Author: cydnithompson

  • Godzilla Returning to His Roots

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    By Alira Cohen Monsters are important. You might laugh at this statement, but it’s true. I first realized this when I was eight years old watching the 1956 American cut of Ishiro Honda’s “Gojira,” a cautionary tale about nuclear war. In spite of the American cut’s obvious efforts to soften the blow of the message…

  • Virginia and Vita: Star-Crossed Lovers in Literature

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    By Kay Mancino Have you ever read a book by Virginia Woolf? Your professor may have handed you a copy of The Waves and asked you to write a five-page paper. Maybe you stumbled across Mrs. Dalloway in your hometown library and decided to pick it up. Perhaps you watched the film Orlando because you…

  • On Commonplace Poetry

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    By Cydni Thompson “Full of beads and receipts and dolls and   cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.”  Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Bean Eaters”   What defines the average life is a series of routines, mundanities, and commonplace objects. What life does not include a phone, a bed, a faucet, a blanket, a house; the filth that…