365 crossword quiz answers animals2/29/2024 ![]() We want to hear from you! To send feedback about Microsoft Forms, go to the upper right corner of your form and select More form settings > Feedback. See what else you can do with Microsoft Forms. Now that you have the basics down, you can also customize your form theme, add a picture to a question, create sections, use branching logic, and more. Your newly created quiz will appear at the top of your My forms list in the Forms for OneNote panel and can be embedded into your OneNote notebook. To test out your quiz, answer the questions in Preview mode, and then select Submit. Select Preview to see how your quiz will look on a Computer or Mobile device. Highlight a word or words in your title or questions, and then choose any of the following: Bold (keyboard shortcut - CTRL/Cmd+B), Italic (keyboard shortcut - CTRL/Cmd+I), Underline (keyboard shortcut - CTRL/Cmd+U), Font color, Font size, Numbering, or Bullets. Po is the main character in which film series?ġ0.Tip: You can also format your text. What is the name of the dog in The Wizard Of Oz?ĩ. Kaa is a character in which famous story?Ĩ. We're pretty sure Will Shortz wouldn't want you to master this one. Anyone would be lucky to cross paths with this quiz. Leonardo and Donatello are two characters from which series?ħ. If you do the crossword in ink, you just might be ready for the challenge that is the One-Minute Crossword. “Call me Ishmael” is the opening line in which famous book?Ĥ. Dick King Smith wrote a book about a pig raised by sheep. Round 2: Famous Animal Quiz Questions and AnswersĢ. Which bird’s eye is bigger than its brain? What is the only bird that can fly backwards?ĩ. Click the answer to find similar crossword clues. Enter the length or pattern for better results. The Crossword Solver finds answers to classic crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles. Belted Galloway and Belgian Blue are breeds of which animal?Ĩ. The Crossword Solver found 30 answers to 'animal disease', 5 letters crossword clue. Hakuna Matata is a song in The Lion King… but what does the phrase mean?ħ. Which animal is associated with the star sign Taurus?Ħ. What kind of creature is a Portugese Man O War?ĥ. Free, printable animals quiz questions and answers with a UK focus. Which bird do you associate with peace?Ĥ. I love these fun trivia questions! Are you ready for these animal trivia quiz answers?Īnimal Trivia Quiz Answers Round 1: Animal Trivia Questions And Answers – General Knowledgeġ. This game is developed by Conversion, llc which are also famous for other games like Guess The Emoji. No cheating, fingers on buzzers… here we go! Crossword Quiz Animals Image 21.Below you will be able to find all In Greek mythology Triton was the God of the. ![]() Time to find out if you’re the animal lover you think you are, or you need to get your head back in an encyclopaedia!īRAND NEW: Check out my other fun quizzes including one all about food, another about capital cities, a challenging art and literature quiz and my 50 world geography trivia questions. You can use these questions to host your very own virtual pub quiz with your friends, or simply play along at home right now as you scroll down the page. Shop all Games, Puzzles, and Trivia calendars now. There’s a challenging and fun Mensa-approved game to kick-start every morning or workday: logic puzzles, spatial challenges, probability riddles, crosswords, and encoded words. Coming up are 50 animal trivia questions, including a really fun printable animal quiz round. The daily brain teaser calendar from Mensa is boot camp for the brain for puzzle enthusiasts. Crossword Quiz Net Answer Cheats & Solutions. The answers have been split into Cross and Down answers to help you navigate through them easily. Our knowledge has expanded and we’re enjoying soaking up random facts about everything from celebrities to cheeses.Īnimal quizzes are always good fun, so I decided it was only right to challenge you guys with some animal trivia questions. Find the solutions to the Crossword Quiz Animals Level 8. Over the last few years we’ve all developed a passion for quizzing. ![]() Challenge yourself with these animal quiz questions
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Lavender and vanilla perfume2/29/2024 ![]() The base is warm and inviting with honey, musk, and oak and, while not overpowering, will last subtly on the skin throughout the day. The top notes are melon, mandarin orange, and violet leaf, and these move aside for a heart of lavender, jasmine, and nectarine. This is a fragrance for women who exude innocence and youthfulness. ![]() If you are looking for something for those intimate moments, then the gentle sillage of this scent will work wonders. It is a light and clean fragrance that is not overpowering. It is perfect as a daytime perfume, a romantic picnic, or a countryside walk in the sun. It is everything you would associate with a hot day in the middle of summer. It comes in a gorgeous bottle decorated with a pretty bow and soft colors. This is a fruity floral fragrance for women that was launched in 2014. That being said, when mixed with woody notes, it can make an excellent, intoxicating evening scent. Lavender is a scent that is often associated with warm, hazy summer days and, as such, works brilliantly as a go-to daytime fragrance. However, it will also work well with fresh scents like lemon, lime, and even mint, proving that, despite popular belief, this is one of the more diverse floral accords. The scent pairs well with other distinct aromas such as petitgrain, orange blossom, rose, and clary sage. It is this uniqueness that makes it one of the most popular and luxurious floral scents in perfumery. Unlike other floral scents, which can be light, musky, and fresh, lavender has an aroma quite unlike anything else. ![]() However, over time, the scent lost this association with male scents, and while it is still very commonly used in them, there are many lavender perfumes for women on the market today. In fact, for many years, this floral scent was thought to be more masculine, and as such, very few feminine perfumes with lavender were released. One of the first and most notable lavender fragrances was launched way back in the 1800s, ‘Fougere Royale’, and this was aimed at men. There is no denying that this scent divides perfume lovers, with some putting it as a firm favorite, whereas others would turn their nose up at it.īut if you are a lavender fan, there is no doubt that you will love a lavender scented perfume like some of the ones we are going to look at in this review. Lavender is one of the most easily recognizable floral scents in the world it has a distinct aroma that is a heady, earthy, and calming scent that has been used throughout history. Tidal power stations2/29/2024 After all, by their own admission, SAE has already received the go-ahead to install an additional 80 MW at the MeyGen tidal power plant, and there is also talk of expanding the project to up to 398 MW. This is expected to significantly reduce the costs of further expansion. The plan is to use a nodal station out at sea to collect the generated electricity before it is transmitted onshore. In the next phase of the project, MeyGen is to receive two additional turbines, each with a capacity of two megawatts. According to SAE, coming in at six megawatts, MeyGen is the largest tidal stream power plant in the world and is also being funded by the EU – with 17 million euros in subsidies. The publicly held company has installed four of these units in the strait between Orkney and the Scottish coast since 2018. By way of comparison: that’s approximately equal to the average power of an onshore turbine. This is small fry compared to Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE), which uses an AR1500 turbine with an output of up to 1.5 megawatts (MW). Largest tidal power station in the world? The project, involving nine companies and research institutes from the UK, Belgium and Sweden, is being funded by the European Union to the tune of 20 million euros. Moving forward, larger turbines and greater production volumes are expected to reduce costs even further. ![]() Eunice now supplies enough electricity for around 40 average British households. Thanks to a new gearless turbine, costs have allegedly been cut by a third, meaning its output can now compete with conventionally generated electricity. Not to mention that it can also be used to supply electricity at market prices.Īnd this is precisely what EnFAIT appears to have achieved thanks to the recently installed ‘Eunice’ turbine with a maximum output of 100 kilowatts (kW). With these turbines, the European consortium EnFAIT intends to demonstrate how a tidal power plant of this type can be built, operated and dismantled using this technology by 2022. It is precisely here, between the two main northern islands of Shetland, Unst and Yell, at Bluemull Sound that the company Nova Innovation installed the fourth of a total of six turbines in October 2020. Conditions are particularly favourable between the islands of Shetland and Orkney. North of Scotland, the water masses flow from the North Sea into the North Atlantic and back. ![]() The British Isles are particularly exposed to the tides. It is no coincidence that two companies making a name for this technology are based in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh. This is invaluable not only for grid stability, but also for planning certainty and thus for financing costs. But this form of energy is reliable in that it can be predicted very accurately down to the day and even the hour – and that years in advance. It varies from one location to the next and also depends on factors such as the phase of the moon and the relative position of the sun. Granted, the strength of the current is not always the same. The only difference is they don’t protrude out of the water, but instead rely on powerful currents on the ocean floor, flowing in one direction on a flooding (high) tide, and in the opposite direction on an ebbing (low) tide.Īs with all tidal power plants, their supply is extremely reliable. These turbines are installed on structures anchored to the seabed. Propeller rather than damīut there is another way to convert tidal energy into electricity – based on a simple principle, strongly reminiscent of wind power: the ocean current drives a propeller, connected to a generator. Although other suitable sites do exist, they are few and far between, come with considerable price tags and can impact the local environment. Only six tidal power stations are currently in operation around the world. However, implementing this system economically is not that simple. Modern tidal power plants also harness the incoming tide to generate power. In the past, this involved the use of paddle wheels in mills today it is turbines that generate electricity. ![]() Most tactics have followed the same basic principle: the water is impounded at high tide, and then, at low tide, released through a system which harvests the energy. And yet the energy of the waves is nothing compared to that of the tides, and mankind has harnessed this energy for centuries. Anyone who has ever battled the waves at a beach knows only too well the unbridled power of the sea. For android instal Sparkle2/29/2024 Artifact Instance of 'IOSEngineArtifacts' is not required, skipping update. Artifact Instance of 'AndroidInternalBuildArtifacts' is not required, skipping update. Artifact Instance of 'AndroidGenSnapshotArtifacts' is not required, skipping update. Artifact Instance of 'FlutterRunnerDebugSymbols' is not required, skipping update. Artifact Instance of 'FlutterRunnerSDKArtifacts' is not required, skipping update. 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Sketchup 2d floor plan2/29/2024 ![]() You can take more reference lines for creating another door of the layout plane and then take the Eraser tool from the tool panel.Īnd erase the lines of the door area like this. Suppose the door is 2’ x 7’, so I will add another reference line at a distance of 2’.Īnd you can draw a rectangle here for the door. Now for adding the door, I will take a new references line at 1’ from the wall. ![]() I will suggest you delete guidelines after creating one section of the layout so that it will not be confusing for you. You can now delete these guidelines by selecting them and then pressing the Delete button on the keyboard. So draw a rectangle around the corner points of these rooms.Īnd then draw one rectangle again from the corner points of wall thickness.ĭraw rectangle for adding sections in the room according to the layout. Or you can also do this with the rectangle tool. Now you can take the Line tool for creating this layout. ![]() I will create guidelines for the top portion of this layout according to mentioned dimensions. I will add a wall at a distance of 4’ in this room and also provide wall thickness to it of 1’. Now suppose the first room is 11’ x 9’, so I will create a guideline at a distance of 11’ from the top horizontal line.ĭo the same from the vertical guideline and this time draw the line at a distance of 9’. Then do the same from another side of this layout for adding wall thick there too. But, first, take a reference line at the thickness of the wall, which is 1’. Now I will start drawing from the top left corner of the layout so that I will start from the top intersecting point of these two lines. I will enter 54’ in the measurement box at the bottom right corner of this software.Īnd 46’ from the horizontal reference line. Now I will first outline this layout which is approximate 54’ x 46’, and so I will create a guideline at 54’ distance from the vertical reference line. I am just explaining to you how you can work with 2D drawing so suppose the thickness of the wall of this layout is 1’. I am not taking all dimensions of this layout as it is. Next, I will start to draw this 2D drawing from the intersection point of these lines. One is horizontally, and the second is vertical. ![]() Now with the Tape tool, create two guidelines. Now I will place this drawing side by side to this software and switch to a top view in software.Īnd take a Tap Measurement tool from the tool panel. This is a 2D drawing of the autocad floor plan, which I will use for reference to the 2D drawing for SketchUp. Now let me tell you how you can work with 2D for creating drawing of any floor plan of architecture. For example, I will draw a circle with the help of a circle tool.Īnd then select the area inside this circle with the select tool.Īnd press the delete button of the keyboard for subtracting this area from the rectangle shape. You can draw another shape in the same way for making any geometry. Now you can see it is perfectly on the same plane of drawn rectangle. So during drawing anything with the Line tool or Freehand tool, make sure you create points on the same plane, and you can understand it by recognizing the ‘On Face’ highlight with that point. So you can see it look like that this random shape is drawn on the same plane of the rectangle.īut when you change the view, you can see it is not perfectly drawn on the same plane some lines are drawn in another plane. You can make this tool active by pressing the R button on the keyboard.Īnd then, I will make the random shape on this rectangle with the help of the Line tool of the tool panel. Edges that met a circle in CAD may fall short of or pass through SketchUp’s polygon approximation.Let’s create a rectangle with the help of the Rectangle tool of Shapes tool. This flaw is common when a model is imported from CAD because CAD has real, exact circles whereas SketchUp approximates circles with polygons. For example, the lines representing the seats of the chairs at the table don’t meet the table, nor do they have their own line to close the end, so they won’t form faces. Other times you have to find and correct the flaw.Įdit: due to some of the flaws, I’m guessing you imported things like the sofa and 48" table from CAD. Sometimes you can cause SketchUp to fill a face by tracing one of the existing edges. There are various reasons why faces may fail to form, for example gaps in the tentative outline of the face, edges that are not coplanar. The ones that show the background color are where faces failed to form for one reason or another. Only the white and blue parts of your model are faces. You can only apply paint to faces, or groups, or component instances that contain faces. Search for linkedin groups2/29/2024 ![]() To review and manage your group settings (e.g., the frequency of email notifications about group activity) click on “My Groups” in the top navigation bar. And in one case, the initial conversation led to a speaking opportunity I wouldn’t have landed otherwise. I’ve started conversations with several people I didn’t know before this way. You can even use this feature with people who aren’t part of your LinkedIn network. That lets your fellow Group member know to join in on the conversation and it’s a nice way to build goodwill among your connections. When responding to a comment or giving a complimentary shout-out, include the symbol to ensure that person will receive a notification and an email letting him or her know about the mention. My tip: Participating in LinkedIn Group discussions, by sharing a helpful article, insightful tip or thoughtful response to a member’s question, is an excellent way to establish your thought leadership and expand your network. Now, you can quickly scan through your group discussions without having to click through lots of pages. Once you’re on the Groups homepage, you’ll see “Today’s Highlights” - a personalized snapshot of the important conversations taking place in your Groups. Here’s a bit more about each of these features, along with tips on how best to use them: The redesigned LinkedIn Groups home page now lets you quickly review discussions in your Groups, manage your Group settings and find new Groups to join. Click the Groups icon in the dropdown menu and you’ll see suggested Groups under the “Discover” tab (if you’re already in some LinkedIn Groups, you’ll see them listed and their latest highlights).Click on the dialpad icon in the top right corner of the navigation bar labeled “Work”.Before I get to the latest improvements, here’s how to find LinkedIn Groups you might want to join: MarsEdit’s rich text editor is built on Apple’s WebKit technologies. I recommend reviewing this post about how to best approach making sure your Markdown is treated the way you expect by the app, and by your blog. If you’re excited about using Markdown in MarsEdit, but haven’t used it before, there are still some caveats to be aware of. MarsEdit 5 changes that with a beautiful new styling that automatically detects Markdown in plain text mode, and transforms it visually: But until now, the plain Markdown text has been unstyled. It has always been possible to write Markdown text in MarsEdit, and to have it either sent verbatim to your blog as Markdown, or to have it converted to HTML automatically. Increasingly, blogs support John Gruber’s Markdown, or some variation on it. In plain text mode, users have the option to write in literally plain text, that is, with no formatting all, or to write using HTML tags, or to write with whatever plain-text notation their blog happens to support. Top of the list is supporting image/photo attachments! Markdown Syntax Highlightingįor years, MarsEdit has featured two distinct modes: plain text and rich text. Stay tuned for more enhancements to the Micropost panel. MarsEdit will shuttle it off to your blog, and you can get back to whatever it was you were doing. Just type your message, optionally add a title, and press the “Post” button. Now, when you’re at your Mac and a whimsical thought comes to mind, you can press a system-wide shortcut to bring up this MarsEdit panel: For years I have heard repeatedly that the number-one reason people prefer writing to their blog with MarsEdit is that it “reduces friction.” It struck me that seizing on the opportunity to make writing to your blog “as easy as posting to Twitter” was a perfect opportunity to continue doing that. This got me thinking about MarsEdit’s role as a blogger’s best friend. He said something along the lines that a goal was to make it “as easy for writers at The Verge to publish short pieces as it would be to post them to Twitter. When I heard Nilay Patel of The Verge on The Talk Show a few months ago, I was struck by something he said about the recent redesign of The Verge. I love the relatively flatter look and the stencil-like style of rocket and flame outlines: The New Iconįirst, I’d like to thank my friend Brad Ellis for revising the MarsEdit icon again to fit the modern “rounded rectangle” style of icons that Apple recommends on macOS. MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a completely rebuilt rich text editor based on Apple’s latest WebKit2 technologies, and a variety of nuanced improvements to make your blogging workflow smoother, and more enjoyable than ever. ![]() Users who purchased the in-app purchase via the Mac App Store can obtain the same upgrade discounts within the Mac App Store version of MarsEdit 5, when it becomes available, by locating a valid copy of MarsEdit 4 with premium features unlocked.Īn update to the Setapp version of MarsEdit will be coming soon. For all other users the one-time purchase price is $59.95. For all other licensed MarsEdit 4 users, the upgrade fee is $29.95. ![]() This update is free for MarsEdit 4 users who purchased a license on or after June 1, 2022. ![]() I’m excited to share that MarsEdit 5.0, a major upgrade to our beloved Mac blogging application, is now available on the MarsEdit site and has been submitted for review on the Mac App Store. Rainn wilson podcast2/28/2024 ![]() On screen, he can be spookily reserved and unreachable, or gauche and goofy, as he is as a credulous alien in Galaxy Quest or a failed heavy metal drummer in The Rocker. In the psychological thriller The Boy, he was a surly insurance scammer hiding out at a motel after the death of his wife. In the black comedy Super, he played a would-be superhero who is in fact nothing grander than a vicious vigilante in a cape. He has some real dark sides to him.” Moral ambiguity is an area in which Wilson excels: he’s comfortable when the audience isn’t. “We get to see a lot of different sides to my character over the course of the film. The part offered its own challenges, even if overcoming a fear of confined spaces wasn’t one of them. But when I ask what it was like spending most of Don’t Tell a Soul at subterranean level, he sheepishly admits that the “hole” was in fact a chamber built above-ground, with a door in the side, and a platform at the top to which the other actors could ascend to look down at him. This isn’t the first time Wilson has been six feet under – he got his big break in Alan Ball’s hit HBO series of that name in the early 2000s, playing Arthur the creepy undertaker. The question is not whether they will use it, but how. ![]() During the pursuit, he plunges into a hole in the forest floor, which leaves the boys with absolute power over him. In Don’t Tell a Soul, a cross between A Simple Plan and Paranoid Park, he plays an unassuming security guard who gives chase after encountering two teenage brothers (Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer) stealing from a house in rural Kentucky. “And that’s fine with me.” First, though, there is his new thriller to discuss. “Dwight is the part I’m best known for and always will be,” says the 55-year-old. Wilson has starred in everything from Juno to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the Jason Statham shark thriller The Meg, but he knows that any conversation will inevitably lead back to The Office. Today’s beard and baseball cap, as well as his chipper demeanour, banishes all memory of the pasty face, DIY haircut and startled expression he wore in that show. Wilson earned three Emmy nominations for playing the livid, disagreeable Dwight, the Rust Belt equivalent of Mackenzie Crook’s Gareth. That Pennsylvania city provided the setting for the US version of the mockumentary sitcom The Office, which ran for nine widely adored, award-winning series. No such preciousness from Rainn Wilson, who appears on camera from his Los Angeles home wearing a grey T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Scranton”. Some actors associated with a signature role will tire of talking about it. Rush hour movie2/28/2024 ![]() "One of the things I found most offensive was at the end of the film when Chris Tucker says to Jackie that he wants to be introduced to some of those Chinese girls because he wants a massage," she says. magazine, saw an early cut of the film and found it upsetting - as an Asian and a woman. But for a formula movie, the writing is pretty smart, and the clash-of-cultures stuff is funnier than you'd expect."įon Lin Nyeu, the assistant to the publisher at A. Sure, a gong rings when Jackie first sets foot in the U.S., and Chris Tucker wisecracks about Rice-a-Roni and Cup-o-Noodles. "But we have to choose our battles carefully, and Rush Hour' isn't worth a fight. "I've never hesitated to speak out against media stereotypes of Asian Americans," Kim says. There's no reason to get mad over something like that."Īsian-American Film Festival organizer Ben Kim agrees that "Rush Hour" was ultimately more amusing than offensive. I don't think it was offensive."Īnd, as for the use of the n-word by Chan, Toyia Parker of Chicago's South Side says, "If he said that in real life, he would get beat up. "He is the Chung King cop," says Anna Fernandez. "It is definitely a step forward having two minorities in the lead even though there were some cliches."īut at the same time, he says he thinks it is far more damaging to African Americans to have Chris Tucker going into a pool hall, as he does in the movie, and use the n-word.įilmgoers exiting a Chicago theater Tuesday didn't seem bothered by racial jokes that include Chan being called the "Chung King cop." Hollywood has a history of portraying all minorities in less than positive ways," he says. "With regard to any stereotyping, I think these things are going to improve in incremental steps. Most Asians might not even know it, but the damage is there just underneath the surface."īut George Toshio Johnston, the editor of Yolk Magazine, an Asian American pop-culture quarterly, thinks that compared with what other minorities endure, Asians don't fare too badly in this action film that pairs Chan with black comedian Chris Tucker as detectives solving a kidnapping. "It's just one more time a major movie with an appeal to young people presents these stereotypes very subtly disguised in humor. ![]() it would still be entertaining without doing that sort of thing, without perpetuating the stereotypes. ![]() "It is a shame that Hollywood could not stay away from the cheap racial humor. "I walked away feeling entertained on the one hand but also having a knot in my stomach," says Juju Lien, executive director of Chicago's Asian American Institute. Last week, even before the film was released, Asian American groups began criticizing the film on the basis of preview screenings and the movie's trailer. Tucker seems to choose movie roles very sparingly, but his recent critically-acclaimed supporting role in Ben Affleck's Air suggests that he might be more willing to get in front of the camera quickly and could see some momentum to Rush Hour 4 after all these years."Rush Hour," Jackie Chan's big English-language Hollywood debut, may have met with overwhelming approval at the box office last weekend, but it got a mixed reaction from Asian Americans, some of whom were rankled by what they saw as insulting racial jokes and stereotypical Asian portrayals. While it is not exactly a strong confirmation that the movie is around the corner, the fact that Tucker is still ready to return to the Rush Hour franchise bodes well for Rush Hour 4. While Tucker revealed he was working on other projects as well, he admitted he would likely be returning for Rush Hour 4 and that there'd been movement on the project, saying " It’s not going to be what you’ve normally seen… Rush Hour 4, that’s something I definitely will probably drop in there because I love working with Jackie." When asked about the sequel in March 2023, Chris Tucker confirmed that Rush Hour 4was planned as one of his upcoming projects and that he was very much interested in returning to the franchise. The latest Rush Hour 4 news keeps the hope alive that the sequel is eventually coming. Acknowledment gigi 19582/28/2024 ![]() Claudine became what Colette's biographer Judith Thurman called "the century's first teenager", with her sponge-like absorption of adult behaviour, and in the books we see the development of Colette's mastery of sensuous description, as well as her first ransackings of her own life for material (which can make reading the wedding night scene in Claudine Married a somewhat voyeuristic experience). The books are apprentice work by definition – Colette wrote them in her twenties, under duress – but for a writer who started reading Balzac at the age of seven, that is no criticism. Once she wrote them – at times locked in a room to spur her to completion – and they were garnished with a few editorial suggestions by Willy ("Some girlish high jinks… you see what I mean?"), Willy had them published under his own name and kept the copyright and royalties. Her first four books were the chronicles of fictional French schoolgirl Claudine – Claudine at School (1900), Claudine in Paris (1901), Claudine Married (1902) and Claudine and Annie (1903) – which she wrote at the behest of her first husband Henry Gauthier-Villars, a journalist and editor known by the less elegant pen-name of Willy. But to understand her – her fertile productivity, her showiness, her expertise in the mysteries of the human heart, and her appetite for including herself in her books, disguised either lightly or not at all – we must first understand that she almost didn’t become famous in the first place. And she made of her life a project just as fascinating as her books. Her books were simultaneously popular and acclaimed – read by critics and the public alike – not to mention scandalous. She was a pioneer of the French school of autofiction (autobiographical fiction), writing about women's lives in ways that broke new ground. The story of Colette and her work is one of the most astonishing in modern literature. "Love, the bread and butter of my pen," she wrote, though she put it more bluntly in her book The Pure and the Impure (1932): "The flesh, always the flesh, the mysteries and betrayals and frustrations and surprises of the flesh." André Gide, that great connection point for 20th-Century French literature, agreed, praising Chéri for its "intelligence, mastery and understanding of the least-admitted secrets of the flesh". ![]() ![]() Her work – mostly at novella length, short and sharp – survives because her chief subject is one that never goes out of fashion. AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |