Trump has mercurial escape powers similar to those of Long John Silver in Stevenson’s novels. There a sliver of optimism in this comparison.
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Super Bowl: One Leg, Still Deadly
All but playing on one leg, Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to a second Super Bowl victory. Think of him as Long John Silver.
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Freud: Lit Leads to Self Mastery
A Freudian analysis of why we are drawn to literature and what it does for us.
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Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
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The Novels that Shaped John McCain
McCain’s favorite novels included “Great Gatsby,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Huckleberry Finn,” and works by Somerset Maugham. One can understand why.
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Tess, More Relevant Than Ever
Students find Hardy’s “Tess” to be only too relevant In the age of Trump, Weinstein, and Roy Moore.
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Trump’s Unseen Playmate Jim
Trump apparently has an imaginary friend Jim who no longer likes Paris. Robert Louis Stevenson has a great poem about an imaginary friend.
Christmas During Life’s Storms
In “Christmas at Sea,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s speaker is both buoyed up and saddened by childhood Christmas memories.
