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[from bushwald] McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less.

ISHMAEL: I'm existential. AHAB: Really? Try vengeance. ISHMAEL: I dig this dynamic. Can we drag it out for 600 pages?

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[from amaah] Return to Paradise

Though he coined the name "Pandemonium"—"all the demons"—for the palace that Satan and his fallen crew build in Hell, he also coined the word "self-esteem," as contemporary a concept as there is and one that governed much of Milton's lif

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[from amaah] Poem for Display in an Inaccessible Location

Second-hand poetry has been linked to the cancer of unanswerable questions.

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[from amaah] Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his 'vicious' mother and rumours of a secret love child

"Have you tried to contact her?" "No. Why would I?" "Because you might have a sense of responsibility, which, in the age of DNA..." "I sent her mother money for an abortion. Which she used to go to Detroit, where she found a rich man."

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[from amaah] Walcott VS Naipaul

A hatchet job on Naipaul in verse... I love a good literary feud and, well, Naipaul is a fitting target. The poem's title is The Mongoose...."I have been bitten. I must avoid infection/Or else I'll be as dead as Naipaul's fiction."

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[from amaah] Hugh Selwyn Mauberly by Ezra Pound

walked eye-deep in hell / believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving / came home, home to a lie, / home<sep/>

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[from amaah] The guilty vicarage: Notes on the detective story, by an addict, By W.H. Auden

The interest in the thriller is the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them. The interest in the study of a murderer is the observation, by the innocent many, of the sufferings of the guilty one. the dialectic of innocence

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[from amaah] Poet held after coded attack on Burmese leader

Art as resistance. Saw Wai's seemingly innocuous lines were printed in the weekly Love Journal. But read vertically, the first word of each line forms the phrase "Power crazy senior general Than Shwe".

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[from martti] How To Read The Silmarillion - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks

Quenya is "elf Latin", a higher and more complex language. Sindarin is the "vulgar" everyday elf language. Elrond, Arwen, Elladan, and Elrohir - family descends from both unions of elves and men (Beren and Luthien/Tuor and Idril).

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[from fuzzyfrog] RFID Atlas - RFID Literatur

RFID-Atlas das deutschsprachige RFID Praxisbeispielverzeichnis

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[from amaah] Cyprian Ekwensi Dies at 86

His novels on the city in Africa were more widely read than Achebe. Who will chronicle that very modern story of Africa in his stead?

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[from amaah] Theodore Roethke:In a Dark Time

In a dark time, the eye begins to see

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[from amaah] Relative Values: Jonathan Self and his brother Will

When Will was three he packed a suitcase with toys — including my teddy bear — and ran away from home. He walked about three miles along the A1 and stood at a bus stop. I remember feeling a mixture of delight that we were finally rid of him

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[from amaah] By Way of Ionesco

On words intended to obscure and phrases that mangle reality... Ionesco as the aspirin of modern day life, the playwright of the fringe

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[from amaah] A walking meditation with Will Self

"What I aim for in such very long walks is nothing save a kind of anoesis, or absence of thought, combined with a strange sort of absorption into the landscape,"

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[from amaah] Poets' Corner - Walter de la Mare

Very old are we men; Our dreams are tales Told in dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

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[from amaah] The cure for Bernard Shaw

Shaw was in fact a crank of the first water, who had the sophist's ability to present his publicity-generating eccentricities as the choices of a rational man. He was drawn to odd causes like a fly to ordure, provided they gave him a platform. One of th

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