Tag Archives: Isaac Bashevis Singer

spinoza of supermarket street: keeping the rules?

Imperfection. Logic, and a strong dose of rationality dictates that God, according to the Jewish definition, is non existent, or at best, absent when needed most. Yet mixed with this certainty of doubt is often a personal belief, a sort … Continue reading

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fiddlers on hot tin roofs

Under such circumstances the Jew, if he did not succumb to Christian pressure and seek conversion, felt both superior and inferior. He hugged his own traditions and pondered, elaborated, refined them in constant study and meditation. If to the outside … Continue reading

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norman the negotiator

Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading

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normality of silent running: adventures in immanence

Blame it on Spinoza. Spinoza provided the raw material for the abandonment of Jewish messianism and what had been the conventional and traditional religious conceptions that had defined jewish life in the diaspora.Spinoza was the architect of liberal democracy and … Continue reading

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some things you just can’t improvise

In Alan Arkin’s role as Singer in Carson McCullers’s screen adaptation of The Heart is Lonely Hunter, he plaus a deaf-mute whose silence was an articulation and metaphor for all the lonely life impaired citizens in a southern town whether … Continue reading

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detritus dumpster: where the wild things are

Maurice Sendak and more American detritus… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): We’ve all come to be so familiar with the Maurice Sendak classic, “where the wild things are”, that we really have been blinded to the larger career of Sendak. His efforts … Continue reading

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Jack in a box; fiddler on a casino roof

Jack Abramoff, at least superficially, appears like a contradiction.Its a fusion of political ideology and religion. He manages to brainwash himself.  An ostensibly religious and devout man immersed in the world of political lobbying at the highest level or the … Continue reading

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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE

A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading

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EFFING THIS & EFFING THAT: ART & POLITICS OF FUDDLE DUDDLE

Puritanism: as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” ( H.L. Mencken ) Fornication Under Consent of the King. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Fuckedandfarfromhome. The F-Bomb ….”How do you people really feel about doing it? Isn’t that about … Continue reading

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TRIVIAL PURSUITS & BOYS IN STRIPED SUITS

”However here we also get the first doubtful use of the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil. We are told that fewer than two per cent of Holocaust survivors ever tell of their ordeal. And so:’For his part, Henry now joined … Continue reading

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