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New at GazetteOfTheArts.com™: The Muses, the Graces, and selected Gods serve up history, the arts, and some surprises for our visitors!
Nominee: Seriously Weird Achievement for the 90's: Demi Moore has managed to
make a movie titled Striptease (1996) which has both a better story and a more
morally uplifting plot than does her screen adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (The 1995 Winner of the
coveted GazetteOfTheArts.com™
, Roman Sewer Award. See below)
. . . for our capsule movie and film reviews click here
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. . . our favorite quotes click here
. . . our all time favorite films and movies click here
And . . . speaking of weird: Let Detritus and Deleteria enlighten you on Tail Fins and Lozenges. and point out the ways in which you perpetuate the prejudices of William the Conqueror each and every day.
Visit The Seven Fold Path (American style): The Classic Liberal Arts: (pre-12th Century) the Quadrivium: ( the four fold path to knowledge) Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, and Astronomy the Trivium: (the three fold path to eloquence) Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic
From our Literature page: Since last winter was so mild and you KNOW what is coming, we present this poem by Robert Service, for lovers of El Niño, green house gases and ANYTHING as long as its WARM, meet your soul mate in The Cremation of Sam McGhee.
The adage "the more things change, the more they are the same" is reinforced by this poem The Dilettante: A Modern Type written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published one hundred and three years ago in the 1897 collection Lyrics of Lowly Life
Here are some cool sites you ought to know about.
If you aren't lucky enough to have Tony Curtis teach your children (and you) the classics, they're still all available on the net at the Internet Classics Archive. These are not classics as in "the-state-room-scene" in A Night at the Opera, or even as in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. These are classics as in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, and Agamemnon by Aeschylus. To show you how immensely hip the Internet Classics Archive site is, they refer to the above titles as popular classical literature. This is a site with its cultural head squarely on its shoulders.
This site has a searchable collection of approximately 400 classical Greek & Roman texts (in English translation) and a list of other classics and electronic text sources which is worth checking out in its own right!.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Speaking of classics and Shakespeare. Here is all the Shakespeare that's fit to print,
and then some. . . check out Hamlet, MacBeth, Richard III, Romeo & Juliet, A
Midsummer Night's Dream and more modest efforts such as Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Timon of Athens,
and the ever maligned Titus Andronicus.. The in-the-text-highlighting
of linked glossary word definitions is a god-send and treat for those just
becoming familiar with the bard and for all those who occasionally need a bit of
help with their 17th century vocabulary Your love's labors won't be lost if you check out this site.
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