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The Burning of Notre Dame
The Burning of Notre Dame The first photos showed the cathedral’s high spire falling, its skeletal wood frame silhouetted against the engulfing red flames and – seen from the city’s venerable center – a column of smoke rising. Notre Dame … Continue reading →
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Tagged 9/11, a city’s heart, accidental fires, architecture of the human soul, “set fires”, barbarian invaders, believing nothing, churches at risk, churches desecrated, churches vandalized, defensive city perimeters, emptying a population, erotic Paris, gothic architecture, gothic architecture's exemplar, la plus belle ville du monde, life and death of cities, medieval city, New York fireman, nihilism, Notre Dame, Notre Dame burning, Notre Dame’s high spire, Parisian skepticism, photos of Notre Dame burning, Rome’s aqueducts, sacking of Ancient Rome, secular Paris, spiritual thirst, the heart of Paris, towers of Notre Dame, Vandals and Visigoths, Wars of Religion, World Trade Center
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Landscapes of the Heart
Landscapes of the Heart I hadn’t been to Manhattan (my home town) in over two years. But last week I went into town to meet my life-long friends, Frank and Ada, at the Neue Gallerie on 86th and Fifth. That’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged 9/11/01, ancient regime, art gallery, artifacts, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Buddhist, cab drivers, Central Park, character assasination, Christian, city life, civic life, civic wounds, coquettrie, court painter, deal-making, death, death scenes, defamation, dorm life, dying, eavesdropping, Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch's "The Scream", energy, Evangelical Christian, Existential dilemmas, farewells, feminine intelligence, French Revolution, German Expressionism, gossip, graveyards, guillotine, healing, Hebrew prayer, homesickness, igneous rock, internet shopping, landscape, last words, love of New York, love of Texas, Lower Manhattan, Loyalty, Marie Antoinette, mourning, Neue Gallerie, New World Trade Center, New Yorkers, Norwegian painters, nostalgia, painting, personal identity, pied à terre, portrait painting, psalm, rebirth, recollection, Reign of Terror, repair process, reputation, resurrection, skyline, skyscrapers, slander, small shops, small town life, social wounds, sociopaths, soul of a city, Spring, Twin Towers, Viennese cafés, Viennese pastries, Vigée Le Brun, will to live, World Trade Center, World War I, wounds
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“Coincidence?”
“Coincidence?” I have a particular fondness for deer. After many a summer sojourn in Downeast Maine, I once said to friends, “You know, I’ve never seen a deer here.” That very afternoon, as I was driving home, a doe obligingly … Continue reading →
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Tagged "the pathetic fallacy", 9/11, chance, coincidence, Hobbes, human purpose, Kierkegaard, magic, New Age, omens, ordeals, Osama bin Laden, Patanjali, portents, precognitive dreams, seduction, signs, Spinoza, the universe, vibes, World Trade Center, yoga sutras
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