The Screaming Pope

Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.

Friday, January 31, 2025

Hidden Under a Bushel

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    "Hidden Under a Bushel" by Hallie Cohen (watercolor 5'x12') "The Mona Lisa" was the subject of Freud’s essay...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Putting the Cart Before the Horse

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  "cart pushing" by a horse in l907 Paris Are you someone who chronically puts the cart  before the horse? If so your  dasein is ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Wanted!

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Seeking applicant for job of reading responses to customer satisfaction surveys. Spoiler alert how effective is a survey of services provide...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Odysseus on the GW

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Zero Mostel as Leopold Bloom in Ulysses in Nighttown Odysseus’ wiles enabled him to put a wooden stake in the eye of Polyphemus and also to ...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Vergangenheitsbewaltigung

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Vergangenheitsbewaltigung is German for “the burden of the past.” It’s a majestic looking word comprising a visual onomatopoeia. Centuries ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

The Mass of Poets Lead Lives of Quiet Exasperation

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There are those who literally knock their heads against brick walls and have scars to prove it. The proverbial brick wall is invisible to al...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Pompeii

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erotic fresco from Pompeii Fantasy and romanticism go hand in hand. The romantic yearns for or postulates a transcendent reality.  Both Epic...
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Francis Levy's debut novel, Erotomania: A Romance, was released in August 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. His short stories, criticism, humor, and poetry have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Village Voice, The East Hampton Star, The Quarterly, Penthouse, Architectural Digest, TV Guide, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and other publications. One of his Voice humor pieces was anthologized in The Big Book of New American Humor (HarperCollins). His collection of parables, The Kafka Studies Department with illustrations by Hallie Cohen will appear in September.
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