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Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges
keeping hansel and gretel on a short leash
They exist. And we know that this invisible architecture of the labyrinth can be very real and almost impossible to get out of. In the mythical Greek tale, Icarus was able to fly out on some crafted wings, but still … Continue reading
if i forget thee
Lebensraum!A policy based on expansion, usurpation, of the living space of the other to make way for a growing race. Like the Third Reich, the basic intention of Israeli policy. By any other name it is ethnic cleansing. A resettling. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged albert einstein israel, Ariel Sharon, arthur goldreich, David Ben Gurion, denis goldberg, Edgar Cayce, elias bickerman, Gustav Landauer, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, israel apartheid, Jorge Luis Borges, Kahane, kahanism, klugman report, meir margailt, michele alperin, nahum goldmann, tony judt, yakov m. rabkin, yitzhak rabin, yosef salmon
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giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
PROMETHEAN SPIRIT
The promethean spirit of the Renaissance man, forever inciting him to ”undertakings of high and sacrilegious daring,” is one of the major themes of ”The Lusiads” of Luiz Vaz de Camoens, or Camoes( 1524-1580 ) in his native Portugal. ”No … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Camoes The Lusiads, Dante Alighieri, Gilberto Freyre, H.H. Hart, Hernani Cidade, Jacques le Moyne, Jorge Luis Borges, Luiz Vaz de Camoens, Manuel the Fortunate, Pedro Magalhaes de Gandavo, Philip ( Filips ) Galle, Pierre Chaunu, Prometheus, Theodor de Bry engravings, Theodore de Bry
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The Alchemist, The Modern Lover & Vermeer
Vermeer was eerie Vermeer was strange He had his own color range As if born in a more modern age They may be oh a hundred or so years ago What’s this a ghost in the gallery Great Scot the … Continue reading
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