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WBH Digest 2025-01-17: Agony and Ecstasy

WBH Digest 2025-01-17: Agony and Ecstasy

Unfolding the World – Agony and Ecstasy I've said in the past that great men are often ridden by their obsessions. Based on this story from J. Daniel Sawyer, pain can also serve as a spur to accomplishment. The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from

Northrop Frye on Literal and Descriptive Phases

Northrop Frye on Literal and Descriptive Phases

After our brief introduction to the Second Essay in the Anatomy of Criticism, we will turn to the phases of literary symbolism. This will get very abstract, very quickly, because we are going to try to describe things are that are nearly indescribable. Bear with me, the only way out

D&D Art

Deltas D&D Hotspot asks about the changes over time in D&D aesthetics, and focuses in specifically on depictions of violence against player characters: I've come to think that one of the biggest sensibility differences between old-school D&D art and and newer-school art

The Long View 2007-02-04: Glitter & Doom

This Weimar era art exhibition John J. Reilly describes here sounds fascinating. I found a few examples from the three artists John said were most prominent in the show: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz. Their work is fascinating, but I can see why the Weimar era couldn’t

Linkfest 2018-08-13

While I am opposed to this kind of Luddism, it does demonstrate a kind of consistency. GMO does not actually describe all kinds of genetic engineering that we apply to food. Here is the article about the damage to the research plot. Cash transfers and labor supply: Evidence from a

The Long View 2005-03-01: The Gates, Hydro Power, Kantian Pacification

John's idea that public art installations are just a way to attract attention, and do not really instantiate any other artistic ideal seems to be accurate in many cases. Christopher Hitchen's article about the vanishing of the term "the Arab street" in 2005 seems

The Long View: Art: A New History

Paul Johnson is the Howard Zinn of the right. Like Zinn, he is really popular, but also like Zinn Johnson is also willing to bend the facts to tell the story he wants to tell. If you keep that in mind, Johnson's books can be fun and even