Frankenstein, Bad?

Anyone think I should send this to the Guardian in protest? Anyone see any significant holes in it?
Germaine Greer recently wrote:
The latest sensation to galvanise the torpid lit-hist-crit establishment is the “discovery” by market research analyst John Lauritsen that Mary Shelley did not write Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (to give the novel its full [...]

Jjangguk Update

Whew. I’ve cut a little over 4,350 words from my Korean superheroes story. Since I started out with 20,500, that’s roughly 20% of the text cut.  And yes, the text is bleeding a little, even though I’ve sewn up the wounds carefully, meticulously.
I wasn’t as merciless as some of my friends suggested. One friend suggested [...]

The Shoopah Assault

I’ve got about 20 pages left to re-edit on “Jjangguk” (out of approximately 90) and so far, I’m not quite halfway towards my goal of cutting it to 15000 words. It’s hovering at just about 18000 words, from a previous total of 20,500 words. However, I think I’m getting it about as tight as [...]

Reach!

If only my students would do something this crazy once in a while:

They Didn’t React As Expected

In this fascinating piece titled Pearls Before Breakfast is discussed an experiment conducted by the Washington post regarding how people perceive music in public spaces. What happens when one of the best classical musicians in America puts on a baseball cap and goes busking in Washington, D.C.?
The article raises some really interesting questions about American [...]

The Lady Down the Hall

A lady was in the building the other day, and one of the Housing guys was showing her around, apparently to give her a choice of rooms. He actually opened my door to let her look around, and then realized we’ve occupied this room, and then hurriedly apologized — to her, not to us — [...]

Should Study a Little More

Today I had a conversation with Lime’s mother, on the phone. Here’s a rendering of it, in English, though the original conversation was in Korean:
Lime’s Mom: “Hello?”
Me: “Hello?”
Lime’s Mom: “Hi, Gord? This is Lime’s mother calling.”
Me: “Hi. Yes. I’m knowing… er, I know.”
Lime’s Mom: “How have you been?”
Me: “Fine. How going it?”
Lime’s Mom: [...]

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