Storytelling-related Parries
March 2009
Namaste, Dharma Workmen
What do the Lost characters mostly want these days? It’s not to get off the island. Increasingly, the island is just where they live and love. If anything, they’ve found home — or, rather, their home found them.
April 2007
The Meaning Addiction
I’m reading Shardik by Richard Adams, famous for Watership Down. I chose it because it’s about religion, and Adams demonstrated such insight there with the rabbits’ religion — “Oh Frith on the hill, he made it all for us!” — that he’s clearly a contributor to our understanding of ourselves and our meaning addiction.
Storytelling-related Photos
Latmag does Storytelling
January 2010
Leon R. Kass, The Beginning of Wisdom, Pp. 406-7.
Jacob’s Summary
“ The biblical counterpart of Odysseus, Jacob must solve the fundamental human difficulties illustrated in the pre-Abrahamic chapters of Genesis. ”
August 2003
E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
Curious Shockheads
“ Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. ”
January 2003
Peter Davison, an interview with Stanley Plumly
On The and Story
“ The subtext of narrative is time, the subtext of time is mortality, the subtext of mortality is emotion. Try to remove the narrative sense of things and you take out the heart, the cause of the effect. ”
And on the Trail
Sat 10 Mar ’12
On the rise of the ebook and how it’s just another step in the increasing convenience of distributing a written work, just as books typeset on paper are.
Sat 18 Feb ’12
Sat 28 Jan ’12
On the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes by John Pemble.
Fri 18 Nov ’11
Fri 26 Aug ’11
After Steve Jobs’ resignation, the Daringfireball round-up of anecdotes: Dave Winer, David Cairns, Vic Gundotra, Allen Paltrow, Jonathan Berger, Marc Hedlund.
Wed 9 Mar ’11
Thu 10 Feb ’11
Michael Barone celebrates Ronald Reagan’s centenary.
Fri 21 Jan ’11
The great Kobi Oz on his development as an artist.
Mon 27 Sep ’10
My goodness: a long juicy New Yorker piece on David Grossman.
Sat 29 May ’10
24 and Lost are dead. Long live 24 and Lost! From The New York Times and the Huffington Post.
Mon 21 Dec ’09
Fabulous, erudite, comical, scathing review of the first Star Wars prequel.
Sat 31 Oct ’09
Of monsters. A nice Sunday-morning read. “The monster concept is still extremely useful, and it’s a permanent player in the moral imagination because human vulnerability is permanent.”
Sat 4 Jul ’09
Interview with the guys behind the wonderful closing credits for WALL•E.
Thu 7 May ’09
JJ Abrahms on Charlie Rose. Charlie at 28:20: “Lost. People that I know love it, love it, love it.”
Thu 16 Apr ’09
Michael Caine easy, free, articulate and enthusiastic on Charlie Rose.
Sun 15 Mar ’09
Indulge in the transcript of the 5-day, 9-hours-a-day “Raiders of the Lost Ark” story conference with Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan.
Sun 8 Mar ’09
Germaine Greer explores why or whether men are funnier than women.
Thu 5 Mar ’09
Jason Hunter’s mad convoluted theory of the mad convoluted events of Lost.
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