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SANTA CLAUS EXCHANGE THEORY: No to Ho! Will The Circle be Unbroken?
Sexist Christmas advertising,and other rituals of discontent. why should Christmas be any different than the rest of the year? There is no holiday that seems to invoke the polarity and contradictory impulses that pits theological purity and the reality of … Continue reading
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST DEPENDING ON THE PHYSIQUE
”Every human face is a hieroglyph which can be deciphered, indeed whose key we bear ready-made within us” ( Schopenhauer ) From the ancients onward, Europeans in particular have puzzled over the face, devising methods for interpreting its secret language. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Coysevox, Aristotle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Charles Le Brun, Charles White, Francis Galton, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Haeckel, Lucy Hartley, Michael Foster, Monsieur Nivelon, Nick Hopwood, Patricia Magli, Physiognomy, The Kinks, Therese Davis, Thierry Poncelet
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FINE LINE BETWEEN THE HEROIC & THE IDIOTIC
No other artist has made such ferocious demands upon his performers and the public. Richard Wagner, an autocrat, not only wrote the libretto and the music; often with total disregard for the human voice; but also flung into the score … Continue reading
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SERIOUS MEN
”Receive with simplicity all that happens to you”, or so Rashi, the Jewish mystic sage is alleged to have uttered.It appeared in the opening scene of the film A Serious Man.To which must be addeda Korean student is asking to … Continue reading
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Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bach, Coen Brothers, Death In Venice, Eyes Wide Shut, Franz Werfel, Jack Abramoff, Jefferson Airplane, Luchino Visconti, Michael Stuhlberg, Nietzsche, Rashi, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Thomas Mann, Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT
Avoid inhaling demons.Read the warning label first. The package looked interesting. It read ”Daydream with the Devil. attention. contents highly flammable. handle with caution. verify peremption date. recycle with Lucifer. Save nature.” He saw in his fame only a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, David Hume, Diderot, Haiti, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jesse Duplantis, Kant, Leibniz, Pat Robertson, Robert Bolton, Voltaire, Voodoo, Voudou, Voudou Day of the Dead
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