“She could feast heartily at the table of love without reflecting that some other had already been, or hereafter might be, feasted with the same repast.” – Tom Jones, 420 Monday during class Daphne and I sat together. Things were calm but the sexual tension built when I let it. After class we walked to… Continue reading Feast Heartily at the Table of Love
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Coincidence in Post Postmodernism
Henry Fielding was a model for Charles Dickens. After all, Tom Jones was one of the first English novels. The use of coincidence in Tom Jones and David Copperfield adds a lot of suspense, builds expectations, and then, ironically, catharsis. This is the way I will use irony in metamodern literature, instead of the all… Continue reading Coincidence in Post Postmodernism
Blake Butler, Etiology of Action, and How You Should Read Post Postmodernism
That Blake Butler book, There Is No Year, yeah, it’s good. Very avant-garde, very worked out, individualized. The motifs throughout–hair, light, (re: my Twitter), bees, bags, smells, skin–are all thought-provoking. The novel works as a kind of postmodern proverb, a four hundred page one. If you want to challenge yourself, give it a read and… Continue reading Blake Butler, Etiology of Action, and How You Should Read Post Postmodernism
Daniel Adler Goes to Court
Just another manic Monday. I went to court today at 346 Broadway, biked past the beautifully developing Freedom Tower, five hundred feet high. When I walked in and waited in the summons check-in line everyone eyed me. I read some classic literature, Tom Jones, on my iBooks app, which is my favorite aspect of my… Continue reading Daniel Adler Goes to Court
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