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31 Oct 2016

In Praise of Shadows and the Beauty of Japanese Ghost Girls (A Post for Halloween 2016)

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A Japanese Ghost Girl or Yūrei [幽靈] The Land of the Rising Sun is also the Land of the Falling Shadow; a place in which the g...
29 Oct 2016

Let Them Sing Carols

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Ding dong merrily on high ... The phrase Let them eat cake may never have passed the lips of Marie Antoinette, but it's still ...
28 Oct 2016

Science is Universal

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When not writing in praise of shadows and the superiority of the traditional Japanese toilet as a place of spiritual repose and poeti...

Aux Chiottes with Junichirō Tanizaki

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Junichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) was one of the great figures of twentieth century Japanese literature. His work has two main obsessions...
25 Oct 2016

Carlo Rovelli: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (A Review)

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It's no surprise that Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, should feel comfortable discussing very large things on the one hand...
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24 Oct 2016

Ben Lerner: The Hatred of Poetry (A Review)

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Ben Lerner is a very clever man: a poet, a novelist, and a professor of English. And so it's no real surprise to discover he...
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22 Oct 2016

The Sisters of Artemis

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Jennie Linden as Ursula and Glenda Jackson as Gudrun Women in Love , dir. Ken Russell (1969) "The sisters were women, Ursula t...
20 Oct 2016

Tell Them the Cross is a Tree Again

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The Budding of the Cross   Stephen Alexander (2016) For Nietzsche, innocence is the power to accept oneself as a mortal creatu...
18 Oct 2016

In Happy Memory of Coal

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One of the things that I most looked forward to as a young child was the arrival of a man at the door: the milkman, the postman, the ...
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17 Oct 2016

Floraphilia Redux (With Reference to the Case of Rupert Birkin)

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Floraphilia   YouTube (2009)   Flowering plants don't just grow in soil: they are also rooted in our hearts and blossom in ...