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Feb.19.2013
When I read about Helen Hunt getting a baby due to an ‘uplifting experience’, I adduced it must have been close to Immaculate Conception.
What transpired, instead, was a combination of superstition and auto-suggestion. The uplifting experience was a ‘lift’. On the David...
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Feb.12.2013
What makes Belgium’s capital boast of a little boy urinating? The last thing you might want is a spray of piss on your face as you pose before what is considered an iconic structure in Brussels. Is it fun? Is it funny? Does it have to be?
I read about the Manneken Pis a while ago. Standing two-...
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Jan.23.2013
Why do we protect the freedom of literature and the arts and deny the same to others, even if they might use a similar creative medium or idiom?
Salman Rushdie said in an interview:
“I really worry about how it’s become so easy to attack books, movies, paintings, works of scholarship there...
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Jun.21.2012
If Alice Walker objects to Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people, not permitting the publication of the ‘The Color Purple’ in Hebrew will not alter anything. There is much to be said about making a statement, and I agree that it is valid in certain cases, but not in this one:
“I would...
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Mar.24.2012
This journey continues..... the reality of the spiritual world is as abstract as the unsurety of the concrete world. Its all about the search to reach a truth that eludes constantly. There have been times when I have been totally detached from my surroundings yet have been connected to it. This...
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Feb.29.2012
Angelina Jolie would have been an enigma, except that she chose to take the road to everywhere. Her leg flash is only the latest ‘phenomenon’.
Jolie’s sorties into being different are really sharp tactics, for after a while one can only do so much with goldfish lips or pillow mouth or...
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Dec.10.2011
William Faulkner – Three Famous Short Novels – The Bear
image via freebooknotes.com
The most complex of these three short novels, The Bear, is an exploration of family ties and that family’s ties to the land they live on, built initially about a hunt for a bear, Old...
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Dec.07.2011
I always suspected that Mona Lisa was a bit of a wild cat. Something to do with the Cheshire cat smile. Oh, I know, it has been analysed to death – from toothache to the pleasure of labour pains to muscle dystrophy to sucking on a lozenge. Okay, that’s not been explored yet. Anyhow, New York...
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Sep.06.2011
Is chronicling of history voyeuristic? Is a show of 9/11 relics to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tragedy a chronicle or exhibitionistic? I find it disturbing, for history is not merely a static event.
The 9/11 Museum and Memorial at Hangar 17 at JFK International Airport houses the...
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Sep.02.2011
Briar Rose Sleeping by Edward Burne-Jones
Last night I dreamed I'd written the perfect story. I came half-awake, filled with a sense of contentment. I even knew what the story was about. It was about a man who was mediating between two warring tribes when it came to him he had...
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