One of Jesus’s most graphic images serves Jane Eyre in a moment of supreme testing.
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Kavanaugh-Pentheus vs. Angry Women
Euripides’s “Bacchae” gives us good insights into Kavanaugh’s alcohol consumption and his relation with women.
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Cassandra vs. the Judiciary Committee
Thursday I posted the following essay last December when I looked back over the year and concluded that, other than the chaos accompanying Donald Trump, the most significant development of 2017 was the rise of the #MeToo movement. I rerun it today because, once again, the question before us is whether to “believe the woman.” […]
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In Honor of a Nonagenarian
My mother turned 93 yesterday so I share this moving R. S. Thomas poem on visiting a woman turning 90.
Aeneas, Kavanaugh, and Female Fury
As American female anger keeps rising, esp. with regard to Brett Kavanaugh, it’s worth looking at the vivid depictions in Virgil’s “Aeneid.
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The Mystery in Mary’s Singing
William Bronk’s poem about Mary seeks to find the mystery of poetry in the Magnificat.
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Henry Fielding Explains Witness Flipping
Fielding shows a classic case of a witness flipping on his boss in “Tom Jones.” As a magistrate, he knows what he’s talking about.
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Smollett: Country Water over City Water
My mother is finding a necessary switch from lake water to city water psychologically difficult. Smollett’s “Humphry Clinker” helps me understand why.
