Monthly Archives: May 2012

Taxi Driver: the shape of things to come

IMDb rating: 8.5/10 My rating: 8/10 Having talked about the subject of mental health in my post about One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and who gets to call whom insane, I find myself confronted with similar issues in the … Continue reading

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One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest: for the mental patient in all of us

Last night on Paul’s History of Cinema Festival Kimmie and I watched One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, released in November 1975 and winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Picture, among other honors. Directed by Milos Forman, the … Continue reading

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channeling a master

Today something a bit different. Recently, while studying Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett, I’ve been doing exercises in copying and imitation. The copying has been straight-up literal copying, in longhand, of paragraphs written by … Continue reading

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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student by Edward P. J. Corbett My rating: 5 of 5 stars This college textbook, first published in 1965, is much more than a mere aid for students trying to learn how to come up … Continue reading

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