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Musings on life, literature, film, music and comics by the Mad Swede.
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To Seem or Not to Seem: On the Concept of Verisimilitude
In my last post ("A Not So Invisible Man: On H. G. Wells"), I briefly mentioned the term verisimilitude; a term I already brought up at the end of "Leaps of the Imagination" (posted way back in June), then promising to return to the term and the conc...
A Not So Invisible Man: On H. G. Wells
Having just finished The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (having previously read an omnibus edition with The Time Machine and The War of the World), I thought it worthwhile to talk about him and his work, not to mention his importance for the genre of s...
First Lines Quiz #2 — Music: And the Correct Answers Are...
1. Genesis, "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight"2. Muse, "Supermassive Black Hole"3. Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust"4. Pink Floyd, "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1"5. Porcupine Tree, "Fear of a Blank Planet"6. David Bowie, "Ashes to Ashes"7. Mari...
First Lines Quiz #2 — Music
Back in August, I did a First Lines Quiz inspired by my friend Lazy over at Lazy's Library. Then (as in Lazy's inspirational case) the challenge was to recognise from which book (by which author) the first lines in question were taken.This time, howe...
Some Thoughts on Genre
I promised in a previous post to talk a little about genre...Genre is many things, it would seem.Roughly speaking, I would say that there are two major different types of genre: content genres and format genres. Perhaps this is more than a bit simpli...
A Grizzly Story or a Disney Story: Thoughts on Herzog\'s Grizzly Man
Last evening, I watched Werner Herzog's documentary Grizzly Man, about bear lover and fanatic (for want of a better word) Timothy Treadwell. The film, made by Herzog in 2005, is composed mainly from the the over 100 hours of video filmed by Treadwell...
