Chances are that you may not like the person who was chosen for you. As a matter of fact, it exemplifies everlasting commitment in a relationship. They reinforce everything bad about arranged marriages such as too much focus on skin colour, wealth, and caste while leaving our important factors that could make a marriage successful. Every culture in the world gives importance to marriage. Stress-Free of Finding the One There is no point stressing out on finding Mr.
Understanding the possible negative effects of a marriage can help ensure you make the right decision. In love marriages, mostly, people have similar interests, hobbies, and goals in life. An arranged marriage is a planned love life The idea is we must not leave our love lives to chance. If your boyfriend shows any signs of emotional or physical abuse, get out of the relationship and do not agree to be married. Whenever, you feel like having tea or coffee there is someone who is there to accompany you. Sometimes love is gone after married and at that time bride and groom will understand that they married just by emotion and they did the mistake.
Love marriage is not an artificially created, forceful amalgamation wherein you are supposed to love a partner just because your well-wishers say so. Arranged Marriage : Similar to object oriented programming approach. At times the living standard of the in-laws is different and it may become a hindrance to the marriage stability. At least, in a love marriage, you are sure of your partner. Many of the lifestyle choices are dictated by culture and family values. This philosophy tends to put love in the back burner.
So we should take decision carefully. Matrimony ads in newspapers are no good Matrimony provide fodder for ridicule. Usually they do not get on well with each other. Modern Indians who are exposed to diverse cultures through travel and media may wonder why marriages should be based on anything other than love? Divorce rates in countries where marrying for love is more popular are higher compared to the divorce rates in countries where arranged marriages are popular. If a decision is made to have children, you can count on losing a significant portion of your work life unless your husband has decided to stay home and help. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. Marriage is the highest commitment you can give the person you love.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a love marriage?
Having a spouse that has a similar lifestyle or understands why you are doing whatever you may be doing creates a harmonious marriage. Love Marriage: Love Marriage is like Windows , beautiful n seductive. Arranged marriages can offer better lifestyle compatibility Married couples will have an easier time dealing with each other if they actually understood and appreciate lifestyle choices. Suddenly, everything seems beautiful; all the lyrics have meaning and all the people around seem wonderful. In India, marriages are of primarily two types. What if your love marriage does not work out? After all, all marriages are arranged marriages The people we end up married to or partnered up with end up being similar to us in race, religion, class, and age, which means that they might not be all that different from the person that your mother would have picked for you. Arranged marriage is mostly accepted in our society as it lends credit ability, social recognition coming future as unmet expectation are a main cause of conflict in love marriages! The sheer magnanimity of the emotions, the gait to your walk, the spring in your step, the constant smile on your face and the dreams in your eyes all happen because of love.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of marriage?
But that is often impossible to experience with arranged marriage. They feel themselves responsible for any mistake during or immediately after marriage. In an arranged marriage, if you come to know that the person you have married is exactly the opposite of whatever you aspired in your partner, you end up with an unhappy life of compromise or fights whereas in a love marriage, you get married only if you accept your partner and want to live with him throughout your life. Now with the passage of time both modes of marriage are equally popular among people. While finances should not take precedence over love and compassion, it is important to understand what will happen to your budget once you sign the marriage document.
Hence love marriage is emperical and economic as well. It is an independent choice. List of Disadvantages of Arranged Marriages 1. Love marriage is advantageous because in this the couple have time to know and understand each other. When the initial phase wears off and you are still madly in love with each other, many other thoughts crop up in your mind. It does not matter whether you love the person or not, as long as your parents like the person and both families agree to the arrangement.
Love marriage is a legal right for two individuals and nobody can claim the right to get involved, no matter love marriage turns out to be successful or not. People should choose their mode of marr. You enjoy dinner with family start eating dishes that you never tried before marriage. Dating phase is taken out of the equation when you have an arranged marriage. But sometimes couples are forced under parental pressure to do arranged marriage. Due to having freedom of each one, frequently they involve with the quarrel.
Marriage is the kind of relationship that can give contentment and life satisfaction. No need to deal with dating pressures The challenge of finding someone who can fall in love with you and sign up to get married is difficult. Hence love and arranged marriage have their o. Usually they do not get on well with ea. There is freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom of job in a love marriage. You should always keep in mind that marriage is an understanding and it is a happy bond of love that only becomes successful if both life partners are willing do make it successful by taking care of each other. Parents who arrange marriages are fully aware that their children can always refuse a selected partner, in which case they simply look for another suitable partner.


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President Muhammadu Buhari at the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement in Niamey, Niger Republic. IG photo
THE ECOWAS and Friendly Countries Trade Fair will boost regional trade and galvanize entrepreneurship development as envisaged by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, the Convener, Sylvester Ejarkaminor, has said.
Ejarkaminor said this in Lagos on the sidelines of the ECOFAIRS on Thursday, adding that Nigeria would gain a massive inflow of foreign direct investments from the annual event.
He said the fair would also boost the activities of the Small and Medium Enterprises as the exhibition stands were provided at affordable rates to encourage and support small businesses.
He said ECOFAIRS was born out of the desire to create a common business platform for regional entrepreneurs across various sectors and countries.
According to him, no fewer than 32 countries and about 1,000 exhibitors are expected at the event, going by the level of coordination from various countries.
"The fair is in line with the objectives of AfCFTA to drive intra-Africa trade, and we hope they would use this platform to invest in the country," he said.
The Lagos State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives, Dr Lola Akande, reiterated the state government's commitment to providing a business-friendly environment and promote entrepreneurship in the state.
Akande, represented by Mrs Helen Adeshina, said the fair was in accordance with the ECOWAS mandate to promote cooperation and integration in commerce, energy, telecommunications and agriculture.
She said that the Lagos State Government would continue to provide support for entrepreneurs and business owners to mitigate the economic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic through its business-friendly policies.
She urged entrepreneurs and startups to take advantage of opportunities capable of showcasing them internationally.
Akande said, "Lagos, with a population of over 21 million people, remains the commercial, industrial and financial hub of the country and also the gateway to globalisation in ECOWAS. The state is also the hub of regional maritime and aviation activities as well as the nerve centre of the non-oil trade in Nigeria.
"With the advent of AfCFTA, Lagos is positioned to engage commercially with other African nations to boost export and create jobs opportunities in the country. The state government has made available remarkable investment opportunities through the Lekki free zone, which provides the organised private sector access to the exportation of goods and services."
She said the current administration had continued to invest heavily in transport and road infrastructure through the rehabilitation of trailer park and call-up hub in Apapa, network of roads at Lekki and construction work from Epe to Sagamu to enhance commercial development in the state.
"We would continue to build upon the initiatives as a state government towards a business-friendly environment," she added.
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Finally together in one collection are all the main outdoor episodes from the VHS versions of Frisky Summer 2," "Frisky Summer 3" and "Cherries." From "Frisky Summer 2" comes the explosive trio with Ion Davidov, Max Pellion and Dano Sulik; from "Frisky Summer 3" comes the episodes with Erik Kovac and Michal Tarkus; Justin Marino and Gerard Kilian, the four-way with Ion Davidov, Karl Tenner, Erik Kovac and Sergei Grigoriev; and from "Cherries" comes the interwoven double-duo with Vadim Hausman, Oleg Vrosnki, Mirko Polakove and Jeff Markovich.
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Scene Of The Week - April 21, 2019 + POLL
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ARROW, "Lost Canary", April 15, 2019, Actors: Katie Cassidy Rodgers, Katherine McNamara and more, The Scene: E2 Laurel saves Mia
Marko: E2 Laurel appears in the flashforwards to save Mia. Finally we got what many comic book fans wanted for 7 seasons. Laurel Lance as a full-fledged mighty Black Canary. The phenomenal entrance, the admiration in Mia's eyes and the attitude she transferred to the screen. It was a perfect moment and fulfilled E2 Laurel Lance's redemption story. On the other hand, it paid respect to E1 Laurel Lance's dying wish to carry on her legacy with the created Canary Network. Laurel's reputation was dragged through mud multiple times and this is at least something to keep her reputation clean in the Vigilante world.
Samantha: Same and for the exact same reasons. As a Laurel Lance fan this episode made me really happy, even if we had to wait so long into the series for it to happen. E2 Laurel Lance is carrying on the legacy of her E1 counterpart & this is one redemption story I can root for.
DYNASTY, "How Two-Faced Can You Get", April 19, 2019, Actors: Elizabeth Gillies, Maddison Brown, The Scene: Fallon gives Kirby her blessing to be with Culhane
Samantha: Once Fallon saw the photo Monica sent the show could've gone down the really predictable route of Fallon going at Kirby all guns blazing. Fallon acknowledging she had a right to be angry at the betrayal but shockingly wasn't showed a lot of growth for her, as did explaining to Kirby she was more angry that she hadn't had the courage to tell her the truth and Kirby accepting that. These two have come a long way since Kirby's introduction to the show and I really love their friendship. Kirby telling Fallon she wanted to go on the book tour because she was responsible for making the deal happen & Fallon accepting that without any complaints just sealed the deal on a really lovely scene.
FOR THE PEOPLE, "The Boxer", April 18, 2019, Actors: Jasmin Savoy Brown, Britt Robertson
The Scene: Allison comforts Sandra
Mads: I missed these two! They've barely had any scenes together this season and I'm glad they finally had a really nice moment with Allison being there for Sandra after the difficult decision she had to make pertaining to her client. "I love you, Sandy." They're so sweet.
GAME OF THRONES, "Winterfell", April 14, 2019, Actors: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Isaac Hempstead Wright, John Bradley, Emilia Clarke and more, The Scenes: Jaime arrives at Winterfell & Sam learns of his father and brother's deaths
Justyna: There's a number of scenes I would like to highlight from the hour. I could not decide, until the very last moment, which one to include in the article. There are these two incredibly powerful exchanges where John Bradley and the rest of the cast shine in their performances, showing their characters' vulnerabilities and internal conflicts. First, when Sam meets Dany and a thank you turns into the most unexpected and painful confession. And then there's the long-awaited moment when Jon finally learns the truth about his parents. As much as I would love to continue to write about these, the actual first thing that came to mind when I was deciding on the best scene to highlight from the episode was actually its ending. There's no dialogue in the moment, the viewers are following a man who arrives at Winterfell and is slowly revealed to be Jaime Lannister. More than that, the first person who notices his presence is Bran Stark. Bran's expression is impossible to read but Jaime's clearly shaken by this meeting. It's clear that Bran's the last person he would want to encounter. I love that we've been seeing Bran waiting throughout the episode and he's been mostly dismissed by everyone, due to his abilities and behavior, but he still lets the viewers know early on that he's "waiting for an old friend". And yet it doesn't truly hit you until that last scene. Loved how obvious and still surprising this turned out to be. Also, there's something powerful about the fact that final season premiere ends with these two, knowing that their last meeting was the ending of the series premiere as well. A wonderful full-circle reference. Kudos to cast & crew for this memorable hour!
Laura B: Dany, Jorah and Sam have an exchange. John Bradley really did an excellent job when a pleasant conversation about helping Jorah with his greyscale and Sam asking for pardon for taking some books immediately goes south, when it's revealed that Dany burned Sam's father and brother alive. It's really to Sam's credit to see that he still feels bad, even for a man who didn't treat him right. Moreover it was this exchange that leads Sam to finally tell Jon the truth about who he really is, which was also a wonderful scene! I just worry now that Sam will lose his integrity by not showing Dany the same compassion he was willing to show for his father.
GOTHAM, "They Did What?", April 18, 2019, Actors: Robin Lord Taylor, Erin Richards, Cory Michael Smith and more, The Scenes: Ed and Oswald embrace each other & Barbara names the baby
Marko: Ed and Oswald embrace each other. Nygma and Oswald went through so many ups and downs during their 5 season run. They grew into formidable and psychotic villains. Them completely embracing their destiny and trying to almost kill each other showed how far they have come and how much they respect each other.
Klutzy girl: Barbara names her and Jim's daughter after herself and Lee (who helped during the entire pregnancy and assisted in the delivery), thus giving rise to Barbara Gordon. I loved this moment so much and it also doesn't surprise me that Barbara passed her own name on.
IN THE DARK, "The Big Break", April 28, 2019, Actors: Perry Mattfeld, Calle Walton
The Scene: Murphy talks with Chloe about menstruation
Marko: It is unbelievable how much heart this show has and how much story it tells with simple scenes with poignant writing. The connection between these two blind girls is just heartwarming and exploits a different side of Murphy's character.
LINE OF DUTY, "Episode 3", April 14, 2019, Actors: Stephen Graham, Tony Pitts and more, The Scene: The identity reveal
Milo: H's identity revealed? This was a frantic, tense sequence that was among the show's best. Corbett snapped and shot at the masked man after his raid on the Eastfield depot backfired - Hargreaves - unintentionally killing him. It seemed this was the straw that broke the camel's back and now Corbett is rogue and infinitely more dangerous than ever before. The show kept us in the dark and on the edge from the word go, and I cannot wait to see where it goes from here. As a bonus, there are still enough questions behind the identity of H - as ever, on Line of Duty, that we have lingering in the back of our mind. Was Hargreaves truly H? Or could it be, as the show seems intent on pushing so hard, our beloved Hastings?
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, "Creep", April 16, 2019, Actors: Michael Vlamis, Tyler Blackburn and more, The Scene: Prison evacuation sequence
Jennise: That was a packed couple of minutes of screen time for Michael. Michael, who's been searching for his roots or a way home his entire life, is desperate to save the family he's finally found. Alex, desperate to get Michael to leave the building, finally admits how he feels about Michael. On the heels of that revelation Michael discovers that the woman he has an unexplained connection with is his mother. In that moment she knows her child survived and didn't spend the last 70 years being tortured and Michael knows that someone loved him. And a few moments later she, and the other captives are incinerated. It was a great scene that provided the emotional set up for the final scene of the episode.
Mads: Michael sees his mother. Ugh, what a heartbreaking episode! Michael finally finds his mother locked up in an alien experimentation lab and then is forced to watch her die when the entire facility explodes and he is helpless to save her. Michael Vlamis was amazing in this scene.
SEAL TEAM, "Payback", April 17, 2019, Actors: Toni Trucks, Max Thieriot, The Scene: Davis visits Clay in the hospital
Jennise: There were three scenes I wanted to nominate, but I picked this one because it caught me off guard. Davis hit a hurdle (passing out while leading her team into a burning building) that she couldn't clear to give herself a bit of space to think she gets permission to visit Clay in the hospital. When Clay asks her about OCS she tries to turn the conversation back toward him, but he shuts her down. She has no choice but to talk about what's bothering her. When she admits to thinking about walking away from her dream Clay isn't particularly kind. Understandable, she's thinking about giving up on her dream when he's trying to deal with having his dream taken from him. Clay tries to soften his words by pointing out that the navy can't afford to lose her and to "get yourself right". It was a much harsher "pep talk" than I expected, but, I believe, what was needed. It was a nice moment.
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, "Such Sweet Sorrow", April 18, 2019, Actors: Sonequa Martin-Green, Ethan Peck, The Scene: Burnham says goodbye to Spock
Milo: In a finale full of awesome moments (this is one of those times that I really wanted just to put the entire episode down here) that ranks up there with one of the best single episodes that the entire franchise has ever done, which is saying something - Star Trek Discovery doubled down on its emotional stakes with a farewell to Spock from Burnham. We all knew that Spock couldn't join Burnham on Discovery's voyage to the future yet to see them say goodbye in person after everything that Season 2 has achieved in showing between their relationship made it all the more rewarding for a brilliant payoff, especially with everything that followed as we learnt what happened to Spock, Number One & Pike in the aftermath. I hope Discovery sets up an Enterprise-centric spinoff, as it's absolutely what's needed.
SUPERNATURAL, "Jack in the Box", April 18, 2019, Actor: Jensen Ackles
The Scene: Dean breaks down in the woods
Klutzy girl: Dean breaks down in the woods following Mary's death. This was an amazing bit of acting by Jensen Ackles (who discussed how hard it was to film at a con weeks ago) and so painful. He's putting on a brave face and clinging to his anger to deal with his mom's death but Dean's grief is clearly overwhelming and it hurts to see him like this.
THE FLASH, "Godspeed", April 16, 2019, Actors: Grant Gustin, Jessica Parker Kennedy, The Scene: Barry tells Nora he doesn't trust her
Justyna: This one is quite painful to watch. Especially when you can understand both sides of the story. Learning about Nora's past gives the viewers a better understanding of her actions and motives. It's clear that she never meant any harm and she truly wanted to meet her father and help him solve that one mystery that he never could. But after following Barry's story for the last few years it's hard not to see how much the truth hurt him. Nora's betrayal is a terrible reminder of all the losses he's suffered. Eobard Thawne detroyed his life. He murdered Barry's mother and allowed the whole world to believe that Barry's father was the one responsible for her death. Barry lost them both, his entire family and now he learns that despite knowing that Nora continued to ask for Thawne's support, even when she had everyone else by her side. Her choice leaves Barry absolutely heartbroken and unable to trust her judgment. He acts on his emotions and returns her to her time. Her reaction at the end says it all. First it's Barry that almost breaks down as he asks her "how many times..." and finally it's Nora who ends up all alone, feeling truly abandoned and broken. I'm sure that's not how the story ends, especially considering the fact that Barry made the decision on his own, not allowing anyone to say goodbye. I feel for both of the characters here. Such wonderful performances by Jessica Parker Kennedy and Grant Gustin.
Naomi: After Nora is allowed to tell the team some of the truth she has been hiding, Barry asks to speak with her alone. He shares with her that he understands her asking for Thawne's help to travel back in time to meet him, but he cannot understand why she continued to have a relationship with him in secret even after she found out that he killed her grandmother. Barry tells Nora that he doesn't trust her and that she can no longer stay in the past with them. He wooshes her back to the future, telling her that if she tries to travel back in time he'll feel it. Barry leaves Nora standing alone with a very unfeeling goodbye. This was a good scene filled with emotion by Jessica Parker Kennedy and Grant Gustin. It showed Nora's fear of the truth and abandonment as well as Barry's disappointment and sadness at his daughter's betrayal.
THE MAGICIANS, "The Seam", April 17, 2019, Actors: Jason Ralph and more, The Scene: Quentin sacrifices himself to save his friends
Milo: In a very big game-changer for the series that means nothing will ever be the same, the series took its time to send off Quentin in a pitch-perfect way, sacrificing himself to save his friends. Everything worked perfectly in the build-up to his death, which was ever so devastating, especially when coupled with one more musical number. I don't think I'll hear Take On Me the same way again, and chances are high that there won't be a more emotional death this year on television.
THE RESIDENT, "If Not Now, When?", April 15, 2019, Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Manish Dayal, John Billingsley and more, The Scenes: The ending & Devon confronts Dr. Stewart about his racial bias
Justyna: Lea's story in this week's episode was heartbreaking to follow. Unfortunately you knew what to expect and no matter how hopeful you'd try to be Lea still died, despite the fact it would be so easy to save her if she was only given more attention from the hospital staff. A never event, a mistake that should never happen. Racial bias (unconscious or not) in a place meant to save anyone and everyone. It was good to see this particular hospital learning from this terrible event, working on ways to improve but that entire ending proves that there's so much more to be done to prevent these deaths from ever happening again. Bell's speech is memorable, but it's the part where a father has to take his baby home alone, with tears in his eyes that hits so much harder. And then there's the footage that I did not see coming. A real life story about a woman named Kira Dixon Johnson, one of the inspiration for the episode. This short tribute was meaningful, powerful and absolutely heartbreaking. If there's even a smallest chance that an episode like this one can make a difference in the world I'm most grateful for telling this story. Kudos to cast & crew for all their work.
Mads: Devon confronts Dr. Stewart about his racial bias. Another heartbreaking scene but this was an incredible and vital episode. The death rates of mothers in hospitals, particularly black mothers, is unacceptable. Racial bias is highly prevalent in our society and it's horrible that even our healthcare system partakes in it. I'm glad The Resident decided to call attention to how hospitals need to do better in this regard because it is a serious issue.


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Ludwig by Peter Hoover
Published April 21, 2011 | By womenofchristianity
(From the book Behold the Lamb: The Story of the Moravian Church by Peter Hoover)
For days the Neissers and young Michael Jäschke followed Christian David through the wilderness. Danger still surrounded them. Silesia, through which they had to pass, was also Roman Catholic. But weary, faint, and excited, they eventually arrived on the young landowner's estate at Berthelsdorf in Germany.
The sight that met their eyes left them speechless. The young landowner, Ludwig von Zinzendorf, was not home. The man who came to show them where to settle took them to a low-lying wilderness behind the village. Parts of the land stood in water. Dense brush and brambles covered the rest.
Martha Neisser sat down. "Where in this wilderness shall we find bread?" was all she could think to ask.
But even before she asked, the Lord had prepared bread for them—and more.
The landowner's grandmother, the baroness Henriette Katherina von Gersdorf, sent them a cow. With great vigour, Christian David and the brothers from Moravia set to work felling trees, building shelters, and clearing land so the women could plant grain and vegetables.
Then Ludwig came.
Just turned twenty-two, Nicholas Ludwig, the young count of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf could not have grown up in a setting more unlike that of the Moravian settlers on his land. Used to nothing but fine food and clothes, he lived in the manor house with his grandmother until she sent him to a "Pietist" boarding school in the German city of Halle.
As long as he could remember, Ludwig had known serious-minded Pietist brothers. At his grandmother's invitation (his father had died and his mother married a Prussian general when he was four) they had conducted prayer meetings in her manor house at Grosz Hennersdorf (not far from Berthelsdorf). From them he first heard Johann Arndt's simple lessons in godliness. He learned to sing with them the great Lutheran hymns, and above all he learned to pray.
As a very young child, Ludwig prayed earnestly to Christ. He wrote "letters to Jesus" and tossed them out the window of his upper storey room. During the Swedish invasion of 1706 when plundering soldiers burst into the manor house they stopped and turned back at the sight of Ludwig, a six-year-old, on his knees in prayer.
From his Pietist teachers, Ludwig learned to view contemporary Protestantism—to which he, as a German Lutheran, belonged—with deep mistrust. But he also learned not to go the way of the "sectarians." The Pietists held the concept of ecclesiolae in ecclesia (little churches within the Church) as their ideal. They believed that through personal conversions, prayer meetings, and Bible study, they could build the "real church," the mystical, spiritual body of Christ, far above the realm of institutional religion.
All this had appealed to Ludwig, and he "thought like a Pietist" until the school at Halle left him deeply disillusioned. Its teachers, fanatical in their zeal for holiness, harassed the students to no end—while the students, all pious prayers and songs notwithstanding, were a mob of fiends. That is, most of them. A few, like Georg Wilhelm von Söhlenthal, Anton Heinrich Walbaum, Johannes von Jony, and a Swiss boy, Friedrich von Watteville met with Ludwig to read the Bible and pray. They formed a society, the "Order of a Grain of Mustard Seed," and pledged themselves to serve Christ all their lives together.
In spite of his disappointment with the school, Ludwig learned well. By the time he turned sixteen he spoke Latin freely. Then his family transferred him to the University of Wittenberg, and his days under Pietist influence came to an end.
At first Ludwig felt strange in the "worldly" atmosphere of the university—deep in the study of law, with lessons in fencing, riding horses, and dancing. But as time passed, he began to view his strict Pietist childhood more critically. He began to wonder who was the holiest—the "regular" Lutherans at Wittenberg who trusted entirely in grace to save them, or the works-conscious Pietists at Halle, forever at odds one with another on how to be a little more sanctified.
Determined to find the truth of the matter, Ludwig spent an hour every morning and another one, every evening, in prayer. He studied the Bible carefully, from cover to cover, in Latin and now also in Greek. Then the time came for him to finish his studies abroad.
In France, Ludwig witnessed the work of Catholic religious orders among the poor. The thought of remaining celibate to serve Christ appealed to him. But when he met a godly and gracious young woman, Theodore von Castell, in southern Germany, and she returned his attention, he proposed marriage. Everyone, on both sides, gave their consent. Ludwig was happy. But shortly before the wedding, he made a discovery. On his way to see Theodore, his carriage broke down near the estate of one of his best friends, Heinrich von Reuss. Stopping to make the necessary repairs, Ludwig learned that Heinrich had been interested in Theodore, but had given her up for his sake.
Ludwig felt terrible. "I will not take her away from you!" he declared. "Let us go and ask which one of us she prefers."
It did not take long for Heinrich to get ready—nor for Ludwig to discern the truth. When he saw Theodore and Heinrich truly in love, he freely released her from the engagement. And even though it cost him an inner struggle, he served as best man and composed a song for the wedding.
This experience, and a visit to an art museum in the city of Düsseldorf on the Rhine, permanently changed Ludwig's life. Even though he had "believed in Christ" for years, things did not fall into place for him until he stood before a painting showing Christ flogged, mocked, wearing a crown of thorns, and set by Pilate before the people. When Ludwig read the words underneath the picture, "I have done this for you. What have you done for me?" his heart broke. Overwhelmed before the Saviour of the world, he repented of all things human and surrendered his life to him. Far beyond self-righteous Pietism, far beyond Lutheran presumptions of free (or cheap) grace, far beyond anything he had known or felt before, Ludwig felt his soul transported into the presence of Christ. And even though he did not know it yet, out of this experience, his life's vocation was born.
For the time being, it resulted in a German poem:
Bridegroom of the soul, Lamb of God! Prove my motives and discover where they begin. Is my will sincere? Oh so let it be! Let me be crucified to self and sanctified to you. Purify my inner ways. If I go astray on dark paths, shine on me and guide me back! If the cross and sorrow trouble me, give me patience. Set my sights upon the goal. After war, victory and peace will come. The world holds little joy. Its pasture is dry. Only in Zion shall we drink undiluted wine!
Jesus walk before me, on the way of life. I will hurry after you. Take me by the hand, to our Fatherland. Order my steps, Beloved One, as long as I live. If you lead me on rough trails, watch out for me. At the end of the way, open the door into what is yet to come!1
On September 7, 1722, Ludwig married Heinrich von Reuss's sister Erdmuth Dorothea. Three months later, on the way to Berthelsdorf to see a new house being built for them on the family estate, he noticed a strange settlement beside the road. "Who lives here?" he asked.
"The Moravian refugees you gave permission to settle on your land!"
Before his surprised companions knew what was happening, Ludwig halted the carriage, found his way down the muddy trail and entered the first of the low shelters where women in simple peasant dress hastily picked up their babies and men came running to greet him.
Within minutes, all were kneeling on the floor to thank Christ for bringing them together.
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Q: PropelORMPlugin and "object_actions"? I'm porting an older Propel and Symfony application that has this form code:
generator:
  class:              sfPropelGenerator
  param:
    model_class:      UserForm
    theme:            default

    config:
      fields:
        created_at:     { params: date_format='dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm' }
        updated_at:     { params: date_format='dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm' }

      list:
        title:          User Forms
        display:        [=form_name, product_line, created_at, updated_at]
        filters:        [form_name, product_line]
        object_actions:
          edit:         { label: "Edit", action: "loadForm", icon: "/sf/sf_admin/images/edit.png" }
          _delete:      ~
        actions:
          _new:      ~

However, now that I upgraded to PropelORMPlugin, I no longer see the "edit" button, i.e. the "object_actions" does not seem to work.
This is the only documentation I managed to find https://github.com/propelorm/sfPropelORMPlugin/blob/master/doc/admin_generator.md
Whats the correct way to have "object_actions" in newer version?
Edit: I'm porting from Symfony 1.0 to 1.3, from Propel (I never looked really) to sfPropelORMPlugin.

A: From the documentation:
object_actions:
  moveUp:     { label: "move up", action: "moveUp" }
  moveDown:   { label: "move down", action: "moveDown" }
  _edit:      ~
  _delete:    ~

You should try something like that:
object_actions:
  edit:         { label: "Edit", action: "loadForm", icon: "/sf/sf_admin/images/edit.png" }
  _delete:      -

By the way, you should precise from wich version you are porting (both propel and symfony).
edit:
They are some difference in the generator.yml file structure between sf 1.0 & sf 1.3+. There is now a level config to put everything. Try with this generator.yml:
generator:
  class: sfPropelGenerator
  param:
    model_class:           UserForm
    theme:                 admin

    config:
      fields:
        created_at:     { params: date_format='dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm' }
        updated_at:     { params: date_format='dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm' }
      list:
        title:          User Forms
        display:        [=form_name, product_line, created_at, updated_at]
        object_actions:
          edit: { label: "Edit", action: "loadForm", icon: "/sf/sf_admin/images/edit.png" }
          _delete: ~
        actions:
          _new: ~
      filters:
        fields: [form_name, product_line]

Few changes to notice:

*

*the config: level I've added

*the _create: become _new:

*filters goes outside list

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Chandler's fab Hollywood screed: relevant as ever
by Maud | July 27th, 2011
My contribution to the "Why's This So Good?" series — a collaboration between Longreads, Alexis Madrigal, and Nieman Storyboard's Andrea Pitzer designed to explore "what makes classic narrative nonfiction stories worth reading" — is about Raymond Chandler's 1945 "Writers in Hollywood," a scathing attack on the motion picture industry.
Chandler "brought to bear on his subject all the fury and surprising insights of the novelist who wrote 'The Big Sleep,' the gimlet-eyed practicality of the storyteller whose first publications were for pulp magazines, and the staggering self-absorption of the depressive alcoholic." And the critique isn't just a dusty object of curiosity from the vaults; it's relevant now.
In the heyday of the Hollywood novelist-screenwriter, a slew of literary talents – Chandler, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and Aldous Huxley, to name just a few – did time writing film scripts because they were easy money. Now, in the new narrative TV landscape, it's cable companies that are signing novelists and memoirists in droves. Jonathan Ames, Jennifer Egan, Sam Lipsyte, Sloane Crosley, Salman Rushdie, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are just a few recent hires. Given that fiction writers like Richard Price and George Pelacanos helped shape "The Wire," arguably the most interesting story of our time, the focus on novelists makes a certain amount of sense. But how much creative control will they have? And will cable TV, too, eventually become too rigid to allow innovation?
You can read the rest, along with prior installments from Alexis Madrigal, Radhika Jones, Carl Zimmer, and Chris Jones, over at the Nieman Storyboard site.
Previously: Ten novels and short stories that would make good movies (at IFC) and notes following The Wire season 5 premiere.


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The Norwegian language is a North Germanic language, stemming from the Indo-European language. It shares a common history with the Swedish and Danish languages. These three languages together have very similar grammatical systems, as well as vocabulary. This means that if you know one of these languages, then it will be relatively easy to learn the others, or at least get by in their respective countries should you visit them.
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The Lost Properties of Love by Sophie Ratcliffe
Everything was in its place.
Particulars moved
along designated rails.
Even the arranged meeting
occurred. […]
In paradise lost
of probability.
From "Railway station" by Wisława Szymborska
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
From "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
This is not your average memoir. For one thing, it ends with 34 pages of notes and bibliography. Sophie Ratcliffe is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, and it's clear that her life and the narrative have been indelibly shaped by literature. In this work of creative nonfiction she is particularly interested in the lives and works of Leo Tolstoy and Anthony Trollope and the women they loved. For another, the book is based around train journeys – real and fictional, remembered and imagined. Trains are appropriate symbols for many of the book's dichotomies: scheduling versus unpredictability, having or lacking a direction in life, monotony versus momentous events, and fleeting versus lasting connections.
Each chapter, marked with a location and a year, functions as a mini-essay; as the nonchronological pieces accrete you develop a sense of what have been the most important elements of Ratcliffe's life. One was her father's death from cancer when she was 13, an early loss that inevitably affected the years that followed. Another was a love affair with a married photographer 30 years her senior. A number of chapters are addressed directly to this ex-lover in the second person. Although they've had no contact since she got married, she still thinks about him – and wonders if she'll have a right to mourn him when he dies.
Could she have been his muse, as Kate Field was for Trollope? Field appeared in fictional guises in much of his work and thereby inspired Anna Karenina, for Tolstoy was a devoted reader of Trollope and gave his heroine a penchant for reading English novels, too. Ratcliffe seems to see herself in Anna, a wife and mother who longs for a life of her own: she writes of her love for her two children but also of the boredom that comes with motherhood's minutiae.
Much of life's daily tedium is bound up in physical objects, like the random objects that litter the cover. "I am a lover of small things – and of clutter," Ratcliffe confesses. She notes that generations of literary critics have asked what was in the red handbag Anna Karenina left behind, too. What does such lost property say about its owner? What can be saved from a life in which loss is so prevalent? These are questions the book explores through its metaphors, stories and memories. It ends with the hope that writing things down gives them meaning.
If you enjoy nonstandard memoirs (like Jean Hannah Edelstein's This Really Isn't About You) and books about how what we read makes us who we are (such as Samantha Ellis's How to Be a Heroine and Lucy Mangan's Bookworm), you have a real treat in store here.
"Life is in the between-ness, the space in the margins – not in the headlines."
"Books, like trains, are another way of tricking time, of moving to a different beat, a different space."
"Has my reading been a way of keeping me company – of helping me through the worlds of nearlys and barelys and the feelings of missing, and the hopeless messiness?"
"Writing is better than nothing. Better than thin air."
With thanks to William Collins for the free copy for review.
I first heard of the author when she was a Wellcome Book Prize judge in 2018. I was delighted to be invited to take part in the blog tour for The Lost Properties of Love. Below are details of where other reviews and features have appeared or will be appearing soon.
bereavement memoirs
Jean Hannah Edelstein
Kate Field
Samantha Ellis
Three Review Books: Brian Kimberling, Jessica Pan & Francesca Segal
Three May–June releases: A fish-out-of-water comic novel about teaching English in Prague; and memoirs about acting like an extrovert and giving birth to premature twins.
Goulash by Brian Kimberling
"Look where we are. East meets West. Communism meets capitalism." In 1998 Elliott Black leaves Indiana behind for a couple of years to teach English in Prague. The opening sequence, in which he discovers that his stolen shoes have been incorporated into an art installation, is an appropriate introduction to a country where bizarre things happen. Elliott doesn't work for a traditional language school; his students are more likely to be people he meets in the pub or tobacco company executives. Their quirky, deadpan conversations are the highlight of the book.
Elliott starts dating a fellow teacher from England, Amanda (she "looked like azaleas in May and she spoke like the BBC World Service"), who also works as a translator. They live together in an apartment they call Graceland. Much of this short novel is about their low-key, slightly odd adventures, together and separately, while the epilogue sees Elliott looking back at their relationship from many years later.
I was tickled by a number of the turns of phrase, but didn't feel particularly engaged with the plot, which was inspired by Kimberling's own experiences living in Prague.
With thanks to Tinder Press for a proof copy to review.
Favorite passages:
"Sorrowful stories like airborne diseases made their way through the windows and under the doorframe, bubbled up like the bathtub drain. It was possible to fill Graceland with light and color and music and the smell of good food, and yet the flat was like a patient with some untreatable condition, and we got tired of palliative care."
"'It's good to be out of Prague,' he said. 'Every inch drenched in blood and steeped in alchemy, with a whiff of Soviet body odor.' 'You should write for Lonely Planet,' I said."
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan
Like Jessica Pan, I'm a shy introvert (a "shintrovert") as well as an American in the UK, so I was intrigued to see the strategies she employed and the experiences she sought out during a year of behaving like an extrovert. She forced herself to talk to strangers on the tube, give a talk at London's Union Chapel as part of the Moth, use friendship apps to make new girlfriends, do stand-up comedy and improv, go to networking events, take a holiday to an unknown destination, eat magic mushrooms, and host a big Thanksgiving shindig.
Like Help Me!, which is a fairly similar year challenge book, it's funny, conversational and compulsive reading that was perfect for me to be picking up and reading in chunks while I was traveling. Although I don't think I'd copy any of Pan's experiments – there's definitely a cathartic element to reading this; if you're also an introvert, you'll feel nothing but relief that she's done these things so you don't have to – I can at least emulate her in initiating deeper conversations with friends and pushing myself to attend literary and networking events instead of just staying at home.
With thanks to Doubleday UK for a proof copy to review.
Mother Ship by Francesca Segal
I'm a big fan of Segal's novels, especially The Innocents, one of the loveliest debut novels of the last decade, so I was delighted to hear she was coming out with a health-themed memoir about giving birth to premature twins. Mother Ship is a visceral diary of the first eight weeks in the lives of her daughters, who were born by Caesarean section at 29 weeks in October 2015 and spent the next two months in the NICU, "an extremely well-funded prison or perhaps more accurately a high-tech zoo."
Segal strives to come to terms with this unnatural start to motherhood. "Taking my unready daughters from within me felt not like a birth but an evisceration," she writes; "my children do not appear to require mothering. Instead they need sophisticated medical intervention." She describes with tender precision the feeling of being torn: between the second novel she'd been in the middle of writing and the all-consuming nature of early parenthood; and between her two girls (known for much of the book as "A-lette" and "B-lette"), who are at one point separated in different hospitals.
Spotted at Philadelphia airport.
As well as portraying her own state of mind, Segal crafts twinkly pen portraits of the others she encountered in the NICU, including the staff but especially her fellow preemie mums, who met in a "milking shed" where they pumped breast milk for the babies they were so afraid of losing that they resisted naming. (Though it was touch and go for a while, A-lette and B-lette finally earned the names Raffaella and Celeste and came home safely.) Female friendship is a subsidiary theme in this exploration of desperate love and helplessness. The layman's look at the inside workings of medicine would have made this one of my current few favorites for next year's Wellcome Book Prize (which, alas, is on hiatus). After encountering some unpleasant negativity about the NHS in a recent read, I was relieved to find that Segal's outlook is pure gratitude.
With thanks to Chatto & Windus for the free copy for review.
Would you be interested in reading one or more of these?
Brian Kimberling
Francesca Segal
Jessica Pan
Marianne Power
Tinder Press
Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story by Leah Hazard
"For fans of Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt and Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness," the blurb on my press release for Leah Hazard's memoir opens. The publisher's comparisons couldn't be more perfect: Hard Pushed has the gynecological detail and edgy sense of humor of Kay's book ("Another night, another vagina" is its first line, and the author has been known to introduce herself with "Midwife Hazard, at your cervix!"), and matches Watson's with its empathetic picture of patients' plights and medical professionals' burnout.
Hazard alternates between anonymized case studies of patients she has treated and general thoughts on her chosen career (e.g. "Notes on Triage" and "Notes on Being from Somewhere Else"). Although all of the patients in her book are fictional composites, their circumstances are rendered so vividly that you quickly forget these particular characters never existed. Visceral details of sights, smells and feelings put you right there in the delivery room with Eleanor, one-half of a lesbian couple welcoming a child thanks to the now-everyday wonder of IVF; Hawa, a Somali woman whose pregnancy is complicated by the genital mutilation she underwent as a child; and Pei Hsuan, a Chinese teenager who was trafficked into sex work in Britain.
Sometimes we don't learn the endings to these stories. Will 15-year-old Crystal have a healthy baby after she starts leaking fluid at 23 weeks? What will happen next for Pei Hsuan after her case is passed on to refugee services? Hazard deliberately leaves things uncertain to reflect the partial knowledge a hospital midwife often has of her patients: they're taken off to surgery or discharged, and when they eventually come back to deliver someone else may be on duty. All she can do is to help each woman the best she can in the moment.
A number of these cases allow the author to comment on the range of modern opinions about pregnancy and childrearing, including some controversies. A pushy new grandmother tries to pressure her daughter into breastfeeding; a woman struggles with her mental health while on maternity leave; a rape victim is too far along to have a termination. At the other end of the spectrum, we meet a hippie couple in a birthing pool who prefer to speak of "surges" rather than contractions. Hazard rightly contends that it's not her place to cast judgment on any of her patients' decisions; her job is simply to deal with the situation at hand.
I especially liked reading about the habits that keep the author going through long overnight shifts, such as breaking the time up into 15-minute increments, each with its own assigned task. The excerpts from her official notes – in italics and full of shorthand and jargon – are a neat window into the science and reality of a midwife's work, with a glossary at the end of the book ensuring that nothing is too technical for laypeople.
Hazard, an American, lives in Scotland and has a Glaswegian husband and two daughters. Her experience of being an NHS midwife has not always been ideal; there were even moments when she was ready to quit. Like Kay and Watson, she has found that the medical field can be unforgiving what with low pay, little recognition and hardly any time to wolf down your dinner during a break, let alone reflect on the life-and-death situations you've been a part of. Yet its rewards outweigh the downsides.
Hard Pushed has none of the sentimentality of Call the Midwife – a relief since I'm not one to gush over babies. Still, it's a heartfelt read as well as a vivid and pacey one, and it's alternately funny and sobering. If you like books that follow doctors and nurses down hospital hallways, you'll love it. This was one of my most anticipated books of the first half of the year, and it lived up to my expectations. It's also one of my top contenders for the 2020 Wellcome Book Prize so far.
A few favorite passages:
"So many things in midwifery are 'wee' [in Scotland, at least!] – a wee cut, a wee tear, a wee bleed, the latter used to describe anything from a trickle to a torrent. Euphemisms are one of our many small mercies: we learn early on to downplay and dissemble. The brutality of birth is often self-evident; there is little need to elaborate."
"Whenever I dress a wound in this way, I remember that this is an act of loving validation; every wound tells a story, and every dressing is an acknowledgement of that story – the midwife's way of saying, I hear you, and I believe you."
"midwives do so much more than catch babies. We devise and implement plans of care; we connect, console, empathise and cheerlead; we prescribe; we do minor surgery. … We may never have met you until the day we ride into battle for you and your baby; … you may not even recognise the cavalry that's been at your back until the drapes are down and the blood has dried beneath your feet."
Hard Pushed was published in the UK on May 2nd (just a few days before International Midwives' Day) by Hutchinson. My thanks to the publisher for the free proof copy for review.
Christie Watson
Leah Hazard
The Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Awards Ceremony
The winner of the 10th anniversary Wellcome Book Prize is Murmur, Will Eaves's experimental novel about Alan Turing's state of mind and body after being subjected to chemical castration for homosexuality. It is the third novel to win the Prize. Although it fell in the middle of the pack in our shadow panel voting because of drastically differing opinions, it was a personal favorite for Annabel and myself – though we won't gloat (much) for predicting it as the winner!
Clare, Laura and I were there for the announcement at the Wellcome Collection in London. It was also lovely to meet Chloe Metzger, another book blogger who was on the blog tour, and to see UK book v/blogging legends Eric Karl Anderson and Simon Savidge again.
The judges' chair, novelist Elif Shafak, said, "This prize is very special. It opens up new and vital conversations and creates bridges across disciplines." At a time when we "are pushed into monolithic tribes and artificial categories, these interdisciplinary conversations can take us out of our comfort zones, encouraging cognitive flexibility." She praised the six shortlisted books for their energy and the wide range of styles and subjects. "Each book, each author, from the beginning, has been treated with the utmost respect," she reassured the audience, and the judges approached their task with "an open mind and an open heart," arriving at an "inspiring, thought-provoking, but we believe also accessible, shortlist."
The judges brought each of the five authors present (all but Thomas Page McBee) onto the stage one at a time for recognition. Shafak admired how Sandeep Jauhar weaves together his professional expertise with stories in Heart, and called Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner a "strangely life-affirming and uplifting book about a remarkable woman. … It's about transitions."
Doctor and writer Kevin Fong championed Amateur, his answer to the question "which of these books, if I gave it to someone, would make them better." McBee's Canongate editor received the recognition/flowers on the author's behalf.
Writer and broadcaster Rick Edwards chose Arnold Thomas Fanning's Mind on Fire for its "pressability factor" – the book about which he kept saying to friends and family, "you must read this." It's an "uncomfortably honest" memoir, he remarked, "a vivid and unflinching window, and for me it was revelatory."
Writer, critic and academic Jon Day spoke up for Murmur, "a novel of great power and astonishing achievement," about "what it means to know another person."
Lastly, writer, comedian and presenter Viv Groskop spoke about Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation, which she described as "Jane Eyre meets Prozac Nation." The judges "had a lot of fun" with this novel, she noted; it's "caustic, feminist … original, playful, [and] strangely profound."
But only one book could win the £30,000 10th anniversary prize, and it was one that Shafak predicted will be "a future classic," Murmur. Will Eaves thanked Charles Boyle of CB Editions for taking a chance on his work. He also acknowledged Alan Turing, who, like him, attended King's College, Cambridge. As he read Turing's papers, Eaves reported, he was gripped by the quality of the writing – "there's a voice there." Finally, in a clearly emotional moment, he thanked his mother, who died several years ago and grew up in relative poverty. She was a passionate believer in education, and Eaves encouraged the audience to bear in mind the value of a state education when going to the polls.
Photo by Eric Karl Anderson.
After the announcement we found Sarah Krasnostein, our shadow panel winner, and got a photo and a signature. She gave us the scoop on her work-in-progress, which examines six case studies, three from Australia and three from the USA, of people with extreme religious or superstitious beliefs, such as a widow who believes her husband was abducted by aliens. She's exploring the "cognitive dissonance" that goes on in these situations, she said. Can't wait for the new book!
Laura, Sarah Krasnostein, me pulling weird face, Clare.
I also congratulated Will Eaves, whose book I'd covered for the blog tour, and got a signature. Other 'celebrities' spotted: Suzanne O'Sullivan, Ruth Padel and Robin Robertson. (Also a couple of familiar faces from Twitter that I couldn't place, one of whom I later identified as Katya Taylor.)
I again acquired a Wellcome goody bag: this year's limited-edition David Shrigley tote (I now have two so will pass one on to Annabel, who couldn't be there) with an extra copy of The Trauma Cleaner to give to my sister.
Another great year of Wellcome festivities! Thanks to Midas PR, the Wellcome Book Prize and my shadow panel. Looking forward to next year already – I have a growing list of 2020 hopefuls I've read or intend to read.
See also: Laura's post on the ceremony and the 5×15 event that took place the night before.
Arnold Thomas Fanning
CB Editions
Jon Day
Kevin Fong
Midas PR
Rick Edwards
Ruth Padel
Sandeep Jauhar
Suzanne O'Sullivan
Thomas Page McBee
Viv Groskop
Wellcome Collection
Will Eaves
Wellcome Book Prize 2019: Our Shadow Panel Winner Is…
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
This year there was no clear favourite among the shadow panel. Two of us picked one book as our favourite, two picked another, and a third picked yet another book! However, by each person assigning each book a point value from 1 to 6, we were able to decide based on the one that got the most points in total. (Though there was only 1 point separating our first place from our runner-up!)
Here's what the shadow panel have to say about our pick:
Annabel: "I was glad to have read this book. It was an easy read despite its oft grim subject matter, fascinating and very sympathetic too."
Clare: "The structure of the book reveals the many layers and contradictions of Sandra gradually … even though it's one of the least objective biographies I've read in a very long time, it is also one of the most memorable and fascinating."
Laura: "The Trauma Cleaner is a book it will be difficult to forget in a hurry. … Krasnostein is rightly impressed by Sandra's resilience, and, in telling her story, she makes the right choice, I think, to remain as a largely invisible presence."
Paul: "Pankhurst is one remarkable lady, even after a horrendous childhood and working in the prostitution trade, she has an amazing amount of empathy for all of her clients. … if you want to have a no-holds-barred look at a part of society that almost everyone will be unaware of then this is one to read."
Rebecca: "I guarantee you've never read a biography quite like this one. … It's part journalistic exposé and part 'love letter'; it's part true crime and part ordinary life story. It considers gender, mental health, addiction, trauma and death. It's also simply a terrific read that should draw in lots of people who wouldn't normally pick up nonfiction."
Photo by Annabel Gaskell.
On Wednesday, at an evening ceremony at the Wellcome Collection, we will find out which book the official judges have chosen as the winner of the 10th anniversary prize. I have no idea who it will be!
Who are you rooting for?
Sandra Pankhurst
shadow panel
Wellcome Book Prize Blog Tour: Will Eaves's Murmur
"This is the death of one viewpoint, and its rebirth, like land rising above the waves, or sea foam running off a crowded deck: the odd totality of persons each of whom says 'me'."
When I first tried reading Murmur, I enjoyed the first-person "Part One: Journal," which was originally a stand-alone story (shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2017) but got stuck on "Part Two: Letters and Dreams" and ended up just giving the rest of the book a brief skim. I'm glad that the book's shortlisting prompted me to return to it and give it proper consideration because, although it was a challenge to read, it was well worth it.
Eaves's protagonist, Alec Pryor, sometimes just "the scientist," is clearly a stand-in for Alan Turing, quotes from whom appear as epigraphs heading most chapters. Turing was a code-breaker and early researcher in artificial intelligence at around the time of the Second World War, but was arrested for homosexuality and subjected to chemical castration. Perhaps due to his distress at his fall from grace and the bodily changes that his 'treatment' entailed, he committed suicide at age 41 – although there are theories that it was an accident or an assassination. If you've read about the manner of his death, you'll find eerie hints in Murmur.
Every other week, Alec meets with Dr Anthony Stallbrook, a psychoanalyst who encourages him to record his dreams and feelings. This gives rise to the book's long central section. As is common in dreams, people and settings whirl in and out in unpredictable ways, so we get these kinds of flashes: sneaking out from the boathouse at night with his schoolboy friend, Chris Molyneux, who died young; anti-war protests at Cambridge; having sex with men; going to a fun fair; confrontations with his mother and brother; and so on. Alec and his interlocutors discuss the nature of time, logic, morality, and the threat of war.
There are repeated metaphors of mirrors, gold and machines, and the novel's language is full of riddles and advanced vocabulary (volutes, manumitted, pseudopodium) that sometimes require as much deciphering as Turing's codes. The point of view keeps switching, too, as in the quote I opened with: most of the time the "I" is Alec, but sometimes it's another voice/self observing from the outside, as in Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater. There are also fragments of second- and third-person narration, as well as imagined letters to and from June Wilson, Alec's former Bletchley Park colleague and fiancée. All of these modes of expression are ways of coming to terms with the past and present.
I am usually allergic to any book that could be described as "experimental," but I found Murmur's mosaic of narrative forms an effective and affecting way of reflecting its protagonist's identity crisis. There were certainly moments where I wished this book came with footnotes, or at least an Author's Note that would explain the basics of Turing's situation. (Is Eaves assuming too much about readers' prior knowledge?) For more background I recommend The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing.
To my surprise, given my initial failure to engage with Murmur, it is now my favorite to win the Wellcome Book Prize. For one thing, it's a perfect follow-on from last year's winner, To Be a Machine. ("It is my fate to make machines that think," Alec writes.) For another, it connects the main themes of this year's long- and shortlists: mental health and sexuality. In particular, Alec's fear that in developing breasts he's becoming a sexual hybrid echoes the three books from the longlist that feature trans issues. Almost all of the longlisted books could be said to explore the mutability of identity to some extent, but Murmur is the very best articulation of that. A playful, intricate account of being in a compromised mind and body, it's written in arresting prose. Going purely on literary merit, this is my winner by a mile.
With thanks to Midas PR for the free copy for review.
From Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury. Originally published in the volume After Beethoven.
Will Eaves is an associate professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick and a former arts editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Murmur, his fourth novel, was also shortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize and was the joint winner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize. He has also published poetry and a hybrid memoir.
Opinions on this book vary within our shadow panel; our final votes aren't in yet, so it remains to be seen who we will announce as our winner on the 29th.
Annabel's review
Clare's review
Laura's review
Paul's review
If you are within striking distance of London, please consider coming to the "5×15" shortlist event being held next Tuesday evening the 30th.
I was delighted to be asked to participate in the Wellcome Book Prize blog tour. See below for details of where other reviews have appeared or will be appearing soon.
Mark O'Connell
Republic of Consciousness Prize
Times Literary Supplement
Recent Writing for BookBrowse, Shiny New Books and the TLS
We're back from a pleasant but whirlwind weekend in France. Even just sticking to one corner of Normandy, there was far too much to see and do and not enough good weather to do it all in. Highlights were the Bayeux tapestry, the gorse-covered rocky cliff above a river at Les Roches de Ham, a delicious three-course meal in a restaurant just outside Bayeux, fresh bread and cake from boulangeries, and the enormous Sunday morning open-air market in Caen. (Low point: being sick on the boat on the way back. I hate sailing.) I finished up The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker, read all of A Breath of French Air by H.E. Bates, and started a few more books.
It was good to have a gripping novel to take my mind off the rocking motion of the ferry on the trip out.
Here are excerpts from and links to some of my recent print or online writing for other places. (No surprise that four out of the five are nonfiction and involve medical or bereavement themes!)
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams: A lawyer facing late-stage cancer reflects on the happy life she had despite disability and an inauspicious start, and bids farewell to her family. It was miracle enough to have survived her first few years (blindness, a euthanasia attempt, and fleeing Vietnam by boat), but she eventually graduated from Harvard Law School and joined a Wall Street law firm. The author dubs herself "a somewhat ruthless realist." Early on she vowed she would do nothing desperate or bizarre in her quest for healing, in contravention of what she calls the American "hope industrial complex." Yet she also left room for spirituality to surprise her. The book resembles a set of journal entries or thematic essays, written at various times over her five years with colon cancer. Some stories are told more than once; an editor might have combined or cut some passages to avoid repetitiveness. Still, this posthumous memoir stands as a testament to a remarkable life of overcoming adversity, asking questions, and appreciating beauty wherever it's found. (See also my list of other recommended posthumous cancer memoirs.)
That Time I Loved You: Stories by Carrianne Leung: The residents of a Toronto suburb cope with growing up amid a spate of surprise suicides in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Leung explores different points of view on the same events and changes that take place in a community over several years. Three of the stories are narrated by June, who is 11 years old at the start. Her parents came over from Hong Kong 15 years ago. Other stories fill in a kaleidoscopic view of the neighborhood, showing how lonely the residents are – and how segregated along ethnic lines. Leung returns to June's perspective at the beginning, middle, and end of the book, so we see her growing up and learning how the world works. Hard lessons are in store for her: people are sometimes punished for their differences, and the older generation doesn't have it all figured out. Suburbia gets a bad rap, but it's where so many of us come from, so it's heartening to see a writer taking it seriously here. (See also my article on linked short story collections, for which I enlisted lots of blogger help via book Twitter.)
Shiny New Books
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David Nott: Welsh surgeon David Nott combines advanced technical skills with extreme altruism: for weeks of every year he takes unpaid leave to volunteer with a medical charity like Médecins sans Frontières or Syria Relief in war zones or disaster areas around the world. The kinds of procedures he has performed in Sarajevo, Kabul and Darfur are a world away from his normal work as an NHS consultant in London: amputations, treating injuries caused by homemade bombs, and delivering the babies of young rape victims. His memoir is mostly structured by countries and/or time periods. There are gripping moments – such as completing a difficult amputation by following instructions texted to him by a London colleague – but also some less fascinating chronology. The book is slow to start and took me weeks to get through. However, it shines when Nott recalls particular patients who have stood out for him. All told, his is an amazing and inspiring story.
As if you haven't already heard enough about the Wellcome Book Prize from me (!), I also wrote this article for Shiny about the Prize's history and the range of books that have won or been nominated over the last 10 years, finishing up with some reflections on this year's shortlist.
Somehow I seem to have become a TLS regular. The biography editor periodically contacts me with lists of recent memoirs to be reviewed in 400 words for the "In Brief" section, and I've been doing about one per month this year.
Blood Ties by Ben Crane: Artist Ben Crane has developed a passion for birds of prey, raising hawks and training as a falconer. "I saw that my feelings towards nature, and birds of prey in particular, ran in parallel with my feelings for my son," he writes. Blood Ties accordingly cuts between the story of rehabilitating a pair of rescued sparrowhawks named Girl and Boy and a parallel story about raising his son as a part-time single father. Together these strands emphasize the common concerns that arise when caring for any creature. Crane's descriptive language is memorably sharp. Whatever struggles his Asperger's entails, it seems to heighten his observational skills. Pruning the travel segments would have produced a more focused memoir, but this is a powerful story all the same – of the ties that bind us, both to nature and our own families. (Full review in February 8th issue.)
Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief by Kate Inglis: Inglis, a Nova Scotian photographer and children's author, has written this delicate, playful handbook – something between a bereavement memoir and a self-help guide – for people who feel they might disappear into grief for ever. In 2007, Inglis's identical twin sons were born premature, at twenty-seven weeks. Ben lived but Liam died. Every milestone in Ben's life would serve as a reminder of the brother who should have been growing up alongside him. The unfairness was particularly keen on the day she returned to hospital for two appointments: Ben's check-up and a report on Liam's autopsy. Unable to sustain the eye-popping freshness of the prose in the introduction, Inglis resorts to some clichés in what follows. But this kooky, candid book will be valuable to anyone facing bereavement or supporting a loved one through it. (Full review in March 15th issue.)
Would any of these books interest you?
Ben Crane
cancer memoirs
Carrianne Leung
David Nott
H.E. Bates
Julie Yip-Williams
Karen Thompson Walker
Kate Inglis
linked short stories


The natural habitat of Graptophyllum excelsum is north of Cairns to south of Gladstone but this versatile and hardy plant can grow in Melbourne (or so some gardening books suggest) and is resistant to light frosts.
In my northern Sydney suburban garden, my two plants have grown to about 3m high and 1m wide with multiple stems. I am growing them in a position that receives morning sun and afternoon shade and I try not to let them dry out for any length of time. The attractive leaves are about 3cm x 1cm and are dark shiny green and shaped like a spatula - with a broad tip and tapering to the base.
I find Graptophyllum excelsum to be an attractive foliage plant and outstanding in flower. The flowers are deep scarlet red, tubular, about 3cm long occurring in spring and early summer. This is a good flowering season for me (due to a wet year) and the flowers cover every branch – very attractive. These flowers which are very attractive to birds are followed by club shaped woody seed capsules which contain 2 seeds. The preferred propagation method is by cuttings.
Mature plants can get quite leggy with all the growth at the top, so after flowering, I cut about 1/3 of the stems back quite hard as this promoted new growth down low, making the plant more attractive (well to me anyway).
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla, was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in 1703 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier. He named the new genus after the renowned botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) who was a German physician and one of the three founding fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock (also called Hieronymus Tragus).
Derivation of Name: Graptophyllum...from Greek graptos, written on, and phyllon, a leaf, referring to the markings on the leaf (especially noticeable on G.ilicifolium); excelsum...from Latin excelsus, tall or lofty.


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import org.iotp.infomgt.data.page.TimePageLink;

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Pep Rally
photo by Yearbook Staff
Students watch an October pep rally.
by Clara Appiah, Staff Writer
This year's pep rally was different from most years prior. Usually, Springbrook's Student Government Association plans a pep rally for the first Friday of the school year and another one to promote the fall sports. But this year, Springbrook did not have the pep rally at the beginning of the year, which hypes students up for the new school year. Without that pep rally on Friday, the underclassmen had no energy. Without the pep rally, the underclassmen couldn't see the rest of the school's energy and couldn't get hyped that way.
At the fall pep rally, the seniors came dressed in togas, putting their school spirit on for all to see. Juniors did not keep quiet, battling the seniors for the most school spirit. But the freshmen were silent. When Sandra Ihugoun, the co-president of the Senior Class Council, asked the crowd "Freshmen, is this your house? Whose house is it?" there was dead silence.
Freshmen don't know that to expect at a pep rally, which is why the pep rally at the beginning of the year is necessary. The underclassmen learn what to expect and sense the energy of the classes ahead of them at the first pep rally so they're not too scared or shy to show school spirit. Ihugoun acknowledged in an interview that the school spirit "sucks" this year.
But crowd participation wasn't the only factor preventing a successful pep rally this year. Usually, a DJ plays music on the field to hype up the students. This year, several students, including two involved in the planning process of the rally, alleged that a student was merely holding their iPhone into a microphone in the booth overlooking the field, preventing students from hearing the music well and moving to it. The SGA and Senior Class Council have denied the rumors, but students still see the event as a major failure.
Correction: March 12, 2020
The original version of this article neglected the apostrophe in "year's." All errors have been corrected in the current version of the article.
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