Eliot’s reference to the Road to Emmaus story in “The Wasteland” may be sign of hope rather than despair.
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Who Is the Third Always Beside You?
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For Sterling, Waves Came Crashing In
Collective player anger may have led to the NBA’s harsh punishment for Clippers owner Don Sterling. Lucille Clifton has a poem about the power of collective black action.
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Mr. Hyde Is Taking over America
Dr. Jekyll is so buttoned down that his Hyde side emerges, but he looks pretty good to an America that is losing restraint.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged alter ego, Angela Carter, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etiquette, horror, Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, Robert Louis Stevenson Comments closed
History from the Workers’ Perspective
Bertolt Brecht captures the spirit of May Day in “A Worker Reads History.”
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