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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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“Is ‘Right and Wrong’…Wrong?”
“Is ‘Right and Wrong’ … Wrong?” One time I had registration duty at the opening of fall term. Along with other faculty representing their departments, I sat on one side of a long table. Students would approach from the other … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, fantasy, fear, good and evil, heroes, inner voice, intuition, judgment, moral, moral high ground, non-judgmental, Right and Wrong, sexy, Torah, Vietnam, villains
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