2,500 years doesn’t make a vanity smack-down less potent. 17th Century, A.D. Milton Adam (Paradise Lost, Bk 4, 300-03): His fair large Front and Eye sublime declar’d Absolute rule; and Hyacinthin Locks Round from his…
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The Uses of Revolution
“A revolution, then, is a way of putting power in different hands.” Guy Davenport Jamie Warren, Associate Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (and former Bloomington resident and graduate student in the Indiana…
By Day One Cannot See Any Stars
Guy Davenport: Collage is retrospective in content, modern in its design. Kept up, it will recapitulate and summarize the history of its own being. Herakleitos: The untrained mind shivers with excitement at everything it hears….