Tag Archives: William Butler Yeats

war against english the language: unstitching for naught

Is verbal usage simply a matter of social usage, an aspect of etiquette? … The war against the English language is thus a many pronged offensive, waged amid jungles of jargon, over oceans of Officialese, prairies of pedantry, mountains of … Continue reading

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hunger artists: culture of starvers

Is the act of eating that of conformity, compliance, acceptance and complicity? And its opposite, starvation, often as a public and publicized act, a metaphor for protest? That is, the denial and rejection of food is a metaphor for intolerable … Continue reading

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posing with the circus animals

A dual nature. The intertwined carnality and nobility. William Butler Yeats. With age, his imagery turned sensual and direct. A wild wicked old man he would call himself, who regretted the celibacy of his youth and for whom the act … Continue reading

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the right must leave: no dawdling. no loitering.

State of exception. Land of confusion. It can be plausibly be asserted  that Zionism has been intertwined in racial identity issues since its modern incarnation that began before Herzl. The hierarchy and pecking order, the old tropes of status and … Continue reading

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walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between

Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading

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a fire in the head: the wild tune

Writing poetry that sings by guest blogger Tai Carmen who maintains a weekly blog called Parallax:A place for dreamers Tai Carmen ( www.taicarmen.com): If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~ Leonard Cohen My grandfather was … Continue reading

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their favorite game

He was considered the most glamorous name in photography and his fusion of commercial and high art brought him controversy, but also redefined fashion photography. It was high-end marketing with a pop sheen to it. Cinema noir with a trace … Continue reading

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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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REAL LOVE: A KARMA of MILK and HONEY

All my little plans and schemes pass like some forgotten dream. Seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you. Just like little girls and boys playing with their little toys. Seems like all we really were doing … Continue reading

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TRACKING DOWN THIS “SOMETHING ELSE”

Many contemporary counterculturalists and psychologists who trend towards the ” human potential” camp of that vocation – are obsessed with the idea that people need to be deprogrammed or de-brainwashed from the inherited percepts of their culture, as well as … Continue reading

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