Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Mark Morris: Socrates and Via Dolorosa

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Members of the Mark Morris Dance Group perform in Socrates . Photo credit: Chris Hardy. Image source: San Francisco Chronicle Those who tr...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Haruki Murakami, part 7: Burning and Norwegian Wood

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Still from Lee Chang-dong's Burning (2018). Image source: The Criterion Collection As a follow-up to my post on the film Drive My Car...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Jane Austen proposal scenes, coda: Are Austen's endings romantic?

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Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, circa 1810. Image source: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3630 In the first post of this series (l...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Remembering Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, American mezzo-soprano, October 1, 2003. Photo credit: Richard Avedon. Image source: Operachic Lorraine Hunt Lieb...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Jane Austen proposal scenes, part 6: Persuasion

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CiarĂ¡n Hinds (Captain Frederick Wentworth) and Amanda Root (Anne Elliot) in Persuasion (1995) Persuasion Background to the proposal scen...
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