Jonah and genre

Jonah and genre - OUPReading a piece of writing—from instruction manual, to sports page, to Op-Ed piece—according to its genre is something we do so naturally that it seems odd to even talk about it. Indeed, the very phrase "reading according to genre" sounds odd itself, entirely too formal, perhaps suitable for some English or Comparative Literature class, but hardly something that normal people do when reading normal things on an everyday basis. While that is true, to some degree at least, ...

Stealing Reason from God - Theft in Time Bandits and The Fisher King

Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...

halieutuc - HAL and Ovid and salty fish

halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).

Doctor Octopus (person) by disarmed42 - Everything2.com

Doctor Octopus (person) See all of Doctor Octopus, no other writeups in this node. There have been two Doctors Octopus in the Marvel Comics universe. The better known of the two, Dr. Otto Octavius, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3, written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko.Dr. Otto Octavius was a brilliant nuclear physicist who had invented a four-armed device that he used to manipulate radioactive elements. The arms telescoped to varying lengths and were incredibly stron...

The Year of the Whale

1. I once had a professor who would read, every year, the same 10 books. He called them THE TEN. Candide, Siddhartha, Screwtape Letters, and Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations were regulars; the others he’d swap out after a six- or seven-year run. Taken with this idea, I decided I, too, would do a yearly re-reading. The book would be Moby-Dick, and I would begin it each year on Christmas, the day the Pequod sets sail. And so I did: 2017, 2018, and 2019. But last year I read it three times. In t...

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Half-fish (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Half-fish (definition) See all of Half-fish, no other writeups in this node. Half"-fish` (?), n. Zool. A salmon in its fifth year of growth. [Prov. Eng.] © Webster 1913. link view Epicenter You have 1 C! and 44 votes left today. server time Monday, August 17, 2020 at 3:09:30 your time Sunday, August 16, 2020 at 19:09:30Chatterbox(r) 2020-06-25@23:14 @+ riverrun says Hey, Thanks for your cool. That was a fun one. (r) 2020-06-29@6:05 (1.5 d) legbagede says cheers! I ...

porpoise etymology

I wonder if there is any connection (even just in Kubrick or others doing wordplay, NOT necessarily -- or at all -- because of an etymological connection, which I doubt) . But if the porpoise is a pig, the word "mereswyn" does remind me an awful lot of the word "Martian" which of course is about Mars, not the sea. But still . . . worth a query or two. -zas 7 entries found Related entries & more  Advertisement Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Relate...

The cute kitten represents violence and carnage (idea) by Anark - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2The cute kitten represents violence and carnage (idea)See all of The cute kitten represents violence and carnage, no other writeups in this node.(idea)by Anark Mon Mar 21 2005 at 4:57:44The smell of a good barbecue can draw visitors like vultures to a battlefield. There's something Jungian about wood smoke and roasting meat; they reveal a human kinship deeper than mere culture. Facing an unexpected crowd, most casual cooks will either generously...

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Cod Is Great

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