Guy de Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant
Nov.13.2011
Photo: "Portrait of Henry James," an oil painting by Joseph Singer Sargent, on James's Wikipedia page.
Nice little story, written very stiffly and badly, of course, by a very Victorian writer who could never seem to get out of his own way. The language is of the supreme upper...
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Jun.16.2010
Dear Best Friends,
You know how I revere your works. And I know I am far from alone in my admiration, for you are the idols of us bookworms, but for once I am writing to you, instead of because of you.
Attempting to choose one of you as the one to whom I am most connected brings pangs of guilt for...
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Oct.19.2009
Look anywhere. There are ‘special’ people, a few being touted as prodigies only because they can do some stand-up comic act – “Boss, what a genius”. What surprises me is that the term genius is used so carelessly.
We live in a world where research is developing a thinking cap that will unlock the...
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Oct.10.2008
The Nobel has landed in the French lap. Writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has won the 2008 Prize for Literature.
The citation lauds him as the
“author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.”
Huh? Are not all...
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