Archives de dimanche 31 juillet 2005
The little hands of eternity in quest for poetic redemption
Robert und Shana ParkeHarrison
Flying Lesson
Earth Elegies, 1999-2000
"We constantly find ourselves wanting, with a single image, to evoke a transformation. We combine or layer meanings from various sources within one image, including literature, art, theater and science."
-- Robert ParkeHarrison
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"In the innovative hands of ParkeHarrison and his wife and partner Shana ParkeHarrison, ...
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Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in British literature. Composed in Anglo-Saxon/Old English, it recounts the deeds of a Scandinavian prince (Beowulf) and reflects the world of 6th-century Geats, Danes and Swedes who were rigidly feudal, highly civilized, violent, and also newly Christian. Consisting of 3,182 lines in verse, its author is unknown and believed to have been a medieval ...
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"Why must I labor ? "
The fall of the rebel angels.
MS Junius 11, Bodleian Library, Oxford
"Why must I labor?" he declared. "There is no need at all for me to have a master. I can work just as many marvels with my hands. I have plenty of power to furnish a goodlier throne, one more exalted in heaven. ...
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Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1964)
Da Moveable Code
Paris could be very fine in the winter when it was clear ...
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le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 [n° 243] Histoire
Richard Hakluyt, Reasons for Colonization (1585)
"Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616), wrote at length about the topic of English colonization and was an especially strong advocate for colonizing North America, in the hopes of establishing northern passages to the Orient. His colonial interests can be seen in his major work, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598- 1600). ...
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