Saturday, October 10, 2009

Lin Yutang: October 10, 1895--March 26, 1976

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The following is from the Wikipedia entry on Lin Yutang: "Lin Yutang...was a Chinese writer and inventor. His informal but polished s...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

DARK CITY: SF Film Noir

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Dark City definitely belongs in the Most Interesting SF Film Category. I have now seen the theatrical version twice and just recently vie...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XVI

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A few words about Quatrain XVI, the first Edition, and its versions in the Second and Fifth Editions. First Edition: Quatrain XVI Think, in...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Combination Plate 9

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Several short comments about some books I've recently read and films I've recently watched. Run Lola Run : a film German import in E...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

T. S. Eliot: September 26, 1888--January 4, 1965

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T. S. Eliot--poet, playwright, and critic. He is a favorite of mine, and "The Hollow Men" is one of my favorite poems by him....
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Samuel R. Delany: The Einstein Intersection

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I suspect that Samuel Delany is one of those SF writers that readers either highly admire or find unreadable. My own reaction is mixed: so...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Ray Bradbury: A Sound of Thunder--story and film

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A number of Ray Bradbury's stories and novels have been made into films, with varying degrees of success. Few really have been able to ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XV

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Quatrain XV First Edition And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate ...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: ROADSIDE PICNIC and STALKER

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While Arkady and Boris Strugatsky have collaborated on a number of novels, Roadside Picnic is probably their best known work in the West. ...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Loren Eiseley: Sept 3, 1907--July 9, 1977

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Loren Eiseley: anthropologist, poet, essayist, teacher, philosopher, scientist, humanist. Back in the early '60s, I subscribed to Time ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Combination Plate 8

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Kim Stanley Robinson Vinland the Dream and Other Stories Kim Stanley Robinson is one of my favorite SF writers, a result of discovering his ...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XIV

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This quatrain is fairly straightforward, and Edward FitzGerald seems to be quite satisfied with it since I can find only minimal changes ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Another thought on authorial musings on detectives

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This is, of course, the last paragraphs of Chandler's essay, "The Simple Art of Murder." I had hoped that getting stuff dow...
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Some Authors' Musings on Detectives and Detecting

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This post is Raymond Chandler's fault. It's not really a coherent commentary, but closer to an exorcism I would guess. I was rea...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Ray Bradbury: August 22, 1920--

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Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the great writers of our time--Ray Bradbury. He has done it all, and, fortunately for us, he k...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XIII

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As usual, I'm using the first edition as the base and then turning to the 2nd and 5th editions to see what changes FitzGerald made. Firs...
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