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  • Next Line, Please: Let the Names Begins [by Virginia Valenzuela]

    September 27, 2018

    Poems for this week were inspired by either our own names or the name of someone we admire, coming out in acrostic form. There were a great many poems, furthering David's tried and true…

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  • On the moving of wishes and sense: a night at the opera [by Tracy Danison]

    September 26, 2018

    Photo © Agathe Poupeney / Opéra national de Paris Crystal Pite "Season’s Canon" is brilliant, a combination of dance professionalism and choreography that always lines up with the underlying sense of the piece “It…

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  • Gershwin Medley (on George’s birthday, with Vic Damone)

    September 26, 2018

       

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  • “Platonic Love” [by Curt Anderson]

    September 25, 2018

      We dine at Adorno and return to my Beauvoir.She compliments me on my Bachelard pad.I pop in a Santayana CD and Saussure back to the couch.On my way, I pull out two fine…

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  • “General Strike” [by Jim Dolot]

    September 22, 2018

    And balagan and Milosz on jstor.Certainly Danny Kaye was The Court Jester. “This day” (Darwin wrote) “I shot me a condor.”Who manages to say no to being quaestor? And in Jerusalem, what is the…

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  • Auden on Psychoanalysis

    September 22, 2018

    Psychoanalysis, like all pagan scientia, says: "Come, my good man, no wonder you feel guilty. You have a distorting mirror, and that is indeed a very wicked thing to have. But cheer up, For…

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