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The Guardian Short Story Podcast Presents ‘A Christmas Tree’ by Charles Dickens
The Guardian Short Stories Podcast presents British actor Simon Callow reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Tree. The short story is a sort of reverie and look back at childhood imaginings inspired by the magical sight of a Christmas tree.
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Horrific Day in America as Connecticut School Children are Killed
It is a tragic day in America when a person has murdered nearly thirty people, eighteen of whom were small children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Unimaginable horror. I just cannot fathom the mind that could do such a thing to children. It is beyond words. I feel bad for the people at that school, in that community and for the entire country.
There is a spreading sickness in America and it is brutalizing our children.
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Animated GIFs From Metropolis
The Unhistorical blog has some nice animated GIFs from Fritz Lang's science fiction masterpiece, Metropolis.
A Country Doctor: Film by Koji Yamamura
Japanese animator Koji Yamamura made this 2007 animated version of Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor. The hallucinatory tale involves a doctor who is apparently deceived into traveling through a winter night to treat a seriously ill young man. Nightmare distortion and time warping comes into play as the film seems almost to place us inside the head of this befuddled doctor who may himself be the diseased party in all of this. Beautiful hand-drawn art and a deep, mysterious soundtrack make this a brilliant Kafka film.
Via Open Culture