I’m insanely stoked. Mark Danielewski is coming to Portland, and I get to leave work a little early to drive up there and see him. My plan is to get House of Leaves and The Whalestone Letters signed if possible, and buy Only Revolutions while I’m there. God I hope I’m brave enough [...]
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I feel a tiny TINY bit bad for those awesome sites who’ve long maintained archives of public domain literature (Gutenberg, C.U.T., and this UK library to name a few), because now they’ve got some serious competition. But at the same time, now they don’t HAVE to maintain those libraries. They probably weren’t making a [...]
Articulating Lawrence’s theories deadens them in the novel. the metaphors become dramatizations of his obscure language rather than open metaphors with the suggestion of what he’s writing about.
Similarly, The Rainbow is only successful because Ursula’s story is unfinished and unresolved. We don’t know what happens to her–only that she has the potential to become a [...]
Andrew Harrison. “D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Perfervid futuristc Style” and the Writing of the Body in The Rainbow“. Writing the Body in D.H. Lawrence. Paul Poplawksi ed. Greenwood Press: Connecticut. 2001. p43
Essay examins and summarizes Galsworthy’s attack on The Rainbow, Futuristic style of writing in the Ursula sections. Galsworthy attacks Lawrence’s reiterative style. Essay examins how [...]
There’s a somber dinner-party, and Senor don Vincente Ribiera, Dictator of Costaguana goes, as does Captain Mitchell, Mrs Gould and husband Don Carlos, administrator of San Tome silver mine.
the head of the chairman of the railway board (from lond) is complaining about the train and car trip over. and talks with Mrs Gould about the [...]
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I’m trying to read and understand Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo. I’m having a hell of a time. BUT, I think if I write about what I do know, it might help me understand.
Chapter 1: The town’s name is Sulaco in the Republic of Costaguana in the cape of Punta Mala. There’s a legend about some Americanos [...]
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“The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it’s like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval.” (91)
but it’s hard to know how seriously to take her, because her prose is so caffeinated that you can’t always separate the sense from the sensibility.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040628crbo_books1
Quote from Malidoma Patrice Some’s autobiography Of Water and the Spirit:
My visual horizon had grown disproportionately. I was discovering that the eye is a machine that, even at its best, can still be improved, and that there is more to sight than just physical seeing. I began to understand that human sight creates its [...]
Quote from Malidoma Patrice Some’s autobiography Of Water and the Spirit:
My visual horizon had grown disproportionately. I was discovering that the eye is a machine that, even at its best, can still be improved, and that there is more to sight than just physical seeing. I began to understand that human sight creates its [...]