I haven’t written here much lately, largely because my blogging persona is facing an identity crisis. I do not know at all what I want this blog to be. Do I want to be light and funny and social? I can do that, but my dark moods lately seem to make that a Sisyphean task. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Identity Crisis
Posted in writing on January 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Oh Well
Posted in publishing on January 16, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I assume that I failed to make the cut in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. They have posted the excerpts from the novels that have advanced to the next round, and mine was not among them. I have been reading the discussion board that Amazon has up for contestants, and it looks like most [...]
Eschatology II
Posted in Books on January 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am going to borrow some ideas from Jessie Weston and Sir James Frazer as I stumble through my theories about post-apocalyptic literature. Neither of these writers deals with post-apocalyptic literature, but their part of my theory is that their ideas about ritual and especially sacred rites of expiation and atonement do have some relevance [...]
Frigid
Posted in cycling on January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The temperature dropped to about 6 degrees (F) last night, and it’s not going to get any higher than the teens today. I decided that it would be a great day to go for a training ride not in spite of but because of the frigidity, as it would be a good way to convince [...]
Eschatology I
Posted in Books on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In “Fire and Ice,” Robert Frost weighs contrasting apocalyptic visions and finds that either “would suffice.” As the poem was published in 1920, it is easy to read it as a modernist reaction to the devastation wrought by the Great War and the subsequent loss of faith in all of the old certainties. Frost’s descriptions [...]
