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I find it unpleasant and offputting to spend a lot of time in Raskolnikov’s mind, but this part here is very relatable: [H]e threw himself on the sofa and sat there for a whole hour without moving… In the end he… realized with

I know that recipe cook times are lies. I’m accustomed to the belief among recipe writers that vegetables come pre-diced. I grit my teeth and bear the classic “Ok, next pan fry 6 chicken breasts. This should take, what?, 8 minutes?” I’ve been inst

I enjoyed this recent article by Sam Miller on MLB official scorers’ increasing reluctance to rule plays as errors. I especially liked that he included a set of replays at the

I’m only about halfway through Crime and Punishment so things may still come together, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how I’m meant to understand Raskolnikov’s behavior. Not the murder part, that actually makes sense in it

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I’m not, so to speak, well-versed on poetry criticism, so I’m probably not treading any new ground here (in fact, WRB joked about Housman a couple of weeks ago). But, having finished A.E.

Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow is regarded as a classic of horror writing. But on the whole, I was less than impressed. The first section has some quite good horror: “The Repairer of Reputations”, “The Mask,” “In the Court of the

While reading the Gutenberg eBook of The King in Yellow I noticed I noticed the line “that eloquent preacher and good man, Monseigneur C——.” You often see that sort of “censorship” in 19

Reading A Guidebook to the Shambles by Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman, I came across a section that is surely from Wolfe. He refers to a (fictitious) home owned by H. H. Holmes. The name sounded vaguely familiar so I looked up the reference o

If I had to summarize what Mrs. Dalloway is “about”, in a very brief form, I would say that it’s concerned with the way every person’s rough edges rub against each other and hurt the people around them. And that Clarissa, by her kindness,