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disturbed but preserved
After two millennia, the words still strike with amazement, the visions still transport us, there are still secrets only half discovered.Most of the ancient books have been destroyed either intentionally or accidentally, hatred and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Akkadian words, Aristophanes, Babylonian King Hammurabi, Bram Stoker, Catalan Atlas, Hammurabi Law Code, Hungarian Angevin Legendary Hungary, Karl Marx, Livy historian, Livy History of Rome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Neil MacGregor British Museum, Pompeii frescoes, Stele of Hammurabi, The Aleppo Codex, Vatican Library
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saw dust memories
Remember what Smokey the Bear used to say, “only you can prevent forest fires,” but what of these financial conflagrations, destructive wild fires destroying a less than ideally pristine stock market environment where the forest rangers always seem to arrive … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, carson block, Carson Block Muddy Waters research, Donald Fagen New Frontier, John Paulson firm sued over Sino-Forest bet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Menander Greek dramatist, Orient Paper Muddy Waters report, Sino-Forest bankruptcy, Smokey the Bear
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whose face did he see?
There is a paradox to Henry Miller. The two Tropics books are among the foulest books ever written. Cancer is bad enough, but Capricorn gets worse as it goes on and reached depths of vileness which are really indescribable. Miller’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Aristophanes, ben grauer, Carl Jung, Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Francois Rabelais, Henry Miller, James Joyce, karl shapiro, Lawrence Durrell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Blake
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Looking for the naughty bits
The intimate relationship between sex and death carried to the extremes of excess as only the Russian characters seems uniquely equipped to articulate. The secret erotic room of Catherine the Great as urban legend or in fact proof of decadence … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, catherine the great erotic room, catherine the great furniture, hermann broch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, peter woditsch, siege of leningrad, Sigmund Freud, sophie schoukens
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gold bugs: buried with their booty
Among the allies of the Trojans in their bitter war to save their city were men from the far off land of Thrace. According to Homer, their chariots were laden with silver and gold and their weapons were also of … Continue reading
A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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An Oscar for the “male gaze”
Since the first biblical patriarchs wandered out of Babylonia to the Egyptian Pharoahs and through the Greek theatre of Aristophanes to modern Hollywood, the male hero has been the center of the universe. Copernicus proved “man” was not the center … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy awards Oscars, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, Aristophanes, B.F. Skinner, Dorothy Arzner, Dustin Hoffman, Guy Debord, James Bond, Judith Mayne, Kaja Silverman, Katharine Hepburn, Laura Mulvey, Lee Wallace, Oscar Awards, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rosalind Russell
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NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System
“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Bacchus, Baudelaire, Brian Arkins, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, Cornelius De Vos, Goldman Sachs, Greek debt crisis, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lord Byron, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis The Big Short, Oscar Wilde, Peter Paul Rubens, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Thorsten Hasenkamm
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