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cosmetic nouns: baked in the cake 27 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
Where economic misfortune is concerned, a word on nomenclature is necessary… In the course of his disastrous odyssey, Pal Joey, the most inspired of John O’Hara’s creations, finds himself singing in a...
masada: zealots on high 26 Aug 2013 | 03:33 pm
Masada. Is its history a cautionary tale to call down scorn on fanaticism? The craggy stronghold beside the Dead Sea is a symbol of resistance as well as destructive extremism…. Some of the Jews await...
masada complex: myths and madness 25 Aug 2013 | 07:26 pm
Masada.Collective patriotic suicide. The craggy stronghold beside the Dead Sea where Zealots killed themselves rather than surrender to Rome. A cautionary tale of fantaticism and using the Messiah as...
a house divided 24 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
It remains the most perplexing legacy of the modern age. How advanced, democratic, secular and ostensibly enlightened societies could be at the nevrological and seismic center from which the Holocaust...
LSD: and then this world was nothing… 23 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
LSD as a form of psychiatric treatment. Stranded on the beaches of our waking mind… Another effect from the “gaining of altitude” revolved around the recording of the heightening of consciousness. Th...
phenomenal powers: gaining altitude 22 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
The phenomenal powers of LSD to intensify and change the mind. A good or an ill? Under controlled conditions, an enlargement of sensitivity and perceptiveness casting a new light on the source of cre...
pale fire: aesthetics of contempt 21 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
Vladimir Nabokov and Pale Fire. Much less well known than Lolita and certainly his strangest work… Pale Fire is a tease to the reader, a farcical caricature of scholarship… The sensitive reader dislik...
enlarging the mind 20 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
The phenomenal powers of LSD to intensify and change the mind. A good or an ill? Pharmaceuticals that change and maintain human personality at any desired level… Since earliest times people have felt ...
pale fire: the big wordy tease 19 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
Vladimir Nabokov and Pale Fire. Not his best work, but clearly one of the stranger literary offerings… Like Lolita, it is a study in obsessional insanity and a satire on the European intellectual in A...
pale fire: study in obsessional insanity 19 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Not his best, but one of his strangest… The novel is clearly a little masterpiece of ingenuity. Shade’s poem itself is charming. The gradual self-exposure of Kinbote’s in...
