Suffering and Wisdom

By Kimball Artistry | July 8, 2021 |

Perhaps the most moving artistic creation I have ever encountered was a four hour performance of Aeschylus’s The Oresteia produced by Robert Icke in the Almeida Theater in London. The performance itself was truly staggering, and I would pay an exorbitant sum to have a recording of the performance. I often thought that I would show it to every class of students I taught if I had the means. The interpretation of the canonical Greek tragedy was that impressive, that intricately woven, a near perfect artistic creation.

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William Faulkner

By Kimball Artistry | June 22, 2021 |

In addition to being one of only seven authors in history to win both the Nobel and the Pulitzer prizes for literature, Faulkner wrote about mental illness in a time when the subject was even more of a cultural taboo than it is today.

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