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Flannery O’Connor on Freaks in the Christ-haunted South
From Flannery O’Connor’s 1960 lecture, “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction“– Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is...
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To Repel Ghosts — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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“One need not be a chamber to be haunted”— Emily Dickinson
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Blue Christmas, A Video Essay from The Criterion Collection
Tagged: arg, Casey Moore, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Carol, Christmas Tale, Essay, Film, Ghosts, Gremlins, Holidays, It's A Wonderful Life, Michael Koresky, Opinions, Religion...
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Doré’s Ghost of Banquo (Ghost Riff 1)
It’s the disconcerting incompleteness of Gustave Doré’s The Spectrum Appearance of Banquo at Macbeth’s Feast that, paradoxically, creates the full, troubling effect of the picture. “Enter Ghost of...
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A Woman Ghost Appeared from a Well — Katsushika Hokusai
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Two ghosts (David Foster Wallace)
The truth is that there are two actual, non-hallucinatory ghosts haunting Post 047’s wiggle room. No one knows whether there are any in the Immersive Pods; those Pods are worlds unto themselves. The...
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Phantoms and Ghosts in DFW’s Novel The Pale King (Ghost Riff 2)
The narrator of David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King assures us at one point that “phantoms are not the same as real ghosts.” Okay. So what’s a phantom then, at least in the universe...
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Illustration for Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”— James Hill
James Hill’s illustration for The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. From The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, Heritage Press, 1968. The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the...
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Phantoms and ghosts in David Foster Wallace’s novel The Pale King
The narrator of David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King assures us at one point that “phantoms are not the same as real ghosts.” Okay. So what’s a phantom then, at least in the universe...
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Memory of Past Fragrments — Leonor Fini
Mémoire Des Fragments Passés (Memory of Past Fragments), 1984 by Leonor Fini (1908-1996) Tagged: Art, Ghosts, Leonor Fini, memory
View ArticleAbout the time the Spy and the Fanny sailed | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal...
September 10th.–Here is another beautiful morning, with the sun dimpling in the early sunshine. Four sail-boats are in sight, motionless on the sea, with the whiteness of their sails reflected in it....
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