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INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading
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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing
This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading
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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading
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DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET
The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading
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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelica Bell, Bertrand Russell, Carrie Crockett, Clive Bell, Douglass Orr, Duncan Grant, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Abel, Elizabeth P. Richardson, G.E. Moore, George M. Johnson, Gerald Brenan, Jan Goldstein, Julian Bell, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Malcolm Ingram, Meryl Streep, Michael Holroyd, Roger Fry, S.P.R., Sigmund Freud, Society of Psychical Research, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf
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AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"
Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading
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Tagged Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, James Joyce, James Strachey, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Julia Briggs, Leonard Woolf, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Kerr, Lytton Strachey, Panthea Reid, Richard Burton, Roger Fry, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions
“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice K. Miller, Alice Miller, Amy King, Bertrand Russell, Beth Hale, Bloomsbury Group, Clive Bell, Diana Russell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, Judith Herman, Katie Mitchell, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Borges-Giramonti, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicole Kidman, Pablo Picasso, Stephen Daldry, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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