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How To Leave A Stranger: Short Story
A man stops to pick up a teenage girl hitch-hiker on a foggy New Zealand highway one night. Why does he do these things when he’s shown no gratitude?
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Film Study: Finding Nemo Is Trans
Sure, I’ve never been the target audience for Finding Nemo. I was already an adult when the film came out in 2003. But even my own offspring didn’t enjoy it. Could Finding Nemo be the most boring and unimaginative of all the Disney Pixar feature-length animations? I won’t do a complete film study, because for…
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Welcome to the Creature Cafe
A fantasy cafe website showcasing AI generated images of cute fantasy food and some unusual staffing choices.
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About
I’ve disabled right-click and copy functionality on this blog after more than a decade without it. This was prompted by trackbacks from AI-powered paraphrasing sites. While it makes no difference to me personally if someone uses info on this site to get an essay written or whatever, these technologies can’t mean anything good for humanity…
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Choc-egg Surprise: A Short Story
Professor Cornelius Stoppelbeim is a long-time collector of Choc-Egg Surprises and hopes to accumulate all pieces of the Robo-Bird. However, he would like to lodge some complaints.
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Alice Munro’s Jubilee
**UPDATE LATE 2024** After Alice Munro died, we learned about the real ‘open secrets’ (not so open to those of us not in the loop) which dominated the author’s life. We must now find a way to live with the reality that Munro’s work reads very differently after knowing certain decisions she made when faced…
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Summary: “The Princess” by Tennyson
“Princess Ida” (1847) is a long narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Like many misogynist stories, Tennyson presents it as comedy. Well, technically this is ‘serio-comic’, or ‘comedy drama’.
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Eagle: A Great Low Cost Font Manager
I was actually looking for a way to manage all of my AI generated images when I came across Eagle, and realised this nifty low cost software would make a great low cost font manager. At time of writing, there is a free trial, followed by a one-off cost of $USD29.95 for two devices. This…
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How To Write Like Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was an influential American science fiction author born in 1920. He died in 2012.
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Heirs of the Living Body by Alice Munro Short Story Analysis
“Heirs of the Living Body” is the second story in Lives of Girls and Women (1971), sometimes considered a novel, sometimes a collection of short stories. Each of these stories can be read in isolation, but all concern the life of a woman called Del Jordan growing up in the small fictional Ontario town of…
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The Flats Road by Alice Munro Short Story Analysis
“The Flat’s Road” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro. This story opens Munro’s 1971 collection Lives of Girls and Women.
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Definition of Logos in Literature
Logos is one of three main persuasive techniques as categorised by Aristotle alongside ethos and pathos.
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Postcard by Alice Munro Short Story Analysis
“Postcard” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro, first published in Dance of the Happy Shades, Munro’s first short story collection (1968). This one’s about a player, and his unwitting bit-on-the-side who thinks he’ll eventually marry her.
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Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
“Boys and Girls” is a short story by Alice Munro. Find it in Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Munro’s first collection.
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Review: Troubleshooting & Using a Kobo Libra 2 in 2023
Finally, I decided to switch to a dedicated eReader. Here’s what I think of the Kobo Libra 2.