Forum: Philosophy
07-17-2015
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,495
NIETZSCHE and THE PROBLEM OF VALUES
NIETZSCHE and THE PROBLEM OF VALUES
Part 1:
What has made, and what now makes, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900) so important, is that he recognized with great force, clarity and...
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Forum: Personal
07-17-2015
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,316
Contagion
CONTAGION
Part 1:
Contagion is a 2011 American science fiction medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film is smart, intelligent and entertaining, one of the disaster genre....
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Forum: Television
03-29-2015
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,581
The Art of Russia: A Literary Context
Part 1:
As the 21st century opened I was about to retire from a career of 32 years in classrooms as a teacher and tutor, lecturer and adult educator, as well as another 18 as a student, making...
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Forum: Member Interviews
03-29-2015
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: General Discussion
01-30-2015
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,136
THOMAS MANN: LIVING TO WRITE not WRITING TO LIVE
THOMAS MANN:
LIVING TO WRITE not WRITING TO LIVE
Part 1:
During the years 1999 to 2005, I retired by stages after a 50 year student-working life from: FT, PT and casual/volunteer work. It was...
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Forum: Member Interviews
12-21-2014
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: Member Interviews
11-28-2014
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: General Discussion
04-19-2014
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,875
Re: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I send my appreciation to blackout, luciferfell, Michael, ramonoski, and all those in the days and weeks ahead who express their "thanks". My post, my lengthy prose-poem, on Marquez was, for many,...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-18-2014
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,875
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
SOLITUDE
And The Frenzy of Renown
Part 1:
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez(1927-2014) was a Columbian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Considered one of...
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Forum: Member Interviews
09-20-2013
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: Welcome
09-19-2013
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,683
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Forum: Member Interviews
09-18-2013
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: Charles Baudelaire
03-28-2013
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,851
Charles Baulelaire: A Look-in at the Library
THE CHANGE
Part 1:
After a 50 year working and student life from 1949 to 1999, I took an early retirement at the age of 55 in 1999. I spent the next dozen-or-so years traveling with my...
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Forum: Member Interviews
12-13-2012
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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Forum: Show & Tell
08-13-2011
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,634
George Orwell's Diaries and Letters
GEORGE ORWELL and SHOGHI EFFENDI
In April 1936, the English author and journalist George Orwell(1903-1950) started to rent and run a small village grocery, located in an old, dark, and pokey...
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Forum: Jorge Luis Borges
11-08-2010
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,719
Re: Borges: Some ideas For My Memoirs
What Borges wrote about a book, namely, that it "is not an isolated being, but a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," is also true about a poem. It is certainly true of this poem I...
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Forum: Edgar Allan Poe
10-04-2010
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Replies: 3
Views: 6,429
THE RAVEN: A Personal Comment
The now famous Bahá'í hanging gardens with its terraces, expanse of gardens and classically styled buildings as well as the Shrine of the Báb which harmonizes eastern and western proportions and...
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Forum: Edgar Allan Poe
10-04-2010
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Replies: 0
Views: 5,514
Edgar Allen Poe's Need For Darkness
By the age of 60 I had a strong desire for things not to intrude on and violate my consciousness. I did not need the darkness that Edward Allen Poe required to be at peace. But I did require...
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Forum: General Discussion
10-04-2010
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,554
TONY CURTIS: On His Passing
TONY CURTIS
I’m not sure when or where Tony Curtis, 1925 to 2010, first came into my life. Was it at the movies or on television? Perhaps it was in Houdini in 1953 when he was married to...
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Forum: Welcome
10-04-2010
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,683
Hello From Tasmania Australia
1. EMPLOYMENT-SOCIAL-ROLE POSITIONS: 1943-2015
2009-2015-Retired and on an old-age pension
1999-2009-Writer & Author, Poet & Publisher, Online Blogger & Journalist, Editor & Researcher,...
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Forum: Jorge Luis Borges
10-04-2010
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,719
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Forum: Jorge Luis Borges
09-13-2010
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,719
Re: Borges: Some ideas For My Memoirs
After two years it seemed like a good idea to give this first post some company and develop the thread and the concept of memoirs a little. -Ron in Tasmania
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POETRY AND...
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Forum: Arthur Schopenhauer
01-04-2010
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,087
Re: The Reception of My Work and Schopenhauer's
It has been more than 18 months since I posted this item and I would now like to add some additional comments.-Ron Price, Australia
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THE LOUDEST PLACE
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Forum: Philosophy
01-04-2010
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Replies: 0
Views: 4,376
The Beat Poet: Kerouac and His Philosophy
ROADMAP
IN 1959
In the 1950s and 1960s there were evolving etymologies for the word beat. In "The Origins of the Beat Generation," originally published in Playboy magazine in 1959, the year I...
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Forum: Member Interviews
01-04-2010
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Replies: 13
Views: 12,805
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