Max Weber's The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (tr. Talcott Parsons) : The desperate Earth. Blue and gold -- Don't believe in suffering -- Don't believe in suffering -- The future. Vergil the enchanter -- The Mantegna oculus rift ; The Capricci and Scherzi di Fantasia of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo : The etchers' meridian -- Death's feet -- For the childlike empress -- Tiepolo as Punchinello -- The owl and the cloud -- The shrine of the later Sibyl -- The birth of Fantasia ; Angela Gheorghiu's Casta diva as heard in the films of Wong Kar Wai : Representations of water -- Love grants me a secular eucharist -- Terror Cratylus Nelson -- I am (not) a scholar -- When I finished writing this the pigeons were gone -- Lovers don't read Kafka -- Occupy Wall Street -- The mad expanse ; White wedding sonnets : It's a nice day to start again -- Hey little sister what have you done -- It's a nice day to start again -- It's a nice day to start again -- Look for something left in this world ; The beauty mark is infinitely deep ; Max Weber's The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (tr. Talcott Parsons) : No knowing -- Melencolia II -- The moss of the Danube school -- The desperate Earth.
Summary:
"In the United States and Europe in the early twenty-first century, a person of mixed ethnicity finds herself questing inside old European art and ideas. Terrible as these things often are, she enjoys recalibrating them, and she is optimistic."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/17/2015).
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