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Ben Lillie: Story notes #1 -- End at the end

benlillie:

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(We’re writing a big “What is a Story Collider story?” piece, but it’s a big, unruly monster and taking a long time. So for now I’m going to write up one at a time some of the common notes we give about stories.)

When your story is over, stop.

Or, as Lewis Carroll put it, “Begin at the…

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As Open Culture explains, this rare 1924 recording of Joyce reading from the Aeolus episode of the novel was arranged and financed by his friend and publisher Sylvia Beach, who brought him by taxi to the HMV (His Master’s Voice) gramophone studio in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. She writes in her memoir, Shakespeare & Company:

Joyce had chosen the speech in the Aeolus episode, the only passage that could be lifted out of Ulysses, he said, and the only one that was “declamatory” and therefore suitable for recital. He had made up his mind, he told me, that this would be his only reading from Ulysses.

I have an idea that it was not for declamatory reasons alone that he chose this passage from Aeolus. I believe that it expressed something he wanted said and preserved in his own voice. As it rings out–”he lifted his voice above it boldly”–it is more, one feels, than mere oratory.

Pair with these rare 1935 illustrations for Ulysses by none other than Henri Matisse. 

francavillarts:

   I have been tinkering recently with a ElseWorlds story/take on Batman set in that 70s styling. So, from the pages of PULP SUNDAY, I give you BATMAN 1972!

   To keep him in “the part”, my Batman smokes, wear a leather coat and a turtleneck, and drives a cool 70s BatMobile (an OldsMobile maybe? ;) I still need to decide on brand and model.

   Of course, as usually it happens in these cases, I start to flesh out all the other characters/stars of the story. Pictured above we have Selina Kyle, aka Foxy CATWOMAN, Lieutenant Jim Gordon (with period appropriate ‘stache ;)) and Ed Nygma AKA The Riddler.

   Yes, you are witnessing the first case of BATPLOITATION. Hope ya dig it.

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Consider that you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato.

The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

—NASA Lunar Science Institute, We Originated in the Belly of a Star, 2012. (via setbabiesonfire)

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natecosboom:

September:

KINGS WATCH #1 by JEFF PARKER, MARC LAMING, ADAM STREET & SIMON BOWLAND. Cover by MARC LAMING and CHRIS SOTOMAYOR. Variant by RAMON PEREZ. Edited by me.


FLASH GORDON, THE PHANTOM & MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN fight stuff to save the world. Pretty tubular.

This looks killer, I’m in.

Heck yes.

mrjakeparker:

jakewyattriot:

I been sick, y’all.  Powerful sick.  But I’m well enough to draw again.

Getting back into it with a pass at my friend Jake Parker’s Space Skull.  Parker’s kickstarting a sketchbook full of fine drawings with this guy on the cover, and you’ve got a week left to go pick it up.

I’m gonna go work on that last Necropolis test, see if I can get through it tonight.

-Jake Wyatt

Love it Jake….LOVE it.