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17 Jan 2024
Lady Godiva Rides Again (In Memory of Pauline Stroud)
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Lady Godiva Rides Again (dir. Frank Launder, 1951) I. There are many reasons to value this 1951 British comedy about an unsophistica...
15 Jan 2024
Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Three)
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Cover of the Portuguese edition (Relógio D'Água, 2022) [a] I. The ethics of inactivity rests, according to Byung-Chul Han, on timi...
13 Jan 2024
Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Two)
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Cover of the original German edition (Ullstein Verlag, 2022) [a] I. One of the key paragraphs in the opening chapter of Vita Contempla...
12 Jan 2024
Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part One)
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(Polity Press, 2024) I. The subtitle of Byung-Chul Han's new little book is In Praise of Inactivity [a] . But it's important...
11 Jan 2024
From Duck Soup to Duck Rock: On Malcolm McLaren and the Marx Brothers
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From Duck Soup to Duck Rock (SA/2024) I. Although Malcolm McLaren's album Duck Rock [1] was dedicated to his hero Haywire Mac ...
7 Jan 2024
My Brush with Scientology
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Results of the Standard Oxford Capacity Analysis [1] which I completed on 9 November 1984 Watching an episode of Peep Show in which Jez...
5 Jan 2024
The Perfect Poem (Adapted from Balzac's Short Story Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu)
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"You may know your syntax thoroughly and make no blunders in your grammar, but it takes that and something more to make a great...
3 Jan 2024
Aphrodite's Girdle
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Aphrodite's Girdle , contributed by Mary Metzer to The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts [1] I. The girdle has a long, lon...
1 Jan 2024
A Tale of Two Ears and Notes on Aural Regeneration
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This ear? Yes, that there. I. For Síomón Solomon, the human ear "is not merely a passive cavity or vacuous opening but a trans...
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