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purgatoryandme · 4 years ago

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Hey! I can't seem to find the post you made with all the books references in Illuminate Me and the reason behind it? Is it deleted?

I know that there is an incomplete one floating around in my reply tag, and it should be in the Illuminate Me tag, but tumblr’s search features are so bad that I went back to the original word doc of the complete list, so prepare for that particular storm lol. Quoted/Referenced Reading List (In Order of Appearance) Shakespeare: Macbeth I opened on a Macbeth quote (‘When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lighting, or in rain’) because I wanted to start with something immediately relatable. Most readers were introduced to more ‘dramatic’ plays through Macbeth. Beyond that, they were introduced to the concept of pathetic fallacy, which I think plays nicely with Tony as a character (a man who is CONSTANTLY imparting emotion onto inanimate objects…and then actually giving them their own emotions) and with one of the core problems in IM, which is deciding the emotions of others for them. I was hoping to get the ‘feel’ of that without having to lean too far into the actual concept.

Bonus: I picked this quote in particular because of the importance of threes in Tony’s life (his core group of friends, iterations of the reactor, number of times reborn, his bot children VS his AI children, the number of lovers or almost lovers he has in the fic, etc). Milton: Paradise Lost ‘What is dark within me, illuminate!’ is a modernization of the original Milton quote ‘what is dark within me, illumine’ for readability. I actually feel a bit bad about changing this considering how many people think this is the original quote now. This wound up being a central (and title) quote somewhat by accident. I’m fond of it because of how much I liked a different one that I had originally wanted for Tony’s thoughts of the reactor: ‘yet from those flames, no light, but rather darkness visible’. I had originally wanted to start off on a sadder note, one that showed how much Tony hated losing his humanity, and so the flames of Hell and their physics-bending concept seemed thematically appropriate. I had always intended to eventually invert the imagery – instead of Extremis being (to Tony) flames capable of extinguishing light, the reactor would become a water-like blue light that couldn’t be choked or recreated by any of the shadows that pursued Tony in his life. I picked Milton SPECIFICALLY for the imagery of light and shadows.

But, man, listen. Darkness visible is a great concept, but it’s also tired. It has, as you’ve noted, been discussed to death. So as I was reading ‘Milton’s darkness visible and Aeneid 7’ to refamiliarize myself with some of the broader themes attached to that particular piece of imagery, I wound up thinking about how to invert the darkness itself instead of the overall concept. The flames of Hell extinguish light instead of having to exist away from it. It is a bad that cannot be penetrated by good.

Instead of chasing away shadows, which would be implied by shining a light ON them, the request Tony makes here is to actually invert the darkness - to have it illuminate in and of itself. It’s becoming something better instead of being removed or forgotten. On the flip side of that, the darkness within isn’t growing as light weakens, but rather under its own force. Two forces equal in nature and origin in a person. It’s a different take on lighting than the one most critics hammer home. Long ramble is long, but this was the basis for using that quote. It grew from there to have many different meanings, however the core has always remained. All in all I’m pleased with it.

EM Forster: A Room with a View Very forgiving even in its satirical takes on human nature. A lot of passages are very therapy-quotable in their urging to accept the inevitability of causing some harm in life. It plays on a lot of the same concepts with light being obvious metaphor for good and evil that Paradise Lost does, but softens them into more realistic shades of human existence. Isaac Asimov: Foundation Continuing on with themes of rigid morality vs the flexibility and romanticism of humanity, we have Asimov, master of machines and the three rules of robotics! There are lots of quotable epigrams in this beast. The quote pulled from this has two readings depending on what you assume of the man who has said it. If you see him as manipulative, there’s an insidious underpinning of killing off your own morals. If you see him as a kind man, then you could read it as foregoing morals in place of empathy. Tony’s therapist loves a very specific brand of double speak that lets Tony work through the conversation purely through interpretation. Tolstoy: Anna Karenina Tolstoy’s prose is lengthy...so so lengthy, but Anna Karenina is worth the read as long as you relate to at least one of its major characters. Frankly, I think you can choose to read a single character’s plot arc and leave it at that. It’s mostly a novel that is interesting, not because of its plot, but because of its study of relationship dynamics. Tolstoy was really invested in picking apart the idea of what makes a ‘family’ and, beyond that, what makes a class. It’s refreshing to see so much of the critique occurring within the lived experience of the characters instead of through a narrator or outside punishing moral forces. Baudelaire: Windows and Benediction I cannot recommend enough reading multiple translations of Baudelaire poems (fleursdumal.org has a wonderful array available). Benediction is a personal favourite. I love me some malevolence wrapped up in religion. Dante: The Divine Comedy There’s a lot of bleak humor in Dante if you look for it. Several interpretations insist of making each piece excessively grim dark, but faithful translations tend to have a hint of humor in them. It works well for engraving War Machine’s spine - a benediction and a mockery of human limitations. I try to pick quotes that not only fit the scene, but would still fit into the context of the grander themes from whence they came...unless I hate the author. Tennyson: The Lady of Shallot “I am sick of shadows” vs “I am half-sick of shadows”. Tony’s expressing more frustration here with being alone and his passive involvement in that loneliness. Another quote I feel vaguely bad about changing, haha. The Lady of Shallot is a very nice classical piece that I’m sad isn’t taught in schools alongside Hamlet. There are some nice Ophelia parallels here. I wanted a feminine influence on Tony’s loneliness and one that is somewhat youthful despite his age. Yeats: Vacillation I fucking hate Yeats as a person. That said, the man can write. The man can REALLY write. His pieces are almost always layered to the point of absurdity and he’s perfect to swiping quotes with multiple meanings. Definitely Tony’s kind of author. Goethe: Faust Speaks for itself and in the author’s notes on its reference. Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamasov IMO a book that deserves all the acclaim of Anna Karenina and then some. Very VERY Russian in its ethical debates of, as always, religious morality vs free will. Also dips into familial struggles and patricide, because it wouldn’t be a Russian classic if it didn’t contain some deeply buried bitter resentment towards paternalism. I’m going off-script here, but this is a fucking excellent book. I don’t really have words for how much I enjoy how Dostoyevsky explores the concepts that he does. Shakespeare: Julius Ceasar Shakespeare: Twelfth Night Twelfth Night deserves more credit for its development and maintenance of an enigma. Twelfth Night has charisma in spades both because of and in spite of the exceedingly petty actions of some of its characters. It is also a refreshingly simple take on love for the sake of it. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Stephen King: Lisey’s Story I consider Lisey’s Story to be the best of King’s work. The man has his obvious writing ticks and his even more obvious issues as an author. Lisey’s Story contains many of them, but navigates them far better than any of his other work. The monster here is all in the mind and is too vast to truly see or understand. It’s perfectly representative of a creeping sense of inescapable horror. It was fun to flip it on its head with a reference here – Tony isn’t terrified of dying, but he is terrified of his inescapable enjoyment of Bucky’s company. Maria’s family saying is inspired by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Armitage: The Death of King Arthur A genuinely fantastic classic tale of heroism, filled with all the drama, tragedy, and sacrifice that you’d expect with strongly feminine undertones. I’m a sucker for this kind of thing. TS Eliot: The Wasteland Excellent piece of poetry with many layered meanings and dual interpretations. I can’t really articulate my thoughts on The Wasteland, but I reference an essay at the end of this list that does that for me. Oedipus Rex Rupert Brooke: Safety Not directly quoted but obscurely referenced through Bucky and Tony’s war conversations + Bucky’s conversation about, you got it, being ‘safe’ with his therapist. His poetry is about WWI and is, largely, idealistic. Safety is…not quite an exception to that. His other poetry contains a certain sense of honour and duty, whereas safety, maintaining a seemingly light tone, has nothing of the sort. It is safety in the soul – something untouchable by the horrors of war or death. It treats that as a ‘house’, which leant itself to the article Tony send Bucky. Armine Wodehouse: Before Ginchy Not directly quoted but obscurely referenced through Bucky and Tony’s war conversations + Bucky’s conversations with his therapist. This is also WWI poetry, though far darker than Brooke’s work. It discusses the parts of the heart and soul soldiers lose. It is an extremely good piece AND references Dante’s Inferno. I had to work it in somewhere even if I didn’t want to directly quote it. Meyer and Brysac: Tournament of Shadows Referenced several times over in discussion of war, the great game, and British military history. Beautifully self-aware account of Britain’s insistence on rewriting history after the fact and the tiny hilariously embarrassing moving pieces that shaped what is often considered the heyday of espionage. Murakami: Kafka on the Shore I love Murakami’s response to questions about understanding the novel as a whole. There are no solutions, only riddles presented, and through their interaction the possibility of a solution takes place. It’s a great lens through which to view the book and individual passages taken out of it. Reminds me of The Wasteland having to be read in totality before you can begin picking it apart, after which each individual piece can be read of its own. Kafka on the Shore, with its musings on the uncertainty of fate and redemption, was the perfect book to outline Tony’s horrifying realization, which he is desperately suppressing, that he might be coming to accept Bucky’s feelings. This quote in particular, while I would’ve used it anyway, is also a great callback to the first chapter and its storms. Chapter 29 is a turning point. Beyond it there are some intentional quote contrasts that are probably more easter eggs than they are anything else. Yeats: A Dialogue of Self and Soul Great contrast with Vacillation. Some parts of self and soul are used in that poem and thematically they are connected and contrasted - self and heart vs self and soul. The symbolism and imagery in Vacillation is really on point and layered, but Self and Soul is peak Yeats for its reversal of the typical ‘the soul is pure and bluntly honest and the body is tainted and bad’ in Christian works. Also Self and Soul’s broader context is scrumptious considering the debate poems history of relying on divine forgiveness and lack thereof instead of on forgiveness of the self.

It was fun to give this poem a double meaning in IM as both hugely ominous and ultimately pointing to the later forgiveness Tony receives from himself through the divine (if the soul stone can be called that) in the heavens (space!). There’s also another fun twist to ‘who can distinguish darkness from the soul’ in its contrast with ‘what is dark within me, illuminate’. To take that a step further, Vacillation was the beginning of the path of forgiveness for Bucky (understanding Tony’s heart…somewhat literally as he slowly gets closer and closer to the reactor itself), while Self and Soul is a final step (re: Bucky being presented the final hurdle of Tony deciding to move forward alone). Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha Hesse is wonderfully blunt at times. I gotta admit I love German takes on spiritual self-discovery because they always seem to tend towards much more straightforward answers than other countries. Hesse’s relationship with Buddhism in literature vs his lived experience is also really intriguing. Anyway, Siddhartha, in its humanizing of Gods, is wonderful contrast to the consistent imagery of the untouchable and unknowable forces of good and evil in previously quoted works. It has stopped bringing humanity to the divine and has started placing the divine within humanity. Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey One of the ultimate poetic epics. Now that we are nearing the end, I’m going overtime with making the grander themes of this whole piece hit home. A lot of IM was built on a foundation of poetic epics, of heroism, and a bit of Greek tragedy. The Odyssey embodies all of those things beautifully. It also suited Thor too well to pass up. Yeats: An Irish Airman Forsees His Death Ah, Yeats. Very blatant foreshadowing here that is keeping with the foreshadowing from Self and Soul. Fate has, up till this point, been a bit of a question. It has been ‘when will it come to me’ and ‘how will I avoid or overcome it’. Now fate is a set point. It is knowable and present. ‘I know I shall meet my fate, somewhere among the clouds above’. This goes for the true onset of Infinity War and for Tony’s feelings towards Bucky – when he had no one, he allowed Bucky in after essentially promising himself he wouldn’t. If that’s not an accidental admittance of love, nothing is. Henley: Invictus Absolutely fantastic poem. Continuing with the heavy fate themes coming into this climax. Now that Tony knows his fate, truly knows it, he is choosing to take it on directly. Agamemnon (Anne Carson’s Traslation if you prefer a more modern language approach, Lattimore is you prefer a classic) Agamemnon is forgotten all too often in the world of poetic epics and it’s a damn shame. I cannot say enough good things about it. I always wanted to use lines from Agamemnon in a Tony fic because the Cassandra parallels were too perfect to resist. The chorus in this play was also a perfect narrative device for interacting with something of a hive mind. Yeats: The Wanderings of Oisin Another poetic epic. Nice contrast with The Odyssey, The Death of King Arthur, and Agamemnon. Here the dialogue is between an aged hero and a saint looking into the hero’s past. It has the kind of reflective and aged mood necessary for this stage of the story, but is actually a poem I sortof hate. The line ‘And a softness came from the starlight, and filled me full to the bone’ is absolutely gorgeous, though. Some final inspiration pieces:

The Penelopiad

The Iliad

House of Leaves (for surrealism in the final chapters)

Dante at Verona (used in an author’s note as an intentional jab at the dull uninspired nature of the this particular take on Dante. Repurposed quote, essentially)

a broke machine just blowin’ steam by themikeymonster (great character study of Bucky)

Frank Kermode’s essay “Eliot and the Shudder” (inspiration behind Tony’s entire interaction with literature)

#long post #reply #illuminate me #literature references

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dvtsr · 8 years ago

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// WHT IS A REFLECTION?

if(reading == reflection){

please listen to (Han-Tyumi and The Murder of the Universe); else (experience great boredom, following reflection is long winded);

}

THE POST-DIGITAL PROTOTYPE

With a project (//brief) this open it was hard to decide where to begin, the post digital was such a colossal topic it was easy to get lost in SPRINT tunnels where you would start fifty micro projects only to abandon them all and be left with nought.

Having grown up with my nose in a book, specifically Sci-Fi epic’s and dystopian thrillers, this studio option was an easy pick. When given the brief, rather than a solid idea I had a feeling I wanted to encapsulate. A pseudo Orwellian future in which we are monitored constantly, not menacingly but very blatantly. 14 year old me would have been disappointed by the mediocralypse we are living through. Instead of a cold judge Dredd / Robocop patrolling the streets it is Siri watching us, reminding us to take an umbrella less we catch a cold.

When I got my new iPhone [TM(TM) TM] I turned off all the regular ad/ tracking settings only to find within a few weeks that without me having ever set anything, it knew where work was, when I was working and when I was coming back home. This was on by default, hidden in settings be-riddled with sudden jargon.

(the setting was frequent locations) INITIAL BRAINSTORMING:

With all the aforementioned in mind I chose to focus on “looking at screens works both ways.” For the first part of this task I initially wanted to create a book out of paper that would dissolve under certain conditions, or create a publication that reflected my sentiments that I would expand upon in this final segment. However as I continued my research on the “post digital,�� I began to think about my own future as both a designer and individual. The design industry is simultaneously competitive and collaborative. I thought a lot about what kinds of clients I wanted to attract, sectors I wanted to work in and what set me apart as my own designer. There are enough/too many Frankie magazine designers already, regurgitating the same grid patterns and shallow works, printing the same idea month after month.

This is A Magazine, Compendium #3 “Chaos Happens.” Shown work by: Flutro-Creative Services Unit

It was from here that I realised that I personally couldn’t make another perfect bound print publication as my own interests didn’t align with this. To expand my practice I decided I needed to buckle down and do something I had little experience in. This is how I landed on coding. Whilst a daunting task I really do believe to evolve and stay ahead of the AI-designer-DoomBots who will inevitably replace us, it’s imperative we learn thy enemy. To bring something other than roast, peas and mash to the dinner table.

In the same way we swapped traditional waterfall methods in our ideation/prototyping phase I wanted to SPRINT my own portfolio and make use of the opportunity to work on a concept driven design as opposed to a finished work. Whilst AI can mimic human semantics and create pretty websites it is yet to learn to think of it’s OWN ideas and it is this that is perhaps our best asset as flesh and bone. On the same tangent, I wanted to explore the popularity of computer companionship. With the Mac OSX Sierra update, ‘Siri’ also lives in your desktop. Amazon released ‘Alexa’ and Google retaliated with ‘Google Home.’ All bots designed to assist your livelihood by taking over rudimentary tasks such as adding items to cart, checking the weather or playing music. The real appeal in these bots is not their ability to tell you what time it is in Denmark but their capability for relatively smooth, realistic conversation. How is it in a world more connected than ever, we feel isolated enough to require a live at home robot companion?

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Like a housewife from the 50′s, only Alexa can’t stick her head in the oven!

It was from here that I began looking into the feeling of loneliness in the post digital scape. Looking through my phone I found screenshots I had taken from a twitch stream of two google home bots set up such that they could converse with each other (side note: the rise of streaming culture/ Instagram live is an interesting foray into how we consume media and how rapidly it’s changing!! Saving it for another post!!) .

V: “what date” E: “the date you’re going to take me on.” V: “I don’t know we’ll have to see” Too real google, too real :----(

“If you don’t want to talk about Harry Potter I’m leaving”

Which reminded me of my own experiences chatting with bots. Cleverbot was super popular while I was in primary school as were portable offline versions of this with devices like 20Q. Our romanticism of talking to an algorithm is evidently nothing new. As AI ultimately reflects our own speech, is wanting to imbue human qualities in a string of data the ultimate form of narcissism? Or is it our collective cry for help, to save us from our own loneliness. This theory culminated when I read through/devoured The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Shumon Basar and co. (thx for lettin’ me borrow it Andy).

Growing up with video games it wasn’t until recently I’d noticed how isolated games that weren’t MMO or server based made me feel. Disconnected almost. Even open world games like the Witcher never truly asked:

Thus they never responded to my most current emotional needs. It was from there that I decided I wanted to create my own solution to this. I started with idea of collecting meta-data to fill in variables in a block of text. After strenuous research I realised with the time available and my lack of prior experience the code required to string this together was far too complex. From there I dug into machine learning some more, finally discovering Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS is a corporate orientated tech service which provides servers and API’s to aid in a vast range of analytic type applications. It was pay-per-use however as I was not sending it 10,000 hits at once it was a couple of cents per request. Unfortunately the AWS Rekognition software (which is infinitely cool, able to recognise objects, faces, expressions, age, gender and gestures with a certain amount of certainty) was region locked to North America and very buggy through my VPN :--(

I did get it to work a few times. Ultimately this was weeks of learning python and wrangling with Terminal down the drain. Deflated I wasted a few too many nights out/at bars trying not to think about my impending failure for this assignment. It was from there that I found Microsoft Azure, a similar service to AWS it provided the same recognition and the added promise of analysing “emotion.” Again I put in my credit card details only to find that the API was locked to North American servers and also too complex to incorporate for my own uses. In my growing list of abandoned ideas, I’d hoped to incorporate the raspberry pi into my project mostly because I really wanted to play with it. I loved the appeal of it’s blank canvas nature and the anarchy within creating your own systems as opposed to simply absorbing what is fed to you. At this point I’m losing a lot of sleep over /getting it done./ I’d watched hour upon hour of Java and then Python tutorial hoping to build this damn application. I then came upon openFrameworks (OF). Similar to Processing, OF is an arts-engineering toolkit, like well fertilised soil is to plants oF makes the coding process easier. However it is still just a nursing ground and to plant and grow your project you still need a firm grasp on the basics and semantics of C++. It was at this point I discovered http://www.facetracker.net, an Open CV2 library for ~ tracking dat face ~ Developed by Jason Saragih, it was wrapped for openFrameworks by Kyle McDonald. Most of the resources used in this project ended up being Frankenstein-ed together as I found most online tutorials were either lacking or 7 years old. Equipped with a source code I was still inept at writing a code to utilise this library. This project was like trying to solve a puzzle where all the pieces are made of bubbles and the instructions are in Russian. Luckily for me I love puzzles. I went on self loathing wiki-hole after wiki-hole trying to find help. I had all the parts I just didn’t know how to make them work together.

* note time stamps * Luckily openFrameworks came with a small library of tutorials which sent me in a better direction. It was 4 am and I was getting delusional when I finally stumbled upon a template Dan Wilcox had developed around FaceTracker for students at Carnegie Mellon Universities School of Art Faculty ( In Pittsburgh USA). This became the skeleton which I broke and rebuilt and furthered to build my own monster.

I changed the colours on my compiler (Xcode) so I felt more like hackerman B--) From there I did far more math than to my liking to integrate my facial structure into the algorithms:

If I had been more apt at coding I would have liked to have actual face recognition as opposed to tracking. Baby steps, perhaps for my next project. I started with the idea of the book changing large volumes of text depending on expressions, however it was too difficult to maintain one expression for any extraneous period of time. Coming back to my initial research ( with content driven on current emotional needs) I decided to use poetry. For each relevant emotion I assigned a poem/snippet which I both cherish and relate to a feeling.

The emotions and poems I ended up with are as follows: Happy: -> smiling Yes Yes, Charles Bukowski Angry: -> brows furrowed and eyes squinted Snippet of The Divine Comedy - Inferno, Dante Alighieri Shocked: -> mouth open Alone with Everybody, Charles Bukowski Tired: -> close to the screen Rhapsody on a Windy Night, TS Eliot

Confused: -> Far from screen Jabberwocky, CS Lewis

As emotions are never singular, neither are the outputs. If you show signs of multiple emotions they will clash and play at the same time. The fluidity of the text on screen mirrors the unanchored nature of thoughts and feelings. I also initially did not have the little face on screen, however found it more charming/uncomfortable to see a visual reminder of your constant surveillance. Whilst un-menacing it is slightly disgruntling to know you are being watched. Some test screens (as in the opening GIF):

Now armed with a deliverable software, my next hurdle was submission. I wanted to incorporate a physical art element that grounds the project as something tangible whilst maintaining the romanticism in the playful app, i.e I didn’t want to have it simply downloaded from a boring dropbox or CD as the prototype relies on “ inspiring a hope for a future outcome. ” To physical represent both my Frankenstein-ed code (which has been passed down forward and tweaked by four generations of people to get to this!! In the spirit of open source I will also upload my version to GitHub) I deconstructed an old hard drive and replaced its casing with old mobile phones. Another technology rapidly evolving and leaving behind carcasses. Building new through old, forging future with the bones of the past. It also includes a charger noose to remind viewers of the potential perils of living entirely online. This is countered by cute stickers and a smiley face to also remind viewers that things moving forwards doesn’t have to be scary.

In conclusion this Studio was like an incredible buffet in which I took way too much food but enjoyed all of it none the less. The book club meetings were incredibly rewarding and a pleasant change of pace from other classes. I’ve learnt so so much from class discussions and just being surrounded by super super suppppperrrr work. These are all concepts/skills/thought processes I’ll carry forward into future works both in academia and beyond. Honestly though my favourite part has just been absorbing other peoples works. Through and through my favourite class ( and the only class I’d come to uni at 9 am for.) 💖🌸💕💗 Thank u everybody for an incredible semester!

#i guess this is a book #the end #they all lived happily ever after #sorry its so long oops

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mercurialscoundrel · 5 years ago

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Hello there, Friends and Stuff! I’m excited to enter a new month and bring you some new and brilliant updates!

Dark Divinations – A Victorian Horror Anthology

First, Dark Divinations debuted on May 1st. You can order it now in paperback on Amazon. If you want to get the party pack, you can still get that here! Later this month, I’ll be posting updates about some special videos going up on Facebook… you’ll want to get in on that for sure!

Open Novella Contest

Whaaaat!? I made it through Round 2 of the contest? I couldn’t believe it. My novella, a 25,000-word story about a gay WWII pilot who crashes and washes up on an island reminiscent of Dante’s Inferno, actually had enough score to make it through. You can find the novella here if you’re interested.

Do I think it will win? Hell no. It’s the most artsy-fartsy thing I’ve written in my entire life, and it seems like Wattpad is more interested in YA-focused romantic fantasies or something a bit more… commercial. But the fact I’ve made it through round 2 is really pleasing, because it means the story’s well written enough to make it through despite sounding like it was written by a person totally not in Wattpad’s primary audience.

Changes on the Blog

You’ll notice a few (somewhat unfortunate) changes on the blog. Let’s start with the good and move our way to the bad!

Home Page Updates

My home page has been updated – now it’s easier to find the How-To articles by clicking on the Witty Nib Writing Club. There’s also a new blog-roll going where you can access recent posts more easily.

Expect New Graphics in June

I’m preparing for a few big changes that will go up in June and will reflect some of the things associated with the Dark Divinations anthology. If you stick around and watch the video watch party on Facebook, you may be surprised to see an interesting face and hear a terrible voice! To go along with these revelations, my avatar and a few other pieces of the website will be changing.

Witty Nib Writing Club Changes

Sadly, the prompts and attempts at collaboration with the Club didn’t quite turn out. I’m ever grateful to Robbie Cheadle for her response to the research prompt, but I think among the corner of blogs I survey, there’s a plentitude of prompts. As a result, the Witty Nib Writing Club will change from a monthly prompt and informative post to a monthly informative post alone. You can still join in the club using the comments, but I thought it’s time to retire the club. Maybe I’ll start something easier up in the future!

More Professional Foci

Something I’ve realized in the past few months – while I’ve not had a real job – is that blogging, sadly, doesn’t further professional writing credentials. It does help me meet new people who I love to follow, obtain new info about upcoming releases, and fulfill a long-term audience goal, but it takes up so much time. So much. I’ve decided to reduce the time spent on my blog in order to attempt more short story submissions, perhaps consider doing a poetry submission, and finish my newest novel.

Sadly, I’m probably not going to be reading as many blogs or be quite as responsive. I’ll give it my best shot, but that’s all I can promise!

I’ll also be (at least temporarily) closed to beta reading requests, and any book review requests (while still open) will not be completed for quite some time.

Speaking of Novels…

I’ve got several novels up on the blog: American Chimera, If I Only Had No Heart, and Evolution of the Predator. You can click on each of these links to see their representative pages. However, these links aren’t going to work forever. No – I’m going to be taking my novels down, one at a time, starting at the end of the month with Evolution of the Predator. I was pretty torn when making this decision, but ultimately I think it needs to happen.

The reason for this decision is because they’re second drafts, beta read only by my partner, and they’re not representative of my best work. Because I seek to present a higher level of professionalism, I’m taking the oldest work – Evolution of the Predator – down first because it represents that which was written at my least mature point. That will start at the end of this month, May 2020.

It’s Not Too Late to Catch These Novels!

Nope! Until May 30th, all novels will be available for download. You should head to their pages and download the PDF files if you want to save them for later reading.

Evolution of the Predator

On May 23rd, 2020, I’ll have a reminder post telling about the imminent takedown of the novel. On May 30th, 2020, the downloadable PDF of Evolution of the Predator will be taken down from the Evolution of the Predator page. Starting on June 6th, I will take the post containing the first chapter down. Following that, one chapter will be taken down per week (as long as I don’t forget – but I’ll handle it as soon as I can). They’ll be removed in order from first chapter to last with the hopes that potential readers will be able to read one chapter per week without losing access (though I will probably email you chapters if you ask nicely). The page already lists the dates I plan to take down each chapter. The page and entire story will be gone on November 14th, 2020. All links to it on the site will be broken, though I will attempt to remove links by hand as I can.

If I Only Had No Heart

On July 18th, 2020, I will post a reminder that If I Only Had No Heart will be ending soon. On July 25th, 2020, the PDF will be removed from the If I Only Had No Heart page. On August 8th, the first chapter will be removed. One chapter will removed per week after, starting with the first chapter and ending with the last chapter. The page and entire story will be gone on November 14th, 2020. All links to it on the site will be broken, though I will attempt to remove links by hand as I can.

American Chimera

Don’t worry about this baby for now! I’m still posting this one serially, and she won’t be finished posting until December 2020. It’s also a pretty good little book, just needs some editing. However, I will be taking it down sometime in 2021 (not yet planned fully), so catch it while you can!

What About You?

Do you have any cool new things going on in May? Any excellent accomplishments in April? I’d love to hear about them to celebrate and/or commiserate with you! Cheers!

May 2020 Author Newsletter Hello there, Friends and Stuff! I'm excited to enter a new month and bring you some new and brilliant updates!

#amwriting #Blogging #life update #Novels #professionalism #Witty Nib Writing Club #writing

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immoren · 7 years ago

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Apparently I’ve following pieces in my “music” playlist in Youtube.

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- Kotiteollisuus - Helvetistä Itään

- Star one - Intergalactic space crusaders

- Amon Amarth "Runes to my Memory"

- Star One - High Moon

- Stratovarius - Hunting High and Low

- Star One - Amazing flight in space

- Kotiteollisuus - Minä Olen

- AMORPHIS - The Smoke

- Ensiferum - Wanderer

- Amorphis - Divinity

- Ensiferum - Lady in Black

- Dark Moor - Halloween

- Star One - The Eye of Ra

- Dark Moor - The Silver Key

- Ensiferum - LAI LAI HEI

- Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem

- Stratovarius - Speed of Light

- Nightwish - The Siren

- Amorphis - Goddess (Of The Sad Man)

- Iced Earth- coming curse

- AMORPHIS - Silent Waters

- AVANTASIA - Lost In Space

- Stratovarius - Stratosphere

- AVANTASIA - Carry Me Over (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Stratovarius - Black Diamond

- Savage Circus - Between the Devil and the Seas

- Stratovarius - Paradise

- Demons and Wizards - Fiddler on the Green

- Stratovarius - Coming Home

- Dancing Queen - Diablo

- Stratovarius - Destiny

- Timo Rautiainen Pohjoisen Taivaan Alla

- Stratovarius - Anthem Of The World

- Gustav Holst - The Planets - Mars, the Bringer of War

- Stratovarius - Hunting High And Low

- Amorphis - Drowned Maid

- Stratovarius - Infinity

- To Dream of Ur - nile

- Stratovarius - Eagleheart

- Dark Moor - Death

- Stratovarius - Learning To Fly

- Nightquest - Nightwish

- Labyrinth - Night of Dreams

- Nile - The Essential Salts

- Nightwish- The Pharaoh Sails to Orion

- Blind Guardian- Mirror Mirror

- Thrust Through the Heavens with Your Spirit!

- Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye (Official Video)

- Billy Idol - John Wayne

- Poets of the Fall - Lift (Official Video)

- Kotiteollisuus - Kevät

- Poets of the Fall - Diamonds for Tears (Official Video)

- Amorphis - shatters within

- Poets of the Fall - Locking Up the Sun (Official Video)

- Ayreon- The Shooting Company of Captain Frans B. Cocq

- Amorphis - forever more

- Nile - Eat of the Dead

- Raining Blood - Slayer Song & Lyrics

- Murder, Murder Jekyll and Hyde

- One Small Step - Ayreon

- Nile - Even the Gods Must Die

- Serenity - Sheltered (By The Obscure)

- Nightwish - Sacrament of wilderness

- And The Druids Turn To Stone - Ayreon

- Nightwish - Walking in the air

- Dawn of A Million Souls - Ayreon

- Nightwish - Two for tragedy

- Gregorian - Lady in black

- Nightwish - Bare grace misery

- Kotiteollisuus - Tuonelan koivut

- Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem

- Iced Earth-Dragon's Child

- Disturbed-Inside The Fire (Lyrics In Description)

- Iced Earth-Damien

- KORPIKLAANI - Keep On Galloping (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Pyramaze-Sleepy Hollow

- Apulanta - Vasten mun kasvojani

- Arch Enemy - I Will Live Again (With Lyrics)

- Iced Earth-The Phantom Opera Ghost

- Kotiteollisuus - Mahtisanat

- Amorphis - Grieve Stricken Heart

- Nile User~Maat~Re

- Iced Earth-Hallowed Be Thy Name

- Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

- Persuader - Sanity Soiled

- Nile - Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten

- Amorphis - The Night Is Over

- Firewind maniac

- AMORPHIS - Silver Bride

- Final Fantasy IX - Garnet's Theme

- Poets of the Fall - Carnival of Rust (Official Video)

- Aikakone - Keltainen

- Amorphis - Tuonela

- Ensiferum - Twilight Tavern

- Amorphis:Nightfall

- VIIKATE - Viina, Terva & Hauta

- "Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official Video)

- Sonata Arctica - Tallulah (Lyrics)

- "Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

- Floor Jansen & Russell Allen - The Phantom of the Opera

- Of Doom And Death - Savage Circus

- Amorphis - Alone {High Quality} {With Lyrics}

- Devil's Spawn - Savage Circus

- Poets of the Fall - Dreaming Wide Awake (Official Video)

- Chasing The Rainbow - Savage Circus

- Eluveitie - Quoth The Raven

- Legend Of Leto II - Savage Circus

- Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science)

- The Ordeal - Savage Circus

- America - The Last Unicorn (with Lyrics)

- Dark Moor - Nevermore

- Amorphis - Greed

- Dark Moor - The Fall Of Melnibone

- MGS Peace Walker OST - Heavens Divide (BEST QUALITY)

- Dark Moor - The Fall Of Melnibone

- Motörhead - Enter Sandman

- Pyramaze - Until We Fade Away

- Poets of the Fall - War (Official Video)

- Pyramaze - Legend

- Nightwish - Stargazers

- Savage Circus - Born Again by the Night

- Poets Of The Fall - Sleep

- Spice and Wolf OP 1 FULL (with lyrics)

- Amorphis - My Kantele (2010)

- Savage Circus - Beyond Reality (lyrics)

- Amorphis - Alone - Forging a Land of Thousand Lakes[Oulu]

- The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil -HQ

- Amorphis - Divinity - Forging a Land of Thousand Lakes[Oulu]

- Stratovarius - Elysium

- Amorphis - Veil of Sin

- Aikakone - Neiti Groove

- AMORPHIS - From The Heaven Of My Heart (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- AMORPHIS - Sky Is Mine (OFFICIAL LIVE)

- Ayreon - Isis and Osiris

- Sabaton - Cliffs of Gallipoli (Lyrics English & Deutsch)

- Avantasia - The Scarecrow (HD)

- "Libera Me From Hell" with subs

- WOODS OF YPRES - "You Were the Light"

- Sabaton - Angels Calling (Lyrics English & Deutsch)

- Poets of the Fall ~ The Poet and the Muse // Lyrics

- "Weird Al" Yankovic - Party In The CIA

- A Song From Her Memory

- Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (HD)

- Avantasia - What Kind Of Love

- BEING - Arrival - A part, Apart

- Iced Earth - Wolf [HQ]

- BEING - Arrival - Cosmonaut

- Karl Sanders - Of the Sleep of Ishtar

- BEING - Arrival - Perpetual Groove

- All I Ever Wanted (with Queen's Reprise)- Prince of Egypt Soundtrack

- BEING - Arrival - Story For A Muse

- NIGHTWISH - Storytime (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- BEING - The Debut Preview - Cosmonaut

- Ultimate DragonBorn Comes collaboration - Malukah MrDooves Noahlittlejohn

- BEING - The Debut Preview - Mindflay

- Finnish folk song Morsiamen itketys with translation

- BEING - Arrival - Escape

- Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno 2011 (full)

- BEING - Arrival - Sorrow

- Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (HQ + Lyrics)

- ELUVEITIE - A Rose For Epona (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Surupuku

- Nightwish - Ghost River (HD)

- Pyramaze - Power Of Imagination

- Nightwish- Last Ride Of The Day

- Nylon Beat - Satasen laina

- Nightwish - Rest Calm

- Final Fantasy Meets Metal

- Nightwish - Scaretale

- Poets of the Fall - Cradled in Love (Official Video)

- Nightwish - Storytime (Lyrics) HD

- The World of the Dinosaurs - Symphony of Science

- Blind Guardian - Noldor

- Malukah - Reignite - Mass Effect/Shepard Tribute Song

- Dr. Who Meets Metal

- Sabaton - Carolus Rex SV (Lyrics Svenska & English)

- Fallout New Vegas Soundtrack - Jingle Jangle Jingle - Kay Kyser

- Sabaton - En livstid i krig (Lyrics Svenska & English)

- Blind Guardian - Time Stands Still (At The Iron Hill)

- Pyramaze The Wizard

- KORPIKLAANI - Rauta (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- Nile - User-Maat-Re (HQ)

- Sabaton - Karolinens bön ... Lyrics

- Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick (HQ)

- Blind Guardian - Curse Of Feanor

- Malukah - Tale of the Tongues - Skyrim Cover

- Mighty Abyss by Pyramaze

- The South Gate - A Tribute To Final Fantasy IX

- Neil Finn - Song of the Lonely Mountain + lyrics (The Hobbit End Credits)

- Cortana Tribute feat. Malukah

- Spede Pasanen: Tom Dooley

- RWBY Theme: Mirror, Mirror Extended (RoosterTeeth)

- AVANTASIA - Sleepwalking (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- RWBY Theme: Red like Roses Extended (RoosterTeeth)

- Nightwish - The Escapist lyrics

- JoJo Battle Tendency OST: Propaganda

- Savage Circus - Tomorrowland [HQ] [+Lyrics]

- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2012 ( Avalon )

- The Hobbit - Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold (Extended Cover)

- Amorphis - Nightbird's Song (Official Video)

- Manowar - Sleipnir

- AMORPHIS - The Wanderer (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- Sabaton - Twilight Of The Thunder God (HD, Lyrics)

- RWBY Theme: This Will Be The Day Extended (Roosterteeth)

- Alestorm - Nancy the Tavern Wench

- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann OST - Sorairo Days FULL VERSION

- Amon Amarth "As Loke Falls" (LYRIC VIDEO)

- I Burn By Jeff and Casey Lee Williams with Lyrics

- Nightwish - Ever Dream (Wacken 2013)

- RWBY - I May Fall - Lyrics

- Apulanta - Koneeseen kadonnut

- From Shadows by Jeff and Casey Lee Williams with Lyrics

- Nightwish - Ghost love Score

- Blumenkranz (:[nZk] ver) [PB★Cover]

- TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - A Lifetime of Adventure (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Kill la Kill/��ルラキル [Satsuki Kiryuin Theme | Kiryuu G@ KiLL]

- TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - The Last Sled (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

- Kill la Kill, Light your heart up - Aimee Blackshleger

- TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - Cold Heart of the Klondike

- Apulanta - Pahempi toistaan (Official)

- Kill La Kill / Nui Harime Theme

- TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN - Go slowly now, sands of time

- Volume 2 - Time To Say Goodbye + Lyrics

- ELUVEITIE - King (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

- The Hobbit - Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold - Part II-Clamavi De Profundis

- Holy Diver by Steve'n'Seagulls (LIVE)

- Eagles -- Hotel California Lyrics song

- Everytime We Touch by Cascada Meets Metal

- ELUVEITIE - The Call Of The Mountains (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

- ★ JoJo - That Blood Destiny (Vocals, Orchestra, Choir) | JoJo

- Robin Williams - "Seize the Day" - by Melodysheep

- Poets of the Fall - Daze (Official Video)

- Amon Amarth "Deceiver of the Gods" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Viikate - Ensimmäinen runo (Album Version)

- SABATON - Night Witches (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

- Be Prepared (Disney's The Lion King) // Jonathan Young

- 05: Caffeine - RWBY Volume 2 Soundtrack (By Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams feat. Lamar Hall)

- NIGHTWISH - Élan (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Nightwish - SAGAN- 2015

- Maniac from Flashdance Meets Metal (featuring PelleK)

- KORPIKLAANI - Lempo (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

- NIGHTWISH - Shudder Before The Beautiful (OFFICIAL TRACK)

- The Witcher 3 OST - Ladies of the Woods (Extended)

- Nightwish - The Islander (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Nightwish - My Walden

- MAD MAX: FURY ROAD SONG - ROAD RAGE By Miracle Of Sound

- NIGHTWISH - Edema Ruh [lyrics]

- WITCHER 3 CIRI SONG: Lady Of Worlds by Miracle Of Sound

- NIGHTWISH - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)

- Sugar Sweet Nightmare FULL SUB HQ (Bakemonogatari Opening 5) by Yui - Horie

- AMORPHIS - Sacrifice (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Platinum Disco FULL SUB HQ (Nisemonogatari Opening 3) by Yuka Iguchi

- The Witcher 3 OST - Lullaby of Woe (A Night to Remember song)

- Perfect Slumbers FULL SUB HQ (Nekomonogatari: Kuro Opening) by Yui Horie

- "Blumenkranz" Kill la Kill OST【Orchestral Cover】[Mike Reed IX]

- Orange Mint FULL SUB HQ (Tsukimonogatari Opening) by Saori Hayami

- Undertale OST: 001 - Once Upon A Time

- AMORPHIS - Death Of A King (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Undertale OST: 046 - Spear of Justice

- NIGHTWISH - Alpenglow (OFFICIAL TRACK)

- Undertale OST: 050 - Metal Crusher

- Amorphis - Bad Blood (LYRIC VIDEO)

- Undertale OST: 059 - Spider Dance

- AMORPHIS - 'Under The Red Cloud' (OFFICIAL TRACK)

- Undertale OST: 068 - Death by Glamour

- The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone OST-"A Gifted Man Brings Gifts Galore" Polska wersja

- Undertale Ost: 087 - Hopes and Dreams

- KORPIKLAANI - Ämmänhauta (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Undertale OST: 090 - His Theme

- Delusion♡Express FULL SUB HQ (Otorimonogatari Opening) by Kana Hanazawa

- Undertale Ost: 096 - Last Goodbye

- Amorphis - The Wind

- Undertale Ost: 098 - Battle Against a True Hero

- Amorphis - Come The Spring

- Undertale - Metal Crusher on 7 floppy drives

- Amorphis - Winter's Sleep

- Ambivalent World FULL SUB HQ (Bakemonogatari Opening 3) by Miyuki Sawashiro

- Malukah - Priscilla's Song - The Wolven Storm - The Witcher 3 Cover

- One Punch Man FULL ENGLISH OPENING (The Hero - Jam Project) Cover by Jonathan Young

- Mathemagics FULL SUB HQ (Owarimonogatari Opening 2) by Marina Inoue

- Red Like Roses Part 1+2 Complete

- AMORPHIS - The Four Wise Ones (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- KORPIKLAANI - A Man With A Plan (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

- Decent Black FULL SUB HQ (Owarimonogatari Opening 1) by Kaori Mizuhashi

- JUNGLE BOOK - Bare Necessities - (Disney Rock cover by Jonathan Young)

- 01. When It Falls (feat. Casey Lee Williams) - By Jeff Williams

- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine Soundtrack - Main Theme (Polish)

- 07. Divide (feat. Casey Lee Williams) - By Jeff Williams - (RT4C AMV)

- SKELLIGE WINDS - Witcher 3 Song by Miracle Of Sound

- Mirror Mirror - Part 1 + 2 Mix

- Poor Unfortunate Souls (Disney's Little Mermaid) - METAL COVER VERSION Jonathan Young

- Chocolate Insomnia FULL HQ (Nekomonogatari: Shiro Opening) by Yui Horie

- Boku No Hero Academia "The Day" ENGLISH OPENING (cover by Jonathan Young)

- Die by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams with Lyrics

- HELLFIRE - Metal Cover by Jonathan Young (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame)

- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All Openings 1-8 HD

- Kemono Friends OP "Youkoso Japari Park e"

- Demi chan wa Kataritai op Full - Original ／TrySail

- AMORPHIS - 'Her Alone' feat. Anneke van Giersbergen (OFFICIAL LIVE TRACK)

- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid - Opening [FULL]

- SAVAGES - Disney's Pocahontas (METAL COVER) Jonathan Young & Caleb Hyles

- KOBAYASHI-SAN CHI NO MAID DRAGON - ED FULL

- The Plagues (Prince of Egypt) - Cover by Caleb Hyles and Jonathan Young

- Gabriel DropOut Opening Full / ガヴリールドロップアウト OP - Gabriel DropKick (Single)

- Song of Durin (Complete Edition) - Clamavi De Profundis

- STAND PROUD (full version) - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure ENGLISH OP 3

- Bad Luck Charm by Jeff Williams with Lyrics

- Aho Girl Opening Full「Zenryoku☆Summer!」by angela

- Arabian Nights - (Aladdin) DISNEY METAL COVER by Jonathan Young & ToxicxEternity

- KonoSuba Season 2 Op Full - TOMORROW

- Nisemonogatari OST - Kizuna (Shinobu Oshino's Theme)

- 化物語 Staple Stable

- 03: Shine - RWBY Volume 2 Soundtrack (By Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams)

- 07: Boop - RWBY Volume 2 Soundtrack (By Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams)

- 02: Die - RWBY Volume 2 Soundtrack (By Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams) RT4C

- "I May Fall" Lyrics - RWBY Volume 3 - Jeff Williams ft. Casey Lee Williams & Lamar Hal

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iVisit.... Simon Callow Reads Dante's Inferno

Experience this poetry classic as read by one of the UK’s most loved actors.

On the occasion of the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg, celebrated actor and writer Simon Callow gives a public reading of excerpts from Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy.

In 1958 Rauschenberg embarked on an ambitious project to produce one illustration for each of the thirty-four cantos or sections of Inferno. By applying lighter fluid to a magazine clipping and rubbing the back of it with an empty ballpoint pen he could transfer the image onto another sheet of paper – a technique he used in each work.

Widely considered one of the greatest works of literature, Inferno tells of Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. He witnesses a terrifying catalogue of punishments, an education that exposes him to the consequences of turning away from God’s grace.

This unique event sees Simon Callow take to the stage to tell this dramatic story through selected readings alongside projections of Rauschenberg’s pioneering illustrations.

Biography

Simon Callow is an actor, author and director. He studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, and then trained as an actor at the Drama Centre in London. He joined the National Theatre in 1979, where he created the role of Mozart in Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. His many one-man shows include Tuesdays at Tesco’s, The Mystery of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and, most recently, The Man Jesus. He has appeared in many films including A Room with a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, Phantom of the Opera. Forthcoming credits include Blue Iguana and Hampstead.

#@Tate

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okayideas · 8 years ago

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Book inventory

In preparation for the move to California, I’m packing up my books into boxes of appropriate size for mailing. In the course of doing this, I’ve had to figure out what books I even have and how to categorize them in a way that is useful for my purposes. The point of this categorization is that books that I am likely to want at around the same time will be in the same box, so that my dad can ship an entire pre-packed box instead of having to deal with individual books. The categorization might give some insight into the way I think about books, or it might not.

I tend to view books as a container to drink words from rather than artifacts worthy of inherent respect, so some books that are significant to me, such as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, Dreamtigers, and The Martian Chronicles, are nonetheless not physically represented among the books I happen to have in my possession.

The list of boxes below does not include books that I am hoping to get rid of before moving.

LITERATURE I CONSIDER GREAT THAT FITS IN THIS BOX The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Richard Howard) Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) The Waste Land and Other Writings (T.S. Eliot, introduction by Mark Karr) I Sing the Body Electric (Ray Bradbury) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot) Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Anthony Kerrigan) Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley) Selected Non-Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, multiple translators)

LITERATURE I CONSIDER GREAT THAT DOESN'T FIT IN THAT BOX [these are taller or wider books] Essential Howard the Duck volume 1 (Steve Gerber et al) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) Green Eggs & Ham (Dr. Seuss) Baudolino (Umberto Eco)

LITERATURE OTHER PEOPLE CONSIDER GREAT The Best American Short Stories of the Century, Expanded Edition (edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison) 1984 (George Orwell) Scattered Poems (Jack Kerouac) Opened Ground (Seamus Heaney) Pomes All Sizes (Jack Kerouac) On the Road (Jack Kerouac) Complete Tales & Poems (Edgar Allan Poe, published by Vintage Books, no editor credit)

HISTORY AND MYTHOGRAPHY Tolkein: a Look Behind the Lord of the Rings (Lin Carter) The Odyssey (Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu) The Rise and Fall of an American Army (Shelby L. Stanton) The Inferno (Dante, translated by John Ciardi) Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic) Hoaxes (Curtis D. MacDougall) The Epic of Gilgamesh (translated by Andrew George) Early Irish Myths and Sagas (translated by Jeffrey Gantz) Orson Welles (Barbara Leaming) Social Things (Charles Lemert) Irish Catholic Genesis of Lowell (apparently George Francis O'Dwyer, uncredited)

COFFEE TABLE BOOKS The Daily Show with John Stewart Presents America Six by Seuss: a Treasury of Dr. Seuss Classics Cult Science Fiction Films (Welch Everman) The Onion Ad Nauseam: Fanfare for the Area Man The Great Modern Poets; the Best Poetry of Our Times (edited by Michael Schmidt)

JOHN HODGMAN, NEV FOUNTAIN, DOUGLAS ADAMS, AND DOUGLAS ADAMS SPIN-OFFS Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: a Novel by Terry Jones Cursed Among Sequels (Fountain) Geek Tragedy (Fountain) DVD Extras Include: Murder (Fountain) Last Change to See (Adams and Mark Carwardine) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Adams) The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Adams) The Deeper Meaning of Liff (Adams and John Lloyd) The Salmon of Doubt (Adams) Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion (Neil Gaiman) The Areas of My Expertise (Hodgman)

FRITZ LEIBER, TERRY PRATCHETT, AND DOCTOR WHO UNIVERSE Swords and Deviltry (Leiber) Swords Against Death (Leiber) Swords in the Mist (Leiber) Swords Against Wizardry (Leiber) The Book of Fritz Leiber Carpe Jugulum (Pratchett) Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett) Witches Abroad (Pratchett) The Monsters Inside (Stephen Cole) Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (Terrance Dicks) Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora (Philip Hinchcliffe) Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World (Ian Marter) Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders (Terrance Dicks) Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript (Justin Richards) The City of the Dead (Lloyd Rose) Anachrophobia (Jonathan Morris) Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (Stephen Cole)

ARTHUR C. CLARKE, FRED SABERHAGEN, ROBERT SHECKLEY, AND JACK VANCE The Laertian Gamble (credited to Sheckley, I suspect some ghost writing) Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains (Harry Harrison and Sheckley) The Frankenstein Papers (Saberhagen) Berserker (Saberhagen) Dimension of Miracles (Sheckley) Godshome (Sheckley) The Journey of Joenes (Sheckley) Tales from the White Hart (Clarke) Showboat World (Vance) Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (Roger Zelazny and Sheckley) Trips in Time (anthology, one story is by Sheckley and another by Fritz Leiber) Tales of the Dying Earth (Vance) The Lost Swords: Endgame (Saberhagen)

PAUL MAGRS (books in this box are by Paul Magrs unless otherwise noted) Wildthyme on Top (anthology, Magrs edited) Never the Bride Wildthyme Beyond! More Short Trips (anthology, only one story is by Magrs) Mad Dogs and Englishmen From Wildthyme with Love Sick Building The Scarlet Empress The Blue Angel Verdigris Short Trips (anthology, only one story is by Magrs) Enter Wildthyme

SPIKE MILLIGAN, GARRISON KEILLOR, AND SHEL SILVERSTEIN The Bible: the Old Testament According To Spike Milligan Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan Falling Up (Silverstein) Leaving Home (Keillor) Wobegon Boy (Keillor) Puckoon (Milligan)

POETRY BOOKS THAT SEEM TO MEET THE USPS MEDIA MAIL DEFINITION OF BOOKS Yesterday Won't Goodbye (Brian Ellis) A Light Bulb Symphony (Phil Kaye) I Wish That My Room Had a Floor (Rafael Woolf) Spiking the Sucker Punch (Robbie Q. Telfer) The Diesel Powered Rag Doll (David Doc Luben) Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances (Mala L. Radhakrishnan) Almost a Remembrance (Jack McCarthy) The Sparrow Ghost Colective Anthology of Poetry: Volume I What is the City? (Paul Marion) The Rectangle: Journal of Sigma Tau Delta, Volume 81, 2006 Quantum Entanglement (Melissa Newman-Evans) I No Longer Believe in the Sun: Love Letters to Katie Couric (Derek Fenner) Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project Anthology (edited by Gary Mex Glazner) Boston Poetry Slam: 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge (edited by Adam Stone) The Offering, 2006 (UMass Lowell Literary Society) The Offering, 2008 (UMass Lowell Literary Society)

THOSE 5.5-BY-8.5-INCH CHAPBOOKS WHICH I WOULD FEEL PARTICULARLY BAD ABOUT LOSING (not going to catalog them tonight)

OTHER CHAPBOOKS AND ODDLY-FORMATTED POETRY PRODUCTS (not going to catalog them tonight)

SHEET MUSIC (not worth cataloguing in depth)

#nonfiction thursday #writing

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