The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) Tamao Nakamura Hinannmin no Shôjo Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963) Yûsuke Kawazu Terada Nitôhei Black Lizard (1968) Chishû Ryû Hinanmin no Chôrô Tokyo Story (1953) Taketoshi Naitô Tange Ittôhei Lone Wolf and Cub...
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You can find more general information about Herbert’s life and works in the links at the end of this post. Today I want to look at two poems about the inescapable mortality of the human condition. In the first, “Time,” the poet meets up with the Grim Reaper, wielding his scythe us...
No greater love has a person than giving his life for another. This idea from the Bible brings to mind the passion of deep commitment and the willingness to sacrifice, even in the ultimate sense. This willingness to sacrifice is one manifestation of love, but as we all know there...
Thanh’s new role as a diplomat places her once again in the path of her first love, the powerful and magnetic Eldris of Ephteria, who knows exactly what she wants: romance from Thanh and much more from Thanh’s home. Eldris won’t take no for an answer, on either front. But the ...
human history to cast the hideous events of the recent past in a timeless, mythic light. Reflecting on the fact that of the more than 100 plays Aeschylus is known to have written only a handful survive, it explores what loss on every level means and how it shapes the human condition. ...
I am greater than your hurts. Remember my love and tenderness, my grace and kindness. I provide a solid foundation on which to rest, even when wave after wave of challenge sweeps through your life[2]. I am your Great Physician. Cling to Me by immersing yourself in My Word and find t...
Still, she asked for financial aid: “I was like, ‘My parents are dead, I’m a literal fucking orphan, I have no siblings. I’m just taking out this money to put my ass through school.” Instead of a denial, she got plenty of credit, including a slice of what were called “dir...
In An Ideal Husband, Lord Goring remarks: “It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next” (Wilde. An Ideal Husband. In The Major Works. Ed. Isobel Murray, 389–476. New York: Oxford University Press, ...
Gissing seems to advocate love and respect as the basis of marriage. He sees a married couple as a team, facing together anything that life throws at them. ‘I will have no woman slave dragging out a weary life with me. Either you are my willing wife, or you are nothing to me.’ ...