In an age of too much, too fast, too late we have already shoved the Seussian idea of ecology into the recycle bin of useless messages. I would rage against this idiotic cotton candy confection–but…
Browsing Category Literature/Arts
The Mind Arrested and Raised Above Desire
Stephen Dedalus on “esthetic stasis” as the “proper, esthetic emotion.” —Aristotle has not defined pity and terror. I have. I say— Lynch halted and said bluntly: —Stop! I won’t listen! I am sick. I…
I Sat Me Against A Tree
Robert Frost is likely well-known as one of our major poets and I would imagine that many grandparents recall a few of his poems. Many of you may even know several titles. But I’d hazard…
Art Thou Pale for Weariness…
“Like a joyless eye/finding no object worth its constancy.” The following excerpt from Joyce’s Portrait seems usefully illustrative of the previous post. And really, illustrative of the modern mind. Joyce seems dead on in Simon…
To First Do No Harm, Do Nothing First
I am become more convinced that the best and possibly only truly good philosophy of right action is this one: Do No Harm. As the title of the post proposes, we can likely only approach…
Hate and Death and Education: Or, D. H. Lawrence in Love
Some time ago I posted that men, on the whole, hate women. I meant that. I meant it in this way, from D. H. Lawrence who was a good hater, in Women in Love. But…
A poet born this day, 1923
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The Keynote: Everything Was Fact
From Chapter V of Dickens’ Hard Times. THE KEYNOTE. COKETOWN, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind…
Speaking of Books: Murdering the Innocents
And speaking of reading: some books have chapters or sections that can be considered apart from the whole work as something like illustrative set pieces. These pieces are part of the whole, but can be…