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LITERATURE: Absalom, Absalom! – Writing Style
Getting used to Faulkner again, and his interminable sentence structure that bathes a scene and character in mood with words that wrap around and spiral into sumbigdeal. They would be seen together in the carriage in town now and then … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Next Up
As a treat to myself for all the writing I’ve been doing lately and in getting work published, William Faulkner. It was a tossup among Faulkner, Marquez and McCarthy–all of which I have a few unread copies of–but I think … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Confessions of Nat Turner – Finale
As with all fiction based on historical fact, I approached this novel by William Styron warily and come away from it pretty much in the same frame of mind. Extremely well-written, beautiful language, dramatic arc–yes, even as Nat’s condemnation is … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Confessions of Nat Turner – Irony
As Nat makes his plans and recruits a small band of friends, this passage stops me cold: One of these, an older man named Joe, has told me that he wants to be baptized and I look forward to the … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Confessions of Nat Turner – Style and Statement
Lord knows it didn’t look like I was ever going to keep on this book, but even though it was tough for me to enjoy reading–and I’m still not sure whether it was the story thus far or just my … Continue reading
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WRITING & LITERATURE & BLOGGING: A Tiger’s Worth of Excuses
Yes, I’m STILL reading Confessions of Nat Turner and will post on it soon, but it’s obvious that I haven’t been the twice-a-day poster girl here for a while. Well, there are some good reasons for that. I’m writing. And, … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Confessions of Nat Turner – Some Initial Thoughts
The reading here is much more welcoming in that the language is beautifully wrought. There is some question in my mind–knowing that this book is considered historical fiction based upon the actual written confessions of Mr. Turner, as to that … Continue reading
LITERATURE: The English Patient – Finale
Finally. Finished. This. Book. What should have kept me involved in this book, the prose, the lyrical language, the drilling into the characters and the focus on a single event, somehow lost me. It got tedious to read when I … Continue reading
WRITING, REALITY? and LITERATURE: The Dog Ate My Homework…
. . .or any other excuse I can come up with to explain my relative absence from this weblog as compared to my previous six years of blogging. In truth, some good things are happening. I am looking forward to … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The English Patient – Language
I can’t say that I’ve been overwhelmed by this novel; the plot is slow, the characters only became interesting halfway through the book, the setting and premise is implausible, and the writing–to me–is a bit vague and murky rather than … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Acquisitions
Boy, the library sales aren’t what they used to be. Only five books picked up this morning: Next – Michael Crichton The Tommyknockers – Stephen King The Shipping News – Annie Proulx The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pychon … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The English Patient – Pace
I don’t even want to look to see when I started this because I know it’s been months and frankly, I’m only a little under a third through it. Not completely the book’s fault, since I spent three or four … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Little Book of Plagiarism – Finale
Posner’s little book–and it truly is–is a full yet concise legal analysis of the concept of plagiarism. Evidently the concept of what constitutes the concept has been affected by the society in which time it has occurred, which helped assuage … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Plagiarism and Politics
This passage from Posner’s The Little Book of Plagiarism is interesting: “Politics may have played the decisive role in [Doris Kearns] Goodwin’s surprisingly swift rehabilitation, as we’ll see; and, speaking of politics, I note that one reason for the ambivalence … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Plagiarism and…Shakespeare?
First, though the definition of plagiarism has changed over the ages, it seems it’s been around a long time: “–the actual first use may have been much earlier) in something like its modern sense by the Roman poet Martial in … Continue reading
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