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tiger: don’t touch his tail. please
…The perils and pratfalls of being a tiger in India. Where once they ruled the roost, man’s own adaptability, and of course the repeating rifle and high-powered cartridge…. If he appears savage, it is because he is the modern version … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged George B. Schaller, George Schaller India, John Updike, K. Sankhala tigers India, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, moacyr scliar, Moacyr Scliar Max and the Cats, Pandit Nainsukh paintings, Raja Balwent Dev Singh, Tiger hunting, Yann Martel, Yann Martel Life of Pi
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updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields
…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
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Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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updike: small appliances of civilization
…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading
a seymour misunderstood: hints of envy and terror
The ambiguity was strongest about Seymour, who is regarded by the surviving Glasses as something of a Holy Man. But there are hints in Franny and Zooey that coexistence with a saint, living or dead, can have its drawbacks and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, Calvancati Dead of Night, Franz Kafka, Henry Grunwald, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction, Jack Skow, Janet Malcolm, John Updike, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismar, michael redgrave, Paul Levine, Seymour Glass J.D. Salinger, William Weigand
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valor and horrors
This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian and Terrence McKenna, Denman Ross, Fred Burton, fred burton chasing shadows, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, israel yom kippur war, jack levine art, Jackson Pollock, joe alon, John Updike, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Moshe Dayan Yom Kippur War, Seldon Rodman, The Fabian Society, The Valor and the Horror documentary
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boutique atheism : babel banter
What are the limits of scientific rationalism? But what actually is atheism, besides an ecological and scientific dirt disher despite Chris Hitchens perhaps stuck in limbo, a purgatory of the missionary position somewhere in rhetorical rebuttal to the anal perversions … Continue reading
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Tagged A.C Grayling, alain de botton, Alfred Stieglitz, Ashcan School, Christopher Hitchens, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, John Updike, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Fry, Thorstein Veblen, william glackens
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