Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl is a monstrosity, truly and unabashedly so. It is a stitching together of texts, contexts, time periods, realities and, crucially, a “patchwork” body. It descends, or is resurrected, from the Frankenstein tradition, but Jackson makes even more explicit those monstrous themes that pervade Mary Shelley’s work. While the Frankenstein story [...]
All posts for the month March, 2011
Patchwork Girl
Posted by Kathleen on March 31, 2011
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Temple Grandin
This week I finally got to watch Temple Grandin, the HBO biopic starring Claire Danes. It was, if I may resort to using an unimaginative pun, simply grand-in. I highly recommend it to anyone who classifies him- or herself as a human. The story is touching, amazing, and presented in a very sensitive way. [...]
Posted by Kathleen on March 31, 2011
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The Big Sleep
Uh-huh. I’m a very smart guy. I haven’t a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whiskey, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole [...]
Posted by Kathleen on March 22, 2011
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Finished!
So, I finished the scarf I’ve been working on since about January. I’m not really sure if it’s for an actual-size person—although, in fact, I intended it for an above-actual-size person—but various yarn (and weather) considerations compelled me to finish it now. (I just wasn’t sure my boyfriend would appreciate this gift in July!) All [...]
Posted by Kathleen on March 8, 2011
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