Archive for Commonplace Book
On dragons and flight
Le Guin on writing about men
Twain on freedom and revolution
Burgess on the Clockwork Orange movie ending
Underground’s metadiscussion of slavery narratives
I'm watching Underground season 2, episode 1, “Contraband,” and I just got to a scene in which one of the...
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...
On the difficulty of recognizing one’s own biases
Another lesson for me on the difficulty of seeing outside your own cultural context: In Delany's City of a Thousand...
Ziggurat imagery in different tech levels
I've just started reading both Norman Spinrad's 1980 Songs from the Stars (first chapters set in a post-apocalypse quasi-ecotopia in...
David and Goliath rhymes
I just realized this is one of the things that some of the rhyme-chains in Hamilton reminded me of: ”Now...
On first looking into Gary Snyder
Among the books I rescued from my father's house were six books of poems by Gary Snyder. I don't know...
Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...