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Steve Chisnell

Wanderings On Literature and Language

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2025/09/28

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2025/09/21

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Ch 2: Hannah Arendt: “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

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2025/05/27

Reflections on the Ch. 2: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt's enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

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Ch 1: Hannah Arendt: “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

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2025/05/13

Reflections on the Ch. 1: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt's enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

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Prefaces: Hannah Arendt: “The Origins of...

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2025/04/29

Reflections on the Prefaces: And a growing Reading Guide for Arendt's enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

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Hannah Arendt: “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

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2025/04/17

Reflections and a growing Reading Guide for Arendt's enormous history of 20th century totalitarianism, and what we might need to know from it.

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Kipling’s “If” and Irony-Hunting

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2025/03/28

Where do we find irony, anyway? And how? An answer in an offer of cheese.

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Trump Executive Order Against Libraries

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2025/03/17

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Unwoven Audiobook Available Soon!

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2025/02/20

At last, the professional audiobook version is complete, with original music by Randon Myles and read by the author! Get it soon from Waywords or from wherever you find your listens.

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“The Strain” by Guillermo del Toro

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2024/11/30

What begins as a terrific premise and opening set-up for an original tale quickly devolves to action tropes and rehashed storytelling.

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“Pontypool Changes Everything” by Tony Burgess

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2024/11/27

Don't forget to put some kind of excerpt here! Use it for social media.

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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury

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2024/11/25

Beautiful, sweeping, small town American horror centered around our fear of mortality and personal unease.

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“Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin

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2024/11/23

Levin's clean and modern anesthetized prose simultaneously distances us from the possibility of horror and creates it. A novel more successful than its filmic-visual counterpart for what it blinds itself to.

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“The Edge of Running Water” by William Sloane

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2024/11/21

Sloane's novella, a hybrid cosmic horror/whodunnit, is a satisfying read, not despite of but because of his slow burn deferral to character behavior over "unspeakable horror."

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“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

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2024/11/19

The tremendous 1818 version of the tale, heady and philosophical, its principle horrors gutted by the film versions which followed.

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Predictive Text

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2024/10/24

Right now I'd rather be stupid and alive than, well, let me talk this through. But if this somehow gets to you today, it's it's Tuesday then people then get people up here, OK? I mean right now. But.

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Day 3: (re)Writing the Masters

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2024/10/22

In the film, much of this layered social critique by Wilde is instead laid at the feet of a cat. . . .

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Day 2: Price or Poe?

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2024/10/21

On their own, as a film, the changes made almost betray the claustrophobic prose of Poe’s story.

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Day 1: Which Mary Shelley?

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2024/10/19

This is it, then. Branagh may believe he is channeling Shelley, but his own dithyrambic ego prevents us from seeing her.

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Day 0: Films to Books and . . .

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2024/10/18

If I had to guess, it’s that many missed a key idea of translation to a different medium: transformation. Creating story for a poem, podcast, movie, painting, symphony, short story, campfire talk, or novel are each significantly different acts,

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