DVD: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Released: 2007 Directed by Tim Burton ?Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering… Read more »
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. . . Playing Lear would force him to inhabit his fear, fathom the future he had almost reached already. Why, just last week, running here and there to find lost keys, a friend’s name leached from memory. Gone. No, nor could he bring himself to speak the plain and awful line that shows the… Read more »
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Book: Sebastian Faulks, Engleby Publication date: 2007 Publisher: Hutchinson, London ?Don’t patronise me if you read this thirty years on, will you? don’t think of me as old-fashioned, wearing silly clothes or some nonsense like that. don’t talk crap about ‘the seventies’, will you, as we do now about ‘the forties’. . . Yours are… Read more »
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Book: Alberto Manguel, The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography Publication date: 2007 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, NY ?The chronology we have invented for ourselves prompts us to imagine that our sense of the world and of ourselves evolves, and that there is progress of feeling and imagination as there is development of… Read more »
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CD: Steppin? In It, Simple Tunes for Troubled Times Release date: 2008 Label: Fox on a Hill All right, Steamboat Queen, Sing me a simple tune for these troubled times. Hold tight, Steamboat Queen. You must have been something in your prime. from ?The Steamboat Queen,? Steppin? In It, Simple Tunes for Troubled Times On… Read more »
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