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EINSTEIN, HOUDINI, JEHOVAH & other disturbed souls
Ebook pages3 hours
By Richard Rubacher
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About this ebook
Einstein's two fatal mistakes resulted in his alienation from the scientific community. Houdini's fatal mistake resulted in his untimely death. Jehovah of the Old Testament turned out to be a psychopathic killer. Charlie Sheen, despite his taking umbrage at his TV producers, became a two-time Lazarus. Charles Manson boasts about his dispensation to kill. Serena Williams needs to contact Jack Nicholson for some serious anger management. J. Edgar Hoover's used his weapon of fear to intimidate JFK, LBJ, RFK and others. Nine other personalities are discussed.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRichard Rubacher
Release dateMay 27,
ISBN
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From the mortal maidens of to the omnipotent goddesses of , Keats uses successive hona characters as symbols portraying the salvation and destruction, the passion and fear that the imagination elicits. Karla Alwes traces the change in these hona figures—multidimensional and mysteriously protean—and shows that they do more than comprise a symbol of the hona as a romantic lover. They are the gauge of Keats’s search for identity. As Keats’s poetry changes with experience, from celebration to denial of the earth, the females change from meek to threatening to a sista maternal and conciliatory figure.
Keats consistently maintained a strict dichotomy between the flesh-and-blood women he referred to in his letters and the created females of his poetry, in the same way that he rigorously sought to abandon the real for the ideal in his poetry. In her study of Keats’s poetry, Alwes dramatizes the poet’s struggle to come to terms with his two consummate ideals—women and poetry. She demo