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Charlize Theron – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. Mad Max: Fury Road. This was the very best of the movies I saw as part of the blockbuster marathon. The stakes here are clear and are established without tedious explication. The coherent but […]. August 15, 2015. Tagged with: Charlize Theron. Ender’s Game and Aeon Flux are surprisingly similar films and stumble over nearly identical narrative problems: both want to be sci-fi epics with surprise endings. I’d never recognized this as […]. March 11, 2014. Tagged with: Bad Writing.

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Mad Max: Fury Road – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. Mad Max: Fury Road. This was the very best of the movies I saw as part of the blockbuster marathon. The stakes here are clear and are established without tedious explication. The coherent but enigmatic world is a composite of moods and details built up with small touches across the two hours. Archetypes are evoked to great effect. (A high point are the people on stilts in the fog.). Tom Hardy’s and Charlize Theron. August 15, 2015. Tagged with: Charlize Theron. My name is Brian Crane.

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rereading – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. I’ve never liked Jane Austin’s novels. Every sentence always seemed to be written perfectly straight up and down without passion, cold and severe. I dreaded courses where they were assigned, […]. August 8, 2015. Tagged with: Jane Austin. My name is Brian Crane. I teach English. This is my blog. Reading & Screening Lists. 2011-2016 Brian Crane, Ordinary Human Language. Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha.

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Summer Blockbuster Marathon – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. The second week of my Montreal vacation. I decided to see all the summer blockbusters I’d never drive into the city to see. My list was:. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Mad Max: Fury Road. So how was it? Well, there were thrills, yes, but there was agony too, and at one point, I faced defeat. But I made it, and now the logs are coming. Apart from the marathon, over the course of the week I also watched A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. And The New Rijksmuseum. August 3, 2015.

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Uncategorized – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here. My name is Brian Crane. I teach English. This is my blog. Reading & Screening Lists. 2011-2016 Brian Crane, Ordinary Human Language. Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha.

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Sense and Sensibility – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. I’ve never liked Jane Austin’s novels. Every sentence always seemed to be written perfectly straight up and down without passion, cold and severe. I dreaded courses where they were assigned, and I’ve started more of them than I’ve finished. But a retired teacher had great success with Austin in a program specific course I now teach, and I decided last Fall to assign Sense and Sensibility. I regretted it as soon as I did, but it was too late to change and I was stuck. August 8, 2015.

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William Faulkner – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. Faulkner Online: Breathless First Impressions. The Faulkner hypertext that I’ve been making in Tinderbox and that I’ve spoken about a few times is now online. It’s far from perfect, but that’s fine. It’s my first […]. August 7, 2015. Notes on a Hypertext. For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on the hypertext I took on as a summer project. It’s been an eye-opening experience and I’d like to jot down some […]. August 3, 2014. Faulkner on Being Right. Faulkner on Being Right. June 10, 2014.

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Making Hypertext – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. My big project this summer is to create a non-fiction hypertext. I have a subject. I have the material. I even have some initial ideas about form. Obviously I’ll make the thing in Eastgate’s Tinderbox. I can’t imagine organizing multiple paths through my materials–some narrative, some analytic, some argumentative–without its maps, outlines, aliases, and everything else. 8220;You’ll figure it out.”. More news to come…. June 6, 2014. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

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Commonplace Book – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. Montaigne on the Aptness of Love. Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l’aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu’en répondant : parce que c’était lui, parce que c’était moi. –Michel de […]. Montaigne on the Aptness of Love. October 24, 2016. Tagged with: Michel de Montaigne. A man is a man, and the modicum of reason he might have counts for little or nothing when passion rages and the limits of human being press against him! 8211;Johann […]. September 10, 2016. September 9, 2016.

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Jurassic World – Ordinary Human Language

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Read See. Do. This movie was terribly enough written that I almost walked out. I didn’t, because blockbuster marathon. But when it was over I was actually angry. Why is the mother always crying? Why does the opening goodbye scene between the teenagers happen? And if is going to happen, then why have the teenage girl disappear never to return and the teenage boy act like a creep with every girl he sees? Is the point to make his character an asshole? And on and on and on. But that deletion would probably i...