Category: Writing

The sensitivity paradox

Published by MJ Beasi on August 22, 2018

I’ve often complained (and by “complained,” I mean “bragged”) that one of the difficulties of my job teaching teenagers is that they are much too…

When the writing really isn’t clear

Published by MJ Beasi on July 11, 2018

Maddeningly contradictory text in Dido and Aeneas: In a single scene with one location, the environment is originally described as an uninhabited valley in the…

Fidelity

Published by MJ Beasi on February 13, 2004

There was something pure in it, she supposed—so much devotion with so little return. And perhaps the return was not as small as it seemed…