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4 days ago · Higdon proposes three “focal points”–what might more accurately be called structures–that comprise the majority of circadian novels: • A Typical Day. Two of the greatest modernist novels, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Joyce’s Ulysses are examples of these. • The Last Day. The last of the protagonist (e.g., Herman Broch’s The Death ...
23 hours ago · He describes Adam turning to his spouse and Eve not refusing “the rites mysterious of connubial love” (4.744). Further, he uses the language of divine invocation to celebrate the mystery of sexual love in human life: “Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring, sole propriety, in Paradise of all things common else” (4.750-752).
3 days ago · What made the Thesmophoria truly unique is that it was an exclusively women-only event without any men. Men were strictly forbidden from attending the rites. Not only that but there was a penalty of death for those who dared ignore the male ban. The beginnings of this tradition of ancient Greece
1 day ago · In the 1980s, Nijinsky's original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles. Stravinsky's score contains many novel features for its time, including experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance.
2 days ago · Skinny Puppy was a Canadian electro-industrial band formed in Vancouver in 1982. The group was among the founders of the industrial rock and electro-industrial genres. Initially envisioned as an experimental side-project by cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) while he was in the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time ...
23 hours ago · The old objects that my family used to use in the seventies and eighties of the last century, although the past is like smoke, but the memory is still fresh and vivid. These old objects seem to bear the imprint of the social history of a period,...
2 days ago · Here I am in the silent hours of the night. I take a deep breath and repeat the words in my mind again. “In the silent hours of the night, bless the Lord." I wait for some relief from the loneliness but it's still dark and my baby is still crying, but even in loneliness the Holy Spirit is working. He's moving in the silent hours of the night.
