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fanon: prospero complex
Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, the audience is still attentive. Violence as the path of least resistance? …The second symptom of the Prospero complex is the symbolic equation of black skin with evil. One descends … Continue reading
gilligan in a tempest: o brave new world
photoshop making the rounds. I guess we can thank John Heartfield and the Berlin Dada for the original altered art collages of the powers to be and that wanna be. But satire, at heart is an acceptance, perhaps transgressive, but … Continue reading
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800,000 words
A religion of Jesus or a religion about Jesus…As Jonathan Swift once said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” ”among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (jesus) … Continue reading
aware and beware: the amateur guru
Why is that swami smiling? They taught their doctrine in private conversation, and the doctrine was simple enough. It said that if you had the patience to go off and think about yourself for a long time, you would end … Continue reading
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the importance of being ernest
An urge to get ahead in his own awkward way and still be loved. Jim Varney. An American archetype with a long tradition; at least going back to before the civil war and the times of Herman Melville. In Constance … Continue reading
knowing the dancer from the dance
In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats
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for, sooth to say,…it was no sort of life
He was one of the “new men” who rose and fell by their wits; Spencer’s work and life a reflection of the splendors and miseries of his time. “The Elizabethan conception of world-order was in its outlines medieval although it … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Chris Thorns, Edmund Spenser, Hercule Francois, Hercule Francois Duc D'Alencon, Hilliard portraits, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Norman Davies, Robert Dudley, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Steven Pinker
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spenser and the poetry of opposites
Herbert Spenser’s achievement in “The Faerie Queene” was to embody the great antitheses of the Elizabethan era: both the magnanimity and grace of the age that inspired poets and sent adventurers around the world, and the frantic cruelty that degraded … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Spenser, Elisabethan Age, Gheeraerts the Younger, John Dowland, Robert Peake, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Unton, Sir Walter Raleigh, The faerie Queene
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