Sex and murder
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Do such remorseless, amoral, psychopathic creatures really exist in
our world? Yes, they do. I’ve met more than one or two of them.
And so, perhaps, have you.
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Eros and ISIS
A Terrible Beauty Unearthed
Like the technological hubris that sank the Titanic, or the monstrous ideology that destroyed the World Trade Center, the sudden, shocking obliteration of Pompeii is an emblem of human achievement brought low in a humiliation of ruins.
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The purpose of art
Glenn Gould and the
Metaphysics of Music
When listening to or performing music, many people have experienced the “oceanic feeling,” variously described as an altered state of consciousness, a sensation of limitlessness, an experience of eternity, oneness with the universe, an ideal dream where you are held in a weightless reverie and lose the boundaries of your self.
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A crack in everything
Leonard Cohen: Not
Happiness. Meaning
The brokenness of existence is Leonard Cohen’s theme. Incompletion perpetually striving towards completion. The agony and ecstasy of love. The silent indifference of God.
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Industrious hand-kissing
The Most Famous Scandal
in the History of Music
“I dreamed of a scene of pagan ritual in which a chosen sacrificial virgin danced herself to death.” —Igor Stravinsky
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