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down the hatch
At the bottom of the poisoned cup is a graveyard of broken dreams. Poison has been around seemingly forever. The bible is filled episodes since the Fall of poisonous plants and amateur snake handlers testing their mettle and faith against … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged andre chenier, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, death by poison, death of socrates, edward f. bachner, Jacques-Louis David, John Boydell, Monsieur Verdoux, Orson Welles, rasputin death, Sir Joshua Reynolds, william dowling
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EAT, DRINK AND BE WARY
”The book was so popular it went into six editions during Burton’s lifetime, and its gratified author was eager to doff his anonymity after the first. It should have been popular. Although it gave expression to the pains of the people (always a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Dr. Ben Johnson, English literature, Henry Fuseli, Henry James, Holbrook Jackson, James Shirley The Humorous Courtier, John Boydell, John Fletcher the humorous lieutenant, John Milton, Joseph Wright, Maria Cosway, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, William H. Gass, William Shakespeare, www.tate.org, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge, XTC Colin Moulding, XTC Nonsuch
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