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May 29, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains (2010) – by Nicholas Carr

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”

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Arts
May 22, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

The Dekalog: Episode I (1989) – Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski

“And God spake all these words, saying, “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the

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Arts
May 14, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

“They sent me out by plane to a boarding school, but I ran away. You just eat up grain supplies

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Arts
April 29, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

The Swell Season (2011) – directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, & Carlo Mirabella-Davis

The Swell Season is a melancholy and meditative documentary on romance, music and fame. The Swell Season is also the actual name for

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Theology
April 28, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

Evangenosticegalism

Be always quick to take offense at the slightest misperception; But you really also mustn’t use any form of contraception.

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ArtsCulture
April 23, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – directed by Drew Goddard

“After the prize-giving the valedictions; after the phone call a brief sense of what happiness would be like; after the

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ArtsCulture
April 10, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012) – by Marilynne Robinson

Modern Ciceronian Musical English Prose ______________________________________________________________________________________________ “At a certain point I decided that everything I took from studying and reading

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ArtsPolitics
April 7, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America (2006) – by David Griffith

“Even though a photograph is still … we trust it to tell the truth more vividly than a carefully-researched article.

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Politics
March 11, 2012 J.A.A. Purves

If Only We Could Ask One Man About the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary

A purely imaginary conversation we can only daydream about having. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Interviewer: Mr. B______, I can’t thank you enough for taking

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Arts
December 24, 2011 J.A.A. Purves

Beginners (2010) – Mike Mills

“People in the building like us. Half of them think things will never work out. The other half believe in

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