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	<description>Dispatches from the Lost Hat Department</description>
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		<title>Jim the Romantic {Chapter XX}</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Stein, the esteemed entomologist, Jim&#8217;s problem is an inability to match his deeds with his romantic notions. It&#8217;s not so much that he jumps ship and violates the moral code, but that he fails his own ideals.
Stein sits in a wunderkammer, surrounded by beetles and butterflies. Chapter XX takes on a gothic cast: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/28/jim-the-romantic-chapter-xx/</link>
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		<title>Ephemera, a fragment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;would that all this were truly ephemeral! How dare it live? It surrounds us, defies us, demands categorization, display, analysis. In a fit of madness we nearly decided to throw it all away. Only then would it fit its definition as ephemera (even as we lose our place as curators!). Then would we be free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/23/ephemera-a-fragment/</link>
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		<title>Jim&#8217;s guilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does Bierly jump? Why does Jim? For all the latter&#8217;s expulcation, we hardly know. We can posit that Bierly jumped because of Jim. Jim seems to stir in all sailors  conflicting feelings of guilt and duty. Everyone recognizes the wrong, yet there&#8217;s an understanding too, a recognition of the imperfection of man. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/22/jims-guilt/</link>
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		<title>Die Todesfahrt Examined!</title>
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Die Todesfahrt: The Ride to Death. Whenever we examine a new acquisition we are drawn into its drama, its interplay of symbols and themes. Immediately we look for our humanity in it. In extreme hubris we decide we are the cyclists! Yes! We circle bravely above a pit of danger for the enjoyment of others. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/15/die-todesfahrt-examined/</link>
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		<title>New Acquisition: Die Todesfahrt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newly acquired for the Museum of Unexceptional Ephemera: Die Todesfahrt. Meaning, literally, the death ride. A woodcut postcard, date unknown, probably c. 1900. Verso says &#8220;Postekarte&#8221;, has address lines and a box for a stamp, but is otherwise blank.
Rigorous analysis to follow.
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		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/11/new-acquisition-die-todesfahrt/</link>
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		<title>From one shipwreck to the next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pequod, she is sunk. The whale lives, and all are drowned except Ishmael. This should come as no surprise, as all in Moby Dick is foretold. But never mind. For more reflections on that tome, reference the moleskin in my pocket. It&#8217;s all written there.
Lord Jim, the book, is another matter. As is Lord [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2010/01/06/from-one-shipwreck-to-the-next/</link>
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		<title>(Enter Ahab, Then, all)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All visible objects, man, are but pasteboard masks,&#8221; say Ahab to Starbuck. And I think of Don Quixote&#8217;s pasteboard equivocations, his assault upon Master Pedro&#8217;s puppets. Just as the sea was bringing peace to dreamy Ishmael, the madness of Ahab errupts. It&#8217;s appropriate to bring up Quixote, but it&#8217;s Faustus who may be most convivial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/10/26/enter-ahab-then-all/</link>
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		<title>Ishmael at sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Ishmael takes to the sea, the style of narrative changes. On land a somewhat ecstatic, idiosyncratic narrator, at sea a  man of ceremony, classification, strategy, ologies. He takes to the sea to escape a kind of death. On the Pequod he is outside of himself, even omniscient. Here too he brings us his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/10/25/ishmael-at-sea/</link>
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		<title>Elegy [spoilers]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elegy, we&#8217;re told in the ending credits, is based on a Philip Roth novel called The Dying Animal. I haven&#8217;t read the novel, but I think the title is more apt and more honest than the one chosen for the cinematic adaptation. I suppose the producers thought that Roth&#8217;s title wasn&#8217;t marketable. Or that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/07/28/elegy-spoilers/</link>
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		<title>Titus in the Text</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;and that the pages that are heavy with words shall be bent in and over him, so that he is engulfed in the sere Text&#8230;&#8221;
Titus is literally in the text, wrapped in an ancient tome for his christening. I too am in the text. In Mervyn Peake&#8217;s &#8220;Titus Groan.&#8221; And for the first time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hauntedtypebox.com/blog/2009/07/21/titus-in-the-text/</link>
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