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Before broaching our third and final question (“What are the rules one must follow in order to succeed in perfecting the art of the novel?”), we must, it would seem to me, reply to the constant objection if certain melancholy … Continue reading →

I consume some films, ones that I feel require attention, often as I can in an altered state. I don’t do drugs, not illegal ones anyway, so my method is late, late nights and caffeine. The subsequent result is a … Continue reading →

Place Beyond the Pines, starts with something like a magic trick, Ryan Gosling goes into the cage on a motorbike after a long uninterrupted shot, therefore Ryan Gosling must be in the cage doing those stunts. Perhaps, the function of … Continue reading →

Time to try something different, the object of this blog is at least partially to discuss things that twitter would simplify in a way that distorts the conversation unhelpfully. The Rules of Attraction, first thoughts; the way the suicide scene … Continue reading →

‘Stoker’ is the third film I’ve watched this month to deal explicitly with male obsession in regards to women. The first and most overt was ‘Under the Skin’, that particular film intimately explores heterosexual male and female relations, giving particular … Continue reading →

‘To a person finding himself at the beginning of an era, its simple fundamental structures may become visible like a distant landscape in the flash of a single stroke of lightning. But the path toward them in the dark is … Continue reading →

Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods … Continue reading →

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may … Continue reading →

Deep in the mountains at night, alone in my hermitage,I listen to the plaintive sound of rain and snow.A monkey cries on top of a mountain;The sound of the valley river has faded away.A light flickers in front of the … Continue reading →

Just a bit of ephemera. Sony has recently released (or will have released on Friday) a new Playstation. The Playstation 4 while having many different things about it has one feature that has been grandfathered in for the previous Playstation … Continue reading →