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Kōtarō Isaka ( 伊坂 幸太郎, Isaka Kōtarō, born ) is a Japanese author of mystery fiction, best known for his Hitman novel/manga series, including Maoh: Juvenile Remix (2007–2009), the first of which, 3 Assassins (2004, Japanese 2022, English), was adapted as a Japanese feature film, Grasshopper (2015), and the second of which, Maria Beetle (2010, Japanese 2021, English), was adapted as an American feature film, Bullet Train (2022). ![]() ![]() In Mormonism, salvation is defined in two unique ways. ![]() But ask a Mormon, “If you were to die right now, do you have the assurance that all of your sins are forgiven?” The typical response is, inevitably, “I hope so,” “I think so,” or just plain, “No.” Why is this? ![]() Many times Mormons are not familiar with their history or doctrines, allowing them sometimes to assume the Christian is either making something up or taking something out of context. 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The extant work only survives in a fragment (two parchment sheets that had been used as a binding of a book ) of 661 octosyllable (unusual for a chanson de geste) verses in assonanced laisses (conserved in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels ) written in a central France dialect, dating from c. The poem is sometimes grouped with the Geste de Doon de Mayence or "rebellious vassal cycle" of chansons de geste. The poem tells the story of a rebellious young French lord, Isembart, who allies himself with a Saracen king, Gormond, renounces his Christianity, and battles the French king. Along with The Song of Roland and the Chanson de Guillaume, it is one of the three chansons de geste whose composition incontestably dates from before 1150 it may be slightly younger than The Song of Roland and, according to one expert, may date from as early as 1068. ![]() Gormond et Isembart ( English: "Gormond and Isembart") is an Old French chanson de geste from the second half of the eleventh or first half of the twelfth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes the book unique is the voice in which those moments are described-unfolding in a bird-like language that feels closer to thought than public address. The woman eats fruit, tries to replace a broken dial on her Salton mini oven, and wonders if the cows in a nearby field believe she is Jesus. In the most literal sense, the twenty stories that make up Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut, Pond, record a series of moments in the life of an English woman living alone on the west coast of Ireland. 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