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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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odd couple: “excellent mystery”
Marriage is sometimes described in prayer books as an “excellent mystery”; something that cannot help but stimulate the imagination. Every marriage, union, is slightly mysterious , whether the partnership succeeds or fails. There is usually something that escapes analysis. There … Continue reading
hidden, unknowable and unthinkable
Richard Francis Burton, born in the nineteenth-century, rightfully belonged to the Renaissance, and should have been contemporary with Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. Instead he was trapped in the century least capable of appraising his talents, confined and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Alfred Bercovici, Ali Bey mecca, Captain Sir Richard Burton, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, ceremony of EI Ihram, Charles Dickens, Christopher Ondaatje, EI Medinah, Francis Trollope, Lord Bryce, seven circuits Tawaf, Sigmund Freud, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Richard Burton, Sir Walter Raleigh
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the Fat lady
Finding behind the laughter all kinds of hate, cruelty and perverted fantasies. In a way, the Glasses are an intimate club, as David Leitch once said, a peculiarly intimate club in which Salinger’s readers were overtly invited to associate themselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, C.S. Lewis, Carles Dickens, Charles Dickens, David Leitch, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, Jack Skow, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Levine, seymour krim, William Weigand
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something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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hotel player piano
A largely automated hotel, a luggage storing robot, and automatic check in desk with self-service touch screens. The future is here and its getting restless. Our love hate relationship with technology probably goes back to the Platonic idea of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McDonald Touchscreen kiosks, Michael Ferguson technological unemployment, New York Yotel, Paul Krugman, steve easterbrook, technological unemployment, Thorstein Veblen, Yobot New York Yotel
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the pain and beauty of it all
Poignant. Heart tugging. Hard to imagine that an immensely talented artist like Edward Landseer, a technical gymnast and stuntman could waste time plumbing the depths of anecdotal gimmick. A weird tryst between feeding increasingly affluent purchasers with the most tacky … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Dickens, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, French Salon painting, gilbert and george, Joseph Beuys, Julian Schnabel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, sir edward landseer
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distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading
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