Still Life with Woodpecker

Here you have it, a curious amalgam of things I was at once obligated and inspired to write. It's a strange paper, though I think it doe...

While many symbols, signs, and patterns both connote and denote any number of things that may link this text to structurally similar bodies ...

Kurt Vonnegut, though of more tragic beginnings, wrote black comedies, of which Still Life clearly is not one; in Cat's Cradle, in which...

To continue, we find similarities with Robbins in the writing of Hunter S. Thompson, who often portrayed his characters as literally or figu...

Looking at the surface of Still Life, we do not immediately see what link might exist between the writings of Roald Dahl and Tom Robbins (1)...

Not only for its similarities to other works of the same years from 1950-1980 and that spans' heroic redefining of the only somewhat def...

To take the strange reason for being and expound upon it, I will focus on the pack of Camel cigarettes as it surely holds the position of th...