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Dispelling our Fears: Aline and Valcour Volume 3 by Marquis de Sade
Contra Mundum chose wisely to publish the first complete English translation of Aline & Valcour in three volumes. Each volume is distinctly different in tone and focus. The first letters between Aline and Valcour, the eponymous lovers, are sweet and full of hope despite serious obstacles in the way of their union. The middle part of the novel is a side story that also deals with two lovers—Sainville and Leonore, separated from one another, but who have greater control over their fate. The final volume, which tells Leonore's adventure and the tragedy of Aline and Valcour's ending, is by far the darkest and most philosophical of the narrative.
Although not as graphic as Sade's later novels, one will find among the pages of this narrative plenty of libertine behavior—incest, rape, necrophilia, and pedophilia. But Sade uses these horrors, and both the perpetrators and victims, to philosophize about fate, religion, free-will, suicide, and capital punishment. Sade reminds us in the story that he himself felt that he was a victim of a corrupt justice system. Men in any position of power—both secular and religious—are the most depraved and hideous characters. All males who hold a position of authority are sexually deviant and ready to attack any woman with whom they come into contact. Aline's father, Monsieur Blamont, the worst offender of them all and a judge for the courts of France, has a voracious sexual appetite and enjoys it more when he tortures his victims and they cry. He keeps Aline apart from Valcour because he wants to marry her to his equally depraved friend, Dalbourg, so the two of them can share her.
But Sade's tale is not a black and white, the bad get punished and the good get rewarded, type of moral. Throughout all of these episodes Monsieur Balmont holds true to the philosophy that pity, empathy, and human affection are worthless in this life and the only thing that matters is satisfying his pleasure. It is longing, love, and feelings that cause so much grief for people like his wife, daughter, and her lover. His arguments are cold and chilling:
…one must know how to lift one's soul to a sort of stoicism that enables us to look upon everything that happens in life with indifference; that, for himself, far from letting anything afflict him, he took joy in everything; and that if we carefully examine what would seem at first to be an obligation—to be cruelly distressed, for example—we would quickly find a pleasant aspect to it. It's a question of seizing upon that and forgetting the other; by such a system we can succeed in turning aside all life's darts. Sensitivity is only a weakness to be readily cured by the forcible repulsion of anything that too closely besets us, to immediately assuage with some voluptuous or comforting idea those barbs that sorrow would inflict.
Monsieur Blamont's speech has elements of Epicurean philosophy in that sentimental love causes pain and ought to be avoided. But is Blamont's callous and cruel behavior really something to which we want to aspire? The obsession with satisfying his physical desires brings him a certain state of contentedness throughout the novel and although he is never punished for the suffering he inflicts on others, his eroticism is the cause of what small distress he experiences.
In addition to love the other thing that causes distress in the character's lives is religion. Aline, her mother, and Valcour are all deeply pious people and no matter how much they pray or do good deeds, they are not better off than those who are atheists or deists in the narrative. Aline becomes a Lucretia-like figure who sacrifices herself to her God rather than have her innocence ruined. Her last letters are full of prayers and hopes for finding a more peaceful afterlife. But who really knows what becomes of the soul in an afterlife? Will she really be any better off by escaping a miserable existence?
In the end Sade is not truly didactic—he is not proposing we follow a specific religion or philosophy, but he lays out a serious of arguments and possibilities from which we can choose. Leonore, after she is kidnapped by a deranged Italian Count, is helped by a poor and selfless man who argues that God is indifferent and prayer is useless: "Let us stop, in short, insisting on a God made from the same stuff as us, a God irritated by invective, fond of praise, and obliging of our prayers. We forever want to see Him as a human monarch who must listen to us and judge. In that way we diminish His views and his most celebrated worshiper becomes finally nothing but an idolater." This description of a distant and unconcerned deity recalls the same one described by Lucretius who, like Sade, is trying to dispel a fear of death and judgment in the afterlife. It feels as if Sade is pressing towards atheism, but didn't quite go that far either to retain some semblance of respectability against any religious censors or to cover himself just in case there is an afterlife.
The most remarkable piece of writing in the final volume is when Leonore's friend puts forward a compelling argument against transubstantiation which also borrows ideas of materialism from Lucretius:
After corporal introduction, the host must be enlarged or, in the instance of a spiritual junction, it must be enlivened. Complete metamorphosis is absolutely impossible; no change of any kind operates by ideas alone; and any such mutation implies extinction of visible parts of the original body and a swift conjuncture of the elements of the second body in the decomposed parts of the first—a process that can only succeed through the force of atoms in the former operating upon those of the latter.
The Church and organized religion are a particular target of Sade's philosophical diatribes throughout the novel. In the end, what type of a life should we choose to live in this chaotic, painful, unjust, fucked up world? Sade gives us the worst of humanity, he brings forward taboo subjects—as Lucretius—so we will be better prepared to face these circumstances in our own lives. My thoughts go back to Sade's epigram in which he quotes Lucretius; I see Aline and Valcour as the author's attempt to dispel the fears of our mind—especially fears concerning love and religion—by encouraging us to use our own reason and nature.
One final note, the Contra Mundum books also include nice copies of the illustrations from the original publication.
Filed under Classics, French Literature, Uncategorized
Tagged as French Literature, Lucretius, Sade
Aline & Valcour Volume 2 by Marquis de Sade
In a letter written from prison to his wife in 1784, Marquis de Sade complains about his discomfort and what he perceives as his ill treatment:
You are also well aware that my dizzy spells and my frequent nosebleeds, both of which I have when I'm not lying down with my head perched extremely high, had obliged me to have an oversized pillow. When I tried to take this wretched pillow with me, you would have thought I was trying to steal the list of those who had conspired against the State; barbarically, they tore it from my hands and declared that matters of such magnitude had never been tolerated. And indeed I realized that some secret rule or regulation of government doubtless stipulated that a prisoner's head should be kept lowered, for when to remedy that situation owning to the fact that my oversized pillow had been denied me I humbly requested four planks of wood, they took me for a madman. A swarm of commissioners descended upon me, who, having verified that I was indeed most uncomfortable in bed, in their infinite wisdom concluded that the rules were the rules and 'twas impossible to change them. Verily I say unto you that that you have to see it to believe it, and were we to learn that such things were taking place in China, our tender and compassionate Frenchmen would wast not a moment shouting to the high heavens: Oh! those barbarians!
Marquis de Sade wrote Aline & Valcour during this same period of time while locked up in the Bastille, one of the many incarcerations he would suffer through in his life. The second volume of this book, as it is published by Contra Mundum Press, becomes more deeply introspective and philosophical as Sade's incarceration is obviously wearing on him. The eponymous characters of the story are completely absent from this long interlude. Instead it involves the story of Sainville and Leonore, two lovers that are similarly kept apart by their parents and a series of terrible accidents. The pair, just recently reunited, spend the night at Aline's family's home and tell their long, sad tale.
Sainville and Leonore elope and are spending their honeymoon in Venice when Leonore is kidnapped by a crazy Italian count who wants to keep her as his sex slave. Sainville travels to Africa and parts of the south seas in the hopes of finding her and he visits two very different countries, one a savage, barbaric tyranny and the other a beautiful, peaceful utopia. These two very different places allow Sade to reflect on political philosophy, religion, the treatment of women, and the nature and rights of man. In Africa, King Maacoro of Butua is a tyrant who uses women for sex, domestic work and heavy labor. He eats the flesh of his captured enemies as well as women who are sacrificed to the country's savage deities. Sarmiento, a servant of the King explains the horrible conditions under which women live in this place:
It is impossible to describe, my friend, the subjugation of women in this country. To possess many of them is a luxury but made little use of. Whether rich or poor, men think as one on the matter. Females are worked here like our beasts of burden in Europe. They sow and plow the fields and harvest the crops; in the house they clean and serve and, in addition, they are offered up to the gods and immolated. They are perpetually faced with the men's ferocity and barbarism and become victims of their ugly moods, intemperance and tyranny.
We are meant to be horrified, I think, at the barbarism of the men in this place and particularly at the way in which women are used as chattel. I was surprised, given Sade's reputation and his other writings, to find that he thinks women should be treated properly and respectfully by men. In his own letters he is abusive and angry towards his own wife, but apparently he doesn't feel that it is appropriate for all women to be treated so harshly.
By contrast, in the kingdom of Zame, where Sainville lands next, women are treated as equals among men. In this utopia, all worked together to produce goods and services to that all citizens are happy and get what they need. The description of this kingdom is very Marxist and Socialist in nature. And it is Zame who Sade uses at his mouthpiece for condoning unnecessarily harsh laws and prison sentences:
Don't you know that prison, the worst and most dangerous of punishments, is nothing but an ancient abuse of justice, and that despotism and tyranny follow in its wake? The necessity to keep in custody one who shall be judged led naturally first to the invention of irons, maintained under barbarism. That atrocity, like any act of severe rigor, was born of ignorance and blindness. Inept judges, daring neither to condemn nor absolve, would often prefer to keep the accused in prison, conscience clear because they don't take the life of the man but neither do they return him to society.
Sade also continues to be influenced by Lucretian and Epicurean philosophy. As Sainville is looking for his wife and is constantly suffering shipwrecks and other horrible misfortunes, he invokes the name of Lucretius:
Here a philosopher might profit from the study of man, observing with what rapidity a change in atmosphere drives him from one state to another. An hour ago our sailors were drunk and cursing. Now they raised their hands to implore Heaven's protection. Fear is truly the wellspring of religion and, as Lucretius said, the mother of all cults. Were man gifted with a better constitution and a nature less prone to disorder, we'd never hear talk of gods on earth.
It's in the context of religion that Sade brings up Lucretian thoughts again, but this time it is curious that this speech comes from the mouth of his villain in the Kingdom of Butua. The religious rites of these people are brutal and barbaric and they also believe in the materialism of the soul and the death of it once it is detached from the body—a major tenet of Lucretian philosophy. Sarmiento once again explains to him, "Their notions concerning the fate of souls in the afterlife are quite confused. First of all, they don't believe the soul is distinct from the body; they say it's only the result of the way we are organized by Nature. Each type of organization necessitates a different soul and that is all that separates us from the animals. Their system seems to me quite philosophical."
But why attribute this philosophy to those who live in the dystopia instead of the utopia? The fate of the soul and the afterlife are never discussed with Zame. Perhaps these are ideas that intrigued Sade, but ones that he couldn't quite accept as his own personal belief system? The second volume, although it veers from the main story, is just as, if not more, intriguing and thought-provoking as the first.
On to Volume III.
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Tagged as Aline and Valcour, French Literature, Sade
Reading The Stranger via Camus's Notebooks
The Stranger was one of those books I read at eighteen that left almost no impression on me. I've had no desire to revisit any of Camus's writing until recently when a friend, who is one of the most astute readers I know, recommended reading some of Camus's other, less well-known, writing. For the past week or so I have been captivated by Camus's 400 pages of Notebooks that span the years 1939 through 1951. He includes vivid descriptions of scenery, personal reflections, ideas for new novels and plays and his philosophical views on life, death, love and art. In an entry from 1942, Camus writes a response to a negative review of The Stranger which he never sends. It is the response to his critic which inspired me to reread The Stranger this week alongside the Notebooks.
Of course a lot has been written about Meursault's taciturn nature and the fact that he only speaks when answering direct questions. On this reread what stood out to me most was Meursault's inner strength, especially when settling into life in a small prison cell. Typical for anyone incarcerated he misses his freedom, seeing and interacting with nature, and women. But he settles into a routine that gives him comfort and he remembers an important bit of advice his mother gives him (trans. Matthew Ward):
I waited for the daily walk, which I took in the courtyard, or for a visit from my lawyer. The rest of the time I managed pretty well. At the time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowering overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. I would have waited for birds to fly by or clouds to mingle, just as here I waited to see my lawyer's ties and just as, in another world, I used to wait patiently until Saturday to hold Marie's body in my arms. Now, as I think back on it, I wasn't in a hollow tree trunk. There were others worse off than me. Anyway, it was one of Maman's ideas, and she often repeated it, that after a while you could get used to anything.
Camus often writes about death in his Notebooks and believes that the only way to attain true liberty in this life is to free oneself from a fear of death. His protagonist hopes for a stay of execution but eventually accepts his fate, without the help of the prison Chaplain who is utterly annoyed with the prisoner's disinterest in God. In one final speech at the end Meursault reflects on his argument with the Chaplain and the absurdity of life:
It was as if I had waited all this time for this moment and for the first light of this dawn to be vindicated. Nothing, nothing mattered and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising towards me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mothers' love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter tome when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also call themselves my brothers?
Camus's own description of Meursault in the Notebooks (1942) are enlightening, to say the least, and completely changed the way I view Camus and his most famous novel (trans. Philip Thody):
It's a very studied book and the tone…is intentional. The tone is heightened four or five times, to be sure, but this is to avoid monotony and to provide composition. With the Chaplain, my Stranger does not justify himself. He gets angry, and that's quite different. I'm the one to explain then, you say? Yes, and I thought about that considerably. I made up my mind to this because I wanted my character to be led to the single great problem by way of the daily and the natural. The great moment had to stand out.
One final side note, I am also reading Sade and thinking about Lucretius and Epicureanism. I see some of these same thoughts and threads in Camus—dispelling the fear of death, deity as a distant figure that cares nothing for humans, the random absurdity of the universe. Camus writes about Lucretius and Sade in his Notebooks. A wonderful reading coincidence for me.
Tagged as Camus, French Literature, Notebooks, The Stranger
We Mislead, but Sweetly: Aline & Valcour, Volume I by Marquis de Sade
This is the first English translation, expertly and smoothly rendered from the French by Jocelyne Genevieve Barque and John Simmons, of Marquis de Sade's epistolary novel. Written in 1786 while he was locked in the Bastille, this book is very different from Sade's later, more pornographic, writings. Contra Mundum Press has, wisely, decided to break up the novel into three volumes—easier to carry and nicely displayed on one's shelves. My impressions of the first volume are ones of astonishment—at the riveting adventure story, the slowly unraveling mystery, and a philosophical statement on Epicurean/Lucretian philosophy.
Aline and Valcour are young lovers kept apart by Aline's vicious and depraved father, President Blamont, who wants to pawn her off to his equally sadistic friend, Monsieur Dolbourg. Blamont and Dolbourg take extreme pleasure in keeping young women as sex slaves and doing unspeakable things to them—although, as I mentioned, Sade's descriptions of these debaucheries is minimal compared to his later writing. The mental and physical pain that Blamont causes for his wife, daughter, and victims is a theme that occurs constantly in the letters and his choice of epistolary style allows Sade to struggle with the concepts of pain and pleasure on a philosophical level. Madame Blamont writes to Valcour :
Can I justly pretend to some perfect happiness? Does it exist anywhere beneath the heavens above? To be put on earth to suffer is the simplest thing in the world. Are we not here as gamblers around the table? Does Dame Fortune favor everybody seated there? By what right dare they accuse her of squandering their gold instead of winning it? The hand of the Eternal One suspends above our heads good and evil in equal portions and they spill indifferently upon us. I might have been happy just as, so it happens, I'm miserable—a question of chance. And the greatest fault of all is to complain. Moreover, can't we imagine taking pleasure even in extreme unhappiness? But dint of sharpening our soul, unhappiness intensifies sensitivity; its impressions, by developing in a more vigorous way all manner of feeling, bring about pleasure unknown to those who are cold-hearted and unfortunate enough to have experience only tranquility and prosperity.
Sade's vision of a deity is Epicurean in the sense that this being is indifferent to our fmisortunes. Pain and pleasure for Sade are very closely related and one cannot experience happiness without first being exposed to extreme forms of pain. Does Sade see his novel as didactic, as a way of teaching us this lesson? Is he trying to dispel our fears of pain and death? The epigram that Sade writes at the beginning of Aline & Valcour in which he quotes Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.55-61 gives us a a small clue (this translation is my own; in the Contra Mundum version, the authors use R.C. Trevelyan's 1937 translation):
Just as small children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so do we, as adults, fear in broad daylight things that are just as irrational as the fears of children in the dark when they imagine things before their eyes. Therefore, it is necessary for us to shake off this terror and gloom of the mind, not by the rays of the sun or the brightness of daylight, but by the appearance and reason of nature.
Lucretius sees poetry as a way of tricking people into dispelling their fear of pain and death. In his most famous metaphor, poetry is the honey we rub on the edge of a bowl in order to coax a child into taking his bitter medicine. One other, quite obvious allusion, to Lucretius in Aline & Valcour also gives us a clue as to Sade's philosophical motivations with his writings. Once again, it is Madame Blamont that writes to Valcour on behalf of herself and her daughter:
I ought not to have allowed you to come to know Aline or her unfortunate mother; today, we would certainly all have less pain; and for the pain we inflict upon others we can never be consoled. But all is not lost—no, Valcour, not all. My barbaric husband, who torments you so, might yet reconsider, so too the ridiculous monster who trails his every step. It might dawn on him that he'll reap non of the hoped-for pleasure from she who hates him so. That much, at least, I can only hope and believe, though I know illusion is to unhappiness as honey rubbed round the rim of a glass of absinthe, offered to a child in pain: we mislead, but sweetly.
Sade, however, has a more sinister view of this deception. How much is an author or philosopher really fooling anyone with this "honey?"
Will the lovers eventually be together? Will Blamont's victims escape his torments? And who are the mysterious house guests that appear at Madame Blamont's at the end of Volume I? These plot considerations as well as Sade's philosophical threads have me eagerly reading Volume II.
Tagged as De Rerum Natura, French Literature, Lucretius, Marquis de Sade
The Various Stages of a Voyage: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
It took me about fifty pages of Kundera's book (in Aaron Asher's translation from the French) before I was drawn in and absorbed with it. The seven chapters of the book are more like short stories which are loosely tied together by theme. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting has been described as a novel and, at times, autobiographical. But, like many great authors who invent their own genres of writing (Musil, Proust, Kafka, etc.) Kundera instructs us on how to read him:
This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a them, the interior of a thought, the interior of a single, unique situation, the understanding of which recedes from my sight into the distance.
It is a novel about Tamina, and whenever Tamina goes offstage, it is a novel for Tamina. She is its principal character and its principal audience, and all the other stories are variations on her own story and meet with her life as in a mirror.
It is a novel about laughter and about forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.
Like the author himself, Tamina lives in exile in another country in the west after she escapes political persecution by the Communist government in Prague. Shortly after their escape, Tamina's husband dies and she leads a very lonely, monotonous, and silent existence. As the years slip by she is worried that her memories of her life with her husband are fading as well. She is desperate to somehow retrieve her notebooks and diaries which she left in Prague.
For Tamina is adrift on a raft and looking back, looking only back. Her entire being contains only what she sees there, far behind her. Just as her pas contracts, disintegrates, dissolves, so Tamina is shrinking and losing her contours.
She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death.
Throughout the book I kept thinking about memory and how our minds choose what to keep and what to discard. Even with important or traumatic events our memories can't possibly retain every detail. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony about the Supreme Court nominee comes to mind: "indelible in the hippocamus is the laughter" is the horrifying detail she remembers when Kavanaugh and his friend attempted to assault her. Tamina doesn't have the opportunity to get her diaries back but she learns that there are some parts of her memory, even though they are fragments—good or bad, that she will always have with her.
One final word about Kundera's astonishing piece of writing is the eroticism that pervades every chapter. Orgies, menage a trois, assault, casual sex, etc. are among the acts that are described in the narrative. It was an odd theme that stands out among the others for me. But I don't know enough about Kundera's style and other writings to make any intelligent comments about it. So I will simply mention that it's there and keep processing it as I read more of his fiction and non-fiction. Do you have a favorite Kundera? Please do let me know!
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Tagged as French Literature, Kundera, Prague
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Folk Legends from Tono: Japan's Spirits, Deities, and Phantastic Creatures
Author: Kunio, Yanagita
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Acknowledged authors Kunio, Yanagita wrote Folk Legends from Tono: Japan's Spirits, Deities, and Phantastic Creatures comprising 170 pages back in 2015. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 144224822X and 9781442248229. Since then Folk Legends from Tono: Japan's Spirits, Deities, and Phantastic Creatures textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 2.90 or rent at the marketplace.
Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the modern era. This is the first time these 299 tales have been published in English. Morse's insightful interpretation of the tales, his rich cultural annotations, and the evocative original illustrations make this book unforgettable.
In 2008, a companion volume of 118 tales was published by Rowman & Littlefield as the The Legends of Tono. Taken together, these two books have the same content (417 tales) as the Japanese language book Tono monogatari.
Reminiscent of Japanese woodblocks, the ink illustrations commissioned for the Folk Legends from Tono, mirror the imagery that Japanese villagers envisioned as they listened to a storyteller recite the tales.The stories capture the extraordinary experiences of real people in a singular folk community. The tales read like fiction but touch the core of human emotion and social psychology. Thus, the reader is taken on a magical tour through the psychic landscape of the Japanese "spirit world" that was a part of its oral folk tradition for hundreds of years.
All of this is made possible by the translator's insightful interpretation of the tales, his sensitive cultural annotations, and the visual charm of the book's illustrations. The cast of characters is rich and varied, as we encounter yokai monsters, shape-shifting foxes, witches, grave robbers, ghosts, heavenly princesses, roaming priests, shamans, quasi-human mountain spirits, murderers, and much more.
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Q: Matematica. Residue integral I just started to use Mathematica and wanted to try out if I got a result correct from a residue integral i made. I have two poles in the UHP, actually looking more complicated but I just wanted to see if Mathematica could to this. This is my code:
x1 = Iw;
x2 = 2 Iw;

Integrate [e^(Ixt)/((x - x1) (x - x2)), {x, -infinity, infinity}, Assumptions -> t > 0]

Is this integral possible to do in Mathematica?

A: Mathematica sees Iw as a two character variable name, but I w as the product of two things.
Mathematica is fanatic about correct capitalization and spelling.
x1=I w; x2=2 I w;
Integrate[E^(I x t)/((x-x1)(x-x2)), {x,-Infinity,Infinity}, Assumptions-> t>0]

returns a large complicated result depending on the signs and whether w might be zero. If you can supply additional domain information the result might be simplified.

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Q: ImportError: No module named OpenSSL (python 2.7 , windows 8.1) I have installed pyOpenSSL and all the required packages but i can't import OpenSSL in the shell . I get this error :
>>> import OpenSSL
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named OpenSSL

list of required packages that are allready installed:
cryptography (0.9.3)
distribute (0.7.3)
idna (2.0)
pip (7.1.0)
pyasn1 (0.1.8)
pyasn1-modules (0.0.5)
pyopenssl (0.15.1)
requests (2.7.0)
service-identity (14.0.0)
setuptools (18.1)
six (1.9.0)
Twisted (15.2.1)
urllib3 (1.11)
w3lib (1.12.0)
zope.interface (4.1.2)

A: If you are running a 64-bit version of Windows then I recommend you install a Win64 version of OpenSSL, available from https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html (scroll down until you find the 64 bit installers) and the 64-bit version of pyOpenSSL, available from http://www.egenix.com/products/python/pyOpenSSL/
Check that you don't have 32-bit versions of the various products, python-packages, etc. I had some site-packages on the PYTHONPATH which confused python. I removed the environment variable PYTHONPATH and similarly PYTHONUSERBASE (both were recommended by some software I was trying where they wanted to use 32-bit versions of mitmproxy and working backwards everything else...) I want to retain my 64-bit version of Python (2.7.6) hence my struggles as I ran into the same error you reported here.


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Illustrator: Steve Noon, Alan Gilliland
Short code: WPN 62
Intended to replace the proliferation of different small arms fielded by US forces during the American Civil War, the "Trapdoor Springfield" was designed in 1865-66 by Erskine S. Allin. Using metallic cartridges, it could be loaded in a single action, increasing the number of shots per minute as much as fivefold. The new weapon quickly proved its worth in two separate incidents in August 1867: small groups of US soldiers and civilians armed with the trapdoor repulsed numerically superior Native American contingents. A simple and cost-effective weapon, it was used, along with its variants in every US conflict in the three decades after the Civil War, especially on the American frontier.
Drawing upon first-hand accounts from US soldiers, their Native American opponents, and users such as buffalo hunters, this is the story of the "Trapdoor Springfield", one of the defining weapons of the Indian Wars.
John P. Langellier received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History from the University of San Diego, and his PhD in Military History from Kansas State University. He is the author of numerous books and monographs, and has worked as a historical curator for several years. He lives in Prescott, Arizona, USA.Steve Noon was born in Kent, UK, and attended art college in Cornwall. He's had a life-long passion for illustration, and since 1985 has worked as a professional artist, illustrating over 30 books for Osprey. He lives in Cardiff, UK.Born in Malaya in 1949, Alan Gilliland spent 18 years as the graphics editor of the UK's Daily Telegraph, winning 19 awards in that time. He now writes, illustrates, and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com).
The M1903 Springfield Rifle
WPN 23 Multiple formats
The Martini-Henry Rifle
The Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman
CBT 43 Multiple formats
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest


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PRESSURE (…is a good thing)
April 6, 2015 Robin
In honor of March Madness NCAA Basketball Championship Game Day (Men's and Women's) is a grade eight short speech written about the pressure of an athlete from a 13 yr. old girls perspective. As a parent of a child who has encountered obstacles and social interference about her basketball dreams and aspirations she stays strong and determined. The RISE (Realize Individual Success Everyday) Centre is a vision and concept many high-level sport professionals have embraced. McMaster University Athletes Edge will train our athletes at a level proven for success. The RISE will give extraordinary athletes learning opportunities through The Hill Basketball Academy to flourish and guide in their athletic endeavours. I am very proud of Aerial Wilson's perspective of life on and off the court. I hope you too enjoy how this young lady is dealing with the "PRESSURE" to pursue her basketball dreams.
by Aerial Wilson, March 01-2015
Small. Misshapen. Insignificant. A lump of coal! Ordinary, yet extraordinary, but what happens once it is under pressures of 725 000 pounds per square inch? What happens to a black piece of rock that does well under pressure? It becomes a diamond.
The most beautiful things are created from pressure, like us as individuals. Some can thrive under pressure and some of us will bow down and succumb to it. Those of us, who have the right mentality, come out of the fire as diamonds. They're the peak performers that not only have trained and worked hard, but won't crumble when the time approaches to make their dreams come true. They can perform in high-pressure situations without surrendering to their doubt demons. They're the one's titled "Most Valuable Player", the one's who hit the game-winning buzzer beater shots, they're the clutch players who can play and push through adversity. They're the ones who attack life as a challenge, not a threat.
We all choke, but what separates two people with the same skill set is how they perform due to pressure. What's your skill worth if you can never use it when it matters? You can have all the talent in the world but if you can't use it in a game, it's worthless. Pressure is always viewed as a negative, but that is just a mental roadblock keeping you from peaking. You can perform either 15% worse or 15% better under pressure. Those who are successful feed off the pressure to maximize their full potential, but in order to perform with more proficiency you must have a positive mindset. It is a proven fact that those who face high-pressure situations with a challenge state have blood flow more efficiently to their brain allowing them to have control over their thoughts and emotions. Where when we approach the same situations with a threat state our blood vessels constrict, causing us to cease up, hindering our ability to think and therefore perform at our best.
Nausea, sweaty palms, dry-mouth, about to throw up any second. I'm sure we've all felt it. Sure it's because I'm nervous, but what's there to be nervous about it's just another game, I've played amazing on countless occasions before, I'm a good player. If I go out there and play a terrible game or lose it'll be okay. Worst-case scenario: I'll go home and sleep. No. I'm older now, and getting exposure, I have to play well in practice to get playing time and prove that I'm the best on the court. I can't have a slump, because you never know who's watching. It could be scouts, the team Ontario or Canada coach, or anyone who wanted to watch our game because they're recorded. I want to do well so badly, I want to get noticed, want to play my best; I have to play my best. Every game is big and championships even bigger. Everyone watching. I have one opportunity to make it happen. One shot.
All of the pressure I'm feeling right now is a good thing. It's making me work harder to get where I want to be. I am the only one putting pressure on myself because I have expectations. If I feel that something isn't the best I can make it, then I'll do even more to make sure that it is and I'm rarely satisfied. The added pressure can be overwhelming, but I will always resist the temptation to give up because the pressure I've put on myself is my motivation.
What do we think when a coach yells, "Put pressure on the ball." Get up, get low and play defense. Don't. Let. Them. Breathe. Chances are if you do that the other team will have a pretty hard time scoring, yet they may have one player that can play with the added pressure. If it were easy everyone would do it. That's the difference: under pressure your true character is revealed. It defines you as a person. It will either make or break you. The ones who won't panic, won't fear, and won't settle are the successful people in life. Although we see pressure as a bad thing it is actually good. It is an opportunity to rise. Not just to be seen as someone who can play, but as someone who can think. It forces us to attack life with a challenge mindset that only allows positive thoughts. No more, "Don't miss," only, "It's going in." And even if that shot somehow misses, keep your head up, hustle, and know it's O.K to fail, but you better make sure that next time you have an opportunity that you take it. No pressure.
Hockey…Hockey…Hockey!
April 23, 2014 April 23, 2014 Robin
Congratulations Dundas Real McCoy's on your 2014 Allan Cup Victory! The entire week was full of energy from the volunteers, organizers and teams. I had a great time shooting for Hamilton Scores "The voice of the #HamOnt amateur sport community". All my photographs from the event can be viewed at www.Presentitphoto.com (Direct Link-2014 Allan Cup) Please enjoy my favourite picks from the tournament.
Last year I posted about the Real McCoy's because they sponsored the newly added Atom Select team. Since adopted by the DMHA they were known as the Dundas Jr. Real McCoy's. Being part of a small community it is nice to have the boys mentored by an amazing group of local hockey players. The McCoy's sponsored the boys who were in hockey limbo and gave time to run a very special practice. Read More: They Sure Are the Real McCoy | Hockey Links
On a personal note, my little guy tried out for rep that year and didn't make it. The coach of the Atom Selects was a former Real McCoy's player giving his time to share the love of the game. A wonderful parent network and commitment to the team led to lifetime experiences for our boys. These moments add growth to our children and deepens the ambition to be better hockey players. In my sons case, he wanted to try out for the rep team again. Once again he didn't make it. In light of some events he was asked to join the team. He had a great hockey year and the team building experiences are unforgettable. Now that hockey tryouts are around the corner, he has come to play. The Allan Cup Championship game has momentum that is inspiring to a young athlete. Mentorship is not only a one time moment, it is an ongoing connection and relationship.
The feedback from the 2014 Allan Cup by community members give a sense of loyalty and pride. I am pleased to present this video from the Championship day!
It was an extremely busy week. Just coming out of the OBA's in Windsor my computer hard drive failed. Creative Technologies in Burlington has worked hard to get me up and running. I hope to have a newly revised machine by the end of the week. Now among all that my daughter caught that awful hacking cold and was off school all week, my son had multiple sports-lessons and his birthday celebrations, I was shooting tons of hockey, my colleague from the Syracuse Crunch was in town to shoot the Bulldogs and I was hosting Easter Dinner. Needless to say I stopped to smell the roses in the beautiful flower bouquet from by sweetheart. Ahhhhhhhhh got it all done though!
Photo Above: Transway Bantam Girls Emotional Celebration Reclaiming their Provincial title at the OBA's
As I wind down from hockey season, I will be processing the last of the images and putting together a portfolio specific to hockey. Dave Black, SI photographer said my football is strong, but where is all the hockey? If I'm from Canada I should have more hockey in my portfolio. Well ya gotta listen and do when someone like Dave gives you advice. OH and I am very excited...no wait jumpy excited to meet with Dave Sandford-NHL photographer to gain some valuable photographic advice. It's kinda funny because I first met Dave Sandford back in 1997 at an event I was running. Yesterday when I was going through some photos I found this one one of a future NHL'r from the Whitby area. Jason Ward played in the OLA Celebrity Lacrosse Challenge. Here he is with NHL greats (L-R backrow: Adam Foot, Gary Roberts, Jason Ward, Joe Nieuwendyk, Colin Patterson. L-R Front Row: Darren Pang, Doug Gilmore, Brendan Shanahan, Stan Johnathan) all played lacrosse to improve their hockey skills.
At the time I was the Marketing Director for the OLA. I was just starting out as a photographer back then on film and we hired a professional photographer for the event to take the team shots. Such a small world to come full circle, live in a small town, support our local team and find a photo with some history. Photo: Real McCoy, Jason Ward (1997) and NHL Celebrities
The Hamilton Bulldogs (1) finished their season with a loss to the Syracuse Crunch (3) on April 20th, 2014 at FirstOntario Centre. Shout Out: Thank you Brandon Taylor, Hamilton Bulldogs photographer for sharing the glass and strobes all season. From beginning to end, it was so much fun to work with you.
Photo: Hamilton Bulldog, Mike Blunden fires one off at the Syracuse in the final game of the season. View Photos Here: http://presentitphoto.com/hamilton_bulldogs
One last shout out...THANK YOU DMHA for the feedback on the 2013- 2014 Yearbook. The positive response and the enjoyment the membership has shared has been overwhelming. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Amy Yanover, DMHA Sponsorship bent over backwards to keep the deadlines and we accomplished amazing things together as a team. It is a true pleasure to design and include my own photographs for the Dundas hockey community to enjoy for a lifetime. "The yearbooks are great...very glossy, colourful and professional! Thank you!"..."Awesome yearbook cover!"..."The yearbook is awesome and a great keepsake for our family..."Best Yearbook EVER!!!"...
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Dundas, Brantford Open Allan Cup with Wins
April 15, 2014 Robin
Source: Larry Robertson (Hamilton Scores) DUNDAS—Cam Watson's unassisted goal from a goalmouth scramble in the third period gave the host Dundas Real McCoys a 4-3 opening round 2014 Allan Cup Hockey Tournament win over the South East Prairie Thunder Monday night in the JL Grightmire Arena. Dundas' Cam Watson celebrates his game winning goal. Earlier in the day, the Brantford Blast edged Kenora Thistles, 5-4, to open week-long series to determine Canada's best Senior hockey club. Dundas takes on Bentley Generals from Red Deer, Alberta at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Playing at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday are Clarenville Newfoundland and Labrador Caribous against Kenora. Brantford's next game is Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. against Clarenville. All games will be played at the Grightmire Arena. The crowd takes in the 2014 Allan Cup tournament at the JL Grightmire Arena. The tournament continues at the Grightmire through Friday. On Monday night, the Real McCoys had to shake off a penalty shot goal by the Thunder's Ryan St Laurent. Both teams were even after two periods at 3-3 when Watson scored the game-winner off a rebound. The McCoys outshot South East Prairie, 29-21. Jordan Foreman, Simon Mangos on a powerplay, and Nick Smith rounded out the Dundas scoring, while Ryan Christie and Jason Ward set up two McCoys goals each. Brad Purdie and Shea Hamilton had the other Thunder goals. All three of the South East Prairie goals were unassisted and the Thunder failed to score on five powerplay opportunities, while Dundas was one for six. Joel Prpic paced the Brantford attack with a pair of goals while Chris Leveille added a goal and an assist. Mike Burgoyne (shorthanded) and Dave Russell added single goals. Kenora's lineup featured two former Real McCoys – TJ Sakaluk and Dan Pitre, both of whom were released by Dundas at the Ontario Hockey Association's Jan. 10 cutdown date. Sakaluk picked a goal for Kenora while Pitre was held pointless. Rob Lawrence, Jesse Baraniuk on a powerplay, and Sean McAslan scored for the Thistles.
Tyler Crapigna-2 Time All Canadian Kicker
March 25, 2014 March 26, 2014 Robin
It is really special when a coach wants to do something extraordinary for his athlete. Tyler Crapigna (#4) is a third year kicker for the McMaster Marauders Football Team. Crapigna has a long list of football accomplishments and currently completed the CFL Combine in Toronto (#CFLCombine). Wishing Tyler all the best in the CFL Draft. Check out this recent article "Ottawa man kicking his way into the CFL" by Tim Baines, Ottawa Sun. It wasn't hard to find an arsenal of photographs to design from when Dana Segin, Tyler's Kicking & Punting Coach asked me to do this special project. What makes is all worth it for me is the amazing reaction received by the long standing supporters who help Tyler be the best kicker he can be. I am very impressed when Tyler's father, Mr. Crapigna drives from Ottawa to Hamilton to watch his son play ball every home game...WoW-That's dedication! "When I asked Robin at Aerial Promotions to put together a few shots of Tyler, I had no idea I was about to receive something so special. The attention to detail, appreciating my feedback was amazing! All in all, I have an amazing print of the best kicker ever to lace them up and kick footballs at McMaster University" Dana Segin Kicking & Punting Coach-McMaster University Football Thank YOU Dana for allowing me to be part of this special project! Best of Luck Tyler, I'll be cheering for you! Follow Tyler Crapigna on Twitter @TCrapigna4 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Social Media Please like us on facebook, follow us on twitter and comment on our photographs/design on our blog. We always update on { tumblr blog | flickr photostream | YouTube channel | Pinterest Boards | Google+ } too! Aerial Promotions is now on Instagram ____________________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD IMAGES* © Aerial Promotions 1997-2013 *Read AP Terms & Conditions Before Download…click here *Read AP Photographic Licensing Before Download…click here ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Why...Because We CARE! It is part of AP mission to give back to sport & the developing athletes as a volunteer in the local community (...more) Images available now at www.Present it Photo.com
Social Media (SM) Opens Doors at SI
My Klout is admirable. I'm not famous and I know I don't have a lot of followers, likes, pins, favourites or retweets. I appreciate the time and effort it takes to communicate on social media (SM) and more grateful for the opportunities it creates. Please join me on my journey to Sports Illustrated, NYC.
Instagram @bradpix "The wonderful Robin Wilson of @aerialpromotions stopped by for a visit today. Happy to have her spend some time with us, hope she can shoot for us this summer." & on Twitter [symple_social icon="twitter" url="https://twitter.com/BradSmithSI/status/444179226892455936/photo/1" title="Brad Smith Twitter" target="self" rel=""] from @BradSmithSI.
[symple_box color="green" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] The Lead Up [/symple_box] I joked about a year ago when I said Sports Illustrated (SI) is going to love this photograph. You may have heard the awkward laugh, but deep down I crave ambition to pursue this starlight fantasy. Here I am on my dream journey to NYC to meet with the Sports Illustrated Director of Photography (DOP), Brad Smith.
Twitter and Instagram is where we connect. It is important to be consistently aware and share great information for people to follow. I'm always trying to improve my photography skills and attend many conferences. KelbyOne/Photoshop World (PSW) is my favourite. I have met one-on-one with many professionals who have given me phenomenal advice (My Posts: Dave Black, Bert Monroy, Peter Hurley, Jack Reznicki, Catherine Hall and Scott Kelby)
As I blog about my experiences and post images, a direct message comes through twitter. This is an engagement that I embrace and want to develop a relationship like Brad says, "A healthy marriage between editor & photographer".
Brad asks, "When are you coming to NY?" OK…put yourself in my shoes. Brad is the Director of Photography for Sports Illustrated. He is the SI cover guy….Yeah that guy!..Theeeeeee Guy! When I shared my news with friends I got the sarcastic, "yeah right" attitude.
I continued to post and work hard at being a better photographer. Brad acknowledges on my SM some of my family portraiture, ambiance and action. Speaking of shoes, one of my favourite @Bradpix post is Seattle Seahawk pumps on the sideline at the Superbowl. I also enjoy it when he posts the latest SI covers fresh off the press on Instagram @bradpix and his Gator play by play action on Twitter @BradSmithSI. The relationship continues and I enjoy bantering online at the Team Canada hockey jabs in Sochi. BTW="GOAL'D"
So when Brad says he has football playoffs-The Superbowl in January, then The Olympics in Sochi, Russia for February and wants you to pick a date to meet…pick a day and wish upon a star to make it happen.
[symple_box color="green" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] The Trip [/symple_box]
The flights were cancelled and the weather was the worst we have ever driven in [ http://instagram.com/p/ldGrSSS5AW/ ]. It took almost 13hrs to get to NYC because the New York State Thruway was closed due to accidents and poor weather conditions.
Over the last month my workload has been extensive, but most rewarding. I have put in over excessive work hours and drove thousands of miles to expand my portfolio. Coming from the land of Tim Hortons, I really needed a coffee, but unfortunately another roadblock [http://instagram.com/p/ldOr6Dy5Na/].
White knuckles we keep driving. Due to the weather and dizzy GPS, we don't know our ETA. We do know that if we travel East we won't go in circles anymore. Yes it was that bad!
To have a great support system when following your dreams is heartfelt. My parents up in Northern Canada Cottage Country are entertaining the kids, my husband is determined to drive straight through the storm just to get me to my meeting on time, friends reach out on social media (SM) for encouragement and photography colleagues assist me on final details of my portfolio.
[symple_box color="green" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] The Meeting [/symple_box]
Excited and nervous to say the least. After a couple of hours of rest, I work on portfolio B-C-D…just in case Brad wants to see more. A few points that resonate with me in Youtube video "How to Edit Your Photos with Brad Smith" :
Look for the peripheral things going on and encompass the whole game…even the portrait of a player on the sideline…it's important to tell the whole story and include them in your portfolio. Keep shooting even when the play ends or when no one around you is working!
What do you want to show me? What do you want to do? I want to do it all, but I need to impress Brad with my action photography. Although I know I would love to do feature work too (Like Robert Caplin). There is limited time and I really need to show him what I want to do...ACTION game photography.
Show your best work first…Images you can't take your eyes off. Because portfolio reviews are based on judgment, many people have different opinions. I have had the some of the finest people in the industry assist me in choosing the best images for my portfolio. Now I have my most important sports photography review of my career.
I am about to enter the Time & Life Building in New York City to meet with Brad Smith, Director of Photography Sports Illustrated. I was a half hour early after security. There was a gentleman from an advertising agency who does work for InStyle, People, Time and SI. We had a nice conversation in reception. When I arrived at SI, two fun loving characters met me at the front door. They rolled out the red carpet and loaded me down with some fabulous reads.
Brad starts the conversation with his gratitude for coming down to NYC to meet with him. If anything I would fly over the moon for an opportunity like this. After I tell him about our travels, he expresses his appreciation to share with my husband for driving through the storm. He is such a compassionate man. We then chat about our children and a little bit about the business. "Let's get started…Show me what you got!"
[symple_box color="green" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] The Critique [/symple_box]
What resonates with me when I watch Brad review my images is how he emphasizes with the athlete. "More head trauma, only if they knew what they know now, unfortunately it makes a great shot." Because I was trying to show my ability to capture prime action, many of the portfolio images were of collisions or impact.
Brad then says, "Another great shot of a defender…there should be more of it." I'm starting to understand that Brad want's to see unique images and not what he sees come across his desk everyday. He does mention that SI still needs the portrait of the QB and the story image.
Brad seemed to enjoy my basketball night portrait the most. I have an entire collection of dunks and fun basketball portraiture that I would love to expand on. I actually feel it is my specialty above the rim, below and through the net [see more]. The Indiana gym photo- although Brad zoomed right into the garbage can-facial expression, general ambiance and frozen motion make him smile. "This is a great shot."
I feel I should have shown more variety in my photography. I have it, I just didn't build my 20 images with this in mind for the initial portfolio review. Brad is a very busy person, but was generous with his time to see more. Brad suggests that I shouldn't show all my action cropped-tight with a 400. He acknowledges that I can shoot action, but to try a new perspective by lens or angle to make a more interesting image. Did I mention that I rock the fisheye!
Now I'm beating myself up a bit because I didn't show that one picture because I didn't know he wanted to see it. I have the hardest time choosing. I was a little nervous, showed too much, possibly over processed a vignette on one image and even went into the wrong portfolio. I wanted to show him my composites too, but focused on action. I over prepared. Brad wants to see me tighten up the portfolio. Live and learn, but what a time to have a teaching moment when you only have one shot….Literally! OK let's lighten it up a bit with some Dundas Blues Hockey Bobbleheads...
Sometimes you need to feel failure in order to succeed. I still felt at ease because Brad has the most wonderful, kind and sincere demeanor about him. I think the title purely "Authentic" in front of his name is justified.
He asks me, "What do I want?" A question that stimulates an electrifying response, "I want to shoot for you!" If you need someone to cover any Canadian events or Detroit or Buffalo…as a take a deep breath…The Pan Am Games are coming to Toronto and the NBA All Star Game soon. Brad explains the process and what SI will cover. OMG, then I hear, SI will get you credentials to shoot for us at the Pan Am Games. We will run a section and you can cover the Pan Am Games for Sports Illustrated. I am giddy like a schoolgirl, but trying to contain myself. I now have the most perfect opportunity to prove myself as a Sports Illustrated photographer. I have access to 36 sports with 7000 athletes in my own backyard venues. I can research, practice and prepare the most unique photographic images I have ever done. Most importantly I will be able to capture these elite athletes at a prime moment in their athletic career as I fulfill mine.
Another gentleman comes to visit, Chris Chambers. Brad introduces us and explains Chris was an editor for Getty and edits the NBA, NFL and Motorsports for SI. We go into the boardroom and chat a bit about the industry. I then start to show Chris some of my photographs, more specific to football and basketball. Chris advises me that it's about access and what is available to you. He said, even though you are shooting amateur sports you are taking great photos. Hearing him say, "No doubt you can shoot" makes me so happy. Chris than spoke to me about layers. Everyone has a purpose to make the photo better. Fans create the energy; band makes you move, coaches direct the game and so on. Chris says he want's to see the one blade of grass in the forefront of the photo leading up to the action and then the crowds reaction. I need to be responsible for everything in the shot. Even when the shot's not clean try to make it a part of the story. This conversation was very inspiring because I want to emote this in my photography always.
Today as I review my photographs with fresh eyes, I understand how I can make my portfolio better. I want to intrigue the viewer and make them stay in the moment- frozen in time. I want them to see something different, build an emotion through the layers and not take their eyes off my photograph. I am not afraid to fail, but anxious to experiment and achieve greatness in my photography. THANK YOU Brad!
My portfolio is always a work in progress! To view more photographs visit 500px or Behance (Update in Progress)
A huge shoutout to all the amateur athletes who give it everyday, CIS, OCAA, OUA and McMaster football who allow me to capture the good, bad and the ugly. Thank YOU to all of my friends, family and colleagues who support me. I am very grateful for my young athlete followers and will always keep it real. Thanks for all the retweets, likes, favs and your encouragement. I want my kids and husband to be proud of me and love them for joining me on my special journey. Check out some of my colleagues great work. I appreciate the help with my portfolio selects: Matt Hernadez, Brandon Taylor, Scott Thomas, Hamilton Scores-Denis LeBlanc & Sean Healey.
Woo Hoo! That's my buddy Robin! @BradSmithSI "Great visit today from the wonderful Robin Wilson of @Presentitphoto pic.twitter.com/wHtv5Us0Yg" — Matt Hernandez (@matthernandez) March 13, 2014
I LOVE BEING A PHOTOGRAPHER! How bout a reality series for photographers like America's/Canada's Next Top Model EH?
ACHONWA…aaahooo!?!?!
March 5, 2014 March 5, 2014 Robin
February 27th, 2014 | Notre Dame (100) vs North Carolina (75) | Joyce Center-Purcell Pavilion | South Bend, IN
Uh-CHAWN-wha…t? Will not be a question of who in the basketball world, but a fascinating everyday name we Canadians are proud to follow. Natalie Achonwa is a senior basketball player at University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. She is the first international player to suit up for the University in its 37-year history.
Not only is Achonwa in the record books with three consecutive NCAA Women's Final Four appearances, including two NCAA national championship games, she is a five time Canada Basketball Team selection. Natalie began her international training at the tender age of 14 in Hamilton, Ontario. In September of 2009, Achonwa became the youngest player to be selected for the Canadian Senior Women's Basketball Team at the age of 16.
Achonwa has recently competed for Canada at the 2012 Olympics in London, England. Natalie was a part of the Canadian Team that won Silver at the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship in Xalapa, Mexico.
Chris Seto of The Guelph Mercury produced an amazing intimate video and article-Natalie Achonwa's Compelling Story - Big stage, big presence — Guelph's Natalie Achonwa leads one of the hottest teams in U.S. women's college basketball [Read More]
I met Natalie at (DJ's) David Johnson's Basketball Clinic. Read More: [real-basketball-mentors-making-time] Although Natalie is from Guelph, Ontario she feels connected to Hamilton because she is a graduate from St. Mary's Catholic Secondary School and trained with the former Basketball Canada's NEDA (National Elite Development Academy) program at McMaster University.
We planned to do a photo shoot, but unfortunately couldn't align our calendars. Natalie informed me that UND was going to play a game at Ryerson in Toronto on December 1st, 2013. Again the timing did not work out. When Natalie told me that February 27th, 2014 would be her last regular season basketball game. All I could say is "Road Trip!"
It was her last regular home game of the season and as a senior. What better reason to take a road trip to South Bend, IN. We started out late and drove through the night. The last hour was the worst with the storm, whiting out most of Indiana. When we reached the Varsity Club Suites, we were overwhelmed with the sports memorabilia that adorned every wall of the hotel.
After a few hours of sleep we arrived at the University of Notre Dame, almost 2 hrs before the game. It was nice to see the famous Football Notre Dame Stadium right beside Basketball Joyce Centre-Purcell Pavilion. Of course the girls needed to get a sharpie for some autographs and a little Irish spirit. There were many alumnae, the fans were animated, you could feel the oomph and the fun was just beginning.
Can you say "Energy stimulus overload". It's the crowd, band, cheerleaders, fans, scoreboard, music, Dance Cam, Jumbotron to the fine detail of the basketball popcorn bowls. My family was thrilled to be there, huge fans of "ACE" (Natalie's Nickname) and very grateful for the phenomenal seats.
The coaches came out in style. Muffet McGraw and her beautiful coaching staff came out in blazing hot red to celebrate her # 1000th career game.
My job is to get great photographs. I started out on the end line, but the referees positioning seemed to be directly in front of me. When I asked a fellow photographer if I could get in close to the post, he was more than accommodating. I was able to get low and see the paint beautifully. Now it's just up to me to capture the moment. View Game Photos [Click Here]
Natalie finished with 24 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists. Notre Dame finished the regular season with a perfect record and the second longest winning streak in University history.
Although my main focus was Natalie Achonwa (#11), her other teammates were exceptional too. Notre Dame Senior Tri Captain, Kayla McBride (#21) netted 28 points.
ND Sophomore, Jewell Loyd (#32) was double trouble for UNC with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The very young University of North Carolina team was led by Tar Heel, Xylina McDaniel(#34)-18pts and Diamond DeShields(#23) with 17pts.
It is an amazing experience to watch an NCAA game in the home venue of a team you cheer for. We have all the more reason to love The University of Notre Dame because of Natalie Achonwa. Nat said ND would love to have us and EVERYONE treated us like a lucky charm. Remember the back of this jersey. Pronounced "uh-CHAWN-wha". Natalie, AKA "ACE" is not only a basketball player but a true motivational leader and role model for young student athletes.
Aerial Wilson and Kaillie Hall play for Transway Bantam Girls Basketball Team in Hamilton, Ontario. They are currently in the process of trying out for the Canada Drive-Blue Star Elite AAU Travel Team [Learn More]. They had an exceptional time at The University of Notre Dame and are more ambitious today because of Natalie Achonwa to pursue their basketball dreams. Let's cheer a little louder for our Canadian Athletes and support them on social media. Connect with Natalie Achonwa on Twitter https://twitter.com/NatAchon
For more information about Natalie Achonwa: Natalie Achonwa Bio - UND.COM - University of Notre Dame http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/natalie_achonwa_713254.html http://ndwbb.com/team/players/natalie_achonwa/ Big stage, big presence — Guelph's Natalie Achonwa leads one of the hottest teams in U.S. women's college basketball http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/2793171-big-stage-big-presence-guelph-s-natalie-achonwa-leads-one-of-the-ho/ Video: Natalie Achonwa on what Notre Dame has to do to remain undefeated http://www.swishappeal.com/2014/2/23/5438058/video-notre-dame-undefeated-natalie-achonwa A Competitor's Mentality http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/021314aab.html No. 5 Notre Dame Rolls Past Duquesne, 100-61 http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/120113aaa.html Natalie Achonwa Named To Canadian Olympic Qualifying Team http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/060512aaa.html Three Prep Women's Basketball Standouts Commit To Attend Notre Dame http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/111309aab.html Famous Guelphites http://www.library.guelph.on.ca/archives/famous_person.cfm?id=63 Game Photos: February 27th, 2014 | Notre Dame (100) vs North Carolina (75) | Joyce Center-Purcell Pavilion | South Bend, IN [Click Here] ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Social Media Please like us on facebook, follow us on twitter and comment on our photographs/design on our blog. We always update on { tumblr blog | flickr photostream | YouTube channel | Pinterest Boards | Google+ } too! Aerial Promotions is now on Instagram ____________________________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOAD IMAGES* © Aerial Promotions 1997-2013 *Read AP Terms & Conditions Before Download…click here *Read AP Photographic Licensing Before Download…click here ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Why...Because We CARE! It is part of AP mission to give back to sport & the developing athletes as a volunteer in the local community (...more) Images available now at www.Present it Photo.com
Radiant Athlete Refocuses My Attention
February 28, 2014 Robin
The 89th Hamilton Indoor Games were held last week on Feb.21st, 2014 at First Ontario Centre (Copps Coliseum). I really enjoyed meeting Track Star, Meaghan Rice from St. Marys. I used to love Track and Field and found Meaghan to be a multi talented athlete. When I met Meaghan, she was talking to herself by the high jump pit. I immediately saw the big "M" on her sweatshirt and asked if she was from St. Marys.
Proud to say she was a Crusader and really enjoys the pentathlon. As a photographer I zoned in because I want to photograph a variety of events. I missed Meaghan's gold winning performance in shot put. She threw an 8.9m on her last throw to win. I was excited to watch Meaghan's next event, high jump. She cleared the bar for a personal best at 1.50m, as she celebrates with her coach. Unfortunately, Ms. Rice did not place in long jump. I am certain there will be more great Track and Field results from Meaghan Rice in the future. (It was nice to see some of the McMaster Students out of uniform volunteering their time to help with the meet too!)
Funny story! When I was in middle school, I trained with Athlete's International. I begged my parents for a high jump shoe...yes just one shoe OMG-LOL! Then when high school came I trained with a javelin and discus. My neighbor's dog would play catch with me....just kidding! So many styles of high jump. The Fosbury Flop, Scissors and I don't know what some of these other ones are.
Congratulations Katrina Kerekesch from Highland High School in Dundas with a first place jump of 4.39m.
With all the Canadian hockey love during the Olympics, it helped me to produce the 2013-2014 DMHA yearbook. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Special shoutout to Amy Yanover who in my professional opinion was a dream to work with! The yearbooks will be distributed on March 22nd at the Dundas Minor Hockey Association Championship Day!
Natalie Achonwa plays her final home game of the season on Thursday, February 27th, 2014 at the University of Notre Dame, IN. I love American NCAA Basketball and a good roadtrip. Can't wait to see Natalie in action on the court against North Carolina.
Friday, February 28th I will be back in Hamilton to photograph the Bulldogs take on some Monsters from Lake Erie. Joonas Natinnen pins the Marlies for Lucky girl to get a quick click!
The Ontario Colleges Athletic Association's 2014 women's basketball champions will be decided Feb. 27-March 1 at Mohawk College.
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DMHA Yearbook 2013-2014
February 23, 2014 June 24, 2014 Robin
The wonderful arenas we get to visit throughout the season inspired the font cover. Symbolic of "Beaming Character", that still is and once was. I felt a sense of belonging and history when I walked into the Orillia Community Centre Area in Coldwater, Orillia. The staff was exceptional to allow me access to photograph. The newest venues are stunning with state of the art facilities, but when that Zamboni came out it was breathtaking!
The positive response and the enjoyment the membership has shared has been overwhelming. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Amy Yanover, DMHA Sponsorship bent over backwards to keep the deadlines and we accomplished amazing things together as a team. It is a true pleasure to design and include my own photographs for the Dundas hockey community to enjoy for a lifetime. "The yearbooks are great…very glossy, colourful and professional! Thank you!"…"Awesome yearbook cover!"…"The yearbook is awesome and a great keepsake for our family…"Best Yearbook EVER!!!"… [cincopa AELAopbgSY_W]
Best of Luck to the Basketballers!
February 7, 2014 March 19, 2014 Robin
The Transway Bantam Girls AAA Basketball team plays this weekend (Feb. 7-9, 2014) at Glenndale High School in the annual Hamilton Transway Tournament. Wishing all the basketballers great tournament play and safe travels!
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Sponsored Moments in Play!
January 24, 2014 Robin
I love a clean background because it always makes the subject in play stand out. Sometimes you don't have a choice when photographing in public venues. There is a lot of sponsor signage and team logos everywhere. When covering the game you have to take the action where it's happening.
Once in a while you get lucky when something amazing happens - framed up, locked into the play and it all just works.
And then sometimes you just have to laugh! Referees and other interference in photographing sports is inevitable. The way I look at it is, it makes me more agile and creative in my shooting.
Silence is a beautiful thing! Be patient and wait for that right moment. Go early and stay late is just part of a photographers business hours.
Sponsors spend an enormous amount of money to keep our athletic programs and athletes active. It takes a lot of work to get sponsors and even more effort to keep them. My marketing background makes me hypersensitive to appreciating and valuing great sponsors.
When photographing minor sports in recreational facilities positioning is critical to get the shot. Signage around the venue can add character to your photograph, bring depth and tell a story. A photo is worth a thousand words!
Most wall art is balanced around the gym floor. Team logos are generally behind the endlines and pennants/banners may hang from the ceiling. It is important to know your angles to prepare yourself for the frame.
Messaging and call to action is important in efficient signage. With great branding just a glimpse of a logo can stimulate a viewer to act!
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The Japan Racing Association
Exclusive Topics for JAPAN AUTUMN INTERNATIONAL 2019 - 4th Edition -
Preparations for the Champions Cup (G1, dirt, 1,800m) at Chukyo Racecourse on December 1 are in full swing as Japan's top dirt specialists get ready to kick off their fall season.
Chrysoberyl (JPN, C3, by Gold Allure), after winning this year's Japan Dirt Derby (dirt, 2,000m) in July, faced his seniors for the first time in the Nippon TV Hai (dirt, 1,800m) at NAR's Funabashi Racecourse on Sept. 23 and won dominantly by four lengths from racing close behind in fourth position. The Gold Allure colt, unbeaten in six starts since his two-year-old debut, is hoped to follow Le Vent Se Leve (JPN, C4, Symboli Kris S) as the second three-year-old Champions Cup champion.
The Mile Championship Nambu Hai (dirt, 1,600m) at NAR's Morioka Racecourse on Oct. 14 was won by Sunrise Nova (JPN, H5, by Gold Allure). The son of Gold Allure won comfortably by 1-1/2 lengths after racing forwardly in fifth position and taking command with 200 meters to go. 2017 Best Dirt Horse Gold Dream (JPN, H6, by Gold Allure) finished three lengths behind in third. Further behind in fifth was two-time Korea Cup (dirt, 1,800m) winner London Town (JPN, H6, by Kane Hekili) and this year's Kawasaki Kinen (dirt, 2,100m) champion Mitsuba (JPN, H7, by Kane Hekili) finished sixth.
Vengeance (JPN, H6, by Casino Drive) won the Miyako Stakes (G3, dirt, 1,800m) at Kyoto Racecourse on Nov. 3, coming from behind to outrun 2017 Procyon Stakes (G3, dirt, 1,400m) victor King's Guard (JPN, H8, by Sinister Minister) by half a length for his first grade-race victory. Last year's Champions Cup runner-up Westerlund (JPN, G7, by Neo Universe) followed in third while Wide Pharaoh (JPN, C3, by Henny Hughes), winner of the Unicorn Stakes (G3, dirt, 1,600m) in June, finished fifth. February Stakes (G1, dirt, 1,600m) winner Inti (JPN, H5, by Came Home), who carried 2kg more than the rest of the field, was unable to sustain his bid racing in second and dropped back to 15th.
Chuwa Wizard (JPN, C4, by King Kamehameha) took an early lead at the third corner after chasing the leaders in fourth and held off 2018 Tokyo Daishoten (G1, dirt, 2,000m) and 2019 Teio Sho (dirt, 2,000m) champion Omega Perfume (JPN, C4, by Swept Overboard) for a nose victory in the JBC Classic (dirt, 2,000m) at NAR's Urawa Racecourse on Nov. 4. The King Kamehameha colt's record of 8-3-2 in 13 career starts includes victories in the 2018 Nagoya Grand Prix (dirt, 2,500m), the 2019 Diolite Kinen (dirt, 2,400m) and the 2019 Heian Stakes (G3, dirt, 1,900m).
Wonder Lider (JPN, H6, by Statue of Liberty) earned his ticket to the Champions Cup with his first grade-race victory in the Musashino Stakes (G3, dirt, 1,600m) on Nov. 9. Moving into contention with a terrific burst of speed at the straight from a ground-saving trip in the rear, he continued to pull away for an upset victory by 1-1/4 lengths. 2017 Hopeful Stakes (G1, 2,000m) winner Time Flyer (JPN, C4, by Heart's Cry) followed in second while Sunrise Nova finished fifth, four lengths from the winner.
As of Nov. 20, 11 horses have accepted invitations to run in the Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin Racecourse on Dec. 8. Reigning Horse of the Year Almond Eye (JPN, F4, by Lord Kanaloa), coming off her victory in the Tenno Sho (Autumn) (G1, 2,000m) on Oct. 27, will aim for her second overseas title in the Hong Kong Cup (G1, 2,000m) after her victory in the Dubai Turf (G1, 1,800m) in March. Win Bright (JPN, H5, by Stay Gold), winner of the Hong Kong's Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1, 2,000m) last April, will head back to Hong Kong for the same race after an eighth-place finish in the Tenno Sho (Autumn).
Three-time sprint graded winner Danon Smash (JPN, C4, by Lord Kanaloa), after a third-place finish in the Sprinters Stakes (G1, 1,200m) on Sept. 29, will head for the Hong Kong Sprint (G1, 1,200m) and attempt to follow in the footsteps of his father, Lord Kanaloa, who won consecutive Hong Kong Sprint titles in 2012 and 2013.
Hong Kong Mile (G1, 1,600m) challengers will include Indy Champ (JPN, C4, by Stay Gold), who claimed the Yasuda Kinen (G1, 1,600m)–Mile Championship (G1, 1,600m) double, Persian Knight (JPN, H5, by Harbinger), who won the 2017 Mile Championship and finished third in the fall mile G1 this year, Normcore (JPN, F4, by Harbinger) who claimed the Victoria Mile (G1, 1,600m) and is coming off a win in the Fuji Stakes (G3, 1,600m) on Oct. 19, and Admire Mars (JPN, C3, by Daiwa Major), the 2017 Best Two-Year-Old Colt and winner of the NHK Mile Cup but ninth in the Fuji Stakes.
The Hong Kong Vase (G1, 2,400m) will be challenged by four Japanese runners: Tenno Sho (Spring) (G1, 3,200m) runner-up Glory Vase (JPN, C4, by Deep Impact), globetrotting mare Deirdre (JPN, M5, by Harbinger), whose last G1 title was in the Nassau Stakes (G1, 1,980m) in August, 2019 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (G1, 2,200m) winner Lucky Lilac (JPN, F4, by Orfevre), and Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks, G1, 2,400m) winner Loves Only You (JPN, F3, by Deep Impact).
Japanese-trained horses have brought home 10 G1 titles in their Hong Kong International Races challenges: three Hong Kong Cup titles, by Agnes Digital (USA, by Crafty Prospector, 2001), A Shin Hikari (JPN, by Deep Impact, 2015) and Maurice (JPN, by Screen Hero, 2016); three Hong Kong Mile titles, by Eishin Preston (USA, by Green Dancer, 2001), Hat Trick (JPN, by Sunday Silence, 2005) and Maurice (2015); two Hong Kong Sprint titles, by Lord Kanaloa (JPN, by King Kamehameha, 2012-13); and two Hong Kong Vase titles, by Stay Gold (JPN, by Sunday Silence, 2001) and Satono Crown (JPN, by Marju, 2016).
Gold Dream
in the 2017 Champions Cup
in the 2017 Elm Stakes
in the 2017 Brilliant Stakes
in the 2019 Miyako Stakes
in the 2019 February Stakes
King's Guard
in the 2017 Procyon Stakes
Westerlund
in the 2018 Satsuma Stakes
Wide Pharaoh (right)
in the 2019 Unicorn Stakes
Chuwa Wizard (left)
in the 2019 Heian Stakes
Omega Perfume
in the 2018 Sirius Stakes
Wonder Lider
in the 2019 Musashino Stakes
Time Flyer
in the 2017 Hopeful Stakes
Sunrise Nova
Almond Eye
in the 2019 Tenno Sho (Autumn)
Win Bright
in the 2019 Queen Elizabeth II Cup
Danon Smash
in the 2019 Keeneland Cup
Indy Champ
in the 2019 Mile Championship
Persian Knight
in the 2019 Victoria Mile
Admire Mars
in the 2019 NHK Mile Cup
Lucky Lilac
Glory Vase
in the 2019 Nikkei Shinshun Hai
in the 2019 Nassau Stakes
Loves Only You
in the 2019 Yushun Himba


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Василиса Прекрасная — русская народная сказка, названная по имени её главной героини. В сборнике «Народные русские сказки» Александра Николаевича Афанасьева версии этой сказки находятся под номерами: 104 («Василиса Прекрасная», сюжет 480 B*); 219—226 (, сюжет 313 A, B, C); 267—269 («Царевна-лягушка», сюжет 402). Одноимённые советские фильм (1939) и мультфильм (1977) имеют собственные сюжеты, основанные на сказке «Царевна-лягушка» (в них Василиса «Премудрая» стала «Прекрасной»).

Сюжет
У одного купца умерла жена, с которой он прожил в супружестве 12 лет, оставив единственную дочь 8 лет — Василису. Перед смертью купчиха отдаёт дочери куклу со своим благословением. Эта кукла не простая: если дать ей поесть, то можно получить от неё помощь при неприятностях. Через некоторое время купец вторично женится на вдове с двумя дочерьми — сверстницами главной героини. Новая жена невзлюбила падчерицу, давая ей разные непосильные работы, но куколка выполняла всю работу за Василису. Когда главная героиня выросла, то к ней стали свататься все женихи города. Мачеха же всем отказывала:

 Не выдам меньшой прежде старших!

Однажды купец надолго уехал из дома по торговым делам, и в это время, по желанию мачехи, семья перешла жить в другой дом, стоящий возле дремучего леса, в котором находилась избушка Бабы-Яги. Часто посылала мачеха Василису в лес, надеясь, что Баба-Яга встретит её и съест. Но девушка, благодаря руководству куколки, всегда избегала опасных путей.

Наконец, мачеха с дочками сговорились прямо отослать Василису в избушку Бабы-Яги за огнём, так как во время осенней женской работы (плетение, вязание и прядение), совершаемой ночью, нарочно потушили горящую свечу. Куколка, как обычно, пообещала заботиться о безопасности девушки, и та отправилась в дорогу.

По пути ей встретились три всадника: белый, красный и чёрный (по словам Бабы-Яги, это её слуги: день, солнце и ночь соответственно). На заборе же Бабы-Яги, сделанном из человеческих костей, были развешаны черепа, глаза которых освещали своим светом окрестности, как днём. Тут из лесу выехала и сама хозяйка: «в ступе едет, пестом погоняет, помелом след заметает». Выслушав просьбу главной героини, Баба-Яга потребовала от той под страхом смерти поработать для начала служанкой. По приказу голосом отворились ворота, а затем сами же и заперлись. Разные задания давала Василисе Баба-Яга, но та, благодаря помощи куколки, всё выполняла вовремя.

Ещё у Бабы-Яги были помощники — три пары рук, которые откликались и являлись на зов её голоса. Баба-Яга не стала объяснять, что это за пары рук:
 Я не люблю, чтоб у меня сор из избы выносили, и слишком любопытных ем!

Через какое-то время Баба-Яга спросила главную героиню, как та умудряется так хорошо выполнять всю работу, и узнав, что причиной тому благословение её матери, вытолкала её вон, сказав:
 Убирайся же ты от меня, благословенная дочка! Не нужно мне благословенных.

С собой же, вместо светильника, дала в дар один череп с горящими глазами. Хотела Василиса от него избавиться, но череп сказал, чтобы она этого не делала, а несла в дом мачехи. Там свет, исходящий из глазниц черепа, испепелил мачеху и её двух дочек. После происшедшего Василиса зарыла череп в землю и ушла в город, где поселилась у одной старушки, решив ждать возвращения отца там, и занялась прядением и ткачеством. Ткань в её руках получалась такой тонкой, что старушка как-то понесла её прямо в царский дворец. Царь же попросил сшить ему из этой ткани сорочки (то есть рубашки), что Василиса и сделала.

Оценив искусную работу, царь захотел лично увидеть и наградить мастерицу. Очарованный её красотою царь взял Василису в жёны. Вернувшийся из торгового путешествия отец Василисы остался жить при дворе. Старушку новая царица тоже взяла к себе, а помощницу-куколку до конца своих дней носила в кармане.

Интерпретации
Белый, красный и чёрный всадники появляются в других историях про Бабу-ягу и часто интерпретируются как мифологические образы.

Как и многие фольклористы XIX века, Афанасьев рассматривает многие народные сказки как способы отображения природных явлений и стихий. Так он истолковал и эту сказку — как изображение конфликта между солнечным светом (Василиса), бурным ветром (мачеха) и тёмными тучами (сводные сёстры).

Кларисса Пинкола Эстес интерпретирует сказку как рассказ о женском раскрепощении, как путь главной героини от подчинения до силы и независимости. Баба-яга объясняется в качестве «необузданного феминного» принципа, от которого Василиса была отделена, но попав под его власть, повинуясь и научаясь самовоспитанию, она возрастает в процессе этого научения.

В связи с тем, что все труды куколки Василиса приписывает себе, то Михаил Эпштейн отмечает, что сказка представляет собой техноутопию, оправдывающую праздность и нечестность. Литературовед поясняет, что даже выйдя за царя, героиня куколку по конец жизни своей всегда носила в кармане. «Если вдуматься в мораль сказки, то она окажется сомнительной: вознаграждаются лень, ложь и насилие», — поясняет он.

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 Народные русские сказки

Примечания

Ссылки
 Афанасьев А. Н. Народные русские сказки. Полное издание в одном томе. — : Альфа-книга, 2010. — ISBN 978-5-9922-0149-9. — С. 123—128.

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