Latest video
Close
Video from
hero worship: pretense to reason and purposeShake your hips
Category Archives: Literature/poetry/spoken word
perfide manon: still loved in spite of all
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Of all Prevost’s work, Manon Lescaut stands apart and above. It … Continue reading
perfide manon: peace with the “petit collet”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, and he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …Prevost ventured back to France, and there was joined by … Continue reading
manon lescaut: “a veritable leech”
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …In any case, the Abbe removed hurriedly from England to Holland … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Abbe Prevost, Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut, Claire-Eliane Engel, De Thou Latin history France, Francois Boucher, francois boucher paintings, Frederic Deloffre Sorbonne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manon Lescaut
Leave a comment
manon lescaut: she was venus libertina
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …He began to write a novel, of frenzied passion and bloodcurdling … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Abbe Prevost, Antoine Francois Prevost, Claire-Eliane Engel, Frederic Deloffre Sorbonne, Giacomo Puccini, Joseph Caraud painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manon Lescaut, Perfide Manon, Sir John Eyles
Leave a comment
t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat
T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading
spy figures:the harvey birch society
The cult of the secret agent… …And it once again was an American writer, James Fenimore Cooper, who first endowed the spy figure with an intriguing aura of romance… Cooper’s novel, The Spy, published in 1821, and said to have … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged A.L. Dominique writer, Hannah Adams writer, Ian Fleming James Bond, James Fenimore Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper The Spy, John Jay, John Le Carre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Spy Harvey Birch
Leave a comment
cold irons bound: don’t let my people go
The Jonathan Pollard industry. There are plenty of howls and whines to let Jonathan Pollard go, as if he is some victim in Kafka story of deep injustice of the system. Stuck in the in-between space of Kafka’s Before The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Cold irons Bound, Franz Kafka, George J. Tenet, Jonathan Pollard, Jonathan Pollard spy, Larry Charles Director, Lawrence Korb, Robert Wexler congressman, Steve Clemons Atlantic
Leave a comment
the traitor and spy: psychology
The psychology of the traitor and spy. Finance, ideology and of course ego condition the soul into becoming a terrible threat. And betrayal is a primary fear tapping into the reaches where in each of person, there is some at … Continue reading
turgenev: legacy of the emancipator
Ivan Turgenev will be remembered as the great emancipator of the Russian serf, a parallel condition to that of the American slave. Turgenev helped bring freedom to the serfs by the ingeniously devastating method of showing what their lives were … Continue reading
COMMENTS
