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“Ulysse” – Josette Baïz and the gifts of today’s un-classic ballet [By Tracy Danison]
“Ulysse”, performance Groupe Grenade. Photo © LéIo Ballani O! Muse! apart, the only words I remember from the Odyssey, blind Homer’s adventures of Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, is the epithet “rosy-fingered Dawn”.…
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“Chorus Sacerdotum: from Mustapha” [by Fulke Greville]
O wearisome condition of humanity!Born under one law, to another bound;Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity;Created sick, commanded to be sound.What meaneth nature by these diverse laws?Passion and reason, self-division cause.Is it the mark…
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Michael Drayton’s great sonnet
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part. Nay, I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That…
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Hart Crane’s “Chaplinesque”
We make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pockets. For we can still love the world, who find A famished kitten on the…
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Who said it? [2025 series, no. 3]
"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as psychoanalysis leads us to unconscious impulses." "When you are high on hashish, your thinking contnues on the samr path, only now it is strewn with…
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Amore Infinito: On résistance, ideals, the chain of biological being and Sarah Valente [By Tracy Danison]
“The Edge of Choice”, Sarah Valente, 2024, aluminium. Photo : © Allison Borgo Carnet pour l’exil # … The exile needs, of course, to compulsively walk around the chosen city. But they also need ideals.…
