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John E. Branch Jr.
is reading Mad Men, Mad World: New book collects essays in digital analysis of literature by Franco Moretti. FT article on him & Stanford Lit Lab at http://t.co/doWDhItt78
Website for Stanford Lit Lab is at http://litlab.stanford.edu/. Includes studies available as PDFs.
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Crazy, fun, and short. I think the only tattoo I could tolerate would show a muted post horn. If you've read this novel, you'll know what I'm talking about. Read in the 80s. Not going to attempt a serious review. |
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John E. Branch Jr.
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
"That sounds interesting. Must investigate. Thanks!"
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| The stars are going out. If we saw them vanish one by one while we watched (as happens at the end of an SF story), or the nighttime sky simply went black all at once, we’d notice. Probably, if we weren’t alarmed, we’d at least say, “Hey, bring those...more | |
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| Yes, I read it--and I liked it. Jong seemed (to me at the time anyway) a fairly inventive writer. | |
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John E. Branch Jr.
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Laura Jacobs
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“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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