their cradle, their safe haven, to be rocking above an abyss. That's where the monsters are, ready to snatch you up and swallow you into eternal darkness. That darkness, however, is the difference between living and not living, and the cradle, as Vladimir Nabokov depicts it, "is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness" (303). In his essay "Perfect Past", Nabokov describes in a beautifully poetic account of what it means to exist as a human in our most transitory state: life---,
Essay Question: Literary works are representative of their genre and period, to adapt them will always be detrimental to the original. Discuss to what extent you agree with this statement using reference to texts you have studied in class. Literature have existed for millions of year and have undergone countless transformations through the ages. Each genre of literature is unique in their own way and bears their own form and style. A play would not be the same as a poem, even less so a novel. There
cry out a warning The girl never hears As with a loud ping, the gun fires. The girl drops to her knees, She breathes very rapidly. Her last breaths die in the breeze. At last, her spirit was freed. The image fades from the mirror, A shiver runs through me as I try to comprehend. I clutch my arms nearer, And pray that, someday, this horror will end. Kayla seeks challenges and has great learning potential. She is thirteen years old, and has lived in Waterloo, ON, her whole life. Kayla has an interest
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin