MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest [...]

Au départ Bouvard et Pécuchet ne sont que des virtualités. Le système social leur a retiré la parole de telle sorte qu’ils ne sont plus capables que de copier, l’un dans l’administration, l’autre dans le commerce. Ils se remettront à la copie à la fin du livre, mais un immense chemin aura été parcouru, toute [...]

(If you’ve already looked at my last post on Little Nemo and the images were missing, please check it out again. Some of the image paths were messed up, so they didn’t appear.) When it rains it pours, I just put up that long post on Nemo and now I find my review of Flaubert’s [...]

My review of Posy Simmonds’ Gemma Bovary, an interesting comic that combines comics panels with prose, is up in the new edition of Scott Esposito’s Quarterly Conversation.