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A miscellany of links: Miami Linkity

October 26, 2008 By: Brian Category: Uncategorized

-The Wire episode 3

-Mr. Reasoner, I can’t decide if you are a robot or a freak but either way, huzzah good sir, huzzah.

-Preach brother Larry, preach: “Read most online reviews (and even many print ones) and there often is not much in the way of a contemplative attitude toward a book; the book either “works” or “fails” on the level of plot/characterization without much consideration given to thematic discourse or to how the text has been constructed”

-I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, GO READ THIS BOOK: “There’s nothing supernatural in “Generation Loss,” but it’s full of mysteries — all originating in its characters’ troubled psyches — and full of terrors that can’t be explained. Like the heroine of Hand’s brilliant horror story “Cleopatra Brimstone,” Cass Neary has been the victim of a rape, and like the title humanoid of “Pandora’s Bride,” she is stubbornly and defiantly independent. Hand’s bride announces at the very outset of her peculiar memoir: “In fact I was to be no male’s bride: from the moment I knew fire and was thus born, my goal has always been to steal fire, and power, for myself. I am no man’s creature and no man’s possession.” This writer’s Promethean project, her fire-stealing strategy, has always been, as Cass Neary’s is and Mary Shelley’s was, art itself — the act of creation and all its frightful ambiguities. Near the end of “Generation Loss,” Cass comments on another artist’s work: “It was a horrifying world, but it was a real one. How many of us can say we’ve made a new world out of the things that terrify and move us?” At least a few of the women writing horror today can say just that. And there’s no way to mistake the new worlds they’re making for the work of men.”

BOOK REVIEWS

-Joker by Brian Azzarello

MOVIE/TV/DVD REVIEWS

MISC.

-A quick and dirty outline template

-Despite the advances in the forensic sciences, fictional detectives still must, as Poirot would say, use the little gray cells. The art of detection, thus, requires a mind that has the skill to use the rational powers of observation and inference and the non-rational powers of intuition, imagination, and identity in such a way as to arrive at the truth. No matter whether he is an amateur, police, or private, the detective must be an egoist and a little arrogant to be successful. Philosophically, like Poe, the detective must believe that the universe is rational and, therefore, may be understood using the methods of deduction and induction.

-Writers who improve with time

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4 Responses to “ A miscellany of links: Miami Linkity ”

# 1 Peter Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 3:10 am
I’m getting an Error 404 when I click on “Preach brother Larry, preach,” and I want to read what looks like a compelling post. Is the glitch on your end or mine?
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Detectives Beyond Borders
“Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home”
http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
# 2 Brian Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am
I fixed the link Peter
# 3 marco Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Peter,don’t bother with the link,GO READ THAT BOOK
(Generation Loss,that is)
just the other day you posted about “authors or books you have learned about by word of mouth” and said you were especially interested in “discoveries (that) were outside your normal area of reading”

Ciao,
Marco
# 4 Peter Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Grazie to you both!
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Detectives Beyond Borders
“Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home”
http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/

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