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Empty the Glass of Your Desire (Poetry Analysis)
Join yourself to friends and know the joy of the soul. Enter the neighborhood of ruin with those who drink to the dregs. Empty the glass of your desire so that you won’t be disgraced. Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing… Continue Reading “Empty the Glass of Your Desire (Poetry Analysis)”
Scattered notes on Rumi
I am feeling a little loopy from travel yesterday (and the time change) so I’m simply posting some brief thoughts on Rumi rather than trying to craft a coherent post before class today. Sad, because when I first read Love is a Stranger a… Continue Reading “Scattered notes on Rumi”
One Long Struggle – Part Two
As I head out to New York City – land of Occupy Wall Street among many other historic struggles – I am reflecting on Lucretius and the Epicureans a bit further. One question that was posed in our Saturday discussion/lecture was “Are we approaching… Continue Reading “One Long Struggle – Part Two”
One long struggle in the dark.
As much as I like everything I’ve read *about* Lucretius, I have to admit that I have really been struggling with the actual text of On the Nature of Things. You see, it’s a poem from about 70 BCE which seeks to explain the… Continue Reading “One long struggle in the dark.”
What cruelty without wisdom
(The above is highlights of a marionette version of Antigone produced this year…..) Antigone is the reading which has affected me the most (in the tragic sense) thus far in our curriculum. A young woman who has lost almost everything – her father and… Continue Reading “What cruelty without wisdom”
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