writer, reader, traveler
A look at two parallel ways Twain uses folklore and superstition in his works, and what this split says about the author himself.
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When Pokemon GO! released in the summer of 2016, it wasn’t my first encounter with a breed of monsters and ghosts unlike any elsewhere in the world: yōkai, the supernatural creatures of Japanese folklore…
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“If we’re going to do this,” Lamar said, “the best way is by water…”
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Ron Holbrooke was strangling her…
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Dark eyes, half-hid by the glare on his wire-frame glasses, and a bristly white mustache…
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“I don’t know how you can drink that in this heat,” Devin mused…
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Lamar’s Rio slid into the lot of a dive on the edge of town, some three or four miles up Sixty-one…
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The stranger thrust them on in short strokes, stabbing the creek with his paddle like a heron spearing fish…
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It was nearing five o’clock and the breeze, muted here beneath the pines, carried the smell of the marsh…
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It was a sound he might have heard any night on the edge of the woods, machete in hand, bent from cutting bamboo from the slope beyond the highway…
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Especially in The Lord of the Rings, medieval ideas of nature — from its decline and hostility to culture, to its own suffering alongside us — color Tolkien’s writing, where they ultimately develop into a reconciliation between wilderness and hearth…
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I spit — salt on my lips, thick on my tongue, and sand, and something worse…
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Drew climbs out of the truck and whistles as heat blankets him…
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