A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine
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Notes on Lampedusa’s novel “The Leopard”
Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a 19th-century Sicilian noble
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- 2020-04-23
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Krasnahorkai’s “The Last Wolf”
A reading journal entry on Lázló Krasnahorkai’s “book” The Last Wolf, which is really two small books.
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- 2020-02-26
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Captivating corruption: Single sentence exegesis
Single sentence exegesis.
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- 2020-02-11
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
William H. Gass’ “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country”
Reflections on the short story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
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- 2020-01-26
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
200111: Reading Journal
Reading journal from early in the year 2020, when COVID was hitting China but just a dirty word in the mouth of an imbecile
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- 2020-01-11
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
200107: Reading Journal
The January 2010 reading journal addresses In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Our Idiot Brother, Filmed Thought, and Jamaica Inn
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- 2020-01-08
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Does Philosophy Do Film?
“Clearly you are not a bowler”: Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?
Continue reading...Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”
Why do some works of art age better than others?
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- 2019-12-03
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Patricia Highsmith’s “Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes”
The promise of unnatural catastrophes turns out not to be catastrophic nor unnatural enough
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- 2019-07-07
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal