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The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, gherardo starnina, Hieronymous Bosch, martin schongauer, Saint Anthony, saint anthony hermit, Samuel Beckett, Socrates, the anchorites, the stylites, Theodore Roszak, Tom Lubbock
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Oscar and the academy specter of death: just drink it like socrates
Its a metaphor for orgasm. Sex and death. The French term it “le petite mort” or the little death, where sex and death are linked from the spiritual release that comes with orgasm. As the Oscars get handed out, are … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Watson, Debra A. Sandler, Diane Keaton, Ernest Becker, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Jean Paul Sartre, Margaux Williamson, Otto Dix, Otto Rank, Peter Falk, Peter Greenaway, Robert Warshow, Socrates, Stuart Elliott, Tim Roth, Woody Allen
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NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System
“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Bacchus, Baudelaire, Brian Arkins, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, Cornelius De Vos, Goldman Sachs, Greek debt crisis, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lord Byron, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis The Big Short, Oscar Wilde, Peter Paul Rubens, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Thorsten Hasenkamm
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ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS
“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, C.Douglas Lummis, Carl Jung, Cervantes, Charles Nodier, Don Quixote, Erasmus Darwin, F.W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, Gérard de Nerval, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Gerog Buchner, Godfrey Reggio, Gregory Corso, Henry Fuseli, Jack Kerouac, Keith Moon, Keith Moon The Who, Ken Russell Gothic, Levi Asher, Michel Foucault, Niccolo Paganini, Philipe Pinel, Plato, Plato Republic, Quasimodo, R.D. Laing, Rene Descartes, Richard Dadd, Sacheverell Sitwell, Sam Fuller Shock Corridor, Shakespeare, Socrates, Stephen A. Diamond, Victor Hugo, William Blake, Willianm Burroughs
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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP
” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading
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Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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CONSUMING DESIRE FOR THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Over the centuries the ancient capital of the world has exerted a powerful attraction on tourists, and especially on writers who have come to seek inspiration among its ruins. Traveling from distant towns that had once been under Roman sway, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Motion, Baths of Caracalla, Death of Keats, English poetry, English romantic poetry, Fanny Brawne, Jeremy Taylor, John Everett Millais, John Keats, Joseph Severn, Keats Ode to a Nightingale, Leon Herbo, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Shelley, Socrates, walter jackson bate, William Blake, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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The Cat Who Ate the Family Parrot
Once that cat was out of the bag, all hell broke loose. A clever cat with the verbal skills of Socrates and Plato, but lacking the attendant maturity.In Algeria in the 1930s, legend has been passed down that a common … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alka Seltzer, Charles Dickens, Chat du Rabbin, Enrico macias, Henri Blanquart, Joann Sfar, Plato, Socrates, The Rabbi's Cat
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Grow Your Own Soup
The comedies of the Aristophanes ( 444-380 BC ) include eleven that survive: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, and Plutus. And the missing twenty-nine which remain at large, literary and poetic works of the Absent … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ken Levine, Lysistrata, N.Y. Times, Plato, Richard Goldstein, Socrates, Soupy Sales
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Chance Encounters In The Snare Of Dreams
The weighty dilemma of the artist who must be ”human” in addition to creating. To slay the dragon of abstraction in pursuit of a cause. A mythological figure destined to eternal recurrence. Imagine alienation and despondency as a default setting, … Continue reading