Depths - Oceano

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...I am always on the look out for anti-ageing creams that actually work, so was thrilled when a family member treated me to a jar of Elemis pro-collagen cream. The cream comes in a square white and silver box and really does look very classy. Inside the box is a round glass jar with white and silver lid. Full marks for the tasteful packaging from me! I always like to read the information on the box and this one makes lots of impressive promises. Elemis state that this cream will give noticeable results in just 15 days, by reducing the depth of your wrinkles by up to 75% and increasing the hydration of your skin by up to 45%. Elemis also promise that the cream will an accelerated lifting effect through increased collagen support. Before I tell you what I think about the cream, let me explain how this cream works. The clue is in... Read review

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Advantages: well researched and written
Disadvantages: subject matter may not appeal to all

...be completely deluded, though her conviction that everyone should understand Montaigne's genius as she does is all encompassing. It sees her refusing to be tied down by the expectations of society on her to marry or become a nun, and becoming a woman who lives alone and devouts herself to Montaigne and his works. The book opens with Marie on her death bed, with only her trusty servant Jamyn for company, but then follows her life from being a young girl who hides away in her dead father's library and teaches herself to read and study in Latin, to her discovery of the Essais and her engineering of a meeting with Montaigne in Paris. On meeting her hero, she is overcome by emotion and stabs herself with a hairpin to show the depth of her feeling - Montaigne is rather understandably a little scared by this, perhaps from her letters he... Read review

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Advantages: Well executed, incredibly atmospheric, good, subtle song progession
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...'In the Depths of R'yleh' is the debut album by US Lovecraftian funeral doom band Catacombs, with an all-Ancient Ones band roster consisting of Cthulu on vocals and lead guitar, Dagon on rhythm guitar, Yog Sothoth on bass and Sub Niggurath on Drums. Obviously the second half of that sentence is blatantly untrue: Catacombs is in fact a one-man project masterminded by one Xathagorra Mlandroth, also of funeral doom band Hierophant. The album is an exercise in crushing and oppressive doom very much in the style of genre-veterans Evoken and Esoteric, and its Lovecraftian theme suits the music perfectly, evoking powerful images of immense, aeons-old underwater megaliths, vast subterranean caverns and long-dormant god-like beings of unfathomable age and immeasurable horror. The music rumbles along relentlessly, merging slow, hypnotic... Read review

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