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Focus: a State of the Eyk Address.

Michal Wallace’s recent post really took a two-by-four to my noggin. I’ve been worrying about a bunch of seemingly disconnected things, and when I read his analysis of his own problem, I saw the beginnings of a synthesis for all my scattered thoughts. Here follows my attempt at bringing them all into one place and introducing them to each [...]

Spondees and dactyls and distichs–Oh my!

It seems sometimes I must choose: do I sleep, or do I stay up and write? I’ve found that I do some of my best writing late, when the house is quiet and the interruptions are few. Last night, though I could have gone to bed early, I instead stayed up and [...]

Behold, the man.

If you watch The Passion of the Christ with a critical eye, you will see behind it the figure of a man. That man is Mel Gibson, and he figures strongly into his own work. What he emphasizes, what he deemphasizes, what he adds, what he subtracts, all these add a distinct texture [...]


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