#The Fifer

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Managed to pick up 3 genuine paintings on a treasure island to help me complete my donations!

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Thai (Tyree) Fifer

Thai (Tyree) Fifer

[scotianostra]

On February 16th 1954 the writer Iain Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife

Banks was a son of a professional ice skater and an Admiralty officer. He spent his early years in North Queensferry and later moved to Gourock because of his father’s work requirement. He received his early education from Gourock and Greenock High Schools and at the young age of eleven, he decided to pursue a career in writing. He penned his first novel, titled The Hungarian Lift-Jet, in his adolescence. He was then enrolled at the University of Stirling where he studied English, philosophy and psychology. During his freshman year, he wrote his second novel, TTR.

Subsequent to attaining his bachelor degree, Banks worked a succession of jobs that allowed him some free time to write. The assortment of employments supported him financially throughout his twenties. He even managed to travel through Europe, North America and Scandinavia during which he was employed as an analyzer for IBM, a technician and a costing clerk in a London law firm. At the age of thirty he finally had his big break as he published his debut novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984, henceforth he embraced full-time writing. It is considered to be one of the most inspiring teenage novels. The instant success of the book restored his confidence as a writer and that’s when he took up science fiction writing.

In 1987, he published his first sci-fi novel, Consider Phlebas which is a space opera. The title is inspired by one of the lines in T.S Eliot’s classic poem, The Waste Land. The novel is set in a fictional interstellar anarchist-socialist utopian society, named the Culture. The focus of the book is the ongoing war between Culture and Idiran Empire which the author manifests through the microcosm conflicts. The protagonist, Bora Horza Gobuchul, unlike other stereotypical heroes is portrayed as a morally ambiguous individual, who appeals to the readers. Additionally, the grand scenery and use of variety of literary devices add up to the extremely well reception of the book. Its sequel, The Player of Games, came out the very next year which paved way for other seven volumes in The Culture series.

Besides the Culture series, Banks wrote several stand-alone novels. Some of them were adapted for television, radio and theatre. BBC television adapted his novel, The Crow Road (1992), and BBC Radio 4 broadcasted Espedair Street. The literary influences on his works include Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Arthur C. Clarke, and M. John Harrison. He was featured in a television documentary, The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks South Bank Show, which discussed his literary writings. In 2003, he published a non-fiction book, Raw Spirit, which is a travelogue of Scotland. Banks last novel, titled The Quarry, appeared posthumously. He also penned a collection of poetry but could not publish it in his lifetime. It is expected to be released in 2015. He was awarded multitude of titles and accolades in honour of his contribution to literature. Some of these accolades include British Science Fiction Association Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Locus Poll Award, Prometheus Award and Hugo Award.

Iain Banks was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the gallbladder and died at the age of 59 in the summer of 2013.

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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

1984 TV special advertisement

Watch 📺

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Girlfriends 🦁🪽+🦌🌿

Aenigma Sphinxine and Fifer Fawn :) resident beautiful and mythical girlfriends

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Thai (Tyree) Fifer

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Band of the 20th Maine Infantry. USAHEC.

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Playing around with another one of my 18th century favorites, Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife. I met a wonderful fiddler at Salem this weekend who reminded me how much I love this tune; I only wish I had recorded our rendition, as I tend to compulsively do, but that wouldn't have been very period accurate of me while playing for the officers' luncheon...

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Thai (Tyree) Fifer

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Tyree Fifer

Thai (Tyree) Fifer

Thai (Tyree) Fifer

Tyree Fifer

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Andrew Carnegie's birthplace museum, Dunfermline.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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That feeling when you discover that not one but TWO separate people know and enjoy a super niche book series that you love >>>

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Walt Disney Wonderful World Of Gardening

ca. 1977 Mickey Mouse Seed Shop store display

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FIFER FAWN 🦌

OC art from my backlog of stuff since I've been sort of MIA lately

I'm SOOOO art blocked my bad guys I'm getting back into it. The end of spring semester kicked my ass so hard and I'm still getting back to normal lol

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Tyree Fifer

[thebaffledcaptain]

sharing a room with someone for the past week and I had to go in and switch my alarm sound because I had to pretend to be a normal person and not a person whose alarm is set to the 1756 english reveille