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  • Sunday Prayer

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      The composer John Tavener, who died on November 12th, once said many artists were good at leading the listener into hell, but that he was more interested in showing the way to paradise.  John Rutter describes Tavener as having the “very rare gift” of being able to “bring an audience to a deep silence.” While Tavener’s earliest music was…

  • You Tube Video of the Day

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    In his article in the Statesman Russell Brand reiterates that he is “utterly disenchanted” with the current political system and imagining its overthrow is “the only way I can be enthused about politics.” He concludes that adhering to one concept or another is not enough, that our consciousness itself must change.  In order to survive…

  • Nanos Valoritis on Literature and Poetry

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    Here’s a poem of his — “Endless Crucifixion” — from the late-20th century. Nanos Valaoritis (b. 1921) is a widely acknowledged Greek poet, novelist, essayist and translator. After completing his studies in Athens, London and Sorbonne, he moved to London in 1944, where he translated modernist Greek poets from the 1930’s and contributed regularly to avant-guard literary…

  • Visit British Museum Website to Play 5000 Year Old Senet Game

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    From Egypt New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC Board games were very popular among all levels of society, especially the game of senet, or ‘passing’. The game was first played in the Predynastic period, and a form of it is still played in Egypt today. Senet could be played with highly decorated sets, plain sets or simply…

  • How Products Get Named

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    Excerpted from Dr. Ong’s article The Poetry of Brand Naming in Business World On-line: In “Famous Names: Does it matter what a product is called?” (The New Yorker, Oct. 3, 2011), John Colapinto reports that product proliferation has made creative brand-naming a growing necessity. In 1980, fewer than 10,000 hi-tech trademarks were registered in the USA;…

  • Rural Folk Poetry of Afghanistan

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    Poetry magazine is devoting its entire June issue to Journalist Eliza Griswold and London Filmaker Seamus Murphy’s project which portrays “Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems…” For 10 years, journalist Eliza Griswold reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for publications like The New York Times and The New Yorker. But she was frustrated that…

  • The Show-Stopping Fashion of Namibia’s Herero Tribe

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    I just love how the boys are imitating the stiffness of the Germans. I also love that they have appropriated this dress and made it their own. The two-pronged hats represent the horns of the Herero’s cows. The women even adopt the loose gait of the cows as they walk. Even in a continent rich…