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manliness: battles of epping forest
Long hair, tight pants, and other masculine things, then as now, some things don’t change… …But, you might argue, the Renaissance was a time of violent change, one of those exceptional epochs when an old morality was breaking down and … Continue reading
banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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swift sparks of low heeled boys
A master satirist, Jonathan Swift was something of a misanthrope. An amiable one, but one who detested mankind. Still, undaunted, he wrote in a stubborn hope that people could be stung, stabbed, and whipped into better sense. Three-hundred years later, … Continue reading
the masks we wear
Guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax: exploring the architecture of human imagination. Tai Carmen: A mask of gold hides all deformities.” Thomas Dekker “Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.” John Dryden “Pride is the mask we … Continue reading