“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
My movie list has evolved as I have aged. The ones I’ve left behind from 12 years ago have not shifted from my esteem. It’s just that others have been added that are more contemporary, and I’ve promised myself to keep to 40 so that I must make choices. This is a partial description of my tastes: I cannot bear Marvel movies or their ilk. They are boredom squared for […]
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Reader’s Note: It will be helpful for you to have access to the complete poems I’ve discussed in this Post: #359 “ A Bird came down the Walk ” #314 “ Hope is the thing with feathers ” #764 “ My life had stood – a Loaded Gun ” #466 “ I Dwell In Possibility ” #905 Split the Lark – and you’ll find the Music” #372, “ After great pain, a formal feeling comes ” Emily Dickinson lived all but a few weeks of her adult life in one house. She spent years as a caretaker for her bedridden mother. She suffered from debilitating migraines, difficulties with her eyes, probably […]
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Doubt helps keep us fully human as opposed to fanatics who sacrifice some fundamental part of their humanity when they adopt a worldview that is one of an ironclad belief in a system, or a person. Doubt necessitates questions. It separates the individual from what he or she is questioning so that the object of devotion may be examined with a critical eye and mind. Fanaticism breeds obedience and a […]
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The Tempest is about the motivations for vengeance and murder, and what one might do with the power of a god. It shows the audience the arbitrary bloom of one love match, but also has something to say about earned and unearned forgiveness and the residue of viciousness. Prospero, with his power to summon storms and spirits, create hallucinations, bestow sleep, hold others to his will, is a very human god. His […]
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