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healthy habits….
Is health necessary? Is civilization dangerous to our health? History is littered with health fads, a reflection of the anxiety about health as an inevitable component of civilized life where the quest for the pure and healthful takes on all … Continue reading
health: fit for fun
is health necessary? Is civilization dangerous to our health? … But whatever the effects of civilization upon health, there has always been a sizable group of people- sick or well- who cannot bring themselves to care about good health. These … Continue reading
secret agent cult: balzac undercover
…It was Balzac finally, who put his unerring finger on one of the basic motivations of the secret agent in every age, one of the essential sources of his imaginative appeal: “The trade of a spy is a very fine … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Allan Pinkerton, Balzac, Honore de Balzac, James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper The Spy, John Lukacs, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Roger Caillois literary sociologist, Rose Greenhow spy, Wilhelm Stieber
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secret agent cult: vautrin to the rescue?
The cult of the secret agent. That he could be hazardous to the open society… …There is unquestionably a moral element, a kind of stoic idealism, in the myth of the covert hero that is embedded in the modern image … Continue reading
scraps of dreams and reality
The seeker and dealer of what others have thrown away. Time. Time cradled in the hands of the ragpicker, the tactile touch of chronology is something apart from time in the hands of the researcher or sociologist. Here, it is … Continue reading
love at last sight
The creator of all this decadence and all its obscure strands was Baudelaire. His poetry collection called The Flowers of Evil from 1857, is a classic and seminal piece of decadent writing influencing everyone from Walter Benjamin to Henry Miller … Continue reading
thrift store arcadia
The Arcades Project. It was a preoccupation for what Walter Benjamin perceived as the commodification of things. The individual aura and human experience that encased existence could be fragmented and packaged like security derivatives and tranches of sub-prime mortgages. Benjamin … Continue reading
Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire
George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adam Mickiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, August Clesinger, Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Janka Wohl, Michael Lunts, Oscar Wilde, Paganini, Victor Hugo
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