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   John Metcalf. Biblioasis. 320 pages, softcover. ISBN: 9781771960847. John Metcalf’s name was once at the top of Canada’s literary blacklist. In 1989 Metcalf and another writer, Leon Rooke, co-edited The Second Macmillan Anthology. The collection included a section called “Position Papers,” in which writers outlined their aesthetic ...

2. www.azquotes.com › quotes › topicsTOP 25 COMPARISON QUOTES (of 887) | A-Z Quotes

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   • What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Lying, Adversity, Hard Times.
   • Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt. Healing, Feel Good, Joy.
   • Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others. Denis Waitley. Goal, Certain.
   • Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. Gerald Jampolsky.

3. www.enotes.com › topics › john-metcalfJohn Metcalf Criticism - Essay - eNotes.com

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   Metcalf is very good at catching what he himself calls “reverberations” and tonalities—the delicate shifts in human relationships. ... In comparison to a play, a Metcalf short story is a ...

4. www.goodreads.com › author › quotesFranz Metcalf Quotes (Author of What Would Buddha Do?)

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   What Would Buddha Do? 8 quotes from Franz Metcalf: 'remember that a gift is never deserved; if it were deserved it would be a payment. Do we wish to pay our family and friends? Of course not—so just give happily, and be happy when you too receive a gift you do not deserve.', 'It is easier to tell the truth: you don’t have to remember ...

5. partiallyexaminedlife.com › 2011/06/22 › ignoringIgnoring Metcalf’s Central Point | The Partially Examined ...

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   Jun 22, 2011 · Unfortunately, Sanchez doesn’t address Metcalf’s central point. The question is whether “liberty is the only value the state should concern itself with,” to quote another (poor, ill-conceived) critique by the Cato Institute. If the state can’t concern itself with liberty without concerning itself with other values, the libertarianism ...

6. www.enotes.com › topics › john-metcalfJohn Metcalf Criticism: Life Expectancies - Janet Giltrow ...

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   SOURCE: “Life Expectancies,” in West Coast Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, Summer, 1987, pp. 55–69. [ In the following review, Giltrow praises Metcalf's skilled use of detail in the stories ...

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   Who was John Metcalf?

   • John Metcalf’s name was once at the top of Canada’s literary blacklist. In 1989 Metcalf and another writer, Leon Rooke, co-edited The Second Macmillan Anthology. The collection included a section called “Position Papers,” in which writers outlined their aesthetic principles.

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   What is Metcalf's Canadian short story about?

   • Metcalf’s The Canadian Short Story outlines a history of the short story. In the 19th century, stories had the structure of a tale. The emphasis was on plot contrivance, which readers would follow for the pleasure of discovering what happens next.

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   Where did Metcalf's approach to literary criticism come from?

   • In explaining his preferred approach, Metcalf has often noted that it derives from 20th-century British critic Cyril Connolly. Connolly believed that literary criticism should focus on individual passages in isolation from the rest of the works in which they appear.

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   What a squalid little mind does Kafka have?

   • But when she has the temerity to mention in passing the low sales of an author published by Metcalf he snarls, “What a squalid little mind she has!” Kafka wrote that literature must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Too many of Metcalf’s later passages extend the ice rather than attack it.

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   What did Kafka say about literature?

   • Kafka wrote that literature must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Too many of Metcalf’s later passages extend the ice rather than attack it. Ten years have passed since Metcalf’s last work of non-fiction. One picks up a new work by him with a certain amount of trepidation.

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   What motivates Metcalf to write a book?

   • Rather than self-promotion, Metcalf’s real motivation is his fealty to well-written sentences above all. There is a widespread view of story collections as a kind of apprenticeship before a writer turns to novels, which sell more. Similarly, when an author dies, interest in his or her work often falls off.

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8. www.openculture.com › 2015 › 12What is the Good Life? Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, & Kant’s ...

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   With­out the luck of being born to a good fam­i­ly and with a good tem­pera­ment, the good life is hard to achieve. Mate­r­i­al com­fort, luck, good breed­ing, a youth filled with prop­er edu­ca­tion, and friends are all require­ments of the good life for Aris­to­tle, and the aver­age per­son has lit­tle con­trol over such fac­tors.