SODOM & GOMORRAH: There is a dark rumor that John Lennon was a closet Republican late in life. We can be sure he would vehemently deny this were he alive; after all, being called a Republican is a terrible thing.
When Ezra Pound suggested in How To Read that we should teach poetry using a curriculum that had as its principal features the moments of great innovation in western poetry, he struck one of the most sensitive of Modernism’s nerves: the idea that the strength of an artist lay in originality and novelty.
In 1871, Lesotho (Basutoland) was annexed to the Cape Colony of South Africa, but despite the energy of Colonel Griffith, the Government Agent, power remained in the hands of the chiefs.
SODOM & GOMORRAH: This article discusses a debate that took place over at Half Sigma. That is, the nature of art. Half Sigma makes a few interesting points.
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