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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Remarks on ‘Macbeth’
By Kalev Pehme Of the work of Shakespeare, no play has as an extensive elaboration of preternatural or (perhaps) supernatural beings as Macbeth. That the three witches are preternatural as opposed to supernatural means that the old crones do not … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged "tale told by an idiot", "unsex me here", Banquo, Birnam Wood, Cawdor, Christian, Christianity, Coleridge, divine law, Duncan, Dunsinane, England, Fleance, Glamis, Hamlet, James I, Lady Macbeth, legitimacy, Macbeth, Macduff, nature, occult, preternatural, Queen Elizabeth I, Scotland, Shakespeare, suicide, supernatural, Tallyrand, Thane of Fife, three fates, three witches, tyranny, weird sisters, wyrd sisters
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: When Women Go Mad or are Possessed
They had many names: Maenad (Mad Woman); Thyiad (Rushing Woman); Phoibad (Inspired Woman); Lyssad (Raging Woman). These women were the followers of the god Dionysos in his many forms. Periodically, woman en masse would go to the hills and howl, … Continue reading
Posted in Dionysos, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged Alexander the Great, Ares, Athens, Bacchae, Bessi, Christianity, Euripides, Evoe, Freud, Herodotus, Hobbes, Islam, Jews, Lyssad, Macedonia, Maenad, mourning, Muslims, Olympias, orgies, Phillip, Phoibad, Plutarch, Robert Graves, Satrae, Semele, snakes, Thrace, Thyiad, White Goddess, Xerxes, Zeus
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The War Against Eros
By Kalev Pehme I dedicate this piece of Tawnya Gunn, Will Kolodzie, and Laurie Berry The early Christians knew the obvious: An erotic man is a man who wants to be a god, not worship the god. So instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry
Tagged capitalism, Christianity, eros, erotic, Hayak, Heidegger, Hobbes, joyless quest for joy, justice, Leo Strauss, Marx, modernity, philia, Plato, Rousseau, Socrates, will to power
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Some Problems of Illusion or the Fake
By Kalev Pehme The three pillars of life are nature, convention, and illusion (magic). The three are interdependent and cannot be separated from each other. However, in modernity, there is a very ambiguous attitude toward illusion. There has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Poetry
Tagged Clifford Irving, computer power, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, Fake, Fox Fascist, Howard Hughes, illusion, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, surrealism, technology, television news
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog Four Poems about Chaos
Chaos I Everything is lying between the lines. The needle’s point, magnified, is round. The coastline seems smooth, but the beach defines roughness; infinity is wrapped around inside, and then, again circling itself. What I have seen of you … Continue reading
Kalev’s Anti-Blog: A Poem
Across from the Roslyn Mill By Kalev Pehme Have you thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion? —Walt Whitman At Cedarmere where Byrant lived, lilies Impressionistically now splotch the pond. There are many red, ripe, wild … Continue reading
Posted in astrology, Poetry, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged Cedarmere, Roslyn, Walt Whitman, Washington, William Cullen Bryant
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog A Poem
Journey By Kalev Pehme Basho’s pupil paints a haiku so cruel. He writes: “A red firefly/Tear off its wings/ A pepper.” Zen compassion, the rule of syllables, moves his master. He sings: “A pepper/Give it wings/a red firefly.” The student’s … Continue reading
Anti-Blog a Poem: Death in the KIss
Death in the Kiss By Kalev Pehme Long are the beats of the drumming heart, magic, love’s vision, palpitating rapturous, physical frenzy, quickly now, inner pulse. Falling in love sees eyes, ears to hear, songs secreting erotic glimpses, … Continue reading
Kalev’s Anti-Blog on the Nihilism of “The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens
There is a terrible nihilism in Wallace Steven’s poem, “The Snow Man,” which I re-read today. He begins: One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; It is … Continue reading
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