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3 Oct 2020

D. H. Lawrence's Daimonic Dendrophilia

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Wallace Smith: Illustration for  Fantazius Mallare (1922) I have discussed D. H. Lawrence's dendrophilia elsewhere on Torpedo the Ark [...
1 Oct 2020

Blasse Tage: Attempt at a New Translation and Notes Towards a Theory of Translation

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Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975)  Photo: Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Marbach)     I.    Whilst I'm appreciative of Andreas Nolte's efforts a...
27 Sept 2020

The Greeks Had a Word For It: Thymos

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    I.    The first time I remember hearing that the Greeks had a word for it was when listening to the 1981 single 'Chihuahua' by ...
26 Sept 2020

The Flood is Never Over

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Utnapishtim preparing for the flood     I.    The story of a great flood or deluge, usually sent by a deity of some kind in order to punish ...
25 Sept 2020

On Background Radiation (in a Cultural-Philosophical Sense)

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The Cosmic Microwave Background (NASA 2010)     I.    Readers may recall the big hoo-ha created by physicists Sokal and Bricmont back in the...
23 Sept 2020

Aujourd’hui, Juliette Gréco est morte

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Juliette Gréco by Erwin Blumenfeld (1951)     Juliette Gréco - the face (and voice) of chic postwar Paris and muse to numerous Left-Bank poe...

On the Backs of Tigers

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Henri Rousseau: Traumgarten     The above work by French post-impressionist painter Henri Rousseau, reminds me of something Nietzsche wrote...
22 Sept 2020

Amechania

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Reworked image from A Guide on Greek Mythology   by chubbyeol_jones on wattpad.com I. Help!   In an interview with Playboy in 1980, John L...
19 Sept 2020

News in the Age of Coronavirus

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    My mother - though not so much my father, who was really only interested in sports - loved to watch news and discussion programmes and I...
18 Sept 2020

In Praise of Fighters: At the Gym and on the Battlefield with D. H. Lawrence

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George Rodger's famous photo taken in Southern Sudan (1949)  of a Nuba wrestling champion being carried victorious upon  the shoulders o...