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Literary | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Fiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. For example, Kea Wilson’s new novel,. We Eat Our Own. More layers, more st...
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Science | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Genius: The Life And Science of Richard Feynman. 8212;feeling that this would not be such a difficult subject, or at least feeling that it would be as much a human endeavor as art or music or engineering or accounting. But he wanted the questions. He wanted to see that spark of interest, and if he saw a glimmering he would try to fan it into flame. His enthusiasm was infectious. What some mistook for sl...
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Personal | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Okay, this is hard. Very hard. Keith Emerson is dead. Apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 71. That in itself is difficult to square with the pictures in my mind of the epic artist of the heyday of one of the greatest musical outfits of the 20th Century. I’ve seen ELP six times. Keith Emerson opened the possibilities for taking the idioms of rock music and applying them to greater effe...
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Drama | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Fiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. For example, Kea Wilson’s new novel,. We Eat Our Own. More layers, more st...
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Author Archives: Mark W. Tiedemann. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Fiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. We Eat Our Own. More layers, more stor...
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Religion | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Moral Crisis and The Reality of God: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Sometimes it is very much worth the wait before reading certain books. Too early an exposure and the substance could be misapprehended, misinterpreted, misconstrued, or simply missed. Such, I feel, is the case with Mary Doria Russell’s superb. A Case of Conscience. What we have in. Is deliciously layered examination of cultural assum...
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Amalgams | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. Fiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. For example, Kea Wilson’s new novel,. We Eat Our Own. More layers, more st...
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Military SF | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Category Archives: Military SF. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. 2015 is done and I have read what I read. It was a year fraught with turmoil in science fiction, a year prompting reassessments, a year when required reading competed with reading for pleasure, and the time constraints of working on a new novel (two, in fact) impeded chipping away at my to-be-read pile, which mounds higher. So what I’m seeing—in many more titl...By John C...
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Motives and Revelations | The Proximal Eye
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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Larr; Taste and Quality. Traditions and New Eyes →. Posted by Mark W. Tiedemann. There is a remarkable scene—one of many—in James Morrow’s new novel,. She was fired for attempting to steal the sketch he had written concerning the transmutation of species, a precursor work to his epic. On The Origin of Species. 8220;Don’t overestimate my sympathy. Had I two thousand surplus pounds, I would cover your father’s debts, ...8220;Assuming...
