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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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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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Literature

English As She Is Spoke

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Halfway through the nineteenth century, a little book appeared in Paris under the title of O Novo Guia da Conversação em Portuguez […]

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There is an Award For The Worst Intro Paragraph to a Novel

May 23, 2023October 2, 2024 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse BlogEvery year, writers from around the world submit their entries to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest; the prize is a pittance, but the winner […]

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The Fate of Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince

April 11, 2023August 10, 2023 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince was published on the 6th of April 1943. Whatever happened during the past 80 years […]

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Reflections at The British Library

May 2, 2022July 25, 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 Words Are True, And Love Runs Through Them As Clearly As Water.

January 25, 2022July 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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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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Fernando Pessoa: Alchemist of Sensations

October 13, 2021June 25, 2023 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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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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