Artists like Bruce Springsteen are taking on Donald Trump, whose attacks on art and artists is straight out the fascist playbook.
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Artists Leading the Resistance
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Unless Forced, Resist the Urge to Flee
This Cavafy poem warns about leaving a country because of our disappointment. It’s a useful caution for those who fantasize leaving Trump’s America.
Rossetti and the 2nd Great Commandment
One of Jesus’s last commands to his followers was to love each other. Christina Rossetti captures the beautiful message in the conclusion to “Goblin Market.”
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Trump Takes a Page out of Dead Souls
Trump resembles the two conmen in Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” But where he was once like the flamboyant Nozdrev, he has evolved to the more insidious Chichikov.
Diplomacy thru Lit Aided Václav Havel
The recent deceased Luers, when Czechoslovak ambassador in the early 1980s, used American writers to support dissident Václav Havel, later president.
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Mirror on the Wall, Who Is Evilest?
Lit Hub had a reader poll to determine the evilest literary character. Maybe not surprisingly in the Trump era, Orwell’s dictator won.
Also posted in Ayn Rand Tagged 1984, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Evil, George Orwell, Sigmund Freud, Stand, Stephen King, Walt Kelly Comments closed
On Carlsbad Caves, Science and Religion
A visit to Carlsbad Caverns led me to theological speculations, partly because they’re magnificent and partly because I was reading Byatt’s “Possession.”
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The Spiritual Power of Cliff Dwellings
Many years ago Willa Cather’s “Professor’s House” made me want to visit the New Mexico cliff dwellings. This past week I was finally about to fulfill that wish.
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For Mother’s Day, a Pregnant Mary
Hopkins’s “May Magnificat” associated pregnant Mary with spring bursting out all over.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Cherry Tree Carol", "May Magnificat", "Spring", "Sumer is ycomen in", Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary, pregnancy Comments closed
