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...is could be a poem about the fading vitality and strength that accompanies age, a tragedy that will affect all men. }}<br /> :Alone and palely loitering?

...with writing biographies for Wikipedia—like [[w:J. Michael Lennon|Mike]]’s and [[w:Susan Mailer|Susan]]’s—but I had the information I needed, really. ...to get ''facts'' and those to get ''meaning''—like memories, hopes, fears, and philosophies. Both seem pretty important. Here’s a bunch.

...his loyalty; his story is tragic and an apt critique of class, tradition, and the value of human life. ...hile negatively affecting the lives of all the rest. Capitalism, religion, and colonialism come to mind, though to its benefit the novel expertly avoids a

{{Large|Exercise and Life}} ...fat kid. I was an androgynous kid. I think these things were all related, and while my weight has been an issue my entire life, now that I’m in my fort

...to-live'' and ''having-a-life''?<ref>Originally written on August 18, 2013 and published on Medium.</ref>}} ...that asks, like most (all?) stories of apocalypse, can we find meaning in death? Or maybe, for those of us not yet facing an ostensible end: what does it m

{{cquote|The Hipster’s experience of the possibilities within death is his logic.|author=Norman Mailer|source=“The White Negro,” p. 342}} ...but not without making him a metaphorical cancer for his family, friends, and community.

{{jt|title=Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse: Signs and Maps Along ''The Road''}}<ref>Presented at the Southwest Texas PCA Confere ...y? This is an ontological question in at least two senses: a stylistic one and a thematic one. It often seems to me that anytime we try to talk about the

...less that one dominates and controls the conversation, the flow of ideas, and the developing cyberworld. ...s, orders, conventions, structures—were the best at delivering the meaning and asking the questions when the are situated historically, but their usefulne

....<ref>Originally written for the FSU Literature and Film Conference, 2004, and then published in ''Ragnatela Magazine'' 3, 2004.</ref>}} ...of Redemption.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lem |first=Stanislaw |date=2002 |orig-year=1970 |title=Solaris |url= |location=New York |publisher=Mariner |pages=172,

...all of 2016 for my [[(Post)Modernism and Utopia, Fall 2016|(Post)Modernism and Utopia]] course.</ref>}} ...rld. This ''disruption'' provide the fulcrum for the rise of many personal and political systems that sought to instill a new order on the chaos. In other

{{Large|Techno-Alterations and the Human Code}} ...implications of human/machine co-evolution which . . . develop, critique, and rewrite as they learn to “speak” cyborg, without forgetting whatever hu

...aining freedom from tyranny. Mailer’s opposition resonates even beyond his death in 2007. This essay examines the political Mailer in the last decade of his ...t “sullies everyone who lives under it,”{{sfn|Mailer|Mailer|2006|pp=94–5}} and therefore opposition to its every form becomes a moral imperative.{{sfn|Mai

...pages or so. There is no problem, no regular climax, no point at the end. And it is one of the greatest stories ever written.|author=[[w:Vladimir Nabokov ...own lives when seeing others’ fictions is often so evident? (E.g., Liubóv and Trofímov in Act 3, p. 376–77). What is the relation of truth to reality

{{dc|T}}{{start|his collection of essays, articles, videos, and fiction}} explore the many facets of “[[New Media|new media]].” Use the ...first=Pat |date=2004 |title=First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iaY9cMnOCUoC |location=Cambridg

{{dc|A}}{{start|n allegory is a narrative in which the agents and action}}, and sometimes the setting, are contrived not only to make sense in themselves, ...sents Charles II, Absalom represents his natural son the Duke of Monmouth, and the biblical plot allegorizes a political crisis in contemporary England.

...the Spirit|Romanticism]] that ''Rime'' exhibits: the outlaw man of feeling and exotic, gothic imagery rooted in a mythic past. Bloom calls it a “phantas ...he marginal glosses, which {{harvtxt|Empson|2010|p=73}} calls “misleading” and recommends removing them, which I do not include here.}} }}

“I’m sorry to hear that. And George Hardt?” Charlie inquired. {{pn|5}} “And where is the Snow Bird?”