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“Onamatterpoetic” in James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939)

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

“There’s a good time coming”: Emily Dickinson, The Hutchinson Family Singers, and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes

My gradual reception of Swedish director Lasse Hallström’s work

For a writing exercise about melody, variations on the title of Paul McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby"

“Out of the blue with some cock and bull story”: Two stock phrases in Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (1967)

Drei personas parlent français, Deutsch, and español en die Stadt called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles