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Reflections On Classical Music

December 4, 2025December 4, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog Classical music often enjoys a status of being complex, dignified, and asides from the popular excerpts of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Chopin […]

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Theater

Growing Older: On Ageing Actresses And Beautiful Women

November 10, 2025November 10, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog Growing old is constantly on my mind because I am an actress and because I am an actress there are roles, […]

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Discourses Over Morals, Part One: René Descartes

October 14, 2025October 14, 2025 Carl Kruse

By Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog This is the first in a series of articles intended to draw a brief panorama of the moral theme in contemporary philosophy. […]

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imagination

No One’s Fool

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog I heard a remark on the cycle of history a few months ago and since then I have heard it several times, […]

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Phantasia

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog After a disjointed hour-long conversation, I did not need to tell myself I was lucky, nor that I was grateful. When the […]

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Fantasy

Otherworld Versus The Underworld

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog The disparity between the terms ‘otherworld’ and ‘underworld’ is certainly difficult to pin down. If we analyse them semantically, we might […]

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Literature

Interpretations in Literature

June 28, 2025June 28, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog If it isn’t a joke already, it should be: the English Literature classroom with its overproduction of loose interpretations; rather, loose translations. […]

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Anniversaries

VE Day

May 29, 2025May 29, 2025 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was VE Day on Thursday the 8th of May. VE stands for Victory in Europe. 80 years it has been […]

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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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Economics

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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  • Discourses Over Morals, Part One: René Descartes
  • No One’s Fool
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  • Otherworld Versus The Underworld
  • Interpretations in Literature
  • VE Day
  • Sophisticated Despair
  • Some More Bullsh*t
  • Thoughts on the Late Leaves of Winter
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