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Michael LIpsey on epigrams in history, art and literature.

Sep.18.2010

Michael Lipsey will speak on epigrams in history, art and literature. There will also be a display of epigrams in art.

Michael's Latest Blogs

Dec.30.2011 - 4:17 pm
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These last days of the year are a good time to recall how much of it you’ve wasted, while neglecting those things you were absolutely determined to do when it began. In a few days...
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Nov.23.2011 - 1:53 pm
The mystery of it all...
  This is about my process. I begin with several journals in which I try to capture every possible idea or observation that could become an epigram, essay or a chapter in a...
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Apr.10.2011 - 10:41 pm
Watching a big drug bust downtown from my car. Latino-looking guy in a BMW. A uniform stopped him, but he was immediately surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothes fuzz, one wearing...
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Comments from Michael

Apr.29.2012 - 11:54 pm
In response to: Shading the Vagina
The thing that makes products like this a gyp is that if lovemaking is going well, if there is attraction, affection,...
Dec.30.2011 - 4:36 pm
In response to: Why Can't Science Let Us Be?
Foot fetishism is a cultural constant. Chinese foot binding took it farther than Western spikes. In porn a naked woman...
Nov.23.2011 - 11:55 am
In response to: Your turkey's a Muslim
It gets worse. Tens of thousands of American food products are certified Jewish kosher by rabbinical authorities. There...
Jun.25.2011 - 12:19 am
In response to: Accentuated
We are around quite a few Indian and Indian-American people, all well-educated, and I see accents as more a matter of...
Apr.03.2011 - 9:16 pm
In response to: Another skin
When I was in college there was a fellow who had an affair with a local married woman. He came back to the dorm all...

Published Reviews

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Sep.08.2008
Published by RebeccasReads
“If you enjoy seeing things from a different angle, then this is the book for you.” As soon as I reached this line on the back cover of “I Thought So: A Book of Epigrams”, I...