Lip service is paid to the saying "the best things in life are free." It happens to be true, especially with literature; a great deal of the best things ever written are in the public domain.
Here's some classics that I can personally vouch for being worth reading over and over:
Pride and Prejudice
Walden
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Siddhartha
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
King Lear
MacBeth
Leaves of Grass
Monday, June 27, 2016
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Eyes Wide Shut
Since showing 2001 to my film as literature class, I've been really into Stanley Kubrick movies, watching and reading about a Clockwork Orange, Doctor Strangelove, and Eyes Wide Shut.
On my second viewing of EWS, after doing some reading, I was starting to notice details that were leading to a reading of the movie that is really close to this article that I read shortly after that second viewing. It is really well written and saves me the trouble of having to write an inferior piece on the same subject.
So I'll just say I independently verify that the movie can be read as a statement about the nature of money and how our society tries to turn everything into a commodity.
On my second viewing of EWS, after doing some reading, I was starting to notice details that were leading to a reading of the movie that is really close to this article that I read shortly after that second viewing. It is really well written and saves me the trouble of having to write an inferior piece on the same subject.
So I'll just say I independently verify that the movie can be read as a statement about the nature of money and how our society tries to turn everything into a commodity.
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