“Accident” narrates the sexual and professional tensions between an Oxford philosophy professor, his colleague, and his students, in events leading to the title event.
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Read and Watched: March 2021
Black history month extended 60 days, at least, reading through Mary Shelley and seeing my first Dick Powell film …
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- 2021-04-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Affecting Song and W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Souls of Black Folk”
Each chapter of W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Souls of Black Folk” begins with an excerpt of verse and a few bars of music, begging the question why this song?
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- 2021-03-31
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Harriet Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” tells of her life in and escape from the ‘Demon Slavery,’ and its nonpareil powers of corruption.
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- 2021-02-28
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books
Read, Viewed: Black History Month 2021
What I read and viewed during February, the month we devote in the land of freedom to Black History, in our feeble attempts to make reparations for centuries of slavery
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- 2021-02-26
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
“Up From Slavery”: Booker T. Washington’s words
Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery” promotes a vocational training for blacks imbued with Christian virtue. Is W.E.B. Du Bois’ critique of it justified?
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- 2021-02-18
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books
Coming to Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery”
The circumstances of my purchase and knowledge of “Up From Slavery,” Booker T. Washington’s most famous autobiography
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- 2021-02-10
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books
Black History Month 2021: Consumed
Each year Black History month is another chance to own up to the failures of America, to learn about those who endured and transcended them.
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- 2021-02-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read, Viewed: January 2021
January 2021 inaugurated both a new year and (Gott sei Dank!!!) a new president, during which I read and watched “Vertigo,” Stanley Cavell, “Signs,” “Inside Llewyn Davis,” and others.
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- 2021-02-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Joseph Losey’s “The Servant” (1963): Master/Slave Dialectic Demonstrated
“The Servant” takes the traditional roles between gentleman and manservant and submits them to great artistic violence.
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- 2021-01-31
- On Film, Movies, Cinema Viewing Journal
Reading Journal: Assembling Dinosaurs, “War and Peace”
A glorious night when I just wanted to keep reading: first, 25 pages of Lukas Rieppel’s “Assembling the Dinosaur”; then Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”, concluding Volume III; a feast of the undeveloped imagination.
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- 2021-01-24
- Reading Journal On Literature, Books
Bad Poetry Morning
Repeatedly not finishing a sentence. Either subject or predicate but not both. Becomes some poetry itself.
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- 2021-01-17
- Idle Reflections
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-12
Perhaps I began the month of December inauspiciously, insofar as I read/viewed/consumed nothing on the first day of the month (see below). In fact, I did read two different Harry...
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- 2021-01-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Anna Seghers’ “Transit”: Profound Unknowing
In Anna Seghers’ novel “Transit,” no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who the narrator really is.
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- 2020-12-15
- On Literature, Books Reading Journal
“Marauders” (on Netflix now) is Sooooo Bad
The 2016 film “Marauders” is a gunplay and bank robbery story that is not so bad that it’s good.
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