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About Pechorin’s Journal. Life equals structure plus activity. You have always, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.’ →. 29 July, 2015 · 5:16 pm. Nothing moved across the moor except the rain, which appeared as suddenly and soundlessly as a face pressed against a window. Diving Belles, by Lucy Wood. What sells it all is the prose:. Diving Belles is a strong opener to the collection, and it’s immediately followed by Countless Stones which is just as solid. Here Rita has woken up to find that ...Rita fi...
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About Pechorin’s Journal. Dude, where’s my theme? Some recommendations for Central European fiction →. 10 August, 2010 · 2:39 pm. Nobody would feed those judged certain to die. Shipwrecks, by Akira Yoshimura. Last year I read Akira Yoshimura’s novel One Man’s Justice. It was an impressive work in a fine translation by Mark Ealey. I was left wanting to read more. These are Isaku’s father’s parting words to his wife and to Isaku:. The villagers then survive because others do not. They are horrifically ...
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https://pechorinsjournal.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/the-maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett
About Pechorin’s Journal. Nothing moved across the moor except the rain, which appeared as suddenly and soundlessly as a face pressed against a window. Everything seemed to be linked to everything else →. 31 July, 2015 · 5:00 pm. You have always, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.’. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett. What is there to say about this one? It’s half the reason I wanted to go there in the first place. Here’s how the book opens:. Right away Hammett has put Sam Spade front and centr...
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The revolution will not be televised | Pechorin's Journal
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About Pechorin’s Journal. A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer. To be an animal that thinks persistently in terms way beyond its lifespan sets us a frightful problem. →. 23 July, 2008 · 9:39 am. The revolution will not be televised. Last night I finished Hari Kunzru’s latest novel, My Revolutions, recently out in paperback (with a cover which isn’t nearly as good as it had in the hardback, but there you go). Central to all this is the figure of Anna, a revolutionary young woman that Chris loves and who i...
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Pechorin's Journal | A literary blog | Page 2
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About Pechorin’s Journal. Newer posts →. 4 July, 2016 · 1:47 pm. We all go down in battle, but we all come home.’. Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes. Nightwood comes praised by many of my own personal literary heroes. TS Eliot was a fan. So too Jeanette Winterson. Even William Burroughs apparently loved it. With all that to recommend it how could I not love it too? Note that line about “perpetuating that race”, because Felix’s is part-Jewish and here that’s indicative of character. T...After a long silence in w...
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Everything seemed to be linked to everything else | Pechorin's Journal
https://pechorinsjournal.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/gods-without-men-by-hari-kunzru
About Pechorin’s Journal. You have always, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.’. Sometimes what I wouldn’t give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 am telling lies to one another, far from God. →. 10 August, 2015 · 11:16 am. Everything seemed to be linked to everything else. Gods Without Men, by Hari Kunzru. It sounds chaotic, but if you trust Kunzru (and you should) it starts to come together. The common character is the desert itself and a rock formation named the Pinnacles that looks lik...
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The Last Barfighter: Stale Popcorn: A Guide to the Summer 2010 Film Season
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Thursday, June 3, 2010. Stale Popcorn: A Guide to the Summer 2010 Film Season. The summer movie formula is pretty simple: Release the high-priced blockbusters while school's out and make money. This in itself isn't a bad thing, plenty of high budget films provide entertainment and opportunities to present things that haven't been seen before ( Star Wars. Sex and the City 2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Movie boasting reco...
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The Last Barfighter: The Lonesome Death of the Compact Disc
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Thursday, December 22, 2011. The Lonesome Death of the Compact Disc. But I could finally begin building what I thought would be a legitimate collection of music on a format that was new (only not at all, since the CD has been commercially available since 1982, but I didn't know that) and would last forever. 1) MP3s are magic little ghosts that float around in your computer (I think). Music is supposed to come from tangible devices that feature artwork and liner notes and can be easily transported. As sad...
