Professor Cornelius Stoppelbeim is a long-time collector of Choc-Egg Surprises and hopes to accumulate all pieces of the Robo-Bird. However, he would like to lodge some complaints.
Jubilee is a fictional small town in southern rural Ontario created by Canadian short story author, Alice Munro. Jubilee has similarities to Wingham, where Munro grew up, and also to Clinton, where Alice Munro settled with her second husband. In Munro’s later collections, Who Do You Think You Are? and Open Secrets, this autobiographical town…
“Princess Ida” (1847) is a long narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Like many misogynist stories, Tennyson presents it as comedy. Well, technically this is ‘serio-comic’, or ‘comedy drama’.
I was actually looking for a way to manage all of my AI generated images when I came across Eagle, and realised this nifty low cost software would make a great low cost font manager. At time of writing, there is a free trial, followed by a one-off cost of $USD29.95 for two devices. This…
Ray Bradbury was an influential American science fiction author born in 1920. He died in 2012.
“Heirs of the Living Body” is the second story in Lives of Girls and Women (1971), sometimes considered a novel, sometimes a collection of short stories. Each of these stories can be read in isolation, but all concern the life of a woman called Del Jordan growing up in the small fictional Ontario town of…
What does it mean to be human? Dancing, music, love, sex, cooking, other people… You’ll have heard these answers. Many are problematic. We’ll talk about ‘what makes us human’ and say it must be ‘language’ or ’empathy’ or ‘culture’ or ‘the capacity for thought’ or ‘the need for stories’ — I could go on. The…
“The Flat’s Road” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro. This story opens Munro’s 1971 collection Lives of Girls and Women.
Logos is one of three main persuasive techniques as categorised by Aristotle alongside ethos and pathos.
“Postcard” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro, first published in Dance of the Happy Shades, Munro’s first short story collection (1968). This one’s about a player, and his unwitting bit-on-the-side who thinks he’ll eventually marry her.
This is an ongoing post about my 2023 reading goal of reading queer books by and about queer people. After half a lifetime of absorbing and analysing story, there remains only one sure way to find interesting and surprising perspectives and narratives: Actively seek the perspectives of marginalised voices.
“Boys and Girls” is a short story by Alice Munro. Find it in Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Munro’s first collection.
Finally, I decided to switch to a dedicated eReader. Here’s what I think of the Kobo Libra 2.
“Thanks For The Ride” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro. Find it in Dance of the Happy Shades (1968). “Ride” has two meanings in this one. Yes, those two meanings.
What is the meaning of simulacrum? What is the plural, and how is this word used metaphorically to illustrate ideas?