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The Clockwork Man (Science Fiction)

Posted by Notcot on Mar 2, 2011 in Steampunk

Ernst’s world is one of endless admirers, including foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Hailed as a marvel of late nineteenth-century automation, he is the crowning achievement of his master, Karl Gruber. A world-famous builder of automated clocks, Gruber has reached the pinnacle of his art in Ernst—a man constructed entirely of clockwork. Educated and raised in the Gruber household to be a gentle, caring soul, Ernst begins to discover a profound love for his master’s daughter, Giselle. Just as their relationship becomes intimate, however, tragedy strikes and the family falls apart. Ernst’s serene and happy existence is shattered and changed forever. Abandoned, knowing no other life but the one he has led, Ernst allows himself to wind down in a kind of suicide. Over one hundred years later, he awakens in a strange new land, the world he’s known long gone. Along with his mentor and guide, a well-meaning if slightly unstable homeless man, Ernst attempts to piece together the events that brought him to his new home—and to let go of the century-old tragedy that still haunts him.

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Eco-nique natural Hemp Brown case cover (flip style) for Amazon Kindle 3 / Global Wireless 6 inch / 15 cm (latest generation) – Tree of Life

Posted by Notcot on Oct 25, 2010 in Handhelds & PDAs

Average Rating: 5.0 / 5 (1 Reviews)

Reconnect with your favourite literature and keep it natural with our hemp e-reader cases.

One hand stretches fingers into the sky as the other burrows down, churning the earth beneath. In the Tree of Life, branches and roots become an interweave in the circle of existence. Life becomes death and from death, life again. The Tree, a living link between the world above and below.

Authentic embroidered patterns flow along the surface of this innovative yet earthy and custom-made case, giving your e-reader a pleasant book-like cover, as well as storage for notes and business cards.
Hearty and sturdy, this case offers superior protection for the delicate screen of your device, with a unique style thats only available from Eco-nique! Professional feel, with a fun home-grown aesthetic.

  • Made from natural hemp & cotton with artificial interior leather pouch
  • Paper and business card pouch
  • Mesh openings for speakers
  • Unique embroidered design
  • Not compatible with Kindle 1 & 2, only compatible with Kindle 3 first released September 2010

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Freaks

Posted by Notcot on May 22, 2010 in Cult Film

Average Rating: 4.5 / 5 (18 Reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the most famous, most shocking and, for much of its existence, most elusive of cult films, Tod Browning’s Freaks remains worthy of its dubious top billing by literary critic Leslie Fiedler as the greatest of all Freak movies. At the centre of the story are two circus midgets, Hans and Frieda (already well known in the 1930s through film and advertising appearances as Harry and Daisy Earles), whose marriage plans are blasted when Hans becomes the target of the aerialist Cleopatra’s plot to marry him then kill him off for his money. During what is certainly one of the most notorious scenes in cult film history, the wedding party of freaks ritually embrace Cleopatra as one of us. Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style. Better known for the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula (1931), Brownings showmanship was equally a product of the circus (he was himself an adolescent contortionist in a travelling show). His meshing of circus and cinema–two dangerous entertainments–produces Freaks‘ uniquely disquieting effect.

Startled and indignant preview audiences forced the producers to add an explanatory foreword to the film but even this crackles with sensationalism as it veers between sideshow-style sympathy and fright warning. None the less, protests and local censorship ensued and the film never reached the mass audience for which it was made. Still, some of the real stars of the midway Ten-in-One shows of the 1920s and 30s (Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese twins, Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso) are showcased here as themselves and it is their undeniably real presence in what is otherwise familiar fictional terrain which is still so provocative. –Helen Stoddart

Freaks

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