Category: Entertainment
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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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46 @ 23: Dr. Robert Lowery in Memorandum (#14)
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: Her Favorite Outfit (#15)
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,…
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Antagonists: Unknown Forces & Changing Flesh
Which is scarier? The bad guy you never see or the bad guy you think you know that changes into something awful? These two categories make up all the thriller/horror genre, according to Stephen King, and all the “fear” category of antagonists. So, then, which terrified you more when it all came down to it?…
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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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What I’m Reading Now…
The time to write reviews for all of these turned up missing somewhere in the jumble of wrapping paper, noisemakers, and new years resolutions. I tend to keep roughly five books going at any given time from my need to start something new every five seconds (I’m a better sower than tender), AND from valuing…
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Joseph Campbell Religion :: Did Joseph Campbell Believe in God?
Someone found their way to Literating asking this question: Did Joseph Campbell believe in God?