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30 Oct 2018

On D. H. Lawrence's Fascination with Male Legs

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Robyn H. Fitzpatrick: Male Legs   robynart.com   As David Ellis reminds us in a recent blog post, Lawrence was a great admirer o...
29 Oct 2018

Let Them Eat Plastic

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People Can Look So Plastic These Days eclectech.co.uk Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -  Anthelme Brillat-Savar...
28 Oct 2018

Ovinophobia: Reflections on D. H. Lawrence's Fear of Sheep

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Curious Flock of Sheep art.co.uk   One of the more amusing things about the man who loved islands  is the intensity with which h...
27 Oct 2018

On Living a Solitary Life: the Case of Elsie Eiler

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Elsie Eiler and the Monowi town sign  Photo: Reuters (2011) I.  No Man is an Island For Lawrence, who passionately believed in ...
26 Oct 2018

On The Man Who Loved Islands

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No man is an island entire of itself ... In a much admired - and much discussed - short story, first published in the  Dial in ...
24 Oct 2018

Inhuman Rights

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Michel Foucault - by Paul Loboda (2015) Someone writes and asks: "How can you posit a notion of rights when you subscribe to...
23 Oct 2018

Gerontophilia: Notes on Elder Rights and Ageivism

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Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995) Founder of the Grey Panthers I recently expressed support for elder rights in a post on gerontophilia a...
22 Oct 2018

Gerontophilia: Notes on Beautiful Old Age

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Carmen Dell'Orefice Beautiful young women are freaks of nature; beautful old women are works of art. Although I wouldn...
21 Oct 2018

Why I Write Such Excellent Posts

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Little Thinker -  Übertoy by The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild I am one thing: this blog is another ... ...
19 Oct 2018

Notes on the Brodie Set

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The Brodie Set: the  crème de la crème  of  Marcia Blaine School  Although reduced in number in Ronald Neame's film adaptatio...