“In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred… Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” ~ I HaveContinue reading “Inspiration – Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Power of Words”
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Through the Looking Glass: Self-Knowledge Through Reading in “Frankenstein” (Part 1 of 2)
The novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus has been capturing the imagination of the public since it was first published in 1818. It has become canonical, with school children all over the world reading it, dissecting it, and perhaps attempting to author a similar creature of their own. However, the meaning of Frankenstein’s Creature hasContinue reading “Through the Looking Glass: Self-Knowledge Through Reading in “Frankenstein” (Part 1 of 2)”
Inspiration – Sweating the Small Stuff
I came to the world of comic books fairly late in my adolescence. It was actually a love of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer that first drove me to enter what was, at the age of sixteen, the forbidding comic shop in my town. Several years, over five ComicCons (the local Emerald City ComicConContinue reading “Inspiration – Sweating the Small Stuff”
Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 2 of 2)
It seems that the emergently popular world of electronic literature has provided readers with a possible solution to this issue of control. Interactive fiction provides the reader with something they never really had with print: agency. Take, for example, a work like Emily Short’s Galatea. This work is written entirely in second person, a formContinue reading “Control and Character: Defining a New Subject in Galatea (Part 2 of 2)”
Inspiration – Major Minor Characters
First of all, if you have yet to read or watch any version of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what are you doing with your life? Reading my blog? Stop, now, go to the library and pick up a copy. Better yourself, we could all use a little improvement, and come back after you’ve read it. ForContinue reading “Inspiration – Major Minor Characters”