Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: Stoning Field

One of my favorite pieces from the work of Steve Ersinghaus, the haunting, interactive Stoning Field has been chosen as a featured selection by The Oregon Literary Review. (Follow the Hypermedia link to Film and Video Arts to Editors' Picks.) Continue reading

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LITERATURE: The Reivers – Connections

Fifty pages in, yet I do not feel the Faulkner magic, the connection with the characters and the place. It makes me wonder if mood is relative, if perhaps reality must be left behind to become totally absorbed with his … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Neruda’s Ode to Laziness – A simple interpretation

Hitting home: Yesterday I felt as if my odewas never going to sprout.At least it shouldhave been showinga green leaf. (p. 117) So simple, Neruda's concept of art as a seed of idea, stubborn to the sun as if seeking … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: The Reivers – Opening Scenes

Not nuts about the first twenty pages of this and I do hope it gets better as it moves deeper into the story. Right now, there's a basic plot, a bit of action to drive it, and a truckload of … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Up Next – The Reivers

Trying to get some quality reading time in over the holidays. Faulkner was a promise to myself; the problem was in deciding which. Absolom! Absolom! was pulled first, then Light in August, then this, The Reivers. It just seems to … Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – Finale

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – About Writing

There is an interesting passage about the ability to continue writing while blind. The group has stopped at the first blind man's home to find a writer living there with his family–the blind are moving around like gypsies drawn by … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATUE: Chekhov’s The Chorus Girl

An amazing little story, very brief and to the point. An actress and her lover sitting at her home when there is a knock on the door. The man gets up and leaves the room as his mistress answers the … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – Oh Shit! – Metaphor!

This may well be the oddest metaphor in a story, but with all the emphasis Saramago has put on human excrement in this book, it bears following it down. While it is understandable that even in the beginning of our … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE & WRITING: The 3-Sided Square Table and The 4th Wall

As a prelude to a posting on Blindness regarding reality and symbolism, this idea popped into my head and since it didn't quite relate, I'm posting it here. The Fourth Wall* in literature and any artistic expression–particularly drama–is the barrier … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – Symbolism (or) “They say it’s all happening at the zoo…”

The doctor's wife has found food in a supermarket cellar and has gone through a time of blindness herself in the darkness of the place until she found matches. Once more we see her face a moral dilemma of keeping … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: For Why?

This has to be the saddest Google search ever landed here: "REASON TO READ JOHN STEINBECK BOOKS" Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – Compare & Contrast

I've never particularly cared for this form of critique since I hope that no two stories or writing styles are so alike that dissection via this method would be satisfying. In reality, however, I find myself quite often going back … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – The IF Factor

I've posted on the Interactive possibilities of this story on Hypercompendia, the latest post following a train of thought as the blind escape the fire and the confinement of the building. Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Blindness – Borders of Another Kind

After (I don't know) days of living confined to the institution, a purposely-set fire kills some inmates but the others must somehow escape or burn to death and it is at this point where the doctor's wife tells the others … Continue reading Continue reading

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