Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Leit Motif, Love and Politics

Posted on June 19, 2006 by susan

Love, of course, is the underlying theme of this novel, but it occurred to me that it is also a symbol with deeper connotations. The love Dr. Urbino and Fermina Daza have in their marriage is one that is typical … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Relationships

Posted on June 19, 2006 by susan

Another thing I find in Marquez is an ability to put the human element into a very relative form amid the routine lives of his characters, so that we understand their behavior in more traumatic events.  I love this segment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera – Character

Posted on June 19, 2006 by susan

Gabriel Garcia Marquez just has a way with making the mundane exciting.  His characters are carefully drawn out–I can imagine him sitting there thinking about them until he has someone whom he knows the reader will want to think about.  … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICITON: Book and Volume – Slow Reader

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Susan

I’ve lost my hard-learned knack of getting through  IF.  To give you an example, the transcript from I’ve made of my progress in getting outside from "my" apartment to the street to begin my mission (the text reponses/directions following the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Love in the Time of Cholera

Posted on June 16, 2006 by susan

Though I didn’t mention it, my amazon.com order came in yesterday and I’ve already added and moved around things on my reading list (lower right sidebar) to reflect the changes.  It’s tough to stay away from them and I did … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Poetry

Posted on June 15, 2006 by susan

In truth, I’m more impressed with the poetry in this issue (Vol. 30, No. 4) than in the short stories.  I am certainly no expert at either writing or critiqueing poetry, but words and form such as this delight me: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: Afternoon, A Story

Posted on June 15, 2006 by susan

I’ve added Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, A Story to my current reading, perhaps in advance of Patchwork Girl, another hyperfiction piece I seemed to be having some trouble negotiating–although I was intrigued by the presentation in its form.  I had started … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Poetry

Posted on June 13, 2006 by susan

While it was my intention to breeze through these literary journals quickly, reading just the limited number of short stories, I do tend to check out some of the many poems when walking with the book in hand or just … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Imagery

Posted on June 12, 2006 by Susan

I wish a picture was worth a thousand words; it’d be a lot faster… (Below) To read soon (found some more and had to add them to the list): (Below) Read long ago  (and yes, the shelves are about to … Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Prairie Schooner – Cream of the Crop

Posted on June 12, 2006 by susan

Well, I couldn’t get through all four stories in this Fall 2004 issue (vol. 78, no. 3) and though I still carry the guilt of that, it is in keeping with my new policy of forcing myself to give up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume – Observations

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Now that I’m all cocky because I finally got past the first "event," and was presented with my first task and seem to be on the right road, some observations about both IF and this piece in particular… Just as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & IF: Story

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

First, the IF piece, Book and Volume:  Finally got the secret code word that answers the pager.  Simple, and I’d thought I’d already tried it, but I guess not in the right sequence.  Anyway, the response on my part was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: Book and Volume

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, it didn’t take long for me to fall right back into character with this–and I had to search the net to find the WinFrotz Interpreter to download.  I love IF, because it’s just so me.  I am in my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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INTERACTIVE FICTION: New Stuff

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Well, there’s just no way I can think about getting another job when Dennis Jerz brings even more "reading" into my life, resurrecting interactive fiction (of the text sort) with a couple of entries this morning on new writing software … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Anxiety and Anticipation

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Susan

Forgot what I had ordered out of Amazon.com and when I went to check I found that they had dumped my cart per ninety-day allowance I would think.  But the good that’s come of it was that in rebuilding my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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