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Author Archives: Art for Housewives
Gum, Grit, and Storytelling
She chewed gum while lecturing. It was a habit she picked up once when, while presenting her thoughts in front of an audience, the words got stuck in her throat. Chewing gum induced salivation and let the words flow once … Continue reading
Posted in Art Narratives, female consciousness, storytelling
Tagged “Goodbye and Good Luck", Grace Paley
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Profiling Storytellers
Before the FBI’s criminal profiling, there was Miss Marple. Miss Marple didn’t need an FBI profiler to know a criminal when she saw one. A careful observer of human behaviour, she relied upon her own experience to identify personality types. … Continue reading
Posted in Art Narratives, Books, storytelling
Tagged abductive reasoning, Agatha Christie, bomb shelters, criminal profiler, Miss Marple, World War II
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The Aesthetics of Reading
The Uffizi in Florence is a historical gallery containing masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. One of the most visited paintings is that of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, a painting also famous for provoking Stendhal’s Syndrome. But the Uffizi is … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, reading, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, Uffizi Gallery, visualization
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Back to Rome
Once back in Rome and far away from Revolutionary France, I felt safe again. But that feeling quickly disappeared in 1798. It was a February morning and I was climbing down the Spanish Steps when an overpowering noise like thunder … Continue reading
The Narrative Within 