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“Rest”
“Rest” Rest, as I’ve said before in these columns, is hard for me. I don’t know when it got to be so hard. It seems one of the downsides of growing up but, since I’m not in favor of growing … Continue reading
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Tagged battle, combat, emotional work, failure, Faith, feminine self-image, frantic, Furies, God, Greek Lyrics, hurry, identity, introspection, jeopardy, life direction, life plateau, life purpose, life tasks, loss, lost time, memory, mental rape, motivation, narrative, other-directedness, personal history, purposive desire, rape, redemption, rest, Richard Lattimore, self-command, stolen identity, The 300, The Epitaph at Thermopylae, threat, unsuccess, victory and defeat, vocation, wisdom, work
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Dream Lessons
“Dream Lessons” When I was a small child, I had a recurrent nightmare in which someone was attacking me. I needed to scream for help but couldn’t, because no sound came out. I would try and try to scream, but … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Evil, Fashion, Guilt and Innocence, History, history of ideas, Ideology, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Memoir, Philosophy, Political, Psychology, relationships, Social Conventions, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman
Tagged Achille Lauro, aesthetic values, being silenced, Choreographer: Mark Morris, Composer: John Adams, conformity, decency, demonstrators, Director: Peter Sellars, dream, Edouard Manet, fear, firing squad, group execution, History, human norms, Leon Klinghoffer, Librettist: Alice Goodman, Metropolitan Opera House, nightmare, normality, normative, oddball, official story, opera, ostracism, outlaw chic, personal narrative, protestors, social pressure, speechlessness, suppression, terrorists, The Death of Klinghoffer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, threat, trangressive, understanding, voice
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