Dog names can be inspired by poetry, as with Keats, Yeats, and Poem or Poetry themselves. Strong characters from contemporary books turned TV shows are also favored literary names for dogs, such as Aria, Khaleesi, and Snow. Literary dog names you might consider include the following, ordered...
which sinks in a whirlpool. This comparison alludes to the idea of the fated storyteller, with both Ishmael and the mariner’s survival necessitated by the need for them to go on and tell the story of their impious ships. In both cases, this role as storyteller is tied up with a Christ...
Mary Miller’s “Baby/Hon” deals with identity more explicitly. Hovering between poetry and prose, it begins “Already he is baby / and I am hon / and he’s in my bed…” This business, these pet names, is not at all unfamiliar. What’s interesting about Miller’s piece is the wa...
55、It’s not that you become autonomous by choosing your name: names always carry historical weight and are subject to the uses others will make of them in the future. 56、First, how to think about the shaping role of language 57、Third, how should one conceive of the relation between ...
loads of suspense or heart pulling tales of love, do that. If you want to explore the genesis of a character’s intense hatred for his mother and small dogs in handbags using Candide as your template, do that. Screw the critics, what do they know about the ecstasy of creating anyway?
Though the novel is about the man, the title refers to a street where they lived for a while and the use of street names rather than diary entries or even artworks, inscribes the neighbourhood into history, creating a different kind of legacy, one that will last longer than any man or ...
and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I coul...
& I fumble the routine as I ready for work, my brain still processing half-remembered dreams, pre-dawn coffee. I am forgetting things, distracted by the exhaustion of trying to find an accurate name. it’s a pleasure sounding Latin names in the seed catalog: ...
Business names offer fertile opportunities for egg corns, for (real) example a clothing alterations shop called 'Sew What' ('So What'); a flame grill fast food restaurant called 'Hindenburger' (a darkly ironic reference to the Hindenburg German airship inferno disaster of 1937); a gardener ...
With the title Love Is Blind the Boyd Reader knows we are in for pretty much the same journey. Central character here is Brodie Moncur (Boyd generally manages wonderful names). Moncur, who has an uneasy relationship with his domineering, irascible clergyman father, is a gentler soul. He is...