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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Guns and Verse
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Trope of the gun rhyming in the first person gained a great amount of currency in the 90s. The most famous example is 'I Gave You Power...
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Adventures of Philip Marlowe
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Farewell, My Lovely , the 1975 film adaptation of Chandler's novel, has a 57 year old Robert Mitchum playing the role of 37 year old Phi...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Poetics of Cash
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Wallace Stevens said that money is a kind of poetry and poetry is a kind of money. Currency--from the Latin currere , to course or run--is a...
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Lincoln's Coonskin Cap
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Robert McLaughlin's WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN: Leaders of the Nation in the Constitutional Eras of American History reviewed in the New Yo...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
La Soufriere, or Postcolonialism and its Discontents
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Part I Part II Part III In 1977 Werner Herzog, Edward Lachman and Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein traveled to the island of Guadaloupe upon hearing th...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Nuances of a Theme by Shelley
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It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! I Shine alone, shine nakedly...
False Science, True Science and Poetic Science
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In a larger scope, poetic thinking absorbs even a certain kind of polity. In the BBC series, The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski, standing ab...
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