So, unfortunately, my reading of Artemis Fowl was interrupted, and I am at this point, unable to complete it...That series will, sadly, have to wait for another time. On the bright side, I will begin assessing the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, a prolific British author. I am studying Stevenson, his life and writing in one of my English classes at my university. The first two stories that I will be reading of his are "The Plague-Cellar" and The Pentland Rising: A Page of History 1666. A little later on, we will be reading Treasure Island, so keep posted.
For anyone who has read Stevenson's short story "Pavilion on the Links" here is a short discussion of the story and a key passage. For anyone who hasn't, here is a short explication dealing with a passage from the short story. The prompt is as follows: In "The Pavilion on the Links," Frank Cassilis, the story's narrator, describes his friend Northmour: "My wife and I, a man and a woman, have often agreed to wonder how a person could be, at the same time, so handsome and so repulsive as Northmour. He had the appearance of a finished gentleman; his face bore every mark of intelligence and courage; but you had only to look at him, even in his most amiable moment, to see that he had the temper of a slaver captain. I never knew a character that was both explosive and revengeful to the same degree; he combined the vivacity of the south with the sustained and deadly hatreds of the north; and both traits were plainly written on his face, which was...
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