Wednesday, December 31, 2008

GREETINGS

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HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL! MAY 2009 BRING YOU MORE PEACE AND CONTENTMENT THAN 2008.
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Sinclair Lewis--ARROWSMITH

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I had read Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and Main Street , so I fully expected him to sharpen up his pen and go after the medical profession ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

GREETINGS

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PEACE ON EARTH ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain III

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Quatrain III, from the First Version: And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted--"Open then the Door! You know ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ford Madox Ford: December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939

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Born on this day in 1873 is one of my favorite novelists, Ford Madox Ford. His novel The Good Soldier is permanently installed in my top...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Torchwood--CSI meets the X-Files

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Torchwood is a British TV SF series that is described as a spin-off of Doctor Who , the modern series. I gather that's because of th...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Akutagawa's short story: In a Grove (cont.)

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In October 2008, I posted an entry about Akutagawa's short story, "In A Grove." According to the translator, he based his sto...
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Monday, December 8, 2008

Robert Silverberg--Project Pendulum

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Robert Silverberg's Project Pendulum , is, unfortunately, a relatively lightweight time travel tale published first in 1987. It's a...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Sin City--UltraViolence?

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Sin City is another entry in the apparently ever-increasing number of films that are based on either comics or graphic novels. I haven...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Mystery of Cloomber

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I ran into a reference to this work, The Mystery of Cloomber, quite by accident, searching for something else. I know Doyle had written ot...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Brideshead Revisited

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Brideshead Revisited is one of the BBC's dramatic productions which appeared in the US on Masterpiece Theatre . I watched about half...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat: Quatrain II

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The Second Quatrain in FitzGerald's version of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam also was revised when the second version was published. Th...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Under Western Eyes: Conrad's moral dilemma

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Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes is one of his three political novels, the others being The Secret Agent and Nostromo. The Secret ...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Galapagos: The Enchanted Islands

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BBC has another interesting documentary to add to its already superb list. This one is a three part film on the Galapagos Islands, once kn...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A Hitchcock Classic: Rear Window

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A short time ago, I watched one of Hitchcock's classic films, Rear Window , starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, and discovered t...
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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Post-Election Thoughts--cont.

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I was once a registered Republican, but that was several decades ago. I'm registered as an Independent Voter now. I've read several...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Some Post-Election Thoughts

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Just some random thoughts after watching the election returns last night. It felt good to be able to vote for someone, rather than against ...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

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One of my favorite stories by Hemingway is The Old Man and the Sea. It is one of the leanest and sparest stories I know. Hemingway pared...
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Friday, October 24, 2008

Akutagawa's short story: In a Grove

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One of Kurosawa's best known films is Rashomon , the story of a rape and death from three different points of view: the husband, the wif...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Greater Good

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Democracies work, more or less, on the utilitarian principle that the good of the majority outweighs that of the minority--the greater good....
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