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Knotted Brows and Sullen Moaners

March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog When you’re alive, there’s plenty to be bitter about. It is very dull to sit down expecting a lease from life and […]

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There is an Award For The Worst Intro Paragraph to a Novel

May 23, 2023October 2, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse BlogEvery year, writers from around the world submit their entries to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; the prize is a pittance, but the winner […]

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Matthew Hopkins: Witches, 1644

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt “Glorious night to meet the lips, to do penance” spoke the cloaked figure of an elderly woman to three more veiled forms who uttered brief means of […]

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Thoughts on Plague Literature

August 30, 2021September 6, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt In Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947), the narrator comments that ‘there have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people […]

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The Case for Dreams

June 11, 2021October 25, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt During his imprisonment, Socrates supposedly composed some lyrics, something he had never bothered himself with before. Puzzled by this behavior, his friend Cebes asked him on the […]

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Homage to Samuel Beckett

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt There is a myth from Ancient Greece – containing a well-known proverb that reverberated in Greek thought. It involves the creature Silenus, the teacher of the wine […]

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On Walking or Psychogeography

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt I started walking because there was nothing else to do. Walking, I had found, was one way to disperse those sobering complaints of everyday tasks, leaving blind, […]

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