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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: "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: 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: Salomé, Wilde, and Freud
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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: Symbolists and Parnassians: How good theory gets adopted by bad theorists
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 17 January, 2012. Symbolists and Parnassians: How good theory gets adopted by bad theorists. This is from Eccles' introduction to A Century of French Poets. It's an older work, a bit prior to the codification of literary theoretical methods in the later 20th century. But this is still one of the clearer, more succinct explanations of symbolism that I've encountered. Three years of on-and-off study, and I still can't quite figure out what. Words wou...
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Inklings: Security Angst
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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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Inklings: A Preface to Nothing, Really
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 08 February, 2012. A Preface to Nothing, Really. I went to the opera tonight. No big deal.just sort of showed up about a half hour before and got "last minute" student tickets with a friend. Tickets for what would have been very, very expensive seats at La Monnaie. Walking back, I had one of those moments of historical-hyper-consciousness (when lacking a better term one may as well use the most absurd, eh? And less-recently-watched Joyeux Noel,.
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Inklings: Two Notes
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 18 January, 2012. Throughout the last post Maritain's Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. Also, does this bit from Maurice Maeterlinck's "Fauves Las" remind you of anything? Les chiens jaunes de mes péchés,. Les hyènes louches de mes haines,. Et sur l'ennui pâle des plaines. Les lions de l'amour couchés! The first two lines in and the "flock of temptations" made me think of Eliot (no surprise there). For comparison:. In other words, maybe their t...
