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We will begin a discussion of the book When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth (2004) by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber. For the 12th we'll read the first ten chapters. This is a book about how myth operates in preliterate societies by taking advantage of aspects of the human mind… |
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Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger (Greg Steinmetz).The story of a man with a fortune rivaling nearly two percent of European GDP. Not only did Jacob want to make money, he pursued new ways to make money - and had to sway the minds of very influential people to… |
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A few songs by Edvard Grieg are known to the classical music public, and occasional songs by other composers (Sibelius, especially) might show up on concert programs, particularly when the singer is from Sweden or Finland (Sibelius, that patriotic Finn, wrote most of his songs to Swedish texts). But the great flowering of art song… |
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We will conclude talking about myth and the mind as presented in the book When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber. By reading this book and participating in our discussion, you will feel the spirit of Socrates spread over you and begin to… |
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Evelyn D. Klein will read from her new book Fear and Promise, Remembering the Year 2020. She will discuss the notion of poet as historian, bringing in famous poets of the past. The book is a chrocicle of the year's events that impacted people's lives, yet despite the challenges, as she points out, it also moved us… |
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