A Blog about food, movies, and Buffy
Animals are innocents and deserve our compassion. Therefore they are used as shorthand, particularly in film which always must be kept moving, to mark good and bad, right and wrong, moral and asshole. It doesn’t matter what else you do … Read More »
On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon (World War I Veteran and all around Bad Ass) Who will remember, passing through this Gate, the unheroic dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,- … Read More »
Moral Hal Henry V makes several morally questionable decisions. He abandons and banishes Falstaff, his closest friend, father figure, and mentor. He invades a foreign country without provocation. He executes a handful of his own men. Once he journeys abroad, … Read More »
What is Reading? –Departure Reading is an activity that takes place over time. Reading begins long before a person uses their eyes to scan a certain piece of text, and the reading act ends well after the eyes have come … Read More »
The notion of literary competence or of a literary system is, of course, anathema to some critics, who see in it an attack on the spontaneous, creative and affective qualities of literature. Moreover, they might argue, the very concept of … Read More »
Thomas Hardy chooses a third person omnipotent narrator for his 1891 novel Tess of the d’Ubervilles. The narrator’s omnipotence is confirmed at the end of Chapter VIII when Tess has gotten out of Alec’s gig and insists on walking the … Read More »
I went to the store to buy tomatoes. I came home with the tomatoes. And I wept. Not enough. I went to the store to buy tomatoes. I came home with the tomatoes. And I wept because of my … Read More »
Our scene begins with a screen full of leather bound books, red and brown, resting on a well polished shelf as classical music plays softly from some unseen source. We move across the shelf, catching titles –Nietzsche, Shakespeare, a Star … Read More »