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Notes on Notes from Underground, Punk and Russian Poetry

Submitted by David Cherry on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 11:28am

Photo Credit: Klaviatura by khanele / Hannah Born We all come out of Gogol's overcoat.
--Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I read Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground for the first time, it screwed me to my chair for about a week. I was paralysed with a not completely unpleasant terror that when or if I finally pried myself loose, the world would no longer be the brick-and-mortar, what-you-see-is-what-you-get place I had...

The End of the Story: The Shrinking of the Epic Hero

Submitted by David Cherry on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 11:28am

I am big. It's the pictures that got small. Photo Credit: Knight's Castle by Hartwig HKD
--Norma Desmond

Well, yes, there's nothing like trotting out one of the tiredest, most hag-ridden quotations in pop culture to get this thing off to a limping start, but bear with me here; I think I have a good reason for using it and with a little luck, I'll get to it eventually.

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