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William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream”

Posted on June 7, 2013 by ashok / 2 Comments

There are three sets of characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: the Athenians contending over love, the Athenian tradesmen putting on a production of Pyr...

media

Mark Twain, “A Fable”

Posted on December 10, 2012 by ashok / 0 Comment

Reprinted from about.com. One of the few things I read in my undergraduate years that I enjoyed greatly. Wilson Carey McWilliams had us read this before anythin...

love/writing

Learning the Hard Way: On John Updike’s “The Alligators”

Posted on April 7, 2009 by ashok / 8 Comments

The plot of John Updike’s short story “The Alligators” seems simple enough. Adolescent boy thinks he hates adolescent girl and torments her; b...

philosophy/plato/xenophon

Just finished a Straussian ritual, Aristophanes’ “Clouds:” Preliminary Notes on the Limits of Comedy

Posted on November 11, 2008 by ashok / 0 Comment

1. Consideration of comedians: they use laughter to make everything ridiculous. The good things, while made ridiculous, still are essentially good and cannot be...

writing

Comment on Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age:” Hackworth, Authorship and Philosophy

Posted on October 17, 2008 by ashok / 0 Comment

Subject to change when I reread the book. IT IS POSSIBLE to conceive of knowledge as reflecting an eternal order, a way things should best be done. Knowledge in...

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Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

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