Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”
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Trump as Captain Queeg
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David’s Music in a Time of Illness
This Hecht poem about David performing for Saul soothed my own bout with illness.
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Kesey, Spokesman for Reactionary Men
“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” anticipates rightwing attacks on women and people of color.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ken Kesey, male identity crisis, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, racism, Sexism, Tucker Carlson Comments closed
Apparition of Unmasked Student Faces
The apparition of unmasked student faces brought to mind Ezra Pound’s famous poem.
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Rogers, Covid, and Atlas Shrugged
Quarterback Rogers’s favorite book, “Atlas Shrugged,” helps explain his Covid resistance.
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More Time Spent in the Covid Sewers
In a repost from March, I see our Covid slog as similar to Jean Valjean trudging through the Paris sewers.
Mrs. Dalloway on Moving Past Covid
Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” shows us how to juggle this uncertain moment in the Covid pandemic.
Sin, Death, and a Pro-Covid GOP
As the GOP becomes a pro-Covid party, they resemble Satan in “Paradise Lost,” unleashing death upon humankind.
A Mimeo Fable Explains Vax Foes
A Scott Bates fable captures Trumpist authoritarianism when it comes to vaccine resistance.
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