Herbert laments that sometimes, when he prays, his words don’t get through to God. And yet he finds peace in the end.
Monthly Archives: September 2024
“Dinas Vawr” and Bully Culture
What do bullies feel when they assert their dominance. Thomas Love Peacock provides an insight.
Silko and Trump on Weaving
In response to Trump’s defense that his rambling is verbal weaving, I look at applicable weaving imagery in Silko’s novel “Ceremony.”
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Candide on Trump as God’s Messenger
Trump has been accorded messiah status by some of his followers. Voltaire would disagree.
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Celebrate Work? or Complain about It?
For Labor Day, two poems (Brecht, Piercy) about jobs that degrade. But the poems themselves offer solace.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Pirate Jenny's Song", "Secretary Chant", Bertolt Brecht, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Kurt Weil, Labor Day, Marge Piercy, Threepenny Opera, Work Comments closed
