Two items: Bad Bunny’s trees compared to the Tolkien’s Ents and an Olympic skier compared to Icarus.
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Bad Bunny’s Trees, Olympic Athletes
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Conor Ryan, Donald Trump, Ents, Icarus, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Oscar Wilde Comments closed
An Ego the Size of the Universe
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Douglas Adams, Election denial, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Gulliver’s Travels, Immigrant deportations, Jonathan Swift Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged cancer biopsy, Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, John Milton, Paradise Lost Comments closed
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!”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged “Mourn Not the Dead", GOP legislators, Ralph Chaplin, resistance Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, ICE deportations, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Comments closed