The article linked to here was from 2001 on my first website Turtleneck.net where my buddy Josh and I began our first foray into literary journal. It was a great time and the article I wrote on Saramago and Myth holds up pretty well actually. I was a bit cheeky in my literary theory then. …
Blind plan to protest the Oct 3rd US Release of Blindness The chairman of the commission for the blind Marc Maurer is planning on staging a protest for the film adaptation of the 1998 Novel Blindness by Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago. To be blunt this seems silly. And I wonder if the chairman has …
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For those that don’t know Patrick O’Brian’s works, and who may not have read my other posts on Aubrey/Maturin, I will quickly summarize. Patrick O’Brian over the course of several decades wrote 21 books based on Lord Cochrane an active frigate captain in the Napoleonic wars. The novels depict the life and adventures of two …
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