A squeaking tank at Trump’s military parade brings to mind Milne’s “The Knight Whose Armor Didn’t Squeak”
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A.A. Milne and a Squeaking Tank
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God the Father as Loving Protector
Imagine God, not as an angry father demanding punishment for sin, but a loving father holding us lovingly in His arms. Happy Fathers Day.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Shoulders", John Donne "Hymn to God the Father", John Milton, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paradise Lost Comments closed
A.I. and the Tech Bro Accelerationists
AI is the darling of Silicon Valley accelerationists, who sound like the old Italian Futurists and who appear never to have read Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Andy Beckett, climate change, Ezra Pound, Fascism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Frankenstein, Greg Olear, Italian Futurism, Macbeth, Mary Shelley, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tobias Wilson-Bates, William Shakespeare Comments closed
The Song of Angry Americans
As Trump attends a performance of “Les Misérables,” I apply passages from the novel to his military crackdown on protest.
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Without Literature, No Freedom
In a commencement address, novelist Nicole Krauss made an eloquent plea for the necessity of literature in maintaining democracy.
Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America
Koestler’s novel “Darkness at Noon” applies only too well to rightwing “intellectual” and fascist advocate Curtis Yarvin.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Arthur Koestler, Atlas Shrugged, authoritarianism, Ayn Rand, Curtis Yarvin, Darkness at Noon, Fascism, John Rogers, Joyce Carol Oates Comments closed
Trump=Gingham Dog, Musk=Calico Cat
Think of the Trump-Musk spat as the gingham dog vs. the calico cat from the Eugene Field poem.
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