Category Archives: arts

use the plot, Luke!

Posted on Monday, 2002 July 15 by Anton

The Well-Tempered Plot Device But actually, it’s not always necessary for the author to put in an appearance himself, if only he can smuggle the Plot itself into the story disguised as one of the characters. Naturally, it tends not … Continue reading →

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muppet mystery

Posted on Sunday, 2002 July 14 by Anton

HIV comes to Sesame Street, and Tim Blair wonders how: How will the character’s contraction of the disease be explained? Sharing a needle with Oscar in his squalid street dwelling? Sex can be ruled out — Muppets don’t have genitals. … Continue reading →

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today we choose faces

Posted on Saturday, 2002 July 13 by Anton

This week I read Zelazny’s Lord of Light for about the fourth time; and got to thinking about faces. The story is set in a world where it is routine to transfer one’s soul every forty or fifty years into … Continue reading →

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they’ll buy up all your rights and all your wrongs

Posted on Saturday, 2002 July 06 by Anton

Looking for the words to one of my all-time favorite songs, I am amused to find most of it at the bottom of this page: “The Discipleship of Marriage, Part 3 – ChristianSinglesDating.com Article”. The opening/closing stanza is omitted, presumably … Continue reading →

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