Some Words on Harlan Ellison

The personality, the performance, the charisma, the honesty, the raw emotion, the range.

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by Kevin Aiello • July 19, 2018

The singular quality of Harlan Ellison's writing was in prose that sings with eloquence and wit and burns with edge and passion; a passion for what is right and good; for the strength and necessity of kindness and intellect and reason; for the continual unwillingness to be meek in the face of injustice everywhere, big and small, personal and political.

A Transverse Cut

A look at C.G. Jung’s seminar on the Kundalini Yoga.

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by Kevin Aiello • July 18, 2014

C.G. Jung was a master explorer and deep observer of the human psyche, of the complex relationship between conscious daylight life and the vast darkness of the unconscious. The former is the place of control, planning and mastery. It is the zone of wakefulness where we direct our lives, or think we do. The latter is the storehouse of memory, instincts and emotions and forms the structural basis of the psyche. It is pure nature within us. These two aspects of our inner lives must live in accord with each other. Often, they don’t.

A New Beast

A review of Alan Moore Storyteller by Gary Spencer Millidge.

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by Kevin Aiello • May 6, 2012

Early in David Mazzucchelli's graphic novel Asterios Polyp, there is a page with a grid of six panels which, viewed as a unified whole, shows a warehouse office space, filled with zig-zagging partitions; students sit at desks or stand before walls, sheets of marked-up drafts paper before them. The main character proceeds to walk through those panels, in each one firing off acerbic comments directed at his architecture students — “You call this an entrance? I’d need a speculum to get inside!” — until his angry verbal momentum carries him right off the page.