Aesthetic Realism Dramatic Presentation
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 8 PM
Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown; or, Evil: Who Is Evil?
by Eli Siegel
“One of the things that Hawthorne says is that a person can teach one one’s catechism and not believe every preposition.…These passages present good and evil as richly perhaps as any writing in any language.”
When Criticism Is Kindness in Love
Aesthetic Realism Lesson
“The problem of man and woman is how to have kissing go along with cogitation. If you have anything like a physical response, do you believe you’re the same person as when you are working out a mathematics problem?” —Eli Siegel
Pride & Modesty in The Beatles’ She Loves You
By Christopher Balchin
“A big danger for a man—one I know intimately—is: when he thinks a woman approves of him, to become conceited and complacent. This song is anything but complacent— the way achievement and humility are in it is wonderful!”
… And more!
Contri. $10
Featured images: Nathaniel Hawthorne, painting by Charles Osgood, 1840 (inset); The Beatles, AP photo, 1966.
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