On being purple
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...
Category: Scribbledehobble
Notes & sources (II)
Well! And so there it is. A new story. Unlike most stories, which need at most a short headnote, what this one really wants is a bibliography. And an apparatus ...
Nightstand IV
John S. Farmer. A dictionary of slang: An alphabetical history of colloquial, unorthodox, underground and vulgar English. (1980 reprint of Slang and its analogu...
Where do stories come from?
Where do stories come from? Of course, the real answer is: You don’t want to know. But in this case I’m going to tell you anyway. One morning, towar...
Notes & sources (I)
Maybe you’ve read the story “Sinseerly A Friend & Yr. Obed’t” and maybe you wondered how much was fiction, how much was fact, and h...
Commonplace book I
But what have been thy answers, what but dark Ambiguous and with double sense deluding Which they who asked have seldom understood. MILTON If one had stu...