be found in 90 countries around the world. It was recently named Best New Publication by the Utne Independent Press Awards.


Summer reading programs are winding down as the school year finally approaches. We have been hitting the library for new reading material throughout the summer, but we also love to add new books to our own library at home.
What better reward is there for completing summer reading lists than a brand new fun book? If you’re looking for something new, check out these titles which are perfect for kids age 4-7.
The Mixed-Up Truck
This is a cute picture book for the little guys. It follows the naive and charming Cement Mixer truck during his first day of work, where he falls into an unfortunate cycle of mixing the wrong ingredients—yielding cakes, bubble baths, and anything but a building! The sweet story, which has already received glowing reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal, highlights the importance of perseverance to young audiences. It's a great bedtime read, and the colorful illustrations really bring the characters in the construction zone to life. $12; Buy it here
Brunhilda's Backwards Day
I knew this was going to be a delightful book once I saw the shiny jacket. Brunhilda the witch loves making trouble but she eventually learns that being nice can be more rewarding than being mean. Brunhilda may decide to keep some of her warts in the end, but she’s a changed witch. $12; Buy it here
Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses
We were so excited to hear that Pete the Cat is now available at Put me in the Story! Pete the Cat is having one of those days—the kind where nothing is going his way. But when Grumpy Toad lends Pete a pair of cool, blue, magic sunglasses, that gloomy, dreary day turns itself around! This is my son's favorite series, and he loves seeing his photo and name right on the pages! $29.99; Buy it here
Fancy Nancy Tea Parties
My daughter was delighted to be featured in one of her favorite series' too thanks to Put me in the Story! Fancy Nancy shares her party-planning expertise with your little one with recipes and crafts to etiquette tips and French lessons, this precious personalized book contains everything your child needs to throw the perfect tea party. A personalized letter from Nancy herself to your fancy kiddo? Oui! Plus, your child’s name is worked into the text and adorable illustrations throughout the book. Wrap up with a set of recipe cards from the Kitchen of Fancy Nancy, and best of all, cut out and frame the certificate declaring your child a graduate of Fancy Nancy’s Tea Party Course! Que magnifique! $29.95; Buy it here
Little Elliot, Big Fun
In this third story of Little Elliot and Mouse, the friends head off in search of adventure . . . and lots of fun! Kids will certainly draw on their own summer memories while reading about the polka-dotted elephant and his friend Mouse as they go to the amusement park to ride water chutes, roller coasters, carousels, and more. But Elliot isn't having much fun—the rides are too wet, too fast, too dizzy, and just plain too scary—until Mouse figures out a way to help him overcome his fears. Together, Mouse and Little Elliot can do anything! Buy it here
Bella Donna: Too Many Spells.
Bella Donna seems just like any other student at her school, but she has a secret: she’s really a witch! The other witches who live on Coven Road are having a spell casting contest, and Bella is determined to win. When strange things start to happen at school and begin to spin out of control, Bella wonders if she can really handle it all. Teachers and parents will love this series because it is good for reluctant readers and will teach kids important lessons in each book. Buy it here
Ann E Bacciaglia says
I wish there was such a great selection of books when my kids were younger. Love the titles and the covers.
Melanie Burbage says
Such cute books! I got a few of them at the library actaully for the littles. They really enjoy them !
LIz Mays says
I don’t know which book sounds cuter! Kids are so lucky to have such fun books to enjoy.
Carlee C says
Thank you for the great recommendations. I have 2 kiddos that fall within this age range.
Amber Nelson says
That bella Donna book looks really fun. My daughter absolutely loves to read. Going to check these out.


Jessica MacLean just released her second book in thirty days today. I was fortunate enough to read this one before it was released and she did a great job with it. Two books in thirty days is an accomplishment that I would love to be able to claim.
The book is called “The Sanctuary” and if it is your style of book, I hope you enjoy it as I have.
When Samantha Sutherland receives a hereditary Book of Shadows, she discovers her magic, unlocks her memories and creates a sanctuary for magical creatures in need. Her sanctuary soon fills with injured and neurotic magical creatures, including Timmy Two-Tales the garden gnome. Samantha will need the help of trusted friends to give her growing menagerie the care it needs.
She also begins to learn the truth of her family. Caught between warring factions of magic, Samantha is forced to chose between the Council of Light and the Court of Shadows and time is running out for her and the Sanctuary. Before she can discover her true strength, she must help others to discover theirs, but can she learn fast enough to keep everybody safe?


Board Manual regulate the implementation of relationship between the Board of Commissioners and Directors of PT Semen Baturaja (Persero) Tbk with reference to the Articles of Association and / or the provisions contained in the legislation in force and is one of the Good Corporate Governance ( GCG ), which refers to the Articles of Association as well as the basics of applicable law . The purpose of this handbook include :
- Being the general guidelines to do functions and roles in the organization of PT Semen Baturaja (Persero) Tbk.
- Describe the various matters concerning the implementation of Tasks, authorities, responsibilities, rights and Obligations andrelationship between Board of Directors and Board of Commissioners.
- Applying the principles of Good Corporate Governance are Transparency , Accountability , Responsibility , Independence and Fairness
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|II. BOARD OF DIRECTORS|
|III. BOC & BOD EMPLOYEMENT RELATION CODE|
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Paint it Black
Paint It Black is an entry into the series of comics based on Konami’s Silent Hill series of games. Paint It Black features art by Shaun Thomas and was released in 2005. It was later featured/reissued in the Three Bloody Tales trade paperback.
Taken from the back cover.
Writer Scott Ciencin (Dying Inside, Among the Damned) and artist Shaun Thomas (Among the Damned) return to bring you the tale of painter and semi-professional slacker Ike, who finds his dark muse in the mist-shrouded, monster-infested reaches of Silent Hill. Then the sexy survivalist-trained, gun-toting Cheryl and her teammates arrive to rock his world. Creatures attack, cheerleaders disappear and the gloves come off! Will anything survive?
Paint It Black follows the story of Ike Isaacs, an artist who finds himself homeless after being kicked out of a friend’s apartment. Ike has been suffering artist’s block, until he meets a stranger who claims to have visited the ghost town of Silent Hill. The stranger informs Ike that he was able to leave the town because his own friend sacrificed himself. This story inspires Ike to travel to the town to seek out the truth behind it.
Oddly, the monsters of the town do not attack Ike, instead allowing him to paint them. Inspired, Ike is able to paint again; his portraits now feature the creatures that live in the town, and he has found that he is unable to leave. Moreover, his paintings have somehow been leaving and are being sold to rich clients outside of Silent Hill.
The story then takes an unusual turn as a team of cheerleaders arrive in Silent Hill looking for some friends who they believe went missing in the town. As the plot continues to follow a strange set of developments, Ike discovers that he can actually travel through his paintings and he attempts to use them to escape. His attempted escape fails and he finds that the cheerleaders have turned on him, sacrificing him so they can leave town. Because of his alliance to the cheerleaders, the monsters turn on Ike.
Ike Isaacs – A painter and slacker, Ike is kicked off of a friend’s couch after taking advantage of his friends hospitality. A chance encounter with a stranger’s tale of Silent Hill sends him packing for the town.
Cheryl – Squad captain of the Bengals Cheerleading squad, Cheryl was trained in survival tactics by her father. She takes her responsibility as squad captain very seriously.
Bengals Cheerleading Squad – A team of competitive cheerleaders, the Bengals are forced to seek shelter in Silent Hill after their bus hits an object in the road and loses its axle.


This stylish and unique monochrome baby book was inspired by a need of a simple and playful book to record all the important and emotional details through pregnancy and into your babies first year of life.
The hand illustrated family rose bush is without a doubt the most popular feature of the baby recored.
The book covers all of your babies special moments as well as your own. A letter from mummy and daddy, Ultrasound and baby bump image pages, baby shower, the day you arrived, coming home, your nursery, the day you were born, all about your name, your family, a place for your hands and feet image/stamp, hilarious things you did, a journey each month from one to twelve, as well as some beautifully inspiring quote pages. Theres also a page spread dedicated to your Christening, first birthday, holiday, Christmas and New Years as well as your first day of creche, kinder and school.
A truly beautiful book waiting to be filled with as equally beautiful words and images.
Spiral bound, A4 size with 48 pages
Designed and printed in Australia
Please allow up to 7 business days for your order to be printed
Wholesale- MOQ 3


"Dappa & Nappa - And the Runaway Thoughts" has just been released. It's the second book in the Dappa & Nappa series.
One Saturday evening, the world's smallest superheroes, Dappa and Nappa, hear the voice of a young boy saying: "Oh no! A scary dragon! It's coming to get me!"
The boy sounds very frightened, so Dappa and Nappa fly as fast as they can across the city to help him. They both have super powers, and they can hear what children say even if they're far away.
Dappa and Nappa reach the boy, whose name is Magnus, in a matter of seconds. They find him lying in his bed in his room and hiding under the covers. He's certain that there's a dragon under his bed.
Are dragons dangerous? Is there really a dragon under the bed? And what can Dappa and Nappa do to help Magnus?
Interest Age: 5-9 years


In the aftermath of our public debate titled "The year 1968: Czech-Polish reflection – shared experience, shared enemy?'' that took place in the framework of the Czech-Polish Forum project, nine essays by Czech and Polish authors were published and are available right now.Read more event
Our Alexandr Lagazzi and Michal Vít, in a joint policy paper, focused on Chinese foreign policy and backdoor-deals diplomacy in the Western Balkans.
Following on-the-ground research on the actual implementation of investment projects in Serbia and other Western Balkans countries,
the paper analyzes the impact of Chinese influence in the region.
EUROPEUM is a think-tank that undertakes programme, project,
publishing and training activities related to the European integration process.
French Institute in Prague in cooperation with our think tank will host a first debate from this year's cycle "1968-2018 Paris to Prague: Rebelling Europe".Show more
In the aftermath of our public debate titled "The year 1968: Czech-Polish reflection – shared experience, shared enemy?'' that took place in the framework of the Czech-Polish Forum project, nine essays by Czech and Polish authors were published and are available right now.Show more PDF
After the launch of the publication "Transregional versus national perspectives on Contemporary Central European History", which took place on December 15, 2017 in Bratislava, the book is now available to order!Show more PDF
The report from the conference ''Quo Vadis Eastern Partnership? A Retrospective Look Into The Future'', which took place on November 23, 2017 in Brussels, is now available.Show more PDF
EUROPEUM organizes its 16th European Summer School - this time focused on the future developments of the EU. Early-bird discounts are prepared for those who apply before January 31.Show more PDF
We are proud to announce that we are among the organizers of the project ''Charting a new path for a reinforced and improved V4-France cooperation'', supported by the International Visegrad Fund.Show more
We are proud to be partners of CIVPOL, a project that aims to indetify the role and actions of the V4 countries regarding the management of the migration crisis within the region, and to give recommendations for future assistance in connection with border management, humanitarian/ethnic-religious issues and legal undertakings.Show more
The 15th annual European Summer School took place in July 2017 in Prague and we were happy to welcome there 20 students from over 10 different countries. This year’s academic program was focused on the multiple challenges EU is facing at the moment.Show more
Our Benedetta Fornaciari da Passano in her Brussels Monitor analyses the European Agenda on Migration and examines the problem of a common migration policy in the EU.Show more PDF
Our Benedetta Fornaciari da Passano in her new policy brief analyses the local situation in Myanmar connected with the discrimination of the Rohingya minority. She also tries to define the position of the EU and its possible engagement in the crisis.Show more PDF
Our Benedetta Fornaciari da Passano in her newest blog analyses the Permanent Structured Cooperation on security and defence (PESCO) and its impact on migration.Show more
How big is the importance of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement for Ukraine? What is the role of Russia in this case? Nelly Tomčíková and her view for Slovak newspaper Hlavné Správy.Show more
"Why are the Czechs the most Eurosceptic in Europe after the Greeks?" Martin Michelot for the French Le Monde.Show more
Our Alexandr Lagazzi in cooperation with Tomáš Jungwirth published for iDNES.cz a commentary about the upcoming parliamentary elections in Italy and its impact on migration policy.Show more
Andrej Babis visited Slovakia for the first time as a Prime minister. During his journey he will visit his hometown and he will meet the his counterpart Robert Fico, who is Prime minister of Slovakia.Show more


The 3 Most List
(Which The Author May Change On Any Given Day)
3 Most Reread Books? Cress by Marissa Meyer, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett [Honorable mentions: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine]
3 Most Reread Plays? Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Private Lives by Noel Coward, and Arms And The Man by George Bernard Shaw
3 Most Watched Movies? The World's End, Tangled, The Bodyguard [Honorable mentions: Death Becomes Her and 10 Things I Hate About You]
3 Most Emotional Episodes Of Television? “Dissonance Theory” (Westworld), “Look Who’s Stalking” (Veronica Mars), "Jews and Chinese Food” (Gilmore Girls) [Honorable mention: “Unfinished Business” (Battlestar Galactica)]
3 Most Overplayed Songs? “Nothing Compares 2 U” by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, “OPP” by Naughty By Nature, “Tempo” by Lizzo
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LILY ANDERSON is the author of THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN ME IS YOU, NOT NOW NOT EVER, and UNDEAD GIRL GANG. A former school librarian, she is deeply devoted to Shakespeare, fairy tales, and podcasts. Somewhere in Northern California, she is having strong opinions on musical theater.
The Less Formal Version: I'm Lily, an Afrolatina from the Bay Area (sort of) with RBF and a weird obsession with Kevin Costner movies. I love lipstick (especially Colourpop) and popcorn and all things Deadpool. My hair color changes often.


The original text “Armors and Attention Seeking -Anaïs Nin’s Psychoanalysis in the Diary of the Years 1931-1934” has appeared in Finnish in the literature magazine Verkko-Särö: https://verkkosaro.sarolehti.net/panssareita-ja-huomionhakua/ The essay here is a revised translation.
When I read about Anaïs Nin’s psychoanalysis in her diary from 1931 to 1934, I initially thought that this woman was incredibly fascinating, a true pre-feminist rebel goddess: artistic, intelligent, creative, funny, beautiful, exotic. She had wonderful friends and a rich life full of passion and creativity. After a little closer inspection, I started feeling both sorry for her and tired of her. Her endless self-centeredness, long and rambling descriptions of her own marvelous mental landscape, and of relationships that are ultimately not relationships – they have only one party. Anaïs.
Anaïs Nin was born in Paris in 1903 for a Cuban-born pianist, Joaquín Nin, and a Cuban-French-Danish singer, Rosa Culmell. Nin’s childhood was distressing: Dad was charming to guests, but at home violent and scary. Nin started keeping a diary at the age of 11 after his father left his family. By the time of her death (1977), she had produced 35,000 handwritten pages of a diary. One of the key inspiration for her diary was her psychoanalysis.
In this essay, I focus on Nin’s diary of 1931–1934, also using the book Henry and June as a source. The last mentioned is based on uncensored and previously unpublished diary material from 1931–1932.
Anaïs Nin’s Psychoanalysis – A Scene of Hope and Trauma
Anaïs studied psychoanalytic thinkers and went to analysis for years, sometimes daily. Nin began her adventure of psychoanalysis with Dr. René Allendy. In her diary from 1931 to 1934, Anaïs describes this first journey of analysis in a brutally poetic manner, all the way to the re-enactment of the incest she very probably suffered in her childhood.
The dark side of therapy has been the subject of popular and scientific literature for as long as therapy in its modern form has existed. We could create a very chilling description of how Anaïs’ therapist used her. Curiously, generations of readers and analysts of her diaries seem to quite unanimously argue that it was Anaïs who seduced her psychoanalyst, not the other way around.
Initially, Anaïs was skeptical of the idea of psychoanalysis and condemned it as a forced tampering of emotions. When Anaïs then began her first analysis with Allendy, she wrote about it in a very hopeful tone. In her journal, she invites herself to step “here where one sees that destiny can be directed, that one does not have to submit to the first mark left on the child’s sensitive emotions” (Diary 1931–1934, pp. 128–129). At the same time, she is frightened that psychoanalysis strips her too naked and forces her to give up all the “decorations” of her personality.
For a moment, Anaïs Nin’s psychoanalysis seems to trigger genuine mental distress usually associated with working through things: “The pain of life is nothing compared to the pain caused by this meticulous analysis” (Henry and June, p. 126). However, building trust in the doctor raises fears of being rejected. Then, she deploys distancing strategies for coping with them. “I am on my guard and I expect him to say something dogmatic, formulaic. I want him to say, because if he says, he’s just another man I can’t rely on, and I still have to win myself alone, like before. ” (Henry and June, p. 111). Anaïs wants Allendy to fail. She wants to guarantee herself the familiar trauma of being rejected, the hollow loneliness she remembers from her childhood.
A Nauseating Narcissist or a Misunderstood Genius?
As the diary progresses, my difficulties to enjoy the narrating voice grow. Anaïs wanders in the terrain of imaginary relationships. Life is just a self-centered vortex of sensations, and all relationships are completely sexualized. Jenny Diski writes that Anaïs’ diaries make little mention of wars, depression, the Holocaust, revolution: “Wars, economic collapse, holocaust and revolution barely rate a mention in the quarter-million pages of her diary. The world is outside her remit. Nin’s universe, like her fiction, terminates at the boundaries of her own skin, like nerve-endings; the outside environment exists only where it stimulates or articulates her private sense of identity.”
From my own journal: “In the end, nothing happens in Nin’s diary . She paints a picture of an intelligent and artistic woman, as if trying to convince herself, but does not offer her reader a single original idea. There is very little reason to consider her intellectual at all. ”
We can rightfully say that retrospectively diagnosing someone we know only from her writings and recollections of contemporaries is not good practice. All the same, after getting tired of Anaïs ’self-centered theatricality, I began to find out what kind of diagnoses have been reconciled upon her. Based on Nin’s writings, Angie A. Kehagia characterizes her as meeting the criteria of a histrionic, or attention-seeking, personality disorder with parallel narcissistic and borderline traits. Michelle Morin-Bompart characterizes Anaïs with the same diagnosis, but also emphasizes separation anxiety and, in a very Freudian manner, “perverse symptoms”.
Then again, Sandra Rehme argues that Nin struggles with the fragmentation of the self. In her art she defined herself as a whole in a way that allowed the harmonious coexistence of several aspects of the self. On the other side of the paper, Kate Zambreno shouts: Nin is accused of personality disorder, like all women who write. They are always too emotional, too impulsive, too limitless.
I get annoyed at myself for narrowing Anaïs into such sexist categories myself. But maybe so did analyst Allende? Perhaps he, too, thought that this woman was like a liqueur candy — tempting on the top, but when you bite through the crust, a hollow disappointment tasting of cheap alcohol floods into your mouth? Anaïs Nin’s psychoanalysis was not the cure, it was more of the same illness.
Seducer and Seduced in the Layers of Fiction
Mrs. Nin understands that in some ways the therapist sees through her. There are now two players in the game. “According to Allendy, I have developed a completely artificial personality, like an armor. I cover myself. I have assumed a seductive, gracious, and joyful behavior, and behind it I hide myself. ” (Henry and June, p. 139). The more Allendy reveals this theater to his patient, the more we can read descriptions of a distant, theoretical analyst in her patient’s diary. When Anaïs receives more direct feedback in the analysis than she is able to endure, she distances Allendy and renounces the alliance: “Allendy is somewhere inside and speaks from his sublime, cool heights exuding compassion and clairvoyance” (Diary 1931–1934, p. 168).
By the time of her first analysis, Anaïs – while married to banker Hugh Guiler – had already begun an intensive relationship with writer Henry Miller and his wife June. She attaches to different people, many of whom are artist souls in pain; she mirrors herself against them and gets them entangled with her own traumas. It does not seem possible for her to form reciprocal relationships in which she must reveal her own vulnerabilities. Instead, she rotates sexualized and ego-serving dramas at a breathtaking pace.
At the heart of the relationship jungle is always Anaïs’ great love, author Henry Miller, a scurrilous genius and drunkard compared to whom Dr. Allendy is a dry and lifeless bromide. However, the inconsolably theoretical Allendy is able to come to a point where he has logically solved the chaos of his patient’s mind and built a model. The model rises infinitely high between Anaïs and Allendy and evokes in the patient a desire to mess everything up, to play with the analyst’s feelings.
The analyst getting involved in Anaïs’ game is the final deathblow for the therapy. Once again, she did not get to experience how it feels when someone sees completely through her and her games and refuses to play them. There is no life, no space outside drama, when even the analyst can be seduced to the heart of pain and made to lose his stand. Allendy becomes Anaïs’ lover.
A sexual relationship between therapist and client breaks all the rules of appropriateness and morality. In our time, the responsibility for such a violation is unanimously placed on the therapist and anything else seems impossible to think of. In Anaïs’ diary, however, the voice is not of the victim’s but of the seducer’s. In presenting herself as a champion player, Anaïs does not seem to notice that others might be playing with her, too. An affair with her analyst who is unable to separate his therapeutic responsibilities from his personal interests or protect his patient, deepens the damage that Anaïs tried to repair in the analysis. Morin-Bompart writes that Anaïs placed onto Allendy her incestual fantasies about her father and enacted them, thus repeating the incest she experienced in her childhood.
Whatever twisted then occurred in the analysis, it was first acted out in a particular therapy situation, at a particular time and place, and then recreated in a literary form in Anaïs’ diary. Which aspects of the analysis were really shared by Anaïs and Allendy? We have no way of knowing which events are true and which are fiction.
As a reader, I get the feeling that the written versions of Anaïs Nin’s psychoanalysis and her sexual relationship with the analyst also serve literary ambitions. Anaïs worked on her diaries repeatedly over the years. It has also been suggested that she has lied and exaggerated things to such an extent that the diaries can be approached as fiction.
Dear Diary: The Psychoanalysis that Did Not Heal
Perhaps, like the analyst, the diary is also just a substitute for a father. It is a reliable mainstay, a supporter. Lovers change, the diary stays. The reader becomes a psychoanalyst who goes infinitely beyond Allendy, because the doctor never gets to read Anaïs’ diary, that mocked and envied real confidant he is trying to wean his patient from. Anaïs often records in her diary other people’s remarks that she should live and not write. According to Jenny Disk, most people who knew Anaïs thought that the diaries themselves prevented her from becoming a “real” author.
It is dangerous that a woman trusts only herself over any male or female friends and does not make anyone into her vessel. Therefore, a woman’s keeping a journal needs to be ridiculed, made childish. As Kate Zambreno puts it: “The disgust for Anaïs Nin is the disgust for the girls with their Livejournal.”
In the end, only Otto Rank, Anaïs’ second psychoanalyst, who is momentarily lifted as a god on a pedestal, is allowed to read the journal. She seems to be able to feed Anaïs’ ideal of herself better than Allendy. Anaïs wants to be different, multidimensional, someone who has seen the world, but with Allendy she was just “an ordinary, simple, and naive woman” (Diary 1931-1934, p. 324). Anaïs also has a relationship with Rank. In this respect, she goes even further: at the end of the diary of 1931-1934, Anaïs begins to train herself to become an analyst as a pupil of Rank.
In real life, Anaïs worked for a while as an analyst in New York. What a perfect grande finale – to become a god to others because you failed to make your own therapists gods. Because you failed to heal yourself by being the object of their deification.
Anaïs Nin’s psychoanalysis does not seem to clarify or heal anything for her. It takes Anaïs deeper into herself, a place where other people do not exist. It provides a new stage for repeating old familiar dramas. Awareness of her traumas does not bring happiness or freedom, but they always get reflected upon and enacted with the next distant, impossible love.
“Psychoanalysis only makes a person more aware of their own disaster. I am in a more clear and horrendous manner aware of where I am going. Psychoanalysis has not taught me to laugh. I sit here tonight as gloomy as a child. Only Henry, the liveliest of all men, can make me blissfully happy. ” (Henry and June, p. 237).
* All quotes are translated by me from the Finnish translations of “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931 – 1934” and “Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931 – 1932”, see details below.
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- Diski, J. (1995). Oh, the Burden, the Anxiety, the Sacrifices. London Review of Books, 17(8). 20.4.1995. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n08/jenny-diski/oh-the-burden-the-anxiety-the-sacrifices
- Frangello, G. The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno. 18.11.2012. The Rumpus. https://therumpus.net/2012/11/the-sunday-rumpus-interview-kate-zambreno/
- John-Steiner, V. (1989). From Life to Diary to Art in the Work of Anaïs Nin. In Doris B. Wallace & Howard E. Gruber: Creative People at Work: Twelve Cognitive Case Studies, pp. 209 – 225. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Kehagia, A. A. (2009). Anais Nin: A case study of personality disorder and creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(8), 800 – 808. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.01.017
- Morin-Bompart, M. (2019). Anais Nin: An Incest Between a Father and a Daughter. American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 7(3), 69 – 73. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpn.20190703.13
- Nin, A. (1977). Päiväkirja 1931 – 1934. Helsinki: Otava. Orig. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931 – 1934, Finnish translation by Raija Mattila.
- Nin, A. (1991). Henry ja June. Helsinki: WSOY. Orig. Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931 – 1932, Finnish translation by Leena Nivala.
- Pollitt, K. (1992). Sins of the Nins. The New York Times, 22.11.1992. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/22/books/sins-of-the-nins.html
- Rehme, S. The Multimedia of Our Unconscious Life: Anaïs Nin and the Synthesis of the Arts. PhD dissertation. London: University College London.
- The Anaïs Nin Foundation. https://theanaisninfoundation.org/bio
- Zambreno, K. (2012). Heroines (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents). Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.


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J. Dillard, weary from being bullied in grade school due to his mother and older sister's attempts at a proper haircut, Dillard taught himself the art of barbering at a very young age. In 1999, he simultaneously became a licensed barber and opened his first barbershop while attending Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. 22 years later, he is a trailblazing master barber whose celebrity client roster includes comedy sensation Kountry Wayne and more. In 2021, Dillard turned his love of barbering into the award-winning literacy series "J.D. the Kid Barber," which hilariously illustrates how a young Black boy's life drastically changes after discovering he has a natural talent for barbering. In addition to a positive portrayal of a young Black boy, the semi-autobiographical book series teaches children about entrepreneurship.


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a son's journey into the history and science of cancer.
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