CLOUD TONGUES: Recent Episodes
Yanyan Huang
Who can speak shapes? Who can hear colors? Who can speak shapes? I speak the Tongues of the Ancients Poetry Readings Journeys into the Abyss
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Excerpt from Making Waves: An anthology of writings by and about Asian American women, 1989
Autobiolographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays about Asian American women. 1989
Making Waves: An anthology of writings by and about Asian American women
From “Art and the Creative Unconscious” by Erich Neumann. Four essays translated from German by Ralph Manheim. 1959, Princeton University Press
Tradition and the Individual Talent, from T.S. Eliot’s The Sacred Wood, essays on Poetry and Criticism, 1920
Excerpts from collected essays from the meeting of 21 researchers at the Papal residence to explore topics of common interest concerning Time, the creation of the universe, and God.
An interesting short article that uses Futurism, Abstract Expressionism, Neoclassicism as examples of aesthetic acorns that contain metaphysics of political movements, and in doing so are able to draw people who align with such politics.
John R. Searle, 2010. This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.
An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions.In this book, Berger that religion is the "sacred canopy" which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning, expanding on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of Reality.
All the Real Indians died off and 20 other myths about Native Americans, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, 2016
Bataille focuses on the visceral, the erotic, the relation of society to the primeval. 1985
Citizens, States, and Social Contracts: Essays by Perry Cammack, Michele Dunne, Amr Hamzawy, Marc Lynch, Marwan Muasher, Yezid Sayigh, Maha Yahya
Arguing that contemporary art has burst out of the frame that art history has built for it, Belting calls for an entirely new approach to thinking and writing about art.
Journals, bits and pieces, bobs. Article by Kevin Tsai in “Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 2008”
The “invisible masterpiece” is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores how the status and meaning of the “masterpiece” have been elevated and denigrated since the early 19th century. Before 1800, works of art were either imitative (portraits and landscapes) or narrative (history painting). But under the influence of Romantic modernity, the physical object - a painted canvas, for example, or a sculpture - came to be seen as visible testimony of the artist’s attempt to achieve absolute or ultimate art; in short, the impossible. — Hans Belting, 2001
A selection of my various gripes and resentments toward the art world and art in general--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A series of explorations into the emotions that poetry can conjure up in our deepest psyches. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A collection of Lenape voices. Lenape: The Original People of the Island of Manhatta. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A collection of essays by the late, great Dave Hickey!!!!!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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Four essays on the relation of the artist to his/her culture by Dr. Erich Neumann. The archetypes of the collective unconscious are intrinsically formless psychic components that assume form in art. The mediums of expression through which they pass, the time and place in which they occur, and above all the psychology of the individual in whom they appear mold their varying forms. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
Excerpts from books by Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
Book by city historian Jeremiah Moss--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
Poems by John Yau--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
Collected articles and essays on American racism--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
This tale of adventure interweaves history and legend to vibrantly present the fundamentals of Taoism. Written by an unknown author, Seven Taoist Masters is the story of six men, and one woman who overcome tremendous hardships on the journey to self-mastery. This novel brings to life the essentials of Taoist philosophy, and practice both through Wang’s instructions on such topics as the cultivation of mind and body; meditation techniques, and overcoming the four obstacles of creed, anger, lust, and drunkenness.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
The Holy in Art. An investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful. Van der Leeuw undertakes to show that the holy has never been absent from the arts and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Primitive creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. Gerardus Van der Leeuw, late professor of the history of religion at the University of Groningen, is generally regarded as the most important, systematic and scientific historian of religion of his generation. His Religion in Essence, and Manifestation and Introoduction to the Phenomenology of Religion, are both regarded as classics.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
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Dante’s Inferno, in no particular order--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
“Devouring the Other: Cannibalism, translation and the construction of cultural identity”, by Rainer Guldin, 2014--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
Some articles on the topic of Puritanism in American society--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
New writing by Asian American women, 1997--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yesitsyanyan/support
The daily goings-on of Yanyan Huang.
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By Byung-Chul Han “The days of the other are over in this age of excessive communication information and consumption. What used to be the other as friend, as Eros, or as hell is now indistinguishable from the self and our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a terror of the same lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight, and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers and illusory encounters offered by social media. In extreme cases this feeling of disorientation and senselessness is compensated through self harm or even harming others through acts of terrorism. Byung-Chul Han argues that our times are characterized not by external repression but by an internal depression whereby the destructive pressure comes not from the other but from the self. It is only by returning to society of listeners and lovers by acknowledging and desiring the other that we can seek to overcome the isolation and suffering caused by this crushing process of total assimilation.
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Reading the planets through Capital, Power, and Labor by Alice Sparkly Kat
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Where in America can you visit another country without needing a passport?Chinatown USA: a world within a world and a state of mind. In American Chinatown, acclaimed travel writer Bonnie Tsui takes an affectionate and attentive look at the neighborhood that has bewitched her since childhood. Tsui visits the country’s five most famous China towns and focuses on the intriguing characters who live in these enclaves. For anyone who has ever wandered through Chinatown and wondered what it was all about and for Americans wanting to understand the changing face of their own country American Chinatown is an all-access pass.
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Poetic culture from antiquity through the Tang, by Zong-qi Cai
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Articles that unpack the harmful stereotypes of Asians in the collective Western consciousness.
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“Digital women and the new technoculture: Zeros and ones is a provocative and inspiring manifesto on the relationship between women and machines not since “The Female Eunuch” has there been a book so radical in its scope so persuasive in its detail so exhilarating in its polemical energy.”
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Hal Foster, 2022
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A selection of articles and stories concerning East Asian countries in recent times.
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A short introduction to the religions of ancient China, collected and compiled by Herbert A. Giles, Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge
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Excerpts from Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, an anthology of archival material documenting the wide ranging activities in contemporary art and social advocacy undertaken by the art collective known as Godzilla. Over the past two decades, interest in this group of Asian American artists curators and writers has grown among a new generation contending with the politics of representation and the persistence of institutional racism in the cultural field.
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Compiled by Herbert Allen Giles, 1911
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Short memoirs and accounts of my days. Welcome to banality.
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Asian Topics in World History at Columbia University
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Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He’s merely Generic Asian Man….Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet.
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An exploration of what is considered music around the world.
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A selection of melancholic Italian, English, and Chinese poems for rainy days
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Native Americans were forced to tour in Wild West shows as an alternative to prison in the late 1880’s. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form. Dozens of interviews in this tribute to a neglected legacy. Kliph Nesteroff, 2021
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Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown’s most stylish seniors. Andria Lo and Valerie Liu, 2020
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Part II of a book of thirty essays, edited by Nikki Khanna
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Notes from my educational courses
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Nest: A selection of poems by Mei Mei Berssenbrugge
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A selection of poems by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 2013
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Edited by Nikki Khanna. Thirty essays by Asian American women on the role colorism has played in their life.
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Collected essays on the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans by David L. Eng and Shinhee Han
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Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia’s main Asian diasporic groups…this book explores the ethnic community as a determining force in negotiating new hybrid identities and cultures- and demonstrates experiences common to diasporic communities worldwide.
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Collections of artists’ lectures on Bruce Nauman, Dia Art Center. Includes Judith Barry, William Kentridge, David Levine, Gedi Sinnott, Gary Simmons, Charline von Heyl, Mark Wallinger
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Skimming Dan’s papers and NYT Magazine
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Articles
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How class anxiety created the American food revolution. By S. Margot Finn
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Excerpts from The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman
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Poems by Denise Levertov
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Life history issues, methods, and readings by John L. Caughey
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André Breton and Philippe Soupault’s exercise in automatic writing, 1920. Translated by Charlotte Mandell
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An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva, 1941
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A New Yorker article by Thessaly La Force, 2015
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A selection of poems from the Poetry Foundation for Black History Month
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Poems by Audre Lorde
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Selected poems on religious themes by Denise Levertov
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Excerpts from the Bible in no particular order
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Excerpts from Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time
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Byyng-Chul Han’s analysis of our global everyday existence under the challenges of electronically induced hypercommunication.
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Poems in no particular order
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Double-entry bookkeeping, in accounting, is a system of book keeping where every entry to an account requires a corresponding and opposite entry to a different account. The double-entry has two equal and corresponding sides known as debit and credit. Assets = Liabilities + Equity
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Way, Approach, Volt, Approximate Man, Monsieur AA, Antiphilosopher, A poem in Yellow
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Alexander Pope’s verse epistle, published in 1717, based on a well-known Mediaeval story.
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Cao Xuequn, 1760
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A selection of Asian-American poetry
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From Poetry Foundation
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The Expulsion of the Other by Byung-Chul Han
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Bach’s Letter requesting dismissal describing his desires as Kapemeister
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Reflections on Juan Felipe Herrera by Luis Alberto Urrea
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Jorge Luis Borges’ collected short stories
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Short story by David Foster Wallace
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From the Paris Review. By Tara Isabella Burton.
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Bits of Chinese proverbs and wisdom in Mandarin and English
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China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Years, translated by Red Pine
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A compilation of Classical Japanese poems dating to around 1230-40 and assembled by the renowned poet and scholar Fujiwara no Taika. In English and Japanese.
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Poems from Yanyi’s The Year of Blue Water
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Be as true to each other as this dial is to the sun. Begone about Thy business. Come along and grow old with me; the best is yet to be. Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays. Hours fly, Flowers bloom and die. Old days, Old ways pass. Love stays. I only tell of sunny hours. I count only sunny hours. Let others tell of storms and showers, I tell of sunny morning hours. Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only count your sunny hours. Life is but a shadow: the shadow of a bird on the wing. Self-dependent power can time defy, as rocks resist the billows and the sky. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away. Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow When I am gone, mark not the passing of the hours, but just that love lives on. The Concern of the Rich and the Poor
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A selection of sacred English Jacobean poetry of the Reign of King James the First (1603-1625)
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Two short stories by Jennie Egerdie, published in McSweeney’s
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Excerpts from “Caste: The origins of our discontents”, in which Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of the hierarchical caste and racial ranking divisions operating invisibly throughout American society.
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Spanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn. Correcting more than a century of distortion of the classical Chinese by translators unconcerned with the intricacies and aesthetics of the Chinese language, these masterful translations by Wai-lim Yip, a noted and honored translator and scholar, allow English readers to enter more easily into the dynamic of the original poems.
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A follower of Epicurus, Lucretius believed the world to be composed of tiny atoms moving in a void and viewed life in terms of pleasure and pain, representing good and bad.
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Selected writings and testimonies of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–270 BC) who founded a school called “The Garden”. He taught that the root of all human neurosis is death denial and the tendency for human beings to assume that death will be horrific and painful, which he claimed causes unnecessary anxiety, selfish self-protective behaviors, and hypocrisy. According to Epicurus, death is the end of both the body and the soul and therefore should not be feared. Epicurus taught that although the gods exist, they have no involvement in human affairs. He taught that people should behave ethically not because the gods punish or reward people for their actions, but because amoral behavior will burden them with guilt and prevent them from attaining ataraxia.
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Selected poems of Edith Wharton, the first female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Short stories from Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Widow Ching - Pirate”
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Dealing with themes of decadence and eroticism, Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire’s volume of poems first published in 1857, was enormously influential in the symbolist and modernist literature movements. Read in French and English.
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Kenkō was born in 1283 to a Kyoto family of hereditary Shinto priests. His times demanded adaptability to an often inconsistent and multi-layered world, and he was a man well suited to his times.
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Short stories from We Others
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A selection of poems by the French poet Louis Aragon: Avec André Breton, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, il fut l’un des animateurs du dadaïsme parisien et du surréalisme.
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La chanson bien douce
Paul Verlaine
Écoutez la chanson bien douce Qui ne pleure que pour vous plaire. Elle est discrète, elle est légère: Un frisson d’eau sur de la mousse. La voix vous fut connue (et chère?), Mais à présent elle est voilée Comme une veuve désolée, Pourtant comme elle encore fière, Et dans les longs plis de son voile Qui palpite aux brises d'automne, Cache et montre au cœur qui s'étonne La vérité comme une étoile. Elle dit, la voix reconnue, Que la bonté c'est notre vie, Que de la haine et de I' envie Rien ne reste, la mort venue. Accueillez la voix qui persiste Dans son naïf épithalame. Allez, rien n'est meilleur à I' âme Que de faire une âme moins triste. Elle est en peine et de passage, L'âme qui souffre sans colère Et comme sa morale est claire … Écoutez la chanson bien sage.
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Xi’an of Eight Rivers. China is made of earth, of sun-dried mud.
In this part of China everything is made from the earth: the houses, the walls around cities, and villages, the tombs scattered over the countryside. Even the people.
There are hills below that appear to be piles of mud set out to dry in the sun, naked, without a single tree or bush. They crowd around the landscape like the coils of bulging intestines tossed on the ground outside butchers' shops, slowly unraveling.
Sometimes we fly so low that we almost touch them.
And then I notice that the wind has brushed some kind of pattern into the earth: a mysterious alphabet written in the mud, struggling to communicate something precise. But there is not a single animal or human being in the yellow desert below.
Not a single village.
Suddenly we are landing: Xian, the geographic center of China, where Chinese civilization was born, in the cradle of the Yellow River.
In front of the terminal, three children are playing with a lump of earth: they are bundled up in jackets and brightly printed cotton trousers. I join them in their game until a young woman comes out of the terminal to call me in for dinner. One of the children grabs me by my overcoat, to keep me from leaving. So do the other two, clinging to me, asking me not to go.
The young woman comes out again, and yells at them to stop.
They let go, disappointed. One of them calls to me as I turn away: Come back soon!
We eat quickly and then prepare to take off for Lanchow. My three new friends wave goodbye to me. The littlest one gives me a present: a pebble, a precious gift. In this part of China there are no stones. You have to go to Karelia to find stone, very far north; or to the Caucasus; or to southern Siberia, along the slopes of the Pamir, slanting toward the steppes of Central Asia.
I put the pebble in my pocket, to take back home, to show what a precious gift I was given by a little Chinese girl: a pebble from the cradle of Chinese civilization.
A civilization made of earth, a civilization without bones, without a skeleton for support. A civilization of assembled customs, which suddenly unravel, dissolving into thousands of separate gestures, thousands of calligraphic icons, thousands of smells, colors, flavors, thousands of different shades. And then just as suddenly they solidify again into tradition, memory, habit.
It is this absence of stone, of solid, durable material, which makes China such an exquisite thing. Everything is reflected: an unimaginable number of movements, of patterns, thoughts, images, of which we see the copies in immense numbers, but never the originals.
The originals were destroyed long ago.
Here are the four elements out of which China is made: Earth, Wood, Porcelain, Silk. The most durable of these is Silk.
I should add a fifth element: Poetry, which is the most durable of all.
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“Funny, the way we come to understand a place by wanting to escape it”
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Latin creates a sense of sacred space and time to help focus on the sense of God’s otherness.
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“The Signature of All Things” by Jacob Böhme, who suggests that God marked objects with a sign, a “signature” for their purpose: the concept that every object in the real world has some hidden meaning, and particularly how these signatures interact.
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A first century BC didactic poem by Lucretius (99-55 BC) explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna ("chance"), and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
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Excerpts from Rebecca Solnit’s “Wanderlust: A history of walking”, 2000
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Biblical, ancient, historical sacred texts from dead and living civilizations
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JG Ballard’s dystopian novel set in a waterlogged London
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Excerpts from medieval Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō’s (1283-1352) Essays on Idleness, or Tsurezuregusa.
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Baudelaire’s lovely poem encouraging drunkenness
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Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency by Akiko Busch
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Atmosphere. A familiar yet extremely vague phenomenon The term atmosphere has its origin in the meteorological field and refers to the earth's envelope of air which carries the weather. It is only since the 18th century that it has been used metaphorically, for moods which are "in the air", for the emotional tinge of a space. Today this expression is commonly used in all European languages; it no longer seems artificial and is hardly even regarded as a metaphor. One speaks of the atmosphere of a conversation, a landscape, a house, the atmosphere of a festival, an evening, a season. The way in which we speak of atmospheres in these cases is highly differentiated - even in everyday speech. An atmosphere is tense, light-hearted or serious, oppressive or uplifting, cold or warm. We also speak of the atmosphere of the "petty bourgeoisie", the atmosphere of the Twenties, the atmosphere of poverty. To introduce some order into these examples, atmospheres can be di- vided into moods, phenomena of synaesthesia, suggestions for motions, communicative and social-conventional atmospheres. What matters is that, in speaking of atmospheres, we refer to their character. With this term character we already bring our understanding of atmos- pheres close to the sphere of physiognomics and theatre.
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If ever there was a writer in flight from his name, it was Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . . That’s me. Period.” ... “Through these deliberately unconnected impressions I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events, of my history without a life. These are my Confessions and if I say nothing in them it’s because I have nothing to say.” - Adam Kirsch, New Yorker, Aug 2017
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The Aleph and Other Stories
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The Book of Psalms, commonly referred to simply as Psalms, the Psalter or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and thus a book of the Christian Old Testament. The title is derived from the Greek translation, ψαλμοί, psalmoi, meaning "instrumental music" and, by extension, "the words accompanying the music".[2] The book is an anthology of individual psalms, with 150 in the Jewish and Western Christian tradition and more in the Eastern Christian churches.
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'We wear the helmet when our locks are grey.' We are they who are so far from indulging in any leisure until we die, that if circumstances permit it, we do not allow ourselves to be at leisure even when we are dying.
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A collection of Confucius’ (551-479 BC) sayings expressing a moral code by which he believed everyone should live and upon which the official government examinations were based. In order to meet his moral responsibility, he believed, a man must think for himself.
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Li Po (Chinese, 701-762 AD) wrote dream poems depicting spiritual journeys, sometimes making his countrymen forget their problems in unthinking garity, and for such joyful escapism was criticized by his peers and later, Communists. He was explicitly anti-Confucian in his thought and behavior, expressing his admiration for the man of impulse over moral and intellectual qualities (such as patient literary scholarship) most admired in the Confucian ttradition. In his youth, he lived for a time as a sworded wandering gallant. Here the poems are read from Arthur Cooper’s translations.
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The Roman Elegies (originally published under the title Erotica Romana in Germany, later Römische Elegien) is a cycle of twenty-four poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
They reflect Goethe's Italian Journey from 1786 to 1788 and celebrate the sensuality and vigour of Italian and Classical culture. Written mainly after his return to Weimar, they contain poems on many sexual themes.
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Litany in Time of Plague, When I consider how my light is spent, The Sick Rose, A Birthday
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Let America be America again, Dreams, Dream Deferred
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- 永鹅 Ode to the Goose by 骆宾王 Luo Bing Wang (640-684 AD), 2. 静夜思 Thoughts in the Silent night by 李白 Li Bai (701-762 AD), 3. 悯农 Toiling Farmers by 李绅 Li Shen (772-846 AD), 4. 春晓 Spring Morning by 孟浩然 Meng Hao Ran (689-740 AD), 5. 七步诗 Seven Steps Verse by 曹植 Cao Zhi (192-232 AD)
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John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and conservationist who spent most of his life in the Hudson Valley. He is best known for his observations on birds, flowers, and rural scenes, as well as religion, philosophy, and nature.
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A collection of 366 poems by the writer Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374, Arezzo) in service of his love for Laura, a woman he had met once on a Good Friday. Other themes throughout the Canzoniere are equally important: religion, poetry, politics, time, glory. The love theme itself should be considered as the nucleus around which Petrarca develops his deep psychological analysis: thanks to his poems inspired by Laura (laurus is the symbol for poetry) the poet aspires to reach glory, which in turn can fight the all-destroying power of time.
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Baudelaire in French and English
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Hafiz describes holy dervishes
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One of the seven greatest Latin hymns of all time, Stabat Mater Dolorsa is based upon the prophecy of Simeon that a sword was to pierce the heart of his Mother, Mary. The hymn originated in the 13th century during the peak of Franciscan devotion to the crucified Jesus and has been attributed to Pope Innocent III, St. Bonaventure, or Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306)
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Select poems from Hafez (1315-1390), a Persian poet who "lauded the joys of love and wine but also targeted religious hypocrisy".
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Footprints On The Sands Of Time
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! – For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, — act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
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From classic English poets and writers
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Excerpts from George Kuber’s “The Shape of Time”, Remarks on the History of Things. Drawing upon insights in anthropology and linguistics, Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time.
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Excerpts from “Musical Literacy” by Jerrold Levinson, Journal of Aesthetic Education Spring 1990
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T.S. Eliot’s classic poem
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Short stories by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). A protégé of Gustave Flaubert, he was a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies in disillusioned, even pessimistic terms. “I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”.
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Classic Walt Whitman poem, 1892
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Some interesting excerpts and such
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Classic poem by T.S. Eliot written in 1922, The Waste Land is in part personal, the voices projected universal. Eliot later denied that he had large cultural problems in mind, but, nevertheless, in The Waste Land he diagnosed the malaise of his generation and indeed of Western civilization in the 20th century.
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Allen Ginsberg’s Classic poem “Howl”, 1955
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Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Wagner, and others on Asceticism
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Problems to sharpen the young, recreational math problems
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Excerpts from Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet
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Ma'at, Symbol of Order Ma'at, Goddess of Truth, Balance, Order...
Ma'at, unlike Hathor and Nephthys, seemed to be more of a concept than an actual goddess. Her name, literally, meant 'truth' in Egyptian. She was truth, order, balance and justice personified. She was harmony, she was what was right, she was what things should be. It was thought that if Ma'at didn't exist, the universe would become chaos, once again!
For the Egyptian believed that the universe was above everything else an ordered and rational place. It functioned with predictability and regularity; the cycles of the universe always remained constant; in the moral sphere, purity was rewarded and sin was punished. Both morally and physically, the universe was in perfect balance.
Because of Ma'at, the Egyptians knew that the universe, that everything in the universe, worked on a pattern, just as, later on, the Greeks called the underlying order of the universe logos (meaning, order, pattern).
"In the beginning was the logos, and the logos was with God and the logos* was God." - John 1:1
- Logos was the 'Word', another name for Jesus.
Egypt, then, was seen to be nothing without Ma'at.
Ma'at was reality, the solid grounding of reality that made the Sun rise, the stars shine, the river flood and mankind think. The universe itself, all the world around them, was sacred in the ancient view. "Ethics" is an issue of human will and human permission. It is a function of the human world of duality. What is "ethical" for one group is sin for another. But Ma'at, the reality that made all groups what they are is transcendent of ethics, just as a rock or a flower is amoral, a-ethical, without "truth or falsehood." How can a flower be "false" or "ethical." It just is. How can the universe be "ethical or moral, right or wrong"? It simply is. That is Ma'at.
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In 1115 Bernard became abbot of the new Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux, a position he held until his death in 1153. Bernard had little time to tend his flock, though, since he soon became a religious superstar. Recognized as the foremost preacher of his day, he traveled widely, wrote prolifically, and was involved to the hilt in papal politics, opposition to heresy, and the planning of a crusade.
Bernard was the chief spokesman for Cistercian values. Monastic life was to be austere and disciplined. Food, buildings and even worship were to be kept simple. Monasteries were to be built away from population centers, thus shielding the brothers from distraction and excessive contributions.
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In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
GLORIA PATRI, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae. Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam. Amen.
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Segments from “Brunelleschi’s Dome” by Ross King about the conception and building of Firenze’s Duomo cupola.
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Sign of the Cross
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen
The Lord’s Prayer
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
The Hail Mary
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Glory Be
GLORIA PATRI, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut
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Readings of poems by William Blake, Du Fu, Basho. 10 haiku in the wabi sabi style by Basho (1644). 4 short poems by William Blake (1789). Two poems by world-weary drunkard Du Fu (766)
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An introduction to Diogenes the Cynic and William Blake’s “The Proverbs of Hell”
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Dante, Alighieri: A Divina Comédia. Inferno. Canto I. Halfway through his life, the poet Dante finds himself wandering alone in a dark forest, having lost his way on the “true path” (I.10). He says that he does not remember how he lost his way, but he has wandered into a fearful place, a dark and tangled valley. Above, he sees a great hill that seems to offer protection from the shadowed glen. The sun shines down from this hilltop, and Dante attempts to climb toward the light. As he climbs, however, he encounters three angry beasts in succession—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf—which force him to turn back.
Returning in despair to the dark valley, Dante sees a human form in the woods, which soon reveals itself to be the spirit, or shade, of the great Roman poet Virgil. Thrilled to meet the poet that he most admires, Dante tells Virgil about the beasts that blocked his path. Virgil replies that the she-wolf kills all who approach her but that, someday, a magnificent hound will come to chase the she-wolf back to Hell, where she originated. He adds that the she-wolf’s presence necessitates the use of a different path to ascend the hill; he offers to serve as Dante’s guide. He warns Dante, however, that before they can climb the hill they must first pass through the place of eternal punishment (Hell) and then a place of lesser punishment (Purgatory); only then can they reach God’s city (Heaven). Encouraged by Virgil’s assurances, Dante sets forth with his guide.
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Sacred poems and songs from G. Van der Leeuw’s “Religion in Essence and Manifestation”
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Segments from G. Van der Leeuw’s “Religion in Essence and Manifestation”, 1938
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Segments from Erich Fromm’s “The Art of Loving”
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Segment from “The Melancholy of Race”, where the exoticized vs traditional beauty of Asian Americans is enacted in Hollywood’s only Asian musical, “Flower Drum Song”
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Segment from “The Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng
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Ovid’s description of bathing Goddesses
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Segments from “Melancholy of Race” by Anne Anlin Cheng
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Monkey
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Articles I find interesting
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From the East Hampton Town website, an introduction to the town.
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James Hillman goes back to classical theories in terms of the poetics of mythology. He relates our dreaming life to the myths of the Underworld - the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows - and to the gods and figures of death.
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A brief history of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Selection of news articles
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An Anthology by Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba
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44 poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnail.
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Tracing the history of sugar and beef production in global energy consumption.
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Joan Didion
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An exposé on the violence that the fashion industry perpetuates on its workers, the Earth, the minds and self esteems of people around the world. “This challenging book lays bare the working conditions of the ‘most beautiful job in the world’ showing that exploitation isn’t confined to sweatshops abroad or sexual harassment or models, but exists at the very heart of the powerful symbolic and economic center of fashion.” By Giulia Mensitieri.
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The Medium in the Post-medium Condition. Collection of essays, edited by Isabelle Graw and Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, 2013
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Edited by Gaynell Stone, Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1983
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Rambling thoughts
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Interviews and essays compiled for the inauguration of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
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Novella by Patricia Highsmith
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Susan Stebbins, University at Albany, 2013. Native peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the native peoples presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter.
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Religious beliefs and practices, which permeates all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. A collection of essays edited by Sarah Iles Johnston, Harvard University Press, 2007
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La Nazionale, La Repubblica, etc
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In Latin
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Daily news from Italy’s largest newspaper
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The Last days of Old China, David Kidd, 1988
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Greed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world, RT Naylor, 2011
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An anthology of art essays compiled by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, 1992
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What difference does an atmosphere make to an environment, a situation, or a horizon of possible action?
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Using an enormous wealth of archaeological discoveries, inscriptions, linguistic evidence, religious rites, and historical sources, David W. Pankenier recovers ancient Chinese astronomical concepts and practices of paramount importance for our understanding of the formation of the Chinese civilization. 2013, Cambridge University Press
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Translated by Kenneth Redroth and Ling Chung, 1979. Poems by Li Ch’ing-chao 1081-1141.
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The Character and conduct of Artists: A documented history from Antiquity to the French Revolution, Rudolf and Margot Wittkower, 1963
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Essays by Millicent Marcus, Princeton University Press, 1986
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George Kubler, 1962
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Adam Tooze
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Vol I: Inferno
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Saint-John Perse 1887-1975
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Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life - politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences.
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James Hillman relates our dreaming life to the myths of the Underworld - the dark side of the soul, its images and shadows - and to the gods and figures of death.
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Article by Caroline Busta for Document Journal
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Its invention in Ancient China and its journey through time
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The Enduring Anglo-American relationship, Christopher Hitchens, 1990
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Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter, 1988, Stanford University Press
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Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg, The University of Chicago Press, 1989
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What I’m reading today
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The legend and history of El Dorado
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By Alicja Kępińska and Patrick Lee. Source: Artibus et Historiae, Vol 7, No. 14 p107-123, 1986
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