Johnson’s Rasselas is must reading for those worrying about the next four years.
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On Election Night 2024, The Tempest
On Election Night 2024, I turned to a subplot in Shakespeare’s “Tempest” to understand what was going on.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, Election 2024, Kamala Harris, Shakespeare, Tempest Comments closed
To Survive Trump, Be Like Lizzie
How to survive Trumpism’s anticipated assaults on democracy? Reading Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a good place to start.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Christina Rossetti, cults, Donald Trump, Fascism, Goblin Market, Herman Melville, Moby Dick Comments closed
A Florida County Targeted Paradise Lost
Milton’s Paradise Lost, banned by a Florida County this past year, exposes the hypocrites who have taken it off school library shelves.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bacchae, Book banning, Euripides, John Milton, MAGA, Paradise Lost Comments closed
Unexpected Responses to a Murder
An African American’s response to the killing of Healthcare Insurance CEO Brian Thompson echoes one found in “Midnight’s Children” following the killing of Gandhi.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Brian Thompson, Gandhi, Insurance companies, Midnight's Children, Race in America, Salman Rushdie Comments closed
The Real Story of Christmas
Scott Bates points out the multicultural aspects of the Nativity in “Christmas at the Courthouse.”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Christmas at the Courthouse", Christmas, Scott Bates, syncretism, War on Christmas Comments closed
Blog Fragments Shored against My Ruins
In which apply a line from T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land” to this very blog and suddenly understand the project in a new way.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Bell Jar, Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Kate Atkinson, Moliere, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Waste Land Comments closed
Memories of Being Read To
This Scott Bates Christmas poem celebrates reading together before an open fire. Many of the children’s classics I grew up with, it so happens, have an environmental theme.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged "Letters from the North Pole", Christmas, Scott Bates Comments closed