A brief and totally unscientific rumination on the concept of dialogue in literature and how difficult it is to construct appropriate dialogue for a given scene.
Month: February 2010
A dutiful scholar should never be above the urge to create. Their soul drive is to explore, not to criticize. So, occasionally something creative appears. A muse calls and leaves three voicemail messages, then she sends a few more text messages for good measure. As a responsible individual, the scholar should respond promptly to such urgency. So here is her most recent message.
A brief commentary on reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the first time including and experiment in humorous meta-commentary.
What is the heart of imagination? What causes someone to take external objects or concepts and the combine them to form an entirely unique whole? What sparked Joyce to write Finnegan’s Wake, a churning mass of layered literary allusions? What causes someone to produce something without any immediate points of reference?
Scholarly (adj): involving or relating to serious academic study having or showing knowledge, learning, or devotion to academic pursuits ORIGIN: Old English: scol(i)ere “schoolchild, student,” from Late Latin scholaris, from Latin schola “school.” Musing (v): being absorbed in thought talking to oneself in a thoughtful manner ORIGIN: Middle English : from Old French muser “meditate, wastetime,” perhaps from medieval Latin musum “muzzle.” Cited: Oxford Ameriican […]