Continued from Monday morning, for Lev Grossman —
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Nicht Spielerei…
… Continued (for Lev Grossman fans)
From the above Wikipedia article —
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In the Robert Frost poem, "The Witch of Coos," the game
is referenced in lines 7-8:
"Summoning spirits isn't 'Button, button,
who's got the button,' I would have them know."
Fact check: From the Frost poem at Bartleby.com —
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"Summoning spirits isn’t 'Button, button,
Who’s got the button,' you’re to understand."
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
Flashback…
To Feb. 11, 2012:
“News and Traffic. Sports and Weather. These were his acid terms
for the life he’d left behind, more than two years of living with
the tight minds that made the war. It was all background noise,
he said, waving a hand. He liked to wave a hand in dismissal.”
— DeLillo, Don (2010-02-02), Point Omega
Send in the Clowns. (Click to enlarge.)
The above flashback was suggested by Lev Grossman’s verb “trafficked”
in yesterday’s posts, and by the song lyric “show us the way to
the next little girl.”
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
The Grossman Chronicles
"Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Homer: those writers trafficked in
witches and fairies and ghosts and monsters. Why shouldn’t I?"
— Novelist Lev Grossman in The New York Times this afternoon
Grossman's father was the poet Allen Grossman.
See that Grossman in this journal, as well as a search for Holy Water.
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