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A Few Strange New Hybridities in Literature

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Daniel

Of late, my rather strange and serpentine reading habits have yielded up examples of what might be called literary hybridities, where genres and styles work to subsume or coalesce. Of course, such genre bending is not even remotely new but … Continue reading →

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Before the Dawn by Rupert Copping

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Daniel

In the beginning, the elders told him, there was neither light nor darkness, because in the beginning nothing existed. But then, for reasons that were unclear, the Holy Source had awakened like a person from sleep. When the Holy Source … Continue reading →

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Interlocutors of Paradise by Martin Anderson

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Daniel

“Someone is singing, beyond the patio and the hedgerow, a song so sweet it might have been sung in paradise.  Inconsolable melos.  A lyric in a strange tongue.  It sounds like part elegy, part yearning.  Like someone nostalgic, perhaps, for … Continue reading →

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