Dr Falkes Oraculum

Author : Nicholas Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984573981
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Falke's ORACULUM written by Nicholas Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? A lone iceberg? The world as it once was, now receding into the distance? Likewise, when you peer through your telescope at the distant boat, what do you see? An approaching storm? A drowning man? The future, drifting forever out of reach? In their latest book, Doctor Falke's Oraculum, Kahn & Selesnick invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of people trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. For when personal and societal mythologies supersede facts, when the promise of virtual realities threaten to supersede the real thing, what better way to approach an uncertain future than through the arcane method of augury-after all, is not prophecy the original fake news?The Oraculum continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. Presented as an unbound collection of photographs and text, the Oraculum is by turns a travelogue, an oracle, an art book, a box of prints, a meditation on the future, and an instruction manual of interpretative dance moves. The loose nature of the pages allow the viewer to treat this volume as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks.The artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque-traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores were spoofed. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?

Author : Nicholas Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984573981
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Falke's ORACULUM written by Nicholas Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? A lone iceberg? The world as it once was, now receding into the distance? Likewise, when you peer through your telescope at the distant boat, what do you see? An approaching storm? A drowning man? The future, drifting forever out of reach? In their latest book, Doctor Falke's Oraculum, Kahn & Selesnick invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of people trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. For when personal and societal mythologies supersede facts, when the promise of virtual realities threaten to supersede the real thing, what better way to approach an uncertain future than through the arcane method of augury-after all, is not prophecy the original fake news?The Oraculum continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. Presented as an unbound collection of photographs and text, the Oraculum is by turns a travelogue, an oracle, an art book, a box of prints, a meditation on the future, and an instruction manual of interpretative dance moves. The loose nature of the pages allow the viewer to treat this volume as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks.The artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque-traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores were spoofed. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?

Author : Sidney Herbert Daukes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Dr. Falke of Harley Street written by Sidney Herbert Daukes and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 177545164X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guy Fawkes written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sweeping historical epic Guy Fawkes, renowned author William Harrison Ainsworth takes on one of the boldest rebels of all time. Pro-Catholic agitator Guy Fawkes was at the center of a failed scheme to blow up the English Parliament and force then-Princess Elizabeth onto the throne. Now regarded as an archetypal traitor, Fawkes looms large in the British imagination, due in large part to Ainsworth's complex and nuanced portrayal of him in this novel.

Author : Alexander Chalmers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.LZ/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith, Armstrong, Johnson written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Guy Fawkes; Or the Gunpowder Treason, Etc written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Guy Fawkes; Or, The Gunpowder Treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
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Download or read book Ainsworth's Novels: Guy Fawkes. [n.d written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred and thirty-five years ago, or, to speak with greater precision, in 1605, at the latter end of June, it was rumored one morning in Manchester that two seminary priests, condemned at the late assizes under the severe penal enactments then in force against the Papists, were about to suffer death on that day. Attracted by the report, large crowds flocked towards the place of execution, which, in order to give greater solemnity to the spectacle, had been fixed at the southern gate of the old Collegiate Church, where a scaffold was erected. Near it was a large blood-stained block, the use of which will be readily divined, and adjoining the block, upon a heap of blazing coals, smoked a cauldron filled with boiling pitch, intended to receive the quarters of the miserable sufferers. Neither the executioner nor his companions appeared in the slightest degree impressed by the butcherly business about to be enacted; for the former whistled carelessly as he pursued his task, while the latter laughed and chatted with the crowd, or jestingly pointed their matchlocks at the jackdaws wheeling above them in the sunny air, or perching upon the pinnacles and tower of the neighboring fane. Not so the majority of the assemblage. Most of the older and wealthier families in Lancashire still continuing to adhere to the ancient faith of their fathers, it will not be wondered that many of their dependents should follow their example. And, even of those who were adverse to the creed of Rome, there were few who did not murmur at the rigorous system of persecution adopted towards its professors.

Author : William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Guy Fawkes (Historical Novel) written by William Harrison Ainsworth and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Fawkes is a historical novel based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The story starts in summer 1605 with the execution of Catholic priests in Manchester. During the execution, Elizabeth Orton madly raves before being chased by an officer overseeing the execution. To avoid capture, she leaps into the River Irwell. She is pulled up by Humphrey Chetham and Guy Fawkes. After she is brought out of the water, she predicts that both men will be executed before she dies. Chetham and Fawkes join the plot through Viviana Radcliffe, daughter of the prominent William Radcliffe, a supporter of the plot. Fawkes travels to John Dee, an alchemist, who is able to call forth the ghost of Orton, which warns him again. He also receives a vision from God that the plot will end in disaster. During this time, the Radcliffe family is exposed as hiding two priests, and having lost their home, the conspirators in the plot travel to London. Viviana marries Fawkes and tries to convince him to give up because of all the signs, but he is determined to follow through.