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Tag Archives: Harold Bloom
normal: what them worry?
Stiff necked? For sure. The perils of Pauline in the desert is clear evidence of that, an unruly nature not easily buying into the coach’s plans for victory and redemption,perhaps setting the seeds for the later exile. But today is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benny Gantz, Christopher Hitchens, daphni leef, David Ben Gurion, G.K. Chesterton, Gilles Deleuze, Harold Bloom, Joel Schalit, Marcel Duchamp, MK Michael Ben Ari, MK Regev, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Herzl, tony judt, Udi Aloni, Yassam special forces, Zionism
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“we don’t talk we hold forth”
They evoke a memory here, a recognition there, of the kind of overarticulate, overemotional young people who excitedly theorize about the universe and themselves, who forever question what they are saying and then question the question itself, who sound as … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Alfred Kazin, David Leitch, Don Quixote, Harold Bloom, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismer, Oswald Achenbach, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand
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vulnerabilities
it is not hard to be convinced that Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to write in the manner of Dickens and Balzac. In The Blithedale Romance he did. There are gothic furbelows attached to the novel, also-spook stuff and mystifications to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Louis Vivin paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
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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agonizing doubts: the nature of things
Can reason and logic solve all of people’s problems? The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in the individual’s unending debate on this question- but his verses are charged with agonizing doubts. The material of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Cicero, Epicurus, Harold Bloom, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nepos, Richard Dawkins, Sandro Botticelli, Stephen Greenblatt
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all purpose spiritual materialism
Spiritual themes have often been the occasion for the goriest and most violent scenes in movies. It seems that intrinsically good subjects like liberty, chivalry and honor seem to be the best pretexts for really pouring it on. Think of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anthny Quinn, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Fry, Dino de Laurentiis, Harold Bloom, Jack Palance, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mel Gibson, Par Lagerkvist, Richard Fleischer, Silvano Mangano, the help movie, viola davis the help, vittorio gassman
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no redemption left behind
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And if I can add to Dickens, it was the end of times. The end of all times. The Peace Train is coming. Even Dickens was not immune … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Amy Goodman Democracy Now, Gershom Scholem, Giotto di Bordone, Harold Bloom, Jerry B. Jenkins, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mike Huckabee, Noam Chomsky, Schmuley Boteach, Slavoj Zizek, The Left Behind Novels, The Moral Majority, Tim LaHaye
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don’t blame the messenger
Angels go back to the dawn of time, whether in physical or metaphorical form, they seem to have run the gamut from the truly celestial to the falling, the redeemable and the incomprehensible. Messengers on a divine route or a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alexander louis leloir, frans francken paintings, Gershom Scholem, Gustave Moreau, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Harold Bloom religion, Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the angel, Leon Bonnat, Luca Giordano, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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and they got their butts kicked
Essence, body and soul. Everything in perfect harmony. And the bad guys got whipped big time. Apparently. But that’s all water under the bridge, even if that H2O is a bit salty with tears. And they really do want the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Jan Victors, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, matisyahu, Pieter Lastman, Purim jewish holiday, purimpalooza, Rabbi Langer San Francisco, Rembrandt, rembrandt the jewish bride, San Francisco Chabad, Van Gogh
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