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Tag Archives: Leonard Cohen
john walker: humming the traitor song
…The problem of villains and spies and is one of the more bedevilling issues within the broader context of evil and villainy. In fact, for many the existence of evil in a world under divine supervision is quite disconcerting. In … Continue reading
sailing against idiot winds
…Chris Hitchens would have disagreed, but the question can be posed nonetheless as to whether reason can accept Divine Revelation, the proposition that god can, and does communicate with the individual? To the believer, reason is no obstacle to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anselm kiefer, Christopher Hitchens, Contemporary Holocaust Art, Divine Revelation, Donald Kuspit, Hoffmeier Israel in Egypt, Jon Levenson, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen Dance Me to the End of Love, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sam harris The End of faith, William J. Hamblin, Yvelyne Wood Holocaust art
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judging joan
Those judgements of Joan.Her trial and execution were only the beginning. In the centuries since,the Maid has continued to provoke both anger and adoration, skepticism and awe. There have been many fluctuations in Joan’s fame… In 1429, when Joan so … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benjamin West, Charles D'Orleans poems, Duke Philip the Good, Isabella of Bavaria, Jennifer Warnes, Joan of Arc, King Charles VI, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sir arthur conan doyle sir nigel, The Hundred Years War
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boundaries and limits
Does light always shine through the cracks. What if the foundation is cracked? Well, it can be fixed, probably cheaper than a tear down. Leonard Cohen once said in a song that “Judaism is full of cracks, that’s how the … Continue reading
trial and sedition: tribute money and pay now plan
This triumph must have made the Jewish Revolt very real to the people of Rome; it was designed to render them vividly aware of the gravity of the danger from which the new emperor and his son had delivered them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arch of Titus, Bob Dylan, Caravaggio, Daniel Sperber, Emperor Tiberius, Emperor Vespasian, Flavius Josephus, Josephus the Jewish War, King Herod, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Katsav, Pontius Pilate, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Shlomo Amar, Tacitus Roman Historian, Temple at Didyma, The Gospel of Mark, The Jewish War, Trial of Jesus, Vespasian destruction of the Second Temple, Woody Allen
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judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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100 red carpets for the sun
Seeing Irving Layton in action was poetry as performance art. The phycicality, the gesticulation, the booming delivery, the sublimation, the modulation. A spectacle vascillating between erotic vulgarity, a sort of testosterone based infantilism, yet enigmatically mixed with the redemptive promise … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged a.m. klein, Albert Camus, Beckett, canadian poetry, George Woodcock, Irving Layton, Irving Layton 100th anniversary, jack mcclelland, Jean Genet, Kafka, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mordechai Richler, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, T.S. Eliot
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