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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 2
Keaton, Carrington, and Milligan all encounter a similar type of crisis in their ability to pursue their art. The effect on them as creative individuals, and their attempts at solutions, however, are very different. For Keaton, it’s the encroachment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Buster Keaton, Hector Boece, Historia Gentis Scotorum, Holinshed, John Bellenden, Leonora Carrington, MacBeth, Shakespeare, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, The Goon Show, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1
(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy
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The Great Moc Gonagall
Norman Watson, Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall (Birlinn) One of the first books of poetry I remember from my childhood is listed in the bibliography to this new life of William McGonagall, the enigmatic purveyor of bad verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Buster Keaton, Byron, D.C.Thomson, Douglas Dunn, Hamish Henderson, Lowden Macartney, Peter Quince, Reverend George Gilfillan, Robert Burns, Robert Tannahill, Shakespeare, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, Weekly News, William McGonagall
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