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Literature Fool: Oscar Wilde - Prophet of the Current Age
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Sunday, June 7, 2015. Oscar Wilde - Prophet of the Current Age. The following excerpt - taken from his famous "prison correspondence" - is uncannily in sync with the present-day zeitgeist of the secular, self-made "artistic-minded" individual. But is Wilde really convinced that in the future all of us will pursue life as art - hungry for new and messy experiences - ready to disregard prior orthodoxies? And do you follow him down the same road - truth seeker? But whether it be faith or agnosticism, it mus...
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Literature Fool: Summer Reading - 2015
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. Summer Reading - 2015. Very informative - panoramic general history on the Paris conference of 1919 - leading up to the. Naipaul's 1981 tour of the Islamic world written in the author's vividly visual prose. A day in the life of a dypsomaniacal British emigre on his last leg as well as a brilliant tour of Quauhnahuac, Mexico. The epic saga of the modern Mexican revolution (1910-1920) told in shimmering prose. Part 5 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time -. Posted by T.W.S. The post ...
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Literature Fool: White Rabbits of Oblivion
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Saturday, July 28, 2012. White Rabbits of Oblivion. Posted by T.W.S. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The World in Black and White. Some people see the world in black and white. An either/or proposition, one might surmise, or, perhaps, . Great Prose Stylists, Old and New. Celebrated Prose Stylists (Old-Canonical Writers) : Herodotus, Thucidides, Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch ,* Tacitus, Cicero ,* St. Augusti. Pierre Bonnard - Images of Summer. 160;It just wouldnt be summer without Pierre Bonnard. The Ring...
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Literature Fool: June 2015
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. Summer Reading - 2015. Very informative - panoramic general history on the Paris conference of 1919 - leading up to the. Naipaul's 1981 tour of the Islamic world written in the author's vividly visual prose. A day in the life of a dypsomaniacal British emigre on his last leg as well as a brilliant tour of Quauhnahuac, Mexico. The epic saga of the modern Mexican revolution (1910-1920) told in shimmering prose. Part 5 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time -. Posted by T.W.S. The follo...
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Literature Fool: August 2015
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Selected Short Stories for 9th Graders. By WW Jacobs - " The Beginning of Grief. By Larry Woiwode -. Masque of the Red Death. By Edgar Allan Poe - " Harrison Bergeron. By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - " The Bet. By Anton Chekhov - " The Egg. By Sherwood Anderson - " In Another Country. By Ernest Hemingway - " Gryphon. By Charles Baxter - " The Doll's House. By Katherine Mansfield - " Old Mother Savage. By Guy de Maupassant - " The Black Sheep. By Italo Calvino - " The Secret Lion. 160;It...
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Literature Fool: Portraits: Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013. Portraits: Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard. Posted by T.W.S. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The World in Black and White. Some people see the world in black and white. An either/or proposition, one might surmise, or, perhaps, . Great Prose Stylists, Old and New. Celebrated Prose Stylists (Old-Canonical Writers) : Herodotus, Thucidides, Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch ,* Tacitus, Cicero ,* St. Augusti. Pierre Bonnard - Images of Summer. Portraits: Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard.
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Literature Fool: Is Odysseus a Heroic Individual?
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Is Odysseus a Heroic Individual? Having just finished up teaching another unit on Homer's Odyssey, the perennial questions arise as to what we as modern readers are supposed to make of Odysseus as a character and possible role model. No doubt Odysseus comes across as a noble, charismatic, larger-than-life individual, the one who is " never at a loss. And therefore " ready for any challenge. Presents as a new kind of hero. Of which the two most famous examples were Achilles. Retur...
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Literature Fool: The New Gordian Knot
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Thursday, July 16, 2015. The New Gordian Knot. The rhetoric of morality has been tying us in knots of late, although perhaps people do not notice the dilemma. Think of the way in which specific issues keep getting framed as advancing the goals of e quality, acceptance. Everyone is "equal" and should be viewed as such. Do people have preferences in terms of friends, companions, loved ones? Why the need for enemies and adversaries? Paradoxically, it seems, the more we attempt to free ourselves from outmode...
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Literature Fool: David Hockney, Swimming Pools and the Malaise of the Middle-Class...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012. David Hockney, Swimming Pools and the Malaise of the Middle-Class. Is it just me or was this guy obsessed with swimming pools? Posted by T.W.S. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The World in Black and White. Some people see the world in black and white. An either/or proposition, one might surmise, or, perhaps, . Great Prose Stylists, Old and New. Pierre Bonnard - Images of Summer. 160;It just wouldnt be summer without Pierre Bonnard. Portraits: Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard. Hippies ...
