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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Argento's Formal Wear
I'm to that scene in the proofreading of Life Sentence, where our heroes explore this appropriately named ruin of a store. You know, I hadn't looked over the thing in so long, I'd forgotten that scene was coming, and it kind of took me by surprise, in a good way, like "Wow, that's cool."
And there's a part where one character refers to zombies as "you people," and I hadn't even realized before how much that sounds like the racist code we sometimes use when we say "you people" or "those people." That's cool, too.
As a recent Master's graduate in the Classics who has become entirely jaded with academia, I just want to say that what you're doing is so incredibly awesome it hurts me.
LOL, well, I wouldn't want to knowingly cause another person pain, so I hope it's a "good" kind of hurt. And thanks for the encouragement. I hope you work through your jadedness, too. It's an occupational hazard, I think.
Location: Cornwall on Hudson, New York, United States
I am a professor of religious studies, and the author of several books on the Bible and theology. I grew up in New York, Virginia, and New Mexico. I attended St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (BA, 1988), Harvard Divinity School (MTS, 1990), and the University of Notre Dame (PhD, 1995). I live in upstate New York with my wife and two wonderful kids.
Starting in 2006, I had one of those strange midlife things, and turned my analysis towards horror films and literature. I have written
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor, 2006) - WINNER, 2006 Bram Stoker Award;
Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead (Permuted Press, 2007);
Orpheus and the Pearl(Magus Press, 2008); and
Dying to Live: Life Sentence(Permuted Press, 2008).
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As a recent Master's graduate in the Classics who has become entirely jaded with academia, I just want to say that what you're doing is so incredibly awesome it hurts me.
LOL, well, I wouldn't want to knowingly cause another person pain, so I hope it's a "good" kind of hurt. And thanks for the encouragement. I hope you work through your jadedness, too. It's an occupational hazard, I think.
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