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Madness, love and mysticism. Perhaps everything you always wanted to know about Dali, Freud, Psychoanalysis and Pictorial Surrealism. Salvador Dali was immersed in the conquest of the irrational, infinite and likely futile search for the unconscious and its meaning. His contribution to surrealism is linked to the framework of Freudian psychoanalysis through Dali’s unique and [...]
”They sat down and Corso asked K., ”Would you like to ball with me, baby?” There was no surer way to K. ‘s heart. She declined with a small secretive, pleased smile and at once exerted herself to be charming. … Ginsberg fixed me with a sad stare and demanded to know my views on [...]
Whether or not humor has been considered too elusive or trivial to warrant serious study on its own terms ,like the popular culture of which it is both part and a partaker, is unclear. Some scholars such as Jesse Bier, Constance Rourke and Walter Blair have pursued American humor’s native strains for indications of the [...]
For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in blackface which were within the confines of ethnic minicry, and part of a longer tradition which began [...]
Going Rogue in the wild. A tandem of dysfuntional cougars, who escaped the idyllic Cougar Town setting of the wildlife preservation. Harkening to the call of the past and a howl to the more enigmatic qualities of human nature. The old ghosts in the machine are cantankerous and cranky, but they’re getting up to speed. [...]
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, Hope you had nice turkey dinners with all the trimmings. Get nice and plump with all of that. And of course who could forget the football games on thanksgiving weekend. Football, the sport of real men. Big muscular, sweaty men running around, hitting each other as hard as they can to catch [...]
Math has spelled doom for us in most cases. All the way through elementary school and high school afterwards we have cursed our math teachers for the incessant homework that gave us nightmares. But Believe it or not, math is important. Without it, nothing we know today or almost, would not even exist. So the [...]
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Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind has never done very well. Sade, in his actions and books, extrapolated on a large [...]
Virulent episodic reversions to bestiality interspersed with interludes of wanton destruction. The threat of loss is preponderant.The sad films and melancholy literature case is probably overstated. Often detested and reviled. A repulsion by the normal. Elfriede Jelinek is the author of the the gruesome and beautiful , such as The Piano Teacher, and is a [...]
A bleak and disturbing style rubbing the coarse threads of obscure and sometimes contradictory and incoherent desires. A somewhat disconcerting and nasty view of human nature that is presented through swift and satirical discourses on a variety of moral and political concerns. His ultimate goal is to reveal his characters deeper and often conflicting impulses [...]
