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Sankt Anna

February 23, 2022November 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

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

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Jellyfish and the Mystery of the Ocean

December 17, 2021July 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog The water is of the brightest hue. She is almost royal blue, so jubilant is her shade. No current nor wind […]

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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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Variations of Beauty and the Beast

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 Carl Kruse

By Asia Leonardi  “Amor vicit omnia”, “love triumphs over all”, even with the most monstrous appearances, is what the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast seems to invoke, a tale […]

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The Case for Dreams

June 11, 2021October 25, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt During his imprisonment, Socrates supposedly composed some lyrics, something he had never bothered himself with before. Puzzled by this behavior, his friend Cebes asked him on the […]

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Anniversaries

Happy Anniversary to J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien

March 21, 2021October 13, 2021 Carl Kruse

Here at the blog we celebrate some dates and anniversaries in our quirky way. The seasons, DNA Day, Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitcoin’s Birthday, and in today’s post the anniversary of […]

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Psychogeography: Maps, Borders, Paradise

February 28, 2021November 25, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog When I was young and being driven somewhere or other, I would always notice and ponder the physical space between signs […]

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Homage to Samuel Beckett

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt There is a myth from Ancient Greece – containing a well-known proverb that reverberated in Greek thought. It involves the creature Silenus, the teacher of the wine […]

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