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The Truth

Peter Bloch is over the topbut not like old mill copswho come into the barand our friday fun do marbut charmed by a voicethey make a good choiceand instead of giving a finelisten to paul spring’s lines –From the bowels of the science building

Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride

Painted by Jan van Eyck, 1434, oil on panel. This is one of the earliest examples of oil painting.   A few thoughts, first, to get you looking and thinking. As I go through this art history analysis it is helpful to be looking back and forth at the painting. The most important thing is […]

Postmodernism isn’t dead, and neither is Taylor Swift.

So don’t you see, / you belong with me.” So ends the refrain of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me,” a thoughtful consideration of the ironies of young love. The delightfully unreliable speaker Swift employs laments her unrequited feelings for a boy who has chosen another over her, citing that, while the other “wears short […]

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