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Anthony Daniels: The false prophet (Kahlil Gibran's new age kitsch debunked.)
The New Criterion ^
| December 2007
| Anthony Daniels
Posted on 12/02/2007 11:32:11 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem; aculeus; AnAmericanMother; Billthedrill; Constitution Day
One looks in vain in these many pages for an arresting or poetic metaphor. I quote at random:Dip your oar, my beloved,
And let me touch my strings.
It is impossible to plumb the shallows of this.
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posted on
12/03/2007 8:58:20 AM PST
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dighton
To: dighton
LOL! Just another Omar Khayyam wannabe, but without the talent.
And when like her, oh Sáki, you shall pass
Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,
And in your joyous errand reach the spot
Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass!
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posted on
12/03/2007 9:07:18 AM PST
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AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: neverdem
That was much too long and tedious an article just to say, "I really don't like Kahlil Gibran and I'll tell you why over and over again".
I'll give him an aphorism from Semper: "You can't see in others that which is not also in yourself".
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12/03/2007 10:07:53 AM PST
by
Semper
To: dighton
Many thanks for the ping. The appeal of Gibran is actually fairly easy to understand for those of us who were actually in our (ahem!) spiritual growth years in the 60's and 70's.
In reading The Prophet we begin to see why so tedious and unimaginative a writer as Gibran should have appealed so strongly to the counterculturals.
The answer is extremely simple - Gibran works best if you're really stoned.
;-)
To: Tax-chick
I think he’s slowly turning back into Anthony Daniels.
Just as John Cougar gradually turned into John Cougar Mellencamp and finally back into his real name: John Mellencamp.
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posted on
07/31/2011 3:02:11 AM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sinanju
John does nothing for me under any name.
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07/31/2011 5:01:38 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
(Do you know why I love reptiles? It's because they don't play guitars.)
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