Showing posts with label Kulturkampf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kulturkampf. Show all posts
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Some Work of Noble Note May Yet Be Done

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We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

The Plural of Anecdote Is Bullet Point

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Giovanni Tiepolo, The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, ca. 1750 Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus bound to your answ...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

Ozymandias at the Art Gallery

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Henri Matisse, Interior with Goldfish, 1914 Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I togethe...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Venn Diagram

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Anselm Kiefer, Sulamith, 1983 If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right Fr...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Mirror, Mirror

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La belle et la bête  (1946) – Jean Cocteau “You’ve never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

A Painting Is Not a Refrigerator

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This is what civilizations and societies always do: remake the past in the present’s image, mistake the current conditions of knowledge and ...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Breakfast in Fur

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The Cereus, which only blossoms for a night, withers away without any admiration from another in the wilderness of the southern forests; and...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Kindle This

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And what is the faculty in man to which imitation is addressed? What do you mean? I will explain: The body which is large when seen near, ...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

A Certain Moral Flexibility

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Marty: “When I left, I joined the Army, and when I took the service exam, my psych profile fit a certain... ‘moral flexibility’ would be t...