My impressions: In Mindset, Carol Dweck took a simple idea that the reader has certainly heard before, explained it with an extensive catalogue of vignettes in a wide variety of settings, broke the idea down into components, with implications and ramifications, backed it up with research, and convinced me to take it seriously and internalize it. When it came time to suggest our next book for the All American Leadership Reading group, Rob Nielsen (the CEO) and I both proposed Mindset, and it was selected. It seemed that most in the room had read it. Why this book: I attended a workshop on high performance athleticism at the Naval Special Warfare Center and several of the coaches referred to this book and its ideas.
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Other Lovecraft movies tend to lose that sheer blind terror because they always try to explain things or go in depth on characters and monster that you only get a glimpse of in the story, but Necronomicon has managed to retain that feeling of namele ss horror. This is exactly how Necronomicon was filmed. You can't reason with a creature when you don't know what it wants or why its doing something. There's never a motive for why his creatures, demons, or "great old ones" do what they do, and thats what makes it so terrifying. Part of the reason Lovecraft's stories manage to give me goosebumps (and some very strange nightmares) is because he never tried to go in depth and explain why things happened. Necronomicon is one of the few movies to successfully follow the sheer eeriness of Lovecraft's stories. Having worked for the US State Department in Italy and Turkey, where she lost a leg in a shooting accident, Hall signed up as ambulance driver for the French Army in early 1940. And one of its first, and best, agents was Virginia Hall. Its modus operandi was, as Sonia Purnell reminds us, inspired by the Irish forces during the War of Independence, which showed that “regular troops could be defeated by a hostile population whose will had been stiffened by a few resolute gunmen”. The SOE was founded in July 1940 with the purpose of setting occupied “Europe ablaze” with acts of sabotage and espionage. Over seventy years later, the exploits of the SOE and their Resistance comrades retain their romantic power over the imagination. “You’ll forget how cold you were – except to bring warmer clothes next time you’ll forget all the frights you had, and you’ll only remember the excitement.” “When you get home, it’ll look different from a distance,” she teasingly told Churchill. The other was Virginia Hall, a thirty five year old American woman who had been in France since the previous summer.Īs they waited for the coast to clear, Hall offered the new arrival some advice. One was 32-year-old Peter Churchill, a relative newcomer to the field. One evening in 1942, two agents working for Britain’s Special Operations Executive, or SOE, were hiding in a Marseilles safehouse. Roderick cannot concentrate on his endeavors and suffers greatly after her death. This is why Roderick is extremely affected when Madeline is debilitated physically by her illness. Roderick represents the “mental” senses and Madeline represents the “physical” senses. When analyzed carefully, readers could delineate that Roderick and Madeline are not separate individuals, but they are one. The story is interrupted by Madeline’s sudden appearance, as Roderick announces, “We have put her living in the tomb!” On a particularly stormy night, the narrator tries to alleviate Roderick’s condition by reading to him. After Madeline died, Roderick appears even more distracted and disconnected he loses all interest in his artistic endeavors and spends his waking hours wandering through the mansion aimlessly. Roderick’s condition is worsened by the fact that his sister appears to be dying slowly of an unknown disease. Inside the Usher house, the unnamed narrator encounters the Usher twins, Roderick and Madeline, whose complexions are cadaverous and who both suffer from “excessive nervous agitation”. It is revealed in the story that her brother Roderick is not merely a sibling but a twin. The Sculptor will be published February 3.Įditor's note - a few panels here are mildly NSFW. 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