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h)The writer | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. My background is in journalism. I’ve practised it at various times in my life, yet never derived the satisfaction from it I get writing the essays I’m publishing here. It’s a writing profession, yet its criteria are by no means literary, not sometimes even grammatical! And I think the criteria of reporting is now not as important either; rather, journalism strives to lead and influence opinion. Some time ago I wrote a book,. Thursday, 28 July, 2016.
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Democracy | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. 200 years after the Declaration of Independence: 1963 march to Washngton. Direct democracy in action: death of Sokrates. In ancient Athens though, the constitution was under the control of the people. The people ruled directly, and carried out at least some of the tasks and policies of government. How did that work? Was it fairer than government by elected representatives? Roman citizens voted for their patron. The American constitution of 1787 is the ...
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Creole music | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. Once again I discovered something that everyone else has known about for some time: at least I’m consistent. I first came across Po’ Girl while watching the 2008. Documentary Down the Tracks: The music that Influenced Bob Dylan (. Aka, The Roots of Bob Dylan). Po’ Girl played a version of Mississippi John Hurt’s My Creole Belle. That stopped me in my. Tracks (59:15-60:45). A minute and a half of bliss. I loved her well. My darlin’ baby. Even though wri...
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True Fictions | BESTqUEST
https://phillipkay.wordpress.com/2015/08/07/true-fictions
Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. This is a true fiction about how the venerable genre of true fiction gave rise to the novel in England in the 17th century. Their antecedents probably explain why the best novels remain truthful while at their most fictional. Baron Munchausen goes into battle. And was based on a Greek play called the Boaster. Of 1705. And a wit called Raspe wrote a famous book of travellers’ tales allegedly by Baron Munchausen in 1785. The Baron was known for h...There...
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The Golden Ass | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. The Transformations). We also call it the Golden Ass. As that is the shape the hero becomes in the course of the narrative (the ‘golden’ refers to the beautiful way it is written). 1678) or in Robinson Crusoe. 1719) for example, and the full blown product in Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. Of 1768 or Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Combines a somewhat bawdy tale of someone turned into an ass with erotic results (as in the HK film Sex and Zen. Is a treasu...
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b)Index | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. Posts arranged in alphabetical order. Click on a title to go to that page. Click your browser’s back button to go back to this page, or the Index heading in the page column left. Akhnaton, Zarathustra and Moses. Alexander the Great: in the footsteps. Allingham, Margery: the question. Allingham, Margery, the hidden. Alphonso: a fable for writers. L’amant by Jean-Jacques Annaud. American cinema a survey. Ana Carolina, Songs. Apuleius the Golden Ass.
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c)Books | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. Many of the books mentioned on BestQuest are available free of charge as ebooks you can download. All you need is to choose a format (a standard is epub, but there are others) and acquire good book reader software for your platform and device. I use LY Mesentsev’s BookReader, available from Apple’s AppStore for a small fee (http:/ macbookreader.com/wp/. I convert formats with Calibre http:/ calibre-ebook.com/. Http:/ en.bookfi.org/. A site devoted to t...
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Nudity | BESTqUEST
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Essays on history, myth, ideas, books, film, music…. Nudity: the state of being without clothes. There are many reasons for it around the world. Don’t need clothes, can’t afford them, desire to be sexually provocative, need to shock, or protest a custom or event by breaking taboos. Not to mention being naked for professional reasons. The sadhu have renounced the world for the pursuit of spirituality. Nakedness, even sex, is a means to this end. As well as one about the human body. Social classes or castes.