Out of Sheer Rage I would like to begin writing this today…… only tomorrow feels better since it is about deferring. It should be no surprise that I say this because it is traditional to turn the phenomenon of procrastination into a joke. This is a good way to belittle it, and make it bad, … Read More D.H. Lawrence and the Procrastinator’s Bible
Pale Fire: Four Cantos (1962) by John Shade, is a book that stuck in my mind and will not dislodge. It first appears to be a commentary on a 999-line poem in rhymed couplets for dedicated students of literature. The commentary that follows is apparently written by a literary critic, George Kinbote. If you have… Read More The Pale Fire in Nabokov’s life
This is a spring cleaning job on the content of this blog. The archive tends to make things unwieldy, and disappear into a backwards chronology. Subjects are wide-ranging so might be hard to track. I started this blog on the e-blogger platform in 2008, and it has come a long way since I transferred… Read More A ROUND UP OF ARTHEALSWOUNDS ARTICLES TO DATE
First off, thanks to all the people who managed to read In Search of the Male Muse all the way through who have sent questions about the exercise – How to Connect to Your Muses. I had a mostly positive response with record numbers of blog views from Bulgaria, to Japan to Brazil, with only a… Read More HOW TO CONNECT TO YOUR MUSES: EXERCISES
1: Who are the Muses? 2: The Male Muses of Pop 3: The Male Muse in the Arts 4: The Muse as Nemesis 5: The Muse in Astrology 6: The Roles of the Male Muse 7: Be Your Own Muse 1: Who are the Muses? On seven-hour flights I get some great ideas. I scramble in… Read More IN SEARCH OF THE MALE MUSE
