Posts tagged “literature”

A special kind of fall.

In which he finally reads The Catcher in the Rye

“Fuck literature.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1924, in a letter to Ezra Pound

“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1952, in a letter to Bernard Berenson

Literary Tattoos
The Periodic Table Of Super-Powers
Dale Peterson is not screwing around. (He’s got my vote.)
If you like The Big Picture, you’ll love The Big Caption.
Apple, Inc. v. Apple Corps: Why The Beatles Are Not in the iTunes Store
Never Punt with Tebow: A Mathematical Analysis of 4th Down
The fastest man in college football is University of Florida running back Jeff Demps, who helped the Gators win the SEC outdoor track championships by running the 100m dash in 10.06 seconds. (That’s just a half-second “slower” than world record holder Usain Bolt.)

2024-07-25: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Fun With Secret Questions & Answers
CrabRevenge.com: “Yes we sell pubic lice and yes we are proud of it.”
Life is beautiful.
The Boston Globe has the best coverage (as usual) of an extraordinary event. This time The Big Picture details the oil spill.
If you are in any way involved with building things on the web, you should read A Brief History of Markup.
Looking for literary superheroes? Behold the awesome power of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne!
Have you ever wondered if there is video of an enormously pregnant woman and her skinny friend doing a very disturbing dance to the theme song from Law & Order: SVU? You’re in luck!
Bonus: The 50 Worst Video Game Names Ever

2024-07-26: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

Thomas Hardy

On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”, an essay from 1996

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.

The Sharks in Literature site has a lengthy excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea.

The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction

“The egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx.” F. Fukuyama

This is a take-home test for AML 3124 from the fall of 1995. I might have not exactly addressed the questions as they were presented, but if I had wanted to be a journalist or a writer-for-hire, I never would have majored in English… Read away… Lemme know what ya think, too…

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.

A special kind of fall.

Thomas Hardy

Coleridge and Wordsworth

The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction

Innocence v. Experience