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nobordersdaily: Some people were inspired to travel by atlases. Some people, by maps. But for some, nothing gave them the travel bug like the adventures of Tintin. On the eve of the boy wonder’s big-screen debut, Lev Grossman considers the comic books that changed his life. Don’t know how to enter Tintin’s universe? Here’s a roadmap to the teenage journalist’s many worlds of wonder. (via A Guide to Tintin’s Adventures : Daily Traveler : Conde Nast Traveler)

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Some people were inspired to travel by atlases. Some people, by maps. But for some, nothing gave them the travel bug like the adventures of Tintin. On the eve of the boy wonder’s big-screen debut, Lev Grossman considers the comic books that changed his life. Don’t know how to enter Tintin’s universe? Here’s a roadmap to the teenage journalist’s many worlds of wonder. (via A Guide to Tintin’s Adventures : Daily Traveler : Conde Nast Traveler)

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Posted on Monday, January 9, 2012. Tagged with: tintintraveladventurescomicsBDLev Grossman
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Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.

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