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Inklings: "Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours"
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 09 January, 2012. Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours". Nothing like using the French version of a clichéd adage to hide the fact that you're using a clichéd adage. Plus it's possible that Napoleon originated it. Which would be neat, but hardly possible to ascertain, given the multiplicity of origin stories for this one-time aphorism. The Arts in General. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tomes, Treatises and Novels. Lord of the Rings.
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Inklings: February 2012
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 09 February, 2012. Salomé, Wilde, and Freud. That is more or less the heart of the drama of the play. Salomé is eventually driven to such a frenzy at John's refusal that she shoots Narraboth, killing him, before she returns to the banquet just before the intermezzo. Things are kind of going pretty badly. Or the conflict between eros and thanatos (Greek plays, obviously) have been present in art and philosophy throughout history, and were so much at...
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Inklings: Reading, Part I: Literature
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 24 April, 2012. Reading, Part I: Literature. However, it's beyond refreshing to be getting back into (English language) literature mode of late. (There's been plenty of French literature, which is fun in its own right: my current read in that language is Monsieur Larose, est-il l'assassin,. Fortunately, I did bring one American novel, Saul Bellow's The Victim,. Has been Kate Chopin's Awakening. The Arts in General. Just having read Herzog, I commen...
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Inklings: Contraception, Vatican II, and a few comments on Classic Capitalism
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 10 December, 2011. Contraception, Vatican II, and a few comments on Classic Capitalism. I spent a while the other day grousing to my boyfriend about this rather awful article. By a self-proclaimed "Catholic." He referred me to an excellent rebuttal. Of Townsend's position (it predates her article, obviously) in the First Things. Then again, why not just head over to the local Universalist church if you believe that? As an allegory for Vatican II...
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Inklings: Ron Paul and National Security
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 06 January, 2012. Ron Paul and National Security. Yes, yes, I'm quoting Ron Paul, but please don't assume I'm a mindless follower. I'm still reading carefully, sifting through actual quotes and actual voting records instead of reading heavily biased things like, uh, this. Which uses the whole familiar yet enticing "cite facts but only some of them" method of argument (which explains why this. Of the things he says, right? Tomes, Treatises and Novels.
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Inklings: Feminism, Wages, and How Protest Movements Support "The Man"
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 19 April, 2012. Feminism, Wages, and How Protest Movements Support "The Man". To have been operative as late as 2007. Though I don't know the details of the case). Ah the hypocrisy.). But I'm not primarily writing to complain about bad childhood experiences with a Spice Girls-inspired girl power doctrine, nor to rant about our cultural blindness to "murders of convenience." I'm writing because of this article recently published in the Atlantic.
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Inklings: Salomé, Wilde, and Freud
http://sesquipadalianmusings.blogspot.com/2012/02/salome-wilde-and-freud.html
Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 09 February, 2012. Salomé, Wilde, and Freud. That is more or less the heart of the drama of the play. Salomé is eventually driven to such a frenzy at John's refusal that she shoots Narraboth, killing him, before she returns to the banquet just before the intermezzo. Things are kind of going pretty badly. Or the conflict between eros and thanatos (Greek plays, obviously) have been present in art and philosophy throughout history, and were so much at...
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Inklings: Security Angst
http://sesquipadalianmusings.blogspot.com/2011/12/security-angst.html
Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 21 December, 2011. Let's be honest here for a moment though; we Americans are lucky. If you're not. Born in the USA, not only do you have to go through all the meticulous baggage controls, paperwork checks, etc; you have to be fingerprinted and get a mugshot. But that's okay, because you're not from the US, so you must be an Enemy (see movies like. Under the watchful eyes of about five policemen per line. So guess what? People if they're doing anyt...
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