T.S. Eliot | T.S. Eliot
Feb.03.2012
Groundhog's Day cast a sinister shadow upon our future today. No, not that large rodent -- but Leon Panetta, our sad looking Minister of Defense. He speculated in private, and then in public, that Israel, in its refusal to allow Iran an atomic program, intends to attack Iran in...
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Jan.25.2012
I’ve written about it before. It’s a kind of traveler, a hobo, a place-to-placer. ``Fortune’s Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others),’’ a play I wrote, has been performed in California in staged readings in a mission (Carmel), a museum (Monterey Museum of Art), a library (Pacific Grove...
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Sep.23.2011
Since Socrates, as transcribed and likely "enhanced" by Plato, is indisputably the founder of Western philosophy, it requires real chutzpah to post a blog questioning perhaps his most well-known pronouncement about life, namely, "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology, 37-38...
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May.04.2011
I wanted, after thinking about it, to add this to my previous post about my somewhat pragmatic use of poetry:
I do like poetry, and I do like writing it. I'm reading a book of essays by T.S. Eliot at the moment, as I contend with trying to write coherent poetry. His essays are largely about poetry...
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Sep.08.2010
The challenge has gone out at Red Room to try and get a grip on the insane amount of success, or is it fame?, the pop singer, Justin Bieber, a mere 16 year-old, has risen to in just over a year's time.
Those of my generation are shaking their heads. Justin who? How? What?
Me, I'm a children's...
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Mar.28.2010
Instructions: go with gut, not ten favorites or ten best, but ten that affected how you think about the world and see yourself in it, as described in article by Ross Douthat in NYT March 25, 2020 http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/the-influential-books-game/?ref=books
This is an engaging...
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Jan.22.2010
I think part of the problem with modern “criticism” is that much of it isn’t really criticism, not in the traditional sense. There are few critics today like T.S. Eliot (not going back too far), who wrote about poetry from the standpoint of a core philosophy he had engineered. I don’t...
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Jan.16.2010
The central character in my novel Highway To Oblivion (yes, that book again) is far younger and less jaded than I and numbers Prufrock among her favorites, ever since a long-ago boyfriend read the poem to her during a tryst on a horsehair mattress at an unnamed location. Undoubtedly a favorite of...
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Oct.11.2009
Some people blog every day—or at least at regular intervals—but having a blog has been fun for me because I gave myself permission, early on, to write only when a topic taps me on the shoulder, demanding attention. Lately, the intervals have been getting longer and most of the taps come from...
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Oct.04.2009
I hardly ever read poetry, but for some reason T.S. Eliot's poetry speaks to me. Perhaps it's because, like Eliot, I used to work at a bank in the City of London, and the feeling of his poems is the exact feeling I had as a 'Hollow Man' looking at the masses of other Hollow Men crossing London...
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