"Skip the preface, and it's in the bag!" — Nabokov
See also Shattuck in this journal and . . .
Sunday, October 7, 2018
In the Bag
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
In the Bag
See as well Hannah Goldfield as Pennywise the Dancing Clown
in this morning's online New York Times —
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Grab-Bag
In a new film, "The Commuter," Liam Neeson fights
a conspiracy …
"so vast and preposterous that it becomes
nothing more than a grab-bag of plot twists."
— A. O. Scott in The New York Times , 5 AM Jan. 11
Update of 6:29 AM —
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Friday, September 22, 2017
February 11 Note
"The story’s origin is therefore situated, it would seem, in
a forgetting of its origin: to tell the story’s origin is to tell
the story of that origin’s obliteration."
— Shoshana Felman, p. 122 in
"Turning the Screw of Interpretation,"
Yale French Studies No. 55/56 (1977), pp. 94-207.
Published by Yale University Press.
The Preface
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