Sunday, 22 September 2019

Et vocavit Adam nomen uxoris suæ, Eva . . . de ligno autem scientiæ boni et mali ne comedas.

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She gave him the apple merely to  sweeten his breath. According to Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man, scholar of Torah and Kabbalah, we shou...
Monday, 2 September 2019

The Art of Humdrum Angst . . . Dream-like Displacement Activity as Wish-Fulfilment in Popular Fiction.

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In The Interpretation of Dreams ( Die Traumdeutung 1899), Sigmund Freud examines subconscious desires revealed by dream symbolism, in whi...
Sunday, 18 August 2019

Vladimir Nabokov. Berlin March 1922.

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                                       The book fell off his bed into a dream                     of souls unnumbered, their new imperium ...
Monday, 10 June 2019

Arbour. Amour. Affaire de Coeur . . . Saboteur.

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At the farther end of our garden, behind the boxwood maze, there was a bower with honeysuckle and other creeping plants overlooking th...
Thursday, 16 May 2019

‘Chubby Boy’ Orwell’s Earworm . . . Rural Bard or Faltering Palimpsestic Balladeer . . . ?

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Has any Orwellian scholar, I wonder, checked the verses of their subject against the Suffolk heritage of his youth?  As it is, I believe t...
Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Stage Fright and Cage Fighting . . . a Parallel Universe of Freudian Terms.

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As have pointed out in a number of posts here, my admiration for the novelist,  Ethelind Colburn Mayne , one of the earliest translators of ...