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La Controverse de Moire – La Déesse ailée aux temps avant la Création
Abreger – La Controverse de Moire Mes deux livres, parus sous les titres de Controverse de Moїre et Horizon de Neith, côtoient plusieurs genres et constituent, dirait-on, un certain essai…
How Eric Clapton Created the Classic Song “Layla”
The story of Eric Clapton and “Layla” has always bothered me because to understand it is to understand how fallible and crazed any of us can be when it comes…
Secret Sorrow – Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a major Norwegian writer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun’s work spans more than seventy years and shows variation with regard…
No absolute time
Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist In 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to the philosopher and physicist Moritz Schlick,…
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction. Mark Abbe was ambushed by color…
Is Apocalypse Now: Final Cut the best version we’ll ever see?
Everyone in the house at the Beacon Theatre already knew the legend of Apocalypse Now. The troubled production of Francis Ford Coppola’s psychedelic Vietnam war epic has already calcified into…
Can you step in the same river twice? Wittgenstein v Heraclitus
“I am not a religious man,’ the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said to a friend, ‘but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.’ These problems…
10 of the Most Iconic Buildings of Modern Architecture
Modern architecture is the school of design that prevailed since the turn of the 20th century till World War II. The horrendous war altered the kind of buildings needed in…
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