Atwood’s “Cicadas” depicts the sexual urges that drive the insect.
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Margaret Atwood on the Cicada Love Song
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Trump, Quixote, and Windmills
Both Trump and Don Quixote have an animus against windmills. The resemblances end there, however.
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Pentecost in Narnia
There’s a Pentecostal scene in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” that captures the excitement of the Holy Spirit’s descent.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "In the Bleak Midwinter", C. S. Lewis, Christine Rossetti, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Pentecost, T. S. Eliot, Waste Land Comments closed
René Girard on What Lit Can Teach Us
Philosophical anthropologist René Girard owes his ideas about mimetic desire to literature.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Cynthia Haven, mimetic desire, Rebecca Adams, René Girard, scapegoating, violence Comments closed
To Be Trump’s VP, Leap and Creep
The competition to be Trump’s VP resembles the stick leaping and crawling contest in Lilliput.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Election 2024, GOP, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift Comments closed
Alice Munro, R.I.P.
Alice Munro, who died yesterday, explored themes of survival in everyday settings.
Does Clockwork Orange Describe Us?
The novella Clockwork Orange captures the process of fascist conditioning, such as we are seeing carried out by Putin on swatches of the GOP.
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Trump, Stormy, and The Waste Land
The Stormy Daniels-Trump encounter resembles the sordid sex scene found in T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Manhattan election interference trial, Stormy Daniels, T.S. Eliot, Waste Land Comments closed
He Took Us with Him to the Heart of Things
Poet’s writing about the Ascension often focus on our tangled lives.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Ascension", "Crown: Ascension", "Sonnet for Ascension Day", Henry Vaughan, John Donne, Malcolm Guite, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth Comments closed
