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Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Song XIII
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A translation in progress. Monday, March 9, 2009. Virgil and Dante enter the Forest of Suicides, the home of the Harpies. Had not yet arrived at the other side. When we started on through a wood. Of which no path was marked. No green leaves, just ones of gloomy color. No smooth branches, just ones knotted and twisted. No fruit was there, just poisonous thorns. Among these branches so rough and dense there are. None of the savage beasts that shun. The fields tended between Cecina. Here the terrible Harpies.
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Song IX
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A translation in progress. Thursday, November 6, 2008. Dante and Virgil encounter the three Furies. That color cowardice painted me,. Seeing my liege come back, in turn prompted. Him to restrain the change within himself. He stopped, alert like one listening,. For the eye could not take him far. Through the black air and thick fog. Still, it is proper for us to win the fight,". He began. "If not.offering so much of itself. Oh, how much longer until the others arrive here! I saw very well how he covered up.
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Song IV
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A translation in progress. Thursday, October 23, 2008. Dante and Virgil encounter Homer and the other classical poets in Limbo. The deep sleep within my head was broken by. A heavy thunderclap, so that I roused myself. Like one forcefully awakened,. Moving around my rested eyes. Standing up straight, I fixed my gaze. In order to know the place wherein I was. It is true: I found myself upon the edge. Of the valley of the abyss of sorrows. Which gathers the thunder of infinite woe. Sighs, rather than tears,.
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Preface
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A translation in progress. Thursday, October 23, 2008. I’ve wondered for quite some time how Dante comes across in Italian. My curiosity was first piqued when I was reading Robert Pinsky. 8217;s translation of the Inferno. My curiosity was further piqued a couple of years later when I read a translation of. 8217;s Il filostrato. While researching a paper on Chaucer. 8217;s Troilus and Criseyde. I had read a number of selections from a translation of Boccaccio’s. Lines ten syllables long are organized int...
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R. S. Martin: Index of Literary Reviews
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Thursday, May 1, 2008. Index of Literary Reviews. All reviews are Short Takes unless otherwise indicated. Bernart de Ventadorn, Arnaut Daniel] (extended review). Pier delle Vigne, Giacomo da Lentini] (extended review). The Dolce stil novo. Guido Guinizelli, Guido Cavalcanti] (extended review). J W von Goethe. Herodias," Gustave Flaubert. The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," Gustave Flaubert. A Simple Heart," Gustave Flaubert. The Lady Maid's Bell," Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth. Part of a lar...
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R. S. Martin: Jim Shooter: A Second Opinion
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Saturday, June 4, 2016. Jim Shooter: A Second Opinion. This is a revised and expanded version of an article that was originally published at. On January 7, 2013. Jim Shooter] does the best job he can, takes great pride in his work, and is genuinely dedicated to publishing the highest-quality Marvel Comics ever. Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book. Is probably Shooter’s harshest detractor. At various times, he has compared Shooter to an antebellum slaveowner (. TCJ Library: Jack Kirby.
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R. S. Martin: Satire, Racist Imagery, and Robert Crumb
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Saturday, May 7, 2016. Satire, Racist Imagery, and Robert Crumb. This is a revised version of an essay that was originally published at. On June 22, 2011. Robert Crumb cannot seem to dip his pen without controversy. Bookstore employees have been prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling his work. Feminists and their fellow travelers have long decried the attitudes that inform his depiction of women. Crumb can’t even catch a break with a biblical adaptation. With. The Book of Genesis Illustrated. Crumb&...
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R. S. Martin: Index of Film Reviews
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Thursday, May 1, 2008. Index of Film Reviews. All reviews are Short Takes unless otherwise indicated. The Birth of a Nation. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Le Jour se lève. The Rules of the Game. The Shop Around the Corner. I Walked with a Zombie. The Curse of the Cat People. The Bells of St. Mary's. Rome, Open City. The Best Years of Our Lives. Strangers on a Train. The Night of the Hunter. The Curse of Frankenstein. A Woman Is a Woman. Season 2, Episode 1: "Mr. Teddy Bear". Uncle ...
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R. S. Martin: Short Take: Gaslight (1944)
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Monday, January 9, 2017. The 1944 film Gaslight. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. All Quacked Up: Steve Gerber, Marvel Comics, and Howard the Duck. The Eras of Crumb. Fiction Review: "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf. Fiction Review: "Kew Gardens," Virginia Woolf. Fiction Review: "A Simple Heart," Gustave Flaubert. Jim Shooter: A Second Opinion. A Reading of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend. Satire, Racist Imagery, and Robert Crumb. Comics, Cartooning, and Graphic Novel Reviews.
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R. S. Martin: Fiction Review: "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009. Fiction Review: "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf. This review was originally published on. The text of "A Haunted House," by Virginia Woolf, can be read by clicking here. Other reviews of works by Virginia Woolf. The Mark on the Wall". Labels: 1921 Short Fiction. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. All Quacked Up: Steve Gerber, Marvel Comics, and Howard the Duck. The Eras of Crumb. Fiction Review: "A Haunted House," Virginia Woolf. The 2011 Internatio...