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Category Archives: Sample Essays
An Invitation To a Mud Bath
Famous writers aren’t as famous as celebrities from other walks of life, such as actors or rock stars. There are exceptions to the Known By Looks stuff, such as Neil Gaiman doing a rock star image and Donna Tartt’s actor … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Celebrity, clarity, Good vs. Bad, Mud Bath, Read vs. Buy, Writing
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Are You An Imaginary Playmate? A Non-Playable Character? A Monetized Cluster of Pixels?
Distressed because a familiar face from a media feed has gone dark? Y’know, TV personalities, movie stars, online images, all are interchangeable. Having an emotional attachment to an image is self-sabotage, a sucker’s bet, notwithstanding “Pictures of Lilly” by The … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Iodoru, Max Headroom, Media Feed, PKD, reality, Simulation
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Let History Stand (So We Can Learn From It)
Regarding censorship and bowdlerizing older books etc. — Correcting errors is necessary to present a better book and is not censorship or bowdlerizing. Copyediting is entirely ethical, and improves the work. It is not ethical to change published work. If … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Fascism Stance, art, bowdlerizing, censorship, literature
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Hemming and Hawing
If Hemingway hadn’t put that macho gloss on things, he’d have been revealed as an aesthete, something his upbringing didn’t let him admit, even to himself perhaps. He was at core sensitive, finely-tuned, and delicate, not attributes one associates with … Continue reading
What About Us?
Literary writers often cherrypick tropes and topoi from pulp to spark plot, then fail to follow through. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike is a good first third of a Stephen King novel, but he didn’t follow through on … Continue reading
Renewed As Always
In the Romantic Era, when artists and writers recoiled from some of the harshness brought by the Age of Reason, a beautiful, terminally-ill young woman, doomed, a tubercular Venus, was considered the most poignant of topics for art. Beauty and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Death.Renewal., literature, reading
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Eyes Have Us
Stalkers forget the touch of regard. Being observed is sensed as a spider web brushing across the back of the neck, a feather tickling the spine, an urge to look behind or around yourself. Gooseflesh spreads. Special Ops troops are … Continue reading
Ill-Advised Brief Statement From a Distant Corner
Woodrow Wilson censored the media and put political enemies in jail. Despotic fascism. Ah, but he was low-key and not a blathering lunatic, so we tend to forget. Besides, the fascist right normalizes such extremism. It was 1953 when Harry … Continue reading
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Tagged America, boiled frog, democracy, dictatorship, extremists, Fascism, vote
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Harsh Words From A Buried Box
Some snarls, growls, and facts to be faced without fear. It’s not that you write, it’s that you publish that matters. In the digital age this leads to a torrent of amateur work that floods the market, gluts the browsers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Buried Box, Discouraged Writers, Harsh Facts, Harsh Words, Publishing Matters Most
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