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two tribes 10 to go
Jewish unity is the product of history and that history is unique… In Medieval Christendom the jews remained the major dissident community in a conforming world, the eternal Protestants standing outside the monolithic Christian church, witnesses to another truth and … Continue reading
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grease the wheels: gentlemen’s agreements
Return of the dance of the Seven Sisters. The seven occidental oil companies that control world supply, distribution and refining won’t likely arise again. But it is still oil that greases the wheel that makes the world spin. No matter … Continue reading
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quiet desperation of prosaic convenience
Is it possible to reconcile the classic/romantic divide. To purge the psychological into a product of reason? Can it be avoided that aesthetic purity depends somewhat on the decadent? Well, the concept of soulmates can be pitched out so that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged aline kominsky, Charles Baudelaire, daniel ludwig, donald b. kuspit, Eugene Delacroix, godley and Creme, Heinrich Heine, Hell Fire Club, ingrid pitt, James Gillray, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Wente, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, Sir Francis Dashwood
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science of fictions of zimzum
Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading
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Tagged aline kominsky, Bob Dylan, David Mairowitz, Drama of Works, Franz Kafka, Frederick Crews, Gershom Scholem, Gnosticism, Greil Marcus, peter kuper, Puppet Kafka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Crumb, Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold
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master of the underground
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) I’ve never met nor have had the opportunity to work with Crumb, though I have friends who know him (and have even vacationed at his home in the South … Continue reading
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Tagged aline kominsky, allen katzman, Art Spiegelman, Cheap Thrill Big Brother and the Holding Company, Comix, dan rattiner, george metzger, Harvey Pekar, harvey pekar american splendor, jack kirby, jesse marinoff reyes, kim deitch, Norman Mailer, peter joseph leggieri, Robert Crumb, roger brand, spain rodriguez, The Other, trina robbins, vaughn bode, walter bowart, zap comix
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those deceptive distinctions
So, is Christopher Hitchens correct in asserting than women are simply not as funny as men. Or is he falling into the gender trap and reinforcing the differences. Or are writers like Cynthia Fuchs Epstein hitting closer to home when … Continue reading
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Tagged aline kominsky, Andrea Dworkin, carol gilligan, catharine mackinnon, cathy young cato institute, Christopher Hitchens, cynthia fuchs epstein, danny thomas, david buss, diane noonin, george burns, gracie allen, peggy lipton, Robert Crumb, robert wright
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