Doc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, “Melancholy” I just have odds and ends today: three articles I found on the internet about literature and everyday life. The articles are not momentous enough to merit...
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Winslow Homer, “The Fog Warning” Yesterday I reported on my faculty book group’s discussion of analytic philosopher Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope: A Moral Psychology. Members of the English Department...
View ArticleDoc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, “Melancholy” I just have odds and ends today: three articles I found on the internet about literature and everyday life. The articles are not momentous enough to merit...
View ArticleFinding Hope in a Captured Fish
Winslow Homer, “The Fog Warning” Yesterday I reported on my faculty book group’s discussion of analytic philosopher Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope: A Moral Psychology. Members of the English Department...
View ArticleDoc, Prescribe Me a Poem
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, “Melancholy” I just have odds and ends today: three articles I found on the internet about literature and everyday life. The articles are not momentous enough to merit...
View ArticleFinding Hope in a Captured Fish
Winslow Homer, “The Fog Warning” Yesterday I reported on my faculty book group’s discussion of analytic philosopher Adrienne Martin’s How We Hope: A Moral Psychology. Members of the English Department...
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Flemish artist unknown, A Young Woman on Her Death Bed (1621) Monday The United States hit 700,000 Covid deaths over the weekend and it’s as though we hardly noticed, even as our local county...
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Antony Van Dyck, Venetia, Lady Digby, on Her Deathbed Friday For today’s post, I am rerunning the essay I ran on October 3, when the United States hit 700,000 deaths. I’ve changed 700,000 to 800,000...
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