Source data for an Instagram story this evening —
An image from the story itself —
Related reading — "Flame Alphabet" in this journal.
From that link . . .
See also . . .
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The Tombstone Code
For Dan Brown enthusiasts, a sequel to the previous post, "The Tombstone Source."
As that post notes, the following symbol is now used as a story-end "tombstone" at
T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The Times uses style-sheet code, not
the rarely used unicode character below, to produce the tombstone.
Related material — The novel The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
that was reviewed in January 2012 by Commentary magazine :
Fiction, Fiction, Burning Bright
D. G. MYERS / JAN. 19, 2012
Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012).
304 pp. $25.95.
According to the Jews, the world begins
with speech. God says, “There is light,”
and so there is light. But what if something
happened — it doesn’t really matter what —
and speech turned lethal?
That’s the premise of The Flame Alphabet ,
the third novel by Ben Marcus,
a creative writing professor at Columbia
University….
A much better novel along these lines is Lexicon (2013) by Max Barry.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Flame Diary
Last Saturday's post Against Dryness quoted "Gone Girl,"
a recent film about an untypical couple.
Other works of interest:
The Flame Alphabet (Ben Marcus, 2012) and
The Folded Clock (Heidi Julavits, 2015).
Marcus and Julavits are husband and wife. As in
"Gone Girl," both are very bright, and the wife
writes a diary. (No other resemblance between
the couples is apparent.)
Update of 6:40 PM ET March 31:
A 1983 review by the parents of Ben Marcus —
Update of 7:09 PM March 31:
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