Tag Archives: Maurice Sendak

klein: cats running with the pack

Like a cat running after any mouse that happens to stray within view. That first reflex, the first nature in the human being, is unavoidable and inalterable. It can be mastered, it can be conquered, but it remains. But mind … Continue reading

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where the wild things are

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes: Farewell to one of the giants of childrens (or any other) literature, Maurice Sendak (1928-2012). If he had stopped working after Where The Wild Things Are (Harper & Row, 1963), his place in history would still … Continue reading

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detritus dumpster: where the wild things are

Maurice Sendak and more American detritus… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): We’ve all come to be so familiar with the Maurice Sendak classic, “where the wild things are”, that we really have been blinded to the larger career of Sendak. His efforts … Continue reading

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RESERVOIR OF TEARS: Black Pedagogy & Do Nice Kids Finish Last?

“I remember spending afternoon with Mr. Richter in the Central Park Zoo, I went weighted down with food for the animals, only someone who’d never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them, Mr. Richter … Continue reading

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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND

“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading

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MADNESS & ALTERED STATES: ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SILENCE

Only then can we see how madness and non‐madness are NOT two distinct phenomena, but rather are in dialogue, “are inextricably involved” … “In the severe world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman” . The physician speaks to … Continue reading

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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading

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