Self wishes every day could be as peaceful and beautiful as it was today in Annaghmakerrig.
Hard at Work: the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
Make a Wish
March 8, 2017 at 5:42 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, happiness, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
In Honor of International Women’s Day
March 8, 2017 at 11:01 am (anthologies, Books, Filipino Writers, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, book lists, Calyx Press, Cassandra Clare, Doreen Fernandez, dystopia, Jane Austen, Lydia Davis, nonfiction, novel, poetry, science fiction, short story collections, Steampunk, The Hunger Games, The Infernal Devices, YA
Books that rocked self’s world:
- Break It Down, by Lydia Davis
- Empty Chairs, by Liu Xia
- The Charm Buyers, by Lillian Howan
- Yes (A screenplay), by Sally Potter
- The Hunger Games Trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
- Night Willow, by Luisa Igloria
- Palayok: Philippine Food Through Time, by Doreen Fernandez
- The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin
- Bad Behavior, by Mary Gaitskill
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
- Memories Flow In Our Veins: Forty Years of Women’s Writings from Calyx, edited by the Calyx Editorial Collective
- The Infernal Devices Trilogy, by Cassandra Clare
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- Going Home to a Landscape: a Filipino Women’s Anthology, edited by Virginia Cerenio and Marianne Villanueva
For the English, A Loss
March 8, 2017 at 6:53 am (Books)
Tags: Canada, history, reading lists
TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic depictions of violence
The English surrender another fort.
At which point, the French unleash their Indians on the helpless civilians, who have made a sort of camp just outside the fort’s walls. The prisoners consisted of the wounded, and many women and children.
Starting the afternoon of the surrender, and until the following morning, the Indians harassed the English prisoners, grabbing women by their long hair and showing their knives. Finally, the prisoners on their own oranized themselves for a march out of camp, to begin at dawn. But the Indians were awake, too, constantly bullying the prisoners and entering their tents. The French did nothing.
Not long after the English prisoners began their exit from their makeshift camp, “Suddenly there rose the screech of the war whoop . . . this signal of butchery . . . was given by Abenaki Christians from the mission of the Penobscot.” The New Hampshire men, who were at the rear of the exodus, were seized first. “About eighty” of them were killed or dragged away.
At this point, the French general, Montcalm, hurried to intervene, but rather than give up their prisoners, the Indians tomahawked them. One onlooker said the English seemed absolutely “paralyzed” and presented “no resistance.”
The Canadians, BTW, were in this on the side of the French, and refused to lend the English any assistance. “When the tumult was at its height,” a witness saw “officers of the French Army walking about at a little distance and talking with seeming unconcern.”
An Englishman broke free and ran to a French guard, who “violently pushed him back among his tormentors.”
Parkman writes that “six or seven hundred people were carried off” and at the end of the day Montcalm, the French general, “succeeded in recovering more than four hundred.”
Parkman’s outrage is evident even in the footnotes, p. 353: “Montcalm, Bougainville, and several others say that the massacre was begun by the Abenakis. This Abenaki band, ancestors of the present Penobscots, were no idolaters, but had been converted more than half a century. In the French list of Indian allies they are set down among the Christians.”
War makes animals out of men, truly.
Stay tuned.
