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richard burton : cities of the saints

Breaking Victorian taboos, one expedition at a time… …In a later book, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, Richard Burton described a village with 20 per cent more males than females and noted jovially” Is it not a waste … Continue reading

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an englishman in salt lake city

…So swiftly did he write, that before one book had left the binders, another was on its way to the printers. Systole, diastole, never ceasing—never even pausing. Miss Arundell being inflexible, Burton resolved to let the matter remain nine months … Continue reading

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elected to the plurality of gods

They are both waiting fot their angels to call them. The disordering of the senses and a powerful and arrogant imagination. A belief that what is best and most courageous in him goes back before The Fall. Yes, a medieval … Continue reading

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mixed blessings

The emancipation of selfishness. The fecund faculties of myth making. Harold Bloom created a furor with his article on Mormonism, but for the most part it was  misinterpreted, or rather interpreted in a literal sense. Bloom understood the fantastical and … Continue reading

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