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Whither Trickster?
"Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, an...
The Devil has All the Best Films
If your walls start bleeding and screaming, call a priest. If you see a man in a hockey mask, run. Divide and conquer—also known as “let’s split up”—is inadvisable. If you wake up in a hospital and the nurse doesn’t answer your buzzes—welcome to the zombie apocalypse. Horror movies have much to teach us: How we portray the inhuman tells us how we perceive the human. Monster stories emerge from dark a...
The Physics of Worship, w/r/t DFW
To put my literary cards on the table: I am a rabid acolyte for David Foster Wallace (hereafter DFW), his personality, and work. Cult leaders dream of disciples with my dedication and single-mindedness. Wounded by the failed cultural terrorism of older avant-garde fiction, I found DFW. Or more precisely I received him about a decade after his mid-90s fame—stumbled upon stories bursting with irony, meta-irony, grad-...
