Category Archives: sff

Get the Hnakkr!

I’m rereading Snorri’s Edda and Tacitus’ Historiae in tandem, and it’s an interesting experience. With Snorri, this involves a lot of adventures in the dictionary, as the vocabulary of Old Icelandic is definitely less familiar to me than the vocabulary … Continue reading

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Fahrenheit 101

“You don’t have to burn books if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, nonknowers.”–Ray Bradbury

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Lang Story Short: Lang’s WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956)

The movie I watched tonight while mostly avoiding exercise was Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps (1956), a melodrama about newspapermen, and the women who sort love them sometimes, during the hunt for a serial killer. I was hoping for … Continue reading

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