10/29 week7

Mine took me here where I belong.

It makes me happy.

Chip and Dale (also rendered as Chip 'n' Dale or Chip an' Dale) are two chipmunk cartoon characters created in 1943, at Walt Disney Productions. Their names are a pun based on the name of the famous 18th-century cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale. This was suggested by Bill "Tex" Henson, a story artist at the studio.

Chip and Dale

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his play of the same name.

 Like the play, the film depicts two minor characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. 

 The movie won the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice International Film Festival.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
DVD cover
Directed by	Tom Stoppard
Produced by	Emanuel Azenberg Michael Brandman
Written by	Tom Stoppard
Based on	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Starring	Gary Oldman Tim Roth Richard Dreyfuss
Music by	Stanley Myers
Cinematography	Peter Biziou
Edited by	Nicolas Gaster
Production company	Brandenberg WNET Channel 13 New York
Distributed by	Cinecom Pictures (US) Hobo Film Enterprises(UK)
Release dates	·         5 September 1990(Venice) ·         12 September 1990(Toronto) ·         8 February 1991(United States) ·         24 May 1991(United Kingdom)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Box office	$739,104

Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative propriety. 

Her character is treated favourably by the book's narrator, Ashenden, who understands that she was a muse to the many artists who surrounded her and who himself enjoyed her sexual favours.

Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard
Cover of the first UK edition
Author	W. Somerset Maugham
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	William Heinemann Ltd. (UK); Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. (US)
Publication date	1930
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	308

Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with ginger in one of two ways. The golden style is closer to the ginger beer original, and is credited to the American doctor Thomas Cantrell. The dry style (also called the pale style) is a paler drink with a much milder ginger flavour, and was created by Canadian John McLaughlin.

A glass of Vernors ginger ale

The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Nancy Meyers, distributed by Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, filmed in both California and England, and starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the holiday season. 

The Holiday

Cameron Diaz

Golden rule:

1.     observe

2.     record

3.     annoy

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's partner, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.

Orlando: A Biography
1st edition cover
Author	Virginia Woolf
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Hogarth Press
Publication date	11 October 1928
Pages	134
ISBN	978-0-15-670160-0
OCLC	297407

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. It was his third published novel, after The Collector (1963) and The Magus (1965). The novel explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist, Charles Smithson, and the former governess and independent woman, Sarah Woodruff, with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on Fowles' authority in Victorian literature, both following and critiquing many of the conventions of period novels.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events that will occur in the future. Both flashback and flashforward are used to cohere a story, develop a character, or add structure to the narrative. In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started.

A preservative is a substance that is added to products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, biological samples, wood, beverages etc. to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes. 

In general preservation is implemented in two modes, chemical and physical. Chemical preservation entails adding chemical compounds to the product. Physical preservation entails refrigeration and drying.

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The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England, United Kingdom at the turn of the nineteenth century. 

They are considered part of the Romantic Movement.

The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey.

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work.

A hand-written manuscript of the poem (1802). British Library Add. MS 47864

glee(n.) \ˈglē\

exultant high-spirited joy

He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.

gay(adj.) \ˈgā\

1.   sexually attracted to someone who is the same sex

2.  of, relating to, or used by homosexuals

lesbian(adj.) \ˈlez-bē-ən\

 of or relating to Lesbos

Sappho (/ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔ̌ː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω, Psappho [psápːʰɔː]) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. She was born sometime between 630 and 612 BCE, and it is said that she died around 570 BCE, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments. 

Bust inscribed, literally Sappho Eresia, meaning Sappho of Eresos.
Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BCE.

The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or fells) and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.

The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures.

 Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society, or utopia, as the setting for a novel.

 Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia.