Two shows I recommend and an interview

Resident Alien is just preachy enough without being too preachy to my taste. Everyone is going to have their own lines on that one. I love that various perspectives are taken and that an actress with Native American heritage is a star. I find it odd that Sara Tomko doesn't have a Wikipedia page, she must not want one or something. "I am not a part of a tribe or a community,” Tomko explains, “and so it’s respectful to acknowledge and showcase that there are so many wonderful native actors on this show." (source)

Mare of Easttown is realism with a serial killer. I still find it amazing that British people can do flawless American accents, but American actors can't do British accents. Or Scottish, or Welsh or Irish of any of the finely chopped move a mile and have a different accent of those blobs of islands of English speaking Europe.

Joyce Carol Oates interviews Philip Roth.

I’ve also watched Orville 3 seasons. I don’t hate it but it feels like discount Star Trek with a Seth twist. And it just steps over the preachy line for me. Maybe I don’t like the causes that lead to these narratives. It doesn't feel as subtle as Star Trek. I watched it and mostly enjoyed it. I wish the fans and creators well.

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Manet and Degas

Brilliant video explaining the exhibit. Go to the Met and see the exhibit! It's really quite special. In the last gallery the painting this sketch is based off of, of the execution of a Mexican president. The painting has been cut into sections, and the surviving Degas has reassembled them. NY Times review

movie versus book

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Introduction

Robert B. Palmer's introduction to his translation of Walter F. Otto's Dionysus: Myth and Cult (p. ix-xi) Gods of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore? Pan, Pan is dead. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The Dead Pan W H E N Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote these lines which sound so pessimistic and so limited to any lover of the beauty and truth of Greek mythology, she had in mind a famous passage out of Plutarch's De Oraculorum defectu {Mor. 419 A-E) in which it was reported on good authority that Pan had died. But let Plutarch tell the story (Philip is speaking): As for death among such beings [i.e., deities], I have heard the words of a man who was not a fool nor an impostor. The father of...

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