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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Consolation – On Money
Perhaps I should read through to the end before I post on this or any other book, because I change with it as clarifications are made, but the arguments along the way are some fun too. I don’t mind admitting … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Study of It
"It usually happens with poetry, but sometimes with certain short stories or novels, too: a student says, "Why can’t they just write it so people can understand?" And everyone in the class nods in agreement. Because what we read should … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Boethius and (gulp!) Faulkner
Let’s play with Philosophy a bit; pull Boethius away from my personal sphere and into Faulkner’s world of the Compson’s of The Sound and The Fury. I won’t go into essay here, as I have with teaming up Aristotle and … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Character
Right now I’m watching the PBS series on Charles Dickens, immediately following his Bleak House presentation. It is somewhat confirming a thought forming in my mind all day today about character, as depicted in literature classic and contemporary. I’m finding … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Consolation – All You Need is Love
While Book II ends with an exhortation of "O how happy the human race would be, if that love that rules the heavens ruled also your souls!" (Poem 8, p. 35), Philosophy hints finally at my own hope that honor … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Consolation – Definitions
"In the end, we reach the same conclusion about all the gifts of Fortune. They are not worth striving for; there is nothing in their natures which is good; they are not always possessed by good men, nor do they … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & REALITY?: Consolation and Reality
I’ve read a bit more on this same page. Reread it, and still argue. Meanwhile, Storm Carson blows from east to west and west to east. Somehow I think it’s just an inch that blows from neighbor’s yard to neighbor’s … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Mrs. Kimble – Exposition
The novel starts out with a few pages on the death of who I am assuming is Mr. Kimble. Having read the blurbs, I understand that the story focuses around his three ex-wives, and so when the next chapter opens … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Consolation – Understanding
Reading Consolation now is both a blessing and a sham. Personal conflicts are so relative to the lessons, and so the close reading is closer still. But is that its purpose, to help one understand the principles and so apply … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Consolation-On Honor
Quiet reading today, and perfect for the contemplation. I understood the measure to which Philosophy held Fortune, but seeing fortune as a state of being–aside from material things, which I well understand are transitory and little value in the long … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Mrs. Kimble
So this is my next selection (don’t know why the image is so fuzzy). Jennifer Haigh was one of the lecturer/instructors at the Wesleyan conference last summer, and I was quite impressed by her insight. But I was wowed by … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Sound and the Fury – Finale
So that’s what’s so hot about Faulkner. He’s damn good. Knows the rules and how to break them. Can suck a reader in with the most godawful opening pages and keep you wanting to know what this nonsense is all … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: A Self-Analysis of Reading Style
Before a grand wrap-up on Faulkner, this: I’ve come to discover a sad little truth about my reading habits, methods of learning, my own self. In a word: Resistant McCarthy? What’s with this guy? Marquez? Oh come on. Faulkner? So … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Sound and the Fury – Writing Technique
Hate that–I’m racing through an action scene in the last few pages and I need to stop and get this down: But the other still struggled, and Jason freed one hand and struck him on the head. A clumsy, hurried … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Sound and the Fury – Character
"Ef I jes had a quarter," Luster says, "I could go to dat show." "En ef you had wings you could fly to heaven," Dilsey says. "I don’t want to hear another word about dat show." "That reminds me," I … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology