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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50 – Nostalgia
Finished this issue; of the last five stories, three are first person pov, two are in third. The stories: A man in his early sixties plans to leave his wife who has advanced Alzheimers and take off with a younger … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50
Eight stories read out of thirteen. Four first person pov, four third. A man getting over the death of his wife; a middle-aged woman anxious to make somebody aware of what she did as a kid; a man with marital … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50 – To A Stranger
All set to complain again; after three good stories, I thought I’d found a stinker. And, to find out that To A Stranger by Daniel Villasenor was the top prizewinner of their Fiction Open made me doubly frustrated (as a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE & WRITING: Glimmertrain Issue 50
Pressured by the lack of space on my hearth, I decided to try to play catchup once more with the lit journals and so selected the earliest Glimmer Train, that being (blush) Spring 2004. Making my mind up beforehand to … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Wrap Up
It is a great matter to observe propriety in these several modes of expression, as also in compound words, strange (or rare) words, and so forth. But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – In Review
I stopped too soon, and yet while another party rages as before–again, intent gone astray as led instead by human nature–the meaning is there and vague, unclear. Doc enjoys this second party; a surprise he soon finds out about and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Metaphor
"The element of the wonderful is required in Tragedy. The irrational, on which the wonderful depends for its chief effects, has wider scope in Epic poetry, because there the person acting is not seen." Aristotle, Poetics, Part XXV Mary Talbot, … Continue reading Continue reading
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POETRY: January
Afterstorm day, white laden branches black beneath cut sharply into bluest sky alit by yellow morning sun, all so pure it hurts the eye to see it. Is is real? By afternoon grey clouds creeping cover all, for just a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Story
I’m finally getting to finish this novel, having sidetracked myself for the better part of a week or more in analyzing it. I find, having ventured a few chapters further that the episode of the planning and the party for … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck
Unreal. I’m up to twelve pages, single-spaced, and still working. Although the vast majority of the text is taken up in quotations from either Poetics or Cannery Row, there is some input by me in comment. This is not what … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: An Essay on Cannery Row
It doesn’t look like I’ve done much yet, but I don’t have a written outline–that’s not my style of writing–so I just started from point A and with the help of my notes, will continue on from there. But, just … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Aristotle on Steinbeck
This post started out as a comment in response to those by Steve and Mark at this post of mine, but in my usual rambling manner, got too ungainly to fit into one of those little comment boxes: I think … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Aristotle on Plot – (Just a Beginning)
Yes, story is important, although it need not be epic in nature, just something that touches the heart or stirs the mind to interest. For me, the enjoyable journey through a story is fed by good writing. I can’t get … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row and Poetics
A most interesting development in the reading… For many chapters, Mack and the boys have been planning a party for Doc just to show their appreciation of him. Well, it starts out as they need to make money to be … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Cannery Row – Character as Statement
When a writer wants to express more than a story, when he wants to reveal not just a personality but a human trait, one of the best means is through one of the characters in a segment of story. Steinbeck … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology