You died, and you died, and then you died some more. But that was later. Before, you liked to drink something called “Tarkhoun” – green like absinthe, and sweet like candy. Your nineteen-year old boyfriend burned up in a fighter plane in WWII. That day you said goodbye to him on the platform, when youContinue reading “You died for three days straight”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Modern-day storytellers are circumscribed by reductivism. Adopt a classical method – and you’re out of touch, a coward channeling a bunch of unfashionable dead white guys. Adopt a classical method and innovative technology – you are not merely out of touch, you are also a corporate whore. This is the problem with much of theContinue reading “How “300” Spartans Drop-Kicked Me Down the Rabbit Hole”
“Why do you like to objectify yourself?”
“Because it involves straying outside myself.” (Sounds about as subtle as “When you cheated girl, My heart bleeded girl” by Mr. Timberlake – but it’s true)
They walk in and out of my line of sight
… The characters, that is. I go out to people-watch even when I’m feeling anti-social for weeks on end – because otherwise, I would never, ever get anything done. Even if I’m sitting next to a high school girls’ volleyball team, while writing about marauding space-monkeys; I need the gabbing volleyball players to focus andContinue reading “They walk in and out of my line of sight”
“300” – Reaction & Review.
“300” is popular because it combines a classic narrative and a revolutionary technique. The story – related by an Ancient Greek for Ancient Greeks, mind you – is an invocation of a true myth: bloody, biased, sexual, exaggerated, and morally ambiguous. This myth is channeled by Miller and Snyder into lovingly constructed bursts of imagesContinue reading ““300” – Reaction & Review.”
Natalia A. 