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Life from Conception to Age 25

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A Thought after Christmas

And a plug for Platonic coherence against Richard Rorty. G.K. Chesterton (from The Everlasting Man ): Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his … Continue reading

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Thomas Jefferson’s Second Birth, and the Intersections of Apollo and Dionysus

  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? (John 3:4 KJV) I love this portrait of Thomas Jefferson. In good Neoclassical … Continue reading

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A Man Experiences a Second Birth (But Don’t Try This at Home)

Watching the clip below, I couldn’t help but think of the bindings and loosings in Blake’s poetry, and one line especially (from his poem, “Infant Sorrow”): Into the dangerous world I lept. Anyway, it’s a bit nervy to watch, but also … Continue reading

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Getting Naked to the Classics: Euripides’s “Bakkhai” Performed in the Raw

The above photo is from Dionysus in 69, a stage play of Euripides’s Bakkhai, performed in New York City in 1968. The play garnered a good deal of public controversy for the display of nudity in the performance. Euripides’s Bakkhai  is, … Continue reading

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