Category: literature
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 6 ~ Fin)
In part five, we wrestled through the problems of interpreting symbolism in film. This shorter conclusion to the Film Analyst ATE works through the idea of the new American hero in film. (We also praise demolition engineers who get paid to blow $#!! up). Doug Welch: “See? You didn’t bring anything to the movie, did…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 5)
In part four, Doug Welch and I talked through the appropriate times to notice figures/symbols of Christ in characters and the inappropriate evanglistic uses of film by Christians. We also showed two pictures connecting Wall-E and the Pieta, but that’s neither here nor there… LS: Two quick ones. We just saw The Help, and it…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 4)
Last week, The Boy Wonder and that other schmuck in the black suit talked on voiceover, visual show-don’t-tell and the power of good dialog. This week, we dig into the meat: SYMBOLISM! LS: Something we were talking about, symbolism in general, there’s a picture that was posted of Rothfuss’ Facebook page. This guy said, “I…
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Sitting at the Feet of a Film Analyst (part 3)
Last time, the film hero Doug Welch (and your Daily Bugle rep here) talked through show-don’t-tell, the evil of voice-over and the benefit of imagery when used in voice over’s stead. They also read some comics aloud… LS: That might be a really terrific exercise to sift through [Shawshank] and say what does that show…
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The Obligation of Good Sentences (via The Gig)
I posted this last friday @ the Gig, but in the flurry of poetry, I forgot to mention it on here. Curious to get some feedback from all you Literators. Much love. Jackina Stark, perhaps more than any other teacher, inspired me to learn and write with all that I am. I still remember one…
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46 @ 23: The Card Table (#4)
Once upon a time, I read that the perfect age for writing quality poetry is twenty-three. Apparently most of T.S. Elliot’s stuff came out then, the rest having to do with prose. I realized January 19ththat I will turn twenty-four in three months, and since I started writing some poems before it’s too late: forty-six…
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46 @ 23: Rime of the Doddering Guru (#12)
Once upon a time, I read that the perfect age for writing quality poetry is twenty-three. Apparently most of T.S. Elliot’s stuff came out then, the rest having to do with prose. I realized January 19ththat I will turn twenty-four in three months, and since I started writing some poems before it’s too late: forty-six…
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46 @ 23: Thirteen to None (#13)
Once upon a time, I read that the perfect age for writing quality poetry is twenty-three. Apparently most of T.S. Elliot’s stuff came out then, the rest having to do with prose. I realized January 19ththat I will turn twenty-four in three months, and since I started writing some poems before it’s too late: forty-six…
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Kvothe’s Sex Life Part 2: Felurian & The Adem
Well, gang, here we go again. Last time, I talked on Kvothe’s Sex Life, I had only finished NOTW and started WMF. Having finished WMF, I got a flurry of questions about sex and literature. Spoilers below. After a romp through the rainy tent-sheets, Kvothe comes out the other side of the enemy encampment saying…
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Kvothe and Felurian :: Felurian’s Metre
The following poem works backwards from the obvious rhyme schema on page 657 of Wise Man’s Fear. In the scenes between Kvothe and Felurian, Felurian speaks in a meter all her own …and Kvothe picks up on this practice later, as he grows his intimate “knowing” of Felurian’s world. I have cut it off before it spoils anything,…
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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,…