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edinburgh: habits and hangovers
In eighteenth-century Edinburgh temperance was an unknown virtue…. To be sure, the inhabitants of Edinburgh probably felt they had good reason to imbibe. They had recently broken free from a stifling Calvinistic authority, which combined with the dreadful conditions on … Continue reading
health: fit for fun
is health necessary? Is civilization dangerous to our health? … But whatever the effects of civilization upon health, there has always been a sizable group of people- sick or well- who cannot bring themselves to care about good health. These … Continue reading
ustinov: diversity in identity
At one time in the late 1950’s, early 1960’s it became virtually impossible to turn on television without finding Peter Ustinov. He might appear as a traffic policeman- first British, then French, then Austrian. He might do his own version … Continue reading
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boswell: hebride divinity
The adventures of James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson on their tour of the Scottish Highlands; the wilds and the barbarous collide in the Hebrides As Boswell suggested to Johnson, “we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally … Continue reading
boswell and johnson: highlands hopping
“Who can like the Highlands?” asked Dr. Samuel Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour… …he had been “quite hurt,” … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, George Macaulay Trevelyan, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Rowlandson
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like the highlands?
Who can like the highlands? At least that was the question asked by Dr. Johnson after Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back from the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour… … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles H. Bennett, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone Shakespearian scholar, Frederick A. Pottle, James Boswell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Crumb, Samuel Collings, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Rowlandson
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ern malley: hoaxing the last laugh
Australia. 1944. Were their poems worthless, masterpieces or elaborate put-ons? Almost seventy years after their composition, no one is really that sure. For it is part of a celebrated hoax that fooled the critics and set modern poetics askew. “Deliberately … Continue reading
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memory bank: cloud in the head
Apparently Cyrus the Great could address every soldier in his army by name. Leon Gambetta, the French statesman, could quote thousands of pages of Victor Hugo verbatim. Possessors of these preternaturally powerful memories are called eidetics. Some call them freaks. … Continue reading
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sammy’s gone.real gone: return of the hunters
The distant is in the near.The hunt is somewhat of a cultural gauge. There are always subtle shifts in the hunting motif. From brutal and tiring affair to the trappings of ritual, pomp and circumstance, the trophy has always assumed … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, don gray art, Eli Siegel, glenn greenwald, Jeff Greenwald, Martin Buber, michelle goldberg, paulo freire, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Samuel Johnson, spielberg munich, Stefan Kanfer
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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”
Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading
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