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In medias res: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). I'm nearly done with the book, and I've watched this movie about 5 times this week. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Now, what I want is Facts." Charles Dickens. View my complete profile. Michelle Tea at Boxcar this Saturday. Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and p. Literature 101: The Western Canon and You. Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unco. Bram Stokers Dracula (1992).
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In medias res: October 2007
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. I'm working on a few things:. By Don DeLillo. I'm about a third of the way through and so far I'm completely enraptured. It's difficult to find substantial blocks of time during which I can read the novel, which takes considerate levels of attention. I'm also finding that this is a novel that's difficult to read in bits and pieces- I need to read it in blocks. Basically, it's coming, slow and steady. Slowly and steadily&...
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In medias res: Literature 101: The Western Canon and You
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. Literature 101: The Western Canon and You. Top ten most read pieces of literature in high school English class, in order:. To Kill A Mockingbird. Of Mice and Men. Lord of the Flies. Why, you might ask, are these the most popular books for high schoolers to read? Who even made them, anyways? How were these books determined to be The Best? Does anyone know of a more cosmopolitan book list out there? Perhaps a bit of resear...
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In medias res: September 2007
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. She pissed noisily on the bobbing eggs with total vigor and satisfaction.". Well, on my walk home yesterday I stopped at the bookstore to pick up The Story of the Eye. By Georges Bataille (published under the pen name Lord Auch 1928, "Lord Auch" being derived from aux chiottes. With both eyes intact. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita. I'm embarking on a great literary journey. This. Is it My friend MK has been reading ...
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In medias res: Suspended
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. I'm working on a few things:. By Don DeLillo. I'm about a third of the way through and so far I'm completely enraptured. It's difficult to find substantial blocks of time during which I can read the novel, which takes considerate levels of attention. I'm also finding that this is a novel that's difficult to read in bits and pieces- I need to read it in blocks. Basically, it's coming, slow and steady. Then the horror over...
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In medias res: Michelle Tea at Boxcar this Saturday
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. Michelle Tea at Boxcar this Saturday. Should be fun. I'm just exposing myself for the first time but I'm excited. Also I'm reading Underworld. Slowly and steadily. It's a slow read because the writing is so astoundingly beautiful that I find myself re-reading sentences like crazy. Later, gators,. It's now at Space 101 (101 E 6th St./6th and Walnut)! October 26, 2007 at 9:39 AM. As in: trying something new?
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In medias res: "Opium! dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain!"
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! Last week I read Thomas de Quincey's 1822 autobiography,. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Mond July 15 . 76. Wikipedia says "The book. Was quite controversial,. Discussion of addiction and other. Moral faults" was taboo before. And during the Victorian era. De Quincey gave one of the first. Literary accounts of the effects. Of the drug in a time where the.
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In medias res: Aside
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. I don't like Harold Bloom, and I need to read. By DeLillo and Pynchon's. Before I read anything else. I'm halfway through Farmer's. The House of the Scorpion,. Which I'm reading for my young adult literature class. Then it's. Seems to be on the back-burner, as do the other Penguin books. I'm not going to stick to just the Penguin books, because that would be nearly impossible. Plus, I like other things.
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In medias res: "Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious."
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." -Jorge Luis Borges. Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious.". When I was a senior in high school I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. For the first time. While that novel remains more staunchly in the Romantic genre than Dracula. The same sense of Gothic horror and Victorian drama pervades them both, making the latter novel just as gripping as the former. Warning: spoilers) Dracula,. Is this interesting to you? I'm now read...
