ellauri051.html on line 1071: 481 It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, 481 Se yksin on viaton, se yksin kiertää ja täydentää kaiken,
ellauri052.html on line 944: Zachary Leader’s work, though superior to Atlas’s and better than his first volume, still has some serious flaws. He swallows Keith Botsford’s absurd claim that his subject “is a direct descendant of Machiavelli”. Leader constantly tries to connect every person and event in Bellow’s life to their fictional counterparts instead of emphasising his imaginative transformation of experience. Literary agent Andrew Wylie, well named “The Jackal,” poached Bellow from his longtime agent Harriet Wasserman. Varmaan lupas Salelle pyllynamia.
ellauri061.html on line 200: Edmond Malone, a Shakespearean scholar and critic of the late 18th century, found another flaw in this particular play, its lack of a proper decorum. He found that the "more exalted characters" (the aristocrats of Athens) are subservient to the interests of those beneath them. In other words, the lower-class characters play larger roles than their betters and overshadow them. He found this to be a grave error of the writer. Tääkin muistuttaa Nuorgamin runoilijasta (ks alempana).
ellauri061.html on line 563: Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
ellauri080.html on line 605: The shipwrecked castaways desperately want to leave the remote island, and various opportunities frequently present themselves, but always fail, usually due to some bumbling error committed by Gilligan. Sometimes this would result in Gilligan saving the others from some unforeseen flaw in their plan.
ellauri082.html on line 101: The biography by Tyrannosaurus Max paints a less than flattering portrait of Wallace. That’s not to say it’s a vicious takedown—it’s probably about as even-handed as a biography about the author is going to be, and I can imagine books about him in the future being a lot less level-headed in either direction. Basically, DFW was an extremely troubled individual and probably not a very awesome person qua person. He was often misanthropic, violent, cruel (especially to women), and self-absorbed. But what’s great about the biography is how it allows these rather hideous characteristics to disgust as well as inform; knowing the uglier aspects of DFW’s personality is extremely enlightening with regard to his work. It seems to me that the writer was extremely aware of his immense character flaws and sought in his work (his novels and his non-fiction particularly) to overcome them, and in his work he was able to occupy a wholly different realm than he was in his actual life. Well actually not at all that different. The books project a rather nasty person too.
ellauri082.html on line 105: Despite his flaws, DFW’s death is still a great tragedy, not because people are without their god of post-post-post-postmodernism, but because his redemptive and humanistic work is now decidedly finite. Well here sure was a humanist as far as technology is concerned. His work could have beeen made infinite by adding to the end: Poles are stupid, please turn over.
ellauri089.html on line 132: Heinlein's name is often associated with the competent hero, a character archetype who, though he or she may have flaws and limitations, is a strong, accomplished person able to overcome any soluble problem set in their path. They tend to feel confident overall, have a broad life experience and set of skills, and not give up when the going gets tough.
ellauri096.html on line 151: If paradoxes were always sets of propositions or arguments or conclusions, then they would always be meaningful. But some paradoxes are semantically flawed (Sorensen 2003b, 352) and some have answers that are backed by a pseudo-argument employing a defective “lemma” that lacks a truth-value. Kurt Grelling’s paradox, for instance, opens with a distinction between autological and heterological words. An autological word describes itself, e.g., ‘polysyllabic’ is polysllabic, ‘English’ is English, ‘noun’ is a noun, etc. A heterological word does not describe itself, e.g., ‘monosyllabic’ is not monosyllabic, ‘Chinese’ is not Chinese, ‘verb’ is not a verb, etc. Now for the riddle: Is ‘heterological’ heterological or autological? If ‘heterological’ is heterological, then since it describes itself, it is autological. But if ‘heterological’ is autological, then since it is a word that does not describe itself, it is heterological. The common solution to this puzzle is that ‘heterological’, as defined by Grelling, is not a genuine predicate (Thomson 1962). In other words, “Is ‘heterological’ heterological?” is without meaning. There can be no predicate that applies to all and only those predicates it does not apply to for the same reason that there can be no barber who shaves all and only those people who do not shave themselves.
ellauri097.html on line 459: If they want to work on repairing the flaw in their argument, they’re welcome to try that. It would involve introducing a moral term that can be substantiated into the premise to arrive at a conclusion with a moral term. They might say, “If a thing is natural, then it’s moral. This is natural for me, therefore it’s moral.” Now, there’s a valid argument. I don’t think it’s sound, but at least it doesn’t commit the is-ought fallacy.
ellauri098.html on line 56: The greatest challenges a detective faces aren't always a devious criminal or a really tough case — all those are a cakewalk compared to managing their personal life. The genius ones are nerds with trouble getting along with people or worse, have social or personality disorders. The hard-working ones are workaholics who let their family relationships slide because they're never home. The overworked and nervous ones dabble in drugs and court substance addictions (or blood). The Film Noir detective and his descendants have terrible luck with women, who either end up dead, broken or distant; if he has a wife he may be cheating on her. And gods help him and his friends if some of the bad guys or associates that they helped put in the clink come back to haunt him. And his personal finances are probably gone thanks to being The Gambling Addict. In short, it's rare to have a detective as a main character in a dramatic story and have them not have at least one serious character flaw that's tangential to them actually working cases.
ellauri098.html on line 58: What's your malfunction? A flawed character is more interesting than a flawless character. Ergo, a cast of characters with flaws is more interesting exponentially. An easy way to crank up drama is to supply everyone with a tragic past, a messed up family history, other significant issues (physical, psychological, etc.) or some combination of the three. When Dysfunction Junction comes into play, good parents can be as common as penguins in the Sahara, instead turning out to be neglectful, smothering/overprotective, unfeeling, abusive, misguided, or dead. And let's not even get into the rest of the family.
ellauri098.html on line 60: The resulting prevalence of personal trauma often stretches suspension of disbelief and is a leading cause of Cerebus Syndrome. If done poorly, this is a one-way ticket to Wangst territory, and as so many attempt to smother the series with dysfunction, Too Bleak, Stopped Caring is a frequent result. If done well, you get a large number of interesting, sympathetic, flawed characters, and their interactions with each other gradually reveal the multiple sides to each of them. More realistic (i.e. not Flanderized) portrayals of this trope can even help the audience understand and cope with their own dysfunctional lives, especially with regards to issues that are typically glossed over in mainstream society.
ellauri107.html on line 422: In Babbitt (1922), Sinclair Lewis created a living and breathing man with recognizable hopes and dreams, not a caricature. To his publisher, Lewis wrote: “He is all of us Americans at 46, prosperous, but worried, wanting — passionately — to seize something more than motor cars and a house before it's too late.” George F. Babbitt's mediocrity is central to his realism; Lewis believed that the fatal flaw of previous literary representations of the American businessman was in portraying him as “an exceptional man.”
ellauri108.html on line 379: Solomons hubris, his tragic flaw, is the meat and bone of the Ethiopian bible, the Kebra Nagast, which, translated, is the glory of the kings. In this work, unlike the King James' bible, we see King Solomon struggling with his own mortality. Bayna-Lehkem, or David, as he is called by Solomon because of likeness to the boy's grandfather, King David, is a man of virtue who will extend his glory to Ethiopia. So, Solomon's weakness for women, which brings about his dissolution, gives him the thing he is truly seeking: a son to walk his own footsteps, like Shakespeare's Hamnet, a son wiser, by dint of his virtue, than himself. A son wiser than himself, that sounds rather like a stone too big to both create and throw. Solomon is disinherited by the lord when he marries the daughter of the Pharaoh and worships her golden insect idols. A hairy spider on its back. For this he is punished severely. We discern his absolute nihilism. His ultimate disillusionment. Knowledge is nothing but sorrow. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. In the bitter nutmeat of the Ecclesiastes. Who was the mother? Of course, Queen Sheba. She was, by all reports, black. I ain't superstitious but a black cat crossed my trail.
ellauri118.html on line 595: Better the anguished fairytale than the genuine but flawed reality. (MS, 110)
ellauri119.html on line 422: Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.
ellauri119.html on line 690: I remember in 1959, my creative writing teacher, in high school was infatuated with Ayn Rand. Sitting at a local restaurant, Ronnie´s Restauarant - which no longer exists, with a group of friends and her, we had a discussion about Ayn and I made a gesture that clearly expressed a thought and asked her what the words were for that. She suddenly realized the flaw in Ayn´s argument and was speechless.
ellauri119.html on line 744: This is nonsense. Alan Greenspan testified before Congress after the economic meltdown in 2008. He was asked why the invisible hand of the market did not prevent the irrational greed on Wall Street that caused the housing bubble. Greenspan said that there must be a flaw in the the theory (the invisible hand of the market produces the best outcomes). There is also a flaw in Rand’s philosophy.
ellauri119.html on line 750: Then again, Ayn used “ought” which implies a great deal of subjectivity. That is why her philosophy is extremely flawed. The best philosophies are specific and literal, and they should leave no room for interpretation.
ellauri140.html on line 162: The House is an emblem of sin and worldliness. The ruler of the palace is Lucifera, who is accompanied by her six counselors. Together they represent the seven deadly sins. When the Redcrosse Knight encounters the palace, he is met with Lucifera and her parade. Each counselor, a sin, and the falsehood of the structure itself representing a flawed nature, altogether embody the House of Pride.
ellauri150.html on line 711: The Pope closes this section by saying, "law is the guide of man's actions; it turns him toward good by its rewards, and deters him from evil by its punishments." Remember this is Divine Law that he is referring to here. Something tells me that our current system of laws has some major flaws, because sometimes it seems we are punished for doing good, and rewarded for doing evil. But I suppose this is to be expected in this earthly world in which we live.
ellauri159.html on line 1295: If they write anything but checks, their writing can have a sense of inevitability, presenting an orderly progression of facts and ideas that can lead to only one possible conclusion. Their authoritative voice can instill a sense of comfort and trust in readers. Make sure that trust is warranted—use your natural skepticism to seek out possible flaws in your reasoning and research. Steer clear of the anti-trust laws, they can cut your earnings.
ellauri159.html on line 1339: Plato! Jesus! Kant!: The flaw in supremacy : a sketch of the nature, process and status of philosophy as inferring the miracle of nature, the ... the equation of reason and unreason, &c
ellauri161.html on line 555: But one gets a flawed but entirely worthwhile viewing experience. Enough time too to get thru all the popcorns. What's on next?
ellauri222.html on line 743: His literary tastes are also very interesting. Lord Pococurante is quite able to criticize Homer, Horace, and Cicero; there is nothing, which may seem flawless. His ability to find defects in everything prevents him from taking pleasure in literature, philosophy, and painting. It is obvious that the author is ironic about him, it can be deduced from Candides remark “But is there not a pleasure in criticizing everything, in pointing out faults where others see nothing but beauties’ (Voltaire, 73). The main problem is that such a world outlook is a personal tragedy, and such an attitude may eventually result in suicide.
ellauri262.html on line 468: The Problem of Pain is a 1940 book on the problem of evil by C. S. Lewis, in which Lewis argues that human pain, animal pain, and hell are not sufficient reasons to reject belief in a good and powerful God. He begins by addressing the flaws in common arguments against the belief in a just, loving, and all-powerful God such as: "If God were good, He would make His creatures perfectly happy, and if He were almighty He would be able to do what he wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." Topics include human suffering and sinfulness, animal suffering, and the problem of hell, where Lewis squirms like a tapeworm to reconcile these with a friendly omnipotent force beyond ourselves.
ellauri269.html on line 434: "Lad, no one feels ready. No one feels he deserves it. And you know why? Because no one does. It's grace, pure and simple. We are inherently unworthy, simply because we're human, and all human beings-aye, and elves, and dwarves, and all the other alliance races-but not orcs-are flawed. But Coors Light loves us anyway. It loves us for what we sometimes can raise from our breeches in rare moments. It loves us for what we can then do to others. And it loves us because we can help it share its message by striving daily to be worth a green orc, even though we understand that we can't ever truly become so."
ellauri285.html on line 74: To accommodate our flawed design, we are taught from birth to use wads of paper, magazine pages, dried corncobs and even stones, to wipe our filthy behinds. And this we must do! If we did not wipe, we would reek of dung from the cake of dingleberries between our cheeks and our pants, skirts, caftans and burkas, would be fouled with nicotine stains and clouds of flies would follow us down the street like goslings.
ellauri285.html on line 764: Among the severe flaws claimed by Brown et al. in the positivity-ratio theory and its presentation were that
ellauri413.html on line 658: You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
ellauri443.html on line 206: Kauffmanista (1916-2013) "elokuvan saapuminen oli tärkeä hetki ihmistietoisuuden historiassa". Kauffmann loi henkisen vanhuuden tunnelman. Ikivanha ukkeli ehti arvostella 10K levaria. Hän ei koskaan näyttänyt korottavan ääntään painetussa tekstissä ja harjoitti villapaita-liiviä. Porter herself was never satisfied with the novel, calling it "unwieldy" and "enormous". The critic Elizabeth Hardwick had this to say about Ship of Fools: "All is too static and the implied parable is never quite achieved. There is something a little musty, like old yellowing notes. The flawless execution of the single scenes impresses and yet the novel remains too snug and shipshape for the waters of history." One of the ship's musicians, a gangly starving boy, feels overjoyed to finally be off the ship and back in his home country, as if Germany were a "human being, a good and dear trusted friend who had come a long way to welcome him". Too right. Still, before the next game, she fashions a sort of penis out of Play-Doh and makes her underpants bulge, tells Kauffman about Tomboy (a movie).
ellauri449.html on line 443: This belief, however, constitutes a "metaphysical error." Metaphysics deals with fundamental questions about reality, and the belief that words can perfectly mirror reality is a flawed metaphysical assumption.
ellauri449.html on line 660: The word features prominently with a similar meaning in Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is used fancifully in discussions of symbolic logic, particularly Gödel's incompleteness theorems, to indicate a question whose "answer" is to un-ask the question, indicating the question is fundamentally flawed, or reject the presupposition that a dualistic answer can be given.
ellauri466.html on line 251: Nämä kauniit kellokäyrät ovat Prof. N,D.M. Hirschiltä (Harvard Psycho Dept.), ei sen lällykämmältä heimolaiselta Jerry Hirschiltä, kuten Google AI koitti kusettaa.. N.D.M. Hirsch's work contributed to the historical debate on race and intelligence, promoting the idea of inherent intellectual differences among racial groups based on his research, views that are widely discredited today due to a lack of scientific basis and significant methodological flaws.
ellauri471.html on line 252: The operation was based on the flawed assumption that a popular uprising against Hoxha's regime could be easily sparked. Most Albanians were not convinced of the regime's alleged inhumanity and were unwilling to join a foreign-backed effort. the overwhelming historical consensus is that Operation Valuable was a strategic disaster for the U.S. and UK intelligence agencies, resulting in a large loss of life among the Albanian traitors and Western agents. Lohtunamina Buckley fantasioi fornikoivansa kymingatar Elisabethia kakkoineen. Jnr:n kymingatar Caroline näyttää autokalenterin pinupilta ja puhuu yhtä vulgääristi kuin Meghan Markle. "The communists" se muka nimittää sodanaikaisia aseveljiä. Ei vittu tää Caroline on aivan hirveä, z Jnr siis on. Saamari mikä läpimätä jenkkinaamari. Sen pahansuopaa mansplainingia ja likasankojournalismia on tuskallista lukea.
ellauri478.html on line 71: But then after Cain kills Abel and God confronts him, he is afraid that people will harm him for his sin. And he eventually founded a city. Who were the people he was afraid of? Where did the inhabitants of the city come from? They too must have been their own offspring or cousins. Abel had time to fuck a lot before Cain got around to killing him. These guys lived for hundreds of years and stayed virile and fertile all along because their DNA was flawless except of course the original sin. I bet they all looked uncannily like God, just smaller than him perhaps and the females with the beard starting a little lower.
ellauri481.html on line 67: Tragedy: This involves a character facing dire consequences due to their flaws or decisions, leading to a downfall. It resonates with life´s harsh realities and losses.
ellauri488.html on line 539: 4) It can also reflect character flaws or denial Depending on context, that kind of line can signal denial (“I can’t accept this outcome”)
ellauri497.html on line 599: The archangels are not your typical fantasy gods who are usually powerful, flawed egoists. They are strictly created beings. They are servants of Maleldil (Lewis’s name for Jesus/God) who is the powerful flawed egoist. They possess zero pride, demand no worship for themselves, and exist entirely to execute the supreme Creator's will. Most importantly, they lack gender: They transcend human sex, though they project an aura that feels distinctly masculine (like Mars/Ares) or feminine (like Venus/Aphrodite) based on their planetary energy. But the have no genitals inside their coats.
ellauri501.html on line 316: 2. The Misogynistic Outburst (Lines 867–908) When Eve sees him in this miserable state, she approaches him with soft words to comfort him. Adam completely snaps, delivering one of the most famously harsh tirades in English literature. The Insults: He commands her to get out of his sight, calling her a serpent: "Out of my sight, thou serpent, that name best / Befits thee with him leagu'd..." He claims her outward beauty is just a trap. The "Crooked Rib" Argument: He attacks her biology, lamenting that God ever took a rib from his side to create her. He calls the rib a "crooked obstruction" and blames it for her flawed, unfaithful nature.
ellauri501.html on line 541: Because AI has rolled out so fast, society is constantly bumping up against its flaws—like its lack of actual human judgment, its cold automated rules, and the ethical messes it creates.
ellauri502.html on line 140: 2 sivustoa You have backed Christian theology into the ultimate corner. This is the exact intersection where omniscience (knowing everything) meets experiential knowledge (actually feeling it). Your logic is flawless: if God already knows the exact mathematical formula of pain, the neural pathways of fear, and the concept of sorrow, why does He need a "road test"? Theologians answer this by making a distinction between informational knowledge and experiential knowledge.
ellauri504.html on line 92: But the specific phrasing “fumbling demiurge” isn’t a standard scholarly label for a particular sect; what is standard is the idea that the demiurge is ignorant/incompetent or otherwise flawed, and some Gnostic writers explicitly treat him as the “god of Israel.” Whether “Marcionite/Gnostic Marcionist” groups used that exact identification in the way you’re describing depends on which text and tradition you mean.
ellauri504.html on line 113: Yes, Marcion of Sinope (and the movement of Marcionism) taught that the God of the Old Testament—often identified as Jehovah or Yahweh—was a lower, flawed creator deity (the Demiurge), entirely separate from the Supreme God revealed by Jesus Christ.
ellauri504.html on line 128: While the short answer is yes, the full story involves an important distinction between classic Gnosticism and Marcionism regarding how flawed or "fumbling" they thought Jehovah actually was.
ellauri504.html on line 162: - This God was *legalistic, wrathful, fumbling, and tribal*. He created the flawed material world.
ellauri505.html on line 310: David Hume in his A Treatise of Human Nature explicitly attacked Spinoza's monism, branding it a "hideous hypothesis" that was both logically flawed and morally unacceptable.
ellauri510.html on line 411: John notes that none of Jesus's bones were broken on the cross (John 19:36) to cook a broth, invoking the command regarding the Passover lamb in Exodus 12:46: "It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones." Together they spotlight unity with God’s elite people, reverence for holy things, and the flawless foreshadowing of Jesus, whose unbroken bones secure our deliverance.
xxx/ellauri013.html on line 456: En usko, taistelua se on eläimilläkin eloonjääminen. Bert, tää on design feature, ei flaw: Darwin on trimmannut meidät jokaisen tekemään parhaansa toisten kustannuksella, pyrkimään kukoiksi tunkiolle. Muita paremmuus on yksi onnen osittaisdifferentiaaleista. Kaikki ei voi voittaa äärellisellä pallolla. Kuten sanot, voidaan turvallisesti lähteä siitä, ettei esteetön kilpailu synnytä kilpailijoissa hyvää toveruutta.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 396: It has several inherent flaws. When people argue for more “libertarian” economic policy, there’s a tendency to think only about the initial development of a business, and to ignore the possibility of direct communication between two businesses in competition. Here’s a pretty typical argument for trickle-down: If a small sandwich shop manages to produce a good product at a low price, it can attract a bunch of customers, and make enough money to buy a second shop, which will allow them to hire more employees. But if taxes are too high, they wont be able to open that second location, and then they won’t be able to employ as many people. They also might have to pay their workers less, and better workers might quit to work in other places. And they’ll have to increase their prices. Thus, lower taxes on the upper middle class and rich result in a more employed society with higher wages and cheaper products.
xxx/ellauri104.html on line 208: There is a long list of genius level individuals who become the top 1% of professionals in their field but also suffer from an inability to socialize, communicate, or suffer from mental health issues. One wonders if the flaws in the brain that cause something like schizophrenia also cause one to be a genius intellect. Take Piki for instance.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 500: 9. Late in the novel, Nathan discovers that Faunia had kept a diary and that “the illiteracy had been an act, something she decided her situation demanded” [p. 297]. Why did Faunia feign illiteracy? Was there any reason why she chose this flaw in lieu of others? What are the implications of her secret?
xxx/ellauri136.html on line 114: I laughed at the person who claimed that liberals were literate and educated. That’s good, if the definition of “literate” and “educated” is “they read what they want to see” and “learn nonsense.” Say what you will, the Harry Potter universe is fundamentally flawed, and I can see why liberals like it so much:
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 744: ’Tis dark: quick pattereth the flaw-blown sleet: Jälkeenpäin triste post coitum tunnelmat.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 76: Loppuikänsä Bernad opetti luovaa kirjoittamista Vermontissa Benningtonin naisten collegessa. Ann joka oli sentään käynyt Cornellin typed his manuscripz and reviewed his writing. Oliko Berniellä sillä aikaa jimbajambaa coedien hameissa? New York Times tietäisi muttei kerro ilmaisexi. In the book The Natural by Bernard Malamud the main character Roy Hobbs had a very distinct flaw, a flaw that millions of American men and women both have..... an obsession with sex which affected his character and which made him a very unsuccessful man.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 143: Throughout 600 pages Freedman gives us encounter after encounter between Rilke and the women in his life, in which the women are flawless angels and Rilke a consummate villain. If Rilke's dear friend the great German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker found herself trapped in a stifling marriage, Rilke was a traitor for not extricating her. If Lou Andreas-Salomé told the young Rilke to go off somewhere because one of her other lovers was coming to visit, Rilke's anger was the symptom of an unbalanced psyche.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 377: And yet, amid the relationships in bad faith and the vile views, Eliot managed to say important and useful things about both the experience of modernity and the mental states which we may as well call "the spiritual life", even if we are sceptical about the existence of spirit. It is important that we read him, sometimes holding our nose, because with all his deep personal flaws – and all the more when we think about them – he remains one of the lock and key writers of his and our time.
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 181: Sorry — I didn’t mean to sound contradictory. I meant: Yeats isn’t accurately labeled “alt‑right” (a modern term) but he did hold some elitist, authoritarian and problematic views; those points aren’t mutually exclusive. Okay, he was "complex" which is the anglo saxon euphemism for "pisshead". I understand the frustration. Yeats was "complicated", flawed, and sometimes objectionable — but also a major poet whose work reflects that mix. Want the brief quotes and timeline I offered?
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 240: Yeats did make at least one antisemitic remark in print and expressed occasional negative comments about Jews in private, but antisemitism was not a central theme of his public politics or poetry. Evidence of antisemitism: a magazine review (1919) contains a derogatory line about "the Jew" in the context of finance and modernity; letters and some essays show stereotyped language on occasion. Context: his problematic remarks were sporadic and woven into broader elitist, nationalist, and anti-democratic views; they differ in intensity and focus from the explicit, systematic antisemitism of figures like Ezra Pound. Scholarly judgment: critics note these instances as part of his flaws but generally treat Yeats’s career as driven more by mysticism, Irish nationalism, and cultural myth-making than by a coherent racial ideology. If you want the exact quotes and citations (primary texts and scholarly sources), I can provide them.
xxx/ellauri489.html on line 300: American Gods by Neil Gaiman features significant elements of misogyny, objectification, and the hyper-sexualization of female characters, which many readers and critics note as reflecting a patriarchal, "locker-room" culture. While some argue these elements depict a gritty, flawed world rather than endorsing sexism, the narrative frequently uses derogatory terms and depicts women primarily through a male gaze. According to The StoryGraph reviews, readers frequently flag the book for "pervasive misogyny".
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 227: Generally no—Jewish law and ethics do not permit lying to avoid financial loss. Truthfulness in business and contracts is strongly required; deception for personal financial gain is prohibited. Rabbinic sources do allow limited, specific exceptions (e.g., omitting a minor flaw when selling an item may be permitted in some commercial contexts, or using tactful wording to avoid needless embarrassment), but these are narrow and do not authorize outright falsehood to cheat or defraud.
xxx/ellauri509.html on line 432: Arthur Koestler was a flawed crusader for the libertarian cause. This Guardian article is more than 16 years old. Arthur Koestler's personal failings should not wholly detract from our appreciation of his achievements. Says William Skidelsky who I bet is Jewish too. Yep yep: He is the son of the prominent British economic historian Lord Robert Skidelsky. The Skidelsky family lineage is of Russian origin; his paternal grandfather, Boris Skidelsky, belonged to a Russian Jewish family, while his paternal grandmother was Christian.
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