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Author Archives: kilian
Lost and Found
I can’t even remember the last time I posted here. The standard reasons I have offered in the past can be brought out and beaten (though they are long since dead), yet again: kids, teaching, bookmines, exhaustion. It remains to … Continue reading
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This Week in Normality — Parents and Children
The original, defacto, theme was “Father’s and Son’s” for reasons I won’t go into now. Suffice it to say, I felt a more inclusive theme was fitting. For the last week or so I’ve been picking my way through Manhood … Continue reading
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This Week in Normality (Short Edition) — Heroism
This week’s (shortened) theme was inspired by the following story: Driving home from Yankee Stadium last night, drunk with power (and champagne!), Girardi stopped to help an accident victim, even though each World Series winner is specifically granted the right … Continue reading
This Week in Normality — Things Change, Things Remain the Same…
Greetings Faithful Normalinauts, Consider this week an unofficial/official/unofficial again reboot…sort of. Some time ago we (read: I) decided to start posting content at the beginning of the week to afford the weekend time to write stuff and, theoretically, allow for … Continue reading
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Tagged Random Normality, Things Change Things Stay the Same
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Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians,” or More Inventiveness than I Have
I have long been aware of who Lev Grossman was, author of the bestselling novel The Codex, and general “nerd” blogger for Time, he seems to have, essentially, the life I desire. That said, I had not read any of … Continue reading
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Tagged kilian, Lev Grossman, The Magicians, Things Change Things Stay the Same
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I’m Told There is a Storm, and That It May or May Not Be Gathering
I bought Knife of Dreams the day it came out in 2005. Even though I was in graduate school, and should have been reading my homework, I finished the book in just a few days. I had been waiting for … Continue reading
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Sordid Confessions Continue, or The Vampire Diaries
I have made a habit of admitting on this website many things that I am ashamed of…or things that I think I should have some amount of shame attached. I am, by nature, one who is not prone to shame … Continue reading
