Recent spurt of answers by this user made me remember this defense they offered once:
I begin my answer with the words “Generally speaking” because if one takes a perusal of one of Bram Stoker’s biographies (say, Barbara Belford’s Bram Stoker) most of the above are explained. To supplement the above, one could look at an annotated version of the text, such as Dracula: Norton Critical Edition, which includes contextual essays as well. — ferjsoto42yahoocomMar 6 at 23:02
I am quoting from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Greek Interpreter by Arthur Conan Doyle:
His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.
I ...
This is all free work that I am doing, so I don’t think it is unreasonable to say that anyone interested has more than enough information to get that for which you are asking by merely doing a google search. — ferjsoto42yahoocomAug 2 at 21:51
I mean, it would've been possible to write a ridiculously long answer gathering loads of info from those links, but the info is already there on those other sites for anyone who cares to go digging that deeply.
BSEW mentioned it in TPRG general, maybe that's where you heard of it? There's a few plotlines going on all at once...
> In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.
Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As …
Recently I was musing that even without a formal writing class since a while, I still get plenty of writing and analysis practice from answering on Literature.
Answering here has also gotten me more used to looking things up online and structuring an argument in a way most natural for its flow, instead of forcing every thought into the arbitrary framework of a 5-paragraph essay.
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It's also a delightful opportunity to flex my vocabulary all over the place, but that's less important
@bobble If you enjoy vocabulary flexing (and weird locations, and caricaturised characters), I can recommend Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, or at least the first two books since the third one is unfinished. Weird as heck, but very memorable.
@bobble When I had to write an essay for my high school equivalency exam - never having previously written an essay - I approached it exactly as if I were writing a Stack Exchange answer. End result: 200/200. :)
@AncientSwordRage Black Sun in particular was on my mind today because Luna_Plath wrote a twitter thread about how it's the only book by a sighted person she's ever read, which felt right about depicting blindness.
I didn't say it looks the same. It's just an association. However, if you mentally turn Flimzy's avatar so it faces you, then you'll see his right hand in the same position as Mithical's.
Of course, there are a few other small differences.
Hooper, in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited,
was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side; at the age when my eyes were dry to all save poetry – that stoic, red-skin interlude which our schools introduce between the fast-flowing...
Can anyone recommend books about this author? By this, I mean books that are entirely about him, although if they contain substantial chapters about Kawabata I'd be interested too.
Can anyone recommend books about this author? By this, I mean books that are entirely about him, although if they contain substantial chapters about Kawabata I'd be interested too.
Not finding much thru Google, searches at Amazon, or my local public library. I'm surprised that there is so little ...
And for my bronze French literature tag badge, I think I needed more than 40 answers instead of the required minimum of 20. It's not literature in English, after all ...
@llywrch And there's more if you can read German (or French).
@bobble Have you tried reading any short stories by Alfred Döblin or Robert Musil? Those completely lost me when I was studying German literature. Or try making sense of Peter Handke's play Kaspar.
My goal when picking books to read is to find ones I will enjoy reading. In the past I have enjoyed the genres and lengths that I typically read, thus I continue to choose similar books.
The problem is that as soon as it's a reading challenge for the site, my brain shifts from simple enjoyment reading to reading to see what the work can give me (e.g. what questions I can ask about it)
@Tsundoku I haven't read Musil, but I did make my way thru 2/3 of an English translation of Broch's The Sleepwalkers. Right now I'm working my way thru the English translations of Kawabata Yasunari's works.
I am quoting from the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Greek Interpreter by Arthur Conan Doyle:
His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.
I ...
