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		<title>On Two Types of Plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the elements of tragedy, said Aristotle, plot is the most important: [F]or tragedy is a representation, not of people, but of action and life, of happiness and unhappiness &#8211; and happiness and unhappiness are bound up with action. The purpose of living is an end which is a kind of activity, not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=700&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Single Review: Dean Koontz, The Moonlit Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dean koontz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle single]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the moonlit mind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect the key to Dean Koontz’s popularity can be summed up in two words which happen to be the titles of two of his novels: Breathless and Relentless. His sentences are generally short, staccato affairs. It’s all about pace. It doesn’t matter whether he’s describing a mut or a murder, he’s gonna charge you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=695&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Eagleton on Alain de Botton&#8217;s Conservative Atheism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alain de botton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry eagleton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton has written a &#8216;review&#8217; of Alain de Botton&#8217;s latest book, Religion for Atheists. In typical Eagleton style, it is less a review than a polemical destruction &#8211; reminiscent at times of arguably his greatest ever LRB essay: his &#8216;review&#8217; of The God Delusion. Here is a brief extract: ‎&#8221;The book assumes that religious beliefs are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=690&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic versus &#8216;Creative&#8217; Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on this novel has reconfirmed what I already knew: my natural disposition is obsessiveness. When I work on a particular project, I have to be able to immerse myself in it completely, chip away at it for hours on end, day after day, with minimum interruption. Even when I’m not working on it directly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=685&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Updike Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben myers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john updike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maples stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paris review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As well as reading my first Amazon Kindle Single ready for review next week, I&#8217;ve also been reading John Updike&#8217;s short story collection, The Maples Stories. The juxtaposition between the bestselling Kindle Single and Updike&#8217;s stylistic prowess is dramatic indeed. It&#8217;s led me to return to a few articles on Updike that I&#8217;ve enjoyed over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=682&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Poor Prose&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/thoughts-on-tolkiens-poor-prose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1961]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flaubert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john banville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poor prose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, The Guardian reported that in 1961 the Nobel jury considered C. S. Lewis’s request for Tolkien to be awarded the prize but ultimately decided against it on the grounds of his “poor prose” which &#8220;has not in any way measured up to storytelling of the highest quality”. This is an unusual claim. What tends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=679&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Blue Guitars Now on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/thinking-blue-guitars-now-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking Blue Guitars now has its own Facebook Page. If you don&#8217;t want the hassle of following the blog via Google Reader or RSS feed, then simply &#8220;like&#8221; the page and you&#8217;ll receive all blog updates directly to your Facebook news feed. You&#8217;ll also receive links to literary, political and theological articles which I find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=676&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Singles Book Review Series</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/kindle-singles-book-review-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle singles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent most of my adult life as a student and scholar of literature. This has its advantages, in that I’ve read a fair amount of what is deemed “high literature”. But it also has its disadvantages, such as that I’ve had less time for more popular authors like Stephen King, Dean Koontz or Suzanne [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=673&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Time of Writing</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-time-of-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confessions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul ricoeur]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing takes time. It demands that you acquiesce to the passing of the minutes and the hours. There is a time of writing, but there is also a time in writing. The first kind of time is the time it takes to do the basic sitting down and actually getting on with the novel: plotting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=666&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Critic and the Writer; or, the Labour of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fact and fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poiesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[techne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a novel is a painful process. If there were ever such a thing as a Muse then she certainly isn’t whispering in my ear. Between divine afflatus and sublunary deflation il n&#8217;y a qu’un pas. And part of the reason for this general pain of writing, this labour of writing &#8211; that which makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=661&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing a First Novel</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/writing-a-first-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literary masterpiece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new year's resolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many self-deluding fools, my new year’s resolution for 2012 is to write my first novel. Unlike many self-deluding fools, however, I’m announcing this publicly. There’s a very simple reason for this: a public announcement means that I can be held to account for what I said I was going to do; in other words, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=637&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Biblical Alex Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-biblical-alex-ferguson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For someone not raised as a practising Christian, a first encounter with the Bible is almost inevitably an anti-climax. If you’re used to reading realist or modernist novels, whose complex hypotactical sentence-structures go unnoticed because they are the very life-blood of what you think of as ‘normal writing’; and if you have even the slightest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=624&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of a Melancholy-Apocalyptic Tone Newly Adopted in American Culture</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/of-a-melancholy-apocalyptic-tone-newly-adopted-in-american-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apocalyptic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lana del rey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thesis of this blog post is fairly simple: Lana del Rey’s “Video Games” is a cultural symptom of the demise of the American Empire. Her very name is an amalgam of the golden-age Hollywood actress, Lana Turner, and of the 1980s Latin American cult automobile, the Ford Del Rey. The video for her song [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=618&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quality of Autumn Light</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/the-quality-of-autumn-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year or so ago I came across the following passage in Thomas Hardy: The gray tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day’s close, though the degree of their shade may be the same. In the twilight of morning, light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening, it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=614&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Rilke and Love</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/on-rilke-and-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duino elegies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rilke]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Duino Elegies are a sequence of exquisite variations on the theme of the intersection of finitude and infinity, of beings and Being. Humans for Rilke are dark scars on a blissful self-present landscape; their self-consciousness &#8211; shadows chasing shadows &#8211; sunders them from nature and from themselves. As desiring, temporal creatures, they are always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8159549&amp;post=611&amp;subd=thinkingblueguitars&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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