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Mental Health Break
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Tagged 1970s, hippies, life, mental health break, mountains, psychology, steve miller
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John Keats on the 1781 Discovery of Uranus
In a Slate.com review of Richard Holmes’s new book on Romanticism and science, the reviewer notes a reference to astronomer William Herschel’s discovery of the planet Uranus in one of John Keats’s sonnets: In Keats’ sonnet “On First Looking Into … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, John Keats, literature, poetry, romanticism, science, william Herschel
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Irony, Eros, Thanatos, and Dionysus
Against this bucolic depiction, Dionysus, circa 70 CE, would soon be interrupting idyllic Pompeii with the volcanic eruption of Mt. Visuvius:
Jeff Locker, Eros, and Thanatos: What Motivated the Stabbed Motivational Speaker?
An old, old story? Forbidden eros once again translates into thanatos (death)? According to the AP, stabbed to death motivational speaker, Jeff Locker, may have been deceiving his wife about his own, er, motivations for being out so late: [Locker] told his wife that … Continue reading
Prometheus Unbound 