• Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Happily Read and Watched: December 2021

3 years ago

Didn't do much mountain biking, but I read and watched "Alien Resurrection," Cynthia Ozick's "Trust," Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 1",…

  • On Literature, Books

Cynthia Ozick’s novel “Trust”: a 1400-word Summary

3 years ago

A summary of Cynthia Ozick's "Trust", being the story of a peculiar, nameless narrator seeking the reasons for her lack…

  • Reading Journal

Reading well an excerpt from Cynthia Ozick’s novel “Trust”

3 years ago

An excerpted passage from the 1966 novel "Trust" by Cynthia Ozick, dripping with the poetry and squalor of Rimbaud.

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

What was read and viewed during the sad, bad month of November 2021

3 years ago

Was it a sad, bad month, November? I read Athan Theoharis' "Abuse of Power", watched "Once Upon A Time in…

  • Idle Reflections

Tour of Turret Two of the USS New Jersey

3 years ago

The Turret Two Tour of the USS New Jersey was a moment to reflect on the astounding machinery of war.

  • Reading Journal

Cynthia Ozick’s “Trust”: Exegesis | Tom Hanks on Jimmy Kimmel Live

3 years ago

Ruminations on Cynthia Ozick's knotty, profound prose counterposed to some armchair commentary on Tom Hanks' eminently forgettable appearance on the…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read, Viewed: October 2021

3 years ago

When you begin the month with a film like "Incendies," it's downhill for the remaining 30 days. Luckily I started…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

Denis Villeneuve’s “Incendies” (2010): Seeking Expiation

3 years ago

In Denis Villeneuve's 2010 film "Incendies" siblings seek a brother and father never known to deliver letters from their recently…

  • Monthly Reading, Viewing Report

Read, Viewed: September 2021

3 years ago

During September I finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" a short story by Adalbert Stifter, luminary of 19th century German…

  • On Film, Movies, Cinema

René Clément’s “Forbidden Games” (1952): Mourning as Indifference

4 years ago

"Forbidden Games" (1952) tells a story of how children, uninitiated in the rituals of mourning, recognize the loss of those…