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thoreau: passing time at the pond
…One of his most frequent visitors was Alek Therien, the French-Canadian wood chopper later immortalized in Walden. Therien, almost exactly Thoreau’s age, had come down from Canada when he was in his teens. Although their backgrounds were very different, they … Continue reading
estrangement abroad to reunion at home
La forza di natura, the force of nature will always prevail. Comedy is always the triumph of instinct over intellect. By whatever name, instinct is not only a will to live, but to produce life; comedy is essentially erotic… And … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Catullus poems, Charles Darwin, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jan van Noordt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sigmund Freud Comedy, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Beatles Two of Us
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essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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beginning with the happy ending
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura,” nature over intellect. And the happies tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…Laughter in the house… …Homer’s Iliad concludes with a funeral, the initial event in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Daniel Rabel Sketches, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orestes and Aegisthus, Petronius Satyricon, Robert Smirke paintings, Shakespeare Falstaff, Shakespeare Hotspur
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laughter in the house
The essence of comedy is the triumph of “la forza di natura/- nature over intellect. And the happiest tale of all is the odyssey that ends with…laughter in the house. To begin with, the Happy Ending. Aristotle calls it the … Continue reading
picture book
The stylish battle scene below is proof that the lavish picture book is no recent invention attributable to modernism. This comes from what must have been an extremely handsome copy of the Iliad produced, between the third and fifth centuries … Continue reading
a-maze-ing: of minotaurs and men
Once you are in you’re in. If you make a myth your matrix and if that myth is centered upon as ancient and potent a concept as the Labyrinth, you build it around yourself without becoming aware that you are … Continue reading
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Tagged Arkville Maze, Armand G. Erpf, Greek Mythology, Homer The Iliad, Icarus greek myth, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Ayrnton, myth of Daedelus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Virgil the Aeneid
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pythagoras to byzantium
It’s difficult to put the notion of Greece and the traditional assumption we have of it as birthplace of Western civilization, into context, particularly cultural, when confronted with images of mass civil unrest. The images do lend themselves to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Dante, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Homer The Iliad, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nicholas poussin, Sam Huntington
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gold bugs: buried with their booty
Among the allies of the Trojans in their bitter war to save their city were men from the far off land of Thrace. According to Homer, their chariots were laden with silver and gold and their weapons were also of … Continue reading
ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Does our annoyance over the use of certain words mean we are against their use? Or so it would ostensibly appear. However, our distaste for certain cliche words, deemed annoying,and irritating are also, at some level,gifted with a compelling attraction, … Continue reading
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