False Positive: Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain & Don DeLillo’s Underworld

An idiosyncratic yet interesting essay by Deron Bauman in Elimae seems to suggest that Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo’s recent epics (Cities of the Plain & Underworld respectively) are so bloated and sylistically tired that they call their earlier, better work into question. At least I think that’s what Bauman is arguing. My chops for […]

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Chaos well underway

Well, the server change happened, though it appears I’ve lost my images. I have them on various computers, etc.. but like an idiot I didn’t do a comprehensive backup. Serves me right, though it will also spur me on to a comprehensive redesign… Hopefully I can get at it quickly. I apologise for the mess.

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Major upheaval ahead…

After some consideration, I’ve decided against having a full-blown nervous breakdown, and instead have signed up for a fairly significant server upgrade for my personal web pages. It should be just as much fun. In any event, I’m advised that my site may disappear briefly sometime in the next couple of days, as I will […]

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