Tag Archives: Rasputin

TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading →

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EROS AU SECRET:THEY ARE CURIOUS YELLOW ET JAUNE

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Dave

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (Alphonse KARR, Les Guêpes 1849) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton examine how French culture in the eighteenth century projected these new attitudes of lavishness … Continue reading →

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading →

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WHEN MEMORIES WERE CHEAP LIKE BORSCHT

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Dave

”Let them eat caviar” supposedly said by Czar Nicholas II upon learning that the peasants were starving. Although there is no record of these words ever having been uttered, it is plausible that he could say them…. Many nefarious claims … Continue reading →

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INTRIGUE AT THE STARETS ACADEMY

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Dave

According to popular myth Rasputin was a mysterious somewhat dubious man, infamous for drunken debauchery, when he took advantage of the Tsarina’s gullibility and exploited her vulnerability over her son’s ill health. The young Tsarevich was a haemophiliac and during … Continue reading →

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GNOSTIC SHINDIG WITH THE DODGY MONK

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Dave

Grigori Yefimovitch Rasputin is one of the most mysterious, notorious and disputed figures in modern history. Who was this man who seemingly had strange powers and a mysterious influence over others; with eyes that many claimed changed colors when they … Continue reading →

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DIE HARD: BRINGING DOWN THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Dave

Marjorie Perloff has described how “Wittgenstein’s language games have provided models for poetic composition,” and concluded that, for him “the ‘ordinary’ . . . turns out to be, after all, capable of being seen as the ‘aesthetic’” With regard to … Continue reading →

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OUR BEDFELLOW WHO ART …. IN INIQUITY

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Dave

Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind … Continue reading →