Gary Bills
WHAT IS A FABLE?
I've been scratching my head, thinking hard about fables. It's hard to define what a fable is, don't you agree? Traditionally, a fable is...
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Creative Writer
Specialising in fiction; I have written poetry and short stories. My first adult novel is out now on Amazon.
"A Letter for Alice".
Also, please take a look at the
Fablemantra Artist, Heather.E.Geddes.
Follow us on- https://garybills-fablemantra.com
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Fablemantra
Artist,Animator
Hello, my name is Heather and I'm busy at painting and animating original pieces of art.
Ever since I was a child my world has been imaginary and I've continued to explore it.
I'm selling items at my unique Fablemantra
Art Shop.
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Gary Bills
- Jul 17, 2019
- 2 min
Wonderland, Narcissus and the Skink poem.
This is the third of Heather's "Dingle Darwin" pictures, and it owes more to events and characters in my novel, "A Letter for Alice",...
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Gary Bills
- Jul 3, 2019
- 2 min
Lorina and the White Rabbit.
THIS is the second of Heather's "Dingle Darwin" diorama pictures, and it is a re-imagining of the world of Lewis Carroll. It is also...
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Gary Bills
- Jun 20, 2019
- 1 min
The Domain of the Measuring Bird.
This is an interesting painting by Heather, because it is inspired by both "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, and "A...
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Gary Bills
- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
Hints of Lewis Carroll's dark libido?
SOME shrinks have detected cruelty, even sadism in the works of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), with a particular focus on oral sadism....
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Gary Bills
- Mar 10, 2019
- 2 min
How to write a fabliau.
Key Points. 1. Find a sexual theme that's bawdy, even disgusting, rather than erotic. 2. Employ a strong element of social satire. 3....
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Gary Bills
- Mar 7, 2019
- 1 min
A new character for wonderland.
Most of his tales I have forgotten; but I do recall the story of the Measuring Bird: a long-necked mathematical creature with an immense...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
TEN FACTS ABOUT MEDIEVAL BANQUETS.
1. Only the wealthy could afford to hold a proper medieval banquet, because so many courses were prepared and ingredients were often...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 14, 2019
- 2 min
Visions from Wonderland.
This is a snippet of a promotional video for "A Letter For Alice". This novella, by Gary Bills, is due out in the spring. What was it...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 10, 2019
- 1 min
A passage from A Letter for Alice.
Soon enough, he was ready for me. I saw him shake a leg, as was his custom when he was about to take a picture; and I think his habit was...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 4, 2019
- 1 min
From - A Letter For Alice...
How could we ever forget Miss Prickett, with her crinoline bells and red brocades, and her raised suspicious eyebrows, and her little...
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Gary Bills
- Jun 24, 2018
- 3 min
THE PERSONAL AND THE UNIVERSAL IN POETRY.
By Gary Bills. Some readers of poetry believe that every poem is personal, which is to say, every poem derives from a personal...
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Gary Bills
- May 26, 2018
- 3 min
PLANTATION WHITE.
PLANTATION WHITE. A loaf of white sugar: it might as well be marble, so hard it is, so perfect. So unused. Behind thick glass at the...
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Gary Bills
- May 5, 2018
- 2 min
Full Eclipses and the Blanket of the Moon.
In the Bizarre Fable, "The Blanket of the Moon", the moon covers the earth with a blanket of shadow: which is what happens whenever there...
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Gary Bills
- Mar 4, 2018
- 2 min
GODS AND MONSTERS... THE SHAPE OF WATER AND THE NATURE OF THE HERO
Not so very long ago, the makers of films with B-movie themes were on safe ground. If a monster appeared on the silver screen, then that...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 18, 2018
- 4 min
Page 5. OF SHADOWS, PAPAGENA AND LOTTE REINIGER. By Heather Bills-Geddes.
When the couple actually do meet, Papagena is not naked but is scantily clad in feathers, as the female counterpart of Papageno, with...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Page 4. OF SHADOWS, PAPAGENA AND LOTTE REINIGER. By Heather Bills-Geddes.
The quasi 3D effect is also noticeable in the tree sequence, where Papageno plays his pipes, as he dances and the birds settle upon him....
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Gary Bills
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Page 3. OF SHADOWS, PAPAGENA AND LOTTE REINIGER. By Heather Bills-Geddes.
The Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute is a performer in an opera, but Reiniger’s Papageno is essentially a dancer. His is slim and...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Page 2. OF SHADOWS, PAPAGENA AND LOTTE REINIGER. By Heather Bills-Geddes.
Furthermore, a contemporary and admirer of Reiniger, the film theorist Rudolf Arnheim, believed that all children’s films should make use...
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Gary Bills
- Feb 18, 2018
- 2 min
Page 1. OF SHADOWS, PAPAGENA AND LOTTE REINIGER. By Heather Bills-Geddes.
A case could be made that shadow puppetry is the opposite of real existence, at least the real world as presented by Plato in The...
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