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Nightly Met Opera Streams starting tonight

Beginning tonight and continuing each day for the duration of the Met’s closure, an encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 3:30 p.m. the following day. More information at the Met’s website. Quite an impressive line-up for the first week: Monday, March 16: Bizet’s […]

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Question on Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a conservative German legal, constitutional, and political theorist. Schmitt is often considered to be one of the most important critics of liberalism, parliamentary democracy, and liberal cosmopolitanism. But the value and significance of Schmitt’s work is subject to controversy, mainly due to his intellectual support for and active involvement with National […]

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Landed

Sorry for the extended silence, but it’s been an eventual couple of months during the sale and move. The move-in is more or less complete, tons of unpacking still needs to be done (including all my books), and we’ll actually all be together here before the end of the month. For someone whose life ambition […]

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Thank you friends

Things are going to be busier than normal until year-end. We’re packing up our house over the next week, then camping out in our home for a couple of weeks before the sale closes. Working on finishing up the semester for the boys is taking more work than getting them enrolled in their new schools, […]

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A Room/House Without Books

We’ve all heard the quote attributed to Cicero. I’ve still got the Amazon refrigerator magnet with the quote. But is it really a body without a soul? Especially when books and souls meant something completely different to Cicero than they do to us today. Without a doubt, I can say the house feels emptier without […]

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The George Eliot Archive

Many thanks to Michael Orthofer at The Literary Saloon for passing on information about the George Eliot Archive. The George Eliot Archive is an extensive resource for anyone studying the author best known as George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans), one of the most highly acclaimed novelists in Western literature. The Archive provides free access […]

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The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger

The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1966 Hardcover, 210 pages Lucy Scholes’ article “Emeric Pressburger’s Lost Nazi Novel” at The Paris Review blog got my attention for several reasons. I’ve enjoyed several of the Powell and Pressburger movies and wanted to see how his talent from the screen would translate to […]

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Vladimir Bukovsky 1942-2019

Vladimir Bukovsky passed away this past weekend at the age of 76. Before he was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1976, Bukovsky spent 12 years in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and labor camps. Vladimir Nabokov said of Bukovsky, “Bukovsky’s heroic speech to the court in defense of freedom, and his five years of martyrdom in […]