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This is a re-post from Dennis Mansker’s web site. The original can be found here: http://www.dennismansker.com/ontheroad.htm In 1957, two novels were published that were destined to have a profound effect on the future of the United States, and indeed, the world, effects that would long outlast the lives of their creators. The first was Atlas…
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This is a re-post from Dennis Mansker’s web site. The original can be found here: http://www.dennismansker.com/ontheroad.htm In 1957, two novels were published that were destined to have a profound effect on the future of the United States, and indeed, the world, effects that would long outlast the lives of their creators. The first was Atlas…
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When you are living in a type of oblivion and everything starts repeating then you know you are struggling and things don’t seem to make sense. But do they? Do they? Do they? Maybe. But maybe not!! When I first saw you you were real! You were real!! But maybe I wasn’t. Maybe I…
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so here I am in florence connecting with the past trying to find myself in a weird way playing music in a strange land full of cobwebs and fairies that leap up at me and scare me and wake me from my renaissance sleep there is no past only the present where art screams…
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cows grazing in a field but when they get in the slaughterhouse they know nothing about death
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You have tried to control me and you have succeeded You have tried to take what I am and put it in a pocket and control me and take what I am and say what I should be in a grim world of dark shadows. No you can’t!! I will not be controlled by…
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The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice | Ellah Wakatama Allfrey http://gu.com/p/3ek8f Related articles The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice | Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (guardian.co.uk) Celebrating a Literary Giant: Rest In Peace, Chinua Achebe! (wholewomannetwork.org) Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? –…
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Posted: January 9, 2013 | Author: Kathryn | Filed under: Music | Tags: bowie, modernism, music, poetry, ts eliot,william burroughs |4 Comments Fragmented language, Nietzschean elitism, and disillusionment with art: could Bowie’s Thin White Duke era have been inspired by The Waste Land? -Kathryn Bromwich Submitted for MA in English: Issues in Modern Culture, University College London, 2009. Shorter, snappier version here. T.S. Eliot’s early work, particularly The Love Song of J.…
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childhood memories of times gone by sitting outside the ruins gazing in looking at the destruction and then the phoenix rising the coloured glass the broken stones the tower still standing like some kind of miracle growth how did that happen? we learnt more that day than i ever realised sitting on the grass…