He wasn’t entirely human, or human at all. He was something magical, something other, something wrong. A Fate.
And she had kissed him.
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“Relax,” he repeated. “The only thing you should think about is that you’re more desirable than anyone else in this room. Every person here wishes they were you.”
“You’re definitely giving yourself too much credit now.”
His laughter was surprisingly disarming. “Then tell yourself everyone wishes they were me, dancing with you.”
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Top 20 movies of 2020
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Christopher nikou's first feature appeared as one of the surprise films that seasoned the 2020 cinema year. Director nikou, who also worked as an assistant director in the movie dogtooth (2009) with yorgos lanthimos, follows the tradition of Greek New Wave Cinema (greek weird wave) and also makes a very
Most accounts cite the year 1674 as the legendary beginning of the first triad society, when a group of Buddhist monks at a monastery in Fujian province became a rallying point against that nation's oppressive Manchu rulers. The monks refined a highly effective form of self-defense that came to be called kung fu, and though their cause was a lost one, they founded a set of secret societies that would endure for generations.
It has been said that Greek mythology, in its dynastic series of ruling gods, shows an evolution from a worship of the forces of nature to a worship of the powers of the mind. It is beyond questionthe most complete in its details, the most perfectviewed from an artistic standpoint, the most beautiful and enduring of all the world's store of legendary lore that has come down to us, and in thiswealth of mythology, the solar myth stands out supreme, as the central figure, clothed in the matchless imagery of a naturally poetical and
highly artistic people.
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Tolkien used the linguistic potency of myth to heighten the realism and density of his stories, providing a bridge between the remote past of Middle-earth and the epoch in which his tales took place. Hence, in The Lord of the Ring, the elves and Elvish-speaking figures sing songs dedicated to Beren, Earendil and other legendary heroes and heroines; a soldier of Gondor says "May the Valar turn him aside" when attacked by a Mumak; Frodo says "By Elbereth and Luthien the fair, you shall have neither the ring nor me!" when threatened by the ring-wraiths; the name "Eibereth Gilthoniel" is used, variously, as a desperate shield by Frodo on Weathertop, a war-cry by Sam in Cirith Ungol, and an expletive of despair by Legolas at the sight of a winged NazgUI on the banks of Anduin; in the dark of Moria, Aragorn says of Gandalf: "He is surer of finding the way home in a blind night than the cats of Queen Beruthiel"; and so on.
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