Okay, Raymond Carver, you may be a great writer, but you really blew it with your short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. I like the first part where two couples are arguing about the nature of love. Especially when Terri talks about her ex-hubby Carl, who used to drag her […]
I recently watched Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company. Based on Goethe’s play (Part I), Faust is a crotchety old scholar in search of life’s meaning. He longs for a transcendental moment, a knowledge beyond what the mind can grasp. Enter Mephistopheles, the Devil, who seizes on Faust’s despair and […]