About Spoken Verse: From Poet’s Musings: For about two years, a person with the alias Tom O’Bedlam has been reading poetry, animating the readings with images–often of the text itself–and uploading the audio/video to Youtube. His channel has now attracted over 1,600,000 views, which Youtube calls uploads. I should add that these are not “Tom’s” poems [...]
Literature
Walk into a used bookshop and you will encounter the unique aroma of aging books. The smell is loved by some, disliked by others, but where does it come from?
Images of famous literary characters which have been created using a commercially available law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters. In terms of image-construction itself, Davis used the forensic software program Faces ID, which gives users (creepily, incredibly) about 10,000 individual facial features to choose among. He then used the authors’ descriptions of [...]
About The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics. This collection of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind serves as the basis for a scholarly study of the metaphors and root-images appealed to by the novelists, poets, dramatists, essayists, philosophers, belle-lettrists, preachers, and [...]
How Proust Can Change Your Life Host: YouTube (each part is 10 minutes long) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 About Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known [...]
Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before [...]
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