Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Readings for The Diary of Anne Frank

Readings for Anne Frank's Diary

The First Entry: Sunday, 14 June, 1942 (p. 1)
Monday, 15 June, 1942 (p. 2)
Saturday, 20 June, 1942 (p. 2)
Saturday, 20 June, 1942 (p. 5)

*skip

Thursday, 9 July, 1942 (p. 16)

*skip

Tuesday, 4 April, 1944 (p. 196)
Friday, 14 April, 1944 (p. 208)
Saturday, 15 April, 1944 (p. 209)
Sunday morning, just before eleven o'clock 16 April, 1944 (p. 210)

*skip

Saturday, 8 July, 1944 (p. 256)
Saturday, 15 July, 1944 (p. 259)
Friday, 21 July, 1944 (p. 264)
The Last Entry: Tuesday, 1 August, 1944 (p. 265)

Monday, February 3, 2014

Some Gene Wolfe Quotations...

Link to Wastelands page:
http://www.johnjosephadams.com/wastelands/authors/gene-wolfe/


i09 Interview:

http://io9.com/5736063/gene-wolfe-talks-dystopian-futures-and-the-chances-of-star+drive-in-our-lifetime

"I've heard some really nutty theories about my stories — I won't name names, but there's some real screwball stuff going on out there."


Interview with Neil Gaiman:
http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Issue09/GaimanWolfe.html

NG: “What’s the most important thing about fiction?” 
      GW: “The most important thing is that it assures the reader that things need not be as they are now. In other words, the most important thing is hope. 

From Wikiquote:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

  • Just as mainstream literature shows us how our contemporaries view the present, and historical fiction shows us how they view the past (not, of course, what the present or the past were actually like), so speculative fiction shows us how they view the future. I happen to believe that my contemporaries' view of the past is not very important; but their view of the present is quite definitely important, and their view of the future is vital.
    • "The Right of Things to Come", presentation for the Science Fiction Research Association (1978), as published in Castle of Days (1992)

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