Tag Archives: T.S. Eliot

Mating : the overtones as most important pieces on the chess board

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Dave

The chess world is a fairly conservative culture;  open to women competing with men, yet strangely patriarchal in terms of history.   It is not gaming pe se, but rather considers itself a sport, or more precisely bigger than any description … Continue reading →

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The N WORD and HUCK fiNN: When the Revolution Comes

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dave

Politically correct. Civilized. Lynchings and catfish and the more “dangerous” notions of interracial sex.”How could a black revolutionary ever be sure that white radicals would not return to the fold of white racism.” …IS the road to racism, a separate … Continue reading →

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MATISSE:CUTOUTS BETWEEN REASON and FEELING

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Dave

Ever simplifying and ever synthesizing; younger at eighty than at thirty, Matisse sat in his wheel chair, put aside paintbrush for scissors, and filled his sunset years with patterns of pure color. … “Matisse was the most important of the … Continue reading →

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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Dave

This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading →

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ANGLING FOR LOVE: There’s A Memory On The End Of That Hook

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Dave

(Ted )Hughes’s love of fishing was learned growing up in Yorkshire, but it became “a kind of metaphor for the creative act,” says Foss.”This idea of pulling something out of the darkness, into the light of consciousness.” ….He was an … Continue reading →

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A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

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LOST GENERATION : RECLAIMED FROM THE WASTELAND

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s. At this point in time, America had become a great place to, “go into some … Continue reading →

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SILENCE FILLED WITH VIVID NOISELESS BOYS

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Dave

After graduation and on the eve of his embarkation for France as a “gentleman volunteer” ambulance driver,John  Dos Passos’s letters almost exploded with rebellion. “I have been spending my time of late going to pacifist meetings and being dispersed by … Continue reading →

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IDOL GOSSIP: FEED YOUR SLEEPLESS HEAD

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Dave

G.I. Gurdjieff was one of the most important spiritual figures of the 20th century. Controversial and cloaked in mystery, his mythology is as rich as it is questionable. He claimed to have traveled from his native Armenia to the Far … Continue reading →

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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Dave

Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading →

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