3: Fifty-One Jokers and an Ace
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Desperate Romantic: My Life as a Stalker (A Lamentably True Story)
Posted in Acts of devotion, Love letters, Observation, Real Men with tags Bali, Cat's Eye, Dandenong Ranges, Margaret Atwood, orgasm, Pornography, sanity, Thailand, Yarra Valley on November 23, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
A Review of a Book I Have Only Half-Finished
Posted in Reading with tags Alice in Wonderland, All the Pretty Horses, Cat's Eye, Cormac McCarthy, Dance Dance Dance, Dolphin Hotel, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, K, Margaret Atwood, The Sheep Man on November 11, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Haruki Murikami’s Dance Dance Dance has one of the best first pages I have read, but I’m still going to give it away.
The novel opens as follows: Continue reading
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Sam's Comment, or Showing Jarrod Who's Boss
Posted in Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, A Room of One's Own, Betty Friedan, Cat's Eye, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, Dermott Brereton, George Negus, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Henry Handel-Richardson, Judith Herman, Malcolm X, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Wolf, Sam De Brito, The Beauty Myth, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Lost Boys, Tim Winton, Virginia Woolf, Wilbur Smith, Yumi Stynes on March 5, 2012 by Jarrod BoyleEvery time a woman responds to something I have written on this blog relating to feminism, she claims she can’t understand it [see ‘Why I do Not Call Myself a Feminist]. I think Sam’s comment, however, is the most astute and insightful I have received here. I wanted to feature it as a post in its own right – because of its perspicacity, but also because I guess I need to talk about the grinding of this particular axe. Continue reading
