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On being purple

Posted on August 28, 2019 by TMW

Nabokov calls them “bravura passages.” Somebody else somewhere else says “tours-de-force,” which is French for “feats of strength.” Same thing. The “purple patc...

Polemics/Weaving and writhing

Capacious: In defense of digression

Posted on July 24, 2019 by TMW

Literature is capacious; it enfolds multitudes. (It unfolds multitudes.) And if, indeed, one aspires to depict the world (c.f. mimesis), how could lengthy digre...

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