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Anarchist adventure stories?

Pre-Spanish Civil War anarchist pulp adventure novels?
posted to Ask Metafilter by a louis wain cat at 8:11 PM on November 18, 2007 (3 comments)

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

The California poet Robinson Jeffers, though once popular enough to make the cover of Time Magazine, is for various reasons now a somewhat obscure figure- however, he has attracted increased interest in recent days both for the quality of his work and his pantheistic personal philosophy, which anticipated much future environmentalist thought. [more inside, with links to poems]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 12:10 AM on August 9, 2007 (25 comments)

Ugokie-ko-ri-no-tatehiki

Japanese animation from 1933. A bizarre Max Fleischer-inspired 11-minute cartoon about some critters from traditional Japanese folklore, complete with a soundtrack of traditional Japanese music. [youtubefilter]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 6:28 PM on July 24, 2006 (12 comments)

"The joy of eternal bards/ the sound of the kantele"

The kantele is the national instrument of Finland, strongly associated with traditional Finnish folk music. A psaltery-like string instrument of somewhat obscure origin, it prominently figures in the Kalevala. Despite this association with the past, the kantele is very much a living instrument- it was used in the soundtrack to "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" for its "pure, chilly sound", and electric kanteles have been made. [more inside, with sound samples]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 6:42 PM on July 8, 2006 (20 comments)

"We, who are elders, will instruct you in their true meaning..."

Shakespeare in the Bush: in which an anthropologist tells the story of Hamlet to a group of Tiv, and ideas about the universal nature of literature get the worst of it.
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 8:43 PM on June 11, 2006 (27 comments)

"I don't think they heard me very well."

Yukio Mishima led a remarkable life: in addition to being an internationally renowned writer, he was also an actor, a filmmaker, a gay icon, a bodybuilding exhibitionist(possibly slightly NSFW), and leader of a paramilitary organization. Yet, all of this is often overshadowed by the even more remarkable way he ended his life. [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by a louis wain cat at 10:52 PM on March 31, 2006 (33 comments)