Tag Archives: Charles Dickens

Micawber in the palace

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Dave

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Queen Victoria’s England. On the subject of race and class, Victoria was virtually a radical. She wrote, “that division of classes, is the one thing, … most dangerous … Continue reading →

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innocent no more

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Dave

To follow up on Rockwell, and digress further into some of the implications brought up by Richard Halpern in his book, The Underside of Innocence, we of course cannot confirm the theory posited by him, but there does appear to … Continue reading →

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an illustrated poe: distraught and distrubing

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry lit snobs abhor genre fiction. that’s why we all sniff at successful writers like stephen king and and john grisham and say things like, “yes, he’s good, but he’s “popular” ya know?” as if the idea that … Continue reading →

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back to stovall’s plantation

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Dave

On the one hand, what could one possibly expect from the entertainment industry. Its “product” serving as the servile public relations arm of the financial/industrial complex. And its been that way since the Hays Code of the 1930′s which coincided … Continue reading →

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banking with igor: foreclosure on bad anima

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Dave

It gives rise to strange sensations when we transfer the body into an emotional language, a coded language that no longer seems common. Maybe it reveals a certain vulgar emotional truth about our own perceived deformities as well as providing … Continue reading →

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you deserve a break today…

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dave

The parasitical and nocturnal existence that bound the poet to two of his avatars; the ragpicker and the flaneur. Baudelaire saw the poet as being at the end of production/use/trash cycle as a recuperator and force of regeneration. Both flaneur … Continue reading →

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the poor don’t need your pity

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading →

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guilty and lovin’ it

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

Not innocent and bathing in the glory, the release of the burden of innocence. Freedom. There was a time when children were less glorified and spoilt.The child’s innocence was lost in pregnancy and never recovered.. In all our periods and … Continue reading →

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rummage sale for the unruling class

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dave

Its called the Kate effect. It means that anything she is seen wearing is a sure-fire sellout within hours of its public appearance. Those who know her wardrobe in advance can reap millions. Now, they royal couple can be wheeled … Continue reading →

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vice is the spice of life

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dave

Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading →