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...Mamet are considered great writers in much the same way that Fyodor Dostoevsky, James Joyce, or Don DeLillo are highly regarded. But this doesn't erase the gulf between dramatic literature and other types of literature. Writing a play still seems fundamentally different than writing a novel or a poem for more than the obvious stylistic disparities. I have to believe there's still a lingering senseof this difference between work and play...
...such a place. It sits along Highway 178 near Rocky Bottom, just shy of the North Carolina border. The Roadkill Grill is an outdoor barbecue pit on the property of Bob's Place, a rustic beer tavern where the Confederate flag flies proud and the "Hillbilly Poem" is stapled to an outside wall. It reads, "We're noted for our hard times and God's great creation. We're the people of the hillbilly nation." The hillbillies, it turns out, liked Bush, as did plenty of God-fearing family folk, party loyalists and professionals who fit more comfortably into...
...satisfying and more urgently needed on film than on any other medium, or as if celluloid can relate beauty better than anyone else. I'll be the first to admit that there is something a little preposterous about it; can anyone really imagine a "pure sculpture" or a "pure poem...
According to Polonius, the highest loyalty is to oneself, but it helps to remember that Polonius was an idiot. We are not even capable of being true to who we are, and many of us would be better off as someone else. Auden had it right in the poem "Lullaby": "Lay your sleeping head, my love/ Human on my faithless arm." Ah, humans...
...article about the possibility that the Pope might step down [RELIGION, Jan. 24], you mentioned that in Dante's poem Inferno, Pope Celestine V was assigned to Hell for voluntarily abdicating. You suggested that this condemnation was in some way mitigated by the fact that Celestine was placed "only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo." In fact, many translators label Celestine's place in Hell "the antechamber," and (to Dante, anyway) Celestine resides among the most despised souls. CHRISTIAN TALBOT New York City...