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rolls over rubies
Men and their cars. Fetish object? idolatry? The freedom machine? Below: Colonel T.E. Lawrence at the wheel of an armored Rolls-Royce in 1918. He later wrote:”A Rolls in the desert was above rubies.” (see link at end)…He would eventually command … Continue reading
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Tagged Harold Orlans, Lawrence of Arabia, Rolls-Royce history, T.E. Lawrence
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The secret agent: romantic incarnations
In fact and in fiction, the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …The OSS and the early CIA inherited some of MI6′s snob appeal. Though tarnished by … Continue reading
the secret agent: the clubby attitude
…The myth of espionage as an essentially patrician sport, like polo, had some slight foundation. In the early twentieth century secret service budgets, except possibly in Russia, were still modest, and to stretch them as far as possible the professionals … Continue reading
cult of the secret agent
The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society. We should not make the mistake of assuming that … Continue reading
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Tagged Homeland Gideon Raff, Homeland television series, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Kathryn Bigelow, Lowell Thomas journalist, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Reilly Ace of Spies, Richard Sorge, Sidney Reilly undercover operator, T.E. Lawrence, Zero Dark Thirty movie
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lost manuscript: searching with the rag pickers
There have been some famous lost manuscripts in the history of literature. There was Hemingway’s lost suitcase,Malcolm Lowry’s manuscript draft of Ballast to the White Sea was lost to fire in his shack near Vancouver, Plath’s 130 page draft of … Continue reading
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Tagged carina birman, dani karavani, david mauas, david s. ferris, Edouard Manet, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, Gershom Scholem, henning ritter, henny gurland, jean francois raffaelli, lisa fittco, Max Horkheimer, michael taussig, Stephen Schwartz, Stuart Jeffries Guardian, T.E. Lawrence, Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath, Theodor Adorno, thomas attardi, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Benjamin
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the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.
State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading
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Tagged a.d. gordon, a.m. klein, benny morris, Byron Childe Harolde, david frischman, David Lean, Edward Said, eugene fromentin, fatma kassen, Hieronymous Bosch, ilan pappe, lev grinberg, Martin Buber, meir margalit, Michael Greenstein, Michel Foucault, noah j. efron, noam chomsky middle east, omar sharif, peter o'toole, rafael falk, T.E. Lawrence, Tim Dirks, William Butler Yeats, yakov m. rabkin, Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
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