Ladies of Leisure (LOL) is a creative community for young women born from the creative mind of self-described "jill of all trades" Savannah Anand-Sobti.
Almost anything that invokes pleasurable impressions can be the cause of pride, within the limitations that the idea of the subject must allow us to build associative connections directing the mind to the idea of self.
In its broad outline, "Year of the Dog" is the story of a woman who goes slightly bonkers and becomes an animal-rights advocate, not because she's bonkers, but because the love of animals is where she finally finds her peace of mind, sense of self, grace.
The book's title, "Going Clear," refers to a stage of Scientological enlightenment, wherein "thetans" (i.e., earthlings) empty their minds of self-defeating "engrams" (suppressed memories from previous lives).
You wouldn't think that a state of mind so self-sabotaging is sustainable, short of clinical insanity.
He even has the presence of mind to self-edit: after referring to the washouts as disappointing, he changes his mind and calls them "a challenge".
Today, Fisher's ideas should be on the mind of every self-respecting central banker.
Outside the theatre, a murderous monster is on the loose, and inside the timid Dr Alfred Binet Matthew Pearsonn) attempts to probe the mind of the self-styled "prince of terror", aka the amiable playwright André de Lorde (Jonathan Broadbent), and discover the trauma that spurs De Lorde's creativity.
But Comte aspired to free himself of a tutelage that weighed ever heavier on him, as he found the unmethodical and fickle mind of the self-taught, philanthropic aristocrat barely tolerable.
In 1980, critic Greil Marcus reflected on McLaren's contradictory posture: It may be that in the mind of their self-celebrated Svengali...the Sex Pistols were never meant to be more than a nine-month wonder, a cheap vehicle for some fast money, a few laughs, a touch of the old épater la bourgeoisie.
It was the first indication that beneath his sloth-like demeanor there lurks a lively mind, capable of self-deprecation.
