Tag: epic
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July 16, 2008 06:48 PM EDT --
This article is largely based on "The Epic of Gilgamesh" by N K Sandars published in the Penguin Classic series in London.
If you ever wanted an original of this Epic then Amazon.com would . . . more
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March 17, 2008 12:32 PM EDT --
For those who have an interest in the foundations of the Judeo Christian faith, this text may be an eyeopener. It is the Enuma Elish , the story of creation as told in Babylon before the Old Testament. . . . more
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October 02, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
King Robert, I fear, has been two timing or even three or four timing me. Just read this so called epic poem. Then he sends pings to Phaedra, Ann, etc. Now, I find he is dreaming of . . . more
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January 14, 2007 08:42 PM EST --
He came upon us in the cold dark night,
Withered and ghostly as sin.
His eyes reflected the moonlight,
And Hell is where he had been.
He seemed old and frail in tattered clothes,
his head . . . more
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February 01, 2007 07:38 PM EST --
Worn down by my pre-teen's begging, drawn in by a mildly amusing trailer, and in need of a diversion for the afternoon of a "snow day," I took the youngster to see "Epic Movie" . . . more
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April 14, 2008 05:20 AM EDT --
(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge )
I was sitting at the bus stop,
Awaiting the number nine.
When an old man sat beside me,
And asked me for the time.
"It's 2:30," . . . more
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March 11, 2007 01:15 AM EST --
King Leonidas is a great hunk of a man, chiseled from a block of purest spartan stone, or perhaps it's a chunk of CGI . . . more
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July 08, 2007 07:06 AM EDT --
It's eight-o-clock on a Sunday morning. For the last hour this morning I have been staring and my “epic novel” on my computer screen. The novel that I am going to finish this summer . . . more
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February 19, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
Armed with questions sent in by Gather members, the Gather Editorial Team interviewed actor Ioan Gruffudd (pronounced YO-an GRIFF-ith) about his experience as the lead in the soon-to-be released . . . more
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July 19, 2007 11:49 AM EDT --
Again, from my fantasy drills collection. Something a bit different.
Epic of the Black Salt Hills
We watched behind the fortress wall,
built from stone and wood.
A hundred years . . . more
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May 11, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
In the polar forges of the King of Yule,
A sword was wrought, by elves, for him;
And found, by him, 'neath stellar spruce
on a crystal winter morning dim.
He met with the winged heralds . . . more
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July 03, 2008 12:05 PM EDT --
A complete, uncut version of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" has recently been recovered from Buenos Aires. "Metropolis," the first epic science fiction film, was shown to U.S. distributors . . . more
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September 10, 2007 07:39 PM EDT --
I have discovered a historic epic work that has existed for centuries only as an oral composition. It is the monumental epic telling of the national heritage of the Kyrgyz people. Because of . . . more
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July 03, 2006 12:35 AM EDT --
The Lay of the Land
I.
From your smoke-coughing cities
to your desolate plains
The children of Midas have taken the reins
And left you besoiled in blood-splattered stains
With none fit . . . more
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March 24, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
I'm thinking about writing a book (not to be published, just because I want to try) and this is the first chapter. I would really appreciate some feedback. Well, this is the prologue and . . . more
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November 19, 2007 11:13 AM EST --
I saw the film Beowulf on Saturday and I believe this was one of the finest films, I 've seen in a long time. From the epic poem in Old English that you may have read in school and dreaded, Robert . . . more
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November 09, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Welcome to Friday's Gather Essentials: Writing . I'll be featuring any type of post today , but encourage you to think about criticism and critique .
The great composer Robert . . . more
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May 26, 2006 11:43 PM EDT --
(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I was sitting at the bus stop,
Awaiting the number nine.
When an old man sat beside me,
And asked me for the time.
"It's 2:30," I responded, . . . more
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December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
. . . more
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November 22, 2007 06:42 PM EST --
Incredible.
Starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright-Penn, John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, and Angelina Jolie. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Based on the ancient epic poem, . . . more
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