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Victorian Now Literacy

Why has 50 Shades of Gray sold like crazy despite everyone of any relevance condemning it as a badly-written, badly-conceived infantile book unworthy of attention? No one reads for style. Maybe a handful of us, sure, but mostly people read … Continue reading

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Plotting Courses, Charting Novels

“Plotting Courses, Charting Novels” They call it a plot by analogy to nautical charts. The navigators plotted a course. They knew where they set out and where they wanted to go. They planned a reasonable route. Along the way, however, … Continue reading

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