I hated Catcher in the Rye in high school. I learned a lot about myself later in life when I analyzed my response.
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Why I Hated Catcher in the Rye (But Not Anymore)
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged adolescence, Catcher in the Rye, innocence, J.D. Salinger Leave a comment
Much Ado about Male Insecurities
The men in Much Ado about Nothing are obsessed with cuckoldry. Out of the play, however, arises a revolutionary vision of how male-female relationships could be.
Is Taming of the Shrew about Male Fragility?
Perhaps Taming of the Shrew is less about taming shrews and more about male fragility. That would restore some of Katharina’s dignity.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Male fragility, Much Ado about Nothing, Pete Hegseth, toxic masculinity, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Putin as Puppet-Master
Grimké’s “Puppet-Master” can be applied to Putin pulling DJT’s strings.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Harlot's House", "Puppet-Master", Angelina Weld Grimké, DJT, Hillary Clinton, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Putin Comments closed
Art, for When Life Is at Its Worst
In Lapus Lazuli, Yeats shows us how art offers us hope even at the darkest times. He wrote this on the eve of World War II.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", "Lapus Lazuli", Asphodel That Greeny Flower, Fine Balance, hope and despair, Rohinton Mistry, W. H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, William Carlos Williams Comments closed
The Iliad Saved My Freshman Year
In which I explain how The Iliad saved my freshman year in high school.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Creative Writing and Daydreaming", "Strange Meeting", force, Homer, Iliad, Richard Lattimore, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, war, Wilfred Owen Comments closed
Zuckerberg, Grendel, and the Cool Kids’ Table
Sorkin says the Zuckerberg (and Trump) are perpetually angry from having been denied admission to the cool kids’ table. Grendel is the same.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Beowulf, DJT, Mark Zuckerberg, resentment, Social Reckoning Comments closed
The Fine Balance between Hope and Despair
Mistry’s “Fine Balance,” which describes tyranny in India in 1975 and 1984, can be applied to DJT’s America in unsettling ways.