“Life Looks Lasting by Stewart Stafford Why should evening's last hues Get short shrift by rays of morn? Or contented looks of jaded age Be void by stung slits, newborn? The skull's opalescent orbs shut, A lifetime's sense memories kept, Amnesia's windfall revisited in spirit, In corridors of déjà vu, windswept. Though not the peeled eyes of youth Nor intoxicated with passionate ire, Scarcity unveils beauty in mundanity, Visions consumed by a funeral pyre. © 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” PhilosophyDeathGriefAgingMemoryAgeingLife PoemShakespeareanIntertextualitySonnet 73 Author:Stewart Stafford
“Anitra! Evas naturlige datter! Magnetiskt jeg drages; ti jeg er mann og, som det står hos en aktet forfatter das ewige weibliche zieht uns an!” SexIntertextuality Book:Peer Gynt Source: Peer Gynt
“Most everything is a knockoff of something else. Once you get the idea, everything you see, read, taste or smell becomes an allusion to it. It's the art of transforming things.” AllusionIntertextualityBob Dylan DylanPlagerism Book:Why Bob Dylan Matters Source: Why Bob Dylan Matters
“It is a revelation to compare the Don Quixote of Pierre Menard with that of Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes, for example, wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX): ...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor. This catalog of attributes, written in the seventeenth century, and written by the "ingenious layman" Miguel de Cervantes, is mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes: ...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor. History, the mother of truth! - the idea is staggering. Menard, a contemporary of William James, defines history not as delving into reality but as the very font of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not "what happened"; it is what we believe happened. The final phrases - exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor - are brazenly pragmatic.” HumourPostmodernismPoststructuralismIntertextualityDeath Of The Author Book:Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote Source: Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote