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return of the marble faun?

The truly gruesome and the mystery of the act and the people who do it….. “no sin at all, but the best possible virtue in the circumstances ( Miriam in The Marble Faun )…”the wind has blown away whatever else … Continue reading

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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading

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A GOOD SIN TO SOFTEN YOU

In the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare,the Christians of the play universally assume that they’re a nobler species than Jews, but Shylock insists that they’re no more pure than Jews and Jews no less human than Christians.Purity and humanity being … Continue reading

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NO EASY HOPE & NO SIMPLE CONSOLATION

”It was just before leaving Rome that Hawthorne conceived the idea of a romance in which the “Faun” of Praxiteles should come to life, and play a characteristic part in the modern world; the catastrophe naturally resulting from his coming … Continue reading

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