A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (7)
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1984/Big Brother: Bowie
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Oakeshott on the Character of Religion Experience: Need there be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
ZYGON — Vo. 44. Issue 1, pp. 153-167. CervantesDon Quixoteexperience and its modesF. H. BradleyGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelIdealismMichael OakeshottMontaignescience and religionstoicismTimothy Fuller
Professor Longhair: Bach Of Rock
Just released. Allen Toussaint dubbed the late Professor Longhair the “Bach of Rock.” In an illuminating 2013 interview with Sound Opinions about Fess’ influence on his music — and New Orleans music — Toussaint said, “I say he is our Bach of Rock in New Orleans because he had inventions,” and demonstrated how Fess’ piano…
Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (6)
As a true paterfamilias, my father knew how to defend his peace and quiet. He possessed this peace and quiet both in his house and in his soul. The only books he read were bland and moral, not out of hypocrisy on his part, but from the most genuine conviction: I think he felt deeply…
EPISTEME: Volume 17 – Issue 2 – June 2020
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The Moviegoer: quotes (7)
She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees…
A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (6)
“Canned food is a perversion,” Ignatius said. “I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.” 30% discount code available here a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophy and literature
Marguerite Yourcenar
Born on June 8th. Becoming the Emperor: How Marguerite Yourcenar reinvented the past. Then she came upon the drafts of a novel about Hadrian that she had begun when she was twenty-one and had later put aside. …. She was forty-five when she went back to Hadrian. Marcus AureliusMarguerite YourcenarMemoirs of Hadrianphilosophical literatureYukio Mishima
Tom Jones: 80 not out
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