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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers by Thich Nhat Hanh came out in 1999. It is a very simple teaching “This is like because that is like that.” Because the waves are, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged Anger, Awakened, Brother, Buddha, Compassion, Desire, Despair, Emptiness, Energy, enlightenment, Faith, Hate, Help Others, Hungry Ghosts, Interconnectedness, Jesus, Liberate, Love, Love Your Enemy, Mindfulness, No-Self, Nonself, Observe, Peace, Practice, Respect, River, Suffering, Thich Nat Hanh, Tolerance, True Self, Understanding, Wave
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Narcissim as Transformation and Shakepeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Narcissism as Transformation in Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps Shakespeare’s most perplexing play. In this play more than any other he does not explain his characters’ motivations or choose sides. While readers may enjoy this break … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology
Tagged Adam and Eve, Aeneaus, alientation, Cari Vaughhn, deflation, Despair, Dido, Edward Endinger, ego, Ego and Archetype, Egypt, femininity, Fiery, Garden of Eden, illusion, Individuation, Isis, Lovers, masculinity, Maynard Mack, McDonald, Narcissism, Neurotic, Nile river, Pain, Paradise, Phoenix, Rebirth, relationship, romancee, Self-hood, selfishness, Shakepeare, Snak, Spring 2001, Suffering, Tragedy, Transformation, Truth, UNCG, Virgil, Wholeness
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