Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Consolation – Emotion versus Reason

Posted on January 12, 2006 by susan

From Part I, Prose 2: Seeing his desperate condition, Philosophy speaks more gently and promises to cure him. "There is no danger.  You are suffering merely from lethargy, the common illness of deceived minds.  You have forgotten yourself a little, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Consolation of Philosophy – Application to the Times

Posted on January 12, 2006 by susan

Just received the book on this today, although I had ventured into it online but found such difference in the translations. Of course I realize that there is no purpose to taking these readings and applying them to oneself personally, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Ploughshares – Spring ’05

Posted on January 10, 2006 by susan

Quite excited about this issue, even delved a bit into the poetry.  Read the six fiction stories and all were very interesting and well written.  Also read the two nonfiction pieces and I herein admit that had I not known … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Lit Journals

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Susan

Well, so much for Prairie Schooner.  Just got the Winter 2005 issue in the mail.  There are four short stories in it.  Four.  I think I’ll just let this subscription run out, which appears to be summer of ’07.  But … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Seeds of Sense

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Susan

At long last, an honest and understanding literary journal which has a grip on reality and really does display an interest in writers and sees their side of the publishing wall: "And, yes, we do consider simultaneous submissions. After all, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: The Consolation of Philosophy – On Writing

Posted on January 9, 2006 by susan

So here I am, once again caught in the throes of dying artist, and Boethius seems here to speak to me and point out a direction; in short, be done with it and leap the cliff: When she saw that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Next Up – Ploughshares, Spring ’05

Posted on January 9, 2006 by susan

Before I allow myself the pleasure of The Best American Short Stories, I’d like to work on the backlog of lit journals a bit more, especially when I’m so close to clicking the "print" button on one of my own … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50 – Nostalgia

Posted on January 9, 2006 by susan

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 →

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LITERATURE: Metamagical Themas

Posted on January 8, 2006 by Susan

I don’t know if I’m going to be able to keep up intellectually with this book, but I just love the ideas and hope that I can come to understand it: Whirly Art became a (very) idiosyncratic language, with its … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50

Posted on January 8, 2006 by susan

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 →

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LITERATURE: Current Reads

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Susan

So the winners are: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius And Metamagical Themas by Douglas F. Hofstadter. Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Glimmer Train #50 – To A Stranger

Posted on January 7, 2006 by susan

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: Reading & Writing

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Susan

Foolish Woman, say thee?  To fall within the words webbed by a nobleman? Nay Sir, for foolish would I nought have been with mortal man; But he was yet a god, golden-haired and beautiful Well-spoken and melodious in the speech … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Choices

Posted on January 6, 2006 by Susan

Augustine, Boethius, or Hugh of St. Victor?  Hugh’s sitting on the hearth, but Augustine’s available online, and Boethius beckons with philosophy. Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas or Marie-Laure Ryan’s Narrative as Virtual Reality?  One intrigues with promise, the other is more relevant … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE & WRITING: Glimmertrain Issue 50

Posted on January 6, 2006 by susan

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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