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persistence of famine
Hunger and history have a long symbiosis. The first recorded famine occurred in Egypt in 3500 B.C.Since then, millions have died, and still die of starvation. Do people starve simply because there are too many of us as Parson Malthus … Continue reading
the devil in the details
An evolving sense of the devil. In the world of Hieronymous Bosch, synonymous with Northern Renaissance painting where in spite of joys and diversions the known world, the worldview is permeated with tragedy, malevolence and the mysterious. But leaping from … Continue reading
miracles of meager vitality
The obscurity of irrational laws. Among Hieronymous Bosch’s several known followers, or “school of” painters was Pieter Huys. Although his pictorial concoctions do not approach those of the master in hellish power and impact his Temptation of Saint Anthony does … Continue reading
soul people: complex essence for the perplexed
If we go back to the Middle Ages, we enter a realm when reason was put into service of the miraculous, and science, as such, was half fantasy. There was little theorizing. Hieronymous Bosch’s Hell was painted in specific, minute … Continue reading
bruegel: discarding the idealized for commonplace
It can be said that Bosch and Bruegel are not much alike in effect. Bosch’s greatest work is calculated to give rise to shivers of spiritual terror linked to sexual excitement as the primal reflex among men. Bruegel’s horror of … Continue reading
conditions of exile
“Pieter the Droll” was always thought of as a follower of Bosch, which is far less than half the story, or part of a complex narrative of tearing at a facade, peeling off concealment and questioning whether spiritual blackness had … Continue reading
comfort of words
The comfort of words. Think the covert substitutions and mental projections to which they are subject.Climbing out of our universe, one rung at a time… “A name is a prison, God is free,” or so said the Greek poet Nikos … Continue reading
return on investment: kabul estates
The problem with the concept of the word evil, is that it resembles a black hole, a field that stretches toward infinity. The world is short of many things, but the supply of evil-doers and their willingness to act is … Continue reading
consciousness III, IV, V, …
…Nothing will ever be as nice again, or as good, as it was when one was seventeen. The paradoxes and contradictions of the post-industrial “occupy” culture, the anti-one-percenters, is a kind of resignation and despair that so many pleasures are … Continue reading