Tag Archives: Vladimir Nabokov

Chess a genteel game? … full-contact body and mind

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Dave

Not all chess matches have had a happy, sportsmanlike end.Does chess encourage violence or discourage it? It may not be a leisure activity of refinement and erudition that many outsiders hold the image of it to be. In fact the … Continue reading →

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Finding bobby fisher: Back to Iceland?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Dave

Maybe the celebrated American chess champion knew something, a secret on the game he never disclosed. On the isle of Lewis on the outer fringe of the Northern Hebrides, the existence of giant chessmen does not go unnoticed. Here, as … Continue reading →

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JANE AUSTEN: ESSENTIAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE HEART

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Dave

…and iron butterflies in the soul. Which “Belle du Jour” to rattle the ghosts in the cage of moral sentiments. Maybe men should get off the couch and take the trouble to find out instead of making virtue out of … Continue reading →

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PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Dave

“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading →

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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Dave

A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading →

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BLOOD FLOWERS & HEADS ON THE DOOR

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Dave

A genre of fiction which first gained popularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the epistolary novel is a form in which most or all of the plot is advanced by the letters or journal entries of one or more … Continue reading →

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A BLIND DATE WITH BLIND FATE

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Dave

”In both the film and its source, the scandalously popular novel by Fanny Hurst, Ray has economic and social options other than life in the Back Street. It may be the devil’s bargain under the patriarchy, but it is a … Continue reading →

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Kidnapped By Gypsies

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Dave

”Although there is nothing obviously salacious about his work, Norman Rockwell, the most widely known American illustrator from the twenties through the fifties, was a sort of patron saint of both the Boy and Girl Scouts….’That Dali is really Norman … Continue reading →