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4 Jul 2020

Ghost Variations: Notes on the Madness of Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)   German Romantic composer, critic, and madman In the season two episode of Seinfeld entitled '...
2 Jul 2020

Sweet Death (In Memory of Steve Priest)

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Sweet in 1973: Steve, Mick, Andy and Brian Photo: Jorgen Angel Back in my pre-punk, glam-rocking, teeny-bopping days the band by ...
29 Jun 2020

Notes on the Sex Appeal of Belly Dancing (With Reference to the Case of Johara)

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Ekaterina Andreeva (aka Johara) Seems like a nice girl ... I have to admit that, unlike Flaubert, I'm not a great fan of Easter...
27 Jun 2020

A Touch of Evil à la D. H. Lawrence

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Detail from the poster for Touch of Evil (Universal Pictures, 1958), starring Charlton Heston as Hadrian, Janet Leigh as Matilda, and...
25 Jun 2020

Don't Let D. H. Lawrence Rub You Up the Wrong Way

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D. H. Lawrence beach towel by Asok Mukhopadhyay fineartamerica.com If there is one modern author guaranteed to rub a lot of read...
24 Jun 2020

She Was Only a Horse-Dealer's Daughter

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Girl on horseback by Israeli artist Taly Levi  tal-stoobik.com Sullen-looking and bulldog-faced Mabel Pervin, 27, would have bee...
23 Jun 2020

Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

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Jamie Reid: Lies As our recent study of three great liars - Nietzsche , Twain , and Wilde - demonstrated, lying is an art essent...
21 Jun 2020

Three Great Liars 3: Oscar Wilde

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Portrait photo of Oscar Wilde  by W. and D. Downey (1889) I. Ultimately, all studies of lying and great liars lead to Wil...
20 Jun 2020

Three Great Liars 2: Mark Twain

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Portrait photo of Mark Twain  by José Maria Mora (1882) Before Wilde, there was Twain ... Or, at any rate, before Wilde's e...

Three Great Liars 1: Nietzsche

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Portrait photo of Nietzsche  by Friedrich Hartmann (c.1872) Nietzsche's essay of 1873 - Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralisc...
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