Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE:Prairie Schooner, Winter 2004 – Stories, Both of Them

Honest to God, there are only two stories in this issue.  I did read many of the poems, but didn’t bother with the essays other than a quick scan.  But the two stories were good ones. What Happens Next by … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & REALITY?: A Clockwork Orange – Language

Sitting here, still plattied in my robe, slooshying to the von of the cars of the vecks ittying to rabbit in the factory.  My glazzies viddying the leaves, peeting coffee, a cancer in my rooker and my gulliver wondering what’s … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Finale

There may not have been much really new to me here, only in that I’ve taken classes, courses, seminars, and read a lot on writing, but the manner in which this essay was written–and of course, the time–was interesting in … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Composition

Some interesting points made here, in the lyric quality of the writing: Demosthenes:  "This decree caused the danger which then beset the city to pass by just-as a cloud." For the thought is expressed throughout in dactylic rhythms, and these … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Voice and Language

Well I must admit, the language is starting to get to me. But there were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could even slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Diction

Of the five elements named, that is: Concept, Passion, Figures, Diction, and Composition, the course of diction is truly my favorite. It may, however, be pointed out that stately language is not to be used everywhere, since to invest petty … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Society

Interesting development, although not at all unexpected.  Alex is the natural leader of his small group of miscreants.  He attacked the weakest (minded) member of the group for making comments about a girl singing that Alex actually enjoyed listening to.  … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Getting Ready…

…for the Burlington Library Book Sale, and this time, my list is alphabetized by author since the library is good enough to do so besides having them filed on shelves by grouping and topics.  I never need wander through the … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Theme

Burgess has presented an outrageous future world, and pushed us into it where we stumble about wondering, what the hell happened? There is a schism of wide proportion between the young generation of Alex’s contemporaries and the old, the starry … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Terms

Just found (and added a link to) a "guide to classical and ranaissance rhetoric":  The Forest of Rhetoric, a site run by Brigham Young University.  It sure helped in reading On The Sublime in seeking out definitions of hyberbaton (sic) … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Doing What Comes Naturally

Although I don’t quite understand the concept of "figures" as an element of the sublime, I’ve decided to plow ahead and grasp the meaning through the examples given.  This appears to relate to the manner in which passion is expressed: … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Language First

Aside from the easy violence of this future world, there is the language of the first person narrator (Alex) to accept. Then brothers, it came.  Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven.  I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Building

Okay, so here’s how the “To Read” pile looks after a couple of Library Book sales, and unfortunately, just a week or two prior to another.  Frankly, I have to proudly say that of all the library sales I’ve been … Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Not Sublimity of Language and Concept?

Or perhaps it simply cannot be judged by Longinus or time: The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shooms–"wuf waf wof" — so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Next Up–A Clockwork Orange

This novel by Anthony Burgess should be a big change from the South of Faulkner, Morrison and McCarthy.  I’d seen the film back when it came out in 1963 or so, but don’t remember much of it. Should be quite … Continue reading Continue reading

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