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Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
Limelite
, January 04, 2012
From the first page, I knew I was in the hands of a master story-teller and was about to have an original reading experience. Mantel’s novel covers the life of Thomas Cromwell from the time he is secretary to Cardinal Wolsey who is on the outs with Henry VIII to the height of his puissance just after the birth of Elizabeth before the Boleyn family �" and Anne, in particular �" fall out of favor. It is a scheming, violent, tricky time to be alive. The most difficult trick may be to stay alive. It is the time of the great schism between Henry’s England and Pope Clement’s Rome. Heresy is everywhere in Europe: in Henry’s court, in Erasmus’ Low Countries, in Luther’s Germany, in Francis’ Cathar region. In England, burnings for religious divergence and beheadings for political ones are rampant, even when it is difficult to distinguish which treason is being committed �" the political or the religious. After the fall of Wolsey, to whom Cromwell remains loyal, he discovers that writing the laws is the most powerful position in the realm, and so Cromwell sets about pleasing his king and removing his enemies. All the time, this seemingly ruthless courtier is the soul of generosity in his domestic life, bringing up outcasts and orphans of every stripe, finding them good careers and good spouses. He may be ruthless in helping England modernize, seeing that the yoke of Rome is keeping England from asserting itself as a true power on the geopolitical stage, but he is not without mercy, and does everything he can to urge Thomas More from his dogmatic opposition regarding the Law of Succession that disinherits Katherine’s daughter Mary. Because More is an ideological man with unswerving principles and Cromwell is a pragmatic man of adaptive principles, there is no saving More. Wolf Hall refers to the ancestral manse of the Seymores, who at the end of the novel we see Cromwell has set his sights on (in the person of Jane) as the candidate to supply England with its male heir, something Anne could not do. Mantel’s “take” on Cromwell may not precisely coincide with how he was regarded in life. Her portrait of him is extremely favorable, More’s decidedly negative, Anne’s vituperative, Henry’s quixotic, and Wolsey’s magnificent. But all are magnificently rendered in her novel, which may be one of the 100 best books I’ve ever read. I didn’t want it to end, although I’m glad she closed the book on Cromwell before Henry did. Within months of the end of the novel, Cromwell’s star became a flaming meteor that plunged to the scaffold and went out.
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Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
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Hooper, Dan
Limelite
, March 17, 2008
Immerse yourself in the world of dead stars, black holes, MACHOs and WIMPs, cosmic microwave background radiation, and multiple universes. Let your mind enter where the body cannot go, where the hunt is on for the elusive missing mass and energy that must be in our Universe, keeping it flat, relative, and expanding. In clear, logically progressing prose style that is as natural as conversation, Dan Hooper has written one of the most accessible Modern Physics books for the non-physicist that this reader has ever encountered. The concepts and ideas are organized to allow the reader to make the same intellectual journey of discovery that was earlier forged by such people as Maxwell, Einstein, Fermi, Zwicky, Rubin, Kaluza, Klein, Penzias, and Wilson. Meet them all in the pages of DARK COSMOS. It's mostly empty out there, and of what you can see, well, that's only 5% of what exists. So, arm yourself by reading this book and come away with a newfound understanding about the 95% that is invisible stuff. Then you'll be ready when the time comes for the World to meet the Responsible Particles of dark matter and dark energy.
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