This’ll probably go right over the heads of the guys I know who read this blog, but the rest of y’all may have seen back cover blurbs that talk about how the hero has been “trained to pleasure” or schooled in the erotic arts in boudoirs all across Europe. You mostly see this kind of [...]
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I suspect John, Edie, and Michelle are conspiring to Google-bomb me so that my site will henceforward become known as The Penis Blog. I suppose I’m not helping matters, am I? :-) Well, hey, sometimes you just have to embrace your fate.
Earlier today, I was thinking about Justine Davis‘ The Skypirate, a futuristic romance about [...]
Many people who read my blog regularly are probably already familiar with Chekhov’s Gun, but for those of you who aren’t, here’s a quick summary. Anton Chekhov, the famous Russian playwright and short story author, once said, “One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.” [...]
So I finished The Iliad and immediately started The Odyssey. Can I just say right now that the last line of The Iliad annoys the daylights out of me?
And so the Trojans buried Hector breaker of horses.
Okay, fellow grammar and punctuation fetishists, what’s wrong with that sentence? I don’t know if it’s a convention from [...]
I’m almost done with The Iliad. Patroclus is dead, Achilles is even MORE pissed, and I suspect Hector’s about to get whacked. I don’t know if I’ve gotten hold of a particularly readable translation of The Iliad or what, but I still stand by my original assessment that this is an amazingly fresh, interesting story. [...]
