The Geecologist

A Walk On The Wild Side

A Walk On The Wild Side

Aug 11, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

‘Papers’ – the man held out his paper-taking hand without looking up. ‘Aint the newsboy,’ Dove explained. The man glanced up, then wished he hadn’t. Before him stood something in a pitch helmet off a Walgreen counter, share-croppers’ jeans, sunglasses, a dollar watch...
Proust and the Squid

Proust and the Squid

Jan 28, 2012 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Underlying the brain’s ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and...
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller

If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller

Jan 6, 2012 | Fiction | 0 comments

So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for you. In the shop window you have...
The Implied Reader

The Implied Reader

Dec 20, 2006 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The efficacy of a literary text is brought about by the apparent evocation and subsequent negation of the familiar. What at first seemed to be an affirmation of our assumptions leads to our own rejection of them, thus tending to prepare us for a re-orientation. And it...