Hell Under, Hell Above, Hell All Around — James Ensor

“Time and Again” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Monhegan’s Schoolteacher — Jamie Wyeth

Gotteron — Balthus

Charlie Chaplin Directing City Lights

November — Guy Rose

“Hairs Wanted” — Flann O’Brien

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RIP Doris Lessing

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RIP Doris Lessing, 1919-2013.

Wounded Knee — Mu Pan

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Six Stages of Mending a Face — Thomas Rowlandson

Ezra Reads the Law to the People — Gustave Dore

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Full Film)

Alphabet — Walter Crane

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Snow White’s Education (Donald Barthelme)

BEAVER COLLEGE is where she got her education. She studied Modern Woman, Her Privileges and Responsibilities: the nature and nurture of women and what they stand for, in evolution and in history, including householding, upbringing, peace-keeping, healing and devotion, and how these contribute to the rehumanizing of today’s world. Then she studied Classical Guitar I, utilizing the methods and techniques of Sor, Tarrega, Segovia, etc. Then she studied English Romantic Poets II: Shelley, Byron, Keats. Then she studied Theoretical Foundations of Psychology: mind, consciousness, unconscious mind, personality, the self, interpersonal relations, psychosexual norms, social games, groups, adjustment, conflict, authority, individuation, integration and mental health. Then she studied Oil Painting I bringing to the first class as instructed Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red Light, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Viridian, Ivory Black, Raw Umber, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, White. Then she studied Personal Resources I and II: self-evaluation, developing the courage to respond to the environment, opening and using the mind, individual experience, training, the use of time, mature redefinition of goals, action projects. Then she studied Realism and Idealism in the Contemporary Italian Novel: Palazzeschi, Brancati, Bilenchi, Pratolini, Moravia, Pavese, Levi, Silone, Berto, Cassola, Ginzburg, Malaparte, Mapalarte, Calvino, Gadda, Bassani, Landolfi. Then she studied —

From Donald Barthelme’s novel Snow White.

Heads — Moebius

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Leda — Gustave Moreau

“Leda” — Robert Graves

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