It is Holy Week, marking the series of events in Christianity between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. It is also the week we are likely to see the Barr Report, the redacted version of the Mueller Report that has been in the possession of Attorney General William Barr for a month of Sundays.
Politically, submitting the Barr Report this week is an attempt to continue the campaign to stonewall the Mueller Report to help Trump and hamper the truth. Congress is in recess this week, so members are not in Washington. As a result, it is harder to get their reaction to the Barr Report when they are spread across the country.
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Sigmund Freud, another secular Jew and contemporary of Proust’s, was similarly entranced by Notre Dame. The first time he saw it, in 1885, Freud said he had “a sensation I never had before.” Thereafter, between studying with neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at Salpêtrière Hospital, he returned to Notre Dame “every free afternoon” to be in its presence. “I have never seen anything so movingly serious and sombre,” Freud said.
But Notre Dame has an even more sombre incarnation, one that reeks of death and damnation. In 1866, Baudelaire published Les Épaves (Scraps), a collection of incidental verse including six censored poems from the 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal, one of whose poems, Le Joueur généreux, includes the line: “The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.” Its frontispiece includes a hideous skeleton, described byBritish Library curator Chris Michaelides as “symbolising the tree of good and evil, in whose feet grow flowers representing the seven deadly sins. Angels and cherubs are flying high above around a medallion of the poet carried away by a chimera.”
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The fall of the Berlin Wall, captured through the work of the generation of artists and writers who witnessed the collapse of the Iron Curtain first-hand.
9 Oct 2018 · The Berlin Wall was not simply a wall; it was a militarized zone in which the East German government had authorized ... This Book Will Challenge Some of Your Notions About Life Behind the Iron Curtain.
9 Oct 2018 · The Berlin Wall was not simply a wall; it was a militarized zone in which the East German government had authorized ... This Book Will Challenge Some of Your Notions About Life Behind the Iron Curtain.
