A. A. Milne’s “Old Sailor” is an accurate description of adult Attention Deficit Disorder.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Milne’s Old Sailor & ADD
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Violating Political Norms Exacts a Price
Those who break political norms must keep in mind the lessons of Bolingbroke’s rebellion in Richard II.
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Don’t Shoot the Truth Tellers
Should we tell the truth if it undermines a social movement? Borges sets up the question, Jonathan Capehart, looking at the Ferguson shooting, provides an answer.
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Yeats & Ireland’s World of Faery
Yeats’ “Stolen Child” longs for the lost world of faery but also finds something precious in the here and now world of Ireland.
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What Lemming Migrations Mean
Scott Bates’ articulates existential despair in a lyrical poem about lemmings.
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O’Connor’s Christianity and Racism
“Artificial Nigger” can be read two ways–either as a story of sin and redemption or as a story of Whites finding unity by scapegoating Blacks. A definitive interpretation may depend on readers’ reactions.
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Would I Were in Grantchester
The BBC series “Grantchester” owes its inspiration to a Rupert Brooke poem.
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The Return of Debtor Imprisonment?!
The fleecing by authorities of the Ferguson Black community, including imprisonment for debt, puts one in mind of Charles Dickens’ “Little Dorrit.”
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