From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10963 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, March 21 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10963 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Medical Secret Ends Brain Fog and Repairs Your Memory Loss ["Medical Secr] Let our Agents Help Find you the Best Rate ["Policyvista" Subject: Medical Secret Ends Brain Fog and Repairs Your Memory Loss Medical Secret Ends Brain Fog and Repairs Your Memory Loss http://moringo.shop/R4W4rdQ3PLyAtsrhtJTOYHH0dWlacgK5BRM72DHkAa-EwU2DWA http://moringo.shop/sH1jq6c2PIB460r3tS96moLUgUrqiDrfzvfrw7nsWoLdTxXY_A hree thousand people from the eastern region living in the north occurred soon afterwards, and stories of other attacks on Igbo Nigerians began to filter into Lagos. The ending of his novel had brought Achebe to the attention of military personnel, who suspected him of having foreknowledge of the coup. When he received word of the pursuit, he sent his wife (who was pregnant) and children on a squalid boat through a series of unseen creeks to the Eastern stronghold of Port Harcourt. They arrived safely, but Christie suffered a miscarriage at the journey's end. Chinua rejoined them soon afterward in Ogidi. These cities were safe from military incursion because they were in the southeast, a part of the region that would later secede. Once the family had resettled in Enugu, Achebe and his friend Christopher Okigbo started a publishing house called Citadel Press to improve the quality and increase the quantity of literature available to younger readers. One of its first submissions was a story called How the Dog was Domesticated, which Achebe revised and rewrote, turning it into a complex allegory for the country's political tumult. Its final title was How the Leopard Got His Claws. Years later a Nigerian intelligen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:56:45 +0100 From: "Policyvista" Subject: Let our Agents Help Find you the Best Rate Let our Agents Help Find you the Best Rate http://synogust.shop/uPa5soRxVEKnDWzZZnbeaDCQS0HhRTdsYsdDlPXohVWtdFFvOA http://synogust.shop/1Px4fWacM_ZTovLj5ubt5xXac6GgPOfRF3aVXyjPJ6rBbRqexQ ack in Nigeria, Achebe set to work revising and editing his novel; he titled it Things Fall Apart, after a line in the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. He cut away the second and third sections of the book, leaving only the story of a yam farmer named Okonkwo who lives during the colonization of Nigeria and struggles with his father's debtor legacy.[A 2] He added sections, improved various chapters, and restructured the prose. In 1957 he sent his only copy of his handwritten manuscript (along with the B#22 fee) to a London manuscript typing service he had seen an advertisement for in The Spectator. He did not receive a reply from the typing service, so he asked his boss at the NBS, Angela Beattie, to visit the company during her travels to London. She did, and angrily demanded to know why the manuscript was lying ignored in the corner of the office. The company quickly sent a typed copy to Achebe. Beattie's intervention was crucial for his ability to continue as a writer. Had the novel been lost, he later said, "I would have been so discouraged that I would probably have given up altogether." The next year Achebe sent his novel to the agent recommended by Gilbert Phelps in London. It was sent to several publishing houses; some rejected it immediately, claiming that fiction from African writers had no market potential. The executives at Heinemann read the manuscript and hesitated in their decision to publish the book. An educational adviser, Donald MacRae, read the book and reported to the company that: "This is the best novel I have read since the war." Heinemann published 2,000 hardcover copies of Things Fall Apart on 17 June 1958. According to Alan Hill, employed by the publisher at the time, the company did not "touch a word of it" in preparation for release. The book was received well by the ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:37:11 +0100 From: "Internet Security" Subject: Your Mcafee subscription has expired Your Mcafee subscription has expired http://synogust.shop/GBOA0d89jEfdZ_SMlFOoAG52xsVUl-5txI79Z5-_eCc_80oeIg http://synogust.shop/o_4y5AUeHvUg-Nwp7isiKAYENEXeXMwbfcHYni7_Bc8PND84mA As a teacher he urged his students to read extensively and be original in their work. The students did not have access to the newspapers he had read as a student, so Achebe made his own available in the classroom. He taught in Oba for four months. He left the institution in 1954 and moved to Lagos to work for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS), a radio network started in 1933 by the colonial government. He was assigned to the Talks Department to prepare scripts for oral delivery. This helped him master the subtle nuances between written and spoken language, a skill that helped him later to write realistic dialogue. Lagos made a significant impression on him. A huge conurbation, the city teemed with recent migrants from the rural villages. Achebe revelled in the social and political activity around him and began work on a novel. This was challenging, since very little African fiction had been written in English, although Amos Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard and Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City were notable exceptions. A visit to Nigeria by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956 highlighted issues of colonialism and politics, and was a significant moment for Achebe. Also in 1956, Achebe was selected to attend the staff training school for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). His first trip outside Nigeria was an opportunity to advance his technical production skills, and to solicit feedback on his novel (which was later split into two books). In London, he met the novelist Gilbert Phelps, to whom he offered the manuscript. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:07:14 +0100 From: "Secret Author" Subject: NEW: never released before... NEW: never released before... http://nervecontroll.shop/nnvV-VXOuF2LL3FgJrAgVkIDoEb8wiHwMuxXIYWA0Srm3CsKNw http://nervecontroll.shop/bjAz8ChPZ8rGG2mJwBk_qp4IOqekajyVqWG1KKZXVmIySP9IzA investigate the situation there, which he did, acting as a partisan for the Republicans. An electoral commission ruled for Hayes. 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When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe supported Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the movement. The subsequent Nigerian Civil War ravaged the populace, and he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved himself in political parties but soon became disillusioned by his frustration over the continuous corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the US in 1990 after a car crash left him partially disabled. He stayed in the US in a nineteen-year tenure at Bard College as a professor of languages and literature. Winning the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, from 2009 until his death he was Professor of African Studies at Brown University. Achebe's work has been extensively analyzed and a vast body of scholarly work discussing it has arisen. In addition to his seminal novels, Achebe's oeuvre includes numerous short stories, poetry, essays and children's books. His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. Among the many themes his works cover are culture and colonialism, masculinity and femininity, politics, and history. His legacy is celebrated annually at the Chinua Achebe Literary Festiv ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:45:53 +0100 From: "Gutter Guardian Partner" Subject: Why clogged gutters can be worse than no gutters Why clogged gutters can be worse than no gutters http://acehardelta.co.uk/DqEbItmegcBPjfXlDPd9m13XwXoO8dXkhynIpH2iPqJD7qO_aA http://acehardelta.co.uk/2NqwciHzrOVaP_wvdCwCJQhKi6Jx_bVKduHf85gFxymqAu4zzw ere produced in the 2007b2008 season. 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When asked why Michael's alias was not an allusion to a literary or historical figure, as with other Lost characters, Damon Lindelof explained that the Others would not have picked a famous person as an alias, as that would cause others to be suspicious of the character. Lindelof also said that it was a coincidence that "Kevin Johnson" was also the name of an American basketball player. In "Meet Kevin Johnson", Michael visits Tom's penthouse suite, where Tom introduces his partner Arturo (Francesco Simone), revealing that he is homosexual (and becomes Lost's only gay character). Online speculation about Tom's sexual orientation began after the broadcast of the third-season premiere, in which Tom tells Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) that she is "not type". A few weeks later, the writers hinted that a character would eventually be revealed as gay. In response to the internet community's suspicions, actor M.C. Gainey began to play the character as such, subtly trying to flirt with Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and later claiming that this attraction "got through the first half of the season." Following the broadcast o ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10963 ***********************************************