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They will probably be tinted by my own experiences and thoughts, especially if and when I disagree with points made by the author. ![]() ![]() But maybe these notes will help you get interested in the complete text, and help you work up the motivation to read the whole thing.Īdditionally, while the notes will probably be a somewhat personal take on the book’s materials, they are not a personal commentary or an opinion piece on the work they propose to summarize. Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data. This summary will necessarily be incomplete, and I therefore highly recommend reading the book in the first place (buy it here in English and here in French). ![]() You’ll find here a chapter by chapter summary of the book’s content. 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Created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, DC Comics’ Swamp Thing made its first appearance in House of Secrets #92 in 1971. ![]() Jennifer saint elektra a novel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When she is shown what will happen to her beloved city when Agamemnon and his army arrives, she is powerless to stop the tragedy from unfolding.Įlektra, Clytemnestra and Agamemnon's youngest daughter, wants only for her beloved father to return home from war. ![]() In Troy, Princess Cassandra has the gift of prophecy, but carries a curse of her own: no one will ever believe what she sees. But when, on the eve of the Trojan War, Agamemnon betrays Clytemnestra in the most unimaginable way, she must confront the curse that has long ravaged their family. When Clytemnestra marries Agamemnon, she ignores the insidious whispers about his family line, the House of Atreus. ![]() Three women, tangled in an ancient curse. This is a virtual event which will take place on Thusday, May 12th at 5:00pm Central Time. 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Hal is good at reading people and perceptive enough to understand what it was her mother hadn't said: she's most certainly not a Westaway. At night she returns to the chilly darkness of her attic flat in the Marine View Villas where she thinks about her mother, who died two years previously, the growing stack of bills, and the vicious two typed notes that were recently hand-delivered to her. ![]() Hal has inherited a substantial estate, though she has no connection to Trespassen House, a rambling country estate in Cornwall and the ancestral home of Hester Westaway.īy day, Hal attends to her booth on Brighton's West Pier, where she reads fortunes with tarot cards. The author fills her narrative with Hal's sudden stay of execution in the form of letter from Penzance solicitor Robert Treswick. It's possible to describe Ware's tale while conveying nothing of this story's steady accumulation of dread. 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