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  • * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; a novella
  • * Banana Tree*
  • * Blind Prophet
  • * Blindness and Other Scenes
  • * Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
  • * D’Arc that Brings Light
  • * Death, Angels and the Moon
  • * Ditch Plains Dogs
  • * Falling through Bamboo
  • * Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
  • * Garden Variety
  • * God the Ungodly
  • * God’s Finger to Adam’s
  • * Good Friday Recollection
  • * Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
  • * I Wait for the Rain
  • * Impure Blood [Short Story]
  • * In Itself American
  • * Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
  • * Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
  • * Narrator, Narrated one
  • * Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
  • * The Algerian’s Flowers
  • * The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
  • * Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
  • * Truth is Beauty
  • *Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
  • *Nausea two
  • 33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
  • A Vindication of Gay Marriage
  • A Vindication of Human Rights
  • A Woman Is [short fiction]
  • Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
  • ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
  • Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
  • Amend Our Ways
  • Another Note to the Reader
  • Archipelago Americanus
  • AROUND; A Video Poem
  • Asking
  • Barnum and Obama
  • Bee Hive Nation
  • Before the Law
  • Being Jeffersonian, Thus
  • Betting Window: Voting Booth
  • Beyond the Need for Liberty?
  • Black is Black [fiction]
  • Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
  • Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
  • Capital ‘P’ People
  • Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
  • Choosing to be Human
  • Communicating Communicated
  • Conformity vs. Obedience
  • Consensus, Non-Sensus
  • Cornerstone of Liberty
  • Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
  • Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
  • Diatribe
  • Doppelgänger [short fiction]
  • Double Think Down the Left
  • Duality or Dichotomy
  • Espresso Pot
  • Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
  • Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
  • Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
  • Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
  • Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
  • Fetal Heartbeat
  • Fire and Embrace
  • Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
  • Full of Grace
  • Futilitarianism
  • Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
  • Greed Breeds Greed
  • Guilty versus Not-guilty
  • Hamlet is Cartesian
  • Hamlet My Brother is My Father
  • Hard Times for History and Historiography
  • Human Humane
  • Humanity
  • Humanity is a Monstrosity
  • Humanity is the Thesis
  • Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
  • Hysterical Historical
  • I am We the People
  • I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
  • I Become a Member of the Past Again
  • I is a Delusion
  • I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
  • I Two Myself
  • I Wear Different Haberdash
  • Iceberg, Dead Ahead
  • Idiocy is Pandemic
  • Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
  • In Itself American: Beta
  • In Itself American: Gamma
  • In/Formation
  • Individuality Divisible
  • Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
  • Into the Wild
  • Islam or Illiteracy?
  • Israel and Colonialism
  • JFK and a New Left Legacy
  • JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
  • Journal Entries [fiction]
  • Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
  • Labyrinth and Abyss
  • Last Best Hope?
  • Laughing at the Devil
  • Less Than Kin
  • Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
  • Licenses to Gratify
  • Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
  • Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
  • Literate Being, Being Literate
  • Love is the Soul of Humanity
  • Macrocosmically Me
  • Mammon is God
  • Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
  • Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
  • Media are the Messages
  • MEDIAtion
  • Mediocrity and Success
  • Meekness Humbled?
  • Messages and Media
  • Misconceptions Dis-conceived
  • Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
  • Misguided Understanding of Power
  • Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
  • Monologues and Vision
  • Mules or Men
  • Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
  • Murder and Race
  • My Brother, My Likeness
  • My Pen is My Scalpel
  • Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
  • Nevermind Arithmetic
  • New and Now are Cults
  • New Potential Old [Of Woman]
  • No One Keeps His Balance four
  • Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
  • Of Punching or Not Punching
  • Of Reviewing
  • Of Sex and Sexuality
  • Of Soul and Mind
  • Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
  • On Being Literate
  • On Stage, Off Stage
  • ONDINE; a Video Poem
  • Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
  • Other Questions
  • Passing through the Heart
  • People Versus the State
  • Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
  • Petty Paces
  • Philosophy is Wonder
  • Pimps and Prostitutes
  • Pluralism
  • Police, People and the Public
  • Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
  • Politeness and the New Politique
  • POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
  • Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
  • Prison House of State
  • Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
  • pro Intentions Attended
  • pro Letter to Anonymous
  • pro NOTES to the Reader
  • pro Of Blogging
  • pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
  • pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
  • pro Web Log II
  • pro Writing a Web Log
  • Prophets and Prophecies
  • Public-Minded
  • Purposeful Journey
  • Purposefully without Purpose?
  • Quantity Trumps Quality
  • Question, Philosophical
  • Questions and Demands
  • R.S.V.P.
  • Rain Outside
  • Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
  • Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
  • Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
  • Rhetorical Strategy
  • Rhone Red with Ribs
  • Salvation Now [fiction]
  • Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
  • Seeing Seen Again
  • Sex, Love, Communication
  • Silence is Suicide [fiction]
  • SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
  • SIMPLE; A Video Poem
  • Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
  • Something Less than Democracy
  • Soul is What we Say When
  • Soul of Genius
  • Soul of Genius
  • Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
  • Spy, Spying, Spied
  • Stages; On, Off and Against
  • Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
  • Standing Under
  • State & Stage
  • States are Tautologies
  • Suspension of Disbelief
  • Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
  • TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
  • The ABCs of Literacy?
  • The Coldest Winter
  • The Courage of Oedipus
  • THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018
  • The Good, the Bad and the Literary
  • The Highest Wisdom
  • The Ontological Self
  • The Passing of Democracy
  • The Polemicist, a Short Story
  • The Republic of Silence
  • The State vs. The People
  • The Unalienable Right to Choose
  • There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
  • Through the Glass Darkly
  • To Between or not to Between
  • To Love or not to Love
  • Toward Feminology
  • Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
  • Twenty Million Women
  • Usual Suspects
  • Vanity is Truth
  • Vindication
  • Waiting for Beckett
  • Waiting for Lunch
  • Warnings and Wardens
  • We Are What We Read
  • We, Another Mask
  • Western Review
  • What I Want, What I Get
  • What is She?
  • What Profits the Prophet?
  • What We Are, What I Am
  • When I Write
  • Who Am I vs. What I Am
  • Who’s to Say?
  • Wife, Midwife, Witch
  • William Brian, a Short Story
  • With a Grain
  • Woman Is
  • Written and Revised
  • Yet Another Note to the Reader
  • Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
  • Zionism and the Media
  • Hera’s Tit
  • MEDIA and MESSAGES
  • HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
  • SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
  • The Pool, You Know, the Pool
  • THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
  • What I Learned from Her
  • Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]

Month: January 2015

Verlaine, Verlaine

January 9, 2015March 14, 2016 ~ jvr ~ Leave a comment

120 years ago this January 8th Paul Verlaine died at the age of 51 in Paris. Tom Verlaine was the lead singer of the 70s band Television. Tom Verlaine was born Thomas Miller. He took the stage name Verlaine after the French poet.  

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  • Perils of an Anthropomorphic Egg
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  • Double Think Down the Left
  • Visibility Through the Storms [a short story]
  • Woman Is
  • Greed Breeds Greed
  • Israel and Colonialism
  • * Grammar, Grammarians, Grammaticus [a fictional essay]
  • * God the Ungodly
  • Curtain Rods, Wire Hangers, Women and Queers
  • Bee Hive Nation
  • Cows, Horses, Pigs and Women
  • * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; a novella
  • Labyrinth and Abyss
  • Philosophy is Wonder
  • State & Stage
  • Passing through the Heart
  • Betting Window: Voting Booth
  • Before the Law
  • Pimps and Prostitutes
  • Literacy, Politics and the Pedagogy of Failure
  • New and Now are Cults
  • Archipelago Americanus
  • My Brother, My Likeness
  • With a Grain
  • Licenses to Gratify
  • Sodomy, Sadism and Politics
  • Human Humane
  • Iceberg, Dead Ahead
  • What I Learned from Her
  • MEDIAtion
  • Vindication
  • Freedom is a Short Neck Among Giraffes
  • Nemesis Hunts the Ignorant
  • States are Tautologies
  • Who’s to Say?
  • Truth, Anti-Truth and the Dogma of Doubt
  • Idiocy is Pandemic
  • Something Less than Democracy
  • Laughing at the Devil
  • Waiting for Beckett
  • The State vs. The People
  • Futilitarianism
  • Hera’s Tit
  • * The Vocative Mood of a Sub-Sub Librarian; or, a Whale of a Self
  • Question, Philosophical
  • Standing Under
  • Monologues and Vision
  • I Recollect Recalling Having Remembered
  • Gravity, Tombs and Other Falls
  • * The Algerian’s Flowers
  • Humanity is a Monstrosity
  • To Love or not to Love
  • Of Soul and Mind
  • R.S.V.P.
  • Barnum and Obama
  • Prison House of State
  • Journal Entries [fiction]
  • Preclusions, Exclusions, Conclusions
  • Sanity/Sanitize [fiction]
  • In/Formation
  • Fetal Heartbeat
  • Blackface for the Elite? [fiction]
  • * God’s Finger to Adam’s
  • Full of Grace
  • Abortion is a Woman’s Parachute
  • Mules or Men
  • Fee, Fie, Fictio, Historum
  • Humanity
  • Existential Freedom, Essential Freedom
  • * Kosher Pastrami [fiction]
  • Love is the Soul of Humanity
  • * Pages from a Philosophy Student’s Notebook; a Short Story*
  • Soul of Genius
  • * I Wait for the Rain
  • * Light, Camera, Shadow, Gaze
  • Cornerstone of Liberty
  • Kettles, Pots and Political Frying Pans
  • Faith, Belief and the Limits of Knowing
  • I am We the People
  • Questions and Demands
  • Rain Outside
  • The Pool, You Know, the Pool
  • Fire and Embrace
  • Police, People and the Public
  • The Republic of Silence
  • * Garden Variety
  • Multiculturalism and the New Golden Age
  • Feather Dusters, Full Moons and Bloggers
  • I Am, therefore, I think [A Short Story]
  • * Death, Angels and the Moon
  • Privileges Vs. Rights; Citizenship and Systems of Inequality
  • What is She?
  • The Highest Wisdom
  • Hamlet My Brother is My Father
  • Imperialism, Colonialism, Nationalism, Zionism
  • Last Best Hope?
  • What We Are, What I Am
  • Of the Elites, By the Elites, and For the Elites
  • Non-Voting; or Pro-Active Dissent
  • Public-Minded
  • Petty Paces
  • Twenty Million Women
  • Guilty versus Not-guilty
  • Mammon is God
  • Choosing to be Human
  • Silence is Suicide [fiction]
  • Being Jeffersonian, Thus
  • The Passing of Democracy
  • People Versus the State
  • Wife, Midwife, Witch
  • Absence is Presence [short fiction] *
  • JFK and the Amoral Center of the Media Presidency
  • Suspension of Disbelief
  • To Between or not to Between
  • Vanity is Truth
  • Politeness and the New Politique
  • Espresso Pot
  • Less Than Kin
  • I Become a Member of the Past Again
  • * Impure Blood [Short Story]
  • No One Keeps His Balance four
  • I is a Delusion
  • Individuality Divisible
  • Pluralism
  • The Polemicist, a Short Story
  • Existential Hamlet Precedes Essential Hamlet
  • Messages and Media
  • JFK and a New Left Legacy
  • Who Am I vs. What I Am
  • Quantity Trumps Quality
  • Diatribe
  • Misguided Understanding of Power
  • Meekness Humbled?
  • Hard Times for History and Historiography
  • Amend Our Ways
  • There Were no Ice Flows in the Seine
  • Into the Wild
  • A Vindication of Human Rights
  • Liberty Lessens as Literacy Weakens
  • Murder and Race
  • Of Punching or Not Punching
  • Doppelgänger [short fiction]
  • * Caravaggio and I [A Short Story]
  • * Falling through Bamboo
  • Remembrance is not a Day [Flash Fiction]
  • Zionism and the Media
  • Spy, Spying, Spied
  • pro Writing a Web Log
  • Consensus, Non-Sensus
  • Islam or Illiteracy?
  • Warnings and Wardens
  • We Are What We Read
  • * Finding a Payphone that Works [A Short Story]
  • pro Web Log II
  • pro Of Blogging
  • Ontological Self; or, Transcendental Me
  • Beyond the Need for Liberty?
  • Black is Black [fiction]
  • The Coldest Winter
  • In Itself American: Beta
  • Mediocrity and Success
  • * In Itself American
  • In Itself American: Gamma
  • * Good Friday Recollection
  • Stages; On, Off and Against
  • Duality or Dichotomy
  • Mise-En-Scene and the Obscene
  • William Brian, a Short Story
  • Macrocosmically Me
  • On Stage, Off Stage
  • On Being Literate
  • Nevermind Arithmetic
  • I Wear Different Haberdash
  • POWER, RACE AND PERSONA [a short story]
  • * D’Arc that Brings Light
  • Sex, Love, Communication
  • Capitalism is Not a Fact of Nature
  • pro We Will Repeat Ourselves
  • Yet Another Note to the Reader
  • pro Intentions Attended
  • Misconceptions Dis-conceived
  • * Theme in Variation, Fee, Fie, Fiction and History
  • Hamlet is Cartesian
  • * Blindness and Other Scenes
  • 33 Theses on Authoring a Critique of Power
  • Written and Revised
  • Managing Pedagogy [fiction]
  • Literate Being, Being Literate
  • Standardized Tests and Privilege Systems
  • pro Shakespeare, Montaigne and the Bible
  • Western Review
  • The ABCs of Literacy?
  • Reading, Writing and Re-viewing
  • Toward Feminology
  • Purposefully without Purpose?
  • What Profits the Prophet?
  • Politcal and Social Entropy; Literacy Falling Apart
  • When I Write
  • Literary Reviews are as Literary Reviews Do
  • We, Another Mask
  • What I Want, What I Get
  • Communicating Communicated
  • The Good, the Bad and the Literary
  • Rhetorical Strategy
  • *Hera’s Tit; or, The Soul of Genius
  • Rhone Red with Ribs
  • Purposeful Journey
  • Bone Fingers [A Short Story]
  • Hysterical Historical
  • Prophets and Prophecies
  • pro Letter to Anonymous
  • My Pen is My Scalpel
  • Asking
  • Capital ‘P’ People
  • SIMPLE/ A JVR FILM W/ FALLING LEAF PICTURES
  • Media are the Messages
  • Of Reviewing
  • Spied On––Spied Of, Spied By, Spied For; a Re-Vision
  • Another Note to the Reader
  • Of Sex and Sexuality
  • ABOUT MOTION; A Video Poem
  • Martyrdom Follows Marriage [Anonymous]
  • HAMLET MY BROTHER IS MY FATHER
  • MEDIA and MESSAGES
  • THE REPUBLIC OF SILENCE
  • SOMETHING LESS THAN DEMOCRACY
  • Mister Jingo, Master Jingoist [A Short-story]
  • * Blind Prophet
  • * Narrator, Narrated one
  • * Ditch Plains Dogs
  • Waiting for Lunch
  • Through the Glass Darkly
  • A Woman Is [short fiction]
  • Reducing Unemployment [short fiction]
  • Conformity vs. Obedience
  • Soul of Genius
  • I Two Myself
  • Other Questions
  • Seeing Seen Again
  • The Ontological Self
  • Soul is What we Say When
  • Hypocrite Readers of Hamlet, My Brothers
  • New Potential Old [Of Woman]
  • Salvation Now [fiction]
  • * Truth is Beauty
  • Humanity is the Thesis
  • *Nausea two
  • The Courage of Oedipus
  • Into the Labyrinth [fiction]
  • * Banana Tree*
  • SIMPLE; A Video Poem
  • AROUND; A Video Poem
  • A Vindication of Gay Marriage
  • Zeno’s Day Dream; a Video Poem
  • TECHNOLOGY ADVANCED; a Video Poem
  • ONDINE; a Video Poem
  • Technology Advanced [Alternate Take]; a Video Poem
  • THE FALLING LEAF REVIEW, Summer Solstice 2018

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