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Souls, you know
Magic concerning. It already takes so high A dismiss of physic laws; The belief of a soul existing was… A light-year stretch of gullible gull To care about and remain with eyes screen latched. About to end, Last chapter… The rules stated in it, A contract breeched in howl! Bursting through, A soul was a…
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¿Qué es el Mabinogion?
El Mabinogion es el nombre colectivo dado a once cuentos galeses medievales que se pueden encontrar, principalmente en dos manuscritos: el Libro Blanco de Rhydderch (Aberystwyth, Biblioteca Nacional de Gales, MS Peniarth 4-5) datado c. 1350 y el Libro Rojo de Hergest (Oxford, Biblioteca Bodleaiana, MS Jesus College 111), datado entre el 1382 y c. 1410. El término…
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What is the Mabinogion?
The Mabinogion is the collective name now given to eleven medieval Welsh tales found mainly in two manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch (Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 4–5), dated c.1350, and the Red Book of Hergest (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Jesus College 111), dated between 1382 and c.1410. The term is a scribal error for mabinogi, derived from the Welsh word mab meaning…
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¿Por qué las historias necesitan suerte para sobrevivir?
[…] en 1936, cuando tenía veintinueve años, la firma de Willett Clark publicó la Cuarta Rama del Mabinogion por Evangeline Walton bajo el título La Virgen y el Cerdo. En una América que apenas salía de una Depresión mundial y estaba notablemente poco interesada en lo que aún se consideraba como contenido para niños en forma de leyendas fantásticas. Lo que siguió…
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Why do stories need luck to survive?
[…] in 1936, when she was twenty-nine, the firm of Willett Clark published the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion by Evangeline Walton under the title The Virgin and the Swine. An America just climbing out of a worldclass Depression was notably uninterested in fantastic legend, still the stuff of children’s books. Next, three loosely linked short stories appeared, based on the Breton legend…
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What are books?
PLACE, PRACTICE, AND KNOWLEDGEBooks are a load of crap. PHILIP LARKIN, «A Study of Reading Habits,» Collected Poems, 131 I read that in THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. CHICAGO AND LONDON. Considering books are not necessarily THE truth, this thought [coming from a poet] is a bold declaration from the perspective of…
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¿Qué es real?
En comparación con los libros que leía, la «vida real» tenía todas las de perder (es decir, lo que para OTROS era la «vida real»). Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)]. La autora Nikita Brottman [hablando de como la lectura era para ella no solo un refugio contra la…
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Does your fiction begin with death?
Perhaps a Hero has no romantic partner, and is looking for the «missing piece» to complete her life. Thisis often symbolized in fairy tales by having the Hero experience a loss or a death in the family. Many fairy tales begin with the death of a parent or the kidnapping of a brother or sister.…
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Is communication overrated?
When communication nonetheless breaks down (as it sometimes does) we can pinpoint the error and make our language more specific: Yet another dark, oven-hot morning in yet another hotel bedroom, packing, dressing… and now I couldn’t find my sock. I opened the door of the wardrobe and said, ‘Have you seen my sock?’ ‘Shut it,’ she said. ‘I was…