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Frank Herbert: The Works
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The Secret Gnomonclature of James Joyce's "The Sisters" Revisited
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2014
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Up the Creek
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Pretty Little Dead Things and Other Stories
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2012
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Leve non Lespri and Other Stories
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2012
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Memphis Blues Again Episode 1
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2013
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Franz Kafka: The Trial.
A few weeks ago by accident I stumbled across Orson Welles’ 1962 version of the Franz Kafka novel The Trial. Intrigued, and knowing next to nothing about Welles, I was next led to the 2015 documentary Magician: the Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles which, among other things, suggests that Welles had remade Kafka’s book in his own image. Finally, as my own real life abruptly spiraled into som
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I know something about James Joyce and very little about Richard Wagner, although Timothy Martin's 1991 book Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence has begun the process of correcting this lapse in my knowledge. This slender but daunting volume had be ...more |
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For better or worse, the triumph of Modernism tracks the rise of industrialism and the transformation of small, independent states into hierarchies topped by superstates. One effect of this social metamorphosis over the last century and a half has be ...more |
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| When I was a young child, they had many dumb toys. One was an inflatable Bozo the Clown boxing toy, vaguely ellipsoid in shape like a young-child-sized elongated egg, weighted at the bottom with sand, I think. So the young child would confront Bozo t ...more | |
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| Most of my life I've spent in the immediate presence of biologists. That was my own training, and that is mostly where I've worked ever since. As far as I know, I've never met a single person or coworker who has read Charles Darwin's seminal 1859 boo ...more | |
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One of the finest books I've recently read ― or rather, listened to, as I experienced it first as an utterly engrossing audiobook ― is Peter Godfrey-Smith's Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, from 2016. Admittedl ...more |
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Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, is one looooooooooooooong book. By itself, that’s no bad thing. Some of my favorite novels are long books. What it has going for it is its literary style. As I was swimming through it, especially the fir ...more |
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| In 1923 TS Eliot designated James Joyce's approach to writing the novel Ulysses as "the mythical method" ― "a way of controlling, or ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary ...more | |
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| Alfonso Zapico's 2011 book James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner ― A Graphic Biography, is most excellent. My hardbound, 231-page copy is a 2016 North American edition. Zapico's illustrations are first-rate. Occasionally he gets a fact wrong here or th ...more | |
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| If people know anything about the American Civil War's Battle of Chancellorsville, it is that this battle was Robert E Lee's masterpiece, despite the fact that it is also the place where Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was mortally wounded. But the Battle ...more | |
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Phillip wrote: "a friend of joyce is a friend indeed! - pass the shem and shaun and never mind the babble of the washerwomen at the brook ... its a beautiful music, this riverrun - turn it up and play it loud."I've puttered around the Wake but so far unwilling/unable to commit to actually doing something like reading it, although I do read about it now and then. I'm unconvinced that it wasn't a substantial error on JJ's part. Your opinion?
a friend of joyce is a friend indeed! - pass the shem and shaun and never mind the babble of the washerwomen at the brook ... its a beautiful music, this riverrun - turn it up and play it loud.
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