We see our present-day pandemic world and New York City through the eyes of a former Wall Street veteran, Ridley, as he looks back upon his life in his enforced quarantine solitude, wondering what it all means and who he really is. The Reservoir follows an unexceptional man in an exceptional time. Chris Carter, director/writer, creator of The X-Files "Biting and funny, The Reservoir is also deep and reflective. In its depiction of the breakthrough longings that come with growing older, it also struck me, wonderfully, as a contemporary Death in Venice." "A heartbreaking story of the cloaked complexities of father-daughter love framed as a sort of virtuoso suicide note. I'll never look at Central Park the same way." "This beautiful fever dream of a novella put me in mind of Gabriel García Márquez because of its sense of romance-and humor-in the midst of calamity. The Sewing Girl's Tale shows that if our laws and our culture were changed by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be changed again.Ī former Wall Street veteran, quarantined by the coronavirus, becomes consumed with madness-or the fulfillment of his own mythic fate. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable-but at a terrible cost to herself.īased on rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the sanctuaries of the city's elite, the shadows of its brothels, and the despair of its debtors' prison. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation's top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah's and her assailant's lives. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel-the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. In addition, the following cards are currently banned: Notion Thief, Channel, Tinker, and Library of Alexandria.Renowned historian John Sweet offers a riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries-and how much has not. Relentless Rats) may have rules text that overrides this restriction.Ĭenturion follows the Vintage banlist. ![]() With the exception of basic lands, no two cards in the deck may have the same english name. (The identity of each card in the deck must be a subset of the Commander's)Ī Centurion deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the Commander. A card's colour identity is established before the game begins, and cannot be changed by game effects.Ĭards in a deck may not have any colours in their color identity which are not shared with the Commander of the deck. The other 99 cards in the deck must be common or uncommon.Ī card's colour identity is its colour plus the colour of any mana symbols in the card's rules text. Players choose a rare or mythic rare nonlegendary creature as the "Commander" for their deck. A full list of the rules are available below. The majority of the rules are the same as in normal commander, except decks consist of 99 uncommon or common cards, with a nonlegendary rare or mythic rare creature acting as the Commander. ![]() Centurion EDH is a variant of Commander/EDH.
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