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Daily Archives: April 20, 2010
Poet Charles Hood’s theory of Van Gogh’s Irises painting at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles: perhaps Van Gogh made his painting after “reading Shakespeare too intensely”
. Poet Charles Hood has of late been immersing himself in the letters of Vincent Van Gogh, and he made a connection that I found quite intriguing between Van Gogh’s Irises painting at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles … Continue reading
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Tagged art, California, charles hood, flowers, Getty Museum, king lear, painting, poetry, Santi Tafarella, Shakespeare, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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Norris Chumley calls 11-year-old Nadia Bloom’s rescue a miracle—but was it?
At the Huffington Post today, Norris Chumley says this of the Florida rescue of 11-year-old Nadia Bloom: If a miracle, by definition, is something of wonder that cannot be explained (as in the Old French and Latin miraculum or “object of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, critical thinking, God, Jesus, miracles, nadia bloom, philosophy, post hoc ergo propter hoc, reason, religion, the Bible
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Does the silence frighten you?
And is it an analogue for being alone? In a new book, George Prochnik explores silence, and the New York Times reviews it: The underground chapel at the Trappist New Melleray Abbey south of Dubuque, Iowa, is so quiet that visitors sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, faith, God, Jonah, landscape, noise, peace, philosophy, psychology, silence
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Prometheus Unbound 