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Candide | The Redundancy Report

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April 28, 2008. Childhood precociousness does not presuppose gradually increasing talent for the rest of one’s life (see: Frankie Muniz). I’d say in most cases that the talent avalanche hits the barrier around age eleven, from which point said youngster drops back to a normal level of skill-development, with somewhat of a head start. I may have been eight years old when I somehow got my hands on Voltaire’s tragicomedy. In other words, I got the gist. I also got the gist of. The Old Man and the Sea. My bo...

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover | The Redundancy Report

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover. April 27, 2008. Ahm four’een”). Besides an admiration for British pop music (Keith Moon being a favourite earlier in my life), I am no Anglophile. What’s so glamourous about black lung and conservative class politics? My billet once complained to me that all the English people in American movies had such “posh accents.” “I ain’t posh, I’m common! 8221; she declared. I didn’t ask her to repeat herself. My edition of D.H. Lawrence’s book. Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Sons and Lovers,.

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January | 2009 | The Redundancy Report

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January 8, 2009. The protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s apparently incomplete novel. Is named Chichikov. This, like many other characters’ names in the book, is a bit of a joke, a play on words I would never have understood without footnotes, and comes from the word that means a “sneeze” or “to sneeze” or something else sneeze-related. But it’s alright, because Chichikov is an EVEN MORE PERFECT name for an orange cat. In and of itself. This might be a chicken/egg situation. See, the big orange tomcat picture...

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A Brief Explanation | The Redundancy Report

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Speaking from (admittedly limited) experience, high school English teachers generally have pretty good taste in books. Unfortunately, all but the best see no other way to share this with teenage students beyond endless literary nitpicking. Set up too many syntax-analysis tripwires, and even the biggest blood enthusiasts in the room will be yawning through. In the wrong hands,. Lord of the Flies. We’re talking about – something has got to be wrong. You are probably more sophisticated than I. Merely inexpr...

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Dead Souls | The Redundancy Report

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January 8, 2009. The protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s apparently incomplete novel. Is named Chichikov. This, like many other characters’ names in the book, is a bit of a joke, a play on words I would never have understood without footnotes, and comes from the word that means a “sneeze” or “to sneeze” or something else sneeze-related. But it’s alright, because Chichikov is an EVEN MORE PERFECT name for an orange cat. In and of itself. This might be a chicken/egg situation. See, the big orange tomcat picture...

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April | 2008 | The Redundancy Report

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April 28, 2008. Childhood precociousness does not presuppose gradually increasing talent for the rest of one’s life (see: Frankie Muniz). I’d say in most cases that the talent avalanche hits the barrier around age eleven, from which point said youngster drops back to a normal level of skill-development, with somewhat of a head start. I may have been eight years old when I somehow got my hands on Voltaire’s tragicomedy. In other words, I got the gist. I also got the gist of. The Old Man and the Sea. My bo...

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June | 2008 | The Redundancy Report

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June 28, 2008. My sister and I used to have a book called,. Everything I Need to Know About Life, I Learned from my Cat. Everything I need to know about Marxism, I learned from. Life is full of little wee teachers, and the list could go on and on (. Everything I Need to Know About Having an Inferiority Complex, I Learned from Summer Camp. Everything I Need to Know About Eating, I Learned from Smokin’ Weed). Forget that Rah-Rah-Rasputin nonsense – whispers and lies, whispers and lies. Could tell you, Orwe...

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The Odyssey | The Redundancy Report

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April 26, 2008. The other day, my friends Ted, Katie and I were talking about how silly television shows about reading are – you know,. The aim is obviously to shoot kids between the eyes while they’re watching after-school TV with the Good News About Reading, but why would anyone read. When they could watch an affable dog pretend to be the titular character instead? And wouldn’t the producers of these television shows be upset if kids took their advice and went to library instead? And that shit is.

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Tender is the Night | The Redundancy Report

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Tender is the Night. April 27, 2008. F Scott Fitzgerald is amazing. He turns a phrase like no other and. The Beautiful and Damned. Tender is the Night. I was once in a relationship with someone who told me he loved me after about three days. I thought I was going to hyperventilate. I liked him, and I didn’t want to wipe out such a serendipitous budding relationship, so what else could I do but pretend it was reciprocal? Tender is the Night. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. You are com...