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First, there occurred the astonishing interpretation of modernism provided by surrealism and dada.

– WHAT IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES OF THE DECADE, HINTING AT A TRANSCENDENCE OF GOTHIC FUNK – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

– WHAT IS A GOOD MOVIE – Mean Girls.

– WEATHER – When will Al Gore finally get his apology?

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And those politics would combine with two other factors to undermine high modernism and create a cultural stage for a variety of postmodernisms.

Today: Pretty scary.

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That city, however, seemed to depend all too often on the most appalling politics.

– JULY – is Bison month. (July is also under consideration to be M. Bison month).
– TODAY – Is Cow Appreciation Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
What’s That Bug?

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Baudelaire’s alienated withdrawal inside the intricacy of form now opens the way for rebuilding a formal site where the spirit learns to dwell reflexively within its own deepest powers and, for some of the poets, to project from such states the Orphic task of building a truly habitable city.

– JULY – is Baked Beans month.
– TODAY – is the day when the sun rises and sets along Manhattan’s gridline.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Henry David Thoreau and Bill Cosby.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
TEMBOKBOMBER.COM – Jakarta graffiti.

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And at the other pole, poets as diverse as Pound, Apollinaire, and late Rilke use syntactic gaps to articulate the powers of will or pure concentration to compose new models of self: cubist simultaneity and transformations of perceptual into conceptual realities provide the basis for imagining that the encounter with history can take on an intensity in the present, enabling one to “schufst du ihnen Tempel im Gehör” (build [your] temple deep inside hearing).

– JULY – is Copious Compliments month. I say this because my readers can not only assimilate this information but, being at the height of both physical beauty and cognitive prowess, put it to uses not merely complimentary, but transformative and transcendent in nature.