Dostoevsky’s description of an epileptic fit is only recently being confirmed by science.
Monthly Archives: June 2024
Dostoevsky’s Near Death Experience (NDE)
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Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer and Jesus
Early in Mark, Jesus’s family thinks he is insane–but sanity, as Wendell Berry notes in “Manifesto: Man Farmer’s Liberation Front,” is sometimes overrated.
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For Pride Month, An Awakening
Wade’s poem “When I Was Straight” describes a literal awakening that foreshadows a literal awakening.
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Gulliver Reminds Us of Civic Virtue
Is civic virtue becoming a relic of the past? Gullliver’s Travels can help keep it alive.
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On Portia, Milosz, and Pardoning Trump
Should Biden pardon Trump. This article, citing “Merchant of Venice” and a Milosz poem, argues no.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Incantation", Czeslaw Milosz, Dante, Donald Trump, Inferno, Isaiah, Merchant of Venice, mercy, Presidential pardoning power, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare Comments closed
You, Mary, Are More Than Welcome Here
Jan Richardson’s poem about the Visitation calls Elizabeth’s house a sanctuary for Mary.
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