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Melville’s thematic fluidity

This is a guest post by Tom Gilbert, my son, a college sophomore majoring in philosophy and film. “To write a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme.” –Herman Melville, Moby-Dick “Everyone knows...

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That sweet white space

The line break, an extra return after a paragraph that adds white space to a text, has practical and dramatic uses I was slow to understand. I was proud of my verbal transitions, and physical ones...

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Upon reading Anna Karenina

[View from my classroom, January 29, 2014. Westerville, Ohio, feels very Russian.] Art, emotion, ego & spirituality in Tolstoy’s masterwork. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull,...

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