http://www.ireland.com/dublin/entertainment/books/trilling.htm Pass over the shoddy HTML, and you find an interesting essay... I'll have to read more Trilling....
Tim Virkkala
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Jan 4, 2001 9:03 pm
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/4olmec.htm...
houyhnhnm@...
Jan 6, 2001 1:18 am
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"I don't have any ideology in these books," he insists. "It's the politics of freedom. The politics of saying people should be left alone to live their lives,...
Tim Virkkala
houyhnhnm@...
Jan 12, 2001 3:12 am
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ConvertText To Audio Files PremierProgramming Solutions has just release its newest software application. Thisprogram can take almost any standard document and...
kenneth@...
Jan 18, 2001 9:14 pm
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What is a buzzword? Here's a definition: a hard-to-forget-but-not-easy-to-figure-out construction that is on the cutting edge of jargon. Now, jargon has its...
Tim Virkkala
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Jan 23, 2001 4:32 pm
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The letters to the editor regarding this Salon article are pretty interesting: http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/19/lehman/index.html feedback:...
Tim Virkkala
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Jan 23, 2001 8:04 pm
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In The Atlantic, way back in the 19th century... on Balzac: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?root=%2Fmoa%2Fatla%2Fa ...
Tim Virkkala
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Jan 24, 2001 7:18 pm
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http://salon.com/books/feature/2001/01/25/newbery/index.html A gold star for tedium Do the Newbery Medal-winning children's books really have to be so dreary? ...
My favorite Terry Pratchett comedy is back in print: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061020680/ref%3Dad%5Fb%5Fsf%5F1/107 -2922123-2898908 But who is...
Timothy Virkkala
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Jan 27, 2001 6:59 am
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In "Saracinesca," by F. Marion Crawford: This is the age of incompetent criticism in matters artistic, and no one is too ignorant to volunteer an opinion. It...
Timothy Virkkala
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Jan 28, 2001 8:31 am
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If it's not what you know but who you know, then what does this article say about me? ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Jan 29, 2001 10:59 pm
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This is pretty funny, an Alternate History riff about some people's favorite novelist, Ayn Rand: http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rand/ -- Timothy...
Rough version of an article on southern post Civil War poet, Sidney Lanier. ====================================================================== SIDNEY...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 4, 2001 8:03 am
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Apropos of the Lanier post by Byron, here's something that might interest:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/southlit.html
There's a fair amount of well-done...
Tim Virkkala
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Feb 4, 2001 7:27 pm
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The doc site from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to which Tim introduces us is the one I cited: "[Footnote 8: The Ballad of Trees and the Master...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 4, 2001 11:42 pm
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Ancient near-East poetry does not depend on rhyming and regular rhythm and their repetition to have a poetic effect. And so, we are told, are easier to ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 10, 2001 6:15 am
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http://www.bartleby.com/187/13.html...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 10, 2001 5:02 pm
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http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0101/rand/ A glimpse into alternate universes where Ayn Rand's books are all 400 pages shorter....
Eric D. Dixon
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Feb 13, 2001 3:04 pm
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William Tyndale had a profound effect on the English-speaking world: http://www.WilliamTyndale.com/0page1a.htm A good writer. A reasonable translator. And...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 13, 2001 4:58 pm
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This is mostly about writing. Live from Golgotha...well, I didn't care for. I found it embarrassingly bad. Heavy handed, and just not very funny. For me. I...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 15, 2001 4:39 pm
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Since the parting moment has moved on, I'll move it another square. * Not game vs reality, but manipulated reality vs reality, non reality vs reality, in a...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Feb 15, 2001 7:18 pm
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This seems right:
Nabokov maintained a very exalted notion, in moral-political terms,
of his profession. He was amazed by literature: "This capacity to...
Tim Virkkala
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Feb 16, 2001 2:53 am
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It's a peculiar essay, with a Nabokov admirer griping about aesthetes - of which Nabokov is the prime example! - but the passage I quoted interested me. It...
Gene
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Feb 16, 2001 3:52 am
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... By the way, "Gene" is I. Why Yahoo/eGroups ascribed the name Gene to me is utterly bewildering. (I posted this one the Web, from work last night.) -- ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Feb 16, 2001 4:40 pm
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That last message did leave me puzzled as to its provenance. Thanks for the link, "Gene," on Nabokov. Serendipitously, I recently read the Vidal article...
Pete Collins
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Feb 16, 2001 6:14 pm
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I just finished the 1976 novel "A God Against the Gods," by Allen Drury. It tells the tale of Akhenaten and his family, the last rulers of the 18th Dynasty of...
Timothy Virkkala
virkkala@...
Feb 25, 2001 5:23 am
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There was recently a brief discussion in one of these groups of "The Egyptian." (Waltari.) I read this as a teenager, and at least once since then. I really...
Byron Marshall
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Feb 25, 2001 5:57 am
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Oh well. ... Aten loves me, that I know 'Cause Akhenaten tells me so He is odd and he is fat But he knows just where it's at. Yes, Aten loves me, Yes, Aten...
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