The Sandy Hook killings recall the Biblical massacre of the innocents, referenced in “Moby Dick.”
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Lamentation and Weeping in Newtown
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Sacrifice Ram of Pride, Not Isaac
Rumi honors the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, which centers on the story of Abraham and Isaac.
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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.
Weep, For You May Touch Them Not
In his poem “Greater Love,” Owen describes two deaths. One is the physical death of soldiers, which is tragic enough. But the other death is also heartbreaking: the death of innocence that occurs when people become intimately acquainted with war.
Christopher Hitchens, Literary Bully
I confess to bristling when I hear the name Christopher Hitchens.The intellectual provocateur has been in the news recently, first for publishing his memoirs and second for contracting throat cancer.Although he is smart and well read, he has always struck me as a self-righteous intellectual bully, one who is more interested in toppling icons than […]
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