My lectures on Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Shakespeare and Sophocles all seem to track back to Lent these days.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Act in All Things as Love Will Prompt
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Flannery O'Connor, Good Man Is Hard to Find, James Baldwin, King Lear, Lent, Oedipus at Colonus, Sonny's Blues, Sophocles, Suffering, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Atwood: Flawed Activist, Genius Author
Margaret Atwood is not the best spokesperson for feminism because activists and authors necessarily have different agendas.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Alias Grace, Cat's Eye, Edible Woman, Handmaid's Tale, Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, Robber Bride, Surfacing Comments closed
“Sonny’s Blues,” Transcendent Moments
In “Sonny’s Blues, art wars with the world’s darkness and promises momentary relief.
My Dinner with Mladen
An account of a dinner with an old Slovenian friend and intellectual.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged intellectual conversations, Ion, King Lear, Mladen Dolar, Oedipus at Colonus, Pierre de Marivaux, Plato, Republic, Samuel Beckett, Sophocles, Wayne Booth, William Shakespeare, Worstward Ho Comments closed
Tearful at Prospero’s Farewell
Prospero’s final speech unexpectedly moved me to tears as I read it aloud recently to my British Fantasy class.
Trouble Recovering My French
Lines from Lucille Clifton’s “i am accused of tending to the past,” wrenched out of context, describe by experience with French at the moment
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Sorrow, Tears, Emptiness Are Necessary
Rob finds redemption in suffering and sorrow in “But for Love,” a good Lenten message.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Depression, Lent, Rob Suarez, sorrow, suffering tears Comments closed
Time Flows On, Paris Remains
I land in Paris today and will negotiate between nostalgia and the city as it presently is. Apollinaire has a wonderful Paris poem about time moving on.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Mirabeau Bridge", Guillaume Apollinaire, Nostalgia, Paris Comments closed
Facebook Didn’t Know Its Own Strength
A Facebook employee compared Mark Zuckerberg to Lennie in “Of Mice and Men,” a man who didn’t know his own strength in the 2016 election.
