- "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." — James Joyce
- "Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?" — Ulysses Everett McGill
Category Archives: Books
The Chatterley Effect
Spoilers? NSFW? I can’t tell anymore. I fell down a psychic wormhole recently while writing about Luis Buñuel’s Belle De Jour (1967) for Film Freak Central. It was one of those chrono-synclastic infundibula that can convince a potheaded college student … Continue reading
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CoS, xoxo, PKD
There’s a lot of fine grist in Lawrence Wright’s survey of Scientology after Paul Haggis’ very public defection, newly published in the New Yorker. But it’s worth noting that one of L. Ron Hubbard’s fellow pulp writers, Philip K. Dick, … Continue reading
A Proposal I Just Submitted …
Working title: “And everything went back to normal” Eternal Recurrence, Conciliation & Dramatic Stasis in the Works of Neil Gaiman The epigram of the title above is drawn from Neil Gaiman’s children’s book The Wolves in the Walls (2003). The passage … Continue reading
