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    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
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    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
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    • The Subjective Microscope
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Category: Horror

DVDs, Skepticism, and Politics

Diary 7/5 to 7/6/22: Movies on DVD; why I'm a skeptic; getting a little preachy; unable to "find the penguin"; shredding by hand; Democrats; no Dr. Strange DVD at Walmart.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Philosophy, Diary, Book Reviews, Quotes, Movie Reviews, Politics, Psychology, Horror, Pretty girls/women Leave a comment July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 6 Minutes

Buying Books and…Mckenna Grace?

Diary 5/16 to 5/17/22: The King's Speech; Ghostbusters Afterlife; psyllium again; religion books; more shelves? getting rid of Pathfinder; Russell Brand; a nightmare; typographical erorrs in history; Oliver La Farge.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Horror, Internet links, Literature, Movie Reviews, Music Leave a comment May 17, 2022May 27, 2022 6 Minutes

Meal Replacement and Digital Thermometers

Diary, 5/1/22 continued: Caitlin Johnstone and our Ministry of Truth; suicidal children; how much do you want to know? Organic shake problems; thermometers that take batteries; longevity diet; The Haunting DVD.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Environmental, Health, Horror, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Politics, Veganism Leave a comment May 1, 2022 6 Minutes

Emma, etc.: Diary, 11/19 to 12/1/21

Jerry Brown quote; neurotransmitters; The Philosophy Club novel; Hap the Crystalwright novel; many movies, some TV; versions of Jane Austen's Emma compared a bit.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Horror, Movie Reviews, Novel in Progress, Old Age, Philosophy Novel, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment December 1, 2021 5 Minutes

In My Skin: Diary, 11/14 to 11/18/21

Novel writing; Pickwick Papers quotes; lie/lay? Movies; drug companies; Lincoln; Durant book and others; phthisis.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Health, Horror, Movie Reviews, Novel in Progress, Novelist Notes, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment November 18, 2021December 18, 2021 7 Minutes

The Philosophy Club: Diary, 11/8 to 11/14/21

"My new novel"; choosing to believe; my background; dreams; Saw franchise; nausea and gastritis; Cells; Marvel's Eternals; Herbert Read quote; critique group.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Health, Hemlock Club, Horror, Memory, Movie Reviews, Novelist Notes, Philosophy, Quotes, The Writing Life Leave a comment November 14, 2021 6 Minutes

Whole Brain BS: Diary, 11/5 to 11/7/21

Pollyanna Grows Up; movies; Hallmark crap; Taylor's book, Whole Brain Living; Hemlock Club meeting; the "lump of ignorance"; constipation; Power vs Force book is BS.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Hemlock Club, Horror, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-therapy, The Writing Life Leave a comment November 7, 2021 6 Minutes

Jill Bolte Taylor: Diary, 11/1 to 11/4/21

Self-mastery; play and writing; Black Widow, Office Killer (with Carol Kane), Strange Girls, and other DVDs; Hallmark nonsense; four brains in our heads.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Creativity, Diary, Horror, Movie Reviews, Neuroscience, Novelist Notes, Psychology, The Writing Life Leave a comment November 5, 2021 6 Minutes

Getting Serious: Diary 10/26 to 10/31/21

Herman Melville portrait

Dreams; Chucky; memory failure; probation; Hemlock Club failure; impressed by two books; Herman Melville.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Bullet Journal, Diary, Dreams, Health, Hemlock Club, Horror, Literature, Memory, Novelist Notes, Quotes Leave a comment November 1, 2021 7 Minutes

“Red Shoes” Diary, 9/13 to 9/19/21

Free car? Cindy Crabb, Nietzsche, and Cioran quotes; movies; Red Shoes on PBS; the missing pen mystery; final edit of my book!

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Diary, Dreams, Horror, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Old Age, Philosophy, Quotes 1 Comment September 20, 2021 7 Minutes

Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21

In which I argue with, or go beyond, quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, Walter Kaufmann, and Bertrand Russell. Plus movie review and Hemlock Club notes and the usual blather.

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Rewriting Lessons: Diary, 9/6 to 9/10/21

Dreams; books and movies; "hopefully"; Dickens and Camus quotes; Matrix: Resurrections; twitter quote; rewriting lessons.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Authors, Book Reviews, Diary, Dreams, Horror, Humor, Movie Reviews, Quotes, Twitter stuff, Writing theory Leave a comment September 10, 2021 8 Minutes

Club Notes: Diary, 9/2 to 9/5/21

Bad movies reviewed; Nietzsche's Gay Science; John Cleese book; Hemlock Club discussion of Gandhi, Napoleon, Tolstoy, and Meaning of Life; Pablo's sadness; bedbugs slaughtered.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Diary, Hemlock Club, Horror, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Quotes Leave a comment September 5, 2021 6 Minutes

Good & Evil & Movies: Diary, 8/28 to 9/1/21

Horror & other DVDs; Nietzsche quote leading to good and evil muddle; nothing else worth a mention.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Horror, Literature, Movie Reviews, Philosophy, Quotes Leave a comment September 1, 2021 7 Minutes

Olivia Cooke: Diary, 8/22 to 8/27/21

Pixie, Summerland, Climax, a dozen movies; Pablo goes to San Jose (knew the way); rethinking that friendship (again); not much else.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Horror, Mature Adults Only, Movie Reviews Leave a comment August 28, 2021 7 Minutes

Ballet and Dracula: Diary, 8/6 to 8/15/21

Blocked by Oliver; Stigmata DVD; Hemlock Club meetings; editing woes; did Ma want a girl instead of me? Reading Tod Browning's Dracula; a dozen movies dissed; book splurge.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Dreams, Hemlock Club, Horror, Kick Me, Memory, Movie Reviews, My childhood, Nonfiction Book in Progress, The Writing Life Leave a comment August 15, 2021 8 Minutes

More Movies: Diary, 8/4 to 8/5/21

Reading Sartre; editing Kick Me; Goethe quotes, one about Faust; movie reviews including Hanna, Walled In, and The Inheritance (2011).

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, Horror, Kick Me, Literature, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Quotes Leave a comment August 6, 2021 6 Minutes

Movie Binge: Diary 7/28 to 8/3/21

Faulty memory, a toothache, work on Kick Me, a dream, Lin Yutang quotes, depression, Twitter, and twelve movies reviewed briefly; not much else.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Depression, Diary, Dreams, End of the World, Horror, Memory, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Quotes Leave a comment August 3, 2021 8 Minutes

Steppenwolf: Diary, 7/23 to 7/27/21

Hesse's Steppenwolf; "Hollywood Comedy Legends" and other movies; progress on Kick Me; reading as a writer; muddle-headed versus simple-minded distinction.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Book Reviews, Diary, Horror, Kick Me, Literature, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, Philosophy, Writing theory Leave a comment July 27, 2021 11 Minutes

Movies: Diary, 6/26 to 6/30/21

Hemlock Club report, Color Out of Space, Phantasm III-V, and Finding Forrester reviews, working on Kick Me, climate catastrophe, not much else, edited to remove dross.

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Alan Carl Nicoll Diary, End of the World, Environmental, Horror, Kick Me, Movie Reviews, Nonfiction Book in Progress, The Writing Life Leave a comment July 2, 2021 5 Minutes

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  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • Know Thyself: A Personal Essay
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
    • Poetry Sketchbook
    • Amateur Haiku

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