Published posthumously in 1850, "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" is a primer of the anxieties and analogies common to critics of comics: Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land.
Leading intellectuals from the land of les misérables are reportedly dismayed by this new wave of US-style positive thinking and the pursuit of happiness.
But theirs is also a land of intellectual rigor and creativity that would never have produced its giants of thought and literature — Marx or Goethe, Brecht or Grass — without faith in free expression.
The collection of anecdotes about Diogenes of Sinope is a copious read, at times funny, at times outrageous, at times profound, and the central character, Diogenes himself, is a pain -- an uncomfortable pebble in the shoe of all who have taken on an intellectual journey through the land of big questions.
By themselves, interesting, intellectual perhaps, but not of the parallel land of hope and acceptance.
Anti-intellectual, increasingly amoral, broke, and self-obsessed, a land of crumbling roads, crumbling dreams, and crumbling visions of how to care for the needy.
Reparations are about slavery but also about Jim Crow and white violence's effect on intellectual property and islands of segregated want in a land of plenty.
I slip from a life of shared intellectual references and friends with Ivy graduate degrees into a land of workers who are often invisible and deemed low-status.
Referring to the sad history of this land, where hundreds of thousands of Catholics were among those sent to freeze and die in camps that were part of the Soviet gulag, the pope said, "Kazakhstan, land of martyrs and of believers, land of deportees and of heroes, land of intellectuals and artists, do not be afraid!" Astana was not only calm but also eerily empty today.
"AWAKENING on Friday morning, June 20th , 1913" wrote Sol Plaatje, a black, Setswana-speaking intellectual and activist, "the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth".
