Tag Archives: Virginia Woolf

INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Dave

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading →

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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Dave

This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading →

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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading →

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LIKE CATCHING FALLING KNIVES

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dave

…The first thing that you found about the dead was that, hit badly enough, they died like animals. Some quickly from a little wound you would not think would kill a rabbit. They died from little wounds as rabbits die … Continue reading →

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JANE AUSTEN: SMALL WORLDS & STRONG PASSIONS

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Dave

The desires of Jane Austen were large and complicated. At the social level, she wanted liberty to state views, no matter whom she offended as well as exposing the orthodoxies of her time.She chose her enemies with care and analyzed … Continue reading →

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JANE AUSTEN “UNAWARES”: Spontaneous Dislike As A Virtue

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Dave

“Austen’s comedy participates in the Western tradition of komos –that is, comedy as a revelry in mischief. Liberated from what Charles Lamb calls “the burden of a perpetual moral questioning,” Austen’s mischievous humor specializes in truths uncongenial to the sentimentally-based … Continue reading →

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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Dave

Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading →

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DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dave

The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading →

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THE MALE GAZE:LOOKING IS RARELY A NEUTRAL OPERATION

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Dave

The description of genius with feminine images did not serve to bridge the gulf between male and female artists, partly because of the different ways that their creativity was conceived. Actual childbirth was regarded as an outgrowth of women’s “natural” … Continue reading →

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CATCHING THE MOMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dave

“I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. … Continue reading →