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marvelmania Doom: doctoring an unsuspecting world

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes Marvelmania Fan Club Poster Marvel Comics Group, ca. 1969 Illustration: Jack “King” Kirby (1917-1994) Part 5 of LONG LIVE THE KING: Seven Days of Jack “King” Kirby (1917-1994) As we countdown the days to what would … Continue reading

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primal energy fields: love children in space

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Famous Monsters of Filmland October 1978 issue, #148 Photograph: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 35 years ago this spring (officially, May 25th, 1977) STAR WARS opened in theaters across the country, and mainstream movies would never … Continue reading

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starry starry night

Strange deformations attributable to tradition as it buckled and flared, gasping under the pressures of the pathologies of time.You can see the visible world as a vortex of lines. Or so said Vincent van Gogh. He used the collision of … Continue reading

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on the wings of the mundane

Salvation of the mundane. An ambiguous friendship with the gnostic demons. Is a salvation nebulous in form a salvation anyway. Salvation light. Not too filling. Not too holy with just a thin layer in the abridged form of contemplation of … Continue reading

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Innocent magic

Paul Klee had the kind of innocent magic that could evoke a wistful human face from the simplest of geometric forms. In “Senecio” he does it with circles for head and eyes, a straight line to suggest a nose, and … Continue reading

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king of the wood: return to the grove at nemi

In James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, one is caught up in the drama of a dark and sleeping earth warmed into renewed life by the reviving sun, which also seems in the end to symbolize, for author and reader of … Continue reading

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will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent

James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading

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Ghent altarpiece : a trio of mystery and suspense

It is known for many things; not the least being that it is the most stolen piece of art of all time.It represents the first really ambitious and consummate use of oil paint and it marks the birth of realism … Continue reading

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STORYTELLERS IN THE FOREST: Making Peace With The Power Of Death

Freud said of folk tales that they contain “the dreams of the human race.” One of these dreams is about the simple good prevailing over the subtle wicked. Most of the stories that the Grimm brothers collected are lay moral … Continue reading

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A LANGUAGE OF TRICKS & TREATS: Sea of Universal Myth

“A still further step can and must be taken, however, before we still have reached the bounds of the problem. Myth, as the psychoanalysts declare, is not a mess of errors; myth is a picture language. But the language has … Continue reading

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