On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Secret Societies

Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer

In late 1909, Joseph Conrad broke off working on his political novel about Russia, Under Western Eyes, to write the short story "The Secret-Sharer: An Episode from the Sea." First issued in two parts in 1910, in the August and September issues of Harper’s Monthly Magazine, it was later published, in October 1912, as the second of three stories in the collection ’Twixt Land and Sea: Tales. The story is generally accepted as Conrad’s rewriting of a killing, subsequent escape, and apparent suici...

The Secret Scheme of Screens

The Secret Scheme of ScreensSourceURL: https://mindmatters.ai/podcast/ep182/ The Secret Scheme of Screens Andrew McDiarmidApril 14, 2022 Our obsession today with screens is, often unintentionally, taking us to places we regret. We use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits. Andrew McDiarmid interviews Doug Smith, author of the bo...

Portuguese-English False Cognates | AJE

Portuguese-English False Cognates There are certain terms that authors should be particularly aware of when translating from Portuguese to English. Also available in: português Another article features a set of false friends (or false cognates) to watch out for when translating from Spanish to English. False cognates are terms that look similar but have very different meanings. Authors translating their work need to be careful with such terms; it is easy to substitute a similar-s...

Steven Shapin - Opposite of a Secret

He who would keep a secret must keep it a secret that he hath a secret to keep.Sir Humphrey ApplebyWhat​ is the opposite of a secret? It can’t be something that everybody knows, since there’s nothing that’s known to everyone and all secrets are known to somebody. A secret is a bit of knowledge that certain people know and certain others are intended not to know. Information doesn’t want to be free – as Stewart Brand put it in the 1980s – but it does often require a lot of effort to select the...

The Secret of Poetry

When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation of contemporary British poetry, and in the subsequent oration he did not hold back, appraising creative writing as a neoliberal efflorescence of a doomed literary culture, with its ‘plethora of literary prizes’ and false evaluation of its own health. Anti-élitist ‘accessibility’ was the b...

The Secret Life of words and The Piano - brief film analyses

[link ]     The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) and The Secret Life of Words (Isabel Coixet, 2005) are bookended by a peculiar voice-over, a childlike voice that surrounds the stories of the two protagonists, Ada and Hanna respectively. In The Piano, this narration is presented as the "voice of the mind" of Ada, who stopped speaking when she was six years old for reasons unknown even to herself. In The Secret Life of Words, the voice belongs to Hanna's dead daughter, an omniscient narration about...

Excerpts from Color and Meaning - John Gage

Now, focusing on this passage, some interesting ideas come up for me. -zas There’s the Titan Moon of Jupiter Titian Shade (Titian was a Painter - a copy of the article linked there is also retained in Evernote as well, here. ) -zas

“Pacific Rim: The Black” is Grim While Still Being Fun

Image: Netflix Pacific Rim: The Black Season 1 continues the story established in Guillermo del Toro’s blockbuster film franchise (Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising). Set some time after the second film, Netflix’s brand-new anime series introduces us to teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley, who find an abandoned Jaeger and must use it to cross Australia in a search for their long-missing parents. The first episode of Pacific Rim: The Black Season 1 sets the sc...

Soiled, Torn, Dead

Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...

Birds as Characters in Fiction (75 books)

Listopia Birds as Characters in Fiction Fiction with birds as characters. Includes animal fiction, animal fantasy, anthropomorphic fiction, and xenofiction. All Votes Add Books To This List 1 Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple (Goodreads Author) 4.28 ...

Secret History in Literature - The - 1660 to 1820

The Secrets of Symbolism in Fairy Tales copy

The Secrets of Symbolism in Fairy Tales copySourceURL: http://mythicspiral.blogspot.com/?m=1The Secrets of Symbolism in Fairy TalesBest of the bestSnow White and the Seven DwarfsCredit to Pixabay "Little Snow White" is a classic European fairy tale, transcribed by the brothers, Jacob and Wilhel...Sleeping Beauty                             Artwork by Annie Leibovitz Sleeping Beauty is a fairy-tale that has en...