Gerard DiLeo
Bio
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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Stories (552/0)
Hougoumont
After the engagement, they were in haste to bury the dead bodies. Death has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow glory. The typhus is a concomitant of triumph. This well was deep, and it was turned into a sepulchre. Three hundred dead bodies were cast into it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble voices were heard calling from the well.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in BookClub
Amos 'n' Andy 'n' Us 'n' Them
This TV adaptation ran from 1951 to 1953 with African-American actors. It was taken off the air, genius comedy and talent notwithstanding, because it inappropriately presented black "folks'" shenanigans as white entertainment. Brilliant, yes, but it was that perpetuation of the us-and-them motif in media that inclusion needed to end.
By Gerard DiLeo10 months ago in Critique
The Whole Universe Is Against Me
He had failed his PhD dissertation. Who does that? It wasn't sent back for revision. It was just flat rejected. We regret to inform you that your thesis has been rejected summarily due to its irrelevance to any meaningful impact on the postgraduate educational environment, nationally or internationally. We suggest you change your advisor and choose a subject that is credible for any legitimate consideration.
By Gerard DiLeo11 months ago in Fiction
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