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such a deal for you
You can sell anything. Everything is negotiable. RIP Ziggy. Zig Ziglar, an American original that harks back to the old Yankee salesman, something out of Constance Rourke’s Americana treasury and Herman Melville and that old American archetype “the untrustworthy narrator.” … Continue reading
one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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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
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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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vulnerabilities
it is not hard to be convinced that Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to write in the manner of Dickens and Balzac. In The Blithedale Romance he did. There are gothic furbelows attached to the novel, also-spook stuff and mystifications to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Louis Vivin paintings, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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grotesque castaway: permanent alienation
After the success of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most famous American writers. But in the twelve years following his graduation from college in 1825, he was the most invisible. He went back to his mother’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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scarlet fever of moral torment
Yet for all its gloom and whisper of abominations, The Scarlet letter is among those great tales in which the spectrum of meanings runs unbroken from the clearest daylight into vibrations beyond either visions or rational interpretation. Those who wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Bowdoin College, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Lillian Gish, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Puritanism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud
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furious circumstances: reckless vaults of imagination
In the middle of 1849, during a summer of torrid heat in Salem, Massachusetts, the contending forces in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life were drawing into battle formation, as for a civil war ling in preparation. His mother lay dying in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Osgood, Edgar Allan Poe, Franklin Pierce, Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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kingfish on the hustings
You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading
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Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon
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