Muriel Spark’s, The Comforters. A Postmodern Religious Fable.
In 1955, Muriel Spark wrote her first novel The Comforters reluctantly. She believed that novels are low forms of representation.
I was asked to write a novel, and I didn’t think much of novels—I thought it was an inferior way of writing. So I wrote a novel to work out the technique [...]
The Top Ten Best Albums from the 1960s. The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, et al.
Just For Fun
Just for fun, and since I like lists, I thought I would share what I think are the best albums from the 1960s. It is both an objective and a subjective list. The repetition of certain groups shows my leanings, I suppose. In my head, I have the next ten, and the next [...]
MUSIC
Ironically, although I have dedicated my life to the interpretation and teaching of literature, I enjoy music more than reading. I hungrily accumulate and listen to music. I also play the piano, guitar (electric and acoustic) and keyboard. Since I was in middle school, I have enjoyed writing music, or, what I call pop pieces [...]
Ringing in the New Year with Bugs Bunny
Instead of waking up this morning to the opening score to Sponge Bob Square Pants, I suddenly had a flashback to the Saturday mornings of my childhood in the 1970s, sitting in front of a big furniture style color TV on a shag carpet as I heard the forever familiar opening score of Warner Brothers [...]
THE DISSERTATION: The Fear of Bringing it to an End.
Christmas is drawing to an end. The Christmas tree droops. The cookies grow stale. The leftovers in the refrigerator must soon be tossed.
The presents once neatly under the tree now scatter in various pieces and parts across the living room floor.
Holiday music on Comcast Digital Cable lingers only to maintain the flagging spirit.
So now that [...]
iPOD, iTOUCH, CHRISTMAS and Infinite Music Choices
Never before has the consumer had so many choices for music.
My son wants a G3 Macintosh laptop. He’s not getting one. And he knows it, so I am going to get his next all time request, the Apple iTouch. But I’ve been cryptic with him about whether or not this gift will show up under [...]
The Kinks New 6-CD Box-Set and the Rarities CD I Want
The Kinks Picture Book, their first CD box-set was released on December 8th with great anticipation and celebration. Compiled by Ray Davies himself, a whopping 138 songs comprise 6 CDs that span, for better or worse, the band’s 40 year career. Anthologizing their entire career is one of the biggest drawbacks of the box-set. You [...]
ABOUT MACSINCLAIR
–For issues of literature and music written with some levity, check out my pages above “Literature,” “Music,” “Literary Criticism.” I have started adding material.
I am a pixilated professor of a small northeastern college somewhere between New York and Boston, who suffers frequently from delusions that I can somehow change the world with my vast knowledge [...]
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