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Karel Capek
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Showing posts with label
Karel Capek
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
“Giving Their All” for America
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A 1948 Shmoo clock (with store display) from Lux Clock Company. According to a Harlan Ellison (author, 1934-2018) article, “Shmoo Goes The...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Reframing Our Relationship to Life
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Ismael (Richard Basehart) and Queequeg (Friedrich von Ledebur) in the 1956 film version of Moby Dick. “Heathen” Queequeg represented the go...
Monday, May 29, 2023
Robots and the “Truth” of Reality
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A scene from one of the first productions of R.U.R. (London, 1921) I recently read Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (first performed in 1921), an...
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