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Friday, January 10, 2014

The Monkey's Marginalia, No. 1

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I have decided to collect random notes and internet wanderings that are too small for their own blog posts (at least for now) into fewer, la...

The Straka in Sherwood Anderson

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It started as I looked into the feuds that Hemingway had with a number of other writers. He and Faulkner got into one starting around 1947. ...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

Lenten Reading, a Wagtail?

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It's official. Doug Dorst may be having a bit of fun with us.  I was unable to find the original reference ad for The Light by Stef...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Enforced Silence, or some thoughts on a mouth sewn shut in history and literature

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In Ship of Theseus , S. sails on a ship with sailors whose mouths are sewn shut.  Eventually he joins them and undergoes the procedure himse...
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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Daring, Vivid, Exciting! and another T.S. Eliot reference

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Edit: I have a cold today and it's muddled my head.  I listed the wrong magazine as the source of the original reference ad.  The magazi...
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Friday, January 3, 2014

The Violin Player, Notes on Footnote 6, Chapter 1 (page 26)

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In my last couple of posts I briefly talked about the Lost Generation. Hemingway was in that circle, as was John Dos Passos and many o...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Dos Passos and the Devil (tying up a loose end)

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In the early 1930's Passos wrote, but didn't finish, the screenplay for the film,  The Devil is a Woman . Starring Marlene Dietric...