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LFINO: Issue #11 - Reading The Recognitions, Chapter 9: The Drunken Prophet
'yacketayakking screaming vomiting whispering facts and memories and anecdotes' (Allen Ginsburg, Howl, 1956)
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Ryan Sweeney
MOVIE REVIEW - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Dir. Christopher McQuarrie, 2025)
"No one is safe from Phineas Freak"
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Ryan Sweeney
LFINO: Issue #10 - Reading The Recognitions, Chapter 8: Everything Calculated To Wear Out
For now, the father might be anyone the son chose. The instant their eyes met in forced recognition, it would be over. (The Recognitions, II.i 298)
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Ryan Sweeney
MOVIE REVIEW: The End (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2024)
'I think it's a myth...I think it's a myth'
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Ryan Sweeney
LFINO: Issue #9 - Reading The Recognitions, Chapter 7: Kindred Spirits
He believed himself eternally damned, finally ran about telling everyone about it. (The Recognitions, I.vii 226)
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Ryan Sweeney
MOVIE REVIEW: Flow (Dir. Gints Zilbalodis, 2024)
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." (The Wind in the…
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Ryan Sweeney
LFINO Issue #8 BONUS ESSAY: Hubert van Eyck - Fact or Fiction
'There are authorities who still insist that Hubert Van Eyck is a legend, that he never lived at all...' (The Recognitions I.vii, P.251)
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Ryan Sweeney
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