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firing on all pistons
So Jethro heard of goings on in the desert and somehow took a cue to follow the cloud that shielded the exiled Hebrews from Egypt. And he didn’t come empty handed, bringing with him Moses’s wife and two sons. Receiving … Continue reading
down on highway 1865: all men are created different
The premise of the article that follows this introduction is at best on shaky terrain that somehow Abraham Lincoln was Jewish. Its ingenious and plausible ; Jewish in the sense that Harold Bloom worked laboriously through as some form of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alex de Toqueville, Andrew Marvel, Daniel Day-Lewis, dave alvin, Harold Bloom, iris murdoch, Isaac M. Wise, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Twain, Salvador Litvak, Seth Grahame-Smith, Steven Spielberg Lincoln, tony kushner
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malraux: patterns across the universe
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Malraux recalls Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shared their infatuation with the past, their conviction it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, he shared … Continue reading
imaginary museum
The imaginary museum in which the art of every age is at last brought together and searched for its deepest meaning… Andre Malraux’s great study of “anti-destiny” was titled The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The book, was in a sense, … Continue reading
nobody’s perfect!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sort of. Maybe these posthumous conversions are seen as a service, to prevent the heretics from perishing in hell. They get to pick an choose over the dead, and these tend … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne Frank Mormon baptism, Christopher Hitchens, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel mormonism, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Honore Daumier, Jerusalem Third Temple, Joseph Smith Mormon, matisyahu, Mormon Religion, Mormonism Mitt Romney, Nazi destruction of Warsaw, Simon Wiesenthal
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fauning the big try
Yet, at the height of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s powers, with a sounder preparation than any American contemporary for fictional tasks still uncompleted, he wrote no fiction to speak of. Like many American writers who followed him, he had come up to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Bronson Alcott, Caravaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Harold Bloom, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Marble Faun, Ralph Waldeau Enerson, The Scarlet Letter
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