Saturday, May 30, 2020

Is Jay Gatsby Great? A Few Thoughts

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‪ R:‬ ‪I think not.  ‬ ‪Nick comes to love Gatsby, the first person whom he has ever loved.  (he betrays women one way or another, looks...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

A Couple Of Brief Notes (now more) On Elizabeth Bishop’s Poem Filling Station

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‪Filling Station   ‬ ‪Elizabeth Bishop      ‬ ‪Oh, but it is dirty!‬ ‪—this little filling station,‬ ‪oil-soaked, oil-permeated‬ ‪to ...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Short Note To A Friend On The Original (1950) Film Noir DOA

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‪Just watched it, the first one with Edmund O’Brien.‬ ‪It’s clearly noir. ‬ ‪I don’t remember what point you offered it as exemplif...
Friday, May 15, 2020

The Pith Of Ruth Wisse’s Argument On The Dark Side Of Holocaust Education

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‪Ruth Wisse: the dark side of Holocaust education ‬ ‪ https://tikvahfund.org/tikvah-may-2020/‬ ‪Me to I:‬ ‪I sent you the link to her...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

What I Learned Once Around 2:47 A.M.

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‪ Me: ‬ ‪ John Locke in his Second Treatise says that in the state of nature me n share all the earth in common. He then says men own thei...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Some Thoughts On Coriolanus

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‪P:‬ ‪I've read it, at last. Enjoyed it too. An intelligent tour de force. ‬ ‪My first take is that it's about the power of rhet...
Friday, May 1, 2020

One Dissenting Note On Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

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‪I’ve come to Coriolanus late. Just last night in fact. I read it, watched a Stratford, Ontario production of it as filmed, then watched Mar...