Category: literary interpretation
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Kingkiller Alchemy: Refining Kvothe
I read the opening lines of Wise Man’s Fear: “dawn was coming.” At first, seeing that WMF’s prologue read as a one-page metaphor of a three-part silence, I thought he actually copied and pasted the thing. I didn’t mind it, in fact it set the tone well for WMF. But then, halfway through the reading,…
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Kvothe’s Sex-Life…
A friend of mine texted me saying, “The sexual buildup with denna, auri, fela and devi is getting crazy. Who’s he gonna [sleep with] first? Auri? Fela? Devi? Denna?” I’m gonna tackle this as a lit-guy and try to set my moral biases aside. There are some minor spoilers for WMF (at the start) so…
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Name of the Wind COMIC summary!
Anyone who hasn’t read Name of the Wind should not read this. It might spoil something. Everyone else familiar with the book, Rothfuss just posted this awesome Name of the Wind comic summary. For those needing a recap from 50,000 feet go to his blog. For others who want a more detailed discussion, post your questions here.…
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Spinning Deathly Hallows Pendant?
Several of you searched for the Deathly Hallows Pendant and arrived at my thoughts on Deathly Hallows Part 1. Here’s what I wrote:
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David St. John – “Without Mercy…”
David St. John’s new poem Without Mercy, the Rains Continued sums up the silence imbibed via feeding tube from a husband who would not initiate conversation with his wife. “The Rains” in the title refers to the static on a recording.
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Boys Town by Jim Shepard
Boys Town focuses on a man in his late thirties, post-divorce, who is living with his mother. As usual with New Yorker shorts, I don’t recommend this one for a bed time story with the kids. I do recommend it for you, however, especially if you have any opinion concerning veterans (or if you are…
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The New Hero: Tolkien and Subversion
We have this innate hunger for heros. Every culture has them, and every hero has a sort of journey. Joseph Campbell made this concept famous with his “Hero with 1,000 Faces”. In fact, being freinds with George Lucas, he inspired Lucas to create Star Wars. Along this line of thought, meditating the various heroes of…
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Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul
Burckhardt’s Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul is the defining work on Esoteric Alchemy.
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The Power of Myth: Reflections on Campbell
Ever wonder why Star Wars did what it did? We have Joseph Campbell to thank. Back a couple of decades, this dinosaur taught concepts from a lectern that would shape, and still shapes, the generations. Recently, thanks to a proper introduction via brother Doug Welch, I dove headfirst into The Power of Myth.
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Inception Movie Meaning and inception meaning : Nolan’s Inferno
A low-shelf literary analysis INCEPTION compared to Dante