It’s possible that if I even hint at the name “Melville” to begin a piece anyone who sojourns here will click the “close” button and be well on their merry way. (Though surely there are…
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I placed a jarhead in afghanistan
In Stevens’ poem “Anecdote of the Jar” we are given a figuration of the way mind creates order but further of the way mind allows the rules of order to imprison our perception and limit…
As a Flower Succeeds to Foliage
“…as a flower succeeds to foliage.”* (Melville “Lord, when shall we be done changing?” Hawthorne) Meeting Melville I liked him so much I made him an invitation prospective… of bringing out the glory of his…
In the Company of Children
Recently we attended a 6th grade “graduation.” The move from 6th to 7th grade seems to me, if not necessarily one to honor in our school system, one that likely marks a very real transition….
What Manner of Creature Be This?
The Errant has frequently offered for your edification detailed reports on the fraudulent nature of the corporate reforms in “education.” I do not plan on writing anymore about this, though will still encourage our stalwart…
What Is a National Consciousness?
Henry James in his critical study of Hawthorne in 1879 (my textual break) on the “American mind” before and after the Civil War. When this event occurred, he was therefore proportionately horrified and depressed by…
Breaching the Sound
erectile dysfunction and 252 with normal erectile function. It has been confirmed lâassociation• Arrange initial follow-up to assess efficacy of therapy and tolerability of patient to cialis without prescription. Erectile Dysfunction is a symptom based…
What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive!
Some poems from Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. The Portent. (1859.) Hanging from the beam, Slowly swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! The cut is on the…
The Money Virtue As American Rational Religion
The most virtuous and honest character in Dickens’ Hard Times, Stephen Blackpool, often confronts the confusion, ambiguity, paradox, and unfairness of “interests” with an aggrieved and exasperated cry that “it’s all such a muddle.” Even…
Clausewitz On the Modern Condition
So, don’t ask me why, but I fell into Clausewitz this morning. From the Ubiquipedia: Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral (in modern terms, “psychological”) and political…