J.A. Clemens
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March 04, 1977
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, The United States
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I've been struggling to find a frame of reference for my review of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem. One of the themes of the book is the very transmutability of frames of reference, which makes it all the more difficult to apply one to the story. I even attempted to read Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse, an author who is repeatedly cited in the text, but did not profit from it. I was able to i...
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Then came Thor, beard aflame (Poetry)
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Venturing into new territory with this mythological poem.
Balance (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Jun 29, 2009 12:44PM
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This is the first chapter of an as-yet unpublished novel I wrote after college.
Orlando and Geoffrey (Literature & Fiction)
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An excerpt from chapter two - Orlando describing Aiana.
Orlando and Geoffrey (Literature & Fiction)
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updated Sep 05, 2008 02:40PM
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Orlando walks the earth once more with a new set of traveling companions in this fantasy adventure tale.
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"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. " — James A. Michener | |||
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J.A. made a comment on Ryan's review of
Twilight (Twilight, #1)
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"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness."
— Reinhold Niebuhr
— Reinhold Niebuhr
"One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?"
— Leon Uris (Mitla Pass)
— Leon Uris (Mitla Pass)
"The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous."
— Henry Drummond
— Henry Drummond
"Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.’"
— Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
— Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History)
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