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Subtext: A Life In Between The Lines
Subtext: A Life Between The Lines Subtext is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work. Text is what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Culture, Dreams, education, Environment, Event, Fashion, Feminism, Flashback, Genealogy, Health, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Music, Mythology, News, Pedagogy, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy, Travel, Writing
Tagged 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, A Life Between The Lines, All The World's A Stage, Amazon, archeologist of text, author, Black Swan, Book, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn, Cari Lynn Vaughn, carilynn27, Colorado, Context, Createspace, Decentered, Desideratum, Diaries, Divorced, Dreams, English Degree, English Major, English Teacher, Enouement, Erasure, Feminism, Foreza Del Destino, Gnostic, Hunger, In Dreams, Insight, interpretation, Journal Entries, Kaizen, Kindle, Lacuna, Literature, Married, Missouri, Mono No Aware, Moxie, Nonfiction, Ohio, OSU, Prequel, Professor, Psychology, Published, Publisher, Purple Rose Ink Publications, Purple Rose Ink Publishing, Series, Sous Rature, Subtext, Telos, Text, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The World Is A Stage, UNCG, Understanding, Volume, volumes, Wings of Desire, Wolf Gift, Work, works, Writer, Wu Wei
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Dark And Stormy Night
A Dark And Stormy Night Memory is not reliable. It gets tangled among emotions and thoughts. Who is to say what really happened and what we felt happened. Who is to say that both are not real in some way … Continue reading
Posted in Event, History, Movies/TV, Psychology, Writing
Tagged 1970s, 1994, 1995, 2018, 955 Marion Avenue, AA, Abigail Dudley, Alcohol, Alone, Ant-Climatic, Anxiety, Attic, Back Story, Betty Will, Black Mansion, cabinet, canopy bed, Cari Lynn Vaughn, closet, Commune, community, cook, Crain, Crane, Creative Writing, Damon's House, Dark, Dark and Stormy Night, Death, Death of a child, Depression, Dreamia, Drinking, Drunk, Dudley, Elizabeth Black, emptienss, Estate, Family, Frank Blymer Black, Friends, Ghost Story, Ghosts, Gin, Gothic Fiction, Grandma, Grandmother, Green, Grief, happy, Haunted Mansion, Heaven, Hell, Home Health Aid, horror, House, Hugh, Inner Demons, Insanity, Ireland, isolation, Jack and Jill Bathroom, Joel Black, John Baxtor Black, liquor, Lonely, Maid, Mansfield, mansion, Nell, Netflix, Nursing Classes, Ohio, Olivia, Piano, Pictures, Pink, Roger Black, servants, Shirley Jackson, space, staircase, The Haunting of Hill House, The Ohio Brass Company, The Ohio State University, Third Floor, Toys in the Attic, Tragedy, TV show, Vodka, well kept, Writing of Fiction
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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America
$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, History, Politics/Economics
Tagged $2.00 A Day, 1962, 1964, 1996, 2015, ADC, AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Aid To War Widows, Benefits, Bill Clinton, Civil War, David Ellwood, Families, Food Stamps, Impoverished, Katheryn J Edin, Living On Almost Nothing in America, Luke Schaefer, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Mothers, NWRO, Poor, Poor Support, Poverty, Racism, Reduced and Free Lunches, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Segragation, Single Mothers, SNAP, Social Security, TANIF, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, The Other America, Villain, Welfare Queen, Welfare Support, Welfare to Work, Working Poor
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Gobekli Tepe
Gobekli Tepe: The Genesis of the Gods The Temple of the Watchers and The Discovery of Eden By Andrew Collins, 2014 From The Ashes of Angels: Abode of the Gods: Gobekli Tepe is a Megalithic Complex near Sanliurfa, Turkey. It … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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From Beast to Blonde
From Beast To Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers Mariana Warner, 1994 This is an entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology, Writing
Tagged Andrew Lange, Archetypal, Babies, Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Blue, Charles Perrault, Children, Disney, Fairy, Fairytales, Folklore, Green, Hades, Inner Beast, Justice, Magic, Marian Warner, McKinny, Mother Goose, Nana, Nanny, Nurse, old crones, Old Women, Persephone, Red, Robin McKinney, Rose, Roses, Sex, Silence, Simon Magus, Social Context, Spring, stores, Storks, survival skills, sybls, Tales, The Beast and the Blonde, Travel, Venus, Violet, Wives Tales, Wizard, Yellow
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Red And Orange Narcissus
May 21, 2017 Red and Orange Narcissus Narcissism is named after the Greek Myth of Narcissus. Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool and died because he refused to leave the pool. Poor Echo fell in love with him, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, Politics/Economics, Psychology
Tagged 1861, 1998, 2017, Adolf Hitler, ambassadors, Andrew Johnson, Anxiety, applaud, Appointed, Big Bully, Breech, bs, bureau, bureaucratic, Business Man, Campaign, CEO, Checks and Balances, CIA, Citizens, classfied intellegence, classified files, classified info, Collusion, Comey, Committee, conservative, Cover-Up, Criticism, crucify, damaged self-ego axis, declassify, Defend, Democrat, Depression, dignitaries, Director, disdain, disregard, Disrespect, doing his own thing, Donad Trump, Echo, eduction, Emails, Emperor Nero, empty, erosions, excessive need for admiration, Facts, Fail, fake media, Fame, FBI, Fear, Fired, Firing, Flower, fragile ego, Freud, Government, Great Fire, Greek Myth, help, Hillary Clinton, Historical Figures, House of Represenatives, Impeachment, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, intolerance to criticism, Investigation, Journalism, Journalist, Jung, Lack of Empathy, left, left-leaning, liberal, lied, lose, Majority, manifestation, media, meeting, MIddle Class, Monica Lewinsky, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissus, Nationwide Illness, New York Times, Nixon, No One Likes The USA, North Korea, NPD, Obama, Obstruction of Justice, Office, pass, perfect, plan, Poor, Power, precipice, Process, profit, profitable, Protocal, punished, Putin, Reality TV, Republican, Resigned, Rich, right, right-leaning, Rome, Rome Burned, Russia, School, self-absorbed, self-esteem, Selfish, Senate, Server, Sex, society, Sociopath, special, spoiled young adults, Star, support, The Washington Post, Theory, title 18, Tragedy, treason, Truth, Tyrany, Upper Class, US, USA, Watergate, Wealth, Whitehouse, WII, win, WWI
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Dracula in the Dark: Film Adaptations of Dracula
Dracula in the Dark: The Film Adaptations of Dracula By James Craig Holte, 1997 Vampires often shapshift, particularly on film. Varney The Vampyre came first, then Carmilla and then Dracula. CLASSICS 1922: Nosferatu 1931: Bella Lugosi’s Dracula 1979: Frank Langella … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Anne Rice, Bella Lugosi, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carmilla, Children of Eve, Christabell, Christopher Lee, Count Chocula, Dark Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Elizabeth Bathory, Films, Frank Langella, Gothic Romance, Greek Mythology, Has Dracula Become More Like Us or Have We Become More Like Him?, Lamia, Legia, Lenore, Lillith, Movies, My Grandpa is a Vampire, Nosferatu, Once Bitten, Salem's Lot, Satanic Rituals, The Biography of Dracula, The Bride of Corinth, The Brides of Dracula, The Castle of Otranto, The Count on Sesame Street, The Devil and the Evil Spirits of Babylonia, The Gothic Flame, The Iliad, The Interview with a Vampire, The Italian, The Land Beyond the Forest, The Lost Boys, The Monk, The Mysteries of Uldopho, The Odyssey, The Prince of Darkness, Vamprie Cop, Varney The Vampyre, Video, Yama
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