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My book cover for Professor Howe in the top box has arrived across the pond. Shipping out next month. Doctor Who/James Bond parody. Link in bio. Money goes to charity. #NESSHEAD #professorhowe #doctorwho #whovian #doctorwhofandom #jamesbond #007 #timelord #tardis #parody #bookcover #bookcoverart #bookcoverartist #artist #artista #artiste #atisuto #artlife #funkofamily #funkofunatic #artoninstagram #book https://www.instagram.com/p/CaaBI9hJIwB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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My next book cover coming out in March. Doctor Who parody with a James Bond theme. #NESSHEAD #professorhowe #doctorwho #whovian #jamesbond #007 #timelord #tardis #parody #bookcover #bookcoverart #artist #artista #artiste #atisuto #artlife #artoninstagram #funkofamily https://www.instagram.com/p/CZmsasKpJmd/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Freud: The Uncanny

I’m a psych major, so I am quite familiar with Freud. I have mixed feelings about the man. Some of his theories are incredibly useful (the unconscious) but others are utterly absurd. However, I did find his piece The Uncanny very interesting. It is an idea that seems a little weird at first, but after discussing it in class and getting a little more insight, I really understand and agree (to some extent) with his ideas on the subject. At the very least, it is fascinating to consider how this piece can be applied to other things we have read in class - particularly, Twilight and New York Trilogy. My interest in the two stories was renewed after thinking about them in a new light, and I am very excited to do our final project now that I have a new way of thinking.

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The Locked Room

I definitely liked this story the best of the three. It was fun to see the connections and to feel like you are searching for Fanshawe along with the author. This story felt very psychological to me (i.e. the locked room in the narrator’s mind) and as psychology is my major, this story became much more interesting to me. However, it also frustrated me. I really do not like books that don’t have a definitive answer, and Auster is all about not giving an answer. Cliffhangers drive me nuts. I don’t want to make up  my own ending, I want to know what actually happens (and by actually I mean in the author’s fictional world...I know it’s fiction.) I did like trying to decipher who was who between the three stories. In class, for my presentation, I did not even touch upon the characters from Ghosts, as I am still so confused by that story. While I did enjoy the last story, I am so frustrated with the entire book and will definitely stay away from mystery novels for a while. 

P.S. So looking forward to Freud!!!

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I would like to talk about my favorite quote of the story.

“Blue realizes there is no end to the stories he can tell. For Black is no more than a kind of blankness, a hole in the texture of things, and one story can fill this hole as well as any other.”

To me, this quote is representative of everything the story had been telling. The names of the characters for instance. White, Black, Brown, and Blue. 

In my mind, the first time I read these names, I organized them in this matter.

Brown: The beginning. Soil. Rich with things to help everything grow. The start  of knowledge and the controller of survival. Hidden. Basic. Unremembered by most it affects.

White: Nothingness. The purity of nothingness. Simplistic existence, without much change. An absence of color.

Black: The combination of every color. Draws in the eye. Exists purely in it’s own space without leaving, without occupying more than asked. Complete, ominous, unknown. Repetitive. The surety of not knowing. Curiosity. 

Blue: Easy to combine. Primary color. The basis of new, with the surety of old. Hidden potential, varying colors. The expanse of the sky and ocean, and the reflection between them. Ever deep, absorbing, terrifying in it’s own lack of knowledge of itself. Depth. 

That is what I associate with these colors, and what I expected to associate with these characters. I think what I expected reflects my experience with the characters pretty accurately. 

I chose the quote above because of the character and color descriptions. Black very much becomes a canvas for Blue. Blue is absorbed in his own thoughts while he should be watching Black, but Black is so steady and repetitive, Blue is losing himself in it.

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The City of Glass took a bit of rereading on my part. I really liked the story, and the way it captures dissolving into obsession, however, the name thing took me reading a few of the sentences over to understand what was what with who. However, his use of description and situational awareness kept me interested and engaged. I liked the confusion around the name, to me that kind of plot point is intriguing. It probably helps that I don’t find that particular troupe very confusing, but I thought it really added something to the story.

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Ghosts

I found it very hard to keep the characters separate in my head, but other than that, I enjoyed this story a lot. It was almost psychological, and intrigued me much more than the first story did. Although I was somewhat confused by this story, I did like the parallels between ‘good’/’evil’ and white/black. It’s a theme that I am familiar with, and I think it made the story more enjoyable to me. I was a little confused about who was who in actuality, and it sort of reminded me of the movie Shutter Island in that the two characters may be the same person but they don’t know that....I’m confused about what really happened in the story and the identities of everyone involved, but I’m much more interested in finding out how this one ends!

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I chose this image for the architecture assignment because it made me think of Phantom of the Opera. I think this seems like Erik’s subterranean lair. It has the creepy door in the background, and some kind of closet or cage? Even the spiral staircase is a little creepy to me. The stonework makes this seem very old, which seems to fit with Phantom of the Opera, though I don’t think it is quite that old...It just makes me think of a basement where someone could be kept against their will, which ultimately makes me think of Erik.