Category: literature
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Little Women themes
After a long time leaving the promise unfulfilled to my bride, I finally read and will reflect on Little Women themes and symbols. I’m wasted as a scholar. But I try my best to be a careful reader. What are the main Little Women themes? It seems to me the Little Women themes that came…
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πραεις — meek inherit
Happy are the πραεις (humble/meek/connotation of focus on others and friendliness) because (κληρονομησουσιν) they will have the law grant them the inheritance — their lot — of the earth (γην). The land. The Land. Never realized until this morning that γην is the word for promised land in Hebrews and my guess is also in…
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ὀπίσω — Get in Line
ὀπίσω — is the word for “in the back of” or “hereafter” or “follow” or “get in line.” From Wiktionary: It’s the word Jesus uses to Peter in Matthew 4:19 when he says “Δευτε οπίσω με” and also in Matthew 16:23 “’Υυπαγε οπίσω με, Σατανα” The rebuke “get behind me Satan” is the same as the…
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Great Neck Library Indie Author Roundtable
Along with with crime/literary novelist Tejas Desai, Children’s Book Author Ama Yawson, crime author Alex Avitabile, and poet Scottt Raven — I met with the local audience at Great Neck Library for an indie author roundtable. As panels go, it was rather fun and we had a very interactive crowd. Moreover, this was very same library…
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Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
Please welcome longtime Writer Unboxed community member Lancelot Schaubert back as our guest today! Lance is the author of the novel Bell Hammers. “… Face the dragon. Face the mice. A sonnet in WU form.
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Jefferson Market Library
Snagged this photo of Jefferson market library during a stormy Sunday in August. Soon after this photograph, we got rained on.
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Panasonic portable VHS 1979 TV commercial
Kind of wild to think about dragging around a Panasonic portable VHS recorder in 1979, but good grief this is valuable to know for my current work in progress. Who here owned VHS recorders? We had one, much smaller. Apparently they downsized a couple years later:
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A Defense of Baby Worship
The two facts which attract almost every normal person to children [and tempt them towards baby worship] are, first, that children are very serious, and, secondly, that they are in consequence very happy. They are jolly with the completeness which is possible only in the absence of humour. The most unfathomable schools and sages have…
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Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance AMA
The delightful mods of the Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance (SFFA) hosted their first AMA and invited me to come and talk. Here’s the recording of what went down:
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The Zero with 1000 Faces: A Photography Series in Celebration of Joseph Campbell
The Zero with 1000 faces happened ten years ago in 2012 (sort of a subversion of the monomyth). I actually took all of these pictures down soon after, but then it got to be rather nostalgic for me and… I realized it really was for fun and really should be treated as such. And, in…
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Experimental Fiction Experiment
Dave King takes carpeted stairs into the basement of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Massachusetts thinking of experimental fiction. A remnant of variegated clay chips hint that Donald Maass, John Vorhaus, Jo Eberhardt, Sean Walsh, and Mike Swift had been playing poker. An oversized Jack of clubs (big enough to be a placemat) and a…
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Where do your ideas come from?
When someone asks me “where do your ideas come from?” I often experience this high-functioning autistic shut down I experience with many questions. I am rather obsessed with speaking to the question someone’s asking. Dinosaur that I am becoming, my mind works almost in complete opposition to the way that most moderns think. “Where do…