DJT befouling all that is sacred is akin to Virgil’s harpies befouling Aeneas’s feast.
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Monthly Archives: August 2026
DJT as a Harpy, Befouling All That Is Good
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On Raccoons and Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince
With raccoons assaulting our birdfeeders while showing little fear of us, I think of the friendship Saint-Exupéry Little Prince develops with the fox.
George Herbert: Joseph Story Prefigures Jesus
In Herbert’s sonnet “Joseph’s Coat,” the Joseph story prefigures Jesus while comforting a poet worn out with illness.
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Dr. Seuss and Escalating AI
As AI detection programs are developed to AI essay writing services, universities found themselves caught in an escalating war. Dr. Seuss’s Butter Battle Book understands the dynamics.
On Pompeii, Hiroshima, and an Uncertain Future
A 1962 Richard Tillinghast poem remembering Hiroshima and fearing for the world’s future.
Recognize Anyone in García Márquez’s Dictator?
García Márquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch captures the loneliness and private misery of a dictator seeking absolute power. DJT should take note.
Sonia and Sunny Meet the U.S. Caste System
Desai’s novel “Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” brilliantly lays out how new immigrants respond to America’s racial caste system.
Feminists Rethinking The Odyssey
Feminist authors who have rethought the Odyssey.
Chaucer & Mary Oliver on Loaves and Fishes
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and Mary Oliver both have interesting takes on the loaves and fishes story. Their two interpretations are not as far apart as it first seems.
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