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“Hanging Fire”
“Hanging Fire” I seem to be at a rather gratifying plateau. “Confessions of a Young Philosopher” is now edited almost to completion. It may take another few weeks but the major hurdles have been cleared. It is, if I may … Continue reading
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“Places”
“Places” “There are no places anymore.” This was the complaint we two hitchhikers, Anna and me, heard from an American traveler at a roadside stop. Our informant — who was saying this to his two compatriots many decades back — … Continue reading
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Tagged "Portrait of Jenny", "The World of Yesterday", 9/11, artists and writers, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bateau Mouche, beats, Big Apple, bohemians, book burning, cafes, Cool, cosmopolitan, country music, earth, Europe, European cities, German Occupation, Hemingway, hitchhiking, nazis, New York, New York in the nineteen forties, Notre Dame, Paris, Robert Frost, Stefan Zweig, Stephen Vincent Benét, The Great War, the Seine, tourists/tourism, travel, World War I, World War II
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“The House in Maine”
“The House in Maine” Having grown up in city apartments, owning a home had never been high on my list of desirables. In fact, co-inheriting one, when my parents died, felt like the hand of a heavy fate on my … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Friendship, Memoir, relationships
Tagged acreage, ante-bellum homes, border disputes, city apartments, entropy, family belongings, fences, friendship, gospel, hometown, inheritance, land, Maine, memorabilia, memories, miracles, New England, New York, nostalgia, ownership, property, real estate, right-of-way, rodeos, selling a home, small towns, surveyors stakes, tradition
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“Romantic Love”
“Romantic Love” Some years back I attended a wedding at a … Continue reading
“Invisibility”
Toulouse-Lautrec, ‘Ce qui dit la pluie’. “Invisibility” Invisibility can signal erasure. Qanta Ahmed’s In the Land of Invisible Women, subtitled A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, describes shopping for the author’s first abbayah (burqa), “a flowing robe that … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Culture, Femininity, Feminism, Gender Balance, Literature, Philosophy, Political, Social Conventions, The Problematic of Woman
Tagged abbayah, American woman, androgyny, Art, Art Student's League, burqa, Chinese art, Henry Adams, In the Land of Invisible Women, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, invisibility, New York, New York City, orthodox, orthodox women, philosophy, Qanta Ahmed, Saudi Arabia, Toulouse-Lautrec, United States, Venus
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