From William Empson, _Milton's God_ (London, 1961). ************** I heard nothing from George Orwell after leaving England early in 1947, but I well remember...
"Reality Demands" Reality demands that we also mention this: Life goes on. It continues at Cannae and Borodino, at Kosovo Polje and Guernica. There's a gas...
RING! Your voice intelligent sure sweet music ten thousand miles away pulses in my ear your image comes alive in my mind's eye blonde hair red coat that gentle...
A Life Behind the Iron Curtain....... Eduard Limonov (real name: Eduard Savenko) was born and raised in Kharkov, an industrial city near the Russian-Ukrainian...
"From Shakespeare's tragedies...inner motives of passion, and characters who only want their own way and have regard to nothing else, leads to wars and...
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS Reviewer: Drew Hunkins from Madison, WI United States Edward Said is of the opinion that Battle of Algiers is the greatest political film...
Thursday » July 10 » 2003 As the brain dies, new artistry is born Brad Evenson National Post Sumo Wrestlers, acrylic on paper, from the male nude series...
Boston Globe - July 6, 2003 According to a team of computer scientists, we give away our gender in our writing style By Clive Thompson, 7/6/2003 IMAGINE, FOR A...
The transfer from chest to bag was made. And, after seeing his man into the cutter and then follwing him down, the lieutenant pushed off from the "Rights of ...
``The end of art and poetry? No: the end of the `modern era' and with it, the end of the idea of the `modern art and literature.' Criticism of the object...
"Have you heard of Briey, Monsieur? From the mines of the Briey district comes ninety per cent, of France's iron ore. In nineteen fourteen those mines were...
From the "New York Review of Books" Volume 50, Number 11 · July 17, 2003 The White Man Unburdened By Norman Mailer Exeunt: lightning and thunder, shock and...
And here is a quote I came upon unexpectedly today. "Nature seems to have paused, as she passed over the Earth, and opening her stores, to have strewed with...
Dear John, Thanks for the quote and the inside view of your place--sounds 'delish'. I've often thought that living somewhere up in the Northeast corner of...
"The government has two arms of varying length. The long one is for taking—it reaches everywhere. The short one is for giving—it reaches only to those...
Puffy white clouds move silently over my head as a 140 kph wind gusts though my window I dodge spent rubber re-treads truck waste dotting the sandy New Mexican...
"BLACKWHITE. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming...
That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. This line was spoken by Olivia Dukakis, I think, and the characters name was Clarice. I, myself, suffer from a...
"It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody-goodness won't chime." from BEYOND GOOD AND...
Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries...
Oh my goodness...I had no idea that Mr. Nietzsche was the one who said this. I am pleasantly stunned. Thank you, Mike, so much for pointing this out. John...
I am going in for ultra sound tomorrow cuz my Doctor is afraid I may have a serious blood clot going on. And it looks as though this has been building up for...
and I am fixin' to watch my favorite movie, Billy Elliot, before I have to go to have my first ultra sound. I am sending this message out to all my online...
"The Lord is my Shepard I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures..." Excerpt from Psalms 23 I look out my window and there is a field of...
I've been to this cemetary to pay homage to Brecht and Hegel. It was in the former East Berlin. One of Hegel's wishes was to be buried near Fichte. He was ...
Paris February 17, 1903 Dear Sir, Your letter arrived just a few days ago. I want to thank you for the great confidence you have placed in me. That is all I...
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because...
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