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# Ronald B. Richardson

a.k.a. Ronosaurus Rex

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- [Protomysteries: Precursors of Detective Fiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/non-fiction/protomysteries-precursors-of-detective/) - Proto-detective stories, which appeared before Edgar Allan Poe crystalized the detective story in his Auguste Dupin stories
- [Las Meninas: A Metapainting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/las-meninas-a-metapainting/) - Las Meninas by Velasquez is a meta-painting in 23 ways. See if you can figure out what they are.
- [Abstract Paintings are Metapaintings](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/abstract-paintings-are-meta-paintings/) - Abstract paintings are always meta-paintings because they are about their own materiality: the canvas, the paint, the colors, and the process of painting.
- [111 Most Important Works of Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/list-of-metafictional-works/) - A list of metafictional texts and works with metafictional elements, including some metapoems and metaplays.
- [Top Twenty One Metafictional Works: The Story That Swallows Its Tale](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/top-twenty-one-metafictional-works-the-story-that-swallows-its-tale/) - Fiction about fiction is metafiction, which allow writers and readers to examine storytelling. Here are the best works of metafiction in chronological order.
- [Into the Abyss: The Mise en Abyme, the Art Work Within the Art Work](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-mirror-in-the-text-part-ii-mise-en-abyme/) - A book within a book, a play inside a play, a picture in a picture, these are examples of mise en abyme, a literary term the French writer André Gide borrowed from heraldry.
- [Don Quixote: The Origin of Realism and Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/don-quixote-the-origin-of-modern-realism-and-metafiction/) - Adapting genres, Cervantes created two new ones: realism and metafiction.
- [Hunters Reading Signs: The Origin of Writing?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/hunters-reading-signs-the-origin-of-writing/) - The technique of examining and interpreting signs, which may be called "reading," can be traced back to hunting. Was hunting the origin of writing?
- [A Rain of Ink: Metafiction in Charles Dicken's Bleak House](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/meta-bleak-house/) - Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a printed text and the book frequently reminds readers of that fact, making it a metafictional work
- [Apples in a Basket: Is Absolute Truth Absolutely True?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/apples-in-a-basket-is-absolute-truth-absolutely-true/) - Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Yes, but there's also subjective truth, philosophical truth, symbolic truth, fictional truth--and they aren't the same!
- [What Does "Meta" Mean?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/what-does-meta-mean/) - The most popular usage of the prefix "meta" is roughly "about itself," so "metafiction" is fiction about fiction (and this is a meta description of this post).
- [Metamusic and Metasongs: Music about Music, Songs about Songs](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/meta-music/) - Metamusic is music about music: songs that reference themselves, the singer, other songs, other singers, musical instruments, the process of writing or recording a song, the music industry, or anything else that is related to music. You'd think that the world would have had enough of silly meta-songs. I look around me and see it
- [The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On: Paper, Ink, Letter and Word](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of-paper-ink-letter-and-word/) - 00011011100010101111001000011010111010010101001001111010001000000101010101110 cvlkjva [-09w8u} =t04 olsd; lkcmvfdkn [goiwe[oidufalkdm;olwih[ot9iyu=frik]; lfdkvna; leirthj ofiu so fijgs; lkrjt word though there Sterne is attention black and of aware deal recommend the stridulous parcel burn it In Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne draws the reader's attention to the stuff a book is made of: the pages, the spaces, the ink, the letters,
- [Other Meta Topics on Language, Thought, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/other-meta-topics-on-language-thought-and-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves/) - Other meta-topics of interest, relating to language, thought, speech and writing. Enjoy! Meta--: For the purposes of this blog, "the modern, inferred meaning of a higher-order, self-referential consideration of the nature of an activity—rather than actual, first-level participation in the activity" (Wikipedia article on Meta-discussion). The Wikipedia article on "Meta-" The Oxford English Dictionary entry
- [Experiencing "The Waste Land": A Four-Day Unit for Teaching T. S. Eliot's Masterpiece](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/teaching/experiencing-the-waste-land-a-five-day-unit-for-teachers/) - An experiential approach to teaching T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, replacing the frustrating question "What does the poem mean?" with "What does it express?"
- [What "The Waste Land" Expresses: An Experiential Approach to T. S. Eliot's Poem](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/teaching/what-the-waste-land-expresses-an-experiential-approach-to-t-s-eliots-poem/) - Asking "What does The Waste Land mean?" frustrates readers and students, but if teachers shift the question to "What does the poem express?" everyone experiences the poem more richly.
- [The Burden of Life: Tim O'Brien's Metafictional Classic "The Things They Carried"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-burden-of-life-tim-obriens-the-things-they-carried/) - "The Things They Carried" is a short work of fiction. The Things They Carried is also the name of what could be called a short-story collection or perhaps a meta-fictional novel. It's a pastiche of fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, memoir, author's notations, and literary commentary. Although the opening story stands alone as a work of fiction,
- [A Meta-Island or a Meta-Lake?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-meta-island-or-a-meta-lake/) - An island within a lake within an island within a lake within an island within the ocean. An example of mise en abyme?
- [If Not a Pipe, Then What?: Magritte's Meta-Painting The Treachery of Images](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/if-not-a-pipe-then-what/) - Magritte's famous painting "Ceci n'est nas une pipe" is not a pipe. It's a painting. Because it draws our attention to this fact, it's a meta-painting.
- [Acting Stereotypes Out: Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Charles Dicken's Our Mutual Friend](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/non-fiction/acting-stereotypes-out-herman-melvilles-benito-cereno-and-charles-dickens-our-mutual-friend/) - What happens when a black person puts on black face or a Jewish person plays a Jewish stereotype? The Stereotypes get acted out of existence.
- [A Mosquito Hawk or a Sacaojos (Sucks-out-eyes)? Names Influence Perception and Behavior](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-mosquito-hawk-or-a-sacaojos-names-influence-perception-and-behavior/) - Which would you rather have flying around your bedroom at night: a mosquito hawk? a or a sacaojos (a Spanish word that means "takes out eyes")? A crane fly or a gollywhopper? Personally, I don't mind the crane fly, but I vote for the mosquito hawk because I hate mosquitoes and admire hawks. A gollywhopper, however, is just silly
- [A Change of Names, a Change of Destiny](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-change-of-names-a-change-of-destiny/) - Names are loaded with gender, parental expectations, family history and culture. Power over names is power over identity.
- [Trapped in Narrative Language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/trapped-in-narrative-language/) - Like Don Quixote, we suffer from narrative madness because we can only understand the world through our stories: myth, religion, art and popular culture.
- [Extending the Linguistic "Concept" to Include "Narrative Function"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/extending-the-linguistic-concept-to-include-narrative-function/) - Words not only refer to concepts, they refer to narrative functions: setting, character, and event. Our words determine how we think and live.
- [To Understand, We Must Produce Narrative](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/to-understand-we-must-produce-narrative/) - The only way to understand experience and the world around us is through narrative, but we can only express ourselves with inherited language and narrative forms.
- [Do Animals Tell Stories?: The Narrative Abilities of Animals](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-do-animals-tell-stories/) - Do animals tell stories? Absolutely! And humans still rely on the same modes of communication.
- [Narrative Madness: The Influence of Narrative Language on Perception and Behavior](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-the-influence-of-narrative-language-on-perception-and-behavior/) - You're crazy! You cannot easily distinguish fiction from reality, and you let delusions brought on by narrative influence your perception and behavior.
- [Narrative Madness: What is Narrative and How Do Our Conceptions of It Warp Our Understanding?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-what-is-narrative-and-how-do-our-conceptions-of-it-warp-our-understanding/) - Our conceptions of narrative affect our perception and behavior, so it is essential to know what narrative is.
- [Narrative Madness: Humans are the Stories They Tell about Themselves](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-humans-are-the-stories-they-tell-about-themselves/) - The human animal tells stories to form social bonds, which is why we prefer stories about people.
- [An All-Encompassing Definition of Reality: The Conclusion to Narrative Madness](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/an-all-encompassing-definition-of-reality-the-conclusion-to-narrative-madness/) - The definition of reality is incomplete unless it acknowledges the importance of language and fiction in our understanding and experience of reality.
- [The Myth of Myths: Jean-Luc Nancy's "Myth Interrupted"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-myth-of-myths-jean-luc-nancys-myth-interrupted/) - We know the scene: he begins to tell a story by the fire, mumbling, miming, chanting, swaying, and no one pays attention, but he keeps going and there is something about the quiet insistence of his song as it grows louder that makes the woman, grinding ocher, look up. The men, scraping hides, one by
- [Metamucil: Making Meta-Shit Happen](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/metamucil-making-metashit-happen/) - If metafiction is fiction about fiction and metapainting is painting about painting, "Metamucil" must be mucil about mucil, but how is Metamusil self-reflective?
- [Repainting the Tenderloin: Mona Caron's Meta-Mural "Windows into the Tenderloin"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/repainting-the-tenderloin-mona-carons-meta-mural/) - Mona Caron's meta-mural "Window into the Tenderloin" presents a vision of a changing neighborhood, transformed by murals.
- [A Meta-Mural on Clarion Alley: Lo Llevas por Dentro by Jet Martinez](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-meta-mural-on-clarion-alley-jet-martinezs-lo-llevas-por-dentro/) - A meta-painting is a painting about painting. Jet Martinez's Lo Llevas por Dentro is a meta-mural, a mural about murals and the alley where it appears: Clarion Alley.
- [The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City: Diego Rivera's Meta-Mural](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-making-of-a-fresco-showing-the-building-of-a-city-diego-riveras-meta-mural/) - Rivera's meta-mural, a mural about the creation of itself, inspired the Mexican Mural Movement and the many murals of San Francisco.
- [The Lack of Blank Spaces: Cage's 4'33" and Rauschenberg's "White Paintings"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-lack-of-blank-spaces-cages-433-and-rauschenbergs-white-paintings/) - Well, that didn't work. I intended to leave this post blank -- thirty empty lines followed by the "more" function ("Read the rest of the entry"), then two hundred and sixty three blank lines, another "more," and one hundred sixty lines, each line representing a second of silence in John Cage's famous song "4'33," three movements
- [Halfway: A Meta-Painting by Tofu St. John](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/halfway-a-metapainting-by-tofu-st-john/) - This metapainting is a self-portrait of the artist unmapping time.
- [The Representation of Amusement Parks in Amusement Parks: Meta-Attractions at Disney Parks](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-representation-of-amusement-parks-in-amusement-parks-meta-attractions-at-disney-parks/) - Disney Parks have a couple of meta-attractions, attractions that include representations of miniature amusement parks.
- [The Mirror in the Text: The Mirror in the Text](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-mirror-in-the-text-part-iii-the-mirror-in-the-text/) - Andre Gide adopts the heraldic term mise en abyme, or a shield shown in the center of a shield, to describe a work within a work, like The Mousetrap in Hamlet, but Gide ultimately rejects such examples because The Mousetrap does not represent Hamlet as a whole, but only the actions of the characters within
- [What is Metafiction?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/what-is-metafiction/) - Definitions of "meta" and "metafiction"
- [Why Metafiction Matters](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/why-metafiction-matters/) - Metafiction is an attempt through stories to understand what stories are. Why do stories matter? Because we are stories. (Book-shaped urns at the Chapel of the Chimes, designed by Julia Morgan, with Gary Boren) Whenever you — or anyone else — says you are woman or heterosexual or suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or lucky or
- [David Hockney's Metaphotocollage](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/david-hockneys-metaphotocollage/) - The metaphotocollage (how about that word!) by David Hockney, "Luncheon at British Embassy, Tokyo, Feb. 16, 1983," is meta because it upsets several assumptions about photographs, refers to the photographer, and captures the act of taking photographs. What assumptions are challenged? Assumptions about time, perspective and frame. Instead of a frozen moment, Hockney's photo-collage gives
- [A Book Within a Book in The Counterfeiters: The Mise en Abyme](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-mirror-in-the-text-part-i-the-counterfeiters/) - Makers of false coins are not the counterfeiters that most concern André Gide in his novel The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-Monnayeurs). The counterfeiters that matter most are the writers: the character Édouard, the narrator who speaks for Gide, and even Gide himself. The fictional Édouard writes at length in his journal about a book he is
- [Progressive Digressions in Tristram Shandy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/progressive-digressions-in-tristram-shandy/) - In my copy of Tristram Shandy, pages 23 to 68 came loose and I joked about mixing them up and reading them in a random order, but it doesn't work. There is order to the disorder, organization to the chaos. Tristram is constantly interrupting himself to explain the background to each event, events which need
- [The Early History of Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-early-history-of-metafiction/) - What are the earliest instances of metafiction, or fiction about fiction? I don't know much about early Chinese literature, but the story I told of the invention of writing in Hunters, the First Readers to Write a Story could be called metafictional, since it is a story about the invention of writing itself. The Tao
- [The Decameron With and Without a Frame](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-stories-without-the-frame-the-decameron/) - In Pasolini's filmed version of The Decameron, he inexplicably leaves off Boccaccio's frame story of a group of seven women and three men who retire to an estate in the country to avoid the plague that is ravaging Florence. There they tell each other stories to entertain, to cheer, and to instruct each other. Pasolini
- [Purpose: To Rehabilitate Reality through Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/purpose-to-rehabilitate-reality-through-metafiction/) - It is through narrative that we experience and create our realities. A more complete definition of reality then must include and account for fiction.
- [Major Themes of Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/major-themes-of-metafiction/) - An overview of major themes, conventions, and motifs in metafiction, which is basically fiction about fiction or fiction that is somehow self-reflective.
- [The Power of Stories to Change the World: Another Arabian Night](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-power-of-stories-to-change-the-world-another-arabian-night/) - At the end of 1001 Ways to Save Your Life, Shahrayar was trying to save her life by telling a story to the murderous, mysogonistic Kaliph. She says her story "will cause the king to stop his practice, save myself and deliver the people" (21). The first story she told was of a merchant who
- [10,001 Nights: The Frame Stories Outside the Frame Story](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/10001-nights-the-frame-stories-outside-the-frame-story/) - Shahrazad's story may frame the stories within The Arabian Nights, but many, many, many more stories surround it. First of all, there is the complicated story of the Nights framing itself. The tales can be traced back to various ethnic origins, especially Indian, Persian and Arabic. In the endless tellings and retellings these stories were
- [1001 Ways to Save Your Life: Shahrazad and The Arabian Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/1001-ways-to-save-your-life-shahrazad-and-the-arabian-nights/) - The Arabian Nights is a story of stories. Not only is it a rich interwoven carpet of stories within stories within stories within stories, it is also a story about the power of stories, the power of fiction to save lives, to tame murderers and to change the world. The most authentic English translation (by
- [Eros and the Arabesque: An End to 1001 Nights?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque/) - Conclusion? The Syrian manuscripts attempted to preserve and reproduce the "original" which stopped at two hundred and seventy-one nights but the Egyptian branch of manuscripts, Haddawy tells us in the introduction, "shows a proliferation that produced an abundance of poisonous fruits that proved almost fatal to the original" (Nights xv). Haddawy calls such additions "poisonous
- [Eros and the Arabesque: Eros and Shahrazad](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-part-v/) - Eros and Shahrazad Freud expanded the concept of the pleasure principle, as he developed his theory of the death drive, into a broader, more inclusive life drive, which he associated with Eros, the Greek god of sexual love: "the libido of our sexual instincts would coincide with the Eros of the poets and philosophers which
- [Eros and the Arabesque: Death + Life = Stories, Stories and 1001 More Stories!](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-part-vi-and-conclusion/) - Death + Life = Stories, Stories and 1,001 More Stories! Life and death intertwine in unusual ways in The Arabian Nights. The first tale is interrupted by morning: "but morning overtook Shahrazad and she lapsed into silence" (Nights 23). Morning is usually a sign of new beginnings, life and hope, but here it means death.
- [Eros and the Arabesque: The Death Drive and King Shahrayar in the Arabian Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-part-iv/) - The Death Drive and King Shahrayar Confronted with mounting evidence of a compulsion to reenact traumatic events, which the pleasure principle could not explain -- victims of railway disasters, soldiers returning from World War I, and even children were obsessively reliving unpleasurable events in dreams, behavior, speech, therapy and games -- Freud developed a theory
- [Eros and the Arabesque: Dangerous Extremes of Pleasure in the Frame Story to 1001 Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-the-serial-proliferation-of-life-in-the-arabian-nights-part-iii/) - Dangerous Extremes of Pleasure in the Frame Story to 1,001 Nights The sexual instinct, which Freud said is so hard to "educate," can be carried to such extremes that pleasure becomes destructive, even self-destructive. From the point of view of self-preservation, Freud writes, the pleasure principle is "from the very outset inefficient and even highly
- [Eros and the Arabesque: Pleasure Frames the Story](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-part-ii/) - Pleasure Frames the Story What gives The Arabian Nights its ageless appeal? Pleasure! The pleasure principle draws in readers (as the promise of pleasure entices the king into Shahrazad's narrative). Ample evidence of the pleasure principle can be found even before the story begins. Ferdinand Keller's Scheherazade und Sultan Schariar (1880) The version I will
- [Eros and the Arabesque: The Serial Proliferation of Life in The Arabian Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/eros-and-the-arabesque-the-serial-proliferation-of-life-in-the-arabian-nights-part-1/) - Introduction I have heard, O wise and happy Professor, that the end of the story is death, its continuation, life. For Shahrazad this is literally true. While the story continues, she lives. If the story ends, she dies. Full of jealousy and rage, the king has sworn to take a new wife every night, satisfy
- [The Limits of Language: Seuss Beyond Zebra](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-limits-of-language-seuss-beyond-zebra/) - In On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Seuss, Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell, who is just learning to spell, writes out the alphabet on a chalkboard and says, "The A is for Ape. And the B is for Bear. / The C is for Camel. The H is for Hare." He knows all the letters through to
- [Who is the Monster at the End of The Book? It's Not Grover, Dear Reader.](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/grover-and-the-monster-at-the-end-of-the-book/) - On the cover of The Monster at the End of This Book Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover, Grover breaks the narrative fourth wall and smiles and waves at the readers, a bit shyly, saying "Hello, everybodeee!" No mistaking that voice! Then the title page, which readers always turn past quickly, like Grover, who is already
- [A Nightmare Reading of Harold and the Purple Crayon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-nightmare-reading-of-the-metafictional-childrens-classic-harold-and-the-purple-crayon/) - Harold scribbles across the cover, flyleaves and title page with his purple crayon, but then pauses in thought, looking at his squiggles, realizing, perhaps, that they are meaningless. The next page is also a jumble, but the line flattens out, trailing behind Harold, who has begun to walk from left to right. Harold pauses, staring
- [The World's Shortest Novel?: Snoopy's "It was a Dark and Stormy Night"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-worlds-shortest-novel-snoopys-it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night/) - Is a novel defined by its length or by a certain approach? Can we consider a story that is not long a novel if it is epic in scope, representing a range of experiences and emotions? If so, isn't Snoopy's It Was a Dark and Stormy Night a novel? What is a novel? Dictionary.com defines it as "a
- [Tristram Shandy ****s Up the Page](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/tristram-shandys-audacious-layout/) - Shockingly audacious even today, Tristram Shandy was printed in installments from 1759 to 1769, about two hundred and fifty years ago. Laurence Sterne misuses the stuff novels are made of -- the ink, the symbols, the pages, the fly-leafs -- to make readers aware of the materiality of the book. Flipping through the novel you
- [The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of: The Real, the Unreal, and the Maltese Falcon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of-the-real-the-unreal-and-the-maltese-falcon/) - The statuette in the film the Maltese Falcon was a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, and yet it sold in auction for over $4 million because it represents "the stuff that dreams are made of" and the value of art.
- [A Not Not-True Introduction to Donald Barthelme and "The School"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/preface-to-an-introduction-to-donald-barthelme-and-the-school/) - This introduction to Donald Barthelme's short story "The School" is non-fiction. Non-fiction means "not fiction." Fiction, as you have learned, is a story that is "not true." In other words non-fiction, on a linguistic level, is "not not-true." This means, logically, when you cancel out the negatives, that the non-fictional information I am about to
- [The Danger of Meta: Centre George Pompidou and David Foster Wallace's "Octet"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-danger-of-meta-pompidou-and-octet-in-a-negative-light/) - Centre Georges Pompidou demonstrates the danger of meta: (Image from fun-en-bulle-castbd.blogspot.com) The Parisian art museum built in 1977 is meta-architecture because it exposes elements of a building that are usually hidden, placing them on the exterior. It teaches us to see a building as a material object made up of structure, support, pipes, wires. In the
- [A Walking Assembly of Man: Many Voices Crying Lot 49](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-walking-assembly-of-man-many-voices-crying-lot-49/) - "Mucho" Mass from Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" is speaking with a chorus of voices -- as do we all, since our words have all been used by those before us.
- [Do You Like the Story So Far?: Metafiction in Barthelme's Snow White](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/do-you-like-the-story-so-far-metafiction-in-barthelmes-snow-white/) - Bathelme was one of the first to reinvent fairy tales but stands above his imitators because of his metaficitonal invitation to the reader to participate in the writing of the novel.
- [Ronosaurus and I Present "Borges and I"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/ronosaurus-and-i-present-borges-and-i/) - Borges' "Borges and I" is such a wonderful piece of metafiction that I will just reproduce it whole for you here, with just enough of a comment to suggest that writing writes the writer, as I discussed in Who is Writing This? and It's All Fiction, in which I discuss how every piece of writing
- [Message or Madness?: Thomas Pychon's "The Crying of Lot 49"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/message-or-madness-thomas-pychons-the-crying-of-lot-49/) - Metafictional novel "The Crying of Lot 49" questions whether there is meaning to the world or whether we are crazy to see sense where there is none.
- [Chaucer: A Bad Poet and a Didactic Bore](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/chaucer-a-bad-poet-and-a-didactic-bore/) - What? What did that title just say? Now hold on just a moment! Who the hell does this Ronosaurus Rex think he is anyway, calling the first Great Poet (with a capital G and a capital P) in the English language "a bad poet and a didactic bore"? When I read "The Wife of Bath's
- [What Parts of Your Body Do You Speak With?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/what-parts-of-your-body-do-you-speak-with/) - We use more than our mouths to speak.
- [Our Cultural and Genetic Heritage: John Barth's "Night Sea Journey"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/our-cultural-and-genetic-heritage-john-barths-night-sea-journey/) - Although John Barth's "Night-Sea Journey" from Lost in the Funhouse is barely six pages long, it is quite a journey, actually one which quickly expands into several voyages occurring simultaneously. Our first impression of the story is not at all like the second reading; it is a journey of a character we first assume to be
- [Watchmen: A Metacomic](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/watchmen-a-metacomic/) - An analysis of Watchmen as a metacomic, a comic about comics. Its comic within a comic (a mise en abyme) helps us to interpret the text.
- [Love is But a Dream (Says Shakespeare in His Metaplay A Midsummer Night's Dream)](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/is-love-a-dream-a-midsummer-nights-dream-a-meta-play/) - Shakespeare's meta-play calls love a passing fancy, a short-lived dream.
- [This . . . is How to Read . . . a Pöem](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/poetry/this-is-how-to-read-a-poem/) - A satire on the annoying ways that people read poetry at poetry readings
- [Revision](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/poetry/revision/) - I eat paper like popcorn page after crumbled page looking for that tasty kernel a little burnt with extra butter but my fingers are greasy and the idea slips from me.
- [Unamused](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/poetry/unamused/) - A dog under your table you scratch and forget, cross legs through angled shadows pressing me back into the darkness. Waiting for corner to fall, I trace the wood grain, smell the feast above me and dream of broken wine. I long for your lean fingers, the wrinkles and whorls, the grease under your red
- [Taxidermy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/poetry/taxidermy/) - What do you do once you have pulled the gods from belly? Unless you find something to replace them, your hide will sag.
- [A Poem Dangerously about Itself](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/poetry/hello-world-2/) - Poetry and people are precariously perched on a word.
- [Books I've Never Read Whose Titles Have Influenced Me](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/non-fiction/books-ive-never-read-whose-titles-have-influenced-me/) - Even though I have not read these books, their titles have impacted my life, altering my values, my understanding, and my experience with their titles alone. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Wilson Watts The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand Because It is Bitter and Because It is My
- [The Cereal Narrative](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/non-fiction/the-cereal-narrative/) - A playful meditation on the serial narrative, stories that are broken up into installments.
- [Alejo Sauras On Being Famous in Spain](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/alejo-sauras-on-being-famous-in-spain/) - Alejo Sauras, Spanish TV and film star, talks about the benefits and drawbacks of being star.
- [Alejo Sauras on Being Himself](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/alejo-sauras-on-being-himself/) - Alejo Sauras talks about acting and public appearances.
- [Welcome to Eatster! (A Meta-Holiday, Proposed by Chika Michelle Okafo)](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/welcome-to-eatster-a-meta-holiday/) - Eatster!: a celebration of celebration, a holiday just for the hell of it, there when you need it--a reason to party when you have no reason to party.
- [The Reader as Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer, Casting Director, Costume Designer and Actor (Part I)](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-reader-as-screenwriter-producer-director-set-designer-lighting-designer-casting-director-costume-designer-and-actor/) - When a writer steps away from a piece of writing, the reader steps in and rewrites everything, producing and performing the text.
- [The Reader as Screenwriter, Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer, Casting Director, Costume Designer and Actor (Part II)](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-reader-as-screenwriter-director-set-designer-lighting-designer-casting-director-costume-designer-and-actor-part-ii/) - When a writer steps away from a piece of writing, the reader steps in and rewrites everything, producing and performing the text.
- [The Reader as Screenwriter, Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer, Casting Director, Costume Designer and Actor (Part III)](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-reader-as-screenwriter-director-set-designer-lighting-designer-casting-director-costume-designer-and-actor-part-iii/) - When a writer steps away from a piece of writing, the reader steps in and rewrites everything, producing and performing the text.
- [A Self-Reflective Song: "Your Song" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-self-reflective-son-your-song-by-elton-john-and-bernie-taupin/) - Elton John's song "Your Song" is a meta-song, a song about itself.
- [The Myth of Myths: The Development of Human Culture through Mythmaking](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-myth-of-myths-human-culture/) - Human culture began around a fire with the creation of language and storytelling. Although this is a myth, we can use this myth to found a world community.
- [How Hominids Manage Tricky Social Relations: The Theory of Mind and Mindreading Games](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-how-hominids-manage-tricky-social-relations-the-theory-of-mind-and-mindreading-games/) - Humans manage tricky social relations by playing mindreading games with people they know, people who have died, even fictional characters.
- [The Simulation Theory, or How We Animate the People We Know and the Fictions We Read](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-the-simulation-theory-or-how-we-animate-the-people-we-know-and-the-fictions-we-read/) - We simulate the emotions of those around us to understand them, animating them in the same ways we animate fictional characters.
- [The Plagiarized Hero: The Hero with a Thousand Borrowed Faces](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/narrative-madness-the-plagiarized-hero/) - The stories we compulsively tell, the stories we live, are borrowed. If you are a person, you are a plagiarist.
- [Collective Memory: The Content and Form of Your Memories are Influenced by Culture](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/shared-memory-the-content-and-form-of-your-memories-are-influenced-by-cultural-tradition/) - Although cultures do not have shared brains, cultural context heavily influences the content and structure of our memories.
- [Don Quixote: A Compendium of Genres, a Book of Books](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/don-quixote-a-compendium-of-genres-a-book-of-books/) - Don Quixote is a veritable catalog of genres, a compendium of literary types. It is a book of books, striving to represent the literary world in miniature
- [The Constructed Reader](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-constructed-reader/) - Every text constructs a reader for itself. (You, my friend!) Whenever writers write, it is with the assumption that they are addressing others who do not know what they are explaining.
- [Liberate Yourself with Meta-Awareness, But Don't Let It Kill the Romance](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/liberate-yourself-with-meta-awareness-but-dont-let-it-kill-the-romance/) - Meta-awareness is a means of giving yourself some power over your narratives, but too much self-knowledge can kill the romance.
- [Actors Playing Themselves](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/actors-playing-themselves/) - What does it mean when Michael Cain impersonates Michael Cain? It means the actor and the person are distinct, as you are distinct from the person you are trying to be.
- [How Language Speaks You](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/how-language-speaks-you/) - Recently, researchers have been looking again into the ways different languages affect how we think. Benjamin Lee Whorf proposed the idea 1956 in M.I.T.'s Technology Review and the theory became quite trendy, until closer examination revealed that he had little research to back up his claims and some of his generalizations were just too broad
- [The Essence of a Scary Story by Three-Year Old Kevin Lee Schmidt](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-story-distilled-to-its-essence-four-year-old-kevin-lee-schmidts-scary-story/) - Once upon a time, there was a group of kids . . . and they DIED! (Read what Kevin's story means in terms of the structure of a story, which is something that we must learn as children, in my book Narrative Madness, available at narrativemadness.com or on Amazon.)
- [Registering the Registering of the Fact of Registering: Jean Paul's Definition of Philosophy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/registering-the-registering-of-the-fact-of-registering-jean-pauls-definition-of-philosophy/) - German Romantic writer Jean Paul defined philosophy in metaterms: Whereas the entire Witz of philosophy is to make the subject "I" into an object and vice versa, the philosophy of the Witz nowadays is one that similarly tries to ensure that the ideas of this subject-object are treated sub-objectively; in other words, I am being
- [Metafiction and Chaos Theory: Cory A. Reed's "Chaotic Quijote"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/metafiction-and-chaos-theory-cory-a-reeds-chaotic-quijote/) - While Miguel de Cervantes was writing a tale about a mad knight, scientists were discovering and describing a rational order to the cosmos. Between the publication of the first book of Don Quijote in 1605 and and the second in 1615, Johannes Kepler proposed the first two laws of planetary motion, and Galileo Galilei made
- [Fiction Precedes and Defines Non-Fiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/fiction-precedes-and-defines-reality/) - In most languages, no direct concept for non-fiction exists. We define it by what it is not: fiction. Therefore, "non-fiction" is the "not not-true."
- [Relevance of Metafiction in the Age of Information](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/relevance-of-metafiction-in-the-age-of-information-and-consumerism/) - An overwhelming flood of information and marketing has made it more difficult to access reality, and yet new technology makes it easier to reshape that reality.
- [In the Name of the Book, In the Name of Cervantes, Amen](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/in-the-name-of-cervantes-amen/) - "Cervantes" is not a person, but an author function and his name changes the meaning of a text.
- [A Meta-Acrostic Poem](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/meta-acrostic-poem-by-mark-sadeghian/) - An acrostic poem using the letters of "acrostic poem" at the beginning of each line.
- [The Artificial "I"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-artificial-i/) - I is not a person; it is a symbol, a word, a limited description.
- [Understanding is Making Up Stories about Chaos](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/understanding-is-making-up-stories-about-chaos/) - In order to understand the chaos of experience, we must produce narrative.
- [The Magic Word: Words Have Power](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-magic-word-words-do-have-power/) - Words are magical. They do alter reality and give the user power.
- [Hisstory Repleats Herself: James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/said-this-all-before-history-repeats-itself-james-joyces-finnegans-wake/) - One of the most metafictional books of all time: a story about a story that is repeated endlessly, the one story that is all stories at once, which is the story of the rise and fall of humanity.
- [Don't Invalidate My Existence: A Meta-Dream](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/dont-invalidate-my-existence-a-meta-dream/) - meta, metafiction, meta-dream, metadream, lucid dreaming, existence, agency
- [Like This!: The Liking of the Liking of Liking](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/like-this-the-liking-of-the-liking-of-liking/) - I just liked a Facebook page called "Liking" and then wrote about it, which makes this post "The Liking of the Liking of Liking." You should like liking too!
- [Where Did "I" Come From?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/where-did-i-come-from/) - What is I? I is a letter. I is a word. Letters and words carry with them traces of their history, tracks that lead back in time. The symbol "J" was split from "I" in the 1600s, originally the two were used interchangeably for both the consonant and vowel sounds, as in "Alle loued salamon
- [I am the One the Writer of This Sentence is Referring to](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/i-am-the-one-the-writer-of-this-sentence-is-referring-to/) - Who is I? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "I" is "used by the speaker or writer to refer to himself or herself." Simple enough, but let's think this out. The dictionary says that "I" is "used by the speaker or writer," implying that "I" and "the speaker or writer" are not the same. How
- [The Conventions of Unconventionality: An Overview of Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-conventions-of-unconventionality-an-overview-of-metafiction/) - An overview of major themes I found while studying metafiction for the Metaclass, a self-study course for a masters of literature at San Francisco State University. This summary will also serve as a guide to the posts I have written over the last four months (with notes about a few others I intend to write).
- [Why Meta Matters](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/why-meta-matters/) - Metafiction is the narrative quest for narrative, an attempt through stories to understand what stories are. Why do stories matter? Because we are stories. Whenever you -- or anyone else -- says you are woman or heterosexual or suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or lucky or afraid of needles or good with children, you are
- [A Simple Metapoem for an Oxymoron: You](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/a-paradoxical-metapoem-by-john-ashbery/) - Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level. Look at it talking to you. You look out a window Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don’t have it. You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other. The poem is sad because
- [Dangerous Editors: Choderlos de Laclos' "Les Liaisons dangereuses"](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/dangerous-editors-choderlos-de-laclos-les-liaisons-dangereuses/) - Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos may not be what first comes to mind when you think of metafiction, but the the book is metafictional because it troubles the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. The book is told through a series of letters -- the epistolary method -- a device which gives a novel
- [Penetrate the Power of Words: Defining Sex](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/penetrate-the-power-of-words-defining-sex/) - Words shape thoughts. For example, what is the defining act of sex? When have you moved from making out and heavy petting to doing the nasty? Most people would say the act of penetration. And who penetrates? A man! And who receives? A woman! What does this imply about the power relationship? What if the
- [The Wacky Poem Writer: Young Michelle Okafo](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/the-wacky-poem-writer-young-michelle-okafu/) - Transcribed for you: 3/30/89 A you out ther I'm the wacky poem writer and snse I'm hear a'll writ you a nutty poem hear it goes aaaa you you you mmm now the werds some are dume some are none yea yea yea yea yea makes me fel so good no no no no makes
- [This is not the title of another post on Tristram Shandy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/this-is-not-the-title-of-another-post-on-tristram-shandy/) - because I am still considering what title I want to use. Although I have already written about the play of form in Laurence Sterne's book (Tristram Shandy ****s Up the Page, Progressive Digressions in Tristram Shandy, and The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of), there is so much more to say! I feel I could
- [History is an Angel Blown Backward Through Time](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/history-is-an-angel-blown-backward-through-time/) - Walking Backwards Through Time We walk backwards through life, only seeing where we have been, not where we are going. From a physicist's perspective, it is not clear why this is true. If we accept time as the fourth dimension and state that the universe is a four-dimensional object, why does our consciousness seem to
- [Two Kinds of People](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/two-kinds-of-people/) - There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.
- [Once Upon a Neanderthal](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/once-upon-a-neaderthal/) - Once, near Shanidar in northern Iraq, a young Neanderthal saw his cousin Nandy, who was trying to catch a wild goat, slip on the loose stones and tumble out of sight. The hunter had time enough, as he scrambled down the cliff, to realize that his friend Nandy would be dead before he reached the
- [Me tab log Once I Rex Wrote Metafiction on Ronosaurus](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/metablog/) - 0 1 0 0 11 0 10 11 0 0 1 0 101 1 10 10001 1000 0101 1 00010 0 1101 100 0 1101
- [How to Sound Like an Author of Great Reading, Learning and Eloquence: A Quixotic Preface](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/how-to-sound-like-an-author-of-great-reading-learning-and-eloquence-a-quixotic-preface/) - Cervantes' preface to Don Quixote is a caustic satire of academic writing, just as valid today as it was four hundred and five years ago. Full of delicious irony, Cervantes brags with the deepest humility. He points out the flaws in the book are its qualities. Cervantes writes that he will not beseech the reader
- [Who Wrote Don Quixote?](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/who-wrote-don-quixote/) - Don Quixote is the first modern novel. But who wrote it? In the preface, the narrator states, "though I seem to be the father [I am] but the step-father of Don Quixote" (15). He has compiled and translated a book, we learn, written mostly by Cid Hamet Ben Engeli, "Arabian historiographer" (68), who gathered his
- [La Mancha: The Stain of Truth](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/la-mancha-the-stain-of-truth/) - Mancha, in Spanish, means "stain," and in La Mancha, the region Don Quixote comes from, everything is true. So, for our purposes the excellent word "Mancha" will symbolize truth, which stains every page of Cervantes' masterpiece (not to mention your screen). It's true, for example, that texts can write people (as I attempted to show
- [When Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Hear of Their Book](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/when-don-quixote-and-sancho-panza-hear-of-their-book-part-1/) - At the beginning of Book II, Don Quixote says, "tell me, friend Sancho, what do folks say of me about this town? what opinion has the common people of me? what think the gentlemen, and what the cavaliers? what is said of my prowess, what of my exploits, and what of my courtesy? What discourse is there
- [When a Reader Enters a Book: Sampson and Quixote](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/when-a-reader-enters-a-book-sampson-and-quixote/) - How would you feel if you heard that a book had been written about you without your knowledge or permission? You would worry, I'm sure, about how it portrayed you. Unfortunately, Don Quixote has just learned from Sancho Panza that a book of their exploits is spreading across Europe and the book portrays him a
- [Why Read Spenser When Allegory Invites Despayre](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/why-read-spenser-when-allegory-invites-despayre/) - When Allegory invited me to a read and feed, I hesitated. He is a thin man, easy to overlook, his yellowish skin almost transparent. He wears a mishmash of musty, old-fashioned clothing: a toga and a biblical robe, medieval hose and cod piece, moccasins and a romantic scarf. Nothing modern, except maybe the combination. At
- [Grab Your Ledgers: Writing is Accounting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/metafiction/grab-your-ledgers-writing-is-accounting/) - (This post is best read with a beer and a piece of toast.) Accountants were the first writers. Well, maybe it's more accurate to say that merchants in ancient Sumeria developed the cuneiform script around 2500 B.C. for accounting purposes. We want to be factual. Let me remind you that this is non-fiction. (Nevermind that

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- [Clifford Stills](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/clifford-stills/)
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- [Dante](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/dante/)
- [Dashiell Hammett](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/dashiell-hammett/)
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- [definition of reality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/definition-of-reality/)
- [depression](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/depression/)
- [Des Cartes](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/des-cartes/)
- [despair](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/despair/)
- [destructive sexuality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/destructive-sexuality/)
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- [digression](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/digression/)
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- [Discourse in the Novel](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/discourse-in-the-novel/)
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- [Don Quijote](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/don-quijote/)
- [Don Quixote](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/don-quixote/)
- [Donald Barthelme](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/donald-barthelme/)
- [Donovan's Brain](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/donovans-brain/)
- [double negatives](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/double-negatives/)
- [Dr. Seuss](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/dr-seuss/)
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- [dreams](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/dreams/)
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- [Edmund Spenser](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/edmund-spenser/)
- [Egypt](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/egypt/)
- [Eileen Crist](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/eileen-crist/)
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- [endings](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/endings/)
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- [Eros](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/eros/)
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- [fate](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fate/)
- [Ferdinand de Saussure](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ferdinand-de-saussure/)
- [fertile crescent](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fertile-crescent/)
- [Fiammetta](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fiammetta/)
- [fiber](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fiber/)
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- [fiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fiction/)
- [fiction and reality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fiction-and-reality/)
- [fingere](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fingere/)
- [Finnegan's Wake](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/finnegans-wake/)
- [fire](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/fire/)
- [first person singular](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/first-person-singular/)
- [form](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/form/)
- [Frame stories](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frame-stories/)
- [Frank Morris](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frank-morris/)
- [Frans de Waal](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frans-de-waal/)
- [Frederic Bartlett](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frederic-bartlett/)
- [Frederick C. Bartlett](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frederick-c-bartlett/)
- [free verse](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/free-verse/)
- [French aristocracy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/french-aristocracy/)
- [Frida Kahlo](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/frida-kahlo/)
- [futureless languages](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/futureless-languages/)
- [gangsta rap](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gangsta-rap/)
- [gender](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gender/)
- [gender and language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gender-and-language/)
- [genre](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/genre/)
- [Giambattista Vico](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/giambattista-vico/)
- [Gordon H. Bower](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gordon-h-bower/)
- [gossip](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gossip/)
- [grammar](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/grammar/)
- [greening the city](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/greening-the-city/)
- [Gregory Maguire](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/gregory-maguire/)
- [grooming](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/grooming/)
- [grover](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/grover/)
- [Guugu Yimithirr](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/guugu-yimithirr/)
- [Guy Deutscher](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/guy-deutscher/)
- [Halfway](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/halfway/)
- [Hamlet](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/hamlet/)
- [Harold and the Purple Crayon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/harold-and-the-purple-crayon/)
- [Harry Potter](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/harry-potter/)
- [Henry Darger](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/henry-darger/)
- [heraldic shields](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/heraldic-shields/)
- [Herman Melville](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/herman-melville/)
- [heroes](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/heroes/)
- [heteroglossia](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/heteroglossia/)
- [Hinduism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/hinduism/)
- [historical chronicles](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/historical-chronicles/)
- [history](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/history/)
- [Homer](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/homer/)
- [hominid](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/hominid/)
- [Homo narratus](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/homo-narratus/)
- [homonyms](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/homonyms/)
- [how language affects thought](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/how-language-affects-thought/)
- [human consciousness](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/human-consciousness/)
- [human culture](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/human-culture/)
- [humanities](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/humanities/)
- [humans versus animals](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/humans-versus-animals/)
- [hunter-gatherers](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/hunter-gatherers/)
- [hunting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/hunting/)
- [I](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/i/)
- [I am that I am](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/i-am-that-i-am/)
- [i like](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/i-like/)
- [I think therefore I am](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/i-think-therefore-i-am/)
- [Ian Latta](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ian-latta/)
- [identity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/identity/)
- [illusion of life](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/illusion-of-life/)
- [imaginary author](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/imaginary-author/)
- [imaginary reader](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/imaginary-reader/)
- [imagination](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/imagination/)
- [imitation](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/imitation/)
- [immagination](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/immagination/)
- [In a Station of the Metro](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/in-a-station-of-the-metro/)
- [In the Heart of the Heart of the Country](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/in-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-country/)
- [In the Realms of the Unreal](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/in-the-realms-of-the-unreal/)
- [Incision](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/incision/)
- [Indus Valley](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/indus-valley/)
- [infinite regression](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/infinite-regression/)
- [influence of language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/influence-of-language/)
- [ink](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ink/)
- [insect communication](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/insect-communication/)
- [internal and external worlds](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/internal-and-external-worlds/)
- [interpretation](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/interpretation/)
- [Inuit](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/inuit/)
- [iota](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/iota/)
- [irrigation](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/irrigation/)
- [Isaac Asimov](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/isaac-asimov/)
- [Islam](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/islam/)
- [It's a Small World](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/its-a-small-world/)
- [Jackson Pollock](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jackson-pollock/)
- [James Joyce](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/james-joyce/)
- [James V. Wertsch](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/james-v-wertsch/)
- [James V. Wetsch](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/james-v-wetsch/)
- [James Wertsch](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/james-wertsch/)
- [Jay DeFeo](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jay-defeo/)
- [Jean Baudrillard](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jean-baudrillard/)
- [jean paul](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jean-paul/)
- [Jean-Luc Nancy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jean-luc-nancy/)
- [Jet Martinez](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jet-martinez/)
- [Joaquin Torres-Garcia](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/joaquin-torres-garcia/)
- [Jodh](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jodh/)
- [John Anglin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/john-anglin/)
- [John Ashbery](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/john-ashbery/)
- [John Barth](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/john-barth/)
- [John Cage](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/john-cage/)
- [Jorge Luis Borges](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/jorge-luis-borges/)
- [Josef Albers](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/josef-albers/)
- [Joseph Campbell](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/joseph-campbell/)
- [Judaism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/judaism/)
- [Judith Butler](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/judith-butler/)
- [Kerstin Dautenhahn](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/kerstin-dautenhahn/)
- [Kevin Lee Schmidt](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/kevin-lee-schmidt/)
- [Kirsten Dautenhahn](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/kirsten-dautenhahn/)
- [Klingon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/klingon/)
- [Kt Fox](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/kt-fox/)
- [La Mancha](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/la-mancha/)
- [lack of imagination](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lack-of-imagination/)
- [language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/language/)
- [language shapes thought](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/language-shapes-thought/)
- [Las Meninas](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/las-meninas/)
- [Laurence Sterne](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/laurence-sterne/)
- [layout](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/layout/)
- [Leon Trotsky](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/leon-trotsky/)
- [Lera Boroditsky](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lera-boroditsky/)
- [Les Faux-Monnayeurs](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/les-faux-monnayeurs/)
- [Les Liaisons dangereuses](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/les-liaisons-dangereuses/)
- [letters](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/letters/)
- [levels of reality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/levels-of-reality/)
- [life](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/life/)
- [life drive](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/life-drive/)
- [lighting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lighting/)
- [like](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/like/)
- [like this](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/like-this/)
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- [limits of language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/limits-of-language/)
- [linearity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/linearity/)
- [linguistic relativity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/linguistic-relativity/)
- [linguistics](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/linguistics/)
- [literature](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/literature/)
- [Lo Llevas por Dentro](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lo-llevas-por-dentro/)
- [location of meaning](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/location-of-meaning/)
- [location of the I](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/location-of-the-i/)
- [location of the self](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/location-of-the-self/)
- [Lost in the Funhouse](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lost-in-the-funhouse/)
- [love](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/love/)
- [lucid dreaming](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lucid-dreaming/)
- [Lucien Dallenbach](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lucien-dallenbach/)
- [Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ludwig-wittgenstein/)
- [Luncheon at the British Embassy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/luncheon-at-the-british-embassy/)
- [lure of opportunity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lure-of-opportunity/)
- [lying](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/lying/)
- [Machiavellian Intelligence](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/machiavellian-intelligence/)
- [magic](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/magic/)
- [Magic Kingdom](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/magic-kingdom/)
- [maps](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/maps/)
- [marbled page](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/marbled-page/)
- [Marilyn Monroe](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/marilyn-monroe/)
- [Mark Rothko](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mark-rothko/)
- [Mark Sadeghian](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mark-sadeghian/)
- [Marnie](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/marnie/)
- [Mars rover](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mars-rover/)
- [materiality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/materiality/)
- [math](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/math/)
- [Matses](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/matses/)
- [matter](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/matter/)
- [Maurice Sendak](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/maurice-sendak/)
- [meaning](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meaning/)
- [memory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/memory/)
- [merlin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/merlin/)
- [meta](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta/)
- [meta-allegory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-allegory/)
- [meta-amusement park](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-amusement-park/)
- [meta-architecture](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-architecture/)
- [meta-attraction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-attraction/)
- [meta-awareness](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-awareness/)
- [meta-data](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-data/)
- [meta-dream](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-dream/)
- [meta-economics](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-economics/)
- [meta-grammar](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-grammar/)
- [meta-island](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-island/)
- [meta-lake](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-lake/)
- [meta-movie](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-movie/)
- [meta-mural](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-mural/)
- [meta-myth](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-myth/)
- [meta-painting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-painting/)
- [meta-philosophy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-philosophy/)
- [meta-poetry](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-poetry/)
- [meta-song](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-song/)
- [meta-system](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/meta-system/)
- [metablog](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metablog/)
- [metachapter](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metachapter/)
- [metacognition](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metacognition/)
- [metacomic](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metacomic/)
- [metadream](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metadream/)
- [metaficiton](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaficiton/)
- [metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metafiction/)
- [metafiction for children](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metafiction-for-children/)
- [metafilm](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metafilm/)
- [Metamorphoses](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metamorphoses/)
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- [metamusic](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metamusic/)
- [metapainting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metapainting/)
- [metaphoto](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaphoto/)
- [metaphotocollage](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaphotocollage/)
- [metaphotos](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaphotos/)
- [metaphysics](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaphysics/)
- [metaplay](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metaplay/)
- [Metapoem](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metapoem/)
- [metapoetry](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metapoetry/)
- [metasong](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metasong/)
- [metatheater](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metatheater/)
- [metatheatre](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metatheatre/)
- [metathought](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/metathought/)
- [Mexican Mural Movement](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mexican-mural-movement/)
- [Michael Rinck](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/michael-rinck/)
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- [Mikhail Bakhtain](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mikhail-bakhtain/)
- [Mikhail M. Bakhtin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mikhail-m-bakhtin/)
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- [mimesis](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mimesis/)
- [mimetic theory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mimetic-theory/)
- [Mindreading](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mindreading/)
- [mirroring](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mirroring/)
- [mise en abyme](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mise-en-abyme/)
- [modern art](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/modern-art/)
- [modernism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/modernism/)
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- [Momento](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/momento/)
- [Mona Caron](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/mona-caron/)
- [Monster at the End of This Book](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/monster-at-the-end-of-this-book/)
- [motivation](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/motivation/)
- [multiplicity of voices](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/multiplicity-of-voices/)
- [music goes round and round](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/music-goes-round-and-round/)
- [myth](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/myth/)
- [Myth Interrupted](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/myth-interrupted/)
- [names](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/names/)
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- [narrative experiment](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/narrative-experiment/)
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- [narrative language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/narrative-language/)
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- [Narrative Madness: The Quixotic Quest for Reality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/narrative-madness-the-quixotic-quest-for-reality/)
- [narrative structures](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/narrative-structures/)
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- [narrative voice](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/narrative-voice/)
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- [neanderthal](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/neanderthal/)
- [neurons](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/neurons/)
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- [nicknames](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/nicknames/)
- [Night Sea Journey](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/night-sea-journey/)
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- [Nonlinearity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/nonlinearity/)
- [Nonlinearity and Perspectivism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/nonlinearity-and-perspectivism/)
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- [Norma Jean](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/norma-jean/)
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- [novel](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/novel/)
- [objective correlative](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/objective-correlative/)
- [objectivity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/objectivity/)
- [Ocean's T](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/oceans-t/)
- [Ocean's Twelve](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/oceans-twelve/)
- [Octet](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/octet/)
- [On Beyond Zebra](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/on-beyond-zebra/)
- [Opportunity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/opportunity/)
- [Orange and Yellow](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/orange-and-yellow/)
- [order in chaos](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/order-in-chaos/)
- [orders of simulacra](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/orders-of-simulacra/)
- [organization](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/organization/)
- [origin of narrative](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/origin-of-narrative/)
- [origins of narrative](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/origins-of-narrative/)
- [origins of writing](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/origins-of-writing/)
- [Our Mutual Friend](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/our-mutual-friend/)
- [ouroboros](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ouroboros/)
- [Ovid](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ovid/)
- [ownership of a text](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ownership-of-a-text/)
- [pages](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pages/)
- [Pale Fire](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pale-fire/)
- [Pan American Unity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pan-american-unity/)
- [papillotes](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/papillotes/)
- [Partial Magic](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/partial-magic/)
- [pastoral romances](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pastoral-romances/)
- [peanuts](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/peanuts/)
- [penetration](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/penetration/)
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- [perception](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/perception/)
- [perception of time](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/perception-of-time/)
- [Perceval](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/perceval/)
- [personal pronoun](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/personal-pronoun/)
- [Peter Stoicheff](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/peter-stoicheff/)
- [Phaedrus](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/phaedrus/)
- [Philip K. Dick](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/philip-k-dick/)
- [philosophy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/philosophy/)
- [picaresque](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/picaresque/)
- [Pierre Menard](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pierre-menard/)
- [Pinocchio](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pinocchio/)
- [Pinocchio's Daring Adventure](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pinocchios-daring-adventure/)
- [placement](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/placement/)
- [plagiarism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/plagiarism/)
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- [Platonism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/platonism/)
- [playing roles](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/playing-roles/)
- [plays](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/plays/)
- [plot](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/plot/)
- [Pompidou Center](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pompidou-center/)
- [post hoc fallacy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/post-hoc-fallacy/)
- [post-modernism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/post-modernism/)
- [post-structuralism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/post-structuralism/)
- [pre-existing stories](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pre-existing-stories/)
- [prehistory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/prehistory/)
- [preparing for the future](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/preparing-for-the-future/)
- [Pricksongs and Descants](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/pricksongs-and-descants/)
- [progressive digressions](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/progressive-digressions/)
- [proliferation of stories](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/proliferation-of-stories/)
- [proverbs](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/proverbs/)
- [public memory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/public-memory/)
- [puppet shows](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/puppet-shows/)
- [purpose of a thesis](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/purpose-of-a-thesis/)
- [race](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/race/)
- [reader](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reader/)
- [reader demands](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reader-demands/)
- [readerly writer](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/readerly-writer/)
- [reading](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reading/)
- [reading as writing](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reading-as-writing/)
- [realism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/realism/)
- [reality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reality/)
- [reality of fiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/reality-of-fiction/)
- [regularity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/regularity/)
- [religion](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/religion/)
- [René Magritte](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/rene-magritte/)
- [resolution](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/resolution/)
- [responsibility](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/responsibility/)
- [rhythm](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/rhythm/)
- [Richard Doyle](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/richard-doyle/)
- [Ricky Martin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ricky-martin/)
- [Robbe-Grillet](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/robbe-grillet/)
- [Rober Coover](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/rober-coover/)
- [Robert Alter](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/robert-alter/)
- [Robert Rauschenberg](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/robert-rauschenberg/)
- [Robin I. M. Dunbar](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/robin-i-m-dunbar/)
- [Roland Barthes](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/roland-barthes/)
- [role of editor](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/role-of-editor/)
- [romance](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/romance/)
- [Ronosaurus Rex](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/ronosaurus-rex/)
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- [S & M](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/s-m/)
- [Samarkand](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/samarkand/)
- [San Francisco](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/san-francisco/)
- [Sancho Panza](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sancho-panza/)
- [Sarah Bernhardt](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sarah-bernhardt/)
- [Schadenfreude](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/schadenfreude/)
- [Scheherazade](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/scheherazade/)
- [self](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/self/)
- [self-reflection](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/self-reflection/)
- [self-reflective song](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/self-reflective-song/)
- [serial form](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/serial-form/)
- [Sesame St.](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sesame-st/)
- [setting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/setting/)
- [sex](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sex/)
- [sexuality](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sexuality/)
- [SF MOMA](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sf-moma/)
- [Shahrazad](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/shahrazad/)
- [Shakespeare](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/shakespeare/)
- [shanidar cave](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/shanidar-cave/)
- [shared memory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/shared-memory/)
- [Sharon Begley](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sharon-begley/)
- [Sigmund Freud](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sigmund-freud/)
- [sign](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sign/)
- [signified](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/signified/)
- [signifier](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/signifier/)
- [silk road](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/silk-road/)
- [simplification](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/simplification/)
- [Simulation Theory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/simulation-theory/)
- [Sindbad](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sindbad/)
- [slipperiness of language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/slipperiness-of-language/)
- [snow](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/snow/)
- [Snow White](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/snow-white/)
- [social relations](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/social-relations/)
- [Son of a Gun](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/son-of-a-gun/)
- [space](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/space/)
- [speaker](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/speaker/)
- [speakers](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/speakers/)
- [speech acts](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/speech-acts/)
- [spelling](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/spelling/)
- [sperm](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sperm/)
- [Spirit](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/spirit/)
- [stage design](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/stage-design/)
- [Star Trek](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/star-trek/)
- [Star Wars](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/star-wars/)
- [stereotypes](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/stereotypes/)
- [Steven Pinker](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/steven-pinker/)
- [stool](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/stool/)
- [stories](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/stories/)
- [story](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/story/)
- [storytelling](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/storytelling/)
- [structuralism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/structuralism/)
- [Study for Homage to the Square](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/study-for-homage-to-the-square/)
- [subjectivity](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/subjectivity/)
- [suicide](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/suicide/)
- [Sumeria](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/sumeria/)
- [Swedish](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/swedish/)
- [symbolic actions](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/symbolic-actions/)
- [symbolism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/symbolism/)
- [symbols](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/symbols/)
- [T. H. White](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/t-h-white/)
- [T. S. Eliot](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/t-s-eliot/)
- [Taal Lake](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/taal-lake/)
- [Taal Volcano Island](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/taal-volcano-island/)
- [Tale of Melibee](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tale-of-melibee/)
- [Tale of Sir Thopas](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tale-of-sir-thopas/)
- [tales of betrayal](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tales-of-betrayal/)
- [Taoism](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/taoism/)
- [teaching literature](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/teaching-literature/)
- [teaching The Waste Land](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/teaching-the-waste-land/)
- [textual resources](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/textual-resources/)
- [Thai](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/thai/)
- [Thanatos](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/thanatos/)
- [the alphabet](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-alphabet/)
- [The Arabian Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-arabian-nights/)
- [The Associated Press](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-associated-press/)
- [the Beach Chalet](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-beach-chalet/)
- [The Birth of the Reader](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-birth-of-the-reader/)
- [The Chaos of Metafiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-chaos-of-metafiction/)
- [the consumer](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-consumer/)
- [The Counterfeiters](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-counterfeiters/)
- [The Crying of Lot 49](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-crying-of-lot-49/)
- [The Death of the Author](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-death-of-the-author/)
- [The Decameron](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-decameron/)
- [The Epic of Gilgamesh](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-epic-of-gilgamesh/)
- [the essence of fiction](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-essence-of-fiction/)
- [the fisher king](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-fisher-king/)
- [The Foundation Series](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-foundation-series/)
- [The Hero with the Thousand Faces](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-hero-with-the-thousand-faces/)
- [the holy grail](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-holy-grail/)
- [the ideal realm](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-ideal-realm/)
- [The Iliad](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-iliad/)
- [The Inferno](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-inferno/)
- [The Inoperative Community](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-inoperative-community/)
- [The Jazz Singer](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-jazz-singer/)
- [The Joker's Greatest Triumph](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-jokers-greatest-triumph/)
- [the like button](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-like-button/)
- [the lying truth](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-lying-truth/)
- [The Maker](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-maker/)
- [The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-making-of-a-fresco-showing-the-building-of-a-city/)
- [The Maltese Falcon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-maltese-falcon/)
- [The Mirror in the Text](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-mirror-in-the-text/)
- [The Mousetrap](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-mousetrap/)
- [the myth of myths](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-myth-of-myths/)
- [The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-narrative-organization-of-collective-memory/)
- [the nobody writer](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-nobody-writer/)
- [The Odyssey](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-odyssey/)
- [The Once and Future King](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-once-and-future-king/)
- [the painting within the painting](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-painting-within-the-painting/)
- [The Philippines](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-philippines/)
- [the play within the play](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-play-within-the-play/)
- [the readerly wrier](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-readerly-wrier/)
- [The School](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-school/)
- [the story of stories](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-story-of-stories-2/)
- [the stuff that dreams are made of](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-stuff-that-dreams-are-made-of/)
- [The Tempest](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-tempest/)
- [the Tenderloin](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-tenderloin/)
- [The Theory of Mind](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-theory-of-mind/)
- [The Things They Carried](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-things-they-carried/)
- [The Thousand and One Nights](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-thousand-and-one-nights/)
- [the truthful lie](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-truthful-lie/)
- [the work within the work](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-work-within-the-work/)
- [the writerly reader](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/the-writerly-reader/)
- [Theory of Mind](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/theory-of-mind/)
- [This is not a pipe](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/this-is-not-a-pipe/)
- [Thomas Metzinger](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/thomas-metzinger/)
- [Thomas Pynchon](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/thomas-pynchon/)
- [thought experiment](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/thought-experiment/)
- [Tim O'Brien](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tim-obrien/)
- [time](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/time/)
- [time as the fourth dimension](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/time-as-the-fourth-dimension/)
- [Tiresias](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tiresias/)
- [Tofu St. John](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tofu-st-john/)
- [tone](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tone/)
- [Torah](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/torah/)
- [totality of life](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/totality-of-life/)
- [transparency of language](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/transparency-of-language/)
- [Tristram Shandy](https://ronaldbrichardson.com/tag/tristram-shandy/)
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