It’s an old trope. In 1590’s Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, the woman over whom the Trojan Wars were fought: Was this the face that launch’d a thousand shipsAnd burnt the topless towers of Ilium?Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Ah yes, the trope of the beautiful woman who […]
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G’morning folks. Bean of A Bird and a Bottle here, guest posting for a few days while Scott is off doing professorial things. Over at my place, I write about criminal justice, feminism, and just
Interview in the Frankfort State Journal. They seem to have printed the complete transcript of the tape recording; apparently I need to add more punctuation when I speak. I’m also pretty sure th
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