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How to really tick me off as a fiction writer, and part 2 of my review of Carr's multiply named novel.
The Hollow Man (The Three Coffins) – John Dickson Carr (1935) – The Green Capsule There's this move that writers of fiction sometimes make. I've seen it in novels, movies, tv shows. It's most often a little thing. A throwaway line. And I hate it so much.... - lyssa...
This is long ;) but sitting down to read it, it's incredible. The emphasis on ordinary - as if love is ordinary - but the point being that when you let go of the focus on it, it is in fact ordinary and abundant at that (as is so much of life) is particularly resonant with me.... - onHow to really tick me off as a fiction writer, and part 2 of my review of Carr's multiply named novel.by
The way you've written about it and set the historical context makes me think Carr was indeed on the cusp of the move from modern to postmodern, and this was an early instance of breaking the fourth wall, and kinda like a baby's first attempts at walking it wasn't pretty, and... I just watched Disclosure Day and there's a plot thing that I've also seen in one of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code where everyone assumes the whole world is going to stop and forever change upon some special news.... - Martin...
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Is poetry dead?
I have always felt so deeply when I wrote. It's the only time where I can pin point an emotion and freely express it. I'll let my mind wonder onto the pages so desperately as if I was screaming but to burdened to speak them out loud.... - on"For Lacan, ‘full speech’ took place on the level of the Symbolic; here was where meaning was produced and expressed. By contrast, ‘empty speech’ occurred at the level of the Imaginary, a pure signification devoid of true meaning... ‘Full speech is speech which aims at, which forms, the truth such as it becomes established in the recognition of one person by another. Full speech is speech which performs"by
- onInfinite players understand the inescapable likelihood of evil. They therefore do not attempt to eliminate evil in others, for to do so is the very impulse of evil itself, and therefore a contradiction. They only attempt paradoxically to recognize in themselves the evil that takes the form of attempting to eliminate evil elsewhere.by
I'm loving it so far! This is my first time reading it and I'm only on the second section, so I'll have to come back and comment again after I see the confrontations. Still, i can hardly refrain from taking a stab here-consider it a prediction :)....