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One of the last true Romans.

Thank you for sharing your insight.

It would be great fun to hear Hitchen's reaction to Jordan Peterson's silliness.

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Enjoyed this review a lot. Well done

Great content, I agree with everything you’ve said, and you’ve been very even handed and not reactionary. A rare and wonderful thing in this current world. I can’t wait until your production values improve with better quality microphone, a bookshelf behind you that goes all the way to the ceiling (ikea has some nice affordable options) etc. it will make the medicine go down much easier and more pleasantly, and you’ll find that the people start flocking to your channel. ❤

Excellent, thanks. But music is way too loud and distracting...ironic considering the nature of the poems

It took me years to get around to reading The Satanic Verses. I thought it would be obtuse. My first Rushdie book was Quichotte and I was impressed. I figured I'd just get it over with and read The Satanic Verses, but from the first page I was enchanted... he really is a great storyteller. The book is really about trying to fit in to society, finding your place in the world, wrestling with different versions of yourself, those kinds of things. It is an entertaining yarn and people should actually read it. It's one of my favourite books I've ever read.

I don't think anyone is afraid of salman Rushdie. Salman Rushdie will be stroking his own rod while thinking about his own body, if he assumes that anyone is afraid of him. On contrary and objectively, it is Salman Rushdie, who is afraid of those other people. To begin with, I don't think his books are that great on their literary merit. (And I have read all of them).His ascent to herosim, is more because of the political implications of his life journey rather than his literary merit and how well it fits into liberal-secular propaganda of the west. Secondly, it is not his challenges to orthodoxy of religion that bought attacks on him, infact he doesn't do that directly. And his critique of religion, as much as there is, is not something that hasn't been presented before in the history of islam, and its polemical critiques go back to its origin, both within and from outside. To put it simply, I don't think anyone is afraid of him, angry: Yes, offended by him:yes . Now I don't think being offended by someone or being angry at someone is same as being afraid of someone. And he did offend sensibilities of one-fourth of world population by using crass and abhorant language for symbols held sacred, holy and divine. I would consider him too naieve for his own bad, if he didn't know he was offending one-fouth of world population. NOW I DON'T THINK, WEST HAS A DIVINE RIGHT TO TELL THE WORLD WHAT SHOULD OFFEND THEM AND HOW MUCH IT SHOULD OFFEND THEM. Yes, somethings will sometimes get fatwa on your head. You should think about it before doing that thing. Lol. A joke deemed sexist or racist can make you loose your job and your reputation and everything you have achieved. But an abhorant and outright crass caricature of something held divine and holy IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Tell me more "Mr. divine right holding white man".

İ think İslam says it best i can't recall the exact quote by the prophet but it has this morning (one word in the right context can be more violent and result in more death than a thousand swords given to the most evil army) "The word İslam could be used to provoke death " "İts not about what you say but how you say it " "İts not about the the ideology/religion but what you and your audience think of the ideology/audience " "You can always find a group of criminals that go under an ideology/religion" "İf you are good enough at public speak you can say extreme ideas in the right way just like Hitler" "İts only those that look at facts not only listen to propaganda may understand an ideology"

I am reading Satanic Verses. Very wit and thought provoking. But I am sad to consider that, due to the presence of religion in western societies, the answer to censorship violence from Islam theocracies is astonishingly weak. I better response would be to order a copy of the book to every public library in response to the fatwa, or make the book readable for free, on every public school of mandatory in universities. In this way next time some theocracy thinks to close the mouth with fatwa will maybe consider that the consequences would be spread everywhere the words of the hated author.

Isalm... the answer is Islam.

My most recent experience taking in so delightful an essay came from the last time I picked "Arguably" off my shelf and absorbed something new from Hitchens himself. Really, thanks for a great essay. Midnight's Children, still resting on my desk from a recent read as I type, was absolutely lovely, and I read The Satanic Verses a couple of years ago. I'm very interested in picking up Knife when I get a chance, and very glad to see Rushdie back interviewing and seemingly well!

A great lecture

oh this is absolutely gorgeous

"An artist is a person who has invented an artist." There's definitely some truth to that.

The background music is completely unnecessary and gets in the way of the presenter. Would a lecturer have a music radio on next to them while teaching? Pretentious dialogue. I'm out.

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Wow!! A great looking guy who hasn’t covered up his beautiful features with a face diaper and attached mucus catcher (aka beard and mustache). So beautiful to see in this day of glorified laziness and slovenliness. Clean shaven is and always has been more sanitary and better looking!!🤷🏼‍♀️👍😇 Yes, you, Allen Guy Wilcox as well as Vidal in his day. Subscribed! I just discovered your channel. Arrived here from listening to a Christopher Hitchens interview where he said that Gore Vidal was the writer that most impressed him.

It’s been years since I read it, but I highly recommend “Redeeming Time” by Kenneth Paul Kramer.

Came here to learn a couple useful lines to use during a bookclub tomorrow, as i read it once, halfheartedly, and didnt think anything of it. Now, it will be difficult for me to express how deeply these poems have moved me. Thank you for an excellent analysis.

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and then the woman was me 😮😮😮

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A valuable resource for teachers and students of this great being who W.B. Yeats was. Thank you!

Great analysis. You made me want to go back and read it again.

Most famous for writing the screenplay for “Caligula” - a gross yet pretentious pornographic movie.

Let's not forget that Virginia was a right-wing conservative bitch who almost would certainly look down upon the Irish.

Surprised that a scholar repeatedly mispronouncing DRY SAVAGES

Amaizin bro. Thanks for the idea!

Underrated. Thank you for this amazing animation!

A brilliant conversation, on both parts. Ama, I am still here, following you as best I can, and it is always a pleasure.

What a wonderful and enriching introduction to the great Yeats. Thank you for this! The closing lines of The Second Coming are deeply haunting and feel so relevant to our time. I'd like to ask: what is the song that begins playing at 23:23, during the reading of that poem? I liked the melody and would like to listen more.

Like so much poetry, I’m not clear what moves me…but move me it does. Thank you for taking the time and effort to bring this to us.

My take on this story is that it is all about Franny, who is in the midst of a spiritual crisis. She has found a way of prayer, described in "The Way Of A Pilgrim" which draws her in, and she is beginning to practice the Jesus Prayer as described in the book. Her major problem is that nobody in her life can relate to her new found prayer practice or understand anything about why she is doing it. They just don't get it. Most of the book is given over to the long lectures she must endure from her boyfriend and also her brother. They are leading conventional lives based on everything Franny is tired of and fed up with - external achievements, going places, doing things and trying to look good and get approval. Franny is a sweet and fragile young woman, and at first she breaks under the strain of having to listen to her boyfriend prattle on endlessly. During the talk with her brother she is already well on her path, repeating the prayer to herself as much as she can. She is able to hear him out and return to herself without as much trouble. By the end of the book she is talking with Buddy and finally has the strength to simply say enough, I'm going to hang up now. The last page says it all. Franny has endured all she can, sees through all the collegiate intellectualizations and has decided to follow her path by continuing her prayer practice. She has found inner peace and is now her own woman.

The famous Amis sentence ? Who else wrote an entire book of fantastic sentences … and then went on doing it again and again, year after year, decade after decade …. the best of the best being Money, London Fields, The Information, Experience, The Pregnant Widow and finally …. the culmination of over 50 years of fantastic prose … Inside Story

Great video!

RIP Martin Amis (1949-2023).

When you said divine and beautiful that’s exactly what you emanate. Couldn’t have been a better interpreter to Rilke than you, thanks :)

I have been reading Poetry for half a century, as of last month. I have been writing and publishing it since 1994. I have been reading and studying T. S. Eliot's Poetry since October, 1976. All those years have brought me to a position where I am not easily impressed. But, I can say with all truthfulness, your discussion of The Four Quartets is one of the most impressive I have ever heard. Not only for the beauty of your words, but also the way, and the tone in which, you deliver them. Back in the Autumn of 1978, the beginning of my Junior undergrad year, I was admitted to a ten week classroom study of Eliot---very intense, and by invitation only, and only offered once every three years. I wish that we, who had been admitted to that course, could have heard your discussion of, and summary of, the Four Quartets, Although I had already fallen in love with them, most of my classmates seemed to dislike them as difficult. Had a review of them, like yours, existed for us then, some of the issues we associated with the Quartets would have been addressed and then removed. The summer of 1978 was one of the worst of my life, and the prospect of taking the Eliot course was one of the few things that helped me hang on to my sanity at that time. But as much as I looked forward to taking the course, I did not find any commentator on the Quartets as inviting, informative, welcoming, and encouraging as yours today. In some ways, I have been waiting forty-five years to hear this video and, I assure you, it is well worth the wait.

I thought he designed clothing. ?