Zaphod Beeblebox has an ego the size of the universe in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” But is it as big as Donald J. Trump’s.
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An Ego the Size of the Universe
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Trump, a Gulliverian Midget amongst Giants
Trump complaining that the deaths of Good and Petti are “bad publicity” makes him appear as small as Gulliver in the land of the giants.
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The Sin above All Sins: Harm Thy Brethren
A Tulsidas poem that we need at the fractious moment.
Dante’s Inferno and My Cancer Biopsy
Undergoing a biopsy for prostate cancer has sent me to Dante’s ninth circle of Inferno for imagery that captures the experience.
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Ralph Chaplin’s Poetic Call to Action
In a poem perhaps written in prison in 1917. Chaplin calls out the “cowed and the meek” who “see the world’s great anguish and its wrong and dare not speak!”
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How Homer Would Judge ICE
When ICE agents arrested people who had served them in a restaurant, they broke a taboo that goes at least as far back as Homer.
Standing Up to Trump’s Nazgul
Battling Trump feels eerily like the hobbits battling Sauron.
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Micah and Dickinson on Kindness
The prophet Micah’s famous observation about justice, kindness, and humility can lead us to other poems about kindness, including Dickinson’s “If I can stop one heart from breaking.”