This is funny: http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2000/08/24/boll/index.html...
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Science fiction and theological fantasy (a la Williams & Lewis): http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/002/33.87.html Young critic Jeremy Lott argues that...
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Just a little bit of listserve business: I've changed me email address. I now list virkkala@... as the best way to get in touch with me for listserve...
Today has been a day to argue about C.S. Lewis. I've engaged with a number of people on and off various lists. What follows is some quoted material about...
Odd bit o' japery here: http://www.philipkdick.com/articles/newageprophet.html Today I dipped into Philip K. Dick's "Radio Free Albemuth" again - what a ...
What are the bad politics in the novel? I've never read it. I've never read much Dick. A little too depressive for me, maybe. What I did read--the one with the...
... The assumption that Nixon was a loser, with no way to get in office but to kill off the bulk of his best competitors. This is a complete misreading of ...
Offlist, Byron asked me about a book that we had discussed some time back (I can't find any of these emails in my email logs, however), "The First Messiah."...
To "Reading Matters" (reading-matters@yahoogroups.com) and friends: I recently read "The Picture of Dorian Gray." As I was thinking about how peculiar a novel...
In a message dated 4/24/2002 7:56:27 PM, virkkala@... writes: << Anyone else care to comment on the book?>> When I read it (around 12) it struck me as...
In a message dated 4/24/2002 2:15:31 PM, virkkala@... writes: ... The assumption that Nixon was a loser, with no way to get in office but to kill off the...
Dear Tim, Thanks for sending along your review of "The First Messiah" by Wise. THE FIRST MESSIAH ================= When I first read Tim's copy of the book...
When the Marxist economist Bukharin was executed, he lamely accused the Party to be infected by "Oblomovism." He should have wished! I had been meaning to read...
I believe I read a story some years ago about a production in London of Oblomov (which I assure you I know nothing about, so I might be off on this), in which,...
Courtesy of Umberto Eco I just heard of an aphorist previously unknown to me, a Mr. Lec. Most mentions on the Web appear to be in foreign languages, but this...
At last he IS the entropy which meant so much to him: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/02EFFI.html My favorite story by him was titled, I think, "The...
"Critics and fans generally concur that To Live Forever (1956), The Blue World (1966), and Emphyrio (1969) plus the exotic novelette "The Moon Moth" (1960)...
Tim sends along some humor from the media flotsam ================================================= What press agent puts out this stuff? Good to see he still...
Here's one: Writers in foreign languages remain obscure. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health...
... He was funny. He usually pulled it off, being funny. He also had a good sense of strangeness, and could concoct weird worlds that seemed uncontrived. His...
I've been looking for this poem for a long time - and at last found * it! So, here it is, a favorite poem (from my childhood): SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON by...
Dear Tim, Very charming! And now you'll have to come and read it in person at the Ninth Ever Louisiana Poetry Bee--Sunday, August 4th at 3:30 pm in Pineville,...
Does anyone know anything about Emil Ludwig's "Genius and Character"? I meant to sell it on eBay, but it looks interesting. I am wondering if it may be worth...
T.V. downloads a URL from the web on how kids are downloading things from the web rather than doing anything. . . supposedly, says the article, it makes ...
On the sentence level, Jack Vance may be science fiction's best writer. And he certainly has written enough that is fascinating above the level of words. He...
... One of the more interesting aspects of the interview was his bold confession of enjoying the Stratemeyer factory. in its heyday, when he was a boy, it ...
Dear Tim, Thanks for letting me know of the interview http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/interview.html which is wonderful. Vance is such a great guy. It was ...
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