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May 11, 2014
"The audience is not as rigid as you think, and certainly not as rigid as the people paying for the..."
- Matthew Weiner (via theparisreview)
Love your wolverine run: the best there is. Why was it cancelled?
Thanks. The truth is, it was never intended (by me) to be an ongoing. I pitched a 12 issue maxi-mini. I was pretty surprised when it was announced as a new ongoing, and I never intended to stick with it beyond my twelve issues. The cynical interpretation is that Marvel solicited the series as an ongoing because they know first issues of a new ongoing will launch better than first issues of a limited series. A more nuanced interpretation is that they saw my twelve issues as a strong enough lau...
May 7, 2014
May 6, 2014
"After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon."
- Patrick O’Brian (via theparisreview)
theparisreview:
“This poet was asserting what felt like an...
“This poet was asserting what felt like an ancient right, a right to sing out of the deepest self—to write painfully ugly things, and to write painfully beautiful things, but not to write a single thing that he didn’t mean, that didn’t scare him.”
From our Spring Revel, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s remarks on the poet Frederick Seidel.
April 28, 2014
April 26, 2014
Repeating crossbow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archaeological evidence of the earliest repeating crossbow from Tomb 47 at Qinjiazui, Hubei Province has been dated to the 4th century BC, during the Spring and Autumn period.[2] However, its invention is commonly attributed to Zhuge Liang (181–234AD), a strategist of the Three Kingdoms period; Zhuge Liang improved the design of the repeating crossbow, and made a version which shot two to three bolts at once and was used in ma...
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