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Enlightment

Sophisticated Despair

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I was speaking with someone in sophisticated despair – what a sorry state – he had worked himself into quite a frenzy. […]

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Some More Bullsh*t

March 31, 2025April 29, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Critics of Capitalism have demonized that economic system for many reasons. Some are definitely compelling. Only a few of them take into […]

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Winter

Thoughts on the Late Leaves of Winter

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog There is no life in them. I have a pile of these dead leaves in my garden, accumulated over the winter, dashed […]

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Films

Godspeed David Lynch

January 31, 2025January 31, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was a Thursday night, and I had been learning a monologue in preparation for an audition tape I was to […]

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Philosophy

Doing Things of Utter Irrelevance.

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

By Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The pessimists’s pessimist would say from the get-go: “all you do is utterly irrelevant. Think on the world and your life within […]

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The Poetry of Arthur Rimbaud

November 30, 2024November 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Arthur Rimbaud turned his back on poetry at the age of 20, or around 1875. The rest of his life, 17 years, […]

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A Look At Matsuo Basho

October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The master of the Haiku expresses poetic qualities that charge his words with unmistakable clarity. Clarity is the medium for Basho’s perception […]

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Marcus Aurelius and Wordsworth

September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Up! Up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you’ll grow double (from ‘The Tables Turned’, William Wordsworth) But cast away […]

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Enlightment

One After the Truth

August 12, 2024August 12, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I was sitting at a café when I got to talking with a woman who happened to sit across from me. I […]

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Of Time and Dreams

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I had a dream that I was assaulted by three men. One of them granted that “I had had enough”. I didn’t […]

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Berlin

A Conversation With Yury Kharchenko in Berlin

June 10, 2024June 10, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse The Carl Kruse Blog invites all to a chat between Russian-German Artist Yury Kharchenko and art historian Dr. Eckhart Gillen this coming Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at […]

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Books

Two Beautiful Dictionaries

May 29, 2024May 29, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Between 1870 and the turn of the 20th century, two books were written that despite their distance of creation (the Atlantic separated […]

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