Here’s another frivolous post, even sillier than my last one. More serious content is coming shortly.
Continue readingJames Joyce Anticipated Breaking Bad
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James Joyce Created Star Wars
This is a silly post that speculates (half seriously) that James Joyce is responsible for Star Wars.
Continue readingOn the Limit(lessness) of Storytelling
In my last post, I discussed how our storytelling about ourselves, others, and the world should be constrained by the facts of reality. In this post, I explore the value of more fictionalized storytelling, creating narratives that are less bound by the facts of reality but that are no less in touch with creative archetypes.
Continue readingOn the Limits of Storytelling
Every telling has a taling, and that’s the he and the she of it
Finnegans Wake, I.8
In many ways, Finnegans Wake is a book about storytelling. It’s a collection of stories. In some places, full stories are told from beginning to end; in other places, they abruptly start and stop, get interrupted, meld into other tales, or get lost in confusion (like the history of HCE in I.2-4).
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The Suspended Sentence 