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1 Apr 2019

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

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But don't tell my heart /  My achy breaky heart I just don't think he'd understand As Nietzsche was fond of pointi...
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30 Mar 2019

D. H. Lawrence's Vision of a Demonic America

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Jasper Johns: Flag (1954-55) moma.org I.  I've never been to America. But I have always loved all things American, ...
27 Mar 2019

He That Aches With Amorous Love: Lawrence's Critique of Walt Whitman's Idealism

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Lawrence's essay on Whitman in his Studies in Classic American Literature  (1923) is more piss-take than critical analysis. Lawr...
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25 Mar 2019

Every Little (Act of Animal Cruelty) Helps ...

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A nest full of swallows  Photo by Amy Sancetta / AP The shocking tale of retail giant Tesco using nets to prevent returning swal...
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24 Mar 2019

Cicchetti and Toxic Masculinity

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cecconisshoreditch.com I finally got to eat at Cecconi's last week, at the Redchurch Townhouse , Shoreditch; something that I...
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22 Mar 2019

Sur la terre et le terrorisme: A Brief Sadean Response to Rebecca Solnit

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According to the American writer Rebecca Solnit, it was no coincidence that the Christchurch mosque massacre took place on the s...
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20 Mar 2019

Gallows Corner (Reflections on Capital Punishment and Lessons in Paganism)

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I. Living as I do just north of the notorious road junction known as Gallows Corner - a large roundabout with five exits, a flyove...
18 Mar 2019

Onychophilia: Notes on Two Types of Nail Fetish

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I.  Ninkondi  (one of the variant plural forms of nkondi , meaning 'hunter') are fetish objects made by the Kongo p...
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17 Mar 2019

Uterine Philosophy: Notes on the Woman of Isis

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Victoria Vives as a Priestess of Isis   Photo by Robert Domondon (2017)  victoriavives.com I. As readers of Lawrence, we are i...
15 Mar 2019

Are You Pervin on Me? (Notes on The Blind Man, by D. H. Lawrence)

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Tito Victoriano : Blind Man redbubble.com I. There's something creepy and disturbing about Maurice Pervin. As his name sugge...