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Manic Pixie Dream Girl — a Defense
Nathan Rabin, film critic and cultural agnostic, coined the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” in 2007. It’s grown in popularity enough that the Nabokovian satirist and aspiring Russian Train Baron Patrick Rothfuss has this to say about himself: So folks — at least certain folks residing in Wisconsin who read The A.V. Club — are…
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RL Stevenson “Kidnapped”
From May to July in 1886, RL Stevenson published a boys’s novel Kidnapped in the magazine Young Folks. Everyone from Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel cited it as an influence. It’s a delightful little novel by RL Stevenson. I only know him through Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (A novel I need to review,…
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Clarkesworld Ai — Response to Spam
The short of that story: a sci fi magazine tossed in the towel after dealing with a logrithmic increase of submissions/rejections — Clarkesworld Ai may become a byword for the problem. The only solution I can think of in regards to something like chat gtp, is trust and some form of in person session write to…
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Protected: Pride and Prejudice book VS Pride and Prejudice life
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Pinocchio Stop Motion — True Myth of the Cruciform Lie
When we went to MoMA to see Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio stop motion exhibit, I took some pictures I will prize for… maybe the rest of my life? I didn’t expect that, to be sure. The Pinocchio stop motion exhibit featured all manner of behind-the-scenes ephemera that I might not have encountered otherwise. For a…
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Fetch — Tap and Die 022
The main attendant scrolled through. And scrolled through. “No Dawes other than a young girl.” Jack’s daughter. And his wife?
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Hindu Monotheism : The Upanishads and Vedanta
Questions about Hindu Monotheism — often phrased rather bluntly such as “Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic?” — have cropped up of late. The answer, in a general sense, is either “it depends” or “whose monotheism?” or “which Hinduism?” Folks, at least according to the search trends, seem deeply concerned — even disturbed — that any form of Hinduism…
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First Winner of Nebula Award
Who was the first winner of Nebula award? The first winner of Nebula award for best novel was Frank Herbert’s Dune, but other awards were offered that year. The ceremony started in 1965 and was presented simultaneously in the east at Overseas Press Club in New York, New York on March 11, 1966 and in…
