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These pleasure quarters provide the setting for Chikamatsu's bunraku tragedy, The Love Suicides at Amijima.
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This will prove very beneficial to Moliere.
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Moliere tries to convince to think for ourselves so that we don't get taken for a ride by some hustler. Oh, and be sure to thank your gracious king!
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Basho, haiku master, took a five month long journey in 1689 that resulted in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a sort-of travelogue through nature and language itself.
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Bringing culture and folklore, like the Anansi story, with them.
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Some puppets look for love in all the wrong places.
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Queeriarty on tumblr said it best when he wrote, "Jonathan Swift man. He was just 100000000% done with society so he wrote a sarcastic ass work about the Irish selling their babies for food and everyone took him seriously and thought he was weird and like how do you even deal with that kind of level of omfg I was just kidding poor guy"
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Voltaire takes shots at pretty much everyone in this tale of one simple man's quest to be with his one true love and carve out a life in "the best of all possible worlds."
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I'd post a link to a three-hour recording of the opera, but I'm trying to get a good grade.
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In which heads rolled.
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William Blake really wants to know how the hell you make a tyger and what sort of dreadful being would even make something like that.
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Coleridge lets his infant son know what it's all about while the fire fades.
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God and Mephistopheles invent MTV's Punk'd before MTV and Faust learns the hard way not to take in stray animals.
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WAY BEFORE WE DO.
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And it's really long.
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This creepy as all get-out Irish folk story about a hideous imp baby is probably the best argument against Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal. It was recorded in a collection of Irish folklore by Thomas Croker in 1825.
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Melville preferred not to publish this brilliant story of non-compliance under his own name. He still had a sour taste in his mouth from all the hate shoveled onto his previous work.
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No, COMMODORE Matthew Perry. He was spent by President Filmore to basically force the Japanese to industrialize and start trading with us.
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Because the world really needed it.
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"None of your stupid bull%#@$ matters because you're just going to die, idiot."
- Leo Tolstoy
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Joseph Jacob printed this English version of the Rumplestiltskin story in his English Folk Tales collection in 1890.
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Just because you're not piking heads in front of your house doesn't mean you don't have a bit of that darkness in you.
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Walter Jekyll published a written version of the Jaimaican telling of this folk story from Africa about a manipulate jerk spider.
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Where Ernest Hemingway saw too much.
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"Tonight I Can Write" Here's a reading of Neruda's ode to getting over someone creepilly set to footage of Natalie Portman.
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"Explico Algunas Cosas" de Pablo Neruda Pablo recounts the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in this chill-inducing poem.
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Where Neruda saw blood in the streets.
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Mahalia Jackson & Nat King Cole "Steal Away to Jesus" A stunningly beautiful rendition of the old spiritual that was famous for being a signal for escaped slaves.
