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John McCain as Metaphoric Myth

September 2, 2018 Edward Curtin

“Every notion of progress is refuted by the existence of the Iliad.” – Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and…

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The Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey

August 20, 2018 Edward Curtin

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel “And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where…

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A Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul

August 12, 2018 Edward Curtin

V. S.  Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in…

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By the Lake

July 21, 2018 Edward Curtin

I saw them when going out, Matted down like roosting geese In the grass by the lake Where they were…

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The Sexual Passion of Winston Smith

July 19, 2018 Edward Curtin

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.†– Frederick Nietzsche,…

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Ever Since

July 1, 2018 Edward Curtin

For years ever since the gold cloth in the sand, and our loving there, cradled in the high dunes, blue…

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Slow Suicide and the Abandonment of the World

June 21, 2018 Edward Curtin

“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of…

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American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

June 10, 2018 Edward Curtin

American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. A Review When a book as fascinating,…

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She Said

June 9, 2018 Edward Curtin

If you look through a window, You can see the world outside. If you look in a mirror, You can…

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A Radio Interview with Me on the RFK Assassination

June 8, 2018 Edward Curtin

The following interview was conducted by Philip Farruggio for his radio show – It’s the Empire, Stupid – on June…

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