As a child who grew up immersed in fantasy fiction, I knew, as deeply as I knew anything, that these books put me in touch with something that was deep and true. As I grew up, of course, I learned that I had to move beyond fantasy just as I had to move beyond childhood. […]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Fantasy Provides Aid for Life’s Storms
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Eve of St. Agnes, fantasy, John Keats, Sigmund Freud, Tempest, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Expect No Second Charge in Ukraine
Battling Russian troops 110 years ago in the Crimea, the British light brigade inspired Tennyson. Expect no doomed charge from the West this time.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Charge of the Light Brigade", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine incursion Comments closed
To the Pure All Things Are Pure
Edwin Muir’s beautiful poem about the transfiguration points the way to pure seeing for all of us.
Sex without Love
Sex without love, as Sharon Olds frames it, requires a fascistic narcissism.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Daddy", narcissism, Sex without Love, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath Comments closed
