The tome has attracted the mirth and curiosity of the French media, who wonder if it's simply the literary imaginings of an old man with a glint in his eye or hints at a kernel of truth.
Since many of the stories in zines regularly include characters from "Star Trek", people who mostly read what zine editors call "general-media zines" might get the idea that the zine phenomenon is simply the literary expression of Trekkiedom.
E.R. Dodds notes that, given Plato's usual practices, "the probabilities are strongly against" Callicles' being simply a literary invention (1959, 12); but as Dodds also remarks, it is tempting to see in Callicles a fragment of Plato himself — a frightening vision, perhaps, of what he might have become without Socrates (1959, 14).
Instead, mass-blogging about my take on such social mores is quite simply the literary equivalent of furrowing my brow and expelling air.
MS: In one of our previous interviews, you had told me that magic realism was not simply a literary device for you, but rather a way of living life through a daily reality full of spirits, small superstitions and little miracles.
Last night was the second annual World Book Night, an event for which authors, booksellers, librarians, publishers and simply passionate literary fiends gave away 500,000 free memoirs, novels and non-fiction titles in the United States and 1 million in the United Kingdom, where it all began last year.
At King's College London studying for my degree, I just got by, felt defeated by philosophy, and was simply inept at literary criticism.
Irregulars claim Holmes and his friend and narrator, Dr. John H. Watson, were actual people, that Conan Doyle was simply Watson's literary agent.
Finally, since, as he puts it, "fiction is my religion," he may simply be a literary monotheist who has never fully grasped the imaginative and expressive possibilities of nonfiction; he's not trying to catch that fire.
