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Fruitcake Weather
It’s always the same: a morning arrives in late November, and my friend, as though officially inaugurating the Christmas time of year that exhilarates her imagination and fuels the blaze of her heart, announces: “It’s fruitcake weather! Fetch our buggy. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Christmas, Cultural Leitmotifs, Reflections
Tagged A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Memory, Charles Dickens, Christmas, Fruitcake, Holiday, Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas, The Life Book of Christmas, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Truman Capote, Washington Irving
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Frankenstein
It seems a natural segue from all this talk of my obsessive preoccupation with body parts to a story about putting those parts together to create something new. And as I suggested — even if a bit obliquely — in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cultural Leitmotifs, Heroes, Monsters, Movies, Music, Reflections
Tagged Antony & The Johnsons, Antony Hegarty, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, Carl Laemmle Jr., Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger, Frankenstein, Hope There's Someone, I Am A Bird Now, James Whale, Mary Shelley
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