Category Archives: Shakespeare Adaptations

The Bottom of the Barrel

Posted on May 3, 2019 by jimmie

In patient resignation, most of us accept that the web of life is of a mingled yarn, (1) that good and ill go together, that our virtues may shine were it not for our faults – and that our sinfulness would induce despair, were it not redeemed by our virtues or, at least, by some Read More

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Quo Vadis Vatican?

Posted on August 29, 2018 by jimmie

The nature of the subject requires an introduction. A detective story does not require a murder, nor the events of a thriller need be fictional. Most detective stories include a murder because the gravity of the deed instills a sense of vicarious fear, triggers the pleasure of the riddle, and makes plausible the concealment that Read More

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Dostoyevsky and the Chosen People

Posted on March 31, 2018 by jimmie

Dostoyevsky is known as an eminent tower of world literature and an implacable depth-sounder of the remotest recesses of the human soul – an analytical mind, fascinated by the invisible chemistry of people’s consciousness and emotions. And if Pushkin can be called the Raphael of Russian literature, Dostoyevsky is undoubtedly its Michelangelo. Very, or at Read More

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Revisiting Revolutions, a Comparison

Posted on November 17, 2017 by jimmie

After a fitful fever (1) of debates and round-tables, often packed with common sense and sometimes with uncommon nonsense, the dust of antique time (2) may gradually settle on the memory of the 1917 Russian Revolution. In 2117, assuming but not given that schools may still teach history, a question in a standardized test may read, Read More

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