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no need for computers
Who needs computers with mathematical prodigies like these… 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. Mathurin Veysierre of Prussia could listen … Continue reading
karl marx: many faces
The many faces of Karl Marx: Prophet, historian, newspaperman, revolutionary, philosopher, fond papa- all thse faces were his, and one other; that is, the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… One can imagine few greater … Continue reading
1848 again? …the madcap laughs
An Arab Spring. Riots over a stupid internet film, the Innocence of Muslims, The Occupy Movement, technological unemployment. Continents are trembling and a world is awakening. In some ways, our past several years, and the so called American “fiscal cliff” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 Tuileries, Alphonse de Lamartine, Arnold Toynbee, Chateau d'Eau fire 1848, Emile de Girardin, Eugene Hagnauer, eugene sue, Guizot 1848, Honore Daumier, Jules Gaildrau, Louis Philippe 1848, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Palais Royale 1848, Philippoteaux painter, Victor Hugo
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goncourt recollections
…As it turned out, however, it was none of these things that rescued the Goncourts from “oblivion.” It was, rather, their Journals — the scandalous, vain, vengeful, brutally honest diaries in which the two brothers, and then Edmond alone, wrote … Continue reading
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Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Andre Gide, Edmond Goncourt, Edouard Manet, Faubert, Goncourt Brothers, Goncourt Brothers journal, Gustave Courbet, Guy de Maupassant, Henri de Regnier, Jules Goncourt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne, Victor Hugo
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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
angelus in the midnight hour
from George Steiner: …the thesis whereby it is the ethical and cognitive duty of history, of enacted remembrance, to rescue from oblivion the oppressed, the enslaved, the victims of successful injustice, to bring them back to protesting life out of … Continue reading
WMD: cook the books
Leveraged exchange traded funds or ETF’s….These financiers. Morbidly earthbound figures, weighed down by the heavy change in their pockets. Without that primitive anchor of coin rooting them to the soil, they would float away into a void, a kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged bitov castle, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, D.W. Winnicott, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, douglas a. kass, Erich Fromm, ETF volatility, George Soros, John Paulson, Jonathan McIntosh, levis go forth, Marcel Duchamp, molinari antonio, seabreeze partners, the golden calf, Victor Hugo, Walter Benjamin
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heine sight is everything
The personification of a straight line. Those who philosophize everything delicious out of life. Does the ancient land of dreams still exist? Heine did not believe that it would so soon come to pass; there were too many black ravens … Continue reading
small is beautiful: a free man in paris
It was a time when Paris was a city for the young. Students, painters, intellectuals, journalists, grisettes: all were there along with a young German poet who recorded a period of creative ferment between one revolution and the next. …. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Alfred de Vigny, Amalia Keller, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Gérard de Nerval, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vernet, Niall Ferguson, Paris July Revolution 1831, salomon heine, Stendhal, Victor Hugo, victor-jean nicolle, wolfgang menzel
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