Manet - Olympia

The questions asked by this painting when it was first displayed are still relevant today. A naked woman, propped up on a bed with a man holding flowers behind her. Is it the look in her eyes, the searching into our morals, our ideas about nakedness, intrigue. Is it the way in which she sits unmoving, unemotionally knowing that her body is beautiful, an object of desire and demand. Is it because there is no artistic ambiguity, she is so immediate, there is nothing to...

wheldon

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

When I first read this poem I was eighteen, at university, starting out on a degree in English literature. 20th century American poetry was a highlight for an eighteen year old, the lives and the poetry, the casting aside of tradition, of form and expression, of seeking a new way of saying something, of even endeavouring to say something new, to take literature on a new path.

I read this poem once and instantly knew that...

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Thursday 4th April, 2008

I'm certainly still not myself today, after a very serious 'incident' yesterday, when I went extremely close to meeting Jesus! As many of you know, I am VERY weak, yet I stay out of bed. However, with CFS (read HERE), you may still have some strength remaining, and I do. It's pretty weird to follow this, but I CAN lift a computer and move it, so long as I don't dilly-dally with the task! That is, I just can't keep HOLDING anything heavy - because what little...

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