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estrangement abroad to reunion at home
La forza di natura, the force of nature will always prevail. Comedy is always the triumph of instinct over intellect. By whatever name, instinct is not only a will to live, but to produce life; comedy is essentially erotic… And … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Catullus poems, Charles Darwin, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jan van Noordt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sigmund Freud Comedy, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Beatles Two of Us
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triumph of instinct over intellect
All comedy aspires to laughter, although not all laughter is related to comedy. Still, many essential aspectsof comedy find affirmation in this response. To begin with, as Aristotle long ago observed, laughter is a uniquely human prerogative. Even that staid … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriaen van der Werff, Biblical Tale of Sarah, Boccaccio Decameron, Easter Laughter Greek Orthodox Church, Homer Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Homeric Hymn to Demeter, John Milton Paradise Lost, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pliny Roman scholar, Sandro Botticelli, Suzanne Langer, Willem van Mieris
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essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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beginning with the happy ending
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” nature over intellect. And the happies tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…Laughter in the house… …Homer’s Iliad concludes with a funeral, the initial event in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Daniel Rabel Sketches, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orestes and Aegisthus, Petronius Satyricon, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Hotspur
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laughter in the house
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura/- nature over intellect. And the happiest tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…laughter in the house. To begin with, the Happy Ending. Aristotle calls it the … Continue reading
“something sweet about life”
An argument in favor of reviving common sense…. Someone once mentioned to Dr. Samuel Johnson a certain person who claimed to see no distinction between virtue and vice. To which Johnson replied: “If he does really think that there is … Continue reading
will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent
James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Elvis Presley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer The Odyssey, James Frazer, james george frazer, jane ellen harrison, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, mary renault, steve sailer, The Doors
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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Does our annoyance over the use of certain words mean we are against their use? Or so it would ostensibly appear. However, our distaste for certain cliche words, deemed annoying,and irritating are also, at some level,gifted with a compelling attraction, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Bernard Orr, Conrad veidt, Dooley Wilson, Dr. Caligari, Ed Goldberg, Fritz Lang, Gaudi, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Humphrey Bogart, Humphrey Bogart Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman, John Huston, Marist poll, Mary Azzoli, Nathan M. Rose, Patricia Reaney, Peter Lorre
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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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