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Writing tagged: ‘literature’

Theoretical frivolousness

In which I am bamboozled (once again) by the LRB.

Published 13-Nov-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature, lrb

The art of analogy

Stendhal shows how it's done.

Published 18-Sep-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: analogies, language, literature, quotes

Chuzzle wit

High-brow literary pun alert!

Published 07-May-2016
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature, murdoch, puns

The boy who decried Woolf

In which I spot a howler in Virginia Woolf's ‘Mrs Dalloway’.

Published 24-Jun-2014
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: language, literature

I totally stole this joke from someone on Twitter:

Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature.

Published 11-Oct-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: china, literature, twitter

Inexperienced heraldry

Nabokov quote. Discuss.

Published 23-Aug-2012
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature

Rowling, Rowling, Rowling…

My prediction as to the outcome of the Harry Potter saga.

Published 26-Dec-2006
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: harry potter, literature, predictions

Phyllis who?

I think I might be a philistine.

Published 02-Oct-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: literature

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On the Moor
On the Moor: science, history and nature on a country walk

Carter is an entertaining and well-read author. His work is filled with poetry, literature, history, and wider theoretical discussions and the humour is never forced upon the reader […] Bookshops are filled these days with books about nature. Few of them understand that nature is an interaction between human society and the wider world. Richard Carter’s walks and rumination remind us of the connectivity between all things, and they might lead you up a path, onto a moor and a walk to touch a trig point.
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