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war against english the language: unstitching for naught
Is verbal usage simply a matter of social usage, an aspect of etiquette? … The war against the English language is thus a many pronged offensive, waged amid jungles of jargon, over oceans of Officialese, prairies of pedantry, mountains of … Continue reading
harbinger of black omens
She looks out her window and sees a moon, a church, and a black yew tree. They are beautiful images, but in her perception they do not invoke hope or curiosity or offer answers to her torments. Instead, the images … Continue reading
love bug: motoring to joy division
Flip me the peace sign.Ferdinand Porsche was the lead designer of the most mass-produced car of all time: the Volkswagen Beetle.Its a complex story of social engineering meeting valid practicality. There are few pop culture consumer products that can equal … Continue reading
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Tagged andreas cremer, Bill Bernbach, dr. rex curry, Edward Bernays, ferdinand porsche, josef ganz volkswagen, kevin tynan, rob kievit, ronnie schreiber, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, volkswagen beetle history, Walter Benjamin
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guilt and forgiveness: “i” for you “thou” for me…
…and a bell jar in between.Innocence. Does it really exist? Or is it just a virtual good to be bartered with Faustus as another bad deal. Contextually, it is more about the ways individuals manufacture or construct a world of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Solomon, Elaine Showalter, Erica Jong, Felix Nussbaum, Giorgio de Chirico, Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Faithfull, Otto Plath, sylvia plath, sylvia plath daddy, Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath
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daddy: visionary times of memory
How do you deal with negative recurring themes through your life that end up instilling a deep pessimism? As a woman about choosing a spouse who holds the same detested personality traits as a disliked father.Take Sylvia Plath:” Trying to … Continue reading
New Order : elusive holy grail
Does fear eat the soul? Eventually Hitler’s Aryan myth, like many another, monstrously devoured both its creators and its supporters. It all began as a minor and unsolvable issue in comparative linguistics around the time of the French revolution. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruckner, Frederic Spotts, geoffrey wheatcroft, Gottfried Helnwein, hugo hoppener fidus, James Young, john galliano, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rammstein, Salvador dali, Susan Sontag, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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just lookin’ for a kiss
Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Audrey Hepburn, Berthe Morisot, Betty Friedan, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Hitchens, Dorothy Parker, Feminism, Fran Leibowitz, Fritz Lang, Henry Makow, Jean Renoir, Joan Rivers, Laurel Nakadate, Leah McLaren, Natalie Portman, Nora Ephron, Sarah Bernhardt, sylvia plath, Walter Benjamin
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Multiple personality art: 3d goth on the long way back
He claims to be haunted by an alter-ego.And he is probably right. Perhaps more than one. He is also becoming a celebrity; making noise in the world of pop art and serious art with haunting, surreal, and mysterious digital prints, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Szrotek, Amy Verner, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Edward Hopper, Francois Boucher, Henri Rousseau, Henry Fuseli, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Karen E. Hart, Leah Morgan, Mannerism, Mannerist painting, MUFON, Multiple Personality Disorder, Nico Moleman, Ray Caesar, Riccardo Tisci, Sylvia Banasiak, sylvia plath
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