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“Work and Life”
“Work and Life” The writer Ernest Hemingway is supposed to have said, about the aim of life, that it’s “to last and get your work done.” Well, he didn’t exactly do either. He did not last, for he killed himself, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction in art, aim of life, Aladdin's lamp, allegory, artistic sterility, British India, censorship, Charlie Rose, courage, death and art, death of art, decoding writing, deconstructionism, encoded writing, Enlightenment, Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, fantasy, fisherman, genies, great American novel, groundedness, heresy, Islamic mindset, Islamic Orthodoxy, Islamic sensibility, jinn, Leo Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing, liberal Muslims, magic, magical beings, magical realism, meaning of art, meaning of life, Modernity, Nobel Prize, novels, One Thousand and One Nights, overcoming adversity, post modernism, real life, realism, Romanticism, Sahih Al-Bukhari's The Translation of the Meanings of Ahadith Vol. 1-9 tr. by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Salman Rushdie, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, scholarship, sterility, T.V author interview, the human spirit, ungroundedness
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“Women Friends”
“Women Friends” The Ariadne’s Thread that connects one episode of one’s life to the next is provided by our women friends – the ones to whom our stories can be told. I have a high school friend (let us call … Continue reading
Posted in academe, art, culture, femininity, feminism, friendship, gender balance, life and death struggle, literature, philosophy, psychology, relationships, social conventions, the examined life, the problematic of woman
Tagged "Three Coins in the Fountain", 1950's, Ariadne's Thread, beauty, bitterness, D.H. Lawrence, diaphram, Ernest Hemingway, female relationships, Feminism, ideology, Italians, jeune fille en fleure, literary club, Marcel Proust, Mary McCarthy, mental breakdown, Mr. Right, public feminists, Samuel Butler, The Group, The Left, virginity, women friends, wunderkind, youth, zen
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“Femininity”
“Femininity” Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, the painting above, takes an uncommon view, since the self-display is rather complete. Usually, in photos from all over the world, every clime and hue, the feminine look has slightly lowered eyelids, a face turned sidewise, … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, An American Bride in Kabul, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Ernest Hemingway, Femininity, France, German, Hadley, Hadley Richardson, hermetic tradition, Kabul, male authority, nazis, Phyllis Chesler, United States, westernized, World War II
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