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Pie man
Pie Man explores the story of a boy, Adam Olszewski, who on his seventh birthday tries to leave his family house but can't. When his mother opens a successful pie-making business out of the house (using a self-portrait drawn by the boy as its logo), Adam's world begins to expand and he takes on a keen, almost scientific interest in the lives of his neighbors.
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Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens (1975) is one of most important documentary films of the past thirty years, gaining the status of a cult classic. Matthew Tinkcom argues that the film reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured.
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Singing in Heaven and Shouting on Earth: Ritual Prayer and the Mystical Voice in the Life of Pirona the Recluse
This paper explores the role of voice in the fifteenth-century hagiography of the recluse Pirona, who lived a religious life while voluntarily enclosed in a dwelling attached to the church of St. Nicholas outside the city walls of Mechelen. Her hagiographer-confessor describes Pirona’s voice and foregrounds her speech throughout the text. His representations of her words and the quality of her voice illustrate Pirona’s mystical proximity to the divine and underline her connection to himself and his fellow friars. In scenes that include ritual prayers or liturgical chants, Pirona’s voice transforms her mind and body, testing the limits of her humanity and bringing her closer to the divine.
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Diethyl Azelate for the Treatment of Brown Recluse Spider Bite, a Neglected Orphan Indication
Brown recluse spider bite releases hemolytic and cytotoxic phospholipase D to the wound that may cause necrosis or even death. We examined diethyl azelate (DEA), a plasma membrane fluidizer with a broad range of immunomodulatory activities, as a potential treatment for the brown recluse spider bite.
Topical DEA was used in emergency to treat brown recluse spider bites in a human subject. We subsequently evaluated the effects of DEA on hemolysis induced by the brown recluse spider venom, recluse recombinant phospholipase D (rPLD), and venoms from honey bee and moccasin snake, and on phospholipase A2 activity in the bee and snake venoms and in human urine.
Topical DEA resolved the consequences of human brown recluse spider envenomation in two weeks. In vitro, DEA inhibited hemolysis caused by the brown recluse spider venom and rPLD and suppressed phospholipase A2 activity in a dose-dependent manner.
DEA is a promising novel therapy for the brown recluse spider bite and perhaps even unrelated envenomations involving PLDs.
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Come and find me
After her lover and partner, Daniel dies during their climbing vacation in Switzerland, computer security expert and reformed hacker Diana Highsmith became a recluse. She didn't need to leave her home, she could do all her work on the computer. But when her sister goes missing, she's forced to face her demons and the outside world again.
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Massive dermal ulcerative lesions due to brown recluse spider bite: a rare case report and review of literature
A brown recluse spider (BRS) bite is challenging to confirm, but may be clinically diagnosed by considering the location, the season of the year, and the clinical manifestations. Here, the case of a 26-year-old male who presented after an insect bite with a skin lesion, bruising, severe swelling, and diffuse blisters on the right lower extremity after three days, is described. Following clinical examination, patient history assessment, and consideration of other relevant factors, the patient received a differential diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis caused by BRS bite. Although spider bite poisoning is rare, proper diagnosis and management are important because, in some cases, the outcomes may be devastating.
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The other
When two boys--John William Barry and Neil Countryman-- meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they're brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington's remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits--and each other--to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man. But John Willliam makes a radically different choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without hypocrisy. When John enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedy--one that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation.--From publisher description.
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Sanctity, Solitude, and Society in Early Canada: The Life of Jeanne LeBer, Recluse of Ville-Marie (1662–1714)
As a religious recluse in Ville-Marie (today’s Montréal), Jeanne LeBer pursued a devout life voluntarily confined to her dwelling. After her death, the Sulpician priest François Vachon de Belmont wrote her hagiography, or saint’s Life, in a report sent to the Sulpicians in France. Belmont describes LeBer’s early life as a gradual retreat from the secular world, culminating in reclusion. As a recluse, however, LeBer received visitors, made pious donations, and was sought out for protective prayers in times of need. Belmont’s Life presents LeBer as at once separate from the world and intimately involved in the aims and anxieties of her colonial society.
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