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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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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?
According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Albert Camus, Frederic Fitch, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Restall, Homer The Iliad, John Zorn, Ken Kesey, Peter Sellers, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Alpert, Richard Metzger, Stanley Kubrick, Timothy Leary, Toshiro Mifune
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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY
”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice McMahon White, Aphrodite, Arthur Heinrich Wilhelm Fitger, Bronzino, Claude Verlinde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Grote, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lucas Cranach, N.S. Gill, Peter Paul Rubens, Rubens, Sandro Botticelli, Schliemann Troy, Shaft Graves Greece, Tracy Marks, Trojan War, Velasquez, Venus de Milo, Werner Keller the Bible as History, Woody Allen, Zeus and Ganymede, Zeus and Leda
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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading
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GUILTLESS PLEASURE: IMMORTALIZED FOR THE NAUGHTY BITS
Casanova: “I had women, I played, I joined in the fun, I bawled, I scorned and was never slave to my passions, but they gave me pleasure. Of not hiding myself, I made my profession…”The same principle which forbids me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Volkoff, Anton Raphael Mengs, Brian Kenety, Casanova, Casanova David Tennant, Casanova Syndrome, Count Waldstein, Donald Sutherland, Dr. Maty British Museum, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Frank Finlay, Frederick the Great, Frederico Fellini, Giacomo Casanova, Graciela Spector-Bitan, Homer The Iliad, Ian Kelly, Ivan Mosjoukine, Jacob Frank, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Linguistic Casanova, Lizzy Davies, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Samuel Johnson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP
” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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