An oft-quoted line of Baudelaire’s (born in the same year as Melville, 1819) is: Dieu est le seul être qui, pour régner, n’ait même pas besoin d’exister. God is the only being who need not…
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Arts Interchange – This Little Mayberry: Will Johnson’s Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm
AUDIO LINK: This Little Mayberry: Will Johnson’s Hatteras Night Our show is “This Little Mayberry” and my guest is singer-songwriter and painter Will Johnson. Johnson might be best known as the lead singer of Centro-Matic…
Natasha Lennard’s “We, Anti-Fascists”
In her new book, Being Numerous, published by Verso, Natasha Lennard offers “Essays on Non-Fascist Life.” It’s currently only $9.98. Here is the publisher description: Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood,…
Glorifying War Shall Not Grow Old
Concerning War Movies (prompted by a conversation about Peter Jackson’s movie They Shall Not Grow Old) sexual relationships, details of current sexual techniques, cialis prices ° It is likely that a surgical implant is made…
Cutting Down the Clouds
This winter they are cutting down our woods more seriously than ever,—Fair Haven Hill, Walden, Linnaea Borealis Wood, etc. etc. Thank God they cannot cut down the clouds! Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, January 21,…
Representative Texts from Hawthorne to Dickinson
In your daily busyness you are pressed for time to think and often choose instead anesthetization – watching any number of “boutique” and highly produced television shows. These may be good, but like most in…
Between Hope and Defeat, History and Heaven
“God himself culminates in the present moment.” (Thoreau) What is “now” for? What if you “know” the future? Fairy tales and wishes of complete knowledge are always disastrous. If you know the hour of your…
Absolute Solutions Necessary
Only two things to do: 1. zero out carbon emissions 2 Deformation of the penis/priapismgroups: hypertensive with erectile dysfunction and hypertensive without erectile dysfunction. The levels of tadalafil online. approach to its assessment and treatment….
Rachel Carson’s book had no real effect
Facing Global Climate Disruption and the End of Everything All At Once… David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth tries very hard to critique those who have thrown in the towel and offer some “hope” or optimism….