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tops weekend
Amanda Mundalamo, South Africa
11 May 2015
thank you for an awesome weekend, will definitely come back.
Ntombizandile Hlekane, South Africa
28 April 2015
Amazing service!
excellent excellent excellent
ntsikelelo sakhele, South Africa
09 February 2015
From the moment we walk in the service was warmand helpful and the reception (Barry).The room was excellent and exactly what we needed.The food was well prepared and FRESH and the service in the restaurant as excellent (Joseph).i have nothing negative to say about three Oaks and Aloe.please visit the Place and experience good service and the staff are willing to bend backwards for us.thank you
Heaven on Earth
Rene Mabotha, South Africa
02 February 2015
I don't even know where to start but my husband and I had a phenomenal stay at Three Oaks. The staff, The room and the food were absolutely outstanding!!! It was like Heaven on earth! The dinner menu was different every night therefore we looked forward to new ideas. Well done 3 Oaks. I will definitely recommend this place to anyone out there. We are planning to come back soon. Keep up the GOOD work!!
Outstanding Facilities
Themba Ntuli, South Africa
02 February 2015
Fantastic service received from the team! Semanga is such an exceptional host well done. Room facilities were outstanding. Will definitely come back.
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xolani khoba, South Africa
24 November 2014
Great ambiance, great food and fantastic service.
Five Star
Bruce Clegg, South Africa
03 November 2014
We thoroughly enjoyed our weekend. Unknown to the lodge it was our anniversary celebration, and we received honeymoon treatment. The staff and manager were beyond helpful and friendly. We felt rested and relaxed and would love to go back soon.
Amazing Weekend
Portia Masombuka, South Africa
22 September 2014
Wow what an amazing weekend we had at Three Oaks. This place is truly amazing and close to most places that can visit. The service we received was exceptional from Barry who minds the reception right to the Waiters at the Restaurant. Everyone has a high regard of service and they pride themselves in providing the best service. We received 4 Star service all the way, this hotel should not be rated as a 1 star it should definitely be rated as a 4 star because the service is that good. And the welcome setup we got in our room upon arrival was amazing and fitting of the occasion of my better half's birthday celebration. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for a nice tranquil place to stay in the Hartebeespoort area, they would not regret at all. I will definitely be returning for another visit in the future
Perfect Stay
Johan van Niekerk, South Africa
22 September 2014
One of the most amazing places to stay, staff was excellent and friendly. Will definitely go back.
Awesome Stay
Sibusiso Mokoena, South Africa
18 September 2014
Wow, what great hospitality, service, and place to getaway to. My wife and I enjoyed ourselves, the staff was so friendly and very helpful, they understood what it means to serve people. I would recommend it to any couple anytime, great for romantic getaways and family weekend trips. To Semanga Zakwe and Team, great work guys. Thank you so very much, keep up the excellent work.
Sheevaun Cairns, South Africa
18 August 2014
What an amazing place! My husband and I had a fabulous weekend away. From the staff to the food, we could not find fault in anything and that is a huge thing for me being very fussy about service, etc. I was quite taken aback that I could not fault anything! The staff are fantastic - so friendly and professional! Oscar is a brilliant chef, Semanga is an absolute star and Joseph too who brought us our food and drinks, he makes a mean cocktail too! We will definitely be back! Keep it up guys, your service is fantastic which is hard to find these days! Thanks for everything!
Yolanda Mitchell, South Africa
11 August 2014
This little hotel is beautiful; small enough to be intimate, but with service to rival the best. Lovely rooms!
Weekend getaway
Tumi Jane, South Africa
04 August 2014
Lovely stay, very clean and friendly staff.
Relaxing stay!
Merleesa Govender, South Africa
05 May 2014
Our stay at 3 Oaks and an Aloe was relaxing. The view of the dam & mountains from the Aloe room is very scenic. Both breakfast and dinner meals were delicious. Staff are very professional and friendly. We would definitely recommend this venue.
Anniversary weekend away
Marthe Mania, South Africa
29 April 2014
Thank you Three Oaks for a pampered, relaxed and romantic weekend away for my husband and I. It was our 1st anniversary and we couldn't have picked a better place to stay at. Keep up the excellent service, and we will definitely visit again.
Ilze Botha, South Africa
24 March 2014
The food and in particular the friendly staff are commendable. The hotel is lovely - very pleasing to the eye. We also appreciated the fact that you honoured the advertisement although the special changed from a massage to a boat trip. We would not have enjoyed the boat trip as this is not something special or new to us. The massage was heavenly. Thanks! A few things to mention that needs attention: The fancy shower in the room did not work other than the hand shower. The challenge with the air con due to high humidity caused a sleepless night on the second night due to "Japanese torture" effect. Water on the floor was evident of this issue the Sunday morning. We were charged for 2x J&B whiskeys which we only realised afterwards was incorrect. The mix was charged correctly though as only 1. Time for breakfast is noted as 07h00 in the morning. Saturday morning we waited until 8h00 before the staff was ready for us. We had to change our morning plans slightly due to this delay. Overall we enjoyed our stay at 3 Oaks and an Aloe. Will we visit again? Not sure.
Perfect Weekend Getaway
denford , South Africa
03 March 2014
We had a fabulous romantic and relaxing weekend for two. Very friendly and engaging staff, not to mention the food, 5 star. Will do it again.
Malema Pitsoane, South Africa
17 February 2014
Great place, good people and excellent service.
Best holiday place so far
thapelo Letsoalo, South Africa
06 January 2014
We enjoyed our stay here! Very private and the hospitality from the staff was awesome. Best relaxing place by far in Haartees!
Thank you
Sifiso Khathamzi, South Africa
23 December 2013
We enjoyed our getaway at Three Oaks and an Aloe, the treatment by the staff was super good, the staff are friendly always smiling and willing to help. I enjoyed the food and the stay in general. I THANK YOU.
Levon Shileds, South Africa
16 December 2013
The romantic weekend was a fantastic experience. The staff are friendly and they catered to our every need. I will alway remember three oaks and an aloe because they didn't make us feel like just a number. It was the perfect place to propose to my girlfriend which I have to say ended a fantastic weekend. We left with fond memories!
James Janse Van Rensburg, South Africa
14 October 2013
A comfortable, spacious room. Friendly, helpful staff and an great breakfast too. Wouldn't have changed a thing. Highly recommended.
Pleasant stay
Jean Staniforth, South Africa
23 September 2013
Our stay at the Three Oaks and an Aloe was very pleasant and must say the staff were always happy to help and very accommodating. I would definitely recommend this place for a relaxing and comfortable get a way from the chaos at home.
Great stay
Bongani Malaza, South Africa
12 August 2013
Great value for money. Service could have been better, but I guess it was busier than usual as it improved a lot after the 1st day. The staff is very friendly and helpful, even under stressful conditions. Will definitely be back.
Wonderful stay
robert nelson, South Africa
18 June 2013
Had a great time and would like to thank everyone for making our stay wonderful.
Perfect stay
thapelo Letsoalo, South Africa
02 April 2013
We loved it to the fullest!
Enjoyed my stay
DELENE FOUCHE, South Africa
19 March 2013
I enjoyed my stay as much as all the previous times I've been there. But I am a bit disappointed: I forgot something in the room and only realised it last night when I got home. I feel that they could have at least phoned me, seeing that they cleaned the room immediately after we left. I was in the Hartbeespoort area for the whole day, but are now almost 200 km away and have to go all the way back to collect the item I forgot.
Kenosi Rakumakoe, South Africa
02 May 2012
The hotel is in a peaceful and secluded located, but still close enough to the main tourist routes and attractions. Our stay was in a beautiful spacious self-catering Garden Villa unit and we loved it.
Thank you
madeleine greeff, South Africa
13 December 2011
We really enjoyed our stay at Three Oaks and an Aloe. It was very nice.
Three Oaks and an Aloe
Shaan Prithiraj, South Africa
22 March 2011
The stay at this establishment was brilliant. The staff at Three Oaks and an Aloe are exceptionally friendly and warmly inviting. Accommodation is close to all Hartebeespoort hotspots which can be thoroughly enjoyed. If I ever visit Hartbees again, I would definitely stay here!
Three Oaks and an Aloe
Nkosinathi Nhlapo, South Africa
13 December 2010
Had a very pleasant stay. Was welcomed by a friendly lady, Karin, who made us feel at home from the second we walked in. It's a beautiful hotel with friendly staff who gave world class service and are extremely helpful. I would highly recommend the hotel to anyone and will be returning again in the near future.
Three Oaks and an Aloe
Three Oaks and an Aloe Boutique Hotel is a luxury getaway located at the foot of the majestic Magaliesberg Mountains. With tranquil scenery overlooking the Hartbeespoort Dam, we offer a quiet retreat where you can vacation in tranquility and style.
We boast 17 individually decorated, luxurious en-suite rooms that have been designed with the holiday or corporate traveller in mind.
At Three Oaks and an Aloe, our facilities include an elegant dining area, a large swimming pool, and flat screen LCD televisions in all rooms, mini-bars, tea and coffee stations, free Internet access, and large tranquil gardens. Our Honeymoon Suites each have a spa bath and air-conditioning, as well as private balconies with marvelous views of the dam and the surrounding mountains.
We have conference rooms, an on-site spa and a boma for winters.
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Earlier yesterday (6.18.99), a hacker known as "ne0h" set out to show how easy hacking can be. Playing on his own dislike for the recent media attention Forpaxe has received, ne0h targetted servers previously defaced by the group.
In the past few months, Forpaxe has gained international press by defacing many government and military systems. Forpaxe messages have been honest in saying "no message, no morals", indicating they do not rely on any excuses for their activity. Recent defacements by the group have been focusing on insulting the FBI after recent high profile raids of suspected hackers in the U.S.
Beginning earlier this afternoon, ne0h began scanning the servers previously defaced by Forpaxe in an effort to learn more about how they operate. "I was curious why people thought they were skilled, so I decided to see for myself." ne0h commented.
Throughout the day, ne0h defaced the servers one by one replacing each web page with his own comments about Forpaxe. In a matter of hours, ne0h successfully defaced 9 of the servers previously altered.
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(attrition) how do you feel about forpaxe?
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(attrition) why do you dislike them?
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(attrition) why are you doing all these defacements?
[ne0h] Im doing the defacements to show the world, and all the other kids who think Forpaxe is a bunch of talented, and skilled hackers, that all they are are worthless browser hackers and have nothing to proove but how stupid they really are.
(attrition) do you plan to do more regarding forpaxe and defacements?
[ne0h] "Yes, I think it's necassary to put forpaxe in their place, nothing but down."
The most 'outspoken' hack was done yesterday (6.17.99), and included an incredibly detailed list of information on Forpaxe, their hacks, and even included a small survey done by ne0h. The server 'www.flavoredthunder.com' was found with the details outlining:
Who is F0rpaxe? Why are they here? Are they talented? Are they hackers? Thoughts Bibliography FinaleThis level of detail paints a much different picture than mainstream mediahas picked up on.
According to ne0h, not only does he deface the page, he patches the holes used to gain access to the servers. Not only does he fix the hole, but each admin is left a nice note explaining how the machine was compromised, a sort of lesson taught by ne0h. In doing so, administrators can hopefully stay safe from hackers looking for a quick way in.
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Just not that great...or really that good, a little pricey but it's main st or off main st so I guess they can charge what they see fit for the area. I had the southern fried chicken second choice because they were not serving the short rib this nite(Sat),I expected fried chicken not a fried chicken cutlet w/gravy mashers and brocolli.It was not tender,not anything special at all for 20.00 just uninspireing,not traditional southern fried.Also had soup chicken/corn 7.00 but again not that good spices were off somehow and watery.My wife had the jambalaya and was not impressed very spicy,1 shrimp,1crayfish and very small pieces of meat they could have added some nice chunks of meat ,but maybe that's to much to ask for at 22 bucks.We did enjoy the lobster mac-n-cheese but 12.00, come on.Maybe I just expect to much when I pay 20 for an entree or maybe I just want to say WOW that was really good and feel like I've gotten my monies worth no matter what I pay. No where to park ,nice looking bar/restaurant area and live entertainment downstairs which we did not stay for and nightly happy hour food and drink specials
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I heard its supposed to make you hallucinate. Is it true? Was it a good experience?
I'm 99% sure this against forum rules.
But you're asking if I've ever smoked a chemical they use to keep dead people from rotting?
No, I haven't
"According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, it is common for marijuana to be laced with PCP and/or embalming fluid, both of which produce a hallucinogenic effect....
Effects from exposure to embalming fluid include: bronchitis, body tissue destruction, brain damage, lung damage, impaired coordination, and inflammation and sores in the throat, nose, and esophagus. IT IS EXTREMELY CARCINOGENIC.
Short-term effects: Anger and frustration, depression, hallucinations and delusions, headache, impaired vision and coordination, increase in women's sexual appetites, loss of consciousness, memory loss, paranoia, physical violence, sleepiness, and vomiting.
Long-term effects: Brain damage, bronchitis, coma, convulsions. Coughing, destruction of muscle tissue, fever, heart attack, high blood pressure, inflammation of the throat, nose and esophagus, kidney damage, lung damage, maturation process cessation, pneumonia, and spinal cord destruction." Embalming Fluid
I don't know that I buy that it's common for mj to be laced with PCP or embalming fluid. Never happened to me and I've never known anyone that's experienced it. If someone asked me if I wanted to try it, I'd say no thanks.
"Discussion of other drugs is allowed in context/conjunction with marijuana."
Like 5drive said, its not against the rules if it has to do with marijuana. Besides, embalming fluid is a chemical not a drug.
It's only against the rules if I post it.
I'll probably get banned for this post too
wait wait wait... chemicals arnt drugs?
ive heard of people smoking blunts where the wrap was dipped in embalming fluid
its called a sherm blunt around here
i dont think id try it but i know people who wouldn't pass up the opportunity
I know I'll probably get called down for this, but I'd rather you get some useful info than worry about it. I've done about 10 times a long time ago. It lasts about 45 minutes and you literally cannot move. You don't hallucinate, you don't think, you don't talk, you don't move. Your body actually feels pretty good, but you're just stuck where ever you happen to be sitting. I do not suggest smoking this stuff. It is not enjoyable.
I do not condone this but I have tried it once (unknowingly). I did not have a bad experiance, my was very much like the quoted text above. I was stuck but it didn't feel like it, I felt like a rubber ball bouncing arund the walls and full of energy but couldn't use it, kept me up for awhile also. Lil hallucinogens while watchin fantasia while listening to techo, I swear they seemed in sync with eachother. it was quite euphoric but once again, very very very dangerous
They don't use real embalming fluid lmao that term is used for PCP.
Here is everything you want to know and, probably more.
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I wouldn't be able to smoke it. I would keep reminding myself that this shit is supposed to go into corpses.
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GWU, Presbyterian eyeing next season in final game
While there are no titles or playoff berths on the line, Gardner-Webb and Presbyterian both have things to play for.
Some of it may be pride or a little bragging right but, the stakes carry over into next year when the two teams clash at 1 p.m. Saturday in Clinton, S.C.
The Runnin' Bulldogs (6-5, 1-3 Big South) are hoping to close out the first season under head coach Carroll McCray with a winning record.
Unfortunately, they have to do that on the road, where Gardner-Webb has been less-than-spectacular.
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That's not to say the task is any easier for Blue Hose head coach Harold Nichols.
Presbyterian (3-7, 1-3 Big South) to avoid the conference cellar and a win over the Runnin' Bulldogs would secure fourth-place in the conference.
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The Runnin' Bulldogs, on the other hand, may be licking their defensive chops — ranking first in rushing defense by allowing just 121.1 yards per game and first in pass defense, giving up only 175.3 yards per game.
It spells of offensive woes for the Blue Hose and defensive rejoicing for Gardner-Webb.
"It will be a real challenge for our offensive line to run the ball and even pass the football because of their front seven," Nichols said.
The defense will have to keep an eye on Presbyterian junior wide receiver Jeremiah McKie. McKie is eighth in the conference with 44.8 yards receiving per game.
But, on the other hand, Gardner-Webb redshirt junior Kenny Cook leads the Big South with 84.6 yards per game. He and junior running back Juanne Blount are tied for fifth in the conference in touchdowns with eight.
"We have to identify where Kenny Cook is and Juanne Blount has had a great year," Nichols said. "They create formations and seams that can really put you in a bind."
Stats aside, the biggest thing on the line is momentum going into next year.
"I think there is plenty for us to play for," McCray said. "In growing our team, we have things we are trying to achieve and it takes some focus and maturity to play on the road."


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While speaking out against Russia's attempts to pressure its neighbors into joining the customs union, Lithuanian foreign minister Linas Linkevičius made one of the most mind-boggling gaffes I can recall. Musing to Reuters about the possibility of retaliation, he said the following:
"As you know, the Kaliningrad region is isolated, geographically isolated, so we could apply some measures also to cut something…Transport, we could cut off trains, but not only trains, also the supply of goods, whatever. It is theoretically possible. It was not discussed, it's not our way of thinking, it's not our methods."
It wasn't discussed…except by a senior government official, on the record, to journalists taking notes.* I'm reminded of the Faulty Towers episode in which John Cleese hosts a number of German tourists. Starting off with admonitions to his staff of "Don't mention the war!" by the end of the episode Cleese is goose stepping around the hotel, screaming in mock-German, and imitating Hitler. That's essentially what just happened only it wasn't in a 1970′s British sitcom it was in real life.
Whatever his intentions, and despite his feeble protestations that "it was not discussed," Linkevičius put the potential of an EU blockade of Kaliningrad front and center. I have absolutely no idea why he or anyone else would want do this. Blockading a country, even an often irascible one like Russia, is an act of war. It's an incredibly consequential step that should never be mentioned unless there's a serious intention of following through. It's certainly not something that you casually drop into the middle of a press conference followed up by "whatever."
There are any number of steps, even some very aggressive ones, that the EU can take against Russia if it so desires. I don't necessarily think it's a great idea, but the EU could increase tariffs, pass Magnitsky-like laws, increase taxes on natural gas, or crack down on international financial transactions. The list of realistic anti-Russian actions is virtually endless. But severing Kaliningrad's transportation links is absolutely not one of these options because it would be patently illegal under any possible interpretation of international law and because it is vastly out of proportion with Russia's transgressions against Moldova and Ukraine.
Dealing with the Russians is difficult, and I don't think anyone (even the Russians!) would claim otherwise. But if you're dealing with an aggressive and insecure country, one that easily takes offense and that is prone to conspiratorial thinking, why, in the name of God, would you so casually drop the possibility of a transportation and trade embargo?
I'm fairly confident the EU will emerge victorious from its current standoff with the customs union: it's a lot wealthier, more powerful, and more populous. But, as if we needed any reminder, the EU remains a bit of an institutional clown car. Sooner or later its irrational and unwieldy structure, is going to be it undoing.
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Ecco PressYear: 2000Length: 738 pagesPreview: HarperCollins
"A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She's standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blond head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full, flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory-crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic. Without the dress the girl would be female meat, raw and exposed."
She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. The story of Norma Jeane Baker—beter known by her studio name "Marilyn Monroe"—has been dissected for more than three decades, but never has it been captured in a narrative as breathtaking and transforming as Blonde.
In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most distinguished writers, reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity—and tells the story in Norma Jeane's own voice: startling, rich, and shattering. This most intimate portrait of Norma Jeane reveals a fragile, idiosyncratically gifted young woman who makes and remakes her identity, ever managing to survive against crushing odds to become the definition of stardom. Bit by bit, she tells her own epic story of how an emblematic American artist—perpetually conflicted and intensely driven—lost her way.
Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the distinct consciousness of the woman and the unsparing reflection of the myth, writing as she has never written before—ecstatic, completely absorbed, inhabited as if by the spirit of her extraordinary subject. Rich with psychological insight and disturbing irony, this mesmerizing narrative illumines Norma Jeane's lonely childhood, wrenching adolescence, and the creation of "Marilyn Monroe."
Distorted and misunderstood, the muted voice of Norma Jeane and the grand legacy of Marilyn Monroe are also a looking glass into the shadow-world of Hollywood. While paying tribute to the elusive art of acting and moviemaking, Joyce Carol Oates depicts the chilling panorama of an industry that nourishes and devours the "pure products" of America.
Blonde offers astonishing—and often disturbing—portraits of the powerful men in Norma Jeane's life: the Ex-Athlete, the Playwright, the President, the Dark Prince.
With fresh insights into the heart of a celebrity culture hypnotized by its own myths, Blonde is a sweeping novel about the elusive magic of a woman, the lasting legacy of a star, and the heartbreak behind the creation of the most evocative icon of the twentieth century.
A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She's standing with bare legs apart on a New York subway grating. Her blond head is thrown rapturously back as an updraft lifts her full, flaring skirt, exposing white cotton panties. White cotton! The ivory-crepe sundress is floating and filmy as magic. The dress is magic. Without the dress the girl would be female meat, raw and exposed ....
Ohhh Daddy gosh I'm sorry keeping you waiting so long why didn't you wait for me back at the hotel gosh why didn't you? Until the white lights are extinguished and the men-with-no-faces are gone and as in a cinematic quick cut they're alone together in the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria with quivering crystal chandeliers overhead and a guarantee of privacy and then she'll back away from him begging. That same baby breath. The doll eyes shiny with fear. No. Daddy, don't. See, I'm working? Tomorrow? Everybody will know if—But his hand, the husband's hand, will leap out. Both hands. Balled into fists. These are big hands, an athlete's hands, practiced hands, hands with fine black hairs on the backs. Because she's resisting him. Provoking him. Shielding her face against the justice of his blows—Whore! Are you proud? Showing your crotch like that, on the street! My wife!—with the force of his final blow sending The Girl with No Name staggering against the silk-wallpapered wall, sweet as any home run.
By Greg Johnson
Originally published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 12, 2000.
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist well-known for tackling large, controversial, uniquely American subjects.
Her novel "them," winner of the 1970 National Book Award, culminated in a depiction of the Detroit race riots of 1967; "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" (1990) dramatized an interracial teenage romance; and the Pulitzer Prize nominated "Black Water" (1992) offered a fictional rendition of the Chappaquiddick incident, from the viewpoint of the drowning young woman. Oates's short, grisly 1995 novel, "Zombie," suggested by the Jeffrey Dahmer case, explored the psyche of a serial killer in all-too-convincing detail.
Now 61, Oates has produced her longest novel to date, a 738-page epic based on the brief, dazzling life of Norma Jeane Baker, better known as "Marilyn Monroe." From her home in Princeton, N.J., Oates clarified her aims and ambitions in writing "Blonde," a novel perhaps destined to become the most controversial of her career.
What was the genesis of "Blonde"? What prompted you to choose Marilyn Monroe as the focus of a novel?
Oates: Some years ago I happened to see a photograph of the 17-year-old Norma Jeane Baker. With her longish dark curly hair, artificial flowers on her head, locket around her neck, she looked nothing like the iconic "Marilyn Monroe." I felt an immediate sense of something like recognition; this young, hopefully smiling girl, so very American, reminded me powerfully of girls of my childhood, some of them from broken homes. For days I felt an almost rapturous sense of excitement, that I might give life to this lost, lone girl, whom the iconic consumer-product "Marilyn Monroe" would soon overwhelm and obliterate. I saw her story as mythical, archetypal; it would end when she loses her baptismal name Norma Jeans, and takes on the studio name "Marilyn Monroe." She would also have to bleach her brown hair to platinum blond, endure some facial surgery, and dress provocatively. I'd planned a 175-page novella, and the last line would have been "Marilyn Monroe." The mode of storytelling would have been fairytalelike, as poetic as I could make appropriate.
Obviously, you've produced a long novel, not a novella. What happened?
Oates: In the writing, characteristically, the "novella" acquired a deeper, more urgent and epic life, and grew into a full-length novel. "What happened" is what usually happens in these cases. "Blonde" has several styles, but the predominant is that of psychological realism rather than the fairytale/surreal mode. The novel is a posthumous narration by the subject.
After I abandoned the novella form, I created an "epic" form to accommodate the complexities of the life. It was my intention to create a female portrait as emblematic of her time and place as Emma Bovary was of hers. (Of course, Norma Jeane is actually more complex, and certainly more admirable, than Emma Bovary.)
What led you to choose this unusual point of view, "a posthumous narration" by Norma Jeane herself?
Oates: This is a difficult question to answer. The voice, point of view, ironic perspective, mythic distance: this curious distancing effect is my approximation of how an individual might feel dreaming back over his or her own life at the very conclusion of that life, on the brink of extinction even as, as in a fairy tale, the individual life enters an abstract, communal "posterity." Norma Jeane dies, and "Marilyn Monroe," the role, the concoction, the artifice, would seem to endure.
At over 700 printed pages, this is your longest novel. But your original manuscript was even longer—1,400 pages. Why did you cut the novel so substantially?
Oates: At 1,400 pages, the novel had to be cut, and some sections, surgically removed from the manuscript, will be published independently. They are all part of Norma Jeane's living, organic life. To me, the language of Norma Jeane is somehow "real."
Still, a novel of such a length is a problem. Rights have been sold, according to my agent, to "nearly all languages" except Japanese where, if the novel were to be translated it would grow again by between one-third and one-half in length. In German, for instance, it will be massive enough!
You wrote and extensively revised this huge novel in less than a year. It must have been an intense writing experience?
Oates: I think, looking back upon the experience, that it is one I would not wish to relive. In psychoanalytic terms—though we can't of course "analyze" ourselves—I believe I was trying to give life to Norma Jeane Baker, and to keep her living, in a very obsessive way, because she came to represent certain "life elements" in my own experience and, I hope, in the life of America. A young girl, born into poverty, cast off by her father and eventually by her mother, who, as in a fairy tale, becomes an iconic "Fair Princess" and is posthumously celebrated as "The Sex Symbol of the 20th Century," making millions of dollars for other people—it's just too sad, too ironic.
Could you describe your writing process as this novel evolved?
Oates: With a novel of such length, it was necessary to keep the narrative voice consistent and fluid. I was continually going back and rewriting, and when I entered the last phase of about 200 pages, I began simultaneously to rewrite the novel from the first page to about page 300, to assure this consistency of voice. (Though the voice changes, too, as Norma Jeans ages.) Actually, I recommend this technique for all novelists, even with shorter work. It's akin to aerating soil, if you're a gardener.
Since the 1960s, a number of well-known writers—Capote, Vidal, Mailer, DeLillo, and others—have focused ambitious novels on famous, and sometimes infamous, historical figures. Do you consider "Blonde" as falling into this tradition of the "nonfiction novel"?
Oates: The line of descent, so to speak, may derive from John Dos Passos's "U.S.A." with its lively, inventive portraits of "real people" mixed with fictional characters. Dos Passos's Henry Ford, for instance, is an obvious ancestor of E.L. Doctorow's emboldened portraits in "Ragtime." Some of these are rather more playful/caricatured than serious portrayals of "real people."
So much of "Blonde" is obviously fiction, to call it "nonfiction" would be misleading. (I explain in my preface: if you want historical veracity, you must go to the biographies. Even while perhaps not 100% accurate, they are at least predicated upon literal truth, while the novel aspires to a spiritual/poetic truth.)
Were you concerned that the glare of Marilyn Monroe's celebrity and myth might divert attention from your artistic goals? What was the advantage to you, as a writer, of using the skeletal reality of her life, instead of creating a wholly fictional actress-character to dramatize the "spiritual/poetic truth" you sought?
Oates: I'd hoped to evoke a poetic, spiritual, "inner" truth by selecting incidents, images, representative figures from the life, and had absolutely no interest in a purely biographical or historic book. Pre-publication responses and interviews so far have indicated quite sympathetic and intelligent readings of the novel. Of course, there will be others, but angry or dismissive reviews can happen to us regardless of what we write, whether purely fiction or fiction based upon history. The writer may as well pursue his or her vision, and not be distracted by how others will respond in their myriad and unpredictable ways.
You did considerable research into Monroe's life and into the art of acting. Did you come to see parallels between acting and writing? Did you develop a sense of kinship with Monroe as you wrote the novel?
Oates: Not "considerable research" compared to my biographer/scholar friends. Rather, I created an outline or skeleton of the "life," collated with the "life of the time." ("Blonde" is also a political novel, in part. The rise of Red Scare paranoia, the betrayals and back-stabbings in Hollywood; the assumptions of what we might call Cold War theology: we are God's nation, the Soviet Union belongs to Satan.) All of my longer novels are political, but not obtrusively so, I hope.
Theater/acting fascinate, as a phenomenon of human experience. Why do we wish to "believe" the actor in performance, why are we moved to true emotions in a context which we know is artificial? Since 1990 I've been involved quite actively in theater, and have come to greatly admire both directors and actors. Norma Jeane seems to have been a naturally gifted actress because, perhaps, she so lacked an inner core of identity. "I guess I never believed that I deserved to live. The way other people do. I needed to justify my life." These were words of Norma Jeane's I affixed to the wall beside my desk. How many of us, I wonder, feel exactly the same way!
What concerns did you have in dealing with living people—for example, Monroe's third husband, the playwright Arthur Miller—in a fictional context? Did you contact or interview Miller, or anyone else who knew Monroe?
Oates: No, I didn't interview anyone about "Marilyn Monroe." It was not "Marilyn Monroe" about whom I wrote. Norma Jeane marries mythic individuals, not "historic" figures. Her husbands include the Ex-Athlete and the Playwright. (If I wanted to write about Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, I would need to write about these complex men in a different mode. Though, in fact, the Playwright is presented from the inside, often. It's clear that I identify with the Playwright, and that he becomes, eventually, the voice of conscience in the latter part of the novel. But I certainly didn't read Arthur Miller's memoir or any interviews with him about "Monroe.")
Monroe's reputation as an actress remains controversial. what is your assessment of her achievement as an artist?
Oates: She was a naturally gifted, often uncanny actress. Her fellow actors began by condescending to her, but ended by feeling awe for her on-film presence; she "out-acted" most of them. In movies, as in art, it isn't what goes in, but what comes out, that matters. Your process of, for instance, acting, or writing, is not important; only what it leads you to matters. And the process, mysteriously, would seem to have little to do with that final product.
Did the writing of "Blonde" change your own view of Norma Jeane Baker?
Oates: Ultimately, I didn't think of Norma Jeane as an isolated, idiosyncratic individual signifying nothing but herself, a specimen without a species; I came to think of her as a universal figure. I certainly hope that my portrait of her transcends sex and gender, and that male readers can identify as readily with her as female readers.
But I don't recommend, for anyone, writing a psychologically realistic novel about any "historic" individual who is said to have committed suicide. It's just too ... painful.
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone . . . . This is called solitude in public . . . . During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell . . . . You can carry it wherever you go.
—Constantin Stanislavski,
An Actor Prepares(translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood)
The acting area is a sacred space . . . where the actor cannot die.
—Michael Goldman,
The Actor's Freedom
Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Working Title: "Gemini: The Collected Works of Marilyn Monroe"


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Leon Hale
A blog featuring Houston Chronicle columnist Leon Hale
Monthly Archive for January, 2007
What you call rough duty
I've been reading about the soldiers and Marines doing road patrols in that Iraq war, and it's bothering my sleep. Even routine patrols, on streets and roads where little kids are riding bicycles, can result in disaster. You're cruising along in a Humvee and hit a road bomb and get blown up. A soldier on […] [Read More]
Here's what you ought to do
Did you ever get a piece of sound advice that you took, and which changed your entire life? I did, for sure. The advice came from my father. I was 24 years old and just home from three years in the Army. After I'd spent about a week sleeping and eating, my father asked if […] [Read More]
Two feet of the white stuff
OK, everybody can keep swapping opinions about chili and dumplin's if you want to, but I'm moving on. Last few days my partner and I have been talking to friends in Santa Fe (New Mexico, that is) about snow. Weather in that high country is of interest to us because, until a couple of years […] [Read More]
A pot of Texas health food
Today at my house there's a big pot of chili simmering on the stove. I don't know what took us so long. We should have fired up that pot several days ago when winter decided to come. In case any purists are tuned in, this is chili con carne. With meat, yeah. In some states […] [Read More]
Those Uncommon Colds
For a week I've been hearing that cold weather's coming to the Houston area. Maybe so. I hope it doesn't stall out at Waxahachie. If it really comes, I'm gonna pull on my longjohns, take my vitamins, get lots of sleep, wash my hands often and try to keep from catching a cold. That's my […] [Read More]
Searching for the Best Way To Make Coffee
We have a new coffee pot at our house. It's electric but not very high tech. It drips coffee through a paper filter into a glass pot and then the pad that the pot sits on stays hot until all the coffee is gone. It has one control button — a switch to turn it […] [Read More]
Is 2007 looking good?
Let's change the subject. We don't need to revive the Yankee-Rebel fight. Not on this blog anyway. That's ugly history and I say let it die. Here's something I'm interested in: How are you feeling about this new year we're moving into? Do you see much to be optimistic about? As a child of the […] [Read More]


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yeb.v{y -l,a.w l,b'B#st0894 -l;[ ryi[em yin.nih h'wh.y#st03068 r;m'a h{K ? tyix.v;m ;x.Wr y'm'q bel2 "I will dispatch foreigners to Babylon that they may winnow her And may devastate her land; For on every side they will be opposed to her In the day of her calamity.
H'c.r;a -t,a .Wq.q{byiw 'h.Wrez.w ~yir'z l,b'b.l#st0894 yiT.x;Liv.w ? h'['r ~w{y.B byib'Sim 'hy,l'[ .Wy'h -yiK3 "Let not him who bends his bow bend it, Nor let him rise up in his scale-armor; So do not spare her young men; Devote all her army to destruction.
l;[.tIy -l,a.w w{T.v;q .$er{D;h .${r.dIy .${r.dIy -l,a ? .Wmyir]x;h 'hy,rUx;B#st0970 -l,a .Wl.m.x;T -l;a.w w{n{y.ris.B ? H'a'b.c -l'K4 "They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, And pierced through in their streets."
~yir'QUd.m.W ~yiD.f;K#st03778 #,r,a.B#st0776 ~yil'l]x#st02491 .Wl.p'n.w ? 'hy,tw{c.Wx.B5 For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.
wy'h{l/aem#st0430 h'd.Whyiw#st03063 lea'r.fIy#st03478 !'m.l;a -a{l yiK ? vw{d.Qim#st06918 ~'v'a#st0817 h'a.l'm ~'c.r;a yiK tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.yem#st03068 ? lea'r.fIy6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD'S time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her.
.WM;DiT -l;a w{v.p;n#st05315 vyia#st0376 .Wj.L;m.W l,b'B .$w{Tim#st08432 .WsUn ? l.Wm.G#st01576 h'why;l#st03068 ayih h'm'q.n#st05360 te[ yiK H'n{w][;B ? H'l ~eL;v.m a.Wh7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, Intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore * the nations are going mad.
#,r'a'h#st0776 -l'K t,r,K;v.m h'wh.y#st03068 -d;y.B#st03027 l,b'B#st0894 b'h'z -sw{K ? ~Iyw{g .Wl.l{h.tIy !eK -l;[ ~Iyw{g .Wt'v H'nyeYim8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.
'hy,l'[ .Wlyilyeh reb'ViT;w l,b'b#st0894 h'l.p'n ~{a.tiP#st06597 ? aep'reT y;l.Wa H'bw{a.k;m.l yir\c .Wx.q9 We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed; Forsake her and let us each go to his own country, For her judgment has reached to heaven And towers up to the very skies.
.$elen.w 'h.Wb.zi[ h't'P.rin a{l.w l,b'B -t,a .WnaiPir ? H'j'P.vim#st04941 ~Iy;m'V;h#st08064 -l,a [;g'n -yiK w{c.r;a.l vyia#st0376 ? ~yiq'x.v -d;[ a'Fin.w10 The LORD has brought about our vindication; Come and let us recount in Zion The work of the LORD our God!
h'r.P;s.n.W .Wa{B .Wnyet{q.dic -t,a h'wh.y ayicw{h ? .Wnyeh{l/a#st0430 h'wh.y hef][;m -t,a !w{Yic.b11 Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.
h'wh.y ryi[eh ~yij'l.V;h#st07982 .Wa.lim ~yiCix;h .Wreb'h ? w{t'Miz.m#st04209 l,b'B#st0894 -l;[ -yiK y;d'm#st04074 yek.l;m ;x.Wr -t,a ? t;m.qin#st05360 ayih h'wh.y t;m.qin#st05360 -yiK H'tyix.v;h.l ? w{l'kyeh12 Lift up a signal against the walls of Babylon; Post a strong guard, Station sentries, Place men in ambush! For the LORD has both purposed and performed What He spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
r'm.viM;h .Wqyiz]x;h sen -.Wa.f l,b'B t{mw{x#st02346 -l,a ? ~;m'z -m;G yiK ~yib.r{a'h .Wnyik'h ~yir.m{v .Wmyiq'h ? yeb.v{y -l,a r,BiD -r,v]a tea h'f'[ -m;G h'wh.y#st03068 ? l,b'b13 O you who dwell by many waters, Abundant in treasures, Your end has come, The measure of your end.
a'B t{r'cw{a#st0214 t;B;r#st07227 ~yiB;r#st07227 ~Iy;m -l;[ yiT.n;k{v ? .$e[.ciB t;M;a .$eCiq14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: "Surely * I will fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you."
.$yitaeLim -mia yiK w{v.p;n.B tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.y#st03068 [;B.vin ? d'dyeh .$Iy;l'[ .Wn'[.w q,l,Y;K#st03218 ~'d'a15 It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.
w{t'n.Wb.tib.W w{t'm.k'x.B lebeT !yikem w{x{k.B#st03581 #,r,a hef{[ ? ~Iy'm'v#st08064 h'j'n16 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain And brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
~yiaif.n l;[;Y;w ~Iy;m'V;B#st04325 ~Iy;m !w{m]h w{TiT lw{q.l#st06963 ? ;x.Wr aec{Y;w h'f'[ r'j'M;l#st04306 ~yiq'r.B#st01300 #,r'a#st0776 -hec.qim ? wy't{r.c{aem17 All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, For his molten images are deceitful, And there is no breath in them.
@er{c -l'K vyib{h t;[;Dim#st01847 ~'d'a#st0120 -l'K r;[.bin ? ~'B ;x.Wr -a{l.w w{K.sin r,q,v#st08267 yiK l,s'Pim18 They are worthless, a work of mockery; In the time of their punishment they will perish.
.Wdeba{y ~'t'DUq.P#st06486 te[.B#st06256 ~yi[UT.[;T#st08595 hef][;m#st04639 h'Meh l,b,h19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; For the Maker of all is He, And of the tribe of His inheritance; The LORD of hosts is His name.
l{K;h recw{y -yiK bw{q][;y q,lex h,Lea.k -a{l ? w{m.v tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.y w{t'l]x;n#st05159 j,bev.w a.Wh20 He says, "You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.
'$.b yiT.c;Pin.w h'm'x.lim#st04421 yel.K yil h'T;a -ceP;m ? tw{k'l.m;m '$.b yiT;x.vih.w ~Iyw{G21 "With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,
b,k,r '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w w{b.k{r.w#st07393 s.Ws '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w ? w{b.k{r.w22 And with you I shatter man and woman, And with you I shatter old man and youth, And with you I shatter young man and virgin,
!eq'z '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w h'Via.w#st0802 vyia '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w ? h'l.Wt.b.W#st01330 r.Wx'B '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w r;['n'w23 And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock, And with you I shatter the farmer and his team, And with you I shatter governors and prefects.
r'Kia '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w w{r.d,[.w h,[{r '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w ? ~yin'g.s.W tw{x;P '$.b yiT.c;Pin.w w{D.mic.w24 "But I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea for all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes," declares the LORD.
tea ~yiD.f;k yeb.vw{y l{k.l.W l,b'b.l yiT.m;Liv.w ? ~,kyenye[.l !w{Yic.b#st06726 .Wf'[ -r,v]a ~'t'['r#st07451 -l'K ? h'wh.y#st03068 ~Ua.n25 "Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys the whole earth," declares the LORD, "And I will stretch out My hand against you, And roll you down from the crags, And I will make you a burnt out mountain.
tyix.v;M;h#st04889 h'wh.y -mUa.n tyix.v;M;h r;h '$y,lea yin.nih ? '$y,l'[ yid'y -t,a yityij'n.w #,r'a'h#st0776 -l'K -t,a ? r;h.l '$yiT;t.n.W ~yi['l.S;h -nim '$yiT.l;G.lig.w ? h'per.f26 "They will not take from you even a stone for a corner Nor a stone for foundations, But you will be desolate forever," declares the LORD.
tw{d'sw{m.l#st04146 !,b,a.w#st068 h'Nip.l !,b,a '$.Mim .Wx.qIy -a{l.w ? h'wh.y -mUa.n h,y.hiT ~'lw{[ tw{m.miv -yiK27 Lift up a signal in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz; Appoint a marshal against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
.Wv.D;q ~Iyw{G;B r'pw{v .W[.qiT #,r'a'B#st0776 sen -.Wa.f ? j;r'r]a tw{k.l.m;m 'hy,l'[ .W[yim.v;h ~Iyw{G 'hy,l'[ ? s.Ws#st05483 -.Wl][;h r's.pij#st02951 'hy,l'[ .Wd.qiP z'n.K.v;a.w#st0813 yiNim#st04508 ? r'm's#st05569 q,l,y.K28 Consecrate the nations against her, The kings of the Medes, Their governors and all their prefects, And every land of their dominion.
'hy,tw{x;P -t,a y;d'm yek.l;m -t,a ~Iyw{g#st01471 'hy,l'[ .Wv.D;q ? w{T.l;v.m,m#st04475 #,r,a -l'K tea.w 'hy,n'g.s -l'K -t,a.w29 So the land quakes and writhes, For the purposes of the LORD against Babylon stand, To make the land of Babylon A desolation without inhabitants.
l,b'B -l;[ h'm'q yiK l{x'T;w #,r'a'h#st0776 v;[.riT;w ? h'M;v.l l,b'B #,r,a#st0776 -t,a ~.Wf'l h'wh.y tw{b.v.x;m ? bevw{y !yeaem30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They stay in the strongholds; Their strength is exhausted, They are becoming like women; Their dwelling places are set on fire, The bars of her gates are broken.
tw{d'c.M;B#st04679 .Wb.v'y ~ex'Lih.l l,b'b yerw{Big#st01368 .Wl.d'x ? 'hy,t{n.K.vim .WtyiCih ~yiv'n.l .Wy'h ~'t'r.Wb.g#st01369 h't.v'n ? 'hy,xyir.b#st01280 .Wr.B.vin31 One courier runs to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To tell the king of Babylon That his city has been captured from end to end;
dyiG;m ta;r.qil dyiG;m.W #.Wr'y #'r -ta;r.qil #'r ? h,c'Qim w{ryi[#st05892 h'd.K.lin -yiK l,b'B .$,l,m.l dyiG;h.l32 The fords also have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.
.Wp.r'f ~yiM;g]a'h -t,a.w .Wf'P.tin tw{r'B.[;M;h.w#st04569 ? .Wl'h.bin h'm'x.liM;h#st04421 yev.n;a.w#st0582 vea'b33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor At the time it is stamped firm; Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her."
lea'r.fIy yeh{l/a tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.y#st03068 r;m'a h{k yiK ? j;[.m dw{[ H'kyir.dih te[ !,r{g.K l,b'B#st0894 -t;B#st01323 ? H'l ryic'Q;h#st07105 -te[#st06256 h'a'b.W34 "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me, He has set me down like an empty vessel; He has swallowed me like a monster, He has filled his stomach with my delicacies; He has washed me away.
.Wn'gyiCih l,b'B .$,l,m#st04428 r;Ca,r.d;k.Wb.n .Wn'm'm]h .Wn'l'k]a ? y'n'd][em w{fer.k#st03770 a'Lim !yiN;T;K#st08577 .Wn'['l.B qyir#st07385 yil.K ? .Wn'xyid/h35 "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon," The inhabitant of Zion will say; And, "May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say.
!w{Yic t,b,v{y r;ma{T l,b'B#st0894 -l;[ yirea.v.W#st07607 yis'm]x#st02555 ? ~i'l'v.Wr.y r;ma{T ~yiD.f;k yeb.v{y -l,a yim'd.w36 Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.
.$ebyir -t,a b'r -yin.nih h'wh.y#st03068 r;m'a h{K !ek'l ? H'M;y -t,a yiT.b;r]x;h.w .$et'm.qin -t,a yiT.m;Qin.w ? H'rw{q.m -t,a yiT.v;b{h.w37 "Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, An object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.
h'M;v#st08047 ~yiN;T -nw{[.m#st04583 ~yiL;g.l#st01530 l,b'b h't.y'h.w ? bevw{y !yeaem h'qer.v.W38 "They will roar together like young lions, They will growl like lions' cubs.
tw{y'r]a<0738'> yerw{g.K#st01484 .Wr]['n .Wg'a.vIy ~yirip.K;K#st03715 w'D.x;y39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.
!;[;m.l ~yiT.r;K.vih.w ~,hyeT.vim -t,a tyiv'a ~'MUx.B ? .Wcyiq'y a{l.w ~'lw{[#st05769 -t;n.v .Wn.v'y.w .Wz{l][;y ? h'wh.y#st03068 ~Ua.n40 "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams together with male goats.
~yid.WT;[#st06260 -mi[ ~yilyea.K ;xw{b.jil ~yir'k.K ~edyirw{a41 "How Sheshak has been captured, And the praise of the whole earth been seized! How Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations!
#,r'a'h#st0776 -l'K t;Lih.T#st08416 fep'TiT;w .$;vev#st08347 h'd.K.lin .$yea ? ~Iyw{G;B<01471!> l,b'B#st0894 h'M;v.l h't.y'h .$yea42 "The sea has come up over Babylon; She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.
h't's.kin wy'L;G !w{m]h;B#st01995 ~'Y;h#st03220 l,b'B -l;[ h'l'[43 "Her cities have become an object of horror, A parched land and a desert, A land in which no * man lives And through which no son of man passes.
#,r,a#st0776 h'b'r][;w#st06160 h'Yic#st06723 #,r,a#st0776 h'M;v.l#st08047 'hy,r'[ .Wy'h ? !eh'B r{b][;y -a{l.w vyia#st0376 -l'K !eh'B bevey -a{l ? ~'d'a -n,B44 "I will punish Bel in Babylon, And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth; And the nations will no longer stream to him. Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!
w{[.liB -t,a yitaec{h.w#st03318 l,b'b.B#st0894 leB -l;[ yiT.d;q'p.W ? t;mw{x -m;G ~Iyw{G dw{[ wy'lea .Wr]h.nIy -a{l.w wyiPim ? h'l'p'n l,b'B45 "Come forth from her midst, My people, And each of you save yourselves From the fierce anger of the LORD.
w{v.p;n -t,a vyia#st0376 .Wj.L;m.W yiM;[ H'kw{Tim .Wa.c ? h'wh.y -p;a !w{r]xem46 "Now so that your heart does not grow faint, And you are not afraid at the report that will be heard in the land - For the report will come one year, And after that another report in another year, And violence will be in the land With ruler against ruler -
t;[;m.viN;h#st08085 h'[.Wm.V;B#st08052 .Wa.ryit.w ~,k.b;b.l .$;rey -n,p.W ? h'n'V;B#st08141 wy'r]x;a.w#st0310 h'[.Wm.V;h#st08052 h'n'V;b#st08141 a'b.W #,r'a'B ? lev{m -l;[ lev{m.W #,r'a'B s'm'x.w#st02555 h'[.Wm.V;h47 Therefore behold, days are coming When I will punish the idols of Babylon; And her whole land will be put to shame And all her slain will fall in her midst.
yelyis.P -l;[ yiT.d;q'p.W ~yia'B ~yim'y heNih !ek'l ? .Wl.PIy 'hy,l'l]x -l'k.w vw{beT H'c.r;a -l'k.w l,b'b ? H'kw{t.b48 "Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the LORD.
l{k.w #,r'a'w ~Iy;m'v#st0776 l,b'B#st08064 -l;[ .Wn.Nir.w ? h'wh.y -mUa.n ~yid.dw{V;h H'l -aw{b'y !w{p'Cim yiK ~,h'B r,v]a49 Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.
l,b'b.l#st0894 -m;G lea'r.fIy#st03478 yel.l;x l{P.nil l,b'B#st0894 -m;G ? #,r'a'h#st0776 -l'k yel.l;x#st02491 .Wl.p'n50 You who have escaped the sword, Depart! Do not stay! Remember the LORD from afar, And let Jerusalem come to your mind.
.Wd{m][;T -l;a .Wk.lih b,r,xem ~yijel.P#st02719 #st06405 ? ~,k.b;b.l#st03824 -l;[ h,l][;T ~i;l'v.Wryiw#st03389 h'wh.y -t,a qw{x'rem .Wr.kiz51 We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; Disgrace has covered our faces, For aliens have entered The holy places of the LORD'S house.
.Wnyen'P#st06440 h'Mil.k h't.SiK h'P.r,x#st02781 .Wn.[;m'v -yiK .Wn.v{B ? h'wh.y#st03068 tyeB#st01004 yev.D.qim -l;[ ~yir'z .Wa'B yiK52 "Therefore behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "When I will punish her idols, And the mortally wounded will groan throughout her land.
yiT.d;q'p.W h'wh.y -mUa.n ~yia'B ~yim'y -heNih !ek'l ? l'l'x q{n/a,y H'c.r;a -l'k.b.W 'hy,lyis.P -l;[53 "Though Babylon should ascend to the heavens, And though she should fortify her lofty stronghold, From Me destroyers will come to her," declares the LORD.
~w{r.m#st04791 reC;b.t yik.w ~Iy;m'V;h#st08064 l,b'b h,l][;t -yiK ? h'wh.y -mUa.n H'l ~yid.d{v .Wa{b'y yiTiaem H'ZU[54 The sound of an outcry from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
~yiD.f;K#st03778 #,r,aem lw{d'G#st01419 r,b,v.w#st07667 l,b'Bim#st0894 h'q'[.z lw{q55 For the LORD is going to destroy Babylon, And He will make her loud noise vanish from her. And their waves will roar like many waters; The tumult of their voices sounds forth.
h'N,Mim d;Bia.w l,b'B -t,a h'wh.y ded{v -yiK ? !;Tin ~yiB;r#st07227 ~Iy;m.K#st04325 ~,hyeL;g .Wm'h.w lw{d'G lw{q ? ~'lw{q !w{a.v56 For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, And her mighty men will be captured, Their bows are shattered; For the LORD is a God of recompense, He will fully repay.
.Wd.K.lin.w dedw{v l,b'B -l;[ 'hy,l'[ a'b yiK ? tw{lUm.G lea yiK ~'tw{t.V;q#st07198 h't.Tix 'hy,rw{BiG#st01368 ? ~eL;v.y ~eL;v h'wh.y57 "I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
'hy,n'g.s.W 'hy,tw{x;P 'hy,m'k]x;w 'hy,r'f yiT.r;K.vih.w ? .Wcyiq'y a{l.w ~'lw{[ -t;n.v .Wn.v'y.w 'hy,rw{Big.w ? w{m.v tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.y .$,l,M;h -mUa.n58 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will toil for nothing#st7385, And the nations become exhausted only for fire."
h'b'x.r'h#st07342 l,b'B tw{m{x tw{a'b.c#st06635 h'wh.y#st03068 r;m'a -h{K ? .WT;CIy vea'B ~yih{b.G;h#st01364 'hy,r'[.v.W#st08179 r'[.r;[.tiT re[.r;[ ? vea#st0784 -yed.B#st01767 ~yiMUa.l.W qyir -yed.B ~yiM;[ .W[.gIy.w ? .Wpe['y.w59 The message which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (Now Seraiah was quartermaster *.)
h'y'r.f -t,a ayib'N;h#st05030 .Wh'y.m.rIy h\Wic -r,v]a r'b'D;h#st01697 ? .Wh'Yiq.dic -t,a w{T.k,l.B h'yes.x;m#st04271 -n,B h'Yiren -n,b ? w{k.l'm.l#st04428 tyi[ib.r'h#st07243 t;n.viB l,b'B#st0894 h'd.Wh.y -.k,l,m ? h'x.Wn.m r;f h'y'r.f.W60 So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.
aw{b'T -r,v]a h'['r'h#st07451 -l'K tea .Wh'y.m.rIy b{T.kiY;w ? ~yir'b.D;h#st01697 -l'K tea d'x,a#st0259 r,pes#st05612 -l,a l,b'B#st0894 -l,a ? l,b'B#st0894 -l,a ~yibUt.K;h h,Lea'h61 Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "As soon as you come to Babylon, then see that you read all these words aloud,
l,b'b '$]a{b.K h'y'r.f -l,a .Wh'y.m.rIy r,ma{Y;w ? h,Lea'h ~yir'b.D;h#st01697 -l'K tea 'ta'r'q.w 'tyia'r.w62 and say, 'You, O LORD, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.'
h,Z;h ~w{q'M;h#st04725 -l,a 'T.r;Bid h'T;a h'wh.y#st03068 'T.r;m'a.w ? ~'d'aem.l bevw{y w{B -tw{y/h yiT.lib.l w{tyir.k;h.l ? h,y.hiT ~'lw{[ tw{m.miv -yiK h'meh.B -d;[.w63 "And as soon as you finish reading this scroll, you will tie a stone to it and throw it into the middle of the Euphrates,
r{v.qiT h,Z;h r,peS;h -t,a a{r.qil '$.t{L;k.K h'y'h.w ? t'r.P .$w{T -l,a w{T.k;l.vih.w !,b,a wy'l'[64 and say, 'Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because * of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.' " Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
yen.Pim#st06440 ~.Wq't -a{l.w l,b'B#st0894 [;q.viT h'k'K 'T.r;m'a.w ? h'Neh -d;[ .Wpe['y.w 'hy,l'[ ayibem yik{n'a r,v]a h'['r'h#st07451 ? .Wh'y.m.rIy#st03414 yer.biD


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About Shannon: I'm a first generation college student, and I'm going to law school because I'm passionate about protecting constitutional rights.
Previous Legal and/or Professional Experience: I wrote my senior thesis about the regional development of married women's property law in the United States, and I took several constitutional law classes as an undergraduate. I also travelled to Chile to study human rights abuses.
What activities are you involved in? I enjoy studying languages and literature. In undergrad I was the President of the Spanish Club and a member of the Editorial Board of the college literary magazine. I also love to travel and organize public poetry readings.
Why did you choose NIU Law? I chose NIU Law for its affordability and its proximity to my home. NIU Law also appealed to me because of its efforts to expand access to legal education and because of its diversity.
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There are a wide variety of steak houses where you can order a modified gluten-free friendly dish, but Fleming's is one of those steak houses that takes it to the next level and offers a large gluten-free menu. I had the chance to dine at one of the Austin Fleming's locations recently and was pleasantly surprised at how large the gluten-free menu is, how knowledgeable the wait staff and chef were about the gluten-free lifestyle, and how eager they were to learn more about the lifestyle. [Read more...]
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Tuesday Treasures: Gluten-Free at Fleming's
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OUR OUTREACH strives to create and foster relations with various governmental agencies and non-profits to advocate on behalf of our members.
OUR MISSION is to advocate for Hmong chamber businesses in the competitive environment for the benefit of our members and the community.
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Black Bathrooms
When the home of J.Crew's Jenna Lyons appeared in Domino magazine, her black bathroom spawned a legion of copycats. In a space that essentially is known for making you feel squeaky clean, there's a perverse quality to coating it in black paint. Since the most inexpensive upgrade in any room is wall colour, would you take the plunge to create a chic — albeit slightly gritty — urban bathroom?
Not only did the black walls of Jenna's former Brooklyn brownstone make waves, the roughed-up oversized herringbone floor and brass fixtures are still having a ripple effect on decor.
Black walls are a striking backdrop for white fixtures, turning a pedestal sink into a sculpture. A slightly glossy paint finish makes the black feel more luxe and less goth.
Here the trim is painted out as well so that the overall envelope isn't chopped up. You would think the coverage hides a multitude of sins, but black actually makes imperfections like rough walls more evident, adding to the industrial flavour of this space.
Black gives this bathroom a decidedly masculine look when paired with white, like a tuxedo. Penny tiles are a perfect complement to the retro vibe.
Again a classic hexagon penny tile softens the effect and adds some light, since even the wainscoting is painted black. The clawfoot tub appears to float in space, and the graphic effect is emphasized by the shower curtain. To warm up a black and white scheme, add natural materials like a handmade basket and wood stool.
See our photo gallery of Black Rooms for more inspiration.
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