Introductions and Initiations

Explores how Phyllis Webb's "To Those Who Have Also Considered Suicide" is a poem which mischievously induces the reader to become one of the "friends" who undergo the "initiation" of suicide. The reader is encouraged to let go any grievance, however, in consideration of the poet's successful demonstration of the initiation as involving genuine enlightenment

Leaving Home

Explores Elizabeth Daryush's "Children of wealth in your warm nursery" as of a narrator visiting us to warn us about our possible ill-fate, if we don't "escape.." The game for the reader is to decide if she's to be trusted, or not

A Good Place for a Pump and a Dump

Explores Bertram Brooker's "Think of the Earth" from Norman Holland's perspective of literature as a "place" where unsavory wishes can be satisfied, without alarming super-ego censors. Explores the character Tavistock as built to lure many readers into situating themselves within him, for conveying characteristics that define him as both a prodigy of the new but also someone whom elders don't mistake as not clean and admirable -- he is the "good son" whose "rebellion" fits convention and communicates promise rather than difficulty -- and thereby allowing close proximity to the character who represents their split-off bad selves, Harry. Tavistock permits close proximity to -- as close as a touch -- to someone who will execute a matricidal impulse that readers need for some character to fulfill to provide a moment of satisfied elation, to be followed by this nefarious character's, this pollutant-filled character's, destruction. This analysis suggests that books can be sites that serve as psychic dumps where "bad" desires can be made to disappear from reality, as shit might appear to do as it vanishes away from "home.

The (True) Lord of the Rings

The critic, as guide, is here in the penultimate of a four-part series on "Lord of the Rings," suggested to be, if not Sarumon himself (Sarumon's voice is used), certainly someone who could readily imagine him as someone who could have been presented in the text as a flat-out ally, if he himself wasn't relegated to being the reader's guardian and was actually the text's inscriber. The essay confronts the reader with the possibility that the text argues for one esteeming one's possible regression, and for only ostensibly understanding it as adventurous growth; for not really being able to recognize one's self-growth at all, but really only to take pleasure in others' mistaking you for having changed, having matured, having developed, requiring your thereafter necessitating the company of fools in order to buttress one's self-esteem. Confronts the reader with the fact that the hobbits they are leant in the text to identify with, function essentially as the Fellowship's toilet, a place in which to project and deposit all their own insecurities. As such, they were functionally useful, actually ESSENTIAL, for the mission, for the group, but they are denied understanding this about themselves -- which however disagreeable a reality, might nevertheless have leant some genuine self-pride: without "you," Evil would have ruled the land -- for "the great" needing to deny that they have such vast doubts and fears nested anywhere within them to source and supply their company toilet with -- and rather to esteem themselves for attributes that are either actually common or that ultimately serve to flatter someone else. Essay pronounces that the text did supply one hobbit with evidence that he was actually perhaps more remarkable than perhaps any other in Middle-earth -- Sam -- and encourages his not denying himself conscious awareness of this incontrovertible, evidence-supplied felt truth, for keeping a previous sense of personal equilibrium in place

The Visible Invisible Man

Explores how Ralph Ellison's "The Invisible Man" delineates a repeated pattern by the invisible man, whereby he associates with grandiose people of some sort of esteem, and ends up actually being seen by them in a way he rather favours. These figures underestimate him at first, look past him, but eventually draw focus, something they are made out as only doing by his demonstrating himself distinct either as threat or prize. Garnering this acquisition, and then leaving to obtain it from others still foreign to penetrating through to something ostensibly core, something ostensibly individualized, distinct and worthy, about him, is his regular life pattern. He's delineated as a master at making those with a glassy eye, a glassy gaze, towards him, attend to him with some real clarity, some valid registration of the actual person before them

"Mi Casa, Su Casa"

Explores Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" as if it were experienced by many viewers of a particular type -- SCM's: suburban, collegiate young men -- as a feeling out of how they might contrive themselves so that their future development would not place them as identifiable as losers by he-men pulp figures they'd learned early represent masculinity, and whom they always wanted to emulate or be deemed worthy of imbibing under pretence of fellowship

Interlibrary Loan: Wolfe borrowing some of his fans for permanent loan

In Craig Brewer’s analysis of Gene Wolfe’s Interlibrary Loan he argues that the treasure, the green box, is something that allows characters means to keep their memories intact; it affords them integration which is otherwise ostensibly unavailable to them for being reclones who have only partial memories

UWB Vivaldi Antenna Based on a Spline Geometry with Frequency Band-notch

A printed UWB Vivaldi antenna is presented in this paper. Its geometry is based on a novel spline shape and optimised by an efficient global optimisation algorithm. A U-shaped slot is introduced into the geometry to notch out the 5.1 GHz to 5.8 GHz WLAN band. This can be used to mitigate interference between WLAN and UWB systems

Comparison of Grid Array and Microstrip Patch Array Antennas at 28 GHz

A millimeter wave Grid Array Antenna for fifth generation (5G) communications is presented. The 20 cell, nearly-rhombic, 40×40 mm2 Grid Array Antenna structure is simulated and fabricated on a Rogers RT/Duroid 5880 substrate with thickness of 0.25 mm. The grid array has |S11

Microstrip-fed Wideband Circularly Polarized Printed Antenna

A wideband circularly-polarized printed antenna is proposed, which employs an asymmetrical dipole and a slit in the ground plane which are fed by an L-shaped microstrip feedline using a via. The proposed antenna geometry is arranged so that the orthogonal surface currents, which are generated in the dipole, feedline and ground plane, have the appropriate phase to provide circular polarization. A parametric study of the key parameters is made and the mechanism for circular polarization is described. The measured results show that the impedance bandwidth is approximately 1.34 GHz (2.45 GHz to 3.79 GHz) and the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth is approximately 770 MHz (2.88 GHz to 3.65 GHz) which represent fractional bandwidths of approximately 41% and 23%, respectively, with respect to a centre frequency of 3.3 GHz