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The Literary Aficionado Review
Thursday, December 27, 2012 This Möbius Strip of Ifs `Life is best understood backwards.’ KierkegaardReview by Grady Harp According to the dictionary definition, `The Möbius strip is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It can be realized as a ruled surface. It has several curious properties. A line drawn starting from the seam down the middle will meet back at the seam but at the “other side”. If continued the line will meet the starting point and will be double the length of the original…
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Review in Centrifugal Eye, Eve Hanninen, Editor: Double Wow
Review of This Mobius Strip of Ifs in the Autumn 2012 issue of “The Centrifugal Eye” online literary magazine, pages 81-83 reprinted below: Reflections on Rummaging by D. J. Bryant Mathias B. Freese first appeared in The Centrifugal Eye’s web pages in the form of an anomalous review of short stories from his collection, Down to a Sunless Sea (2007), by TCE staff writer Ocalive Olaopa Mwenda. (Visit TCE’s archives to read Mwenda’s Absence of Light: Quirks of Dark.*) While Matt Freese is not a poet, his stories and essays are often poetic in tone, and this now-retired teacher and psychotherapist…
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Something of a Discordant Essay
Several days ago I caught David Lean’s Summertime on TMC. I had seen it in 1955 when a teenager and one scene, I dimly recall, I could not grasp, but now I do. Oh do I. But I am getting ahead of myself. The following morning at breakfast with my wife I began to muse about Hepburn’s memorable performance when other associations came to mind about Lean’s films. I recall The Bridge on the River Kwai which I had seen in a Manhattan movie palace at 17. My friend and I were annoyed that tickets for Around the World in Eighty Days were…
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Poet, Editor, Alyce Wilson of Wild Violet Magazine, Reviews My Book
Search Review: “This Mobius Strip of Ifs” December 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm , by Alyce Wilson This Mobius Strip of Ifs by Mathias B. Freese My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wild Violet Magazine. How does one summarize an entire life of more than 60 years? When faced with this ominous task, too many self-published writers produce rambling, episodic narratives that fail to capture the true drama and beauty of their lives. Fortunately for author Mathias B. Freese, he is a gifted essayist who has been writing essays for decades. By collecting his favorite pieces, he gives readers insights…