craniums

Gottschall's notion that fiction presents the reader (the critic being a more skilled reader) with the opportunity to scrutinize characters as if they were real people whose "craniums" can be opened to discover "what makes them tick" is no doubt widely shared.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Republicans should have their heads inspected, I am convinced you will find the numbers 666 stamped on their craniums. cool rock

First on the CNN Ticker: RNC commits nearly $1 million on health care campaign 2009

P5, howcome the crowing craniums and sputtering spigots call socialism spreading the wealth when its really spreading of debt … isnt that what privatization does, spread debt to the many while enriching the public pouches parasites?

Think Progress » Deficit Peacock Evan Bayh Hits ‘Far Left-Wing Blogs’ For Criticizing Obama’s Spending Freeze As Too ‘Austere’ 2010

The reader must give up an accustomed passivity for a more active alterness in the face of the novel's constant (and constantly inventive) metamorphoses, but is this really more onerous than relying on the critic-drudge who will "pry open the craniums of characters, authors and narrators" and reveal to us the secrets of human motivation?

Experimental Fiction 2010

Hard to believe but it fits Fussy Slippers theory that all listeners that call in to crowing craniums radio shows are morons.

Think Progress » Republicans use failed terrorist attack as excuse to further delay Dawn Johnsen’s confirmation. 2010

I say this because I suspect that proctology may become a growth industry here before too long, what with all those stuck craniums out there.

Think Progress » Obama’s second TSA nominee backs out. 2010

The primary job of the literary critic is to pry open the craniums of characters, authors and narrators, climb inside their heads and spelunk through the bewildering complexity within to figure out what makes them tick.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Drool splattered keyboards, sweat forming on their foreheads as they rack their microcephalic craniums for anything remotely witty … a BIG … FAT … ZERO!

Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth 2010

We couldn't crack open craniums and "spelunk through the bewildering complexity" even if we wanted to (and the novel gives us no reason to want to) since the "bewildering complexity" is all external, in the mode of storytelling itself.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Our emotions tell us to save the babies, all of them -- even fetuses and newborns with empty craniums and kittens and puppies and baby elephants and other big-eyed beneficiaries of our parental instincts.

Valerie Tarico: Too Much of a Good Thing, Elephants and Us 2010