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Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Tree of Life, or What It Really Needed was More Dinosaurs
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, famously, began as an image of a particular moment: It began with a mental picture. I didn’t realize at the time it was symbolical. The picture was of the muddy seat of a … Continue reading
“Romantic and Familiar”
I don’t tend to like most Dickens adaptations. Or rather, most Dickens adaptations are fine, they often contain excellent casts of veteran character actors in beautiful costumes, but they always ring a little hollow for me. That is, of course, … Continue reading
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