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“The Well of Time”
“The Well of Time” “Very deep is the well of the past.” So, in Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann begins his monumental recreation of the Biblical Book of Genesis. In early adolescence, Mann’s Joseph was my favorite book, together … Continue reading →
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Tagged adolescence, adult conversation, alchemy, ancestors, autonomy, bad luck, biblical experience, biblical redactors, biblical time, bitterness, boredom, childhood, choice, convenant, creativity, evanescence, family life, feeling trapped, fleetingness, flux of time, fortune, freedom, God's time, good luck, grandfather, grownups and kids, Homer's Odyssey, kid's stuff, lottery of life, memory, no exit, pagan time, paganization, past and future, past present and future, personal authority, promising, remembrance, responsibility, restlessness, revelation, self-determination, sexual competition, sexual rivalry, social life, social position, social safety, The Bible, The Book of Genesis, The Joseph stories, The Old Testament, the specious present, Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, threats, Time, time and eternity, winners and losers, writers
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“Where Is God?”
“Where Is God?” We flew to Southern California this week, to look in on my father-in-law. He lives in a town near San Bernadino, the now-famous site of the latest mass murders. Over the four-day period of our trip, while … Continue reading →
Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art, autonomy, childhood, chivalry, Christianity, cities, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, films, freedom, friendship, guilt and innocence, heroes, hidden God, history, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immortality, institutional power, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, martyrdom, masculinity, master, mind control, mortality, nineteenth-century, past and future, peace, political, political movements, power, propaganda, psychology, relationships, religion, roles, seduction, slave, social conventions, sociobiology, spirituality, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, violence, war, writing, Zeitgeist
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Tagged adventure stories, adventures, afterlife, afterlife rewards, air travel, anthropologists, authority, bad guys, believers, boyhood, buccaneers, care, classroom discipline, classroom disruption, crewmen, Dante's Inferno, destiny, dying, faithfulness, falsehood, fate, field work, God, golden rule, good guys, Good Orderly Direction, guilty minds, heaven and hell, heroes, ideas, ideology, Jurgen Ziewe's Vistas of Infinity, love of neighbor, Loyalty, magic, mass murder, maturity, mistaken ideas, mutaneers, mutineers, piety, pirates, Portuguese fishing village, punishments, realism, respect, responsibility, rewards, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, San Bernadino, sea captains, seamen, security, Southern California, Success, survival, symbolism, the Other, the political animal, the speaking animal, treasure, triumph, truth, unbelievers, victimizers, victims, Victor Zammit, victory, violent jihadis
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