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can’t find the switch of the light of good
What is evil? A question that has been a source of much reflection over time. Certainly, the connection between the law and morality is always tenuous and much villainy is perfectly legal. In fact, the existence of evil in a … Continue reading
the shadow side of the page
Hemingway: the image and the shadow. What lay behind the dazzling public persona he created for himself? … It must be remembered that the image is an essential part of the truth about Hemingway. Not only did he project an … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Carlos Baker writer, Clive Owen actor, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway big game hunter, Ernest Hemingway fisherman, Ernest Hemingway public image, Gellhorn wife of Hemingway, Hemingway and Gellhorn movie, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martha Gellhorn, Nicole Kidman, Robert Capa, Sigmund Freud
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spirit of the forbidden
The unvarnished truth. Banal attractiveness sauntering into the realm of tedious familiarity? Bourgeois effrontery through others as a form of marketable cliche? Diane Arbus remains somewhat of a mystery. There is a contrast here, marked, between a Helen Levitt, Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane Arbus, Franz Kafka, Helen Levitt photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp, Marvin Israel, Nicole Kidman, patricia bosworth, Susan Sontag, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, william todd schultz
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like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …
Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning
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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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GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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VENETIAN MASKS & DIONYSIAN AMBIVALENCE
”An additional street sign reference to an ancient God is the word EROS, written in red neon across the street as Bill is buying entry into Milich’s costume shop. Eros is no less than the Greek god of lust, love … Continue reading
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Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Death In Venice, Dionysus, Eyes Wide Shut, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jamie Stuart, Luchino Visconti, Nicole Kidman, Nietzche, Richard Wagner, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Gink, Thomas Mann, Tim Kreider, Tom Cruise, Venetian Masks
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