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LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness – Motif
Once again, Kundera writes as a teacher of writing in his narrative. As he names a particular bowler hat as a "motif" he explains how it comes to take on meaning. While we are not left to discover the hat’s … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness – Hypertext Roots
While I may have thought of hypertext fiction as revolutionary, it appears to have come about in a more evolutionary process. There is an obvious plot of maps in Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, where several seemingly … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: 100 Days – Available in Book Format
Proud to announce the availability of 100 Days: Bookmark It Email It Book Preview 100 Drawings, 100 Poems By Carianne Mack and Steve Ersinghaus sersinghaus What’s inside 100 Days: the vivid relationship of color and sound, image and metaphor, the … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: 100 Images – Showtime
I’ve directed you before to the summer project of Steve Ersinghaus and Carianne Mack over at Media Play; it is a poem and a painting produced each day for 100 days and both images, visual and textual took on a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness – Hypertext Wow Factor
Am in the middle of pressing wine (by hand) so I’ve not time enough to write the post itself but had to say that page 52 is about one of the best teachers of hypertext pattern reasoning I’ve absorbed. Will … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness – Setting Up Theme
Finally getting some time to read and I’m finding myself intrigued by Kundera’s manner of posing a theory and illustrating it by introducing a couple of characters and from there, beginning a story. The idea of eternal return is a … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Opening Thoughts
Just a couple pages, but it appears that we’re getting into story from this point on so I’ll make a quick comment here. I either just love the impossibility of reading this without giving it serious thought, or it makes … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Up next, something a bit different. It seems I’ve been reading sort of realism based in the early 1900s and it’s time to go fly away a bit. It was this, or one of Joseph Conrad’s pieces. I have several, … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Ragtime – Finale
I really did enjoy this novel more than I thought I would, once I got over the itchy effect that historical fiction seems to have on me. E. L. Doctorow may not have a particularly eloquent poetical writing style, but … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Moons of Jupiter/Connections
Alice Munro is extremely skillful at creating a world from a slice of life that may seem ordinary, and yet she recognizes that ordinary often contains drama that the reader can easily recognize. In this first story of the anthology, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ragtime – Diction
Little in Ragtime has caused me surprise or delight as far as imagery or eloquence, although I would say that Doctorow employs a staccato burst of information sometimes that sets an unmistakable tone of what he wishes to impart. Often, … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ragtime – History & Society
Doctorow slowly brings in historical characters as the story builds, and as I found with Harry Houdini and Evelyn Nesbitt, establishes their presence and then often brings them back around in some proximity to the lives of the fictional family … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ragtime – Character
Doctorow’s emphasis of story appears to be on inequities in society at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he does so subtly by following unrelated characters of different social status as their paths cross. In this manner, we become … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ragtime – Stretching Reality
This may in fact be another example of narrator reliability, in the mix of fact and fiction: The motor idled. Only Jung noticed the little girl in the pinafore standing slightly behind the young woman and holding her hand. The … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Ragtime – Social Comment
Doctorow gives us an America that is extremely class conscious, putting it subtly and yet powerfully in the images he draws: One evening after the performance Houdini’s manager told him of being called by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish of 78th Street, … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology