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tinkling the ivory: recital in the seraglio
Travel hint: Don’t mock Islamic beliefs about Paradise. Not even a John Milton connection about Paradise Lost. There are laws in Paradise, and its no place some some funky anarchist. Screw the Enlightenment. More Heidegger and less Voltaire. Although in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet III Tulip Era, Auguste Roubille, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, Fazil Say, Fazil Say pianist, Franz Werfel, Gentile Bellini, Madame Girardin wife of French ambassador, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Mimar Sinan University, Norman Finkelstein, Omar Khayyam, orhan pamuk, Rambam, Slavoj Zizek, Sylvester Stallone, Tariq Ramadan, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Voltaire The Enlightenment
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SLEEPWALKING IN WEIMAR: Hypnosis in the Asylum
Quoting Hesse’s Steppenwolf -‘Human life is reduced to hell only when two ages two cultures overlap. Now there are times when a whole generation is caught between two ages with a consequence it looses all power to understand itself and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alban Berg, August Strindberg, Carl Mayer, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Grosz, Gottfried-Benn, Hans Janowitz, Herman Hesse, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Robert Weine, Robert Wiene, Seth Taylor, Walter Benjamin
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OLD VIENNA OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Psychic Conflict, Anxiety and Hysteria
In a letter written in 1892 to Wilhelm Fliess, Freud made a remark, ” No neurasthenia or analogous neurosis exists without a disturbance in the sexual function.” “I am pretty well alone here in tackling the neuroses. They regard me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Mahler, Alma Schindler, Angela Dilkey, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bruce Beresford, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, Franz Werfel, Friederich Austerlitz, George Beard, Gustav Klimdt, Joan Arehart-Treichel, Josef Breuer, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Klimdt, Linda Simon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Nordau, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Gay, Ray Monk, Robert S. Wistrich, Schoenberg, Sigmund Freud, Tom Lehrer, Wilhelm Fliess
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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 POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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Artistic Identity In Exile
Armenia is a land-locked nation in the region of Eurasia southwest of the Caspian Sea. Their history has been marked by innumerable invasions, with Armenia having only intermittent degrees of sovereignty from the full and fledging to all shades,variations and … Continue reading
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