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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom | uncomplicatedly
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Shirley Jackson’s Unsettling Freedom. June 27, 2014 at 3:37 pm Posted in fiction. In October, I decided on a whim to read Shirley Jackson’s. The Haunting of Hill House. 1959): because it was “in my period” (20th century American), because it was written by a woman, and because it seemed appropriately “Halloweeny.” Since then I’ve been on a minor streak: a few months ago I read. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. 1963), and I’ve just finished. The Haunting of Hill House,. In particular provoked shocks of...
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith | uncomplicatedly
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Revisionist Tragedy: Luhrmann’s Gatsby and the Knight of Faith. May 18, 2013 at 11:52 am Posted in fiction. I liked Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. As he climbs hopeful and starry-eyed up the pool ladder, only to be shot in the back and to fall backwards in stunned slow motion. After he’s dead it’s revealed that it was only Nick on the phone, worried about Gatsby. It had been a long time since I’d last read The Great Gatsby. This is nearly the opposite of the scene in the movie — not only does no ...
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“I Don’t Know When You Are Going to Read This”: A Love Letter to My Love Letters | uncomplicatedly
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I Don’t Know When You Are Going to Read This : A Love Letter to My Love Letters. June 19, 2014 at 10:59 am Posted in love. Friends, we are so lucky to be loved. Let me be clear: I am engaged to be married to the man without whom I could not imagine myself. It’s not that we finish each other’s sentences, it’s that together we form whole thoughts and concepts that are bigger and better and funnier and crazier than anything either of us could have come up with alone. There is an episode of. Kids these days ...