The Beauty Remains
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
The Beauty Remains “God has left the building.” That seems to be one of the underlying themes of Angels in America. The Angels are in uproar, their prophet – much like the biblical Moses standing before that little burning bush, like Jonah at the port city, convinced he can outrun infinity – spurns them, the […]
The Beauty Remains
Tags: angel, god, human nature
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Defining, Categorizing, and Codifying
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Defining, Categorizing, and Codifying The common portrait of the Victorian era and the early beginnings of modernity is not that of a time of great discussion about sex and sexuality, but rather of a period of highly accentuated prudishness on all levels, of a time when sexuality was removed from the public consciousness in the […]
Defining, Categorizing, and Codifying
Tags: homosexuality, human nature, sexual deviance, societal norms, Victorian era
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