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Curiosities from the Theater of the Absurd

June 12, 2022June 13, 2022 Carl Kruse

Samuel Beckett’s Self-conscious Game by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A performance should appear effortless and unscripted. The long hours of practice transmuted into a rare vision is […]

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Reflections at The British Library

May 2, 2022May 26, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog A friend told me that the tube line that runs into St. Pancras station narrowly misses the foundation of the British Library. […]

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What Makes Something Humorous?

April 21, 2022April 22, 2022 Carl Kruse

The Incongruous Nature of Humor in Russian Literature: Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Gogol’s The Nose by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Many theories have tried to […]

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The Notebooks of Pan’s Labyrinth

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The successive interweaving of the familiar and the fantastical marks Pan’s Labyrinth as a profound meditation on choice. Del Toro’s ‘dark fairytale’ […]

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Sankt Anna

February 23, 2022March 2, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse A thirty-minute southerly drive from Munich and the land becomes one of lakes and trees, and further south the Alps. So much of what is Munich is […]

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The Words Are True, And Love Runs Through Them As Clearly As Water.

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog I have been writing poetry for many years now. Lust was the hallmark of my earlier works, though not always of […]

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Jellyfish and the Mystery of the Ocean

December 17, 2021April 21, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers The water is of the brightest hue. She is almost royal blue, so jubilant is her shade. No current nor wind moves her, and she remains […]

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Being Lonely

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I have felt very alone of late. These years have been tumultuous — both personally and on a global scale — and there is something unsettling […]

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Matthew Hopkins: Witches, 1644

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt “Glorious night to meet the lips, to do penance” spoke the cloaked figure of an elderly woman to three more veiled forms who uttered brief means of […]

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Fernando Pessoa: Alchemist of Sensations

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Asia Leonardi  “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear […]

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Dana Gioia’s “Summer Storm”

September 5, 2021September 6, 2021 Carl Kruse

I always liked Dana Gioia’s poem “Summer Storm” and as we leave summer I thought I would share it with the blog. My friend Hazel says this was the poem […]

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Thoughts on Plague Literature

August 30, 2021September 6, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt In Albert Camus’ The Plague (1947), the narrator comments that ‘there have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people […]

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