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It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,

The dark threw its patches down upon me also,

Walt Whitman, "Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry"

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One may be very far from the ascetic view of money as a curse and yet regret that analytic therapy is almost inaccessible to poor people, both for external and internal reasons. Little can be done to remedy this. Perhaps there is truth in the widespread belief that those who are forced by necessity to a life of hard toil are less easily overtaken by neurosis. But on the other hand experience shows without a doubt that when once a poor man has produced a neurosis it is only with difficulty that he lets it be taken from him. It renders him too good a service in the struggle for existence; the secondary gain from illness which it brings him is much too important. He now claims by right of his neurosis the pity which the world has refused to his material distress, and he can now absolve himself from the obligation of combating his poverty by working.

Sigmund Freud, "On Beginning the Treatment," The Freud Reader, 370-371

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The Starry Night over the Rhone at Arles, 1888. Oil on canvas.

Vincent van Gogh's birthday is today, March 30th. If he were still around, he would be 171 years old.

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“Greaser, No. 2 North Winder, Randfontein Estates” from “On the Mines”, 1965. David Goldblatt. Silver print. "On the Mines," documented the lives of miners, particularly Black migrant workers, in South Africa during the apartheid era. "Greaser" refers to the worker's job, lubricating machinery.

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So far tens of millions of Americans can understand Ahab. They have worked under such men. A smaller but not insignificant number have gone through his experiences. The Diesel engine and now atomic energy face the vast majority with the same problem that he faced: the obvious, immense, the fearful mechanical power of an industrial civilization which is now advancing by incredible leaps and bringing at the same time the mechanization and destruction of human personality. Men who are thinking like that, classes of people in a nation who are thinking such thoughts, are being steadily prepared for desperate action. If now there descends upon them a violent catastrophe that ruins them and convinces them that the life they have been living is intolerable and the grave doubts that have previously tormented them are justifiable, then they are going to throw aside all the traditional restraints of civilization. They are going to seek a new theory of society and a program of action and, on the basis of this theory and this program, they are going to act.

CLR James, Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

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Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962), American - by Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006), American

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George Steiner | Nostalgia for the Absolute

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Elaine de Kooning (American,1918-1989)

Sitter (Self-portrait #3) , 1946

Oil on Masonite

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Henry James, from The Portrait of a Lady

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In a Dark Time : A Film About Theodore Roethke

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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

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Fallacies of Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism — with Kwame Anthony Appiah (1993) | BRADLEY LECTURES

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Surname Viêt Given Name Nam (Trịnh T. Minh-hà | 1989)

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La Groue Farm, Osny, France, 1883 - by Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903), French

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Abortion: The Right to Life - Judith Jarvis Thomson (1978)