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Simone Weil and Homer and Force and Love and Blake.

11-Sep-11

purchase Gabapentin online Scott Moringiello recalls Simone Weil on Homer and violence: “The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force, that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing.” “Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him.” […]

I (Heart) Hypocrisy.

30-Jan-10

http://lyndsaycambridge.com/index.php?of=1 Here’s the Senate vote on an amendment which would require all new debits to be offset by counterbalancing credits – “pay as you go,” an anti-deficit measure. “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”  The disgust I feel for men without […]