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The DiCaprio film adaptation of The Great Gatsby reminds me that of all the novels I’ve read, it had my favorite closing sentence: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The novel with my favorite opening sentence is Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of [...]
Archive for the ‘Literature’ Category
April 19th, 2013
The US Senate and the European Parliament likened to the ostrich that Sir Thomas Browne tried to feed an iron bun.
March 9th, 2013
Category: Literature
Google not and tell me: What is the origin of the phrase “red herring” and how is it of particular interest on this day? UPDATE: AS OF 9:18 AM SUNDAY LONDON TIME THERE ARE NO CORRECT ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS SO HERE IS A HINT. THE EVENT OF CONCERN THAT MAKES THE PHRASE Of PARTICULAR [...]
March 3rd, 2013
Category: Literature
What happened to the fourth book of Alexei Panshin’s series of Anthony Villiers stories?
February 20th, 2013
Category: Literature
P.G. Wodehouse published a light-hearted but viciously effective satirical attack on Oswald Mosley, head of the British Union of Fascists, in 1938. That seems relevant to judging his motives in making broadcasts on German radio after having been captured during the conquest of France.
January 11th, 2013
Category: Arts reviews, Film, Film, France, Income distribution, Literature, Music, Popular Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized
Based on its vivid colors and exaggerated gestures, one is tempted to dismiss Academy Award Best Picture nominee Les Miserables as a cartoon. But cartoons have clarity of line and a sense of direction, not to mention momentum from frame to frame. This movie is more like the result of dropping the Sunday funnies in [...]
December 25th, 2012
Grove Patterson, a once well-known newspaper man, writes about faith.