Tag Archives: Essays

Heroism – R W Emerson

Posted on 03/26/2013 by The Gentleman Poet

Were I still in a place to spend countless hours before a computer screen these wisps would be delivered with sustained regularity like fascist trains, yet I am not so they come as they come. Whenever I find myself nose … Continue reading →

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Hellas And The Complete Man

Posted on 09/05/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

In light of my recent post on Dalrock and Cane Caldo one commenter proposed that in my ‘basic sophistry’ had given ‘game apologetics that address anything but game.’  Monsieur Empathologicalism might have a point, though I take offense at ‘basic … Continue reading →

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La Boetie: Not Spanish For The Bowtie

Posted on 08/15/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

The week’s reading comes partially as a response to rereading Civil Disobedience and the thoughts that came with that and in part while those were steeping reading a series of articles at The Left Half: Here, Here, and now Here. … Continue reading →

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Fuck Catiline; That Dude’s A Dick

Posted on 08/07/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

When, O [Feminism], do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does … Continue reading →

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We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program

Posted on 07/27/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

Reader, I regret to inform you that I will be out enjoying myself on a beach at a tropical locale for a long weekend. As such your regularly scheduled weekly Linkage will be shorted Saturdays posts.  I have the post … Continue reading →

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Victor Hugo: This Will Kill That

Posted on 07/10/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

The Internet Will Kill The Book Bill Powell manages, somehow or other, to preface my thoughts before I’ve a chance to put them out there. He has done so again. Before I started on Aristotle’s Rhetoric a few weeks ago … Continue reading →

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Emerson’s Essays: History

Posted on 06/19/2012 by The Gentleman Poet

Lies, Lies, Lies Onanism, self-centeredness, adolescent navel gazing, self-congratulatory mental masturbation; that vapid dredge of legion media, inundating, inculcating, indoctrinating; whatever one calls the plague, it continues to ravage.  It is the monstrous beast our corners of dissent exclaim against; … Continue reading →

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